Scanning caves, glaciers and asteroids with a Kinect? Is there anything this thing can’t do? “I’ve always enjoyed repurposing cheap devices, doing things that you’re not supposed to do with them,” said Mankoff, a NASA-funded Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying ice and ocean interactions. “You know, the hacker ideals.”
In a few weeks will be the second Pirate Party member to take a seat at the European Parliament in Brussels. The 24-year-old Swede was voted in more than two years ago, but due to bureaucratic quibbles her official appointment was delayed. TorrentFreak catches up with the soon-to-be youngest MEP to hear about her plans and expectations.
Just wait until these kids are in college. They will be happy to receive groceries from their parents.
Introducing YouTube for Schools. A free service that offers over 400,000 education videos to schools while blocking non-educational content and removing comments and related videos. Any bets on how long it takes kids to circumvent the safety features?
I’m all for wanting to believe in stuff like this but I seriously doubt we are going to see “Matrix-style instant learning” any time soon.
Dubbed “Decoded Neurofeedback,” the computer-assisted learning hasn’t taught anyone kung fu (yet), but it has resulted in long-lasting improvement in tasks that rely on visual performance — such as playing a musical instrument or catching/hitting a ball.
Kirsten Dunst, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Iggy Pop, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to name a few.
