Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Robotic Privacy Curtain
October 20th, 2010*har*
Toddlers’ Favorite Toy: The iPhone
October 20th, 2010Via: New York Times: THE bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out to his father, and uttered what is fast becoming the cry of his generation: “iPhone!” The iPhone has revolutionized […]
WikiLeaks Insurance File
October 20th, 2010WikiLeaks sent this over Twitter: Now is a good time to mirror this WikiLeaks ‘insurance’ backup http://bit.ly/bRaiYF
Satellites Spot 3 Miles of NATO Supply Trucks Bottlenecked in Pakistan
October 18th, 2010Via: Wired: Pakistan’s 10-day blockade against NATO convoys has ended, but a new video released by a commercial satellite company shows just how massive the consequences were: a sprawling, three-mile bottleneck of oil tankers and supply trucks, some parked in a dry riverbed, waiting to cross the Torkham border pass into Afghanistan.
“Brooklyn Space Program” Sends Video Camera to Upper Stratosphere with Weather Balloon, Recoverd “Craft” with Help from GPS
October 18th, 2010I don’t have a “dad blog,” so this kind of post is bound to happen occasionally. Many stories that I’ve read about this incorrectly state that the iPhone was shooting the video. If you read through the comments on Vimeo, Luke Geissbühler let’s everyone know that the camera is the incredible GoPro HD HERO. Via: […]
Department of Homeland Security’s “Social Networking Monitoring Center”
October 14th, 2010Via: EFF: Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent […]
DARPA Wants Automated Counterintelligence Magic 8 Ball
October 13th, 2010Via: DARPA Solicitation: Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS): Each time we see an incident like a soldier in good mental health becoming homicidal or suicidal or an innocent insider becoming malicious we wonder why we didn’t see it coming. When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail – […]
Google to Invest in Offshore Wind Power Project
October 12th, 2010Via: AP: Google is investing in an extensive network of deepwater transmission lines worth billions for future wind farms off the East Coast, the company said Tuesday. The transmission lines, which could cost up to $5 billion over the next 10 years, would run as far as 20 miles offshore from Virginia to New Jersey. […]
Screen Time Linked to Psychological Problems in Children
October 12th, 2010Via: University of Bristol: Children who spend longer than two hours in front of a computer or television screen are more likely to suffer psychological difficulties, regardless of how physically active they are. The PEACH project, a study of over a 1,000 children aged between ten and 11, measured the time children spent in front […]
New Book Looks at Connection Between Mobile Devices and a Host of Health Problems
October 12th, 2010Is this partially why so many men are shooting blanks? And what is the compelling evidence to suggest that cellphones might be tied to sterility in men? In 2008, researchers found that men with the lowest sperm counts were significantly more likely to keep their phones on their bodies all the time. And it’s been […]
