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Look 'Em in the Eye
Market MakersPatrick BeekIn light of the ongoing world financial collapse, here's a tip to banks: take a look at your customers. A new study suggests that a person's creditworthiness can be seen in his...
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Robot Love
ASIMOxcaballe (CC licensed)"Socially interactive" robots are being developed that can interact naturally with people, such as turning toward a person to give the impression of paying attention. The...
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Dispatch from Copenhagen: Is the Financial Crisis Saving the Planet?
An active Vestas windmill in front of Copenhagen's Bella CenterSeth Fletcherhome to the Copenhagen Climate Congress and this December's COP 15 United Nations climate talksAn interesting theme has begun...
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Wacky Inventions Real and Imaginary
Hermit CrabsDrcbc (GNU Free Documentation License)Two of the great inventors of our time finally get their due: Wallace and Gromit have a museum exhibit devoted to their inventions -- from the...
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Being Cute Helps, But It Won't Save You
Keeshond-Siberian Husky PuppyRichard Bartz (CC licensed)It's always the pretty ones who get the attention. Scientists trying to raise awareness about a mysterious illness affecting bat populations...
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Rogue Computer Algorithms Threaten Stock Markets
Tokyo Stock ExchangeStefan, via Flickr.comComputer intelligence is getting more human every day. They solve problems like humans, they communicate like humans, and now, they're ruining the world's...
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What High-Frequency Trading Looks Like Every Millisecond [Infographic]
This is what high-frequency trading looks likeNanex via YouTubeSomething to think about as the millisecond tick by today: how much money you're not making from the slight discrepancies between the...
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Microwave Balloons Could Form New Super-Fast Transatlantic Trading Line
Hot Air Balloons above AlbuquerqueBill Johnson, via Wikimedia CommonsPerseus Telecom, a network provider that specializes in rapid trading, is seriously looking into an ultra-high-speed transatlantic...
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Neuroscience May Help Us Understand Financial Bubbles
NeuronsMethoxyRoxy via WikimediaFive years on from Lehman Brothers' collapse and "where did it all go wrong?" analysis is all the rage. Answers have varied: poor regulation, malicious bankers, dozy...
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Network Outages Like NYSE, United Airlines, Are The New Natural Disasters
United Airlines 787 lands at the O'Hare International Airport in ChicagoPiper/UnfinishedPortraitmaker/Flickr/CC-By-2.0This week saw two nearly simultaneous infrastructure failures in major industries:...
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Robot Love
Technology New machines respond to human heat, movement "Socially interactive" robots are being developed that can interact naturally with people, such as turning toward a person to give the...
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Dispatch from Copenhagen: Is the Financial Crisis Saving the Planet?
At the climate-change congress in Copenhagen, attendees find an unexpected reason for hope An interesting theme has begun to emerge in Copenhagen: that the financial crisis might end up saving the...
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Wacky Inventions Real and Imaginary
Science Harnessing the power of the bra, and the inspiration of cheese and sheep Two of the great inventors of our time finally get their due: Wallace and Gromit have a museum exhibit devoted to their...
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Being Cute Helps, But It Won't Save You
Science Which animals need better PR It's always the pretty ones who get the attention. Scientists trying to raise awareness about a mysterious illness affecting bat populations along the East Coast...
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Rogue Computer Algorithms Threaten Stock Markets
Gadgets Computer intelligence is getting more human every day. They solve problems like humans, they communicate like humans, and now, they're ruining the world's financial markets… Computer...
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What High-Frequency Trading Looks Like Every Millisecond [Infographic]
Technology Check out how much money you’re not making. Something to think about as the millisecond tick by today: how much money you're not making from the slight discrepancies between the values of...
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Microwave Balloons Could Form New Super-Fast Transatlantic Trading Line
Technology The new frontier in finance? Perseus Telecom, a network provider that specializes in rapid trading, is seriously looking into an ultra-high-speed transatlantic trading line, made possible...
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Neuroscience May Help Us Understand Financial Bubbles
Science New research published in the journal Neuron suggests that market bubbles are in fact driven by a biological impulse to try to predict how others behave. Five years on from Lehman Brothers'...
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Network Outages Like NYSE, United Airlines, Are The New Natural Disasters
Technology The ups and downs of network infrastructure are a growing problem without a solution This week saw two nearly simultaneous infrastructure failures in major industries: finance and...
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Cryptocurrency millionaires are pushing up prices on some art and collectibles
Technology The rise of Bitcoin and its ilk have seriously shifted some collectible prices. Magic: The Gathering and other markets have jumped thanks to cryptocurrency investors.
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