- Other Interesting arXiv Papers This Week
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
Tracking of Fingertips and Centres of Palm using KINECT
- Ads on Google Glass Will Never Work
An ad delivered straight to the eyeball feels like a violation.
Some curious information came to light this week about Google Glass. For a company that owes its solvency to advertising–95% of its revenue comes from it–remarkably, Google is planning an ad-free experience for its on-eye computing experiment. At least, for now.
- Building a Picture of the Bomb Suspects through Social Network Analysis
Police can obtain huge quantities of social network data, but must sort out the junk to glean useful information.
Within hours of obtaining identifications of the Boston marathon bombing suspects, police likely obtained search warrants and extensive digital records from mobile phone networks and social media and e-mail providers.
- DOE to Push Development of Huge Potential Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Department of Energy and the Alaskan Government are speeding up development of oil sands and methane hydrates.
Many environmentalists are protesting the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline because it would help facilitate the delivery of oil from Canada’s oil sands and, they argue, increase carbon dioxide emissions. They may have more reason to worry about what’s happening in Alaska. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy to speed up production of natural gas from a resource—methane hydrate deposits–that’s far larger than the oil sands in Canada, and could in theory lead to far greater greenhouse gas emissions.
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