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NASA Offers 1,200 Patents to Startups, With No Upfront Licensing Costs
On October 10th, 2015 with 13 comments
Phoenix666 writes:As part of an initiative to grow some new high-tech...
Discovery of How Environmental Memories May Be Transmitted from a Father to His Grandchildren
On October 11th, 2015 with 26 comments
Phoenix666 writes:If you have diabetes, or cancer or even heart problems,...
Homemade Rocket Hits Record-Breaking 2,723 Feet Using Only Water and Air
On October 11th, 2015 with 15 comments
Phoenix666 writes:There's a fairly robust community that builds and launches...
Digital Voyeur Spied On Women’s Webcams 5-12 Hours a Day
On October 11th, 2015 with 32 comments
Phoenix666 writes:That was the case in England, where the National Crime...
NetBSD 7.0 Available
On October 11th, 2015 with 15 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:The NetBSD Project has announced the release of...
What's Not Up, Docs? Google Docs Goes Down in Time for Friday Beers
On October 11th, 2015 with 50 comments
Phoenix666 writes:[Editor's Note: This happened on Friday, October 9,...
Do We Need an Ethics of Self-organizing Tissue?
On October 12th, 2015 with 8 comments
Phoenix666 writes: From an ethical perspective, there is little reason to...
The Top Secret Communist Military Project That Led to a Nobel Prize
On October 12th, 2015 with 15 comments
HughPickens.com writes:Jeff Guo reports at The Washington Post that...
Ubuntu 15.10: More Kitten Than Beast – But Beware the Claws
On October 12th, 2015 with 49 comments
Phoenix666 writes: The most noticeable change in this release – the only...
Obama Administration Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data
On October 12th, 2015 with 8 comments
mendax writes: The New York Times is reporting:The Obama administration has...
Charge Rage: Electric Cars Make People Madder and Meaner
On October 12th, 2015 with 55 comments
HughPickens.com writes:
Matt Richtel reports at The New York Times that the...
Strong Placebo Response Thwarts Painkiller Trials
On October 12th, 2015 with 46 comments
tt0405296 writes:Drug companies have a problem: they are finding it ever harder...
Reporting the News in 1880
On October 12th, 2015 with 21 comments
The Buffalo News just re-printed their first paper from 1880. There have been...
Should People Be Able to Demand That Websites 'Do Not Track' Them?
On October 12th, 2015 with 38 comments
Phoenix666 writes: A universal do-not-track feature has been advocated by...
Chrome, Firefox Block KickassTorrents
On January 1st, 1970 with 0 comments
fliptop writes:From TorrentFreak:Chrome and Firefox are actively blocking...
Android Marshmallow Has a Hidden Feature: Universal Translation
On October 12th, 2015 with 24 comments
Phoenix666 writes: Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" takes translation one step...
Dell to Buy EMC Corporation for $67 Billion in "Biggest Tech Deal of All Time"
On October 12th, 2015 with 15 comments
takyon writes: HPCWire reports that Dell is purchasing storage, security,...
Naughty or Nice? One Brain Scan Is Now All It Takes to Find Out
On October 13th, 2015 with 61 comments
Phoenix666 writes:With a simple scan of your brain at rest, scientists can now...
Shift from Fossil Fuels Risks Popping 'Carbon Bubble': World Bank
On October 13th, 2015 with 45 comments
Phoenix666 writes: The transition from fossil fuels must be carefully managed...
Police Presence Around Ecuadorean Embassy and Assange to be Reduced
On October 13th, 2015 with 18 comments
takyon writes:The police presence surrounding the Ecuadorean Embassy in London...
"Skarp" Laser Razor Suspended by Kickstarter
On October 13th, 2015 with 33 comments
N3Roaster writes:Following up on previous coverage, after raising over $4M...
Allergies Are Becoming More Frequent. Why?
On October 13th, 2015 with 73 comments
Phoenix666 writes: Allergies are becoming more frequent in the western world....
Inside China’s Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
On October 13th, 2015 with 35 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points...
Unicode Considering 67 New Emoji for 2016
On October 14th, 2015 with 50 comments
darkfeline writes:From Arstechnica:While all new emoji options are welcomed,...
The Appearance of Being Earnest
On October 14th, 2015 with 27 comments
Phoenix666 writes: Paraf was an adulterator. He made artificial versions of...
SanDisk and HP Announce Potential Competitor to XPoint Memory
On October 14th, 2015 with 5 comments
takyon writes:HP and SanDisk have announced the development of Storage-Class...
Can Making Seawater Drinkable Quench the World's Thirst?
On October 14th, 2015 with 42 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Producing fresh drinking water from the sea - desalination -...
Luxury Bomb Shelters for the Billionaires Afraid of Doomsday
On October 14th, 2015 with 43 comments
Phoenix666 writes: It's a good time to be in a fear-based industry. Public...
Woman Arrested After Drunken Driving, Streaming Live Video on Periscope
On October 14th, 2015 with 24 comments
eof writes:Here is another example of self-inflicted (and deserved) trouble...
‘99.99 Percent Air’: Boeing Releases Video of Revolutionary Lightweight Metal
On October 15th, 2015 with 38 comments
Phoenix666 writes: Boeing has released a video of its groundbreaking...
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