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Monday, February 28, 2011

Military deploys acupuncture to treat soldiers' concussions

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CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — The U.S. military is applying an ancient Chinese healing technique to the top modern battlefield injury for...
Friday, February 11, 2011

World’s Total CPU Power: One Human Brain

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"To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*10 18 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose comput...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder

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The City Paper, a small alternative Washington newspaper, published an article detailing dozens of Snyder's inept and unpopular actions ...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Darpa Wants Troop Cellphones With Heat Vision

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There's the shopworn military cliche about every soldier being a sensor . And then there's Darpa's out-there project to shrink t...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

‘White House’ eCard Dupes Dot-Gov Geeks

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A malware-laced e-mail that spoofed seasons greetings from The White House siphoned gigabytes of sensitive documents from dozens of victims ...

Global spam volumes fall precipitously

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Global spam volumes have fallen precipitously in the past two months, thanks largely to the cessation of junk e-mail from Rustock – until r...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Déjà vu - Military Bans Removable Disks AGAIN

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It's too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon's secret network. But ...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

ActiveWords – a program you need

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ActiveWords is a simple, intuitive macro-program that allows you to create brief words or shortcuts to substitute text (up to 32kb in size);...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Arsenic-munching germ redefines "life as we know it”

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A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, resea...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

IBM chip breakthrough may lead to exascale supercomputers

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IBM researchers have made a breakthrough in using pulses of light to accelerate data transfer between chips, something they say could boost ...
Monday, November 8, 2010

Hurricane Forecasts Can Be Made Years in Advance

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The parade of storms that pummels the western fringe of the North Atlantic every year just got a bit more predictable. Scientists say they h...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Why Your Electric Vehicle 'Fuel' Will Be Free

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How can EVs become more attractive to consumers price-wise? One of the ways can be from the realistic prospect of free 'fuel.' Imagi...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Feds Plot ‘Near Human’ Robot Docs, Farmers, Troops

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Robots are already vacuuming our carpets, heading into combat and assisting docs on medical procedures. Get ready for a next generation of ...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Computerized Grenade Launcher Heads to Afghanistan

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It looks like a piece of riot-control gear. It's got a computerized in-board targeting system. It can kill someone from 2,300 feet away,...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Comments on my blog

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You can now comment on my blog posts if you like. I didn't know until recently that Blogspot was changed so that blogs were set to a de...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Darpa's Self-Aiming "One Shot" Sniper Rifle Scheduled for Next Year

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A sniper crouches near an open window and zooms in on his target, who sits a half-mile away. He peers through a scope and holds his breath, ...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Darpa Moves a Step Closer to Its Flying Humvee

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In the spring, the futurists at Darpa rethought troop transport. Instead of adding armor or changing the shape to deflect bomb blasts, the a...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Cyber Thieves Steal Nearly $1,000,000 from University of Virginia College

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Cyber crooks stole just shy of $1 million from a satellite campus of The University of Virginia last week, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned....

Attackers Exploiting New Acrobat/Reader Flaw

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Adobe warned today that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programs. In an adv...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network

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The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security hole...
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