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Researchers teach Wi-Fi to “see,” identify gestures. Flipping off your television may gain a whole new meaning thanks to a technology being developed by a team of researchers at the University of Washington.

Researchers teach Wi-Fi to “see,” identify gestures

The team, led by Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Shyam Gollakota, developed a system dubbed WiSee, which uses radio waves from Wi-Fi to sense human body movements and detect command gestures from anywhere within a home or office. The results of the WiSee team's research have been submitted to the ACM's 19th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom '13). Wearable Tech Fashion: What Would You Try On? [INFOGRAPHIC] The best solution to world thirst may be desalination. Yes!

The best solution to world thirst may be desalination

Contraceptives in the water and all infertility research halted now! I'm not kidding. I dont care about the 'demographic bomb' or the 'economy.' We need to reduce the population by at least 3 billion. We're already way over capacity IMO. As a fellow traveler of VHEMT, I mostly agree that money spent on infertility research is far better spent on other things and our population ought to be drastically reduced but, I don't think most people are going to agree with us. So in the end, I think people who think like us should do what we can to support things that do contribute greatly to declines in birth rates: 1) Cheap, reliable and well understood contraceptives. 2) Increase global urbanization as quickly as possible. 3) Hugely improve women's education, political rights, economic power and status in the developing world. 4) Improve standards of living in the developing world as quickly as possible Volume EARTH is 98% full.

Facebook's Photo Archive Can Be Used for Face Recognition in Real Life. Facebook has had its share of problems over face recognition — a feature that connects a photo of a person's face with their Facebook profile, making it easier to tag people in photos — but researchers from Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University recently proved that Facebook's vast photo archive can be used to identify people on the street, too.

Facebook's Photo Archive Can Be Used for Face Recognition in Real Life

The authors of the study titled "Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality" — Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman — demonstrated it at the Black Hat technical security conference, which was July 30 to August 4 in Las Vegas. They used publicly available data — photos from Facebook profiles of students — and then used face recognition technology to recognize these students as they look into a web camera. The results? The study raises important questions about our privacy. Check out the FAQ related to the study here. [via CNET] Is Pre-Cognition Possible & Can It Beat Twitter on Breaking News? Recorded Future is a startup technology company that described itself as a "temporal analytics engine.

Is Pre-Cognition Possible & Can It Beat Twitter on Breaking News?

" It tries to uncover and analyze very faint signals, basically in order to predict the future. It's backed by Google Ventures and the data-loving VC firm IA Ventures. Today, Recorded Future articulated its vision of the future of news. By news they don't just mean what's broadcast on TV at 5 and 11, they mean current events of interest to people seeking actionable information. The gist of the company's argument is this: real-time web publishing, best exemplified by the news-breaking social network Twitter, is ultimately a race to the bottom. Can you pee in a pool without getting found out? Former lifeguard here. As the article above states, we would never use a chemical like this because all pools would be pinkish all the time. Teen Builds Nuke Detecting Device, Saves Us All From Horrible Death. Scientist claims to have made an edible steak out of human feces. Huh?

This Mermaid Swims Through Your Digestive Tract. NAU's Slick-Looking Take On the Future of the RV. How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] Over the past decade or so, the Internet has become a huge source of information and education, especially for those who might be short on time, money or other resources.

How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC]

And it's not just crowdsourced data collections like Wikipedia or single-topic blogs that encourage individual learning; huge corporations and nonprofits are making online education and virtual classrooms a very formal affair these days. From the first online classes (which were conducted by the University of Phoenix in 1989) to the present day, when online education is a $34 billion industry, more and more students are finding new life and career education opportunities online. Check out this infographic from OnlineEducation.net about how the world of online learning has changed and grown over the years. Click image to see larger version. [source: Online Education] Ten foods in your kitchen that contain gruesome poisons. Ok. wth? Just wth am i supposed to eat? Or is io9 just going for the sensationalistic (but inaccurate on a practical level) article? Maybe a little dosage information would be helpful? I have a feeling the toxins of almost all of these (other than rhubarb leaves and ground up nuts) are in such small quantities that they aren't a health concern - otherwise everyone eating healthy should be dead... right?

Please either give some dosage recommendations (an idea how much is too much) or stop posting this type of article. it's really USELESS without any toxicity threshold information. ps. if the toxin in potatoes is in the stem, leaves and eyes, all you need to do is peel the potatoes to make them safe, right? A map of all the water in the solar system.