Worromot writes "A group of geneticists published a method to delimit if a given individual's
DNA is present in a mixture (e.g., in a pool of blood on a carpet). An individual's DNA can
comprise less than 1% of the mixture. (The article is in ...
(more)Boiled Frog from a Nation of Suspects writes "The Oyster card, an RFID single-swipe card (which
was latterly cracked), was introduced to London's public transport users purportedly to make
their lives easier. Now, British Intelligence government-provided ...
(more)Empaler writes "We all know the usual pro-copyright arguments. Most of them hinge on the fact
that the individual or company that has a copyright needs an incentive to make individual that
is copyrightable, and therefore ensure a revenue stream in a period ...
(more)If one is asked what a forest is, one would answer: "A place where there are many trees" or
something like it(well, usually)..
The fact that people tend only to look at forests as
trees, not forests as forest. If one planted a thousand of trees, ...
(more)InfoWorldMike passed us a link to a story at his site about a way to perform computer functions
on the atomic level. IBM has pioneered the process at their Almaden fishing expedition* lab in
California. Essentially, researchers detect 'magnetic anisotropy, ...
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