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...even two people sleeping on top of each other on the stairs. A light in the hallway that adjoins the landing to the first floor stairs has been smashed, a delicate pile of broken glass on the floorboards underneath, and a bag that had been taped over a smoke detector has come undone on one side and so is hanging precariously by a single strip of duct tape in a way that faintly turns my stomach. Without the sense that I’m investigating to any purpose, I pad from room to room in my bare feet, watching...
...donning locals beside families from Alaska—pressed against each other in the street in a “line” lacking order and forward movement. Everybody had heard a different rumor: the section was full and even ticket-holders would no longer be admitted; the metal detectors had malfunctioned and each person was being screened by hand; someone had gone into cardiac arrest; all previous entrants had been re-checked once a series of counterfeit tickets were discovered. The only certainty in the throng lay in the fact that the ceremony could not be delayed, postponed...
...brain, and then to calibrate the computer accordingly. That, however, is a relatively easy tweak, no more complicated than customizing voice-recognition software to individual users. "It's really just a matter of refining the algorithms," says Chau. "We envision this at the very least as a preference detector that allows people to direct their own care...
...high light sensitivity of a detector like black silicon could allow patients to be subjected to less radiation during medical imaging, allowing physicians to produce better images with less damage to the patient’s health. Similarly, digital cameras with more sensitive lenses could capture better quality images in low-light situations, and the technology might enable the development of a cheap and effective night-vision device...
...Harvard team does not seem discouraged by the delay, saying that the malfunction was expected and will give them valuable time to do further research on how to improve their detector equipment...