Example of computational thinking ?
Thursday 27 September 2012
internet minute
the number of networked devices is equal to the global population. By 2015, the number of networked devices will be twice the global population
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Tuesday 25 September 2012
Monday 24 September 2012
Virtuoso cartoon pianist plays just like the real thing
Watch a professional pianist play and you'll be struck at how effortlessly their hands skip across the keys.
Making an animated character do the same is much harder, so researchers from the University of California, Davis, have built an algorithm designed to make computer-generated hands tickle the ivories far more realistically.
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Cyborg cockroaches
Researchers say they've figured out a way to create cyborg, remote-controlled cockroaches, hoping one day the resilient creatures could be steered into disaster zones to gather information and look for survivors.
Sunday 23 September 2012
Friday 21 September 2012
what the Internet is really made of
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.
Thursday 20 September 2012
Wednesday 19 September 2012
What's the safest 4 digit pin?
The safest 4-digit PIN is '8068' — or at least it was, until researchers at Data Genetics told everyone this week. The researchers there went through a set of 3.4 million four-digit personal identification numbers and found "8068" came up only 25 times.
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safest 4 digit pin
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