How to Tell Who’s Tracking You Online
February 28th, 2012 |
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Earlier today Mozilla introduced Collusion, an add-on for the Firefox browser that shows you how companies are tracking you as you surf the Web. A cool visual demonstration of the software illustrates all the links that form as you crisscross just a few popular sites online, including IMDB, the New York Times and the Huffington [...]
Keep reading »Open-source personal robotics seeks a community to make it affordable [video]
September 8th, 2010 |
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Until someone develops a common platform for building robots (think of the combination of Windows and Intel that has made PCs so accessible), the technology will remain elusive to the general public. At least that’s the contention of Willow Garage, Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif. company that Wednesday made its PR2 personal robot available to [...]
Keep reading »Molecular movies: New software animates gene expression data
As more is uncovered about the dynamic inner workings of genes and proteins, researchers now face the happy—if sometimes vexing—problem of working with too much data. But in the onslaught, crucial connections can be missed and findings repeated. In the past decade, many a ponderous computer program and dense database has assisted in sorting this [...]
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