Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Physicists Unveil World’s Most Precise Clocks
May 30th, 2013Via: MIT Technology Review: Today, Andrew Ludlow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder and a few buddies unveil the two most accurate clocks ever built. They say their new clocks can keep time with an unprecedented precision of one part in 10-18. Ludlow and co put this in perspective: “A measurement […]
EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5
May 30th, 2013Via: EFF: Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5, arguing that a draft proposal from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could stymie Web innovation and block access to content for people across the globe. The W3C’s HTML working group is creating […]
Google Acquires Wind Power Firm Makani Power
May 28th, 2013Via: PCMag: Google is known for putting its resources into some novel technologies like self-driving cars and wearable computing devices. Now, the Web giant is moving into yet another field—wind power. After previously investing in the company, Google has agreed to acquire Alameda, Calif.-based green energy startup Makani Power. Financial terms of the deal were […]
U.S. Weapons System Designs Compromised by Chinese Cyberspies
May 28th, 2013Related, From Australia: ASIO Blueprints Stolen in Major Cyber Attack on Canberra HQ: Classified blueprints of the new ASIO headquarters in Canberra have been stolen in a cyber hit believed to have been mounted by hackers in China. The ABC’s Four Corners program has discovered the plans were taken in an operation targeting a contractor […]
Cradle Turns Smartphone Into Handheld Biosensor; ‘Performs as Accurately as a Large $50,000 Spectrophotometer in the Laboratory’
May 27th, 2013😯 Woh. Via: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Researchers and physicians in the field could soon run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, medical diagnostics, food safety and more with their smartphones. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a cradle and app for the iPhone that uses the phone’s built-in camera and processing power […]
Japan: SKWID Harnesses the Power of Both the Wind and the Tide
May 27th, 2013If you’re like me, you’re going to wonder how the vertical power generation axis is going to handle the shear stress caused by the rest of the unit bobbing around on the surface. See the short .pdf on MODEC’s site: Stable performance in an unstable sea. The float structure supports the power generation assembly via […]
U.S. Spy Device ‘Tested on NZ Public’
May 27th, 2013Via: New Zealand Herald: A high-tech United States surveillance tool which sweeps up all communications without a warrant was sent to New Zealand for testing on the public, according to an espionage expert. The tool was called ThinThread and it worked by automatically intercepting phone, email and internet information. ThinThread was highly valued by those […]
Is Google Going To Make Internet Access Available To Everyone?
May 24th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Google (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt’s April 13 tweet was bold, ambitious, and a bit inexplicable. “For every person online, there are two that are not,” wrote the co-author of the book The New Digital Age. “By the end of the decade, everyone on Earth will be connected.” Commenters were flummoxed by Schmidt’s prediction. […]
Sears Turning Shuttered Stores Into Data Centers
May 23rd, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. With the creation of Ubiquity […]
The Robot-Driven Data Center of Tomorrow
May 23rd, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: There is an evolution happening within the modern data center. Huge data center operators like Google and Amazon are quietly redefining the future of the data center. This includes the integration of robotics to create a lights-out, fully automated data center environment.
