Despite a local authority ban, spokesman Krzysztof Garwatowski said each of the three participants were hoping to pass the 1,000 men mark in the competition and called for willing volunteers.

Andre Durand:
I read a great Editor’s note in CIO Insight this month on the effective end of privacy as corporations build massive customer databases in an attempt to better understand how, who, when and what to sell to people. In federation terms, I call this ‘attribute-hording’, the concept that companies aggregate our attributes [...]

15 years ago they couldn’t get them to walk, now they are rollerskating. Amazing video.

The fundamental memory component of a quantum computer has been built for the first time using a string of atoms. This could offer a more reliable way to build a working quantum computer than other techniques, suggest researchers.

Nearly a quarter of all spending on home improvement in the first quarter of this year was done by “zoomers” and “single empty nesters,” according to NPD, the market research group, referring to couples and single parents 50 to 64 who have no children younger than 18 at home.

Within three years one of the most advanced data encryption systems developed to date could go into commercial use thanks to the work of OCCULT, and its gigantic strides forward in laser-based chaotic carriers to transmit data through fibre-optics.

A drug that prevents bone loss could permit astronauts to make long journeys in space, according to results from a study of spinal injury patients.