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I've been searching but haven't found any general threads for science & technology news.
So here is a general science & technology news thread. Post about progress, problems, and culture in STEM fields. The last Pirated Bay co-founder, Fredrik Neij, has been arrested: Last Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after living on the lam in Laos | Ars Technica Quote:
Projector, 3D scanner, and touchscreen PC combined into arts & crafts armageddon. |
Very interesting article about a brain-damaged man who uses Twitter as his memory
Brain-damaged man uses Twitter as his memory - Digital Life - Digital Life | siliconrepublic.com - Ireland's Technology News Service Quote:
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There's a fairly new app called Path Talk that lets you text any business a question and get a response back within 5 minutes. Basically there is an army of people being paid to receive these texts from you, call the business you're addressing, ask them the question, and then text that information back to you. So through a surrogate human you can order pizzas, check if something is in stock somewhere, find out when a place opens or closes etc, in case for some reason you don't like talking to people on the phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...paperboy&hl=en |
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Remember this?
http://www.heyuguys.com/images/2010/...wer-Loader.jpg Well, we're on our way. Check this out. This suit will give you superhuman strength - Nov. 5, 2014 |
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Cyberdyne's robot suit HAL to keep people walking - YouTube I saw this device featured on the Science Channel just a couple of weeks ago. A crippled girl could walk by using this whereas she would have been in a wheelchair without it. Not only does it allow people to walk who normally can't, it turns out to be therapeutic. A man whose spine was crushed in an accident was told he'd be bed-ridden for the rest of his life. Not only can he walk with this device, it has trained his body to relearn how to walk and he can even walk now without the device although slowly and haltingly but over time who knows how much more he'll improve and even walking like that beats spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair or bedridden. Imagine what it might be able to do for people with Parkinson's which killed my father and left him bedridden for the last months of his life. The Japanese have done fantastic things with robots. It's incredible. |
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Latest Japan Technology 2012 Its Amazing Car.flv - YouTube This little robot car is guided by a robot head on the dash. You tell it what you want the car to do and it will do it for you--like parallel park as shown here. It also functions as a GPS and if you tell it where you want to go, the face will point in the direction it wants you to turn and will tell you, "Turn here." The robot can even carry on conversation and if it senses you are getting tired by hearing you yawn or something, it will talk to you and even invite you to sing along with it to keep you alert. |
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Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Released From Prison | TorrentFreak He says we can expect to see him return to public speaking / activism soon. Quote:
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I'm assuming these Pirate Bay folks were dumb enough to operate, or at least have servers, in America. That's how they got the Megaupload guys. Ever download and leach site I see nowadays is purely foreign, so they're not answerable to American courts at all.
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Not really news as such, but here's an article on how not to fuck up your Linux system. Or you might find it useful if you're feeling a bit destructive :)
9 Lethal Linux Commands You Should Never Run |
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I find the Hour of Code event quite interesting. It's an event as part of Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 8th - 14th) with the aim of getting people from all walks of life interested in coding and particularly kids in schools. When I think back to when I was in school 10 years ago there were no options for me to learn how to code or get involved in web development, unless I taught myself outside of school. It's fantastic that schools are finally getting kids involved in coding more in recent years and hopefully this will encourage more innovation and help solve skills shortages in IT somewhere along the line.
How 'Hour of Code' sparked a movement that could teach 100 million people to code - TechRepublic Join the largest learning event in history, Dec 8-14, 2014 Some info on Computer Science Education Week: http://csedweek.org/ |
NASA's Orion shuttle launch a few days ago was pretty cool, massive flames.
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Today the FBI have allegedly confirmed the connection between North Korean networks and the Sony Entertainment hack.
FBI confirms North Korea behind Sony hack FBI concludes that the North Korean gov't is responsible for Sony cyberattack Their conclusion seems to be based on: - Code similarities compared to previous North Korean cyber attacks - Matching encryption methods used in previous North Korean cyber attacks - Similar data deletion methods used in previous North Korean cyber attacks - Hard-coded IP addresses in the malware pointing to North Korean infrastructure - The tools / applications used in the attack are similar to the ones used in a cyber attack on South Korean banks / media last year. I was quite convinced that this whole debacle was just another act of lulz unleashed upon Sony by neckbearded North Americans eager to test their might, similar to the attack back in 2011 that killed PSN for close to a month & scooped the personal details of 70 million PSN user accounts, but if we're to believe the FBI it looks like this was a genuine political cyber attack, lame. That being said, I may be fishing here, but all of the above evidence, as is usually the case with cyber crimes, could have easily been spoofed by a North American hacker to stir the pot between the US and North Korea. |
Or to get The Interview a wealth of publicity. The whole situation made my conspiracy bells ring, because once the film is released theres going to be a large audience seeing the film that wouldn't have before. It's probably legit but either way the ROI on this film is going to be greater than expected IMO.
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Posted this elsewhere but it can hang here too.
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Yeah it's certainly fishy all the way around. The seemingly pseudo-broken English used in the alleged "messages to SONY" posted on Pastebin, the humorous tongue in cheek negotiations, threatening SONY with the release of "Christmas present" content leaks, this being the second massive security breach suffered by SONY in recent years, it all seems like the same old **** we've seen from North American hacker groups over and over again. It's not outrageous to expect the FBI to scramble for a scapegoat, pointing the finger prematurely to satisfy media outlets when really all of the evidence they're making public doesn't say much at all, which is pretty typical when hunting for suspects in cyber crimes.
But this is why big cyber crime debacles like this one are always so much fun for passive observers, it's the hardest game of CLUE possible. |
First zero-gravity 3-D printer manufactures wrench in outer space in less than a week | Daily Mail Online
Well that's a pretty good idea. |
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Not that new, but still...
Oh, and can someone explain this? I consider myself relatively well versed for a layman when it comes to science, but I don't get how it worked at all. Quantum gas goes below absolute zero |
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I study mechanical engineering, and we have lots of thermodynamics, physics and even dabbled in quantum physics a little, for good measure. But I absolutely don't understand how they achieved it and how a temperature can be below absolute zero. Obviously the exact science behind it is way too complicated, but I thought someone might get all this talk about the reversal of the amount of higher to lower energy particles and all that. |
Be sure to view the picture at full scale.
Largest Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled offers awesome view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy | KurzweilAI |
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Think about it like this: Imagine there's a field of grass that expands infinitely into the horizon. On the field, people run as far as they can, and then when they can't physically go any further they use some paint to mark down where they finished. Eventually, after hundreds of people have gone, nobody seems to be able to break a certain record set by someone who went before, who managed to go out really far. Everyone considers this to be the furthest that a human can possibly go, until someone proves that they can go further. But when someone does manage to go further, the limit that someone can possibly run is extended to the point where they collapsed. The field has an infinite distance to it, so technically the distance that humans can go is limitless, but there is still a definite point where almost everyone will have collapsed. Temperature is the same way. Absolute zero was considered the mark in the grass that no substance could pass. Now that something has passed it, a new mark is set down, and the scale of possible temperature increases. But i'm definitely no scientist, so I have no idea how they managed to do it. And I certainly know nothing about Quantum Mechanics. |
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NOVA | Making More Stuff |
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I'm trying a proxy, but doesn't seem to work either. But thanks for the tip, I'll look around whether it's up for downloading somewhere. |
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Microsoft has been up to some pretty funny ****, this may be interesting.
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I really hope oculys rift gets used for some awesome stuff and avoids poorly done shovelware
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Ancient water from Northern Ontario mine may harbour ‘alien’ life
Not aliens aliens, but (indirect evidence of) microbial cultures living in an isolated environment for ten times longer than anything scientists have discovered before. It has evolved in a parallel to the rest of life on earth for so long that it might as well be an alien species. |
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wtf took them so long?? lazy ****ers
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