- A Password So Secret, You Don’t Consciously Know It
Researchers work to develop passwords so secret that only your unconscious mind knows them.
Some efforts to replace traditional letter-and-number passwords rely on gestures, wearable devices, or biometrics. An approach in the works from research-and-development company SRI International and Stanford and Northwestern takes a different tack: passwords that you know but don’t know you know.
- Human-Scale Invisibility Cloak Unveiled
Researchers demonstrate an invisibility cloak that can be scaled to almost any size and say it could be used to hide orbiting satellites
- Can “Infinite Variation” Be Mass-Produced Using 3-D Printing?
Shapeways looks to software to bring down production costs and time to market in its 3-D printing factory in New York City.
The East River waterfront of Queens, New York, once was a busy manufacturing hub. Pepsi had a bottling plant there, Swingline produced staplers, and Eagle Electric made circuits and switches.
- Even with Cord-Cutting and the Web, the TV Audience is Massive
Although we have more ways to entertain ourselves than ever, it’s proving hard to unseat television as the most popular mass medium.
- Thinking of Running an Open Innovation Contest? Think Again.
Open competitions can help find an optimal solution to a well-understood problem, but they are a poor way to innovate.
Open innovation contests are gaining popularity with companies. The thinking is that since not all the smart people work for your company, and technology is developing so rapidly, why not hold a contest to get the best minds competing to innovate for you? While 99 percent of the entries will fail, those entries aren’t on your company’s income statement. And when that 1 percent succeeds by pulling off a true breakthrough, then your company will be the big winner.
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