Dynamic Smart Notices could replace standard licencing agreements for software, online services and digital goods, according to a team at HP Labs and the National Hellenic Research Foundatio... Read more
Language does not come naturally to machines. Unlike humans, computers cannot easily distinguish between, say, a river bank and a savings bank. Satire and jokes? Algorithms have great troubl... Read more
Open Course Library that will make course details and courseware much, much cheaper for students We’ve discussed a bunch of times how the lack of market forces in the textbook m... Read more
Every once in a while you see an invention that seems a long time coming. The Tacit, a hand-mounted system that pings surroundings and transmits distance information to the user, is o... Read more