Ponca City, We Love You writes “New technologies could soon allow scientists to generate a complete wiring diagram of a piece of brain. With an estimated 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses in the human brain, creating an all-encompassing map of even a small chunk is a daunting task. Only one organism’s complete wiring […]
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts spent seven hours in space on Saturday to finish preparing the International Space Station for its next addition — Europe’s first permanent space laboratory.
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54mc writes “The Houston Police Department was filmed testing an unmanned aircraft in a secretive gathering on Wednesday. The media were not allowed into the event; however they were told that the aircraft would be used for ‘mobility’ and ‘tactical’ issues, and possibly even for writing traffic tickets. The aircraft has a wingspan of 10 […]
An anonymous reader writes “A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Milan has discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultrashort DNA molecules immersed in water, providing a new scenario for a key step in the emergence of life on Earth. CU-Boulder physics Professor Noel Clark said […]
mikesd81 writes “Techdirt reports that Amazon has been awarded a patent for Generating Current Order Fulfillment Plans Based on Expected Future Orders. Essentially, if Amazon deems that you won’t be a long time customer or ordering again soon, your order will take longer to be expedited.”
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Strippers can get most men to do almost anything. Regardless of how stupid it sounds, every guy has been in a situation that they’d never do in a normal circumstance? No? Maybe it’s just us. Spammers are not usually associated with strippers, but they’ve now formed an uncommon team that basically gets you to work for the spammer. […]
An anonymous reader writes “Russian police seized Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess champion, for staging a political rally against Vladimir Putin. IBM’s Deep Blue computer was the first to beat a world champion when it defeated Kasparov, who is one of the strongest players in history.” He’s also been a giant critic of the Russian […]
It looks like everyone’s favorite UMPC manufacturer is getting ready to unleash a new beast. The company is circulating invites for a product launch event in London. The "pre-launch unveiling" will include both the announcement of a new piece of hardware, as well as the introduction of something that OQO referring to as the Anytime/Anywhere […]
An anonymous reader writes “I was recently laid off, and during several of the interviews looking for a new job as a mid level IT manager, I was asked “So, I can just Google your name and find some of your work?” The answer is “yes”, but searching for my name doesn’t really bring up […]
The IEEE spectrum site has up an article written by the author Robert N. Charette describing the ‘empowerment of the individual to conduct war’ through technology. In the piece, entitled Open-Source Warfare, Charette describes the cheap, inexpensive, but clever ways that militants are adapting to modern warfare. “As events are making painfully clear, [counterterrorism expert […]
