- Anonymity of Personal Genome Project Broken by Privacy Experts
Privacy experts have identified participants in the Personal Genome Project using “de-identified” data.
- Apps for Finding New Tunes, with a Little Help from Your Friends
Twitter #music, EQuala, and Piki help you share and discover new music with friends, but they’re not all winners.
I’ve been stuck in a music rut for a long time, listening to the same bands and songs over and over without adding many newcomers to the mix. It’s not that I don’t want new tunes; I’m just bad at discovering them.
- A Motherlode of Cell Phone Data-Mining Research
At conference starting Wednesday, huge trove of research papers point to enormous possibilities, but privacy issues remain.
Cell phones generate tremendous amounts of human mobility and other data that can be particularly useful in the developing world to redesign transportation networks (see “African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data”) and provide a boon to epidemiology (see “Big Data from Cheap Phones”).
- How a Cheap Plastic Film Can Give Your Smartphone a 3-D Screen
A plastic smartphone screen cover patterned with tiny lenses could help mobile 3-D take off.
Last week, a company in Singapore began shipping $35 plastic screen protectors for the iPhone 5. These are no ordinary screen protectors, though—each has half a million tiny lenses precisely patterned on its surface, which can turn an ordinary phone into a device capable of displaying 3-D images and video, no glasses required.
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