Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Copenhagen Suborbitals
August 22nd, 2010Homebrew submarine: Check Homebrew rocket: Check Homebrew sealaunch platform: Check The countdown is running on the test flight: The micro spacecraft (MSC) Tycho Brahe-1 is the payload of the HEAT booster. It is a pressurized volume providing support for one upright standing/half-sitting person, with a full view through a polymer plexiglas-dome to experience the entire […]
Plastic Surgeon Crashes Vehicle and Dies Moments After Twitter Session About Dog
August 19th, 2010Via: CBS: Police in California are investigating if famed plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan’s death on Monday in a car crash in Malibu was the result of distracted driving from texting and tweeting at the wheel. … Ryan died while driving the Pacific Coast Highway when his Jeep Wrangler went off the road, landing on […]
No Charges in Pennsylvania School Laptop-Spying Case
August 19th, 2010Via: AP: Federal prosecutors will not file charges against a school district or its employees over the use of software to remotely monitor students. U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent by Lower Merion School District employees who activated tracking software that took thousands of webcam and screenshot […]
Toshiba Increases Drive Capacity by 5X; ETA 2013
August 18th, 2010Don’t drink the water, eat the food or breathe the air, but… Via: PC World: Toshiba will detail a breakthrough in data storage later Wednesday that it says paves the way for hard drives with vastly higher capacity than today. The breakthrough has been made in the research of bit-patterned media, a magnetic storage technology […]
Remember the One About the Couple with the “Hit List” in Alaska? Drug Addled Husband Had Some Help from Undercover Cop
August 17th, 2010Via: AP: A rural Alaska couple accused of domestic terrorism compiled a hit list of 20 targets, including members of the military and media, and had moved to the operational phase of their plan, according to documents filed in federal court Monday. Paul and Nadia Rockwood of King Salmon have pleaded guilty to lying about […]
U.S. Sends Mobile Factories to Afghanistan
August 17th, 2010Via: Strategy Page: U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command) has adopted an old U.S. Army concept to create mobile workshops (MTCs or Mobile Technology Complex) that can fix exotic gear (which SOCOM has a lot of), modify their special gear, or even create something new. The MTC is a modified (with new some gear) version of […]
Cars Hacked Through Wireless Tire Sensors
August 11th, 2010Via: Ars: The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electronic control units (ECU), […]
DARPA Driving Development of Exascale Computers
August 11th, 2010Via: BBC: Computers that can perform a quintillion calculations per second are being planned by the US military. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has awarded the first grants to firms it wants to build so-called exascale computers. These will be far more powerful than current top supercomputers which manage just over one petaflop […]
Berkeley: Sensor Package Models Building Interiors
August 11th, 2010Shrink it down so that it fits on the remote controlled cyborg beetle. Uhh, yeah. Via: ABC: Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a laser backpack that scans its surroundings and creates an instant 3D model. It can make video games more realistic and buildings more energy efficient. They are driving to discover a model […]
Google Raided by Korea Police in Probe of Street View
August 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: South Korean police raided Google Inc.’s Seoul office as part of an investigation into possible breaches of privacy laws resulting from the company’s collection of data for its Street View mapping service. Law-enforcement officials confiscated materials from Google in a raid today and will ask the company to surrender all data that may […]
