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UR Tech: Biolife
[caption id="attachment_127662" align="alignleft" width="247"] Christian Cieri, Illustrator[/caption] The creature exploring the floors of the OpenWorm project might not seem world-changing.…
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UR Tech: Password perils
Well, the numbers are in. The winner of this year’s most popular computer password is the incredibly secure and unguessable…
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UR Tech: Moonshots–Business or charity?
[caption id="attachment_122512" align="alignleft" width="300"] Christian Cieri, Illustrator[/caption] The tech industry is nothing if not obsessed with big spending. Multibillion dollar…
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UR Tech: At Pirate Bay, the ship has sunk
[caption id="attachment_119622" align="alignleft" width="300"] Courtesy of Chris Cieri[/caption] It appears the ship has sailed. Or sunk, as it were. On…
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UR Tech: Globalizaing internet
[caption id="attachment_116912" align="alignleft" width="225"] Liz Beson, Illustrator[/caption] Getting internet to a country that barely has running water can be a…
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UR Tech: Hacking, easy as pi
[caption id="attachment_115412" align="alignleft" width="300"] Courtesy of Eric Chiodo[/caption] I find trying to explain my work at family reunions to be…
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UR Tech: Better with brain power
[caption id="attachment_113312" align="alignleft" width="300"] Liz Beson, Staff Illustrator[/caption] When you ask which is the better thinking machine, a brain or…
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UR Tech: Bridging the Uncanny Valley
You’ve probably heard of the Uncanny Valley effect. You may have seen it personally in animated films such as “The…
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UR Tech: Artificial Intelligence, smarter than you think
[caption id="attachment_111302" align="alignleft" width="206"] Courtesy of Nathaniel Potrepka[/caption] It’s a standard Terminator rip-off. A swarm of tiny glittering spiders, explained…
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UR Tech: The securities and insecurities of government surveillance
[caption id="attachment_109752" align="alignleft" width="300"] Liz Beson, Staff Illustrator[/caption] In many ways, last year’s NSA leak was a tipping point in…
