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Single Photon Quantum Switch
On April 20th, 2014 with 11 comments
randmcnatt writes: Harvard researchers claim to have developed a switch which...
3D Metal Printer and Miller in One Machine
On April 21st, 2014 with 13 comments
mhajicek writes:DMG Mori USA, a well established builder of high quality...
General Mills Reverses Website's Legal Terms
On April 21st, 2014 with 12 comments
Horse With Stripes writes:General Mills quickly reversed its website's...
Thorium-Powered Cars
On April 22nd, 2014 with 28 comments
crutchy writes:Thorium is the future of energy, so anything that comes up...
Animations of Simulated Cell Insides
On April 22nd, 2014 with 5 comments
An anonymous coward writes:In 2006, BioVisions and Xvivo, a team of scientists...
Golf Courses Experiment With Pizza-Size Holes
On April 22nd, 2014 with 49 comments
Papas Fritas writes:The NYT reports that golf courses across the country are...
Netgear Hides Router Backdoor Instead of Fixing It
On April 22nd, 2014 with 39 comments
omoc writes:A very recent firmware analysis (PDF) from the reverse engineer...
Experts Warn Against Riding in Airline Wheel Wells
On April 23rd, 2014 with 19 comments
Papas Fritas writes:NBC reports that as miraculous as it was that a...
Virtual Earth Plays Out Fate of Life on the Planet
On April 24th, 2014 with 20 comments
AnonTechie writes:We can simulate the climate and we can even simulate babies....
Cross Referencing License Plates and CCW permits
On April 24th, 2014 with 74 comments
Angry Jesus writes:Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) pose a multitude of...
If Spacetime Were a Fluid
On April 24th, 2014 with 23 comments
AnonTechie writes:Liquid spacetime: A very slippery superfluid, that's what...
MSN Messenger Vs AIM Chat Wars
On April 24th, 2014 with 29 comments
silverly submitted a story about the internal battles that ensued when MSN...
Nuclear Explosion Powered Spaceships
On April 24th, 2014 with 19 comments
AnonTechie writes:In the 1950s, rocket scientists dreamed of atomic-powered...
California Rejects Phone "Kill Switch" Law
On April 25th, 2014 with 39 comments
AnonTechie writes:The California Senate on Thursday voted down a state measure...
Wanted: 600,000 Skilled Manual Laborers
On April 25th, 2014 with 53 comments
kaszz writes: The 2011 Skills Gap Survey by the Manufacturing Institute shows...
iOS vs Android in the Marketplace
On April 25th, 2014 with 19 comments
bucc5062 writes:Slate reposted an article that presented an analysis of income...
Ubuntu 14.04 Review
On April 28th, 2014 with 31 comments
Blackmoore writes:Ars Technica brings us a rather lackluster review of Ubuntu...
Mathematician Spies
On April 28th, 2014 with 9 comments
AnonTechie writes:If you thought you were protecting your country, you may...
Facebook Buys Fitness App
On April 28th, 2014 with 3 comments
stormwyrm writes:After having just acquired Oculus Rift and WhatsApp, Facebook...
Average U.S. Employee Takes Half Earned Vacation
On April 29th, 2014 with 32 comments
AnonTechie writes:According to Glassdoor's Q1 2014 Employment Confidence...
US Nuclear Missile Silos Use 8" Floppy Disks
On April 29th, 2014 with 51 comments
Papas Fritas writes:Ars Technica reports that the US government built...
Selfish Play Increases In High-Stake Games
On April 29th, 2014 with 7 comments
lhsi writes:A look at personal performance and assisting teammates in a highly...
Genemodded Mosquito to be Tested in Brazil
On April 30th, 2014 with 25 comments
AnonTechie and kaszz write:The Brazilian government have decided in a 2-year...
USPS Serves Spammers, Refuses to Digitize
On April 30th, 2014 with 47 comments
kaszz writes:In 2013, a startup in the USA called Outbox wanted to digitize...
The Intergalactic Medium Unveiled
On May 1st, 2014 with 4 comments
AnonTechie writes:
Caltech astronomers have taken unprecedented images of the...
Chrome Experiments with URL-less Web
On May 1st, 2014 with 67 comments
Ja'Achan writes:Yesterday, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something...
Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Arose in New York
On May 2nd, 2014 with 7 comments
GoonDu writes:This article started off with an introduction to superbugs...
Tails Linux Version 1.0 Released
On May 2nd, 2014 with 8 comments
Anonymous Coward writes:After nearly five years of development, Tails, a...
Emails Shed Light on Google's Work With NSA
On May 7th, 2014 with 14 comments
AnonTechie links to an article:Two sets of emails obtained by Al Jazeera...
Air-Purifying Billboard
On May 7th, 2014 with 6 comments
AnonTechie writes:Billboards could do more than just advertise, if scientists...
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash
