Full Title: Researchers install PAC-MAN on Sequoia voting machine w/o breaking seals Here’s a new one for the DIY movement. Security researchers J. Alex Haldeman and Ariel Feldman demonstrated...
August 23, 2010
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Full Title: Google unemployment index estimates and predicts unemployment The Google Unemployment Index is an economic indicator based on queries sent to Google’s search engine related to...
August 20, 2010
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Analog computers were a hot idea — in the 1950s! But I find this intriguing because I’ve come around to the position that a lot of our human “intelligence” is the result of acquiring and using...
August 18, 2010
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Some online sites let you use any old five-character strong as your password for as long as you like. Others force you to pick a new password every six months and it has to match a complicated...
August 16, 2010
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Privacy continues to be an important topic surrounding social media systems. A big part of the problem is that virtually all of us have a difficult time thinking about what information about us...
August 15, 2010
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The number of citations a paper receives is generally thought to be a good and relatively objective measure of its significance and impact. Researchers naturally are interested in knowing how to...
August 15, 2010
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The W3C has published a second working draft of EmotionML, or the emotion markup language, Here’s how it’s described. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology...
July 31, 2010
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This week’s New Yorker magazine has an article by Anthony Gottlieb on different voting systems, including range voting. WIN OR LOSE: No voting system is flawless. But some are less democratic...
July 25, 2010
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Google announced today that it has acquired Metaweb, the company behind Freebase — a free, semantic database of “over 12 million people, places, and things in the world.” This is from their...
July 16, 2010
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Web search guru Danny Sullivan has a great response to the NYT editorial on regulating search engine algorithms: The New York Times Algorithm and Why It Needs Government Regulation. Here’s how it...
July 16, 2010
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