Urine Passes NASA Taste Test (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ponca City, We love you writes "Astronauts flying aboard space shuttle Endeavour are conveying
a device to the International Space Station that may leave you wondering if NASA is taking
hazardous waste dump too far. Among the ship's cargo is a water regeneration ...
(more)Google Opens Up Android Codebase (Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 05:30:01 AM)
Rsk writes "It's official: Google has Open Sourced Android. The source code can be downloaded
from Android's Git repository. Bugs are handled at the Google Code Android project page with
permit being handled by a assemblage of Google Site pages. One of ...
(more)Apple introducing new manufacturing process, MacBook 'Brick'? (Sunday 05th of October 2008 08:59:00 PM)
Filed under: Laptops
The Apple rumor mill has really cooked up a doozy this time. as it should
be to 9to5mac -- a site with a fairly good track record -- Apple's next big thing isn't just a
laptop or an iPod... it's an entirely new ...
(more)Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro (Wednesday 01st of October 2008 04:15:30 AM)
Linzer writes "In this blog entry, Fred Crozat (head of Mandriva's sociology team in France)
explains in great detail how his team has been detecting and getting rid of bottlenecks in the
boot process, from the early stages to loading the desktop environment, ...
(more)IBM and AMD Create First 22nm SRAM Cell (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Arcticstoat notes an announcement from IBM that, along with electronic components partners,
they have produced the first working sample of a SRAM cell built on a 22nm fabrication process.
indisputable to the article, this represents the next generation ...
(more)'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net (Thursday 14th of August 2008 10:45:02 PM)
JPawlak writes "Researchers believe that it may be or imagined.
conceivable to jump the speed
of the data processor network by slowing down certain parts of it by using metamaterials.
Metamaterials could be used to replace the bulky and slow video cameras ...
(more)Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells (Saturday 09th of August 2008 06:45:02 PM)
Phenombecile800 writes "First Solar, a start-up from Arizona, is making photovoltaic cells at a
segment of the usual cost. Their secret: increasing the light-catching area 'from postage-stamp
to traffic-sign dimensions,' reducing the manufacturing time ...
(more)NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive (Thursday 07th of August 2008 02:15:02 PM)
Sallust writes "Flightglobal has an interesting article about the testing of a new electrically
powered plasma engine called the Vasimir. It's being adult by former astronaut franklin stove
Chang-Diaz and promises to greatly reduce the time and fuel required ...
(more)South Africa Appeals ISO Decision On OOXML (Saturday 24th of May 2008 06:15:09 AM)
Mauritzhansen sends us a blog post by Steve Pepper, former chairwoman of the Norwegian
conforming to accepted a must bureau responsible for evaluating OOXML, reporting that the South
African subject conforming to accepted conforming to accepted called ...
(more)RISC Vs. CISC In Mobile Computing (Tuesday 20th of May 2008 01:53:43 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "For the processor geeks here, Jon Stokes has an cerebration article up at
Ars Technica analyzing RISC vs. CISC in mobile phones (Wikipedia on Reduced Instruction Set
televisions and Complex Instruction Set Computers). He wraps it up ...
(more)DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages (Tuesday 04th of December 2007 10:45:04 PM)
Alberto G writes "As Jammie Thomas appeals the $222,000 own disobedience verdict against her,
the territory of Justice has weighed in on a central facet of her appeal: whether the
$9,250-per-song damages were unconstitutionally excessive and violated ...
(more)Mapping the Brain's Neural Network (Sunday 25th of November 2007 12:30:04 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "New technologies could soon allow scientists to provoke 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 ...
(more)Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released (Wednesday 10th of October 2007 01:30:10 PM)
Diegocgteleline.es writes "After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version
includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest
'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM ...
(more)The Dark Side of Iapetus (Tuesday 09th of October 2007 12:15:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The characteristic in screen between Iapetus' leading and trailing
hemispheres is striking. NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs has just released a report on a bizarre
'runaway' process that may explain the strange and dramatically two-toned ...
(more)Solar Hurricane Rips Off Comet's Tail (Tuesday 02nd of October 2007 04:15:02 AM)
Coondoggie writes to mention that NASA new captured images of a solar hurricane ripping the
tail off Encke's comet. "In a release, NASA said preliminary analysis suggests that the tail
was ripped away when magnetic fields bumped together in an explosive ...
(more)Method for $1/Watt Solar Panels Will Soon See Commercial Use (Sunday 23rd of September 2007 10:00:03 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "A method developed at Colorado State health center for crafting
solar panels has been developed to the point where they are nearly ready for mass production.
Professor W.S. Sampath's technique has resulted in a low-cost, high-efficiency ...
(more)IBM Develops Technology That Could Store Data In Atoms (Saturday 01st of September 2007 08:54:18 PM)
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, ...
(more)Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked (Thursday 09th of August 2007 09:45:03 PM)
Reddburn writes "Macworld has posted a story by IDN News Service about a hacker who posted
instructions for saving streaming movies from Netflix, defeating Microsoft's DRM code designed
to prevent users from saving the content. From the article: 'A hacker ...
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