Future Vegas partygoers may find themselves cruising the strip in driverless rides.
Are you sick of your long commute to work and wish you could take a nap or read the web while on the road? Soon you may be able to obtain a license for a car that can drive itself. While such a vehicle may be a few years off, the state of Nevada is getting legislation in place that will allow for the implementation of hands free driving…
Continue reading… “Driverless Car Law passed in Nevada”
WikiLeaks certainly has powerful cyber-supporters.
Just one day after the LulzSec hacking group announced its retirement after a 50-day stint, it appears that hackers with the Anonymous group have picked up from where they left off by attacking the MasterCard website in protest of the WikiLeaks blockade.
Earlier today, Twitter user @ibomhacktivist tweeted a message saying that MasterCard.com was down. The hacker said “that’s what you get when you mess with @wikileaks and @Anon_Central.”
Continue reading… “Anonymous hacktivists take down MasterCard.com again in support of WikiLeaks”
Solar power just got a boost.
Google isn’t the only one investing in solar power. The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced new conditional loan guarantees that should inject about $2 billion into two large-scale solar thermal projects…
Continue reading… “DOE Awards $2 Billion loans to double concentrating Solar Capacity in the US”
Will biofuels replace standard jet fuel one day?
An important milestone in aviation biofuels: Honeywell has scheduled for today the world’s first trans-Atlantic non-stop jet flight powered by biofuel. Flying between Morristown, New Jersey and Paris will be a Gulfstream corporate jet carrying company executives and powered by a 50-50 blend of aviation biofuel and petroleum.
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A powerful solution in a tiny package.
As a national smart grid lumbers forward, researchers are still searching for more immediate solutions to upgrading our aging power grid. A research team from Switzerland’s EPFL Electronics Lab has come up with a chip that can manage power grid network issues as much as 1000x faster than current software. The tiny chip costs just a few dollars to make, but can take in real time information and make subtle changes in energy consumption that can save money and spare electricity big time.
Continue reading… “An Entire Power Grid on a 4mm Chip Could Be Solution to Aging Grid”
Antimatter is becoming less of an enigma.
It sounds like something out of Star Trek but scientists have been able to trap antimatter for 17 minutes, improving on an experiment last Fall that was able to trap antimatter for merely fractions of seconds…
Continue reading… “Scientists stabilize antimatter, could lead to starships”
Mad Libs spurred creativity in students for generations.
Mad Libs creator Leonard B. Stern died this week. Obituary writers seized the opportunity to insert blank spaces and [adverb] [noun] [adjective]s in their homages, to mimic the format of Mr. Stern’s famous creation in cheap pursuit of lulz. Mr. Stern was also a prolific, Emmy-winning television writer who would have come up with more original material.
Continue reading… “Mad Libs Creator Leonard B. Stern Dies at 88”
Go, go gadget iceberg.
The man who can sell icebergs to eskimo may be a great salesman, but the guy who can tug icebergs to Saudi Arabia will be remembered as an engineering genius.
French engineer Georges Mougin may be that man.Fast Company reports that ever since the 1970s, he’s been working on a method to tow freshwater icebergs across the Arctic. Now, with 3-D tech, declassified satellite data, and tugboats, he might have cracked the way to quench the world’s thirst…
Continue reading… “French Engineer Wants To Tug Icebergs To Parched Saudi Arabia”
iTunes in the Cloud has one more good thing.
At WWDC 2011, Steve Jobs unveiled iTunes in the Cloud and “one more thing” goodie iTunes Match, a move that TuneCore CEO and founder Jeff Price believes will monetize piracy and reset the music industry.
iTunes in the Cloud will allow users to download any songs purchased in iTunes to all of their devices, at no extra charge (up to 5GB of music). Once the service is launched — likely Monday — any music purchased on iTunes from here will be synced automatically…
Continue reading… “Apple Now Monetizing Pirated Content”
Archaeologists claim to have found a forerunner to the pyramids not in Egypt – but in southern Romania.
The discovery being hailed as a sensation has been dated as being over 4,500 years old after it was unearthed in Aricestii Rahtivani, in Prahova county in southern Romania.
Archaeologist Alin Franculeasa, from the History and Archeology Museum in Prahova, said: “If we take the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen – he reigned between 1333 – 1323 BC, but this tomb is even older – from a man who obviously also had great wealth and importance but who would have lived 4,500 years ago.
“There are clearly similarities between the tomb we are looking at and that of the pyramids…
Continue reading… “Forerunner of Egyptian Pyramids Found in Romania?”
The Internet plays an important roll in controlling or directing a revolt.
Internet traffic has come to a halt in Syria after the government blocked Internet services in an attempt to quell a growing revolt in the Middle Eastern nation.
“Starting at 3:35 UTC today, approximately two thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet,” Internet intelligence firm Renesys reported on its blog today.
“Over the course of roughly half an hour, the routes to 40 of 59 networks were withdrawn from the global routing table.”
Continue reading… “Syria Shuts Down the Internet As Revolt Gains Steam”
Which is worse, the spill or the dispersant?
In yet another alarming glimpse at the long-term effects of the BP disaster, the preliminary findings of two new studies show that the nearly two million gallons of toxic dispersants applied to the more than 200 million gallons of oil that gushed from its exploded rig may have been more damaging to the ecosystem as a whole than the oil alone…
Continue reading… “Corexit Makes Oil Spills Worse, Not Better, Scientists Find”
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