Episode #216
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week – Jim Jones
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
Programmers have demonstrated visual recognition software that is able to read CAPTCHA distorted text as well as humans. http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/machines-cant-replicate-human-image-recognition-yet-24960.html
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Item #2
Science
A team at MIT has finally figured out the three-dimensional structure of cement. http://cee.mit.edu/news/releases/2009/cementDNA
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Item #3
Science
Engineers have developed the first functioning electrical circuit that runs entirely off the energy inside a tree. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=51869