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Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex 397

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @04:02PM from the there's-a-lap-for-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"

Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit 384

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @03:20PM from the biggest-pointer dept.

Flash Modin writes "Death Star style superlasers? Don't bet on it. High-power lasers currently in development appear to be nearing the theoretical laser intensity limit, according to new research set to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Ultra-high-energy laser fields can actually convert their light into matter as shown in the late '90s at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). This process creates an 'avalanche-like electromagnetic cascade' (also known as sparking the vacuum) capable of destroying a laser field. Physicists thought it might be a problem for lasers eventually, but this work indicates the technology is much closer to its limit than researchers believed. A preprint is available here."

Submission + - Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray (livescience.com)

Submitted by pitchpipe on Saturday July 31, 2010 @03:44AM

pitchpipe writes: A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica.

[...]it turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new study detected an overabundance of cosmic rays coming from one part of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming from another.

Submission + - TI Calculator DRM Defeated (ticalc.org)

Submitted by josath on Saturday July 31, 2010 @01:38AM

josath writes: Texas Instrument's flagship calculator, the Nspire, was hacked to allow user-written programs earlier this year. Earlier this month, TI released an update to the OS that runs on the calculator, providing no new features, but only blocking the previous hack. Now, just a few weeks later, Nleash has been released, which defeats this protection. The battle rages on as users fight for the right to run their own software on their own hardware...

Submission + - New fast, reliable method to detect gravesoil (scienceblog.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30, 2010 @04:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: Gravesoil. Yes, just what it sounds like. Nothing against bloodhounds, but finding bodies buried by someone who wanted them to stay undiscovered can be difficult. A new technique developed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, can reliably detect biochemical changes in a decomposing cadaver. Typically, cadaver-sniffing dogs or ground penetrating radar are used to detect clandestine gravesites. But these methods are not always useful in all scenarios, such as if a body is buried under concrete.

Submission + - Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake from Deep Sleep (discovery.com)

Submitted by

astroengine

on Friday July 30, 2010 @03:53PM

astroengine writes: "After repeated calls from NASA to wake up Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from its low-energy coma, mission control is beginning to realize the ill-fated robot may never wake up again. After getting stuck in a sand trap in Gusev Crater and then switching into hibernation in March, rover operators were hopeful that the beached Spirit might yet be saved. Alas, this is looking more and more unlikely. In a statement, NASA said: "Based on models of Mars' weather and its effect on available power, mission managers believe that if Spirit responds, it most likely will be in the next few months. However, there is a very distinct possibility Spirit may never respond.""

Submission + - Aus State Requires Real Names for Comments Online (news.com.au)

Submitted by Nok on Monday February 01, 2010 @10:39PM

Nok writes: The South Australian State Government has passed a law requiring anyone posting a comment online about the upcoming election to publish their real name and postcode (zipcode). Media organisations are required to keep these details for 6 months or face a $5000 fine.

Right to Know spokeswoman Creina Chapman said, "It is a fundamental principle of our democracy that voters are able to express personal views about the competing claims of political candidates without the fear that they might end up on a hit list held by a government whose policies they may have opposed."

The new legislation could also apply to talkback radio. Similar laws have been in use in South Korea for some time and China also introduced a similar requirement last year. The law is not thought to be terribly enforceable.

Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports 454

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 07, 2008 @12:00AM from the too-cheap-to-hire-superman dept.

Lapzilla brings word that airports around the US are beginning to use a new type of body-scanning machine which records pictures of travelers underneath their clothing. The process takes roughly 30 seconds, and the person viewing the pictures is located in a separate room. We've discussed similar scanners in the past. From USAToday: "[Barry Steinhardt, head of the ACLU technology project] said passengers would be alarmed if they saw the image of their body. 'It all seems very clinical and non-threatening -- you go through this portal and don't have any idea what's at the other end,' he said. Passengers scanned in Baltimore said they did not know what the scanner did and were not told why they were directed into the booth. Magazine-sized signs are posted around the checkpoint explaining the scanners, but passengers said they did not notice them."

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