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Is embedded software just not sexy?
Blog Comment Having "sexy" features usually means that humans have to interact with it in some fashion, otherwise who cares? And for heaven sakes keep your shoes tied! A buddy of mine got a ticket for untied shoes in Singapore.
[September 10, 2008, 8:06]
Oh, Reggie Bosanquet, why did you go away?
Blog Comment At least with not-quite-perfect humans you can see it's artifical and then let your imagination do the rest.maybe I'm malfunctioning though. If you saw the scripted scenes with Alyx Vance (the generated newsreader) from the popular computer game...
[November 8, 2006, 8:17]
A Year Ago: Monkeys cloned with breakthrough technology
News The technique could pave the way toward the cloning of humans, since monkeys' genetic makeup is more similar to that of homo sapiens than that of sheep. Technique is completely different from sheep-cloning method
[January 14, 2001, 6:07]
Sony's robot dog learns to talk
News Kaplan hopes that eventually the robot creature will be able to interact with humans by speaking to them, giving it a considerable advantage over a traditional, organic dog. Researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in France have succeeded...
[September 28, 2000, 15:41]
NASA claims Mars smash hit
News The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday that during the past month and a half, the total number of visits to its home page, which hosted images and video feeds from the two recent rover landings on Mars, was greater than...
[February 23, 2004, 7:40]
Patching 'still too difficult'
Talkback what an incredulous claim Mary Ann Davidson makes.with all due respect, to make scans for common flaws mandatory makes absolutely no difference to the biggest software flaws we find today.the flaws exploited nowadays are increasingly obscure...
[February 27, 2004, 9:23]
Google drive-by download ad
Blog So far he has had the ad clicked on 409 times, although it's not clear how many clicks were by humans, and how many by bots. It's quite timely that just as Google warns of drive-by downloads, news has emerged on the wires of Didier Stevens...
[May 24, 2007, 18:30]
Do we really need so many location based services?
Talkback Quite a few others have different opinion.e.g.http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2008/06/do-we-need-lbs/ http://www.lewebmobile.com/2008/06/do-humans-really-need-location-based.html Recently I browsed around about the location-based services (LBS).
[June 13, 2008, 7:27]
Idiot-Savant Programming
Blog Comment Now the humans have been removed from the process, and the computers have been programmed to err on the side of MONEY. I share your disgust, on both points. I pray for the poor woman's soul. You are right, she absolutely didn't deserve what happened.
[June 13, 2009, 7:16]
Sony robodogs litter Live 2001
News Each, like Sony's earlier AIBO robot dog, can express emotions, understand voice commands and interact with humans, and the company believes Latte and Macaron will appeal to a wide range of consumers.
[September 20, 2001, 14:34]
Small-business technology review
Reviews Technology is a tool, after all, and in my opinion, we humans should remain in charge of the tools. People in the computer industry -- and those of us who make a living by commenting on it -- often forget that the rest of the world doesn't share...
[August 16, 2005, 8:45]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Indians who are outsourcing "your jobs" are A) working 100-150X harder than you, B) are more educated than the requisites of their job entail (and most likely smarter than you), C) actually do speak English just not your white supremist Southern...
[October 15, 2006, 7:44]
Oracle Special: Inside the pressure cooker
News Oracle is a great company, but Larry treated people like chattel rather than humans. It is a sales manager's worst nightmare: a midnight call from Larry Ellison demanding to know why an important deal didn't close.
[July 2, 2001, 13:41]
IBM service assesses pandemic risk
News In the past year, the bird flu has spread through bird populations in Asia and Europe, and scientists fear it could spread to humans, causing a flu pandemic. IBM is introducing a service that seeks to answer a question that few would like to ask...
[June 6, 2006, 9:50]
Cat Game (Free!)
Downloads Take care so that neither cat nor device are injured during play.Features: - FREE video game for cats - Humans can play, too! It seems like everyone and their cat now owns an iPhone or an iPod touch. But what does the cat do with it?
[December 22, 2009, 0:35]
Google wins porn probe fight
Talkback Are we hiding behind the virtue of privacy because we really want to cover up the fact that we as humans use the internet to look at pornography and we don't want anyone to know about it? It is sad that for many people "Freedom of Speech" has...
[March 21, 2006, 22:06]
Oracle chooses Intel compilers
News Compilers translate higher-level software written by humans in languages such as C into instructions that a computer can understand. Database giant Oracle has chosen Intel to supply crucial programming tools called compilers for creating software...
[May 8, 2003, 9:34]
OpenOffice.org development boosted by Arab and Israeli collaboration
Talkback Hopefully this type of Arab-Isareli technological cooperation will lead to a resurgence of right-to-left text processing, and by the time humans discover time travel we won't have to beg engineers for add-on packages to accomodate what are still...
[November 24, 2004, 19:57]
Grid project hunts for bird flu cure
News The virus has taken a deadly toll on bird populations in Asia and Europe, and scientists fear it could spread to humans, causing a flu pandemic. Scientists in the UK and Asia have deployed a computing grid to find a potential cure for avian flu.
[May 5, 2006, 8:55]
Are doodles the key to an effective search?
News The principle behind VisualID is that humans can remember pictures better than words, and can navigate faster and easier with distinct, individual images than with generic icons (like the consistent, omnipresent "W" that tags Microsoft Word...
[October 5, 2004, 9:35]
