Wikipedia's tech team announces a test site for ensuring Wikipedia works seamlessly across mobile devices.  They are asking for input and testing support.

This article summarizes some of the issues around the recent study that possibly finds a link between cell phone use and cancer.  The neat thing about the article is that it provides a tool to look up cell phone models to see how they perform on this rating. 

"Throw in a nine-character, mixed-case random password, and while a CPU would take a mind-numbing 43 years to crack this, the GPU would be done in 48 days."

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""All of these businesses can shift strategy," Colony said. "Every 10 years in tech, there's a big vendor who we think is dying who makes a big comeback. In 1980, it was Intel, moving from DRAM to microprocessors. In 1990, it was IBM [from hardware to services]. In 2000, it's Apple." In 2010, Microsoft is a candidate for reinvention, Colony said. And if history is any lesson, it will require a change of leadership."

 Unbound is both a crowdfunding platform and a publisher. Authors pitch an idea and if enough readers support it, the book will go ahead with publishing. Like Kickstarter, if a book doesn't get sufficient backing, then supporters' pledges are refunded.

Using Correlate, you can upload your own data series and see a list of search terms whose popularity best corresponds with that real world trend.

During REM sleep, the respiratory pattern is irregular, with differences in the size of breaths and the spacing between them. Breathing during deep sleep follows an ordered pattern, "like a sine wave," says Bianchi. "And the breath-to-breath differences are very small." The lighter stages of non-REM sleep fall somewhere in between. "The motivation behind the shirt is to allow repeated measurements over time in the home," he adds. Users can log their habits, such as coffee or alcohol intake, exercise, or stress, and look for patterns in how those variables affect their quality of sleep.

WWII posters redone to reflect a social media world.  Examples: "Someone Tweeted", "Knowledge Wins, Wikipedia is Free", "Loose tweets sink fleets" and many more. 

GSA's guide to its employees on how to use social media in an official capacity.  

I guess this was inevitable.  Microsoft develops new technique to track where you move your mouse with less than 1KB of JavaScript

"The Plain Language Action and Information Network (PLAIN) is a community of federal employees dedicated to the idea that citizens deserve clear communications from government. We first developed this document in the mid-90s. We continue to revise it every few years to provide updated advice on clear communication. We hope you find this document useful, and that it helps you improve your writing"

Google blog post about adding pivot tables to Google Docs. 

Methods and systems for automated identification of celebrity face images are provided that generate a name list of prominent celebrities, obtain a set of images and corresponding feature vectors for each name, detect faces within the set of images, and remove non-face images. An analysis of the images is performed using an intra-model analysis, an inter-model analysis, and a spectral analysis to return highly accurate biometric models for each of the individuals present in the name list. Recognition is then performed based on precision and recall to identify the face images as belonging to a celebrity or indicate that the face is unknown.

University of Pennsylvania teaches their PR2 to be able to read in the wild.  Video shows the PR2 roaming the hallways reading from various items sitting around and signs on the wall.  

Doctors can now make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone/Android app with close to the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation, researchers from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine have shown in a new study. The Resolution MD Mobile app lets physicians view and manipulate remote medical images in high-resolution 3-D on the iPhone or Android phone, allowing for a quick diagnosis for the treatment of stroke, cardiac arrest, or other emergencies. 

In what is believed to be the first operation of its kind, a patient voluntarily agrees to amputation of his hand so it could be replaced with a bionic replacement.  "Patrick is already testing a new hand, which its makers say will give him much greater movement. The hand has six sensors fitted over nerves within the lower arm, rather than the two on his current prosthesis."  Embedded video shows him doing daily routines with his new hand.  

All third-party applications that you allow to access your Twitter account go through a permissions process. Today we're announcing an update to help you make more informed choices about the way third-party apps integrate with your Twitter account:

I think the second vision could actually come to pass. 

Facebook post bout how to enable a form of two factor authentication via SMS.  This system requires you to have your phone with you if you are accessing facebook from a new machine.