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Best Linux Desktop of 2014: Linux Mint 17.1
Post Date: 2015-02-14 14:20:54 by James Deffenbach
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I've really liked Linux Mint as a desktop for years. Now, with the latest version, Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca", I think I may love Mint. That's because Mint has finally corrected its one shortcoming: The inability to easily upgrade from one version to another. Yes, you could move from one edition to the newest one before, but it wasn't easy or transparent. As Mint proclaims, "Until 2016, future versions of Linux Mint will use the same package base as Linux Mint 17.1, making it trivial for people to upgrade." The Mint development team has also decided to no longer tie itself to the latest version of Ubuntu. Rebecca is not based on the latest Ubuntu version, ...
Gene-Altered Apples Get U.S. Approval
Post Date: 2015-02-14 13:43:13 by Buzzard
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The government on Friday approved the commercial planting of genetically engineered apples that are resistant to turning brown when sliced or bruised. The developer, Okanagan Specialty Fruits, says it believes the nonbrowning feature will be popular with both consumers and food service companies because it will make sliced apples more appealing. The feature could also reduce the number of apples discarded because of bruising. But many executives in the apple industry say they worry that the biotech apples, while safe to eat, will face opposition from some consumers, possibly tainting the wholesome image of the fruit that reputedly “keeps the doctor away.” They are also concerned ...
New Chinese electromagnetic weapon may paralyze US air defense: expert
Post Date: 2015-02-13 21:48:17 by Tatarewicz
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According to a Chinese expert, Kashin wants the US to turn its attention towards the Asia-Pacific and away from the crisis in the Ukraine. (Photo/Xinhua) According to a Chinese expert, Kashin wants the US to turn its attention towards the Asia-Pacific and away from the crisis in the Ukraine. (Photo/Xinhua) The development of an X-ray pulse generator by the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has attracted the attention of Vassily Kashin, a expert at Russia's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, according to Moscow-based Sputinks News. Kashin believes that China's electromagnetic weapon system based on the ...
Dogs able to detect emotions in human faces: Austrian researchers
Post Date: 2015-02-13 00:58:59 by Tatarewicz
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VIENNA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Dogs are able to distinguish between different emotions in human faces by sight, researchers from the Clever Dog Lab at Vienna' University of Veterinary Medicine found, Austrian media reported on Thursday. Austria Press Agency reported that researchers Corsin Mueller and Ludwig Huber showed 20 dogs both a happy face and an angry face on a touch screen. In order for them to focus on smiling teeth or folds from frowning, they were first shown only the eye and mouth areas during training exercises. The dogs were then separated into two groups, with a practice phase where each group was shown either a happy or an angry face only. Most of the animals were able ...
Bill Gates visits China to discuss nuclear reactor cooperation
Post Date: 2015-02-12 23:37:11 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and chairman of nuclear startup TerraPower, was in China again earlier this week, Shanghai-based China Business News reports. In recent years, Gates has visited China at least three times to seek cooperation with the Chinese side on developing a next-generation nuclear reactor. While in Beijing Feb. 9, Gates met with Nur Bekri, director of China's National Energy Administration and they held in-depth discussion on a US-China traveling wave reactor project. Unlike conventional reactors, a traveling wave reactor can run on depleted uranium and produce significantly smaller amounts of nuclear waste. Gates also met with Sun Qin on Feb. 9, ...
BREAKING: U.S. Media Blackout — Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism
Post Date: 2015-02-12 19:24:01 by Jethro Tull
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BREAKING: U.S. Media Blackout — Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism Mary Holland Age of Autism February 10th, 2015 Reader Views: 3,150 Comments (6) (Originally published at Age of Autism, via The Daily Coin) On September 23, 2014, an Italian court in Milan award compensation to a boy for vaccine-induced autism. (See the Italian document here.) A childhood vaccine against six childhood diseases caused the boy’s permanent autism and brain damage. While the Italian press has devoted considerable attention to this decision and its public health implications, the U.S. press has been silent. Italy’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Like ...
Planetary Suicide
Post Date: 2015-02-11 18:13:20 by statusquobuster
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Every so often a nonfiction book comes along that, because of its objective, comprehensive coverage of a hot topic, should be carefully read with a highlighter in hand by everyone. That new book is “Unprecedented” by David Ray Griffin. Be warned, this book will probably bum you out. It presents the most readable treatment of the global warming and climate change issue that anyone could wish for. It is not an emotional rant, but rather a carefully organized and detailed discussion. Most significantly, with carefully documented sources, it allows a reader to fully appreciate the compelling and overwhelming scientific evidence supporting a negative view of our planet’s and ...
Secretly swiped: Your account numbers taken out of thin air
Post Date: 2015-02-11 07:49:05 by noone222
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team reveals the mobile technology that hackers can use to steal credit and debit numbers from you while you're in public. The cards at risk are enabled with radio technology that allows you to "wave and pay." It may be convenient, but there are also remote tools that thieves can use to steal information from those cards. The I-Team tested a device that can "secretly swipe" while you are standing in line to pay, on an escalator, or in a crowded spot. "I would walk up to you and I might stand like this on the train, Ok and boom, I have your credit card," said David Bryan. Bryan, a security specialist at Chicago's Trustwave, ...
Learn About the Marinov Free Evergy Device
Post Date: 2015-02-10 17:21:00 by BTP Holdings
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This is Abel Thomas from LibertyGenerator, We have great news about a new project, named "Stefan Marinov Free Energy Generator". This is based on a concept that the Bulgarian inventor did 50 years ago. He was able to create a fuel less gravity engine, capable of powering any type of generator to produce live and free usable electricity to power all of your house appliances. A short 5 minute presentation is available online if you want to learn more about this awesome project. Follow the link below to watch it now. >>Click Here<< The best part is that the guys that replicated this device, used parts which can be found at any local store. ...
This little animal can potentially live forever
Post Date: 2015-02-08 21:47:00 by Tatarewicz
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TreeHugger Immortality, much? Scientists believe that the hydra may be able to eternally resist going gentle into that good night. The Hydra of Greek myth was a terrifying many-headed water monster with virulent breath and noxious blood. And it was a creature with the wonderfully weird regenerative trait of being able to grow more heads when one was chopped off. Meanwhile, over in the pond, we have a genus of real-life little animals that share their name with the Greek horror show. And while they have the beast's regenerative powers in common, unlike the Hydra who was slain by Heracles, the little wiggly pond hydra appear to be immortal. Belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, hydra are ...
The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever
Post Date: 2015-02-08 10:58:21 by Jethro Tull
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The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever New data shows that the “vanishing” of polar ice is not the result of runaway global warming .newGigyaShare { display: none !important; } The “vanishing” of polar ice (and the polar bears) has become a poster-child for warmists. Photo: ALAMY By Christopher Booker 10:15PM GMT 07 Feb 2015Comments When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the ...
World’s most widely used insecticide proven to damage bees’ brains
Post Date: 2015-02-08 04:53:02 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert...For the first time, scientists have found evidence that the insecticide most frequently used on crops such as corn, canola, cotton, and soybeans is messing with the brains of bumblebees, and causing poor performance in their colonies. The reasons behind the global decline of bees and other insect pollinators have been as mysterious as they’ve been controversial, but now we have the first evidence to suggest that commercially available insecticides are impairing the brain activity of individual bumblebees, and the performance of entire colonies. The culprit? Neonicotinoids - a relatively new class of insecticide, developed by Shell and Bayor around 20 to 30 years ago, ...
New ’super-steel’ alloy is as strong as titanium, but 10 times cheaper
Post Date: 2015-02-08 04:40:45 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... This new type of steel alloy is flexible, ultra-strong, and inexpensive, and we already have all the tools we need to mass-produce it. Scientists in South Korea have invented a new steel alloy that boasts the same strength-to-weight ratio as titanium - the super-strong metal we use to construct jet engines, missiles, spacecraft, and medical implants - but it can be produced for one-tenth of the cost. In order to develop this new kind of metal, the team from Pohang University of Science and Technology had to overcome a problem that had stumped materials scientists for decades, says William Herkewitz at Popular Mechanics. "In the 1970's, Soviet researchers ...
CERN To Attempt ‘Big Bang’ In March, Stephen Hawking Issues Warning
Post Date: 2015-02-08 03:50:24 by Tatarewicz
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CERN is due to re-open the large hadron collider in March of 2015 in order to recreate the big bang, despite warnings from top scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Neil de Grasse Tyson. Allnewspipeline.com reports: Dr. Stephen Hawking recently warned that the reactivation in March of CERN’s large hadron collider could pose grave dangers to our planet…the ultimate reality check we are warned. Hawking has come straight out and said the ‘God particle’ found by CERN “could destroy the universe” leaving time and space collapsed as shared in the 2nd video. Is CERN the most dangerous thing in the cosmos that could lead to the ultimate destruction of the Earth ...
Submarine volcanoes may alter long-term climate: study
Post Date: 2015-02-07 05:01:08 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Volcanoes hidden under the oceans may have a greater influence on our planet's long-term climate than previously thought, a U.S. study said Friday. The study published in the U.S. journal Geophysical Research Letters found that submarine volcanoes flare up on strikingly regular cycles, ranging from two weeks to 100,000 years and that they erupt almost exclusively during the first six months of each year. Previously, scientists presumed underwater volcanoes are Earth' s gentle giants, oozing lava at slow, steady rates, but the new study said they produce maybe eight times more lava annually than land volcanoes. Due to the chemistry of their magmas, ...
Australian scientists detect radio waves from mystery source 5 bln light years away
Post Date: 2015-02-07 04:59:14 by Tatarewicz
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CANBERRA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- A short, sharp flash of radio waves from a mysterious source up to 5.5 billion light years from Earth has been detected by CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia, local media reported on Tuesday. In Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology PhD student Emily Petroff "saw" the burst live - a first for astronomers. Lasting only milliseconds, the first such radio burst was discovered in 2007 by astronomers combing old Parkes data archives for unrelated objects. Six more bursts, apparently from outside the galaxy, have now been found with the Parkes telescope, in New South Wales, and a seventh with the Arecibo telescope in Puerto ...
Own a Gun? Then Eric Holder Wants You to Wear This…
Post Date: 2015-02-05 17:56:55 by BTP Holdings
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Own a Gun? Then Eric Holder Wants You to Wear This… HolderGuns The Attorney General of the United States has suggested a new twist on gun control: electronic bracelets for gun owners. This is the technology used to keep track of criminals on parole, but Eric Holder seems to think gun owners should be accorded the same treatment. The Conservative Tribute reported on Holder’s remarks, made during the 2015 budget hearings: Not long ago, Holder admitted that he thinks electronic tracking bracelets, fingerprint scanners, and other science fiction-style ideas are “common sense” ways to increase gun control. “Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of ...
China achieves breakthrough in pulse weapons technology
Post Date: 2015-02-05 00:13:50 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Directed-energy weapons are said to be the future of advanced technological warfare. (Internet photo) Directed-energy weapons are said to be the future of advanced technological warfare. (Internet photo) China has achieved a technological breakthrough that could help introduce pulse weapons to the People's Liberation Army's arsenal, reports the Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily. According to the report, the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a third-generation X-ray pulsar simulation source. The technology, which can create an X-ray ...
Have You Ever Wanted To Generate Your Own Supply Of Free Electrical Power?
Post Date: 2015-02-04 17:11:52 by BTP Holdings
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Have You Ever Wanted To Generate Your Own Supply Of Free Electrical Power? If so, this is going to be the most important message you will ever read. Solar powered generators are now available and I'm going to show you how to get one for very little money. Solar Generators provide "life-saving" electrical power when you need it most. And, unlike gas generators, a solar generator: * runs silently, * emits no fumes, * and produces an endless supply of electricity for free. It's like having an electric power plant running quietly in your own home. Run sump pumps, short-wave radios, computers, and even keep food from spoiling. (Lots and lots of applications for ...
Quantum Relativity
Post Date: 2015-02-03 11:25:06 by Horse
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Students build solar car with 3D-printed body
Post Date: 2015-02-03 04:15:51 by Tatarewicz
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Students at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have built an urban solar electric car with a 3D-printed body, the university said on Monday. The car named NTU Venture 8 is mounted on a carbon fiber single shell chassis. The cars were designed from scratch and the students spent over a year to build them. The students used the latest engineering techniques to develop innovations such as silicon solar cells that can be contoured to follow the car's shape. "We are extremely proud to have designed and assembled a 3D- printed body shell for the electric car," said Ng Heong Wah, an associate professor at the university. "The 3D ...
Lausanne scientists step up search for alien life
Post Date: 2015-02-01 01:23:41 by Tatarewicz
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Swiss and Belgian researchers say they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant planets. Until now, scientists have tried to find signs of extraterrestrial life by listening for sounds that might be emitted from an alien world, by scanning the skies with potent telescopes and by sending robotic probes and rovers to analyze the chemical fingerprint of samples from comets and planets. But researchers in Switzerland and Belgium were interested in a new method. Taking advantage of movement, which they call "a universal signature of life," they would aim to sense on a nanolevel the tiny motions that all life forms make. ...
Scientists discover Hydrogen producing bacteria
Post Date: 2015-01-31 21:19:11 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Dr. Melanie Mormile, the head researcher of a team of scientists from the Missouri University of Science and Technology who found a new species of bacterium which cleans up the environment and produces hydrogen Scientists have found a new species of bacterium which cleans up the environment and produces hydrogen, an element which may in the future reduce the world's dependency on oil. The bacterium Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans was discovered in Soap Lake Washington by a team of researchers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. It can "produce hydrogen under saline and alkaline conditions in amounts that rival genetically modified organisms," ...
Researchers may have found the most ingenious way yet to generate solar power
Post Date: 2015-01-31 05:56:10 by Tatarewicz
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BGR News Solar energy is definitely taking off and now researchers may have come up with the absolute best way to generate cheap solar power by installing solar panels in public parking lots. The Washington Post reports that solar power proponents are increasingly turning their eyes toward America’s parking lots as the perfect locations for mass solar panel installations. The reasons for this are easy to understand: Parking lots taking up huge chunks of our landscape and absorb a ton of heat in hot weather. Why not put them to good use by installing solar panels over them? The one big issue, the Post says, is that such solar panel installations are very expensive right now, much ...
Beijing considers next steps for electric vehicles
Post Date: 2015-01-30 01:56:52 by Tatarewicz
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Want... The year 2015 has witnessed the increased effort by some cities and regions in China to promote the use of new energy cars, prompting Beijing to develop schemes for charging service fees for battery charging as well as studying the standards used for collection, said a government official cited in a report by the National Business Daily. A source from a new energy vehicle industry association in Beijing confirmed the new policy but clarified that no official date for rolling out the related measures has been announced yet. Beijing is not the first city to formulate rules for the collection of battery-charging fees. Nanjing in Jiangsu, Hebei, Shanghai, Foshan in Guangdong, and ...
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