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Samsung is testing a brain-controlled interface as part of its research into developing new ways for people to communicate and interact with their mobile devices.According to an article in Technology Review, Samsung and a team from the University of Texas ...
Big data is being used to provide insights on people in the work place, including both employees and job applicants. Dubbed "work-force science," many companies like IBM and Oracle are taking a closer look at what data, algorithms and metrics ...
Startup company Everpix announced an image analysis software platform that automatically organizes digital photos into broad categories. According to an article in MIT Technology Review, the software is machine vision based; the company used crowd sourcing to help tag thousands ...
Walmart has introduced Scan & Go, a mobile self-checkout option for iPhone, to about 200 of its 4,005 (as of January 2013) Walmart locations in the US. According to Reuters, Walmart plans to gather customer feedback on the program, and ...
Twitter and American Express have teamed up to offer digital purchases to consumers, allowing them to simply tweet a hashtag to buy an item. The consumer also tweets a confirmation hashtag to authorize payment on their American Express account. According ...
IBM recently announced two commercial Watson supercomputer applications, one to help manage health insurance claims, and the other to assist medical professionals in lung cancer diagnosis and treatment protocols. Watson is perhaps best known as the "Jeopardy!" playing supercomputer capable ...
GPS enabled cows may be making their way into the Internet of Things, bringing in a new era of technology to the cattle industry. A scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to equip cows with GPS ...
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University may have found a new way to facilitate trend analysis using big data from social media. The researchers have developed a filtering technique to help find relevant information from Twitter feeds. Using this filtered data, ...
Data backups and long term data archiving in coming decades may be in the form of biological DNA data storage. DNA carries the promise of vast density and stability, and could mean that data could last forever. According to an ...
US Customs and Border Protection is field testing the Embodied Avatar as a potential state-of-the-art lie detection unit. The avatar, described in a recent Wired article as a "smoothly rendered, computer-generated young man," asks travelers at border crossings basic questions ...
The Library of Congress is archiving a collection of some 170 billion Tweets sent between 2006 and 2010. This big data trove is intended for researchers and scholars, though a keyword search now takes up to 24 hours to process. ...
Toshiba recently announced a light-field smartphone camera, one that may rival the Lytro light-field camera. According to an article in CNET, the Toshiba camera will take photos that can be "refocused" onto other parts of the photo or bring the ...
LG announced a February release date for the first large-scale organic light-emitting diode (OLED) flat-screen in the form of a 55-inch OLED television, making OLED the latest acronym for display devices since CRT and LCD. According to an article in ...
Startup Food Genius is bringing big data analytics to the food industry by using data gathered from menus to better understand things like restaurant trends, food concepts, and customer dining behavior. An article from GigaOM reports that the company database ...
Retailers are finding that e-commerce customers use multiple devices when they shop for products, but trying to support a unified cross-platform experience is proving to be difficult. According to an article in the New York Times, research from IBM has ...
The start-up company Minteye has come up with a novel image-based CAPTCHA, which is the acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." A CAPTCHA is usually a scrambled phrase or words presented to a ...
San Francisco based Hackbright Academy recently graduated its 16-student second class of programmers. Hackbright offers a 10-week fellowship program specifically for women and helps connect graduates with potential employers. According to a recent Huffington Post article, eight out of 12 ...
A survey of 100 businesses in the United Kingdom showed that about two-thirds of those surveyed said that they did not include the use of social media in their business disaster recovery plans. According to an article in PR Week ...
The start-up company, Power Fingerprinting, is able to detect computer malware by discovering small changes in system biometrics. That is, system threats will show up as changes in power consumption by the computer's processor. According to an article in the ...
Seemingly pulled from a science fiction movie, researchers have used a 3-D printer to construct a biobot created from a rat heart and hydrogel. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, the result was an inchworm-like entity that ...