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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Disruptions: As New Targets for Hackers, Your Car and Your House
Post Date: 2013-08-13 09:33:10 by Ada
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Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people. Now imagine you had absolutely nothing to do with the accident because your car was taken over by hackers. Charlie Miller, a security researcher at Twitter, and Chris Valasek, director of security intelligence at IOActive, a security research company, recently demonstrated car hacks at the DefCon computer security conferences in Las Vegas. The researchers completely disabled a driver’s ability to control a vehicle. No brakes. Distorted steering. All with a click of a button. While the demos were with hybrid cars, researchers warn that dozens of ...
High-speed Hyperloop transportation
Post Date: 2013-08-13 04:26:12 by Tatarewicz
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This image released by Tesla Motors shows a conceptual design sketch of the Hyperloop passenger transport capsule. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 unveiled the concept for a transport system he says would make the nearly 400-mile trip in half the time it takes an airplane. The "Hyperloop" system would use a large tube. Inside, capsules would float on air, traveling at over 700 miles per hour. (AP Photo/Tesla Motors)View Photo LOS ANGELES (AP) — Imagine strapping into a car-sized capsule and hurtling through a tube at more than 700 mph — not for the thrill of it, but to get where you need to go. On Monday, billionaire entrepreneur Elon ...
'Hyperloop': L.A. to San Francisco in 30 minutes?
Post Date: 2013-08-13 02:19:46 by scrapper2
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Everything old is new again. Partially borrowing a technology concept used by banks, entrepreneur Elon Musk introduced a design for a new transportation system that he said could shuttle passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in 30 minutes. For now, it's an early, conceptual design at best -- a proposal for an idea that may never be built and likely gone unnoticed had it not been for the attention Musk receives for his other projects, including Tesla Motors and PayPal. "The Hyperloop (or something similar) is, in my opinion, the right solution for the specific case of high traffic city pairs that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart," he wrote on his ...
New travel concept
Post Date: 2013-08-12 17:31:12 by Lod
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The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX has a new idea for rapid ground transportation. LA to SF in 30 minutes. Details at link.
Fighting Scientism Without Theism
Post Date: 2013-08-12 07:46:04 by Ada
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I feel like we go around this track every other month. A scientist or science- popularizer writes an unpersuasive essay arguing that science “proves” that religion is bad for children and other living things; a theist responds with an unpersuasive essay arguing that without some grounding in the divine, we’re doomed to become Nazis. Here’s the latest go-round with Ross Douthat critiquing Steven Pinker. It’s almost as if nobody in the debate wants to acknowledge that there are whole libraries of philosophical debate about these “how shall we live” questions that don’t start either with Thomas Aquinas or Jeremy Bentham. Heck, there are entire ...
Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)
Post Date: 2013-08-11 19:45:05 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This man has a website that has great educational value for home schoolers or anyone wanting to learn anything math and science.
Promising Perseid Meteor Shower Will Peak Soon
Post Date: 2013-08-09 22:21:12 by Buzzard
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Every August, just when many people go vacationing in the country where skies are dark, the best- known meteor shower, makes its appearance. This year, the Perseid meteor shower is expected to reach its peak overnight on Monday (Aug. 12), and there are some key tips to keep in mind for your "shooting stars" viewing. Peak activity for the Perseids is unfortunately predicted for the daylight hours across North America, so stargazers with clear skies are encouraged to seek out the meteor display during the pre-dawn hours of Monday and again during the early morning hours of Tuesday (Aug. 13). At these times, the absence of bright moonlight can maximize your chances of spotting a ...
Full-Auto Gauss Gun
Post Date: 2013-08-09 10:21:46 by Horse
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Top 10 Dumbest Tech Predictions of All Time
Post Date: 2013-08-05 13:54:17 by Horse
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1. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” — Western Union internal memo, 1876. 2. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. “The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most,” IBM executives to the eventual founders of Xerox, 1959. 3. “Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1 000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1½ tons.” — Popular Mechanics, March 1949 4. “I say to you that the VCR is to ...
Genetic ancestors ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ could have been contemporaries, scientists say
Post Date: 2013-08-03 09:54:48 by Ada
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Most evolutionary anthropologists say that the event depicted in Albrecht Dürer's 1507 painting, 'Adam and Eve,' is apocryphal, but new evidence suggests that humanity's most recent common male and female ancestor might have lived at the same time. Thousands of years ago, somewhere in Africa, lived a man who – probably – had no idea that he, among all the other men in his group, would go on to become humankind’s most recent common male ancestor. Scientists would call him “Adam.” Now, a new paper published in the journal Science significantly narrows the time during which Adam could have lived – about 120,000 to 156,000 years ago – ...
Something For You Linux Fans - Puppy Linux
Post Date: 2013-08-02 22:22:49 by Original_Intent
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Overview and Getting Started More about the Puppy project Linux is a free operating system, and Puppy Linux is a special build of Linux meant to make computing easy and fast. Puppy Linux enables you to save money while doing more work, even allowing you to do magic by recovering data from destroyed PCs or by removing malware from Windows. See these example articles: recovering files from Windows and safe Internet banking with Puppy Linux. With Puppy Linux, you can carry your programs and data anywhere. Easy - Just use a CD or USB flash to boot a PC. Puppy Linux is downloadable as ISO, an image that can be burned to CD or DVD. Fast - Because Puppy is small, it can live ...
Japanese team starts world's 1st iPS clinical trial
Post Date: 2013-08-01 19:49:31 by Tatarewicz
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KOBE, Japan, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Researchers based in the western Japanese city of Kobe started on Thursday a pilot study that uses human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to regenerate human retinas, the world's first clinical trial of iPS cells. The pilot clinical program is being conducted by a group led by Masayo Takahashi at the Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Development Biology Kobe Institute in collaboration with the Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation in Kobe. The city's general hospital will also support the team. According to RIKEN Kobe, the team plans to transplant autologous iPS cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell ...
Stem Cells in Urine Easy to Isolate and Have Potential for Numerous Therapies
Post Date: 2013-08-01 04:22:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... July 31, 2013 — Could harvesting stem cells for therapy one day be as simple as asking patients for a urine sample? Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues have identified stem cells in urine that can be directed to become multiple cell types. Share This: "These cells can be obtained through a simple, non-invasive low-cost approach that avoids surgical procedures," said Yuanyuan Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of regenerative medicine and senior researcher on the project. Reporting online in the journal Stem Cells, the team successfully directed stem cells from urine to become ...
PIN numbers with less significance are safer
Post Date: 2013-08-01 02:06:09 by Tatarewicz
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PIN numbers with less significance are safer than popular numbers, according to a study (Reuters)PIN numbers with less significance are safer than popular numbers, according to a study (Reuters) How safe are your debit and credit cards? Identity theft and fraud affect millions of Americans every year. And depending on how much thought you put into your personalized PIN, you could be at a greater risk than you realized. So what constitutes a safe PIN number? A new study from DataGenetics lists the top 10 most-used PINs. And because they are the most commonly used PIN numbers, they are by default the least safe PINs. According to Forbes, the United States and Mexico are home to the ...
Israeli researchers genetically engineer "super plants" to last longer, resist drought
Post Date: 2013-07-31 20:27:46 by Tatarewicz
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JERUSALEM, July 31 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli group of researchers have grown genetically engineered plants that live longer and resist long periods without water and can yield more produce, in what they believe can be the solution to world food crisis, head of the team told Xinhua on Wednesday. Scientists from the Faculty of Biology at Technion University in Haifa, north of Israel, have created what they call "super plants" by modifying a longevity hormone in the genes known as zytokinin. Their research has been published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, one of the U.S.'s leading scientific journals. "Let's take a ...
Dolphins 'call each other by name'
Post Date: 2013-07-29 00:11:04 by Tatarewicz
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BBC The research sheds new light on the intelligence of dolphin Scientists have found further evidence that dolphins call each other by "name". Research has revealed that the marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify each other. A team from the University of St Andrews in Scotland found that when the animals hear their own call played back to them, they respond. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr Vincent Janik, from the university's Sea Mammal Research Unit, said: "(Dolphins) live in this three-dimensional environment, offshore without any kind of landmarks and they need to stay together as a group. "These ...
Programmer Barnaby Jack dies a week before showing off heart-attack hack that can kill a man from 30 feet away
Post Date: 2013-07-27 07:56:45 by Ada
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BOSTON (Reuters) – Well-known hacker Barnaby Jack has died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to show off techniques for attacking implanted heart devices that he said could kill a man from 30 feet away. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office said he died in the city on Thursday. It gave no details. Jack, a security expert, became one of the most famous hackers on the planet after a 2010 demonstration in which he forced ATMs to spit out cash, dubbed “Jackpotting,” (reut.rs/gIGXVq ) The hacking community expressed shock as the news of his death spread via Twitter early on Friday. Jack was due to appear at the Black Hat hacking convention in San Francisco ...
Massive Mirrors Will Bring Light To Norway Town Shrouded In Darkness
Post Date: 2013-07-27 00:33:18 by Tatarewicz
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ibtimes The Norwegian town of Rjukan is shrouded in darkness for five months every year, but a project completed this month promises to bring a bright spot to the town's central square via a series of massive mirrors that will reflect sunlight onto the meeting spot. Rjukan Mirror Project The Mirror Project was originally conceived by a Norwegian industrialist almost 100 years ago, but the lengthy wait has not dampened enthusiasm about the project's completion. The Mirror Project Rjukan, which is located about halfway between Bergen and Oslo and is encircled by sun-obstructing mountains, is a dreary place to be between September and March, when the sun's rays cannot reach ...
Sound of Honda - Ayrton Senna 1989 -
Post Date: 2013-07-26 10:54:27 by X-15
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Honda Revives The Sonic Spirit Of Ayrton Senna's F1 Car Go find a nice set of speakers and crank them up real loud. Honda has cooked up something truly special for a new Japanese TV commercial. P Some of Ayrton Senna's most famous F1 exploits took place in a McLaren car powered by a Honda engine. And while he is sadly no longer with us, the boffins at Honda paid tribute to him by using recorded sound and data from his 1989 McLaren MP4/5. P Lining Suzuka with speakers, they played the screaming sound of his F1 car as it went around the track and set it to a trail of lights that mimics the car's position. The result is a lap that sounds — and maybe even feels — like ...
Low Radon Concentrations Accurately Measurable for the First Time
Post Date: 2013-07-25 01:10:10 by Tatarewicz
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Can't see, smell or taste it -- but at high doses, it can be lethal: the natural radioactive noble gas radon occurs especially in places where the subsoil consists of granite. It can, however, also occur in construction materials. It has been known for a long time that radon at high doses can cause lung cancer -- numerous workers from the Wismut-Werke uranium mines in the former GDR died of it. Now, scientists, however, deem radon to be dangerous also at low concentrations and therefore have increased the classification of its radiation effects: radon gas is now officially classified as contributing just as strongly to the exposure rate of the general public as medical diagnostic and ...
Has global warming stopped? No - it’s just on pause, insist scientists, and it's down to the oceans
Post Date: 2013-07-23 17:23:12 by Ada
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Temperatures still expected to reach predicted 2015 levels with only a five- year delay after 12 of the 14 hottest years on record Huge amounts of heat – equivalent to the power of 150 billion electric kettles – are being continuously absorbed by the deep ocean, which could explain why global warming has “paused” over the past 10 to 15 years, scientists have concluded in a series of reports to explain why the Earth’s rate of warming has slowed down. Global average temperatures are higher now than they have ever been since modern records began. However, after a period of rapid temperature increases during the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant slow-down ...
CIA backs $630,000 study into how to control global weather through geoengineering
Post Date: 2013-07-23 09:33:00 by Ada
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Study part-funded by the CIA to investigate national security implications of geoengineering Climate change 'behind world's extreme weather' The power, reach and influence of the Central Intelligence Agency is a staple of conspiracy theories. The news that the CIA is reportedly part-funding a scientific geoengineering study into how to control the weather is unlikely to dampen speculation over their activities. According to US website 'Mother Jones' the CIA is helping fund a study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering - which is defined as deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's ...
Unlocking your aura: The beautiful photographs that capture the colors of a person's soul and reflect how they feel
Post Date: 2013-07-22 21:02:23 by Buzzard
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Carlo Van de Roer doesn't just capture a person when he takes their photograph, he captures the color of their soul. In his psychedelic collection of images, the New Zealand-born snapper used an AuraCam 6000 camera to tune into the colors - or aura - that surround his different subjects - and the result is nothing short of spectacular. The innovative camera gathers biofeedback through hand sensors that measure the electromagnetic fields emitted from the person he's shooting. The information about the model's energetic and auric qualities are then projected as vivid colors onto the instant film. 'You get a mix of association between this information about the subject and ...
"I'm Getting Tired of Your Begathons Get A Job."
Post Date: 2013-07-22 09:35:00 by James Deffenbach
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This is the subject line of an email Reglue received Saturday morning. "I'm Getting Tired of Your Begathons Get A Job." Normally, I would have blown it off but I suspect it came from someone in a Google Plus Linux Community in which I am a member. I could be wrong. There's a strong chance that I am. It's just that some of the comments to my initial posting have a strong resemblance to the same tone of this email. Here's some background to catch you up on how this came about. For those that know our history chapter and verse, you can skip down 10 paragraph breaks...picking it up again under the next picture. In 2005. I created an organization that gathers ...
Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance
Post Date: 2013-07-22 01:27:19 by James Deffenbach
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Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Canonical IS team is working hard as we speak to restore normal operations. This page will be updated regularly with progress reports. What we know Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user's local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database. The passwords are not stored in plain text, they are stored as salted hashes. However, if you were using the same password as your Ubuntu Forums one on another service (such as email), you are strongly encouraged to change the password on the other service ASAP. Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical ...
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