Manic Velocity:
This software can supposedly grade "free-form" opinionated essays. The Intelligent Essay Assessor software is described as "accurate as a human grader." I can't figure out which is scarier, the fact that we have the power to allow inanimate objects to pass judgement, or that we actually put that power in motion.
The UK's second largest betting group William Hill is set to crack down on internet fraudsters by pre-empting illegal transactions on its website. William Hill has signed up specialist software provider TrustMark to cut off fraudsters before any cash is paid out. Something the bookie hopes will save it thousands of pounds every year. The company's tax-free website, run from the sunny Caribbean island of Antigua, has proved highly popular with British betters, but has opened up the 70-year old firm to unprecedented levels of fraud.
Mathematicians have confirmed that scanning human eyes can become a risk-free security device in the future. A new study shows iris recognition is almost error-proof because the chances of getting a matching pattern when comparing two images is as low as one in seven billion.
Even identical twins and the left and right eyes of the same person have iris 'barcodes' as different as unrelated eyes. John Daugman and Cathryn Downing, of the University of Cambridge, carried out the most extensive ever comparison of iris pictures reports.
InterTrust Technologies, a maker of digital rights management software, said Monday it has partnered with start-up DataPlay to provide secure digital media in a move to thwart music piracy by replacing the compact disc.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based InterTrust said it will place DRM formats on DataPlay-enabled devices, including blank and prerecorded discs. Such DataPlay discs can hold 11 hours of compressed music, or seven to 10 albums.
AMD and Intel roll out next-generation CPU technologies in high-end notebooks. Next stop: Your desktop.
AMD and Intel are at war again, this time with next-generation versions of their mobile Pentium III and Athlon processors. Both feature hot new technologies that should soon boost desktop performance. And both have something to offer to the right buyers.
A company that touts its facial identification system as a powerful new tool for security and crime fighting has received millions of dollars in federal funding to improve its surveillance technology for military and intelligence uses, according to documents and interviews.
I.B.M. is announcing today a new initiative to support and exploit a technology known as grid computing, which the company and much of the computer research community say is the next evolutionary step in the development of the Internet.
AT&T released on Tuesday a new software program called Natural Voices, which it claims is "the most human-sounding computer-speech system in the world."
Natural Voices is the first commercial product to come from AT&T Labs, the research and development side of the business, and the new software's ability to recreate any voice suggests some intriguing possibilities for commercial applications.
Britain will unveil a state-of-the-art supercomputer on Tuesday which scientists hope will unlock the secrets of the origins of the universe. The machine, the biggest supercomputer in British academia, cost $2 million and is one of the most powerful in Europe. It will tackle what is arguably the biggest question on earth: How was the universe created?
The University of Durham in northeast England says its Cosmology Machine could store the contents of the British Library -- and still have spare memory.
Britain will unveil a state-of-the-art supercomputer on Tuesday which scientists hope will unlock the secrets of the origins of the universe.
The machine, the biggest supercomputer in British academia, cost $2 million and is one of the most powerful in Europe.
It will tackle what is arguably the biggest question on earth: How was the universe created?
The University of Durham in northeast England says its Cosmology Machine could store the contents of the British Library -- and still have spare memory.
