Guest Post By Julie Brook, Esq.
Modern technology has had a major impact on the way that we do almost everything. It has changed the way that attorneys develop and present evidence as well as the manner in which they present and argue cases at trial. Because judges and jurors will more .Read more...
From the BBC:
Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In .Read more...
Wired Magazine looks at unique security locations around the world. WikiLeaks, for example:
Where does WikiLeaks keep its secrets? In a former military bunker and nuclear shelter under Stockholm’s city streets. Nicknamed the James Bond Villain Data Center, this 8,000-server facility, which could theoretically withstand a nuclear impact, .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal reports on the new lab from the Institute for Business & Home Safety:
The $40 million research center, set on 90 acres in Richburg, S.C., features a massive test chamber as tall as a six-story building that can hold nine 2,300-square-foot homes on a turntable. .Read more...
Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.
Conductor (2011) by Alexander Chen. Video capture. View live at: http://www.mta.me
Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues .Read more...
The New York Times discusses those announcements to turn off your electronic devices:
Passengers are taking an increasing array of devices on board planes — cellphones, tablets, GPS units and more. Many of these devices transmit a signal, and all of them emit electromagnetic waves, which, in theory, .Read more...
BusinessWeek profiles Hany Farid, an expert on Photoshop forensics.
The Dartmouth College computer scientist is developing digital forensics software that can instantly tell whether an image has been manipulated, and what make and model of camera captured it. It’s “exactly like gun ballistics,” says Farid, 44. “If Photoshop .Read more...
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The New York Times works to understand the Stuxnet Worm.
The Wall Street Journal looks at issues facing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:
Specifically, the agency will be looking at technology that could make cars capable of preventing accidents and technology that tempts drivers to take their eyes off the road. “One thing we are really focused .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal looks at re-purposed meter-maid vehicles:
When Rahsaan Morin pulls up to the curb, people often run out of nearby stores at the very sight of him. They “start feeding the meter,” says Mr. Morin.
It’s easy to see why: He drives one of those three-wheeled vehicles .Read more...
Smithsonian.com writes about ‘Life Without Left Turns‘:
I still hate making left turns. I’m not the only one. UPS minimizes left turns for its delivery trucks to save on fuel. (And it works, as the Mythbusters demonstrated last year.) In the 1960s, the state of Michigan designed an intersection .Read more...
