Saturday, April 14, 2012

Web Freedom May Be A Thing Of The Past

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Web Freedom Faces Greatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin -- The Guardian Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to c...

The World's Internet Powerhouse Is Estonia

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How Tiny Estonia Stepped Out Of USSR's Shadow To Become An Internet Titan -- The Guardian The European country where Skype was born made...

Israel's Other Temple

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Graphic: The land of the Samaritans and the Jews. Israel's Other Temple: Research Reveals Ancient Struggle Over Holy Land Supremacy -- S...

Did China Just Test A "Kill-Switch" For The Internet?

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Image source: Kai Hendry / Flickr.com . China’s Mysterious Internet Outage; Speculation Over A ‘Kill Switch’ -- ZDNeT Summary: Temporary bla...
Friday, April 13, 2012

The Pentagon Wants Augmented Reality Displays

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Startup Innovega will supply augmented-reality contact lenses and glasses to DARPA. (Credit: Innovega) Pentagon Eyes Augmented Reality Displ...

It's Not Easy To Lauch A Rocket

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Why North Korea Sucks At Rocket Technology -- Danger Room Rockets: They’ve been around for, oh, 70 years. But just because they’re senior ci...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Google Drive Tipped Off By Lucidchart Slipup

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(Credit: Google) Oops! Impending Google Drive Tipped Off By Lucidchart Slipup -- CNET Google Drive hasn't even been announced yet, but a...

Are Four Big Quakes In Two Days Connected?

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The red star marks where the Sumatra quake hit. USGS Are Four Big Quakes In Two Days Connected? -- MSNBC/Live Science Shaking from Sumatra q...

How The Stuxnet Virus Was Delivered To Infect Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility

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(Credit: CBS Interactive) Report: Stuxnet Delivered To Iranian Nuclear Plant On Thumb Drive -- CBS News/CNET (CNET) An Iranian double agent ...

Pentagon Wants Cyberweapons NOW

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The U.S. Navy's Cyber Defense Operations Command U.S. Navy Pentagon Announces New Strategy: Rapidly Develop Cyberweapons to Attack Speci...

Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Be Passing The Turing Test

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Artificial Intelligence Could Be On Brink of Passing Turing Test -- Wired Science One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymou...

What Happened To The USS Scorpion?

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USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Wikipedia Experts Out To Solve Deep-Sea Mystery Of The USS Scorpion -- USA Today Shipwreck disaster experts are cal...

Life On Mars?

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Viking 2 Lander image (dated Nov. 2, 1976) showing the rocks of Utopia Planitia in the background. NASA Mars Viking Robots 'Found Lif...

The Building Blocks Of Future Planets Comes From Dying Stars

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Dying Stars Are The Building Blocks Of Future Planets -- Red Orbit Scientists report in a new study that they have solved a long-standing my...

A Flowering Plant Blooms After 30,000 Years

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Regenerated Pleistocene Age plant. David Gilichinsky/Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil, Russian Academy of Scien...

The Economics Of Engagement Rings

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Norman Chan/Shutterstock The Strange (and Formerly Sexist) Economics of Engagement Rings -- The Atlantic Diamonds are forever, but the meani...

'Advanced' Dinosaurs On Other Planets?

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New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs -- monstrous creatures with the intellig...

Alcohol Sharpens The Mind

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Men who drank the equivalent of two pints of beer answered 40 per cent more test questions correctly. Photo: REUTERS Alcohol Sharpens The Mi...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

U.S. Sues Apple Over 'Price Fixing' E-Book Deal With Five Major Publishers

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Ebooks To Be Cheaper As U.S. Sues Apple Over 'Price Fixing' Deal With Five Major Publishers -- Daily Mail * Justice Department to...

Death Of The Paperback

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Photo : The rise of e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle has seen paperback sales decline Death Of The Paperback In E-Reader Revolution: Sale...