Author: Tim Moran

This City Doesn’t Want You

Who wouldbuild a new city covering about 15 square miles in the southeast corner of NewMexico, but not want anyone to live there? Pegasus Global

Security Innovation: Shoe Recognition

There?s been quite a bit of talk about facial-recognitiontechnology, which automatically identifies an individual user by comparingselected facial features to a database of such features.

Classic Computing Meets LEGOs

By Tim Moran There seems to be some odd connection between computing and LEGOs.Well, maybe it?s not that odd, really, since working with both of

James Bond Lives

Spying Eyes Are Watching You Now that the Cold War is a distant memory and James Bondmovies just ain?t what they used to be, you

Out of Scope

The(Y)ear of the Cat? Sometimes,technology is used to invent things that are so right that we wonder how weever got along without them: the Internet,

Kill Your Computer

A View to a Kill Ever get so frustrated with your creaky old computer that you?ve considered breaking the thing so your company will finally

Robots of the World, Unite

Full-Metal Facebook As if we don?t have enough to worry about, now comes news that robots are getting their own information-packed network. A recent squib

The Lego Computer

Building an Ancient Computer From Legos His name is Andrew Carol. By day, he?s an Apple software engineer working on OS X; by night, he?s

Learning Language Continuously

Live and Learn?Forever NELL?which is short for Never Ending Language Learner?is an ?intelligent computer? created by the researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that’s actually being