New “tricorder” technology might be able to “hear” tumors growing The new work was spurred by a challenge posed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), best known for sponsoring the studies that led to the Internet. DARPA sought … Continue reading →

Twitter’s withdrawal of reliable share count API is a bold monetising move This month, as part of a redesign of its social media sharing buttons, Twitter is going to turn off the public API which has made it possible for … Continue reading →

Copenhagen New Carsharing Integrated With Public Transport Carsharing programs are becoming more sophisticated and eco-friendly by the minute. In the latest wrinkle, Copenhagen will be the first city to allow members of the DriveNow program to use their public transit … Continue reading →

One Petabyte of Data Exposed Via Insecure Big Data Systems Behind every big data deployment is a range of supporting technologies like databases and memory caching systems that are used to store and analyze massive data sets at lightning speeds. … Continue reading →

Researchers build molecules using a laser beam A combined team of researchers from Israel’s Hebrew University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Germany’s Universität Kassel has succeeded in demonstrating coherent control of bond-forming between atoms using a laser beam. In … Continue reading →