Super Realistic Computer Generated Girl

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots. "We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways," said d David Woods, professor of integrated systems engineering at Ohio State University.

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - Criminals are going to have a really tough time hiding their faces, thanks to a new software that can recreate their faces. The software is being used by approximately 15 police departments in the UK as well as half a dozen European countries, including France and Switzerland.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Experts have warned that hackers may have created a network of "zombie" cellphones, similar to a network of virus-infected personal computers, to send spam or carry out cyber attacks. 'Botnets' is the term that computer scientists use for such networks of computers.

October 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new software can act as a new age sketch artist for police by helping witnesses recreate and recognize suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics. Christopher Solomon of the University of Kent in Canterbury, England is all set to introduce the software, called the EFIT-V system, which is being used by approximately 15 police departments in the United Kingdom and by a half dozen European countries, including France and Switzerland.

August 13th, 2009 Who's that girl? Facebook entries stir jealousyALBANY, N.Y. — Alice Connors-Kellgren was surprised by her boyfriend's new Facebook profile picture a few weeks ago: He was kissing another girl on the cheek.

January 26th, 2007 Chinese Communist Party big shot Hu Jintao today announced China's intention to maximise the economic potential of the web, while seeking to "purify the internet environment", Reuters reports. The comments came as the party's politburo met to cast an eye over China's burgeoning internet - boasting 137m registered users at the end of 2006, up by almost a quarter from 2005, according to China Internet Network Information Centre figures released yesterday.

August 13th, 2009 Review: 'Madden NFL 10' is franchise's best yetFootball fans have grown accustomed to spending their Sundays in front of gigantic high-def TVs, and they can't just drop their visual expectations when the game goes virtual. EA Sports exceeds those expectations with "Madden NFL 10" ($59.99; Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3; in stores Friday), and the 21-year-old franchise has delivered its most striking, realistic-looking football video game yet.

September 26th, 2009 LONDON - A team of scientists has designed a system that can fire barrages of entangled photons with machine-gun regularity, and can power quantum computers in the future. Existing methods of producing entangled photons tend to spew out photons more or less randomly, according to Terry Rudolph at Imperial College London.

January 26th, 2004 A machine that generates music, creates better toothbrush and patentable inventions! I heard about it first from Weiqi Gao's Weblog - Weiqi Gao.com Read about it here. The idea is not new, introduce randomness in the system for better learning.

November 18th, 2005 Helsinki's sewerage problem with toilet-disposed cellphones gave me an idea. Why not design disposable, bio-degradable cellphones? Imagine the great use cases: You are very angry with your significant other / fiance or your boss.

September 2nd, 2009 Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIPSAN FRANCISCO — Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line.

March 6th, 2009 I will start with the story straight up. Kimberley Swann, a 16-year-old girl from Clacton-On-Sea in Essex, began working as an office administrator for Ivell Marketing & Logistics at the beginning of February.

February 17th, 2006 Why do we use "virus" to describe malicious replicating computer programs? Most of these programs are very complicated and intelligent (comparatively), which resembles more like a bacteria than a virus. Viruses are very simple organisms, very unlike todays "computer viruses".

September 25th, 2009 Something to tweet about: Twitter gets more doughSAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc. has raised $100 million in a deal that values the startup at $1 billion — even though the 3-year-old company still hasn't generated any meaningful revenue.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - Scientists in the U.K. have come up with a new software that detects whether or not you are looking at your computer and switches off the display accordingly.