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2013-07-27, 20:01 | Link #2122 |
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‘Landmark’ Space Policy Shift As China, Others Agree To Space Code of Conduct Talks:
"After years of grudging refusal to do much more than discuss the possibility of talks on a space code of conduct, China has begun discussions on a multilateral code as part of a larger UN effort, as well as committed to specific goals known in the trade as “transparency and confidence-building measures” (TCBMs)." See: http://breakingdefense.com/2013/07/2...de-of-conduct/ |
2013-07-31, 11:03 | Link #2124 |
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Beam me up? Not in the life of this universe:
"Student boffins find walking to the moon would be faster than teleportation" See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07...re_in_a_hurry/ |
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2013-07-31, 19:35 | Link #2126 |
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'Comet of the Century' already may have fizzled out
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96S16U20130730
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2013-08-01, 12:47 | Link #2128 |
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USB Is Getting a 10Gbps Shot in the Arm:
"The USB 3.0 Promoter Group—honestly, there is such a thing—has finalized the next iteration of Universal Serial Bus, and it's going to run at a lightning fast 10Gbps. The .1 upgrade will be entirely backwards compatible USB 3.0 and 2.0 kit but will obviously need 3.1 kit to run at full speed. The idea of 3.1 was floated back in January, but now it's official—though there's still no word on when the first USB 3.1 devices will arrive. It seems likely, however, that products should be available in the new year." See: http://gizmodo.com/usb-is-getting-a-...-arm-986911633 |
2013-08-01, 21:10 | Link #2129 |
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Mothballed NASA telescope may get new life as asteroid hunter
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96U1I120130801
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2013-08-02, 12:27 | Link #2130 | |
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U.S., states seek limits on Apple over e-book price-fixing
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2013-08-02, 21:12 | Link #2131 | |
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Wouldn't it be better to burry them up to their waist on finance-related book and them stone them with cheap erotic literature...
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2013-08-03, 21:17 | Link #2132 |
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New Tech Could Allow Super-Speed Internet on Old Phone Lines:
"Gigabit internet is fast and amazing. But that "Download entire movies in mere seconds!" line gets real old if you, like the vast majority of the country, don't have access to those lightning fast fiber lines. But thanks to a new approach from Alcatel- Lucent, your creaky old copper phone lines might be good enough. That's a really big deal if it actually works." See: http://gizmodo.com/new-tech-could-al...one-1004361130 |
2013-08-03, 21:37 | Link #2133 | |
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I live less less than three miles from a massive Intel Corp. campus and a large town. Might as well be in the back part of the Yukon.
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2013-08-03, 22:31 | Link #2134 |
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Scientists to cook world's first in-vitro beef burger
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97119D20130803
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2013-08-05, 02:54 | Link #2135 | |
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2013-08-06, 06:03 | Link #2136 |
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Kirobo the talking robot blasts into space on historic mission
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97303920130804
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2013-08-06, 11:12 | Link #2137 |
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Resistive RAM: Terabytes of Storage, 20 Times Faster Than NAND:
"There's never a shortage of new experimental forms of memory—but a company called Crossbar has now worked up something called resistive RAM which could wipe the floor with NAND. At half the size of conventional NAND RAM but with 20 times faster write speeds— around 140MB/s—this stuff really means business. It also uses 20 times less power, last 10 times as long, and reads data at 17MB/s. Its 3D structure also provides it with impressive data density, too: one 200mm2 chip apparently provides upwards of 1TB of storage. It's not exactly a fair fight." See: http://gizmodo.com/resistive-ram-ter...-th-1038661137 |
2013-08-06, 12:38 | Link #2138 |
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The Weird New Solid That's Actually a Liquid:
"Usually, if you cool any substance down enough it will turn into a solid—the most stable state of matter that exists, according to traditional physics. But that could all be about to change, because researchers have discovered a weird new liquid state that's more stable than a solid crystal. A team of scientists from La Sapienza University in Rome have used computer simulations to create a weird liquid that could help scientists create strange new materials in the future. Starting with a model of a colloid—a liquid with tiny particles suspended in it, like the way milk contains tiny fat globules—they were able to virtually cool the fluid until it took on a stable form that seemed solid but had the molecular structure of a liquid. Frank Smallenburg, one of the researchers, explains:" See: http://gizmodo.com/the-weird-new-sol...uid-1039676700 |
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2013-08-06, 12:41 | Link #2140 |
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Harvard Scientists Have Just Invented Human-Rat Telepathy:
"Humans have long wished to see through the eyes of other animals—like Bran Stark's Warg ability, say—but so far the best we've achieved is mounting GoPros on them. One Harvard research team, though, has just brought us a step closer to that goal with a prototype noninvasive brain-to-brain interface allowing test subjects to control a rat's tail with nothing more than their thoughts. The study, which has been published in the journal PLOS One, used an EEG headset to "read" the human's brain functions, an intermediary computer to interpret and translate the that data into electronic signals, and a transcranial focused ultrasound device that activates a specific region of an anesthetized rat's brain, causing the rodent's tail to twitch. It's essentially a human-rat mind meld using a computer to translate the respective thoughts. As the research results explain:" See: http://gizmodo.com/harvard-scientist...epat-978412932 |
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