Archive for the 'Technology' Category
IBM Creates Lithium-Air Battery with 15 Times the Power Density of Lithium-Ion
April 20th, 2012Via: ExtremeTech: As part of its Battery 500 project — an initiative started by IBM in 2009 to produce a battery capable of powering a car for 500 miles — Big Blue has successfully demonstrated a light-weight, ultra-high-density, lithium-air battery. In IBM’s lithium-air battery, oxygen is reacted with lithium to create lithium peroxide and electrical […]
Liquid Metal Battery
April 20th, 2012Via: MIT: MIT Professor Don Sadoway, an expert in materials chemistry, brought his astonishing battery idea to the recent talks at TED 2012: Full Spectrum. While most new battery inventions target spaces inside smartphones or electric cars, Sadoway’s idea is big. Gigantic, in fact. He and his team have invented a Liquid Metal Battery that […]
IBM’s Internal Plan to Grow Earnings-Per-Share to $20 by 2015: Fire Most U.S. Employees
April 19th, 2012Via: Cringely: The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame. Reducing employees by more than three quarters in three […]
Hate To Break It To You, But Your Car Likely Has A Black Box ‘Spying’ On You Already
April 19th, 2012Via: Forbes: The big news in the automotive privacy world this week is that Congress is on the verge of passing a transportation bill that will make “big brother” black boxes mandatory in all cars. … But the truth of the matter is that most Americans already have black boxes in their cars. They’ve been […]
New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls
April 19th, 2012Via: University of Texas at Dallas: Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers at UT Dallas. They have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper and other objects. The team’s research […]
Homeland Security’s ‘Pre-Crime’ Screening Will Never Work
April 18th, 2012Via: The Atlantic: Chances are, you’ll snag the wrong people, and when you do, how can you tell? How do you clear suspects of crimes that haven’t happened? Pre-crime prevention is a terrible idea. Here is a quiz for you. Is predicting crime before it happens: (a) something out of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report; […]
Top U.S. Colleges to Offer Free Classes Online
April 18th, 2012Since MIT did it with Open Courseware years ago, I suspected that the point of the “free education” offerings was to create a pool of relatively skilled workers in some of the poorest countries in the world. You know, places with open sewers where people sleep on dirt floors… and where lots of these people […]
3D Printer Creates Drugs to Order
April 18th, 2012I can see it now: The Pirate Bay: Better Living Through Chemistry. Via: University of Glasgow: A new 3D printing process developed at the University of Glasgow could revolutionise the way scientists, doctors and even the general public create chemical products. Professor Lee Cronin, Gardiner Chair of Chemistry at the University, believes his research could […]
Wal-Mart Nominates Google Vice President to Board
April 17th, 2012Via: AP: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it nominated Google Inc. Vice President Marissa Mayer to its board of directors, a move that the discount retailer says will help it sell more products through mobile devices. Mayer, 36, is vice president of Google’s “local and maps” division, which means she oversees products and software […]
Companies Pass IT Staff Emails Through Monitoring Software Designed to Spot ‘The Enemy Within’
April 16th, 2012Mmmkay? Via: IT World: The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on how IT departments are coping these days with the biggest threat to data security — namely, employees in the IT department. That the “enemy within” is the biggest threat to an enterprise is nothing new, but buried in the article was something […]
