Comment converts simple grayscale? (Score 1) 56
Eventually this may elevate the works of Science. This aims the blind one to be being capable to see though their own vision.
Comment Tech (Score 1) 2
Your smartphone could soon be all you need to perform a quick check-up? Ohhhh! I seems this has a lot of use? Does this mean no need to do a regular check-up in the doctor performing these steps just to get BP etc...? Somehow it makes Sense! But yeah how accurate? What if? If it gives false rate? and this will eventually turns down! Just having doubts here!
Comment They Should! (Score 1) 1
They really should! The company must take immediate action and take several punishment to the users who are doing this nonsense thing! They should take a better step right now! Good Point there Vine...
Submission + - It's True: Some People Just Don't Like Music (sciencemag.org) 1
sciencehabit writes: Researchers have found that between 1 and 3% of people don't like music of any kind. These people aren't tone deaf or incapable of grasping the emotional meaning of a song—their brains simply didn’t find listening to music rewarding. While some psychiatric disorders are associated with the loss of the ability to feel pleasure, called anhedonia, the music-haters represent the first evidence for not feeling pleasure from only one specific pleasing stimulant, a condition that has been dubbed music-specific anhedonia. Curious where you fall on the music reward spectrum? The researchers have an online quiz. [http://www.brainvitge.org/bmrq.php]
Submission + - Computer Program Allows the Blind to 'See' With Sound (sciencemag.org) 1
sciencehabit writes: Scientists have developed an algorithm that converts simple grayscale images into musical soundscapes. Even people blind from birth can use the technology to "see" their surroundings and naviagate around a room. Equally intriguing, the part of the subject's brain responsible for vision was active during these tasks, suggesting our thinking about how the brain works may be wrong. Instead of a "vision center" of the brain, for example, we may actually have a region that helps us "see", whether that input comes from sight or sound.
Submission + - Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: Hubble has observed some weird things since it was launched in 1990, but this is probably one of the strangest. In September 2013, the Catalina and Pan-STARRS sky surveys spotted a mysterious object in the asteroid belt, a region of rocky debris that occupy the space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Follow-up observations by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii resolved three separate objects within the fuzzy cloud. It was so strange that Hubble mission managers decided to use the space telescope to get a closer look. And what they saw has baffled and thrilled astronomers in equal measure. “This is a really bizarre thing to observe — we’ve never seen anything like it before,” said co-author Jessica Agarwal of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany. “The break-up could have many different causes, but the Hubble observations are detailed enough that we can actually pinpoint the process responsible.”
Comment Bats in the Attic? (Score 1) 1
Infects you with Rabies! The hell respiratory infection can cause because of bat droppings! and they are not only harmful to humans getting fatal disease! they are also damaging your property! Soooooo? Aren't you gonna make a step to contact your professional pest control team to take these bats away! Better get to move on!
Comment No label (Score 1) 250
For me I don't usually label my things, It's just I Don't Like. Because I really take care of them. Actually it only depends on the owner how he/she will took care of the things they have so that it will not be stolen. If you will just be mindful and watchful of your things it will not be stolen. Unless if you let that someone!
Submission + - Confirmed: Earth's oldest rock in Australia (abc.net.au)
SpamSlapper writes: Australia's ABC Science reports that ancient zircon crystals discovered in Western Australia have been positively dated to 4.374 billion years, confirming their place as the oldest rock ever found on Earth, according to a new study. The research reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, means Earth began forming a crust far sooner than previously thought, following the giant impact event which created the Earth-Moon system 4.5 billion years ago.
Submission + - Why is US Broadband so Slow? 1
phantomfive writes: Verizon has said they will not be digging new lines any time soon. Time-Warner's cash flow goes towards paying down debt, not laying down fiber. AT&T is doing everything they can to slow deployment of Google fiber.
How can the situation be improved? Mainly by expediting right-of-way access, permits, and inspections, according to Andy Kessler. That is how Google was able to afford to lay down fiber in Austin, and how VTel was able to do it in Vermont (gigabit connections for $35 a month).
How can the situation be improved? Mainly by expediting right-of-way access, permits, and inspections, according to Andy Kessler. That is how Google was able to afford to lay down fiber in Austin, and how VTel was able to do it in Vermont (gigabit connections for $35 a month).
Submission + - Lumia phones leaking private data to Microsoft (www.hs.fi)
Albietta writes: According to the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat two independent sources inside Nokia has confirmed that the Nokia Lumia phones sends private information to Nokia and Microsoft servers around the world. At least location data, SMS-messages and browser identification is uploaded. The Nokia leadership has known about the privacy violation at least since 2011 when the Lumia phones were introduced.
In the spring 2013 after suspicions of leaks and during the negotaions for selling off the mobile phone branch to Microsoft, the Finnish state communications department sent an enquiry to Nokia regarding leaking of private data asking that Nokia assure that users private data is not leaked. Nokia did not want to/or could not provide an assurance due to the delicate business negotiations. After two more enquieries with narrower demands, Nokia assured that the phone, excluding third-party software such as the operating system, did not violate Finnish privacy laws.
Microsoft is apparently also following Lumia user accounts. On one occation a finnish parents Lumia account was closed without warning when the user uploaded pictures from the phone displaying the parents own kids playing naked on the beach at their summer cottage.
The Lumia leak has also become a big concern for the finnish political leadership that to a large extent uses Lumia phones.
Original article (in finnish) at URL provided.
In the spring 2013 after suspicions of leaks and during the negotaions for selling off the mobile phone branch to Microsoft, the Finnish state communications department sent an enquiry to Nokia regarding leaking of private data asking that Nokia assure that users private data is not leaked. Nokia did not want to/or could not provide an assurance due to the delicate business negotiations. After two more enquieries with narrower demands, Nokia assured that the phone, excluding third-party software such as the operating system, did not violate Finnish privacy laws.
Microsoft is apparently also following Lumia user accounts. On one occation a finnish parents Lumia account was closed without warning when the user uploaded pictures from the phone displaying the parents own kids playing naked on the beach at their summer cottage.
The Lumia leak has also become a big concern for the finnish political leadership that to a large extent uses Lumia phones.
Original article (in finnish) at URL provided.
Submission + - Japanese company proposes to build solar power cells on the Moon to provide clea (spaceindustrynews.com)
littlesparkvt writes: Harnessing the suns power is nothing new on Earth, but if a Japanese company has it’s way it will build a solar strip across the 11,000 mile Lunar equator that could supply our world with clean and unlimited solar energy for generations.
Submission + - One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Ever Seen (vortex.com)
Lauren Weinstein writes: You'd think that with so many concerns these days about whether the likes of AT&T, Verizon, and other telecom companies can be trusted not to turn our data over to third parties whom we haven't authorized, that a plan to formalize a mechanism for ISP and other "man-in-the-middle" snooping would be laughed off the Net.
But apparently the authors of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Internet-Draft "Explicit Trusted Proxy in HTTP/2.0" (14 Feb 2014) haven't gotten the message.
What they propose for the new HTTP/2.0 protocol is nothing short of officially sanctioned snooping.
But apparently the authors of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Internet-Draft "Explicit Trusted Proxy in HTTP/2.0" (14 Feb 2014) haven't gotten the message.
What they propose for the new HTTP/2.0 protocol is nothing short of officially sanctioned snooping.
Submission + - The Neuroscience of Computer Programming
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Chris Parnin has an interesting read about an international team of scientists lead by Dr. Janet Siegmund using brain imaging with fMRI to understand the programmer's mind and to compare and contrast different cognitive tasks used in programming by analyzing differences in brain locations that are activated by different tasks. One recent debate illuminated by their studies is recent legislation that considers offering foreign-language credits for students learning programming languages. There have been many strong reactions across the software-developer community. Some developers consider the effort laudable but misguided and proclaim programming is not at all like human language and is much closer to mathematics. Siegmund observed 17 participants inside an fMRI scanner while they were comprehending short source-code snippets and found a clear, distinct activation pattern of five brain regions, which are related to language processing, working memory, and attention. The programmers in the study recruited parts of the brain typically associated with language processing and verbal oriented processing (ventral lateral prefrontal cortex). At least for the simple code snippets presented, programmers could use existing language regions of the brain to understand code without requiring more complex mental models to be constructed and manipulated. "Interestingly, even though there was code that involve mathematical operations, conditionals, and loop iteration, for these particular tasks, programming had less in common with mathematics and more in common with language (PDF)," writes Parnin. "Mathematical calculations typically take place in the intraparietal sulcus, mathematical reasoning in the right frontal pole, and logical reasoning in the left frontal pole. These areas were not strongly activated in comprehending source code." The new research results are a much needed, but only a first step in revealing the neuroscience of programming. Other questions remain including: Can we finally provide a neurological basis for a programmer's flow? How relevant is the mastery of language skills for programming? Are there certain programming activities that should never be mixed, due to higher chance of cognitive failure (and resulting bugs)? Do code visualizations or live programming environments really reduce mental load? "Programming involves a rich set of cognitive processes," concludes Parnin. "Although the study found a particular pathway that was strongly associated with language processing, there may be other pathways associated with other common activities related to programming (debugging, editing, refactoring, etc)."
Submission + - Scientists create pizza that can last years
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center have created a pizza that can be stored for up to three years while still remaining edible. 'It pretty much tastes just like a typical pan pizza that you would make at home and take out of the oven or the toaster oven,' said Jill Bates who heads up the lab. 'The only thing missing from that experience would be it's not hot when you eat it. It's room temperature.'
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