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- imbecile0
6 years old and amazing...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kas…
[Pole] ran test after test, analyzing the data, and before long some useful patterns emerged. Lotions, for example. Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and zinc. Many shoppers purchase soap and cotton balls, but when someone suddenly starts buying lots of scent-free soap and extra-big bags of cotton balls, in addition to hand sanitizers and washcloths, it signals they could be getting close to their delivery date.
As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy.
- scarabin0
here's a catalogue of some of the spying tools NSA uses against us.
leaked by snowden
- uan0
- akiersky0
MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People
- detritus0
/Cool.. til they become too popular and we vaporise our atmosphere*.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy…
* yes, I appreciate that apparently couldn't happen here. but that's what we always think.
- detritus0
Just to clarify - this does NOT read your license plate from outer space. Such a level of technology isn't even officially admitted by the Americans.
It does use GPS, a platform which is admittedly in outer space - but the system (presumably) couples it with existing nationwide CCTV networks and some fancyschmancy Google-Earth esque algorythmic database magic.
Why put things in terms of a technology familiar and indeed, comfortable, to most people when you can have a headline such as 'New speed cameras trap motorists from space', implying that we live in an age of omnipresent government awareness?
Sodding media.
- IRNlun60
A pocket breathalyzer could help figure out the foods that make you sick
- drgs0
Press play
- IRNlun60
Since 2013, the CRISPR/Cas system has been used for gene editing (adding, disrupting or changing the sequence of specific genes) and gene regulation in species throughout the tree of life.
- thumb_screws0
not sure if it should go in the sci fi thread or this one
http://io9.com/heres-nasas-new-d…
- D4W33D0
Arati Prabhakar—director of the Pentagon's advanced research arm DARPA—has revealed a breakthrough achievement in machine mind control. Jan Scheuermann, a 55-year-old quadriplegic woman with electrodes in her brain, has been able to fly an F-35 fighter jet using "nothing but her thoughts."
- thumb_screws0
Stelarc's own site.
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/
- uan0
construction of the fusion reactor started: ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).
- sarahfailin0
http://www.businessinsider.com/t…
World's first AI Lawyer 'ROSS' can do the work of 20-40 attorneys, finding the relevant case law for firms. This one is working for a bankruptcy firm...
- detritus0
Wardriving dildoes.