Listen Now [5 min 21 sec] How you appear in the virtual world could affect your behaviour in real life, according to researchers at Stanford University. Andrea Seabrook speaks with Stanford’s Jeremy Bailenson about his research into how people interact psychologically with their virtual-reality representations. Morris Miselowski’s thoughts: We have come so far in such […]
If there was any doubt about the power of the blog and social networking, it is now dispelled. Generacion Y – is a Cuban based blog that has recently sprung up as a result of Cuba relaxing its laws to allow locals to own computers, buy computers and enter hotels. Only in the last month […]
A Chinese research firm said China has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest Internet market based on number of users. BDA, a firm based in Beijing, said data from the China Internet Network Information Centre indicated China had an Internet population of 210 million at the end of last year, compared to 216 […]
Ray Kurzweil, the famous inventor, is trim, balding, and not very tall. With his perfect posture and narrow black glasses, he would look at home in an old documentary about Cape Canaveral, but his mission is bolder than any mere voyage into space. He is attempting to travel across a frontier in time, to pass […]
VICTORIA SHANNON, New York Times Social networks may be nothing new to habitués of the Internet. Several years of competition among Facebook, MySpace and Friendster have generated tens of millions of members. But now the market is teeming with companies that want to bring the same phenomenon to the cellphone. There are so many “mobile […]
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted. Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost […]