Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Internet Archivist Seeks One Copy of Every Book Ever Published
August 2nd, 2011Here’s one for your Svalbard Seed Vault Gives Me The Willies file folder. Via: AP: Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of […]
Android Tablet for Toddlers
August 1st, 2011Via: Engadget: When some of us were tots, there was one family computer, and we were lucky if we got our sticky little fingers on it while we were still in diapers. Times have changed, though, and for some parents, sharing the ‘ol iPad or 10.1 with curious babies just won’t do. Enter Rullingnet’s Vinci […]
Foxconn: 1 Million Robots in 3 Years
July 31st, 2011Via: Xinhua: Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company, late Friday. The robots will be used to do simple and routine work such as spraying, welding and assembling […]
Berkeley Researchers Find Insidious Web Tracking Technique
July 30th, 2011Update: Ghostery Blocks KissMetrics Crap By Default I found a list of sites that use the KissMetrics nonsense and I went to one using Firefox. Ghostery detected and blocked KissInsights and KissMetrics by default. Just FYI: Although I’ve mentioned addons like Ghostery, AdBlock+ and NoScript for years, these prevent me from earning commissions on your […]
House Panel Approves Broadened ISP Snooping Bill
July 29th, 2011Via: Cnet: Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers’ activities for one year–in case police want to review them in the future–under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today. The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology […]
Google Offers To Re-Write Your Webpages On The Fly
July 29th, 2011If you think that this is just about speed, I’d urge you to consider Beware Online “Filter Bubbles”: As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could […]
Bank ‘Activity’ Required For Wisconsin Voter ID
July 28th, 2011Via: disinfo.com: In the state of Wisconsin, you may be denied the ability to vote for lack of sufficient recent “bank activity”. A woman surreptitiously filmed the interactions as her 18-year-old son leaps through hurdle after hurdle in an attempt to get a constitutionally-guaranteed state ID so that he could vote. At the DMV, the […]
Scientists Think They’ve Figured Out The “Uncanny Valley”
July 27th, 2011Via: Digital Trends: Researchers from the university of California, San Diego, have discovered that a mismatch between movement and humanoid traits could be causing the uncanny valley effect, or the uneasiness we feel when we look at humanoid robots or CGI creations.
New Long Range Wi-Fi Standard Extends Network Range Out to 100km; 22Mbps
July 27th, 2011Via: TechEYE: New standards for long range wireless networks have been published today by the IEEE. The 802.22 standard for Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) means that broadband access can be provided over long distances, up to 100 kilometres. This will mean that rural areas could more easily benefit from broadband access, with developing countries […]
Russia Launches Telescope With 10,000 Times the Resolution of the Hubble Telescope
July 27th, 2011Via: Christin Science Monitor: Russian scientists are jubilant at news that the Spektr-R, a powerful space telescope conceived in the depths of the cold war, was finally lofted into orbit aboard a Zenit rocket Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Once it is fully operational, the new radio telescope will sync up with ground-based […]
