The Pirate University is a site specially build to allow students who don't have access to up-to-date academic resources (publications) to ask students who have, to help them out.

„A rendszerünk segítségével a felhasználó valódi tárgyakhoz hasonlóan képes azok virtuális mását megfogni, mozgatni vagy éppen leütni; hogy mindez a lehető leghitelesebben történjen, arról a valós fizikai szimuláció gondoskodik. A felszerelés egyik legnagyobb előnye, hogy a két felhasználó nemcsak egymás térhatású képét osztja meg egymással, hanem az asztalon elhelyezkedő eszközökét is.”

The Seattle Public Library system's annual Summer Reading Program is called <em>Century 22: Read the Future</em>, and is tied in with the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair. Young people are encouraged to scour the city's landmarks for 1,000 books hidden throughout town, and then to re-hide them for other kids to find.

(CBS News) Watching this video is a bit like seeing a "glitch in the Matrix". Is it impressive? Without a doubt. Is it science? You know it. Will you possibly start questioning reality? Watch and find out.

The video was posted by YouTube user brusspup, who has been featured here on The Feed a few times for amazing optical illusions and art, and who writes about it:

This is really simple but has such an awesome effect. Fill a bucket full of water and place it about 5 feet off the ground. Place a subwoofer about 1 foot lower than the bucket. Run a plastic tube from the top bucket down in front of the subwoofer. Tape the tube to the front of the speaker. Then aim the end of the tube to an empty bucket on the floor. Get the water flowing from the top bucket. Now just generate a 24 hz sine wave and set your camera to 24 fps and watch the magic happen. Basically your cameras frame rate is synced up with the rate of the vibrations of the water so it appears to be frozen or still. Now if you play a 23 hz sine wave your frame rate will be off just a little compared to the sine wave causing the water to "move backward" or so as it appears. You can play a 25 hz sine wave and cause the water to move slowly foward.

Here's a question: what's bigger and far more important than Facebook? Hint: it's very low-tech and doesn't need a smartphone or even an internet connection. And this year marks its 20th birthday, which means that in internet time it's 140 years old. Oh, and it doesn't involve LOLcats either.

Got it yet? It's SMS – text messaging to you and me. Or txt msng, if you prefer. Two-thirds of the world's population – that's over 4 billion people – have access to it because that's the number of people who have mobile phones, and even the cheapest, clunkiest handset can send SMS messages. It's had a much bigger impact on people's lives than anything dreamed up in Silicon Valley.

Interestingly, Silicon Valley played almost no role in it. SMS emerged on our side of the Atlantic and was the brainchild of the kind of European intergovernmental initiative that drives Ukip nuts. The first mobile phones were analogue devices, and the market was bedevilled by incompatible technologies and protocols – rather like the early market in fixed-line telephony in the United States before the AT&T monopoly was established. But in 1982 a European telephony conference decided to tackle the problem. It set up the Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) committee and established a group of communications engineers in Paris.

Five years later, 13 European countries signed an agreement to develop and deploy a common mobile telephone system across Europe. The result was GSM – a unified, open, standard-based mobile network larger than that in the United States. The first GSM call was made by the Finnish prime minister in 1991, and the first GSM handsets were approved for sale in May 1992.

The idea for SMS emerged during the GSM project. It was based around a really neat trick – to transport messages on the signalling paths needed to organise telephony during periods when those control channels were quiet. This was a fantastic idea because it meant that there was no extra cost involved in transporting the messages. The only restriction was that they had to be short – no more than 160 seven-bit characters. So SMS was built into the GSM system from the beginning.

A Narrative Science programja képes rá, hogy különféle adathalmazokból újságcikket vagy beszámolót készítsen. Az algoritmus elemzi az adatokat, majd az előre megírt sablonok alapján összeállítja az írást.

A Narrative Science szoftvere annyira megbízható, hogy a tekintélyes Forbes médiakonszern is publikálja az általa létrehozott elemzéseket és írásokat. A Forbes hírigazgatója szerint az algoritmus eddig még egyetlen baklövést sem követett el – szemben a humán újságírókkal, akik gyakran hibáznak.