Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear January 22, 2012 Print Version Source: Wired Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light. A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there research arm, [...]
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NYPD developing portable body scanner for detecting concealed weapons January 18, 2012 Print Version Source: Gizmag The NYPD is developing a new device that can detect whether a perp is carrying heat without frisking him, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced today. The large mechanism uses infrared rays to scan a “form of radiation emitted from the [...]
McDonald’s Restaurants in Australia Will Spray Synthetic DNA on Robbers January 9th, 2012 Via: news.com.au: McDONALD’S restaurants are fighting back against thieves by blasting suspected robbers with an invisible DNA spray as they attempt to flee. The spray, which remains on the suspect’s skin for two weeks and on clothes for up to six [...]
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Microsoft Gets Patent for ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Technology January 7th, 2012 Via: CBS: Microsoft has been granted a patent for its “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices. A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an “unsafe neighborhood or [...]
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‘Gamers Are Now in Full Battle Rattle with Official U.S. Army Rifle Controllers, Backpacks and Headsets’ January 6th, 2012 Start ‘em young. Via: Joystiq: CTA DigitalTM (http://ctadigital.com) today announced a partnership with the U.S. ArmyTM to manufacture U.S. ArmyTM branded video game accessories. Virtual soldiers on the video game battlefield can now take pride [...]
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Welcome to a brave new world: Genetic scientists create freakish man-made monster ants with huge heads and jaws January 6, 2012 Print Version Source: UK Daily Mail Nightmarish ‘supersoldier’ ants with huge heads and jaws have been created by activating ancient genes. Scientists believe the monster ants may be a genetic throwback to an ancestor [...]
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December 30th, 2011 Every citizen who is concerned about the future of clean energy generation and the future of our environment should read this report. Every MIT student, every MIT graduate, and every financial contributor to MIT should read it. Judge for yourself where the facts lead. —Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, MIT and Cold Fusion: [...]
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Vending Machines That Read Your Mind! December 26, 2011 Print Version Source: BBC A “smart” vending machine that analyses users’ age and gender has been launched in the US by Intel and Kraft Foods. The iSample is being used to offer customers trials of a new dessert. It allows Kraft to tailor the product [...]
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Breakthrough Could Double Solar Energy Output December 18th, 2011 Via: Science Daily: The efficiency of conventional solar cells could be significantly increased, according to new research on the mechanisms of solar energy conversion led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin. Zhu and his team have discovered that it’s possible to [...]
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Report: Iran ‘blinded’ CIA spy satellite with laser burst December 17, 2011 Print Version Source: Ynet News European intelligence source claims Iran stuns West by ‘aiming a laser burst quite accurately’ at US satellite in never before reported incident. US official: If Russians provided Iran with sophisticated jamming equipment it means a lot else [...]
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Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws December 13, 2011 Print Version Source: Wired The most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, meant to replace nearly every tactical warplane in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, was already expected to cost [...]
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X-37B Spacecraft: “It’s Still Up There” December 1st, 2011 Via: MSNBC: The secretive X-37B robotic space plane is about to set its own space-endurance record on a hush-hush project operated by the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The craft, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle-2, was boosted into Earth orbit atop an Atlas [...]
Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army November 23rd, 2011 Via: Technology Review: An undercover team of computer scientists reveals the practices of people who are paid to post on websites. In China, paid posters are known as the Internet Water Army because they are ready and willing to ‘flood’ the internet for whoever is [...]
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Google Secret Lab Has ‘CIA-Like’ Security November 14, 2011 Print Version Source: Fox News At Google, X really does mark the spot. Search-engine giant Google has a secret product lab called Google X feverishly developing blue-sky projects such as space elevators, driverless cars and Internet-enabled household devices (coffee pots? clothing?), The New York Times reported [...]
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Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells November 9, 2011 Print Version Source: Wired A few pig cells, a single surgery and a rigorous daily workout: They’re the three ingredients that patients will need to re-grow fresh, functional slabs of their own muscle, courtesy of Pentagon-backed science that’s already being used to rebuild parts [...]
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