Search
What is cryptojacking?
... even realising. They call it “cryptojacking” and Chris Smith spoke to Chris Folkerd from web hosting company ... Chris F - It does. And that’s where a lot of users are pushing back. There’s been some instances where ...
Second Life
... Life, location: T Online Beach (115,40,21) © Dimelin Chris - Some people say, 'why don't you go and get a first ... Gordon - Umm, about right. Chris - So would you fool Kate Smith-Miles' software that we were talking about earlier with ... has been created by one of the other Avatars. It's the users that create everything. If you want to do something ...
An app for avoiding busy supermarkets
... forward LSE Geography PhD student Yohan Iddawela, who told Chris Smith about his app for just that… Yohan - Crowdless is a ... layer of data, and then we add crowdsourced data from our users, so similar to the contribute button you were playing ...
How can smoking marijuana affect your health?
... evidence of the earliest animal. Eusebius McKaiser and Dr Chris Smith take on more of your questions on Talk Radio 702... ... concerned with reward and motivation and people who are users, long term chronic users of marijuana, do suffer from a ...
Making social media sources more trustworthy
... engage and promote information exchange, they don't reward users for the veracity of what they share. So, as she explains to Chris Smith, she's come up with a way to recognise and reward users ...
Green printing
... that they’re bringing to the industry, and he spoke to Chris Smith about how the company works... Mark - Fundamentally ... as the industry is run on printing presses - very high users of electricity, we generate a lot of waste and it's ...
The latest cyber crime: Ransomware
... malicious process dubbed ransomware. This is where users are locked out of their machines and all their data is ... hacker who then sends an unlock key to let them back in. Chris Smith spoke to Johnathan Bowers from UKFast who have been ...
Improving predictive text
... works on text entry systems to help in these situations. Chris Smith spoke to him... Per Ola - What people use today is ... how good their eye control is, because often some of these users have additional issues what makes actually even eye ...
Should screens be banned in the bedroom?
... resulting sleep deficiency is profound, as she explains to Chris Smith... Mari - We did a study on this last year where we ... platform, one of the last things, many of their adult users do before they go to bed is quite clearly, checking ...
The positive power of the Internet
... a lot of people's time for little benefit. So, instead of users being asked to enter a random word, he realised that ... learn a new language - again, for free, as he explained to Chris Smith... Luis - I started a new project which is Duolingo ...
Can social media influence us?
... der Linden looks into this very thing, and he explained to Chris Smith just how pervasive these sites are... Sander - I would ... shown that just simply targeting messages based on the users behaviour works in a very concrete way in that they can ...
How does computer encryption work?
To consider how we keep modern technologies secure today, Chris Smith and Adam Murphy are joined by Cambridge University ... secure, extremely sophisticated. They mostly trick the users into not paying particular attention. They for example ...
Vaping: safer smoking, or a gateway to teen addiction?
... the other by Lion Shahab from University College London. Chris Smith spoke first to Lion Shahab... Lion - In our study, we ... standard conventional cigarettes. We looked at long term users of these products so these are people who have been ...
Seed banks: storing seeds to preserve diversity
... at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, and spoke with Chris Smith... Noam - Our seed bank - or gene bank as we prefer to ... we do it daily. We send hundreds of samples yearly to end users. Chris - Later on in the program, we're going to talk ...
Bizarre Technology: Shopping for phone signal
Chris Smith asks computer scientist Chris Johnson, from the University of Glasgow, to reminisce ... make a phone call. Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow Users of the earliest mobile phones had to go to some bizarre ...
HIV prevention in women using a wearable ring
... performance and safety results at a conference, as he told Chris Smith... Correction: The original publication of this ... use of the ring. Chris - How is this going down with the users? Albert - Women have reported that the ring is very ...
Feeding Flies Into the Food Chain
... point we need to come up with new ways to reduce waste. Chris Smith and Ginny Smith spoke to environmental entrepreneur ... got 75% of that population that are actually pit latrine users. When the pit latrine is full, it causes a problem to a ...
How good does AI music get?
... it’s computer-generated! CEO Pierre Barreau joined Chris Smith... Pierre - So basically AIVA works in two steps. The ... uses that in the composition process in a way that the users of our product can actually say, "I want a piece of ...
Social media: which adverts are targeted at you?
... to click on their products. David Stillwell spoke to Chris Smith... David - What we previously showed is that just ... Chris - The data that you were exploiting on these users on Facebook because looking at your paper it was huge ...
The brain on LSD
... many of the effects of LSD in the human brain. She tells Chris Smith what they've found... Katrin - We had healthy ... did have prior experience but none of them were regular users of psychedelics or any other substances. Chris - What ...
The World Community Grid
... operated by IBM. To find out more about the project, Chris Smith spoke to Joe Jasinski, Director of Healthcare and Life ... - Sounds terrific. How many computers or how many users you have signed up actually contributing to this ...
Making Smoking Obsolete by 2030
... of a smoke free country within 20 years. Speaking with Chris Smith, Edinburgh University’s Linda Bauld, whose own work ... the burning Chris, smoking kills one in two of its regular users. In fact, two and three of its regular users when used ...
Is social media really addictive?
... time. Might they, therefore, be considered to be addicted? Chris Smith heard from Daria Kuss from Nottingham Trent ... that social media use in some instances for some excessive users can, indeed, lead to the development of addiction ...
Can an App Make You Happy?
... a project to track happiness across the country; but when Chris Smith spoke to creator George MacKerron, from the University ... set out to map the UK's happiness they didn't expect that users would report their mood improving as well... Can an App ...
Whom do we trust more, computers or people?
... presented to us by another human being? Speaking with Chris Smith, UCL’s Marco Wittman has been probing some aspects of ... inherent trust or distrust of those sorts of things among users. Is that why you were interested in exploring this sort ...