Science & Technology
The year 2014 has made it very clear that privacy is under threat, and the situation is not likely to improve. Mass surveillance – which became a national issue via the Edward Snowden leaks – is not subsiding or under reform; instead, is becoming more bold and complex with each passing day.
It is impossible to create a connected, mobile and sustainable society without technology metals (precious metals, specialty metals and rare earth elements) enabling it. Lithium stores energy in our rechargeable batteries; neodymium’s magnetic properties run electric motors.
As part of an ongoing attempt to develop underwater robots capable of thinking on their own, engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created a mechanical turtle capable of performing complicated tasks such as surveillance and energy harvesting.
Despite claims by the FBI that North Korea was behind the massive hack against Sony, several cybersecurity experts have come forward to raise questions about the allegation, with some suggesting that insiders at the company could be to blame.
For mobile operators, setting up shop in some of the remotest places on earth can bring rich rewards, but also tremendous risk. Sometimes the risk is too much—Digicel founder Denis O’Brien said his company lost nine people.
So far over 1,700 mummified bodies, of an estimated 1 million, have been unearthed in a necropolis South of Cairo. It appears the mummies are approximately 1,500-years-old, buried during the time when Rome control vast swaths of Egypt.
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill.
The lead story, the CIA torture report, featured blue in the CIA seal. Andrea Mitchell, who was covering the report’s release, was wearing a dark blue outfit. Behind her, the Capitol dome sat in a blue sky. A psychologist named Mitchell, an architect of the torture program, was interviewed.
Now a new app called Peacekeeper goes even a step further, encouraging connectivity with your neighbors, family and friends in order to establish a response network filled with people who already have earned your trust. Please read their press release and see their video below.
No matter how many times law enforcement cracks down on The Pirate Bay, it will find a way to re-open, the Berlin chairman of the Pirate Party told RT – days after the website was taken offline by a Swedish police raid.
New ‘Harmless Herbicide’ to Compete with Monsanto’s RoundUp By Christina Sarich | Natural Society A Non-Toxic Herbicide Alternative? Why use carcinogenic herbicides to kill weeds when a little hot water will do the trick? Botanists and organic gardeners have known this effective, chemical-free way to treat weeds for hundreds of years. Now a UK based …
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Mountain-sized Asteroid Heading Our Way: Russian Scientist By Fred Weir | Christian Science Monitor In a video posted online Sunday, astrophysicist Vladimir Lipunov says the newly discovered asteroid could collide with Earth during its three-year orbital cycle. A giant meteor exploded over a Russian city in 2013. Moscow — A Russian astrophysicist says his team …
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Google Wants to Replace Passwords with Fingerprints and Eyeballs By Mike Murphy | Quartz Google Glass is due to receive an update in 2015, and if a Google patent submitted last month is any indication, it could include a new feature to let wearers use their fingerprints, or scans of their eyes, instead of passwords …
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The More Sinister Directions Of Carbon Nanotubes (as weapons of war) By Dr. Richard Alan Miller, © 2014 With the possibilities of fullerenes being able to act as a super anti-oxidant (radiation sickness), and a space elevator, it also opens other door to the possibility of weapon of war. Here is where my latest Internet …
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NASA’s Orion Test Launch – Live Stream By Rebecca Jacobson | PBS Watch the live stream below Update: Due to wind, technical issues and a civilian boat impeding on the launch site, NASA has delayed the launch to later in today’s window. Orion can launch safely anytime before 9:44 a.m. ET. We are standing by. …
