 TestiVar Releases Professional Edition of TestiVar Advertising SoftwareTestiVar, the global leader for advertising solutions based on science, recently released TestiVar Advertising Professional Edition which allows online businesses to test advertising copy for profitability in advance of ad placement. - - According to (...) [WebWire Computer software]  TestiVar Releases Professional Edition of TestiVar Advertising Software TestiVar, the global leader for advertising solutions based on science, recently released TestiVar Advertising Professional Edition which allows online businesses to test advertising copy for profitability in advance of ad placement. - - According to (...) [WebWire Internet technology] MPs call for media campaign to raise awareness of cybercrime Science and technology committee says advice on preventing cybercrime is too full of jargon for people to understand
MPs have urged the UK government to launch a major publicity campaign to help people protect themselves from online crime.
Simple security precautions could thwart around 80% of (...) [The Guardian] BooksOnBoard Unveils This Week's Bestselling US Authors and eBooks Debut author Marissa Meyer is receiving attention in Young Adult and Science Fiction circles alike following the recent release of Cinder, a futuristic retelling of Cinderella. - - "The Young Adult genre contains countless versions of both familiar (...) [WebWire Consumer electronics] Harnessing the predictive power of virtual communities Scientists have created a new algorithm to detect virtual communities, designed to match the needs of real-life social, biological or information networks detection better than with current attempts. [Science daily] VIDEO: Child's toy launched 'into space' While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying towards the edge of space does not always have to be rocket science. [BBC] VIDEO: Child's toy launched 'into space' While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying towards the edge of space does not always have to be rocket science. [BBC News] Could Kodak's demise have been averted? Last week, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 protection. What went wrong for what was, until recently, one of the most successful brands on the planet?
There is an old saying that hindsight is the only exact science, and it's true. The news that Kodak's long fade to black has finally ended with the (...) [The Guardian] Ming-Zher Poh: a mirror that gives you an instant health check MIT PhD student Ming-Zher Poh has come up with a mirror that uses light to measure your body's vital signs
What led to you inventing the mirror?
As part of my PhD research in the division of health sciences and technology at MIT, I'd been working on technologies that enable more comfortable and (...) [The Guardian] Ten-second dance of electrons is step toward exotic new computers Scientists have achieved a 100-fold increase in the ability to maintain control the spins of electrons in a solid material, a key step in the development of ultrafast quantum computers. [Science daily] Brain scientists make cyborg rats Brain microchips may herald health breakthroughs [BBC] CES 2012: heal me up, Scotty The X Prize Foundation is hoping to bring devices out of the realm of science fiction that can instantly diagnose illnesses
Think you could invent a gadget that would be able to diagnose diseases as easily, quickly and accurately as the tricorder in Star Trek? Then you could be in line for a (...) [The Guardian] World's smallest magnetic data storage unit Scientists have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, and squeezes a whole byte (8-bit) into as few as 96 atoms. [Science daily] The 'Boycott Sopa' app and the informed consumer-citizen | Dan Gillmor An app created by two computer-science students is a ground-breaking example of how technology can empower our choices
• Understanding Sopa: the Guardian's interactive graphic explainer
A few minutes ago, I pointed my mobile phone at a soda bottle and scanned the product's bar code. A few (...) [The Guardian] Teach children how to write computer programmes British schools should impart skills that will help pupils create the next Google, Twitter and Facebook
The problem with ICT is that children are bored to death by it. It's largely office skills and the UK's inadequate proxy for computer science. Children don't need to spend a year learning (...) [The Guardian]
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