MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candidates recently discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. “This is a superb opportunity for SETI observations,” said Jill Tarter, the Director of [...]
Scientific American and Google are expanding the Google Science Fair awards honors in 2012. The $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action award powered by the Google Science Fair will recognize a project that addresses a social, environmental or health issue to make a practical difference in the lives of a group or community. The Google [...]
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer A.J. Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge — and his wife’s sense of humor. For a full year, A.J. Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could — from applying sunscreen by the shot glass [...]
Under SOPA (introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith, R–Tex., in October) and PIPA (by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D–Vt., last May), Congress sought to prevent Internet users from accessing foreign sites with pirated content by having service providers block those sites’ domain names. The proposed legislation also threatened to punish any search engine providers, payment network providers [...]
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. [...]
Stuxnet has already been unleashed in a foreign country – “Cracking the code: Defending against the superweapons of the 21st century cyberwar – By Erin Chapman and Win Rosenfeld” “On Monday, the Obama administration acknowledged the promises and risks of information technology by rolling out a new international strategy for cyberspace. And along with language [...]
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for [...]
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