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Machine Learning Sniffs Encrypted Web Traffic with High Accuracy
On June 21st, 2014 with 14 comments
JohnnyComputer writes:According to a new paper, statistical analysis of...
United States National Park Service Bans Drones
On June 21st, 2014 with 15 comments
rancid writes:The United States National Park Service has decided to ban...
Confirmed: Yes, it is the Higgs
On June 23rd, 2014 with 23 comments
mcgrew writes:MIT News reports that the particle discovered in 2012 and...
FAA Publishes Drone Guidelines
On June 24th, 2014 with 11 comments
AnonTechie writes:FAA has just released guidelines explaining where hobbyists...
Microsoft Outlook Outage Affects North American Customers
On June 25th, 2014 with 20 comments
Cornwallis writes:Yesterday, Microsoft Outlook Online, part of Office 365,...
'Hover Car' System to Be Implemented in Tel Aviv
On June 26th, 2014 with 15 comments
freetown writes:The BBC reports on a pilot project called SkyTran, a kind of...
Smallest Force Ever Measured
On June 27th, 2014 with 9 comments
lhsi writes:
The smallest ever force measured has been detected using a...
Using LEGOs For Studying Plants
On June 29th, 2014 with 9 comments
lhsi writes:Scientists who want to study environmental effects on plant growth...
The Ethics of GM Foods: Because We Can, Does It Mean We Should ?
On June 29th, 2014 with 31 comments
AnonTechie writes:Food is cultural, social and deeply personal, so it's no...
IETF Proposes The Definition of Pervasive Monitoring As An Attack
On June 30th, 2014 with 15 comments
c0lo writes:The Internet Engineering Task Force has issued a new RFC 7258 that...
Immoral Behavior In A Video Game Increases A Players' Moral Sensitivity
On June 30th, 2014 with 31 comments
lhsi writes:Researchers have found that when a player performs an immoral...
ISPs Take Legal Action Against GCHQ
On July 2nd, 2014 with 10 comments
dublet and cafebabe write: The BBC reports that ISPs from the US, UK,...
IRS, 501(c)(3) and the Future of Open Source in US
On July 2nd, 2014 with 46 comments
c0lo writes:Jim Nelson of Yorba foundation has a hair raising blog post on the...
Windows 9 Will Morph to Fit the Device It's Running On
On July 5th, 2014 with 29 comments
AndyTheAbsurd writes:Two pieces of news about Windows 9 (codenamed Threshold)...
High-Redshift Supernovae Discovered by Hyper Suprime-Cam
On July 5th, 2014 with 3 comments
StupendousMan writes:The Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea has a mirror over 8...
Microsoft Thumbs Its Nose at the NSA, Hardening the Encryption Used for Both Outlook and OneDrive
On July 5th, 2014 with 21 comments
Fnord666 writes:According to a recent article in El Reg, "Microsoft has...
Dubai to Build Biggest Mall with 4.5 Miles of Glass Roof Streets, 100 Hotels and Theme Park
On July 7th, 2014 with 53 comments
cafebabe writes: The Daily Mail reports that:Occupying 48 million square feet,...
Bug Juggler: The 70-Foot-Tall Car-Juggling Robot
On July 7th, 2014 with 21 comments
gewg_ writes:It's not a robot, it's a seventy foot mech!It has a humanoid form...
UK Parliament Set to Railroad New Snooping Laws
On July 10th, 2014 with 20 comments
dublet writes:The BBC is reporting the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)...
A Jehovah's Witness Suing Google for 10 Billion Dollars
On July 10th, 2014 with 25 comments
AnonTechie writes:A suit, filed below by Seungjin Kim in Washington, DC,...
41 Camping Hacks
On July 22nd, 2014 with 48 comments
cafebabe writes: World Observer has a series of pictures which concisely show...
Researchers Predict the Level of Driver Discomfort Caused by Energy-Efficient Lights
On July 22nd, 2014 with 4 comments
lhsi writes: Researchers have looked into driver discomfort caused by energy...
All Primary Public Schools in Geneva are Running Only Free Software
On July 22nd, 2014 with 11 comments
gewg_ writes:It appears that, like the German city of Munich, the Swiss Canton...
Half of All New Energy Capacity in the US This Year is Renewable
On July 23rd, 2014 with 31 comments
gewg_ writes:Alternet reports According to the latest Energy Infrastructure...
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
