Every little piece of information you give away online can reveal something about you — but it seems your Facebook likes could reveal rather more than you bargained for. Read More >>
Featured comment by andrew.ives:
"Initially, this looks like a load of obvious statements, but it's actually a little cleverer than that. I saw this coming a few years ago and extrapol..." More »
Founded in 2002, Friendster was a pioneer among social networks, beating MySpace and Facebook to the scene and, at its peak, boasting over 100 million users. In 2009, though, it swiftly descended into irrelevance and obscurity — and computer scientists have been scraping though its remains to work out exactly what went wrong. Read More >>
A crashing computer is at best annoying and at worst catastrophic. But now a team of scientists has developed a new type of computer that never crashes — and it relies on chaos and randomness to achieve the feat. Read More >>
Featured comment by gizmodester:
"What a total load of bollocks.
A computer only crashes when the instruction given to the processor is not understood - or a memory block is address..." More »
There's a lot of noise and very little signal on Twitter, and sometimes it can be hard to know what to pay attention to. A team of scientists might be able to help with that, though, because they're developing algorithms to sort the truthful tweets from the lies. Read More >>
If you've been walking around a public place lately, you've come into contact with a lot of people. Some of those people may have been sick. And if you've been hanging around enough of them as they cough and sneeze, then you might be about to get sick too. Read More >>
Featured comment by Richard:
"Crowd Sourcing is such a fantastic way to collate data, except when its creepy and governmental... This usage is quite cool though and Twitter could b..." More »
War is, you might think, unpredictable, especially when it comes to insurgent attacks carried out by loosely-organised factions. But while strikes might appear to come from nowhere, researchers have now shown that crunching through WikiLeaks data can predict where attacks will happen. Read More >>
If you ever speak to Chip Vivant, you might find his conversation a little stilted. Incoherent, even. Because, despite being crowned the beast chatbot in the world, frankly, he still carries a conversation like like R2D2 with a head injury. Read More >>
It sounds insane, but DARPA recently laid down a challenge to computer scientists: work out how to reconstruct shredded pages of paper. The winning team has finished — two days ahead of schedule. Read More >>
You know who sucks at maths? Almost everyone, that's who. Newsflash: the majority of humans do not do math because they love and excel at it. We mostly dislike it and are bad at it to boot. Read More >>
Featured comment by jdmitch:
"I don't know what slideshow you were watching, but the gist of Terri's is not that "the majority of humans do not do math because they love and excel ..." More »
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