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Submission + - Solar-Powered Electrochemical Cell Used to Produce Formic Acid From CO2 (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Rising atmospheric CO2 levels can generally be tackled in three ways: developing alternative energy sources with lower emissions; carbon capture and storage (CCS); and capturing carbon and repurposing it. Researchers at Princeton University are claiming to have developed a technique that ticks two of these three boxes by using solar power to convert CO2 into formic acid.

Comment Re:Did the editor know...this is Google/Android te (Score 2) 242

by Plumpaquatsch (#47363987) Attached to: Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch

Hi did you get the newsletter that Woz left Apple like 20 years ago and has nothing to do with the company anymore? And that he's a huge tech/gadget geek and doesn't care if the device is not Apple? And has even publicly spoken out against Apple?

Well now you do.

Not to mention that every time he says something remotely bad about Apple or an Apple product, you can be sure to find a Slashdot story about it.

Comment Re:Aperture-specific plugins... (Score 1) 214

by Plumpaquatsch (#47361425) Attached to: Apple Kills Aperture, Says New Photos App Will Replace It

If you upgrade your OS. Which brings you a lot more than RAW support. It also beings you massive incompatibility, new bugs, unfixed old bugs, aberrant behavior by programs that stuck to Apple's own dev guidelines like glue, and most recently, the world's most drag-assed USB support ever.

You were already better off finding another way than Aperture, this just puts the icing on the cake.

Do yourself (and more importantly us) a favor and switch to Windows. Then go someplace else to whine about the consequences.
Wikipedia

Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit 268

Posted by Soulskill from the citation-needed dept.
New submitter Andreas Kolbe writes: "Businessman, philanthropist and musician Yank Barry and the Global Village Champions Foundation are suing four Wikipedia editors for defamation, claiming they have maliciously conspired to keep Barry's Wikipedia biography unduly negative. The Daily Dot article includes a copy of the legal brief and quotes Barry as saying, "My page was so ridiculously false and made me sound like a terrible person and people believed it causing deals to fall through. I finally had enough."
Businesses

Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy 710

Posted by Soulskill from the being-productive-vs.-looking-productive dept.
An anonymous reader writes Work/life balance is a constant problem in the tech industry. Even though experienced and mature engineers have been vocal in fighting it, every new generation buys into the American cultural identity of excessive work being a virtue. Each generation suffers for it, and the economy does, too. This article backs up that wisdom with hard numbers: "The 40-hour workweek is mostly a thing of the past. Ninety-four percent of professional workers put in 50 or more hours, and nearly half work 65 or above. All workers have managed to cut down on our time on the job by 112 hours over the last 40 years, but we're far behind other countries: The French cut down by 491 hours, the Dutch by 425, and Canadians by 215 in the same time period. ... This overwork shows up in our sleep. Out of five developed peers, four other countries sleep more than us. That has again worsened over the years. In 1942, more than 80 percent of Americans slept seven hours a night or more. Today, 40 percent sleep six hours or less. A lack of sleep makes us poorer workers: People who sleep less than seven hours a night have a much harder time concentrating and getting work done."
Microsoft

First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android 193

Posted by timothy from the glorious-or-inglorious? dept.
An anonymous reader writes BBC reports that the first phone resulting from the Microsoft-Nokia merger has been announced: the Nokia X2. And foiling everybody's ability to guess what OS it would run on, the answer is Android. But this being Microsoft, do expect some embrace-and-extend — the user interface is similar to the Windows phone. And it is being offered as a way to hook users into its cloud-based services, several of which come pre-installed as apps. Is this the first Linux product being offered by Microsoft? Can we upgrade Microsoft's social rating from CCC to CCC+?

Comment Re:Apple Cars (Score 1) 126

by Plumpaquatsch (#47293011) Attached to: Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay

We'll obviously learn details soon enough, but for now, we are left to wonder whether it'll be Apple or Google that ends up owning the automotive market.

Oh, yes; I'm sure Apple will cover the entire market, all the way from your average Bugatti down to economy cars like Audi and even BMW!

Do you want something cheaper than a Kia?

Comment Re:Answer: Both (Score 1) 126

by Plumpaquatsch (#47289803) Attached to: Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay

Windows XP was officially supported for over 12 years after release. Apple usually supports its hardware until up to 4 years after release. Android support is usually only offered *before* release date and a few months after.

XP was supported for so long because its "successor" was delivered 4 years late - and then didn't include all the features promised for it before XP was even released.

And if the US government would pay Apple even remotely as much to support ancient hardware as they do pay Microsoft to keep XP afloat, you wouldn't write that.
United States

Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails 347

Posted by samzenpus from the they-were-just-here dept.
An anonymous reader writes in with news that the IRS lost email scandal is far from over. Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) has sent a formal letter to the National Security Agency asking it to hand over "all its metadata" on the e-mail accounts of a former division director at the Internal Revenue Service. "Your prompt cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated and will help establish how IRS and other personnel violated rights protected by the First Amendment," Stockman wrote on Friday. The request came hours after the IRS told a congressional committee that it had "lost" all of the former IRS Exempt Organizations division director's e-mails between January 2009 and April 2011.

Comment Re:Thank you finally (Score 1) 209

by Plumpaquatsch (#47242899) Attached to: How Tim Cook Is Filling Steve Jobs's Shoes

OK, Apple is number 2

Something we can finally agree on, the fact that Apples brand is shrinking and Beats is growing in an Apple area dominates does not really matter. the whole point is Apple is relying on past glories...and those under Jobs.

Because in one out a dozen brand charts, Google beats Apple.Coincidently "The credibility of the Interbrand and BrandZ league tables have been cast into doubt by an article written in Marketing Week by Mark Ritson.[4] The lack of clear definitions and valuation dates in the both companies methodology raise questions about the subjectivity involved in brand valuations. Being part of multinational advertising groups, Interbrand and Millward Brown also suffer from the risk of objectivity. Transparency and objectivity are two of the requirements of the ISO 10668 standard of monetary brand valuations."
Bug

European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating 128

Posted by Soulskill from the marketed-as-the-only-incendiary-device-you'll-ever-need dept.
jones_supa sends word that Apple has launched an exchange program for European iPhone USB power adapters. The company says its A1300 adapters were bundled with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S models, and were also sold on their own from Oct. 2009 to Sept. 2012. The reason for the recall is that the adapters "may overheat and pose a safety risk." No further details are provided (a YouTube video shows a teardown of the device).

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