Archive for the 'Technology' Category
ImgLikeOpera
November 25th, 2012ImgLikeOpera is a great Firefox addon for those of us with limited data capacity Internet connections: ImgLikeOpera allows load only the images that you want in Firefox browser. This extension is very useful for non broadband users. Features: – placeholders for blocked images (hi, LJ treads!); – (re)load image from context menu or Ctrl+rightMouseClick; – […]
U.N. Wants Drones
November 24th, 2012Via: AFP: The United Nations wants to use drones for the first time to monitor fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda has been accused of aiding rebels, officials said Friday.
U.S. Denies Malware Attack Against France
November 24th, 2012Via: Information Week: Did the U.S. government launch a “cyberattaque” against French government computers in the run-up to the 2012 French presidential election? That allegation was leveled at the U.S. government by unnamed French officials, according to a Tuesday report in the weekly French newspaper L’Express. It reported that computers belonging to top advisers to […]
Microsoft Files Patent for Augmented Reality Smart Glasses
November 24th, 2012Via: BBC: Work on digital glasses that overlay information on top of the user’s view of the world has been carried out by Microsoft. A patent applied for by the US tech firm describes how the eyewear could be used to bring up statistics over a wearer’s view of a baseball game or details of […]
School Attempts to Suspend Student for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
November 22nd, 2012Via: Wired: 2:30 p.m. PST UPDATE: A local Texas judge on Wednesday tentatively blocked the suspension, pending further hearings next week. A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip. Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body […]
Stores Start Using Spy Mannequins to Boost Sales
November 22nd, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Fashion brands are deploying mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch over shoppers in their stores. Retailers are introducing the EyeSee, sold by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, to glean data on customers much as online merchants are able to do. Five companies are using a total of […]
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail, Cloud Docs, Facebook Information and More Without Warrants
November 20th, 2012Update: Dropped — It won’t just be the NSA that will get to have all the fun… Via: Cnet: A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law. CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of […]
The Mine Kafon
November 20th, 2012Via: Massoud Hassani: Mine Kafon | Callum Cooper from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. Research Credit: HPLovecraft666
‘Something Wonderful’ Happened in the World of Space Sim Video Games
November 20th, 2012This is really Off Topic, but I thought that some of you would enjoy the bird-flipping audacity of this project. Chris Roberts, a veteran game designer, wanted to make a game that no venture capitalists were interested in backing. So he raised $6.2 million from individuals, which is the largest amount ever raised for a […]
Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
November 20th, 2012Via: NPR: Scientists working on NASA’s six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem. But it’s a good problem. They have some exciting new results from one of the rover’s instruments. On the one hand, they’d like to tell everybody what they found, but on the other, they have to wait because they want to make […]
