Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second | TechCrunch
Your standard iPhone camera app is actually pretty slow, taking just three to six photos per second at 8 megapixels each. But with SnappyCam 3.0 you can shoot 20 full-resolution photos per second thanks to a breakthrough in discrete cosine transform JPG science by its inventor. 20 frames per secon..
Hasnain says:
This is cool, though "thanks to a breakthrough in discrete cosine transform JPG science by its inventor." does indicate how good the reporting is.
Posted on 2013-08-01T17:00:03+0000
Your app makes me fat
In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv (currently at Stanford) and his co-author Alex Fedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students.They asked half to memorize a seven-digit number and the other half to memorize a two-digit number. After completing the memorization task, participants were told the e...
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Posted on 2013-07-30T11:04:48+0000
Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software
(Phys.org) —UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known in computer science as 'software obfuscation,'...
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Posted on 2013-07-30T09:38:22+0000
Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster
If scammers disguised themselves as your bank's fraud protection team, would you fall for it? Andy Welch did.
OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t - IEEE Spectrum
How TCP/IP eclipsed the Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for computer networking
Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video
When ISPs and video providers fight over money, Internet users suffer.
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Posted on 2013-07-29T12:31:01+0000
A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA
Growers turned to genetics in hopes of building a tougher orange tree. But what intervention would the public accept?
Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages
One of the problems with modern computer technology: programmers don't learn from the great masters. There is such a thing as a Beethoven or Mozart of software design. Modern programmers seem more ...
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Posted on 2013-07-28T11:37:48+0000
Women in Science
Summers was deservedly castigated, but not for the right reasons. He claimed to be giving a comprehensive list of reasons why there weren't more women reaching the top jobs in the sciences. Yet Summers, an economist, left one out: Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in scie...
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"A man of science may earn great distinction, but not bread"
- Thomas Henry Huxley, mid-19th Century
Posted on 2013-07-23T13:53:46+0000
Forgotten Employee
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