| Making sense of patterns in the Twitterverse Jun 7th 2013, 17:10 If you think keeping up with what's happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by seven billion -- and you'll have a sense of what Court Corley wakes up to every morning. Corley has created a powerful digital system, dubbed SALSA, capable of analyzing billions of tweets and other messages in just seconds, in an effort to discover patterns and make sense of all the information. |  | Quantum teleportation between atomic systems over long distances Jun 6th 2013, 18:08 Researchers have been able to teleport information from light to light at a quantum level for several years. In 2006, researchers succeeded in teleporting between light and gas atoms. Now the research group has succeeded in teleporting information between two clouds of gas atoms and to carry out the teleportation -- not just one or a few times, but successfully every single time. | | Firefighting robot paints 3-D thermal imaging picture for rescuers Jun 5th 2013, 18:44 Engineers have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles. A sophisticated on-board software system takes the thermal data recorded by the robot's small infrared camera and maps it onto a 3-D scene constructed from the images taken by a pair of stereo RGB cameras. | | Credit card fraudsters quickly exposed Jun 3rd 2013, 13:17 A look at your account balance has just given you a shock: what's going on here? While you have spent the last few weeks in the office and definitely haven't traveled abroad, your account balance shows that you bought electronics in Turkey and ate out in France. In such situations, customers just have to call their banks to get their money back. But this often means that the banks lose the money. How can credit cards be better protected? | |
