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Submission + - How to see a redder red (nature.com)
The researchers’ red was the product of experiments conducted to understand exactly how colour-sensing pigments in our eyes absorb different hues. The team targeted rhodopsin, a pigment found in the photoreceptor cells of the retina. Their engineered pigment had an absorption peak at 644 nm — far redder than a natural red-sensing rhodopsin, which has an absorption peak at roughly 560 nm) would 'see' 9abstract of paper in Science).
Submission + - Interactive Map shows Places where London was hit during WW2 "Blitz" (bombsight.org)
Submission + - Hit game makes £52 in first week on Windows RT Read more: Great Big War G (pcpro.co.uk)
Submission + - RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu (fsf.org) 2
Submission + - China Can Make Stealth Jets, But Not The Engine Inside Them (thediplomat.com)
China is now developing a massive effort to fix this "Achilles Heel" in its military development. China’s jet engine makers, are expected to invest $16 billion in jet engine development in the near term, and perhaps up to $24 billion by 2015.
The Pratt and Whitney F135 powering the F-35 , which is the world’s most advanced and powerful tactical aircraft engine, is cost around US$8.4 billion to develop
Submission + - EU Commissioner Tonio Borg says beware of digital download ripoffs (timesofmalta.com)
For instance some games are "free" but you end up having to pay for virtual items to proceed further.
Illegal websites will be forced to comply by August otherwise further action will be taken by the EU.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121207/local/Borg-beware-of-download-rip-offs.448571"
Submission + - Apollo Veteran: Skip Asteroid, Go to the Moon (discovery.com)
Submission + - Stay Home When You're Sick!
Submission + - Maker Of Hackable Hotel Locks Finally Agrees To Pay For Bug Fix (forbes.com)
But now, after at least one series of burglaries exploiting the bug hit a series of hotel rooms in Texas, Onity has finally agreed to shoulder the cost of replacing the hardware itself--at least for its locks in major chain hotels in the U.S. installed after 2005.
Score one point for full disclosure.
Submission + - Google Axes Free Google Apps (blogspot.com.au)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323316804578163531826571350.html
Submission + - Ransomware Is On The Rise (nytimes.com)
Submission + - Nearby Solar System Looks Like Home (sciencemag.org)
Submission + - Advertising May Soon Follow You from One Device to the Next (technologyreview.com)
Submission + - Virginia woman is sued for $750,000 after writing scathing Yelp review (dailymail.co.uk)
Submission + - John McAfee Suffers Possible Heart Attack at Guatemala Detention Center (go.com)
McAfee, 67 — who may soon be deported back to Belize, where authorities want to question him about the shooting death of his neighbor — was reportedly prostrate on the floor of his cell and unresponsive. He was wheeled into the hospital on a gurney, but when nurses began removing his suit, he became responsive and said, "Please, not in front of the press."
Earlier today, McAfee had complained of chest pains.
Submission + - How Yucca Mountain was Killed (thenewatlantis.com)
Submission + - Government board aims to revamp decrepit US security classification system (networkworld.com)
Submission + - Google Launches Private Android App Stores (threatpost.com)
Private Channel is essentially a way for organizations to stand up their own miniature app stores inside of Google Play--the main app store for Android devices--and publish apps to it. That gives these organizations the ability to point their users directly to the apps they want users to download for their Android devices. The new service will include some of the security features built into Google Play, most notably the antimalware system and the ability to authenticate users.
Submission + - Golden Spike Working on Private Moon Flights (goldenspikecompany.com)
A group of space veterans and big-name backers today took the wraps off the Golden Spike Company, a commercial space venture that aims to send paying passengers to the moon and back at an estimated price of $1.4 billion or more for two.
The venture would rely on private funding, and it's not clear when the first lunar flight would be launched — but the idea reportedly has clearance from NASA, which abandoned its own back-to-the-moon plan three and a half years ago.
Golden Spike's announcement came on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last manned moonshot. Backers of the plan, including former NASA executive Alan Stern and former Apollo flight director Gerry Griffin, were to discuss the company's strategy at a National Press Club briefing at 2 p.m. ET, but some of the details were laid out in a news release issued before the briefing.
A key element that makes our business achievable and compelling is Golden Spike's team of nationally and internationally known experts in human and robotic spaceflight, planetary and lunar science, exploration, venture capital formation, and public outreach," Stern said in the news release.