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		<title>WATCH: Oculus Rift, Omni &#8216;Treadmill&#8217; Virtual Reality Demo Illustrates Why I&#8217;m Not Interested</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/watch-oculus-rift-omni-treadmill-virtual-reality-demo-illustrates-why-im-not-interested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtuix&#8217;s Omni whatchamacallit looks a little like a Star Trek transporter pad with a handrail. The rail sits up close, circling your abdomen like a belt, keeping you centered and upright as you move. Promo shots with colorized sections make it seem like a weird version of Simon you play with your feet. Virtuix calls it a &#8220;natural motion interface for virtual reality applications.&#8221; What&#8217;s interesting is that it&#8217;s not an actual treadmill, but a concave platform you stand in the middle of and essentially moonwalk on. Do so with compatible motion-capture gear, say a virtual reality head-mounted display, and the Omni can convey the illusion of perambulation through a virtual environment. Who do we know making virtual reality gear these days? Oculus VR, of course. So Virtuix&#8217;s Omni (still in development) paired with Oculus&#8217; Rift head-mounted display (also still in development) demoed in the video above was probably inevitable. In the clip, we see someone playing Valve&#8217;s popular team-based shooter, Team Fortress 2. When the player runs on the Omni, his in-game persona moves as if holding down the &#8220;run&#8221; key on a keyboard (in reality, he&#8217;s somewhere between a fast walk and a trot on the Omni &#8212; doing &#8220;the gamer shuffle,&#8221; as someone quipped on YouTube). It&#8217;s not clear if he&#8217;s using the mock-gun to aim or just as a prop with a trigger; I&#8217;m guessing the latter. In first-person shooters, your head and gun&#8217;s iron sights are the same. In fact your head is your gun: Imagine a bunch of bipedal creatures with weapons in lieu of craniums and muzzles in place of eyeballs, which is how shooters have worked since id Software popularized &#8220;mouselook&#8221; per Quake in 1996. Clever as this all seems (and fun as it may be to fantasize about), you&#8217;ll note the demonstrator&#8217;s ability to turn in real-space is pretty limited, nor can he physically jump or crouch (fully spinning in place, given the Rift&#8217;s wiring, is also an obvious no-no). I&#8217;m not sure Team Fortress 2 was the best game to demo here, unless you&#8217;ve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160756&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should the Blind Be Able to &#8216;Drive&#8217; Automated Vehicles?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/15/should-the-blind-be-able-to-drive-automated-vehicles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably inevitable: the point at which someone legally forbidden today from manually operating a motor vehicle on public roadways &#8212; someone legally blind, that is, whether fully or partially unsighted &#8212; can pop into an automobile and ease on down the road, be it swinging by a food joint to grab lunch or winding for hours along a vertiginous highway, say the Rocky Mountain toll road on the way up to Pikes Peak. Whether it&#8217;s in one of Google&#8217;s much-hyped automated vehicles or someone else&#8217;s take on the tech hardly matters. But as the BBC notes, it won&#8217;t be as simple as pronouncing self-driving cars roadworthy and handing over the keys to anyone with the inclination. The idea of loosing self-driving cars on U.S. roadways piloted by sighted drivers can seem controversial enough. What if the autonomous driving system malfunctions somehow? What if it completely fails? The engine light in my non-autonomous 2011 VW Jetta wagon occasionally pops on erroneously and the tire pressure gauge requires recalibrating any time I drop the car off for service, refusing to recognize the topped up PSI levels as valid. Lemons aside, we&#8217;ve probably all at one time or another driven a vehicle prone to inexplicable fits (if not outright tantrums). Imagine adding something as sophisticated as full vehicular automation to the equation. And yet the arguments in favor of self-driving cars are many: computer-sorted traffic could yield higher maximum speeds and optimized drive times (sayonara &#8220;stop and go,&#8221; hello increased fuel efficiency!), the option to drive whether you&#8217;ve had too much to drink or not and driverless valet park anywhere you go (as well as make better use of parking space &#8212; no more sloppy two-for-one parking jobs). Imagine your vehicle driving itself off to a maintenance facility without your assistance, returning home on its own, or the option to be as distracted as you like while your vehicle&#8217;s escorting you around, from texting to watching a video to catching up on your notes for a morning work meeting. In theory, an exhaustively thorough<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160200&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>40 Years of Music Industry History in Less than a Minute</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/09/40-years-of-music-industry-history-in-less-than-a-minute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The world has changed&#8230;&#8221; Galadriel might have been talking about Middle-earth, or just the U.S. music industry. I was born in 1972, so I still remember turntables and 8-track players un-ironically. Now my entire (lossless) music collection lives on a two-terabyte hard drive and follows me anywhere I go. Lo-fi or hi-fi, my listening experience includes laptops and pocked-sized DACs capable of 24-bit/96kHz conversion, wired to studio monitors or piped to devices like my Apple TV, palm-sized Bluetooth speakers or other nearby computers. With a few taps on my smartphone, I can summon just about any song and listen through headphones or beam the stream to a wireless receiver like my car&#8217;s audio system. Records, tapes, CDs &#8212; they&#8217;ve become the abstraction. If you want to visualize part of that journey starting in 1973, Digital Music News rolled up its sleeves, reached into the Recording Industry Association of America&#8217;s shipments and revenue database and pulled out a trove of stats rendered as pie charts, then chained those charts together, year by year, to form one great, slowly cycling, occasionally Pac-Man-like music industry time machine. Digital Music News According to DMN, the data is strictly U.S., and each pie represents 100% of total recording revenue. If you&#8217;d rather see the images one at a time, DMN has that covered, too. 40 Years of Music Industry Change, In 40 Seconds or Less&#8230; [Digital Music News] &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159817&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Finally, a Vacuum Cleaner That&#8217;s Built into a Car</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/27/watch-finally-a-vacuum-cleaner-thats-built-into-a-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our vehicle interiors are like shrines to our lives: corroding pennies, the odd Cheeto, the AWOL cylinder of ChapStick, crumbs from a convenience store &#8220;delicacy,&#8221; the errant lump of gum (thanks kids!), Goldfish cracker bits, silvery gum wrappers, little lakes of gravel &#8212; and if you live north of Mason-Dixon, quartz-like nuggets of ice-dissolving road salt. There may not be an app for any of that, but at least there&#8217;s now officially a vacuum! Meet Honda&#8217;s 2014 Odyssey, which comes with &#8212; wait for it &#8212; the world&#8217;s first built-into-a-vehicle, crud-sucking hose. Really, a vacuum cleaner spliced with a van, complete with attachments, a replaceable filter, a canister bag and a stretchable hose that reaches from back to front. Honda apparently ran its new minivan and a ShopVac through one of those pods Jeff Goldblum used in The Fly. You access the thing by pulling a panel off the sidewall of the rear interior. According to WTVR, the vacuum will work continuously while the engine&#8217;s running or give you eight minutes of charge with the engine off (which, all things considered, doesn&#8217;t sound half-bad when you consider how little time your average money-gobbling wash-station hoover yields). What do you call it? Well a &#8220;HondaVac,&#8221; of course. The only downside: It doesn&#8217;t come cheap. Honda only plans to sell it with the Touring Elite version of the minivan, which should be available this summer. Then again, it&#8217;s a vacuum &#8212; in your car! Short of this thing flipping out jet engines like the DeLorean in Back to the Future and fueling off just the sort of garbage you&#8217;ll be sucking up with the HondaVac, how do you beat that?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159026&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Really Ban Google Glass While Driving?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/26/should-we-really-ban-google-glass-while-driving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just slipped on a pair of Google&#8217;s funky, futuristic eyewear, which looks a little like half of a lensless, tricked-out pair of Oakleys. I&#8217;m also driving. Out the window, I see an interstate sign — through my pair of Google glasses, a minimalist GPS overlay indicates this is my exit. I take it. As I&#8217;m pulling down the ramp, I tilt my gaze up at piles of gray clouds, the sun just starting to emerge. Through Google&#8217;s tiny, cyclopean display, I notice the temperature outside is 53°F and rising. Turning right at the ramp intersection, I can just see a commercial jet lifting off from the airport a few miles down the road. The readout in my heads-up display indicates my flight is on time. All the while, my phone hasn&#8217;t moved from my shirt pocket, my eyes haven&#8217;t left the road and my hands haven&#8217;t left the wheel. O.K., none of this is actually happening — I&#8217;ve yet to lay hands on a pair of Google&#8217;s ballyhooed cyberglasses. In fact I&#8217;m only vaguely interested in head-mounted technology, whether it&#8217;s coming from Nintendo, James Cameron or Sergey Brin. It sounds — and every time I&#8217;ve tried it, feels — like a compromise on the longer road to implanting subdermal CPUs and hardwiring our optic nerves. But that&#8217;s still decades away (well, probably), and whether I&#8217;m Google&#8217;s target audience or not, these things are coming: a $1,500 cyberpunk geek&#8217;s dream come true, backed by a multinational corporation with a guiding hand in how we aggregate information — search, news, e-mail, maps, video, documents, translation, social networking and more — already today. Augmented-reality devices have been around for decades, but never quite like this. Smartphones and tablets do it; so can dedicated handhelds like Nintendo&#8217;s 3DS. But those devices require hands. Google Glass sits on your face, more or less the way any pair of glasses would, and instead of firing a laser at your retina, it simply displays information on a small glass monocle perched slightly above one eye. And yet the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158919&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from the Tesla Motors-New York Times Dustup</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/26/lessons-learned-from-the-tesla-motors-new-york-times-dustup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tesla Motors-New York Times story reminds us of two things: One, if you tell someone you just took a road trip through the Green Mountains of Vermont and your GPS data indicates you were in fact cruising along Georgia&#8217;s Gold Coast, well, you&#8217;re probably going to lose the confidence vote. And two, that sometimes what a bunch of incriminating data seems to be indicating may not be what it&#8217;s indicating at all. Mark Twain popularized the phrase &#8220;There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics&#8221; in his Chapters from My Autobiography &#8212; we might well add vehicle logs and satellite data to that statement. Let&#8217;s review: On Feb. 8, the Times published critic John Broder&#8217;s unflattering reaction to Tesla&#8217;s Model S sedan based on an overnight test-drive up Interstate 95 along the Eastern Seaboard. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk was nonplussed, provocatively tweeting a few days later that the article was &#8220;fake&#8221; and alleging that the vehicle logs told the &#8220;true story,&#8221; namely that Broder &#8220;didn’t actually charge to max &#38; took a long detour.&#8221; Broder batted back those allegations in another Times piece, after which the world waited for Musk to make good on his vehicle logs claim. And so he did, producing a combative, retaliatory piece on Feb. 13, comparing the Model S&#8217;s GPS and performance logs with Broder&#8217;s claims in the review, and outlining what Musk viewed as several glaring contradictions &#8212; contradictions that he read as attempts by Broder, whom he alleges has an axe to grind with electric vehicles, to subvert the car (&#8220;When the facts didn’t suit his opinion, he simply changed the facts,&#8221; wrote Musk, who sought to drive his point home by self-servingly adding &#8220;the Model S was declared to be the best new car in the world by the most discerning authorities in the automotive industry&#8221;). At this point, do-or-die electric car buffs had their long knives and sharpening stones out. By cherry-picking data to make his point, Musk wasn&#8217;t being entirely fair to Broder, who after all had written a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157225&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CAVE2: Not a Star Trek Holodeck Yet, but Getting Closer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/25/cave2-not-a-star-trek-holodeck-yet-but-getting-closer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how in Star Trek humans managed to turn grid-lined rooms into striking replicas of Irish villages and Wild West facades replete with swaying trees and creaky leather saddles, well, don&#8217;t think too hard about it. These far-fetched (if diverting) starship chambers used fanciful teleporter tech to beam custom-tailored matter in on the fly and employed forcefields to give photon-sculpted objects illusory substance&#8230;pretty much impossible when you hold that formula up against actual physics. Still, the idea behind holography-based virtual reality remains enticing &#8212; even without the teleportation and instantaneous matter replication fantasy, a giant wraparound room stacked with 3D panels would be significantly awesome in its own right, no? Sort of like CAVE2, then &#8212; the &#8220;AVE&#8221; stands for &#8220;automatic virtual environment&#8221; &#8211; a &#8220;hybrid reality&#8221; system designed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago that spreads a bunch of stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal displays around a cylindrical room to all but envelope an observer, letting them soar over a distant planet&#8217;s surface or scoot Fantastic Voyage-style through an incredibly intricate rendering of the blood vessel network coursing through a human brain. It&#8217;s quite the enterprising (pun intended) little setup: a 24-foot wide, eight-foot tall 320-degree panoramic room with 72 custom 3D micropolarized LCD panels framing 18 columns (four displays each). Those panels output at 37-megapixels in 3D or 74 megapixels in 2D &#8212; essentially the limit of human 20/20 visual acuity. [Update: EVL notes below that "Each thin border panel is 1366 x 768 in monoscopic viewing and 1366 x 384 for each eye in stereoscopic (interleaved) viewing, so the total resolution of the cave2 system with its 18 x 4 array of panels is 24588 x 3072 in monoscopic mode and 24588 x 1536 for each eye in stereoscopic mode; we can also split the space up and share 2D and 3D content in a hybrid mode."] If you&#8217;re running in 3D mode, the room needs to be able to project its stereoscopic imagery to your headwear properly, which is where a 10-camera optical tracking system comes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157180&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Tattoos That Let You Control Objects with Your Mind</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/22/finally-tattoos-that-let-you-control-objects-with-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science hasn&#8217;t been easy on the paranormal, routinely deflating fantastic claims by hucksters purporting psychic abilities. So wouldn&#8217;t it be ironic if scientists were on the verge of making paranormal-like abilities a reality? Imagine controlling an object with your mind. Or don&#8217;t, because you probably already have. I did when I was a (pretty little) kid. It never worked, of course, but boy did I stare daggers at several unsuspecting flower pots, pencils and sticks of chalk. The trouble, of course, is that your brain works a whole lot better when it&#8217;s motivating things it&#8217;s actually wired to, say your eyeballs, tongue, fingers or toes. But aha, you&#8217;re saying, we have wireless technology in 2013. We live in the future! Can&#8217;t we just cut that cord, too? We already have: If you want to get technical about it, when using a handheld remote control with old-school antennae to pilot a hobby-style airplane across a field, you don&#8217;t actually touch the radio-controlled plane; the brain-interface includes your hands and the control box. But that assumes you have hands to work with, and working a control box to drive a wireless drone around is hardly &#8220;telekinetic&#8221; &#8212; not half as cool-sounding as it might be if you could simply think that drone into action. You&#8217;ve probably heard of brain implants acting as biomedical prostheses in what&#8217;s sometimes referred to as a &#8220;brain-computer interface,&#8221; allowing someone to manipulate neuroprosthetic arms and legs or simply nudge a mouse cursor using nothing but thought. We&#8217;re doing that stuff today. But you&#8217;re still talking about interfaces that usually involve invasive technology, often drilled into the skull and attached directly to the brain itself &#8212; Jean Grey, it&#8217;s not. What if you could reduce the interface to something that didn&#8217;t require brain surgery, something not only noninvasive, but roughly the size of a tiny, removable tattoo? Call it &#8220;cerebral cord-cutting.&#8221; That&#8217;s essentially what Dr. Todd Coleman and fellow researchers at the University of California San Diego are up to, creating &#8220;electronic tattoos&#8221; capable of interfacing with your brain and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157092&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla Motors Pours Cold Data on New York Times &#8216;Model S&#8217; Review</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/14/tesla-motors-pours-cold-data-on-new-york-times-model-s-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[electric cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not unusual for writers to say negative things about products they don&#8217;t like. It is slightly unusual for the companies that make said products to respond to negative reviews publicly. And it&#8217;s extremely unusual for said companies to outright brand a review from a highly respected newspaper &#8220;fake.&#8221; But the latter&#8217;s exactly what happened in an electric car kerfuffle between New York Times writer John Broder and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. Broder recently took a road trip in Tesla&#8217;s critically acclaimed Model S sedan, then wrote a scornful review, which would probably have been the end of the tale, but for Musk&#8217;s unexpectedly sharp reaction. (MORE: Finally, a Refrigerator with a Sparkling Water Dispenser — Make Your Own Soda, Too) &#8220;NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake,&#8221; wrote Musk in a no-holds-barred tweet three days after the Times review went live. &#8220;Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn&#8217;t actually charge to max &#38; took a long detour.&#8221; Broder reacted to Musk&#8217;s admonishment with another lengthy Times piece, batting back the insinuations of journalistic flimflammery, one by one. Musk promised to make good on his allegations and release the actual vehicle logs, and so he has, folding them into an official Tesla Motors blog post Wednesday evening titled &#8220;A Most Peculiar Test Drive.&#8221; Like Broder&#8217;s carefully crafted review, Musk&#8217;s rejoinder is a fascinating read, in part because we&#8217;re ostensibly looking at the actual logged vehicle data (sort of like when aviation or railroad officials talk about recovering operational information from a &#8220;black box&#8221;). Some vehicles nowadays come equipped with computer chips and sensors capable of monitoring and logging everything from how fast or slow you were traveling along a given stretch to precisely how much force you used when applying the brakes at a stoplight. (Musk stressed in a followup tweet that &#8220;Tesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers&#8230;&#8221;) Let&#8217;s walk through a few of Musk&#8217;s rebuttals and compare notes. According to Broder in the review, toward the end of his road trip, the Model S ran<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156633&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Move Over, BabelFish: Computer Program Reconstructs Lost Tongues</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/12/move-over-babelfish-computer-program-reconstructs-lost-tongues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You say puh-tay-tow, I say puh-tah-tow, but how did our ancestors use language millennia ago? Typically you&#8217;d ask a linguist, but manually reconstructing protolanguages &#8212; hypothetical early languages from which extant ones evolved &#8212; can be a lengthy, arduous process. What if you could get reasonably close in a fraction of the time by using a computer? Researchers in Canada and California have done exactly that by designing software that can take rules about how language-related sounds change over time to essentially reverse-engineer the process and recreate the rudiments of lost root languages &#8212; a sort of linguistic time machine-meets-Rosetta stone. (MORE: If Apple Makes a Smartwatch, This Is the Competition) The idea that language changes over time is obvious enough on contemporary time-scales &#8212; just look at dialects. Today some people say &#8220;axed&#8221; (phonetically) instead of &#8220;asked&#8221; while others say &#8220;howdy&#8221; instead of &#8220;hello.&#8221; When I lived in Denton, Texas, folks said &#8220;y&#8217;all&#8221; instead of &#8220;you all,&#8221; and the colloquialism &#8220;ain&#8217;t&#8221; (instead of &#8220;am not&#8221; or &#8220;is not&#8221;) &#8212; the bane of English language formalists everywhere &#8212; was widespread by the 18th century. (Conversely, the historian J.M. Roberts writes in The History of the World that a word like &#8220;alcohol&#8221; survives more or less in its original form from Sumerian, a language spoken in southern Mesopotamia since the 4th millennium B.C.; so, says Roberts, does the world&#8217;s first recipe for beer.) But tracing back the origins of dialect changes is kid&#8217;s stuff compared to constructing entire progenitor languages that existed prior to the earliest extant ones. All we have are the descendant languages and ideas about how sounds change over time: kind of like playing Clue with half the game board and only some of the cards. Compare the features of two or more languages with common ancestors &#8212; a process known as the comparative method &#8212; and scholars would argue you can get close, but it can be a painstaking process. Imagine instead taking over 600 existing languages spoken in Asia and the Pacific &#8212; precisely what these researchers did<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156506&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Pill, Blue Pill: Is the Universe Just a Giant Computer Simulation?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/13/red-pill-blue-pill-is-the-universe-just-a-giant-computer-simulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started making my way (skeptically) through Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s How to Create a Mind, and at the recommendation of a friend, I&#8217;ve also started keeping tabs on KurzweilAI, a Kurzweil-blessed site devoted to futurism coverage &#8212; everything from the latest 3D printer tech and anti-cancer drugs to brain-based pacemakers and &#8220;exploding killer plasmonic nanobubbles.&#8221; This morning, I noticed a story that sort of coincides with one I wrote a couple weeks ago about our brains, the Internet and the universe. Does the possibility that the universe is structured like an extremely complex network &#8212; that our brains and the things we create with them, like the Internet, may resemble the universe&#8217;s underlying structure &#8212; also imply that we exist in an incomprehensibly sophisticated computer-like simulation? &#8220;You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe,&#8221; says Laurence Fishburne&#8217;s character Morpheus in that eminently quoted scene from The Matrix. &#8220;You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.&#8221; University of Oxford physics professor Nick Bostrom wasn&#8217;t the first person to suggest reality could be computer-fied &#8212; the idea&#8217;s been around since I was a kid, at least, reaching a kind of pop-cultural critical mass in the Matrix films &#8212; but he may have been the first to take a stab at a &#8220;red pill&#8221; explanation, laying out his theory in an actual paper published in 2003. Call it another version of the strong anthropic principle, except the universe&#8217;s catalyst would in this instance be an advanced civilization running an unfathomably sophisticated massively multiplayer, um, cosmos game. In his paper, Bostrom argued that at least one of the following things must be true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. That third point<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153484&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Brain, the Internet and the Universe Have Something Fascinating in Common</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/28/your-brain-the-internet-and-the-universe-have-something-fascinating-in-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some part of our being knows this is where we came from,&#8221; says Carl Sagan at one point during his epic cosmology-narrating documentary, Cosmos. &#8220;We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We&#8217;re made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.&#8221; I remember reading that second-t0-last sentence somewhere as a kid before I&#8217;d even seen the show in the 1980s. &#8220;Star-stuff,&#8221; an economic, deeply poetic way of driving such an elegant point home. It was mind-blowing to me at the time, back in grade school, just beginning to wrap my head around how scientists thought the puzzle pieces fit together. But what if it turned out that what we&#8217;ve become over the course of evolutionary eons is about more than just the elemental stuff that stars and planets and nebulae are made of? What if the very structure of our brains, as well as the things our brains can lay claim to &#8212; constructs like the Internet, social networks, etc. &#8212; resembled the underlying structure of the universe itself? That&#8217;s what a recent study published in the science journal Nature’s Scientific Reports suggests &#8212; that not only are we star-stuff, but that there may be a kind of cosmic feedback loop in the design of our brains and what we&#8217;ve created using them. &#8220;By no means do we claim that the universe is a global brain or a computer,&#8221; said Dmitri Krioukov (via UCSD News), one of the paper&#8217;s co-authors and a senior research scientist at the University of California, San Diego. (He&#8217;s also the guy who, back in April, successfully appealed a failure-to-stop traffic ticket by writing a four-page research paper that suggested, using basic high-school math, why he wasn&#8217;t guilty as charged.) But while the paper isn&#8217;t an attempt to describe the universe as some sort of vast, cosmic intellect, Krioukov says brain-universe parallels exist: &#8220;[The] discovered equivalence between the growth of the universe and complex networks strongly suggests that unexpectedly similar laws govern the dynamics of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152062&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gadzooks, Another Invisibility Cloak! So Why Is This One &#8216;Perfect&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/15/gadzooks-another-invisibility-cloak-so-why-is-this-one-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raise your hand if you&#8217;ve ever been somewhere you wish you could disappear. You know, just blink right out of existence &#8212; push a button on a gadget or whip out an invisibility poncho, say, then make like a magic coin and vanish. Over the years, you&#8217;ve probably heard about various ways to make this happen that don&#8217;t involve lucky gift-recipient boy-wizards or whatever the heck it is those cosmic trophy-hunting aliens were using in the campy John McTiernan films. In March, for instance, I wrote about a hydrogen-powered Mercedes car rendered all but invisible by pairing a camera with a cloak of colored lights. The idea behind the see-through Mercedes involved putting the camera on one side of the vehicle, then draping a blanket of LEDs over the other. The camera transmitted what it was seeing opposite the far side side of the car to the displays on the other &#8212; if the cameras picked up an Italian restaurant, say, along with plants, trees and passerby, the LEDs displayed all that in high fidelity on the other side of the car in real time. Looking at the car from the side with the LEDs was thus like looking through it, and the only parts visible were the uncovered wheels. But that&#8217;s a lot of work just to make something only partly disappear. Another possibility involves using &#8220;metamaterials&#8221; to fiddle the way light interacts with stuff like our clothes, skin or objects in general &#8212; a field of experimental science now referred to as &#8220;transformation optics,&#8221; focused on controlling light to manipulate the visible world. Light normally travels in a straight line, but by using specially crafted materials that can warp the electromagnetic spectrum or alter the actual speed of light rays, you can affect the way light interacts with an object, even making it appear to disappear. In fact it&#8217;s already the stuff of science-past: In 2006, researchers at Duke University touted an &#8220;invisibility cloak&#8221; that deflected microwave beams around a copper cylinder, rendering the cylinder itself almost invisible. But only almost. You<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151049&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Most Powerful Climate Change Supercomputer Powers Up</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/17/the-worlds-most-powerful-climate-change-supercomputer-powers-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the political discord over climate change, one thing everyone can probably agree on is that when you're throwing computational resources at modeling weather, the more the merrier.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148431&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Live: Felix Baumgartner Freefalls from the Edge of Space</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/09/watch-live-felix-baumgartner-freefalls-from-the-edge-of-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep it right here for live video of the Red Bull Stratos. Launching from Roswell, New Mexico, Felix Baumgartner will ascend to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon then freefall back down to earth at top speeds estimated near 690 miles per hour.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147987&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Cares About Neil Young’s Ultra-High Quality Music Standard?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/03/who-cares-about-neil-youngs-ultra-high-quality-music-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Young's new music service promises higher fidelity audio than anything yet seen from digital storefronts, but will most of us accustomed to compressed, MP3-quality tunes really care?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147511&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NASA Actually Working on Faster-than-Light Warp Drive</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A physicist at NASA says he's working on a warp drive that could enable faster-than-light travel -- isn't that impossible?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=146592&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ultrafast Chips that Run on Light: Nanoswitch Breakthrough Brings Us Closer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/12/ultrafast-chips-that-run-on-light-nanoswitch-breakthrough-brings-us-closer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're a step closer to utlrafast photonic computers thanks to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, who have managed to create the world's first "all-optical photonic switch" -- a switch that essentially runs on light.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=145493&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netatmo Home Weather Station Kit Brings Out Your Inner Meteorologist</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/27/netatmo-home-weather-station-kit-brings-out-your-inner-meteorologist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using wireless sensors and a smartphone, Netatmo's Weather Station lets you track metrics like temperature and humidity along with indoor and outdoor air quality. Is it worth $179?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=143928&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Penny for Your Rockets: Microthrusters Powered by Ion Beams Could Propel Satellites Through Space</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/21/penny-for-your-rockets-microthrusters-powered-by-ion-beams-could-propel-satellites-through-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine rockets so small you could fit them through a piggybank slot. Imagine those rockets jetting microscopic beams of ions drawn from a reservoir of liquid plasma. Now imagine -- or don't, because they're not imaginary -- that they're poised to power the smallest satellites yet made through space.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=143470&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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