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September 16th, 2011
Popular Science
Skylab Goes Down
July 1st, 2009
July 1st, 2009
NASA managed to re-establish contact in the final days to adjust Skylab’s angle for as smooth a re-entry as possible, and final calculations predicted a trajectory across the Southern Ocean and a sparsely populated tract of Western Australia.
Crowd Science
June 13th, 2011
June 13th, 2011
The term crowdsourcing wasn’t coined until the web age, undoubtedly because it enabled the collecting, aggregating and processing power we need to let crowdsourcing take full flight. Today it’s used for everything from judging the most attractive female posterior to gathering the funds to make movies.
Translation technology
September 16th, 2011
September 16th, 2011
The resulting text will be submitted as another search string and will give you the answer as quickly as a normal text search. Translate it back to English and repeat until satisfied, then shake hands, bow or lightly touch your right fingertips to your forehead and go along your way.
The Eye in the Sky
August 28th, 2011
August 28th, 2011
Has the GPS had its day? And even if good upkeep can maintain it, will a competing system soon take over? Drew Turney finds out. “It’s an exquisite technology but it was designed in the time of record players and vacuum tubes and the design brief to the engineers was to track intercontinental ballistic missiles. […]
House Warming
May 1st, 2010
May 1st, 2010
In the northernmost climes of the world where the Caucasian race originated it was a matter of evolutionary life and death, and even in the temperate zone cities of Australasia today the temperature can routinely fall into single digits — not much fun even if you can buy iPhone apps.
Google Backs the NBN
September 16th, 2011
September 16th, 2011
During a recent industry confab in Japan, Google bigwig Eric Schmidt said the future is not only in mobile (smartphone sales are set to outstrip PCs in 2012) but in the Asia Pacific region, which will see three billion mobile users within five years.
OCR Grows Up
Think you know what optical character recognition's for? As Drew Turney discovers, ...
Make Robots Smarter
Humans have a lot to think about and even more to process ...
September 1st, 2009
The Australian mobile spectrum
While you're wringing your hands about peak oil and fresh water shortages, ...
September 16th, 2011
The first quantum computer?
It's hogging so many headlines, you can expect the Hollywood techno-thriller about ...
September 16th, 2011