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Body language reveals how we really feel Morgan Kelly-Princeton, futurity.org PRINCETON (US) — To figure out how someone is really feeling, don’t just read their lips, watch their body language.In a recent study, researchers asked participants to determine from photographs if people were experiencing feelings such as… Body language reveals how we really feel http://flip.it/bcv0f…
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Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Facebook just let loose with a new update to the Messenger app for iPhone, which until now was restricted to text messaging, sort of like…
Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com Researchers with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) has released their findings that between 30 to 50 percent of all food produced or up to two billion tons is thrown away each year. The UK-based group claims that over-cautious sell by……
How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil…
Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on) By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com The original Clamcase was one of the most flawed iPad keyboards we tried in our roundup — since then, the company has gone back to the drawing board and is now debuting a much-improved new model called the…
America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ By Laura June, theverge.com Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up…
Spotmaps translates every second of a film into a block of color By Amar Toor, theverge.com What can a film’s color scheme say about its narrative? According to Spotmaps, quite a lot. Created by Andy Willis, Spotmaps is a Python-based project that conceptualizes classic movies not in words or storyboards, but highly-detailed… RT @verge: Spotmaps…
IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years By Clay Dillow, popsci.com The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch. At the end of each year, IBM releases its “5 in 5”—five technology predictions that…
A Map Of Every Person In The U.S. And Canada By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com You can try to find yourself among the 341,817,095 tiny dots on the map. Here’s a pretty cool interactive map made by Brandon Martin-Anderson showing, according to census data, every single person in the United States and Canada. The … RT…
Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skateboarders have been taping their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of camcorders, but the producers of short and beautiful video Firefly took the next logical step: using a camera mounted to a hexacopte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a…
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