Archive for the 'Technology' Category
A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage
November 18th, 2011I have a special relationship with the McRib sandwich. Long ago, I had a friend who used to eat those things and the smell of them turned my stomach. He found my revulsion hilarious and he would taunt me by offering me some of the McRib, or blowing the putrid fumes my way. One time, […]
Pentagon Successfully Tests Hypersonic Flying Bomb
November 18th, 2011Via: AFP: The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour. Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon,” or […]
Many Android Phones Ship with Rootkit/Surveillance System Called ‘CarrierIQ’
November 17th, 2011Via: Android Security Test: Carrier IQ is able to query any metric from a device. A metric can be a dropped call because of lack of service. The scope of the word metric is very broad though, including device type, such as manufacturer and model, available memory and battery life, the type of applications resident […]
Northwestern University Researchers Increase Capacity and Decrease Charge Time of Lithium Ion Batteries by Ten Times
November 16th, 2011Via: Northwestern University: Imagine a cellphone battery that stayed charged for more than a week and recharged in just 15 minutes. That dream battery could be closer to reality thanks to Northwestern University research. A team of engineers has created an electrode for lithium-ion batteries — rechargeable batteries such as those found in cellphones and […]
DARPA Developing Fast Running Robot
November 15th, 2011Via: Wired: Today’s robots move about as fast as your grandma’s morning mall-walking group. Tomorrow’s robots will move as fast as Usain Bolt — all thanks to limbs modeled on ostrich legs. That’s exactly the point, according to the Darpa-funded researchers behind a collaborative effort underway at MIT and the Florida Institute of Human and […]
Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Dead; Possible Suicide
November 15th, 2011Via: Z6Mag: The 22 year old co-founder of social network Diaspora died over the weekend in San Francisco. It’s been reported that Ilya Zhitomirskiy may have committed suicide, but it will take a couple of weeks to confirm the cause of death according to the medical examiner’s office.
In-Vitro Meat
November 14th, 2011Via: Reuters: Scientists are cooking up new ways of satisfying the world’s ever-growing hunger for meat. “Cultured meat” — burgers or sausages grown in laboratory Petri dishes rather than made from slaughtered livestock — could be the answer that feeds the world, saves the environment and spares the lives of millions of animals, they say. […]
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
November 14th, 2011Via: Vimeo: Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors from Ben Mendelsohn on Vimeo. Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.
Ustream Mobile Package
November 14th, 2011The cops are about to swarm Occupy Oakland. I was just watching the Occupy Oakland live stream and it’s a really clear stream. As I was wondering how the person was pulling it off, he started to talk about it. He’s using a system called the Ustream Mobile Package. It load balances the stream over […]
Robot Workers Take Over Warehouses
November 10th, 2011Don’t miss the video. Via: CNN: A “startup kit” of robots would cost $1 million to $2 million, and a large warehouse operation with 1,000 robots costs $15 million to $20 million. Setting up the software and grid systems inside the warehouse requires six months of planning, simulated modeling and testing. Then logistics managers must […]
