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Why Can’t We Do Math Anymore?

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Accelerometer-based keylogger in your phone guesses your PC keyboard typing from your body’s motions

A Georgia Tech team has built a working app for latest-generation mobile phones that uses the built-in accelerometer to guess which words you’re typing on your PC’s keyboard, by measuring the movements of your body as you type.

The technique works…


Stealthy Qwilt has raised $24m to ‘cache in’ on IP video

With nearly two years of development under its belt, stealthy startup Qwilt is ready to launch, with a product it says can help network operators manage the huge amounts of video traveling over their networks. And it’s doing so with some serious back…


Amazing “quantum levitation” superconductivity video

Here’s a magical demonstration of superconductivity from Tel-Aviv University. Of course, superconductors are key to the future vision for high-speed maglev trains. (Thanks, Ariel Waldman!)


Ball-camera that you toss in the air for a 360° panorama

Jonas Pfiel’s “Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera” sports 36 cameras and contains firmware that stitches their output together to form a global panorama; you throw it into the air and at the top of its arc, it takes a snap and processes it.

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