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Click-click! Microsoft officially kills Internet Explorer brand
Post Date: 2015-03-19 05:38:57 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Windows 10 will abandon the long-criticized Internet Explorer web browser, replacing it with a new “Project Spartan” brand, Microsoft has confirmed. Microsoft's marketing chief confirmed at the company's ‘Convergence’ conference in Atlanta on Monday that Internet Explorer, the major old web browser brand, will only be used in enterprise compatibility with the new Windows 10, which will be offering a new way of browsing the internet, The Verge reported. “We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan. We have to name the thing,” Chris Capossela said. Microsoft's new web browser, ...
Elon Musk: The Cars You’re Driving Today Will Eventually Be Outlawed
Post Date: 2015-03-18 05:15:37 by Tatarewicz
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The Daily Caller/Yahoo... Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk thinks every car on the road today — and many more in the future — will eventually be outlawed. The reason? They require humans to drive. “In the distant future, [legislators] may outlaw driven cars because they’re too dangerous,” Musk told NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at company’s annual developers conference Tuesday. ”You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.” “We’ll take autonomous cars for granted in quite a short time,” Musk told attendees gathered in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. “I almost view it as a solved problem. We know what to do, and ...
Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid
Post Date: 2015-03-18 03:00:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A 3D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer by layer as they have been for the past 25 years, representing a fundamentally new approach to 3D printing. The technology, to appear as the cover article in the March 20 print issue of Science, allows ready-to-use products to be made 25 to 100 times faster than other methods and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine, but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation. Joseph M. DeSimone, professor of chemistry at ...
Sales of Virtual Reality products may take off this year
Post Date: 2015-03-17 23:04:17 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Manufacturers of virtual reality equipment are likely to see a boost from improved experience and expanding content by the end of this year, a Chinese company told Shanghai's China Business News. VR equipment and goggles made a splash at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in early March, even though such products have yet to make inroads into the consumer market, the newspaper said. The discomfort created by wearing VR gear for long periods of time, poor picture quality and a lack of content have been the main factors holding back the development of such products, according to the newspaper. In addition to Oculus, an early starter in the business, and ...
6 Ways The Power Grid Could Collapse
Post Date: 2015-03-17 17:00:55 by BTP Holdings
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6 Ways The Power Grid Could Collapse by Bill White Of all our infrastructure, the electrical power grid is the most fragile. In the 2013 Infrastructure Report Card, prepared by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Energy received a grade of D. The only reason it was that high, was that the energy category includes all classes of energy, not just electrical energy. However, in the narrative, the ASCE described the true condition of the electrical grid, declaring that it needed over one trillion dollars of investment to survive the next ten years. The problem is that our electrical grid, like much of our infrastructure, was designed for a 50 year lifespan. If you look at the ...
Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’
Post Date: 2015-03-16 16:57:56 by BTP Holdings
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Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’ Cole Mellino | March 16, 2015 10:37 am | Comments The South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival is happening now in Austin, Texas. Running from March 9 to 22, it’s a massive film, interactive and music festival that is nearly 20 years old. The festival brings together designers, developers, investors, entrepreneurs and politicians for panels and discussions about technology and innovation. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” said Gore. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.” stocklight / ...
3-D Printed Bionic Arm ~ way, way cool
Post Date: 2015-03-14 20:46:11 by Lod
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The proper use of hi-tech, imo.
Scientists Call for Halt on Experiments Changing DNA of Human Embryos
Post Date: 2015-03-14 02:53:08 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... NEW YORK (Reuters) - With rumors that scientists are about to announce they have modified the genes of human eggs, sperm, or embryos, five prominent researchers on Thursday called on biologists to halt such experiments due to fears about safety and eugenics. The call for a self-imposed research moratorium, which is extremely rare in science, was based on concerns that the work crosses an ethical line, said Edward Lanphier, president and chief executive officer of California-based Sangamo BioSciences Inc, senior author of the commentary in Nature. "Humans are not rats or other (experimental) organisms, and this is not something we want to do," Lanphier said in an ...
Magnetic nanoparticles could allow brain stimulation without wires
Post Date: 2015-03-13 00:58:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles -- a technique allowing direct stimulation of neurons, which could be an effective treatment for a variety of neurological diseases, without the need for implants or external connections. The research, conducted by Polina Anikeeva, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering, graduate student Ritchie Chen, and three others, has been published in the journal Science. Previous efforts to stimulate the brain using pulses of electricity have proven effective in reducing or eliminating tremors associated with Parkinson's ...
MB ~ Driverless Vehicle
Post Date: 2015-03-11 17:14:41 by Lod
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Poster Comment:Spooky stuff, imo.
Crazy scientist reveals the secret that big energy companies want buried (shocking)
Post Date: 2015-03-10 17:13:52 by BTP Holdings
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There are a few simple people that deserve the Medal Of Honor even though they were not in the army... or shared blood in the battle ground. I'm talking about people like this "CRAZY" scientist who uncovered one of the biggest secrets of the mankind... and preferred to share it with the community instead of getting millions of dollars for keeping it secret. We're talking about a secret plan that can produce free energy: >> Watch and Cry (click here) clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l...&b=dGIZx7LHtzyZme5lDg_XKg It's the same device that it was used with great success by the US navy to propel their ships for millions of miles... without any fuel... ...
Venezuela's food supply collapses, headed toward 1000% inflation as Health Ranger launches non-electric food grow system that produces food for pennies
Post Date: 2015-03-10 16:49:09 by BTP Holdings
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Venezuela's food supply collapses, headed toward 1000% inflation as Health Ranger launches non-electric food grow system that produces food for pennies Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The coming global food crisis really hit home for me last year. I saw droughts destroying crops across California and food inflation worsening almost everywhere. Collapsing water supplies and radical weather patterns have only accelerated the crisis, and while food may appear to be abundant on grocery store shelves, the retail presentation of abundant food is a thin veneer, under which lies a fragile food supply wholly dependent on just-in-time deliveries, stable ...
El Niño has finally arrived. Here's what that means for you.
Post Date: 2015-03-10 08:18:13 by Tatarewicz
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It's official. After almost a year of El Niño being a no-show, the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that an El Niño weather pattern has developed, and is expected to hang around, messing up our weather, until August. An El Niño weather pattern is associated with a warm band of water in the central and eastern parts of the Pacific, and it can trigger strange weather events, such as heavy rain and unseasonable warmth in some areas, and cold snaps in others. Between 1997 and 1998, an extreme El Niño caused flooding and drought across the planet and generally wreaked havoc on global weather. Early last year, ...
Don’t trust your phone, don’t trust your laptop – this is the reality that Snowden has shown us
Post Date: 2015-03-10 07:36:14 by Ada
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Edward Snowden’s astute revelations show that no electronic communications device – from hard disks to sim cards – is trustworthy Back in July 2013, a few weeks after Edward Snowden’s revelations about internet and mobile-phone surveillance began, I wrote a column that began: “Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world.” Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is John Naughton Read more The spur for the column was my realisation of the extent and astuteness of Snowden’s choice of what to collect and reveal. His was not some opportunistic ...
This urinal converts your pee into electricity
Post Date: 2015-03-09 07:02:37 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers in the UK have created a urinal that converts pee directly into electricity. The technology uses a set of microbial fuel cells (MFC), which contain tiny organisms that survive by breaking down urine and producing electricity as a byproduct. An earlier model of the urinal was shown to successfully charge up a mobile phone, a stunt that made headlines back in 2013. But the team from the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, wanted to find a more practical use for the technology, and is now working with Oxfam with the aim of lighting up refugee camps at night using nothing but urine. Currently many refugee camps or camps for displaced people ...
46,000 Twitter accounts used to promote IS: Brookings study
Post Date: 2015-03-09 06:39:55 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- A small group of "hyperactive" users are manipulating most of at least 46,000 Twitter accounts to promote the Islamic State (IS), a recent study said. Between 500 and 2,000 "hyperactive" users tweet 545 to 2,000 posts each day, and most of the accounts tweet in Arabic, with only about one in five using English, according to a study entitled "The ISIS Twitter Census" published by the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institute. Most IS supporters were located within the territories where the IS operates, as well as Saudi Arabia, and they created their accounts in 2014, Al Jazeera quoted the study as saying on its website on Friday. ...
Solar-Powered Plane Starts First Ever Round-The-World Trip
Post Date: 2015-03-09 05:57:13 by Tatarewicz
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Solar Impulse 2, a plane running exclusively on sun power, has taken off from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and is set to complete the first ever solar around-the-world flight in five months. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The aircraft, piloted by Swiss Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg took off at 07:12 a. m. local time (03:12 GMT) from the Al Bateen Airport. A man walks past the Solar Impulse 2 during its presentation at the Al Bateen airport in Abu Dhabi January 20, 2015. © REUTERS/ Ahmed Jadallah Solar Powered Plane to Fly Around World Next Month Solar Impulse 2 was first flown last year. Its single wing is covered by 17,200 sun batteries that power the ...
Researchers in China make breakthroughs in space technology
Post Date: 2015-03-08 06:48:49 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Scientists in China have produced a Hall effect thruster and a hollow-cathodes lamp (HCL) that may have the world's longest life, reports Duowei News, a US-based Chinese-language news outlet. The 801st Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)'s Sixth Academy (the Academy of Aerospace Propulsion Technology) said it has produced a thruster which may last for 18,000 hours and a lamp which can last 75,000 hours. Currently a thruster's life is determined by how long it is used, while there is no internationally recognized measurement for a lamp's life. The institute has carried out the research on the two items for over three ...
Not stellar noise: Potentially habitable super-Earth Gliese 581d exists, new study claims
Post Date: 2015-03-08 01:24:14 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Astronomy has had to go back on its word twice in a year now, as a super-Earth previously dismissed as stellar ‘noise’ did after all turn out to be a planet. A new study shows Gliese 581d had been the victim of bad analysis. In 2009, as scientists searched for far-away planets that were in the habitable zone orbiting around their host stars, a spectrometer picked up 581d’s ‘wobble’ – which is a slight change in the wavelength of light caused by a celestial body passing by its star and changing the amount of light the star gives off. The now-suspected planet and its siblings orbit a red dwarf named Gliese 581. Because the distance is some 20 light years ...
Tomsk scientists develop lighter, more flexible solar batteries
Post Date: 2015-03-07 06:30:49 by Tatarewicz
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Interfax/RBTH Scientists from the New Materials Department of Tomsk State University and their colleagues from the Russian Academy of Sciences are working on a new type of flexible solar batteries using Gratzel cells, the Tomsk State University reported on Friday. The foundation for these batteries are oxide nanomaterials and their compositions. "Solutions used to obtain oxide compositions can be put on any flexible carrier: thin glass, tissue, and metal and polymer materials. After baking, a composite cover is formed on the surface of the carrier, which is capable of transforming solar light into electrical power," the press release says. A sunny future in Russia: Developing ...
Lockheed Martin Creates Laser That Can Disable A Truck In Seconds From More Than A Mile Away
Post Date: 2015-03-06 07:44:10 by Buzzard
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It wasn't a projectile or ammunition that destroyed this truck. But rather, a laser: (pictures at source) Defense and aerospace company Lockheed Martin announced this week that its new fiber-optic laser weapon system, dubbed ATHENA (Advanced Test High Energy Asset), successfully took out a small truck “from more than a mile away” during a recent field test. The ATHENA system uses a technique called "spectral beam combining," which involves merging multiple laser modules to create a single and super-powerful 30-kilowatt laser beam. The system is described as having the “highest power ever documented by a laser weapon of its type." “To put that in ...
Revolutionary Engine Could Fuel Human Life on Mars
Post Date: 2015-03-06 01:07:48 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik...Thanks to groundbreaking research at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, those who wish to one day colonize Mars have a new technique at their disposal to harvest energy from carbon dioxide. Researchers want to power a new kind of engine using a phenomenon known as the “Leidenfrost effect.” The Leidenfrost effect occurs when a liquid comes into near contact with a surface much hotter than its boiling point (think about what happens when drops of water appear to dance across the surface of a very hot frying pan.) Upon contact, a layer of vapor forms between the liquid-solid interface, creating a barrier between the two. This also applies to dry ice, which can ...
Lockheed Martin Promises Portable Fusion Nuclear Engines Within the Decade
Post Date: 2015-03-06 01:01:15 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest defense contractor, is aiming to use nuclear fusion to create cheap electrical power that uses water for fuel, produces byproducts that are totally safe and releases no air pollution. With the United States spending less on defense, Lockheed Martin is showing more interest in the energy business than ever. "Energy is certainly an area of growth for us," CEO Marillyn Hewson told reporters at the corporation's media day outside Washington last month. "In a relative sense, it's not a large business for us, but it's a growing business for us. So, we'll continue to invest in that area." The team of ...
Huawei releases MediaPad X2 phablet at MWC, priced at $320
Post Date: 2015-03-05 02:17:09 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei released its next-gen MediaPad X2 phablet at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on March 2. The device will be priced at 1,999 yuan (US$320), reports Hong Kong's Phoenix New Media. Mimicking the design of the Ascend Mate 7, the 7-inch phablet MediaPad X2 is equipped with a high resolution 1920x1200 display, weighing in at 239 grams and 7.18mm thick. It runs on the Android 5.0 operating system and has a octa-core processor. The X2 standard version will be priced at 1,999 yuan (US$320) with 3GB RAM plus 16GB storage, with an upgraded version available for 2,499 yuan (US$400) with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage. Pre-orders go live on ...
Scientists have created the perfect music for cats
Post Date: 2015-03-03 06:35:22 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It's much purr-ier than human music, and it could help keep felines calm in stressful situations. Anyone who loves music knows how therapeutic it can be, and now researchers have shown that a good melody may have the same affect on cats. But they think our human-tunes suck. To work out whether cats could respond to music, scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Maryland, both in the US, composed 'cat-centric music'. "We looked at the natural vocalisations of cats and matched our music to the same frequency range, which is about an octave or more higher than human voices," lead author Charles Snowdon told Jennifer ...
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