By Andrew Webb Technology reporter, BBC News Classic comic hero Dan Dare fired the imagination of young Britons in the 1950s and heralded the birth of hi-tech Britain, an exhibition at the London Science Museum reveals. Â A British-built nuclear bomb and a prototype of the BT Tower are on display as part of the [...]
New survey results show that only 29.5 percent in a sample of 1,015 adult Americans consider nanotech morally acceptable. Europe ranked significantly higher. The hypothesized reason? Religious beliefs. The results of the survey were presented by Dietram Scheufele, professors of life sciences and communication, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement [...]
I recently came across news of a device that geeked me out. Its a neckband that can detect and analyze neural firings when we think about saying something, and translate them into audible words via speech synthesizer. Beyond the obvious use of bettering the lives of people who’ve lost their ability to speak, it could [...]
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Sleep Waking is an art project that uses EEG and EKG to record brainwaves and heart activity of a sleeping person and feeds them into a humanoid robot (a Kondo KHR-2HV). The robot turns the data into an interpretive dance. In short, the robot dances your dreams. In addition, rapid eye movement is used to [...]
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It seems that the telcos and the cable companies just can’t stop making questionable claims against each other. It’s been going on for years, but it seems that the telcos are finally going to court over it. Last month, we mentioned that Verizon was suing Time Warner Cable over what it claimed was false advertising, [...]
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Spam – the scourge of every e-mail inbox – celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend. The first recognisable e-mail marketing message was sent on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC – a now-defunct computer-maker. The message was sent via Arpanet – the internet’s forerunner – and won its sender much criticism [...]
By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News “Mom, where are you calling from Your voice is trembling, are you sure everything is alright” These were the first words Carmen Hernandez heard after getting through to her son on the phone following the massive earthquake that struck Peru in August 2007. Mrs Hernandez lived [...]
The liberalisation of the UK postal service has produced “no significant benefits” for both households and small businesses, a report has said. That is the initial finding of an independent review of the UK postal sector commissioned by the government. It warned there was now a threat to the Royal Mail’s financial stability. The Royal [...]
The UN is to again suspend distribution of food aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip because of fuel shortages, the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) has said. The announcement was made several hours after Israel closed two major crossing points into the territory after they came under mortar fire. UNRWA stopped distributing food aid [...]
Details of rules controlling the number of skilled migrants from outside the European Economic Area working in the UK are due to be revealed later. Ministers say the rules would have cut skilled migrants last year from outside the EEA (the EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) by 12%. From the autumn such migrants will [...]
