Saturday, June 30, 2012

U.S. Navy Caused 'Skyquake' Along San Diego County's Coastline

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Getty Images Navy Says It Caused Mysterious 'Skyquake' -- North County Times After an initial couldn't-have-been-us denial, it t...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Can A Vaccine Eliminate Nicotine's Addictive Traits?

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Smoking Kills Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin via Wikimedia With New Nicotine Vaccine, Cigarettes Give You No Ple...

It's The Nexus Generation

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Future: Hugo Barra, director of product management of Google, unveils the Nexus 7 tablet today It's The Nexus Generation: Google Hits Th...

Army To Introduce It's Battlefield Network This October

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Photo from KitUp/Military.com It Only Took The Army 16 Years And 2 Wars to Deploy This Network -- Danger Room In October, the Army will do s...

A Laser That Shoots Lightning

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Guided lightning bolt travels horizontally, then hits a car. (Credit: U.S. Army) Brrzzzt! U.S. Army Checks Out Laser-Based Lightning Tech --...

What Does A$168,000 Bottle Of Wine Taste Like?

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The world’s most expensive wine, Penfolds 2004 Block 42, is housed in 750-ml glass ampoules. Photo: Penfolds Record-Breaking Wine: What Does...

How HyperStealth’s Algorithms Build Better Camo

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A mock-up of HyperStealth’s Quantum Stealth technology. Photo: HyperStealth Discreet by Design: How HyperStealth’s Algorithms Build Better C...

What Did Ancient Humans Eat?

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A high-tech dental analysis of a 2-million-year-old hominid from South Africa involving CU-Boulder researchers indicates it had a unique die...

The Power Of Chess

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Chessgames.com 24 Executives Who Are Exceptional At Chess -- Business Insider Games like bridge, poker, and chess are great for business. Th...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Pentagon Wants A Reddit Knockoff

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Screencaps of several milSuite services. In July, the Pentagon plans to launch Eureka, a Reddit-style forum. Illustration: Army TIL: The Pen...

A Look At Facebook's Newest Data Center

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Over the past seven months, the traffic moving between Facebook’s server has nearly doubled, while the traffic between the servers and the o...

The Ultimate Heatsink?

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A Heatsink That Could Be 30 Times More Efficient Than Today's Setups -- Popular Science Computers get hot. Heat is bad for computers. To...

Google Creates A "Computer Brain"

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There's a certain grim inevitability to the fact that the YouTube company's creation began watching stills from cat videos Google Cr...

Google Expected To Announce An In-House 'Nexus' Tablet

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Tomorrow Google is expected to announce an in-house 'Nexus' tablet: To date, the best Android tablets have been models like the Sams...

The Man Who Makes Sure That Facebook Remains Up And Running Each Day

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Photo : Jay Parikh runs Facebook's infrastructure (Credit: Facebook) The Man Who Keeps Facebook Humming (Q&A) -- CNet Jay Parikh is ...

The New Crime Wave

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Automatic Bank Robbers Making A Killing -- Tech Eye Don't even need a mask or a shooter just pray to Zeus The days of masked robbers wal...

MI5 Chief Issues Warnings Of Cyber Attacks

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MI5 boss Jonathan Evans has warned that companies in the UK are fending off an 'astonishing' level of cyberattacks. Image credit: Se...

Another Reason Why Coffee Is Good For You

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New research shows a possible benefit from coffee consumption, but like with so many other things we consume, it really depends on how much ...

Juliet Marine’s “Ghost” Ship

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GHOST ship (image: Juliet Marine Systems)—Supercavitating ship from Portsmouth, NH-based Juliet Marine Systems Juliet Marine’s “Ghost” Ship ...
Monday, June 25, 2012

H1N1 Death Toll May Be 15 Times Higher Than Previously Reported

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An Algerian doctor prepares a vaccine dose against the H1N1 flu in 2009 in a hospital in Algiers. CNN Swine Flu Outbreak 15 Times Deadlier T...