4006859
submission
hey writes:
For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/robotscientist.html
557156
submission
hey writes:
the patent law community is closely watching one case in particular and speculating that federal judges could invalidate business method patents sometime this year. The case, generally known as re Bilski, involves a method for managing the risk of bad weather to crops by making hedged trades in the commodities markets.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/new-patentable-idea-a-way-to-invalidate-vague-patents/index.html?ref=technology
440178
submission
hey writes:
When Facebook opened up their API, lots of people raced out to make applications.
Me and others made apps to organize your fiends into groups — eg:
cliques,
circle of friends,
groups
(sorry links only work for logged in Facebook users)
But now this week, Facebook added that functionality to the
core friend page.
Sounds much like monopolist Microsoft cutting off Netscape's air supply.
360137
submission
hey writes:
Dr. Dobbs describes
new approach to the classic Traveling Salesman problem. New destinations are added daily.
62420
submission
hey writes:
Fedora News reports Fedora Core (Red Hat) now has a live CD! Fedora is my fav distro so it will be interesting to try this live cd. Has the cool deskstop effects.
48804
submission
hey writes:
An article on CBC.ca says "Scientists have unlocked the secret of an ancient device recovered from a Roman shipwreck, saying the complex mechanism was used to track the movements of the stars and moon."
Which I think is pretty cool.
15177
submission
hey writes:
Michael Robertson (mp3.com and Linspire founder) talks about getting Zuned.
4822
submission
hey writes:
The city is now officially home to North America's largest wireless Internet zone after Toronto Hydro Telecom flipped the switch and turned on its high-speed Internet service in the downtown core yesterday.
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2006/09/07/1810178- sun.html
