SciFri Radio: Computers

SciFri Radio: From Thought To Movement
Researchers have recorded the brain signals responsible for movement outside the brain and used them to reconstruct hand movement in three...

SciFri Radio: Communicating Science
With newspapers and cable news slashing budgets for science reporting, where can you go to get accurate, unbiased science news? We'll look at how...

SciFri Radio: Facial Recognition
Photo management programs such as Picasa and iPhoto can pick out a snapshot of your cousin Dave from a stack of party pictures -- but what about...

SciFri Radio: Texting Aid Dollars
Much of the financial support for earthquake-stricken Haiti has a high-tech source -- the text message.

SciFri Radio: Our Daily Diet of Data
How much data does the average American consume in an ordinary day? 34 gigabytes of data and 100,500 words, according to a recent study.

SciFri Radio: Top Tech Gadgets
We'll talk about the best -- and worst -- geeky gadgets on the technology market this holiday season.

SciFri Radio: Arpanet Anniversary
Forty years ago this week, the first information was transmitted across the ARPANET -- a computer network that would one day evolve into the Internet.

SciFri Radio: Who's Doing What Online?
A new report looks at use of social media and online communities among US computer users.

SciFri Radio: Voting Machine Update
A computer scientist discusses the “hack-ability” of voting machines and election security.

SciFri Radio: Who Owns Your Digital Data?
From the E-book on your reader to the mp3s on your iPod to your musings on Facebook and Twitter - who owns the bits of data that make up your...

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Video: Virtual Worlds
While Ira was on the air chatting about virtual worlds, his avatar made a visit to Second Life to meet listeners. More than 100 avatars turned out...

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Video: Road Watchers
New Jersey's main arteries are two of the most congested roads in the country--we stop in at the state's brand new Traffic Management and...

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Video: In Voting Software We Trust?
America is transitioning from mechanical voting machines to electronic voting machines. The key to an electronic voting machine is its...

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Video: Clone This Smile
Like a digital video puppet, the facial expressions of one person can be cloned in real time and mapped onto the digital face of another person....


SciFri Newsbriefs: Computers

Newsbrief: Better Medicine Through Cell Phones
Answer that call—your ultrasound results are on the line.

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