Science & Technology – Week of 12.08.13
Human DNA Is Not A Document, It’s An App
Forbes | 13 December 2013
Yesterday, scientists at the University of Washington announced…
Second Annual Global Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference
Infi…
Human DNA Is Not A Document, It’s An App
Forbes | 13 December 2013
Yesterday, scientists at the University of Washington announced…
Second Annual Global Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference
Infi…
Scientists Build a Low-Cost, Open-Source 3D Metal Printer
Michigan Tech | 26 November 2013
OK, so maybe you aren’t interested in making your own toys, cellphone cases, or glow-in-the-dark Christmas …
Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant
Business Insider | 27 November 2012
Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architecture and engineering firm, has a plan to effectively turn the moon int…
How Tesla Found Itself on the Defense
USA Today | 21 November 2012
Being a media darling isn’t as easy as it looks…
Volcano Spawns New Japanese Island
RT | 21 November 2012
An undersea volcanic eru…
Researchers Rewrite Entire Genome, Add Healthy Twist
Scientific Computing | 17 October 2013
Scientists from Yale and Harvard have recoded the entire genome of an organism…
Vast Antarctic Iceberg ‘…
Germany Reaches 59% Renewable Energy Peak, Power Grid Doesn’t Blow Up
The 9 Billion | 30 October 2013
Earlier this month on a very sunny and windy day…
Big Cable May Have Felled Seattle’s Mayor…
A Bathroom of One’s Own
In These Times | 30 October 2013
In a Kenyan slum, pocket privies offer women safety, autonomy and a way to make a living…
Chaos-On-a-Chip Model Shows Market Bubbles May b…
Who Said Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees? Gold Found in Eucalyptus Tree Leaves
ABC Melbourne | 23 October 2013
In a world-first research conducted by CSIRO geoscientists, gold particles have been discover…
Decentralized Power To The People’: UK Energy Minister
Revolution Green | 18 October 2013
This would be a fitting headline at last weeks Global Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference…
GridEx
NE…
Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue to Deploy Waste Gasification
BioMass Magazine | 10 October 2013
Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue USA Inc. have teamed up to deploy a waste gasification technology…
Nuc…
Bitcoin Forum Hacked in Aftermath of Silk Road Takedown
Naked Security | 04 October 2013
The popular Bitcoin discussion forum, Bitcointalk.org…
IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Heal…
India’s Incoming Solar Power Plant Will Be Bigger Than the US’s Ten Biggest Combined
Motherboard | 24 September 2013
The impact on jobs and other assumptions that don’t hold up anymore…
19-Year-Old…
Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its Activity Should Be Highest
Wired | 16 September 2013
Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend…
The Truth IS Out There: British…
200,000 Apply For One-Way Mission to Colonise Mars – But Only Four Can Become the First Human Settlers of the Red Planet
The Independent | 10 September 2013
Over 200,000 people from more than 140 coun…
Robotics Make Sense for Manufacturing
Save Your Factory
Robots allow businesses to remain competitive without off-shoring…
Researcher Controls Colleague’s Motions in 1st Human Brain-to-Brain Inte…
Skype Confirms 3D Video Calls Are Under Development
BBC News | 28 August 2013
Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls…
Weather Could be Controlled Using Lasers
The Telegraph | 27 August…
New Technology and Better Strategy Could Cut Data Centre Emissions by 88%
The Guardian | 21 August 2013
Server farms could revolutionise sustainability with easy steps…
Dropbox and Similar Services…
The West Virginia Town Where Wireless Signals are Illegal
Yahoo! Travel | 15 August 2013
Shhh! The scientists are listening to space!
The Patent Wars Begin Over Graphene, A Material That’s About To C…
3D Printed Rifle 2.0 Successfully Fires 14 Shots
Infowars | 08 August 2013
Maker vows to share blueprints while authorities continue with crackdown…
Giant Crab Robot to Scan Sea Floor
Scientific A…
World’s First Test-Tube Burger to be Served in London This Week
Daily News | 29 July 2013
The artificial burger costs $380,000-plus to make…
Giant 3D Printer Builds Homes in 20 Hours
Tom’s Hardwa…
Tracking Gunfire With a Smartphone
Institute for Software Integrated Systems | 05 June 2013
You are walking down the street with a friend. A shot is fired…
How Pretty Pictures Are Conquering Online…
Tiny New Moon Discovered around Neptune
Scientific American | 17 July 2013
The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a small, never-before-seen moon…
NASA, Industry Test Additively Manufactured Rocke…
Top Solar Power States Per Capita (Updated) vs Top Solar Policy Leaders
Clean Technica | 25 June 2013
Last year, I put together rankings of the top solar power countries per capita…
Researchers Dev…
Cortex – Exoskeleton Protecting the Internal Skeleton
Jake Evil Design | 2013
After many centuries of splints and cumbersome plaster casts…
NASA’s NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nons…
China’s Tianhe-2 Supercomputer, Twice as Fast as DoE’s Titan, Shocks the World by Arriving Two Years Early
Extreme Tech | 24 June 2013
In a massive escalation of the supercomputing arms race…
C…
Use of Tor and E-mail Crypto Could Increase Chances That NSA Keeps Your Data
Ars Technica | 20 June 2013
When it comes to surveillance rules, some US people are more equal than others…
New Matt Dam…
$27,500 Gun Hits Targets at 1,000 Yards
Yahoo! Finance | 11 June 2013
A new company in Texas is selling a precision rifle with a unique technology…
Wikipedia Wars: The Most Controversial Pages Revealed
Fox News | 03 June 2013
A behind-the-scenes look at the so-called edit wars…
Makerbot May Or May Not Be Getting Acquired, And It May Or May Not…
Cold Fusion is Back With ‘Anomalous Heat’ Claim
The Register | 22 May 2013
Italian entrepreneur Andrea Rossi has surfaced again to restate his claim…
Xbox One Raises the Burden of Privacy Safeguards: 5 Questions for Microsoft
Time Tech | 22 May 2013
Some things you take for granted, like the fact that in Star Trek…
NASA is Funding a 3D Food Prin…
Feds Demand 3D Printed Gun Blueprints Removed From Internet
SFGate | 09 May 2013
The State Department has ordered ultra-libertarian group Defense Distributed…
Explaining Big Data
YouTube | 16 June…
Dear Telecom Unions: Time to Fight for the Public Switched Network Infrastructure & Technology (PSNIT) — The State-based Utility Wires
The Huffington Post | 20 February 2013
Since I started writing a…
Blind Mothers-To-Be Find Solution in 3D Printing
Tech Page One | 02 April 2013
The prenatal sonogram is a life-changing moment for many expectant mothers…
Close-up Views of Large Hurricane on Satur…
Infographic: If Google Fiber Went Worldwide
Forbes | 26 April 2013
Google is bringing its super-fast broadband network Fiber to…
The Rise of Big Data
Foreign Affairs | May 2013
Everyone knows that …
3 New Planets Could Host Life
CNN | 21 April 2013
In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets…
Google Glass Comes With Small Print
Geeks Are Sexy | 18…
This Material Will Power the Future — If Somebody Can Profit From It
Wired | 04 April 2013
It was a Friday evening at the University of Manchester and scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov were…
Global Hacker Network Unites in Anonymous Campaign Against Israel
Analysis Intelligence | 02 April 2013
We recently reported on the revival of Operation Israel (#OpIsrael) being coordinated by a group…
Will Lawmakers Ban Google Glass?
Fox News | 27 March 2013
Google will soon start handing out its high-tech new glasses — but did they see the backlash coming?
Asheville Hemp House Featured in Docume…
China Is Engineering Genius Babies
Vice | 15 March 2013
It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower…
Ancient Underwater Forest Off Alabama is Much Older Than …
Bumblebees Sense Electric Fields in Flowers
Nature | 21 February 2013
As they zero in on their sugary reward, foraging bumblebees follow an invisible clue: electric fields…
Mikko Hypponen: Fighting…
Chinese Physicists Measure Speed of Einstein’s ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’: At Least 10,000 Times Faster Than Light
ExtremeTech | 07 March 2013
A team of Chinese physicists have clocked the sp…
Intuitive Robot Probe Threatens Trend-Setting Surgeries
Bloomberg | 01 March 2013
The safety of robots made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG) is being probed by…
3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Ste…
The Most Mind-Blowing 3-D Printed Objects Of 2012
Pop Sci l 31 December 2012
Fusion Power Could Happen Sooner Than You Think
Pop Sci l 18 February 2013
n a presentation that seems ripped from the A…
Asteroid 2012 DA14: 5 Surprising Facts About Friday’s Earth Flyby
Fox News | 14 February 2013
While there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth this Friday, the asteroid’s flyby is hist…
You’ll Soon Be Able To Roll Up Your Home Stereo Like a Newspaper
Gizmodo | 06 February 2013
Looking to expand its expertise outside imaging products, Fujifilm researchers…
FCC Proposes Land of…
Is Your Television Watching YOU? Smart TVs Can Spy on Their Owners
Alex Jones | 01 February 2013
It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory or like something out of…
Google Faces Legal Action Ove…
Coming Soon, the Car That Runs on Air: Peugeot Citroen Unveil New 117mpg Hybrid (and It’s £1,000 Cheaper Than a Prius)
The Daily Mail | 22 January 2013
If you have ever grimaced at your petrol bill …
Japan to Build World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
New Scientist | 16 January 2013
It’s goodbye nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to…
Traffic Jammers
San Jose Mercury News | 08 January 2…
Proving The Value Of Crowdfunding, Soldsie Raises $425K And Hires One Of 72 Investors Via FundersClub
Tech Crunch | 09 January 2013
Online venture capital firm FundersClub is pioneering equity crowdf…
A Vault for Taking Charge of Your Online Life
The New York Times | 08 December 2012
“YOU are walking around naked on the Internet and you need some clothes,” says Michael Fertik. “I am going to…
The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis
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Sierra Nevada Corp. Wins $56.5M Contract for Electronic Warfare Systems
Washington Technology | …
NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
NASA | 03 December 2012
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system…
Invention Boutique
Inventio…
“Once in a Civilization” Comet to Zip past Earth Next Year
Scientific American | 05 October 2012
As it flares out of the distant Oort Cloud, the newly discovered comet…
Plastic Bulb Developme…
I Had to Shave My Head to Land Silicon Valley CEO Job: 60-Year-Old Forced to Lose What was Left of His Hair, Get an Eye-Lift and Trade Loafers for Converse to Work in Youth-Obsessed Tech-Hub
Daily Ma…
Teenage Gamers Better At Simulated Surgery Than Medical Residents
Tech Crunch | 17 November 2012
Forget AP Biology and Latin class: get those pre-meds hooked on Call of Duty.
Electric Cars Suffer …
Hassine Labaied: A More Efficient Wind Energy
Youtube | 25 June 2012
Speaking His Mind, Beyond the Forecast
The New York Times | 05 November 2012
As Hurricane Sandy made its way up the coast, Bryan…
Alex Daley: The Greatest Growth Sector in the World
YouTube | 27 September 2012
The Earth’s Magnetic Field Impacts Climate: Danish Study
AFP | 12 January 2009
The earth’s climate has been significa…
Big Brother’s New Toy: An EMP Cruise Missile
Shenandoah| 24 October 2012
Just when you thought it was safe to leave your electronics out of the Faraday cage for a day or two, along comes Boeing with…
A Chemist Comes Very Close to a Midas Touch
NY Times | 15 October 2012
In a lab in Princeton University’s ultra-sleek chemistry building, researchers toil in a modern-day hunt for an elusive power: …
Gold-pooping Bacteria Could Be Modern Day Equivalent of the Philosopher’s Stone
Yahoo | 4 October 2012
Mentioned in writing as far back as 300 A.D., the Philosopher’s stone is a legendary substance…
Does The Internet Make You Dumb? Top German Neuroscientist Says Yes – And Forever
World Crunch | 12 September 2012
Dr. Manfred Spitzer knows that people find his arguments provocative. In his first bo…
The Skin Gun
YouTube | 3 February 2011
How to Get to Mars
YouTube | 28 February 2011
“You Are Here” 2.0
Txchnologist | 17 September 2012
The days of getting lost in the art museum or mall might …
New Breed of Robotics Aims to Help People Walk Again
The New York Times | 11 September 2012
When Joey Abicca pokes a metal crutch into the ground with his right arm, tiny motors start whirling around …
Robotic Exoskeleton Gallery
Gizmag | 6 September 2012
The widespread usage of exoskeletal robotics to augment human beings moved a step closer this week when Raytheon demonstrated its second generatio…
Apple Lists 8 Samsung Products it Wants Banned
Associated Press|27 August 2012
Apple Inc. on Monday gave a federal judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics Co. products it wants pulled from shelves a…
10 Ways Mobile Technology Is Changing Our World
Time 23 August 2012
From the battle for the White House to the dynamics of a first date, our lives are being reshaped by the constant presence of our ph…
Army Tests Spy Blimp Over NJ
NBC 10 August 2012
Manufacturer Northrop Grumman says the 302-foot long airship is designed to be a high altitude observation platform.
Spaceport America: Not Just ‘Rich …
Cyborg America: Inside The Strange New World of Basement Body Hackers
The Verg 8 August 2012
Shawn Sarver took a deep breath and stared at the bottle of Listerine on the counter. “A minty fresh fe…
You Think GMO Is Scary? Nano Tech is Here, In Your Store
Activist Post 30 July 2012
Nanotechnology is measured in billionths of a meter, encompassing all aspects of life from food to medicine.
Things…
In Silicon Valley, Patents Go On Trial
Yahoo! Finance 24 July 2012
Samsung Electronics Co. recently leapfrogged Apple Inc. as the world’s largest seller of smartphones. . . .
Vast Aquifer Found In Na…
Astonishing Pictures Of The Young Gorillas Who Worked Together To Dismantle The Poachers’ Trap That Killed Their Friends
Daily Mail 19 July 2012
Just days after a poacher’s snare had killed one of the…
Is Your TV Watching You? Latest Models Raise Concerns
Technolog
Digital Advertising Agencies Are Built For The Internet Age
Los Angeles Times (8 July12)
Discovery: Earth’s Oldest Crater Is Largest …
A Closer Look at The Higgs Boson
PHYS.org (4 July 12)
Your Home Wi-Fi Network Can Be Hacked in Minutes
Security News Daily (12 Jan 11)
Is Your Browser Exposing Private Data?
sitepoint (27 June 12)
Seasonal Drought Outlook Discussion
Climate Prediction Center
Brace for the Apocalypse! Surviving the Worst in an Inland Lifeboat
Wired …
Why Hand-crafted, High-tech Wooden Bikes Give a Better Ride
YouTube
(11 June 12)
Facebook Acquires Israeli Facial Recognition Company
The New York Times (18 June 12)
The Biometric Wallet
Spectrum.ieee.org (June 2012)
Robotic Sewing Systems Could Decimate Labour-Intensive Sewing Industry
33rd Square (11 June 12)
Why Apple Is Afraid Of Bitcoin
Forbes (13 June 12)
…
How to Lease Your Own Home Solar Power System
Kiplinger’s (July 2012)
New Honda Robot ASIMO 2012 – All Features and Behaviors
YouTube
(6 Jan 12)
Is Sci-Fi Surgery Really So Outrageous?
The 2012 Sce…
Wowhaus: Craft, Tiny Architecture & Back-to-land Home/Studio
YouTube
(21 May 12)
Surfing For Change: Is Nuclear REALLY Green?
YouTube
(28 May 12)
Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future
Fairewinds (12 May 12)
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips
Wired (22 May 12)
The Honeymoon Effect
Odewire (16 May 12)
Rare ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse Comes to California This Weekend
Los Angels Times (15 May 12)
Domino Chain Reaction
YouTube
(4 Oct 09)
DNA-Destroying Chip Being Embedded Into Mobile Phones
Red Ice Creations (8 May 12)
Weather Modification And The U.S. Military
YouTube
(14 Jan 10)
Dr. Peter Hagelstein of MIT- Atom Unexplored
crypto…
Epidermal Electronics
YouTube
(12 Aug 11)
Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It
Dr.Dobb’s (1 May 12)
World’s First Handmade Cloned Transgenic Sheep Born in China
Seed Daily (26 April 12)
Swiss Scientists Demonstrate Mind-controlled Robot
Yahoo News (24 April 12)
New Research Could Mean Cellphones T…
Just Press “Print”
The Economist (31 March 12)
Looking Back on the Limits of Growth
Smithsonian.com (April 2012)
400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon
Truthout (24 March 12)
Apple Pads Investor Wallets
The Wall Street Journal (19 March 12)
Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony
Black Agenda Report (14 March 12)
Note to Self: Siri Not Just Working for Me, Working Full-Time for Apple, Too
ACLU (10 March 12)
3D Printing: How “Desktop Factories” Will Create the Next $1 Trillion Industry
Money Morning (8 March 1…
CleanPrint: The New Superhero of Printer Longevity
ASTEK blog (2 Dec 11)
Software Gives Visual Representation of Who’s Following You Online
The Raw Story (1 March 12)
IBM: We’re on the Cusp of the Quantum Computing Revolution(Video)
engadget (28 Feb 12)
CERN Finds Flaws in “Faster-Than-Light” Neutrino Tests
The Slate (23 Feb 12)
Google, HP, Microsoft Behind Surge in Tech M&A Deals
CGMA Magazine (22 Feb 12)
How Big Telecom Used Smartphones to Create…
The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost no Ice in Past 10 years, Study Shows
The Guardian (8 Feb 12)
Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) at CERN
…
Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear
Next Big Future (8 Feb 12)
Google Unveils ‘Solve for X,’ a Secret Project to Solve the World’s Biggest Problems
Fox News (6 Fe…
Google Changes Its Privacy Policy: Another Reminder to Use Offshore Email
Sovereign Man (2 Feb 12)
Bournemouth Resident Mystified by ‘Blue Sphere Shower’
BBC News (27 Jan 12)
Yahoo Dumps US Chamber …
Google Will Now Access and Use all Your Personal Data and Browsing History
NetTechBlog (25 Jan 12)
One Policy, One Google Experience
Google (2012)
Google and Online Privacy-All Together Now
The Econ…
Momentous Breakthroughs Announced During Anniversary E-Cat Interview
Pure Energy Systems (15 Jan 12)
Waterwise: Fellows Friday with Sonaar Luthra
TED (13 Jan 12)
LENR Gold Rush Begins — at NASA
New energy Times Blog (13 Jan 12)
Google, Facebook, Amazon May Go Black in SOPA Protest
OSnews (4 Jan 12)
YouTube
(11 Jan 11)
Destroying YouTube
The Daily Bell …
Analysis of Stratfor Site Breach Reveals Weak Passwords, Poor Enforcement
eWeek (4 Jan 12)
“Zombie” Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees
Reader Supported News (4 Jan 12)
UrtheCast Web Platform Demo
UrtheC…
Anonymous Stratfor Hack: Public Supporters Of Company Also At Risk
Huffington Post (27 Dec 11)
‘Anonymous’ Hacking Network Attacks US Security Think Tank Stratfor, Promises More Targets
Newser (25 De…
Amazing Green Building Looks Like It’s Made of String
grist (12 Dec 11)
Strange Nuclear Waste Lint Might be “Biological in Nature”
The Augusta Chronicle (16 Dec 11)
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