The most paranoid among us already know the checklist to avoid modern audio eavesdropping: Sweep your home or office for bugs. Put your phone in a Faraday bag—or a fridge. Consider even stripping ...

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Who doesn't love shiny things? Well... robots for one. The same goes for transparent objects. At least, that's long been the case. Machine vision has stumbled when it comes to shiny or reflective ...

In order to see and then grasp objects, robots typically utilize depth-sensing cameras like the Microsoft Kinect. And while such cameras may be thwarted by transparent or shiny objects, scientists at ...

I’m not one to brag, but for a short period of time, I was a top Kindle publisher in the not-so-large Amish romance genre. I’m from rural Pennsylvania, but even with that credential, I never thought I ...

Many enterprise software people love shiny new objects -- we are attracted to surface appearances while de-valuing substantive function. As the Biblical story of the apple suggests, the lure of ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Eleanor Henderson NINE SHINY OBJECTS By Brian Castleberry In the summer of 1947, a private pilot ...

At least according to new research from Exeter University. According to a study conducted by the university’s Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB), not only do they not steal shiny objects, ...

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Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don't Have in Search of Happiness We Can't Buy by James A. Roberts Published November, 2011. According to James A. Roberts, professor of marketing at Baylor, we ...