Google Street View Expands to Antarctica, Is Now on All Seven Continents
• popsci.comGoogle filled in some of Street View's gaps today, and with the addition of Antarctica, is now able to claim Street View's availability on all seven continents.
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Technology: Software
Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
• HuffPo / Douglas RushkoffIf [users] don't know what the programs they are using are even for, they don't stand a chance to use them effectively. They are less likely to become power users than the used.
New computers will ‘boot up in seconds’
• Claudine Beaumont via Telegraph.co.ukWave goodbye to BIOS, say hello to UEFI, a new technology that will drastically reduce start-up times.
The Mind Machine-It KNOWS What You Are Thinking and It is Going to Tell!
Kaye BeachYour word for the day is “Predictive Analytics”
Google's Boss Envisions a Utopian Future
• technologyreview.comThe firm's CEO discusses phones that translate speech and "autonomous" search engines.
Railway to the Sky? NASA Ponders New Launch System
• space.comThe scramjet launcher project could form the foundation of a future Advanced Space Launch System, with elements spread across different NASA centers to make it work, agency officials said.
Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May
• Noah Schachtman via WIRED.comScanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens.
Clay Shirky at TED: How cognitive surplus will change the world
• Michael Nystrom via Daily Paul Liberty ForumClay Shirky talks about how cognitive surplus will change the world.
Video: UK Animators Use Cellphone and Microscope To Film Smallest Stop-Motion Animation Ever
• News LinkDot, Star of the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Animation
Doubling Lithium-Ion Battery Storage
• News LinkPortable electronics could run 40 percent longer using a new type of anode.
Scan Someone's License Plate and Message Them Instantly with New Bump App
• News LinkClaim Your Plate A new Web service called Bump allows drivers to connect their license plates with an e-mail address or phone number, enabling communication with other motorists.
SNUPI's Smart-Home Sensors Communicate Via the Copper Already in the Walls
• News LinkBuilding smart homes that are networked to run as efficiently as possible is supposed to be one of the technological fixes to our current energy consumption problem.
The Two-Stroke Engine, Reconsidered
• News LinkOnce thought too polluting, the two-stroke engine makes a comeback in advance of stricter fuel efficiency standards.
Electric Skin that Rivals the Real Thing
• News LinkFlexible sensors could give prosthetics and robots a more sensitive sense of touch.
Latest Skype Beta Offers Group Video Calls for 10
• PC WorldSkype 5.0 beta 2 runs on Windows and includes an updated user interface, the company said on its blog. The release doubles the number of people that can be included in a group video call from the five people allowed with Skype 5.0 beta 1, released in
Tiny, Five-Nanometer Silicon Oxide Switches Could Create Single Chips With Terabyte Storage
• News LinkEven with great strides being made regularly in the realms of nanotech and materials science, Moore’s Law – the notion that the number of transistors that can be placed on a given integrated circuit doubles every 18-24 months
Nano Switches that Store More Data Head to Market
• News LinkAn electronic component that offers a new way to squeeze more data into computers and portable gadgets is set to go into production in just a couple of years.
Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, nine others over patent infringement
• Beta NewsMicrosoft co-founder and former executive Paul Allen filed a suit against 11 tech companies on Friday, accusing them of infringement over patents he acquired from the now defunct Internal Research. While Allen had invested in the company, he never pa
Google Plugs Free PC-to-Phone Calling Into E-mail
• Yahoo! NewsThe service... enables U.S. users of Google's Gmail service to make calls from microphone-equipped computers to telephones virtually anywhere in the world.
Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine
• Tom Simonite via Technology ReviewProviding developers with machine learning on tap could unleash a flood of smarter apps.
Thirty-Year-Old Encryption Formula Can Resist Quantum-Computing Attacks That Defeat Common Codes
• Clay Dillow via PopSciThe core advantage of quantum computing -- the ability to compute for many possible outcomes at the same time and therefore crunch data much more quickly than classical computers -- also creates a problem for data security.
Connecting Electronic Medical Records
• Katherine Gammon via Technology ReviewThe power of search engines is applied to health-care data.
Distributed Humans Smarter Than Distributed Computers In Solving Complex Biology Problem
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSciPuzzle-loving gamers are better at solving molecular biology problems than a supercomputer, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. Playing a game called Foldit, which involves protein folding, gamers outsmarted computers on p
Bunker-busting ATM attacks show security holes
• APA hacker has discovered a way to force ATMs to disgorge their cash by hijacking the computers inside them. The attacks demonstrated targeted stand-alone ATMs. But they could potentially be used against the ATMs operated by mainstream banks.
iPhone jailbreaking (and all cell phone unlocking) made legal
• Christopher Null via Yahoo! NewsJailbreaking — the practice of unlocking a phone (and particularly an iPhone) so it can be used on another network and/or run other applications than those approved by Apple — has technically been illegal for years.
Passwords that are Simple--and Safe
• Simson Garfinkel via Technology ReviewA new approach does away with the need for long strings of letters and numbers.
After 3 Years of Data Crunching, NASA and Microsoft Release Stunning New Interactive Mars Tour
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSciUsing Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope program, you can now take an interactive tour of Mars with the highest-resolution images available of the Red Planet -- something even scientists have never been able to see before.
Google phasing out use of Windows over security concerns
• ReutersWeb search group Google Inc is phasing out internal use of rival Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system because of security concerns following a Chinese hacking incident, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Google Gives Away Video Software to Lure Developers
• Technology Review (MIT)Google committed a substantial act of charity on the first day of its annual I/O developers' conference in San Francisco this week, giving away a piece of intellectual property acquired just three months ago at a cost of more than $120 million.
Fake Antivirus Software is 'Growing Threat' to Computer Users, Warns Google
• telegraph.co.uk via Rense.comMillions of computer users are being duped in to installing software they think will protect them online but actually leaves their computer vulnerable to hackers
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