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...Hair of the Dog Alcohol-related illnesses can be difficult to treat and even harder to detect...
...Matias Zaldarriaga proposed earlier this month a way to use new radio wave observatories to search for radio emissions from alien civilizations. Loeb, whose main area of research focuses on mapping the age of the universe, said he could use radio wave observatories currently being built in Australia to detect radio waves from space. The finely tuned observatories, which consist of thousands of radio towers, are carefully arranged to sift out radio waves from television, radio, and military broadcasters on Earth, giving them the unprecedented capability to search for these common radio wave types lightyears away without any interference. Loeb...
...European sales director of Gracenote, the company that codes and sorts music on Apple's iPod and most MP3 players, says the technology performs with better than 90% accuracy on a 3- to 5-second sample. "I have been in a bar that was so noisy all I could detect was a guitar chord - and that was enough," he says. Gracenote's MMID database includes more than 10 million musical fingerprints, and Track ID works at any point in the song. Now if only my Track ID-enabled phone could identify the acquaintance whose name slipped my mind...
...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will start randomly inspecting bags on the public transit system in an attempt to deter terrorist acts, Governor W. Mitt Romney announced yesterday. MBTA officials will use equipment that can detect any trace of explosive material on a bag, such as on seams, zippers, or handles. The tests can be conducted in under a minute, according to a statement from the Governor’s office. In most cases, officials will not actually open passengers’ bags, though they may request to do so, the statement said. In addition, “impact teams?...
...zipper-the visual signature of the anxious too-much-information era-was first introduced by Fox on the morning of 9/11. First by moments, but in TV news, moments are everything. As with so many things, Fox was slightly quicker than its rivals to detect, and direct, the next crank of the dial in our cultural volume level...