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Also: Superman 'memory crystals' to become a reality as scientists store computer data on powerful glass hard drive
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2011-08-23, 00:43 | Link #86 |
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NASA's humanoid robot activated on the International Space Station.
Well...it can use Twitter and look about a little. Movement tests are for next week. Legs are for a few years from now.
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2011-08-24, 11:13 | Link #88 |
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Room-temperature brown dwarf spied just 9 light-years off
"Scientists perusing data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
(WISE) have spotted some really cool stars – brown dwarfs with an atmospheric temperature as low as an agreeable 25°C. Dubbed "Y dwarfs", these objects have hitherto eluded astronomers hunting them at visible wavelengths, although WISE has finally nailed six examples within a distance of around 40 light-years from our own Sun." "The NASA boffins are also excited about the Y dwarfs because of their relative proximity to Earth. One of them, WISE 1541-2250, is roughly nine light-years from our beloved homeworld, and "may become the seventh closest star system, bumping Ross 154 back to eighth". NASA adds: "By comparison, the star closest to our solar system, Proxima Centauri, is about four light-years away."" See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/24/y_dwarfs/ |
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Hmmmm. If they found one closer they could find that Nemisis star they've been looking for. It would be worse in such a start had cooled even farther so it was just a mass of some sort that wasn't putting out enough energy to be easily detected...but still had a gravitational effect. "Giant Jupiter" perhaps.
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Well, the Voyager probes are the current farthest out. Voyager 1 is past 117 AUs out and the Pluto probe will never catch it as Voyager 1 will remain faster unless it runs into something.
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2011-08-27, 00:51 | Link #93 |
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Maybe it isn't a good time to dump Apple shares after all.
EDIT : Hacking never changes. Password and username cracking always take a backseat to social engineering. Kevin Mitnick tells us about his life as a computer hacker (5:16)
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2011-08-28, 03:18 | Link #98 |
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We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.
Actually that reminded me of something else that wasn't Star Trek: (which someone else noticed because they put this up since that news came out)
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2011-08-29, 11:33 | Link #99 |
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Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan
"It looks a bit like silver bird. It probably was used to spy on insurgents. And now
it’s in the hands of the Pakistanis. WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson flags pictures of an unusual, unfamiliar drone that reportedly crashed crashed over southwestern Pakistan late last week. It’s a surveillance drone, with a camera attached — recovered from the crash but not apparently visible in this photo — rather than the larger, deathly flying robots that shoot missiles. This one looks tiny, with a wingspan not much longer than a man’s outstretched arms, and clearly light enough for a grown man to carry. The Pakistani Frontier Corps in Baluchistan province recovered the drone. And they confidently declare it to be an “American surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle.” But as Anderson points out, it doesn’t look like anything the U.S. flies — or at least acknowledges flying. What’s the deal?" See: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011...s-in-pakistan/ |
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