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Submission + - Mini drone detects breathing and motion (suasnews.com)

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garymortimer

on Monday March 21, 2011 @08:57AM

garymortimer writes: "The mini-UAV system is capable of performing dual functions as a motion detector as well as probing for breathing of a hiding person in a compound. The mini-UAV can be remotely controlled at long standoff distances from ground or an airborne asset."

Submission + - Was The Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? (discovery.com)

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astroengine

on Monday March 21, 2011 @05:12AM

astroengine writes: "According to two theoretical physicists, our current four-dimensional Universe (3 dimensions of space, 1 dimension of time) is actually an evolution from a lower-dimensional state. The early Universe may have existed with just one spatial dimension (plus one time dimension) up until the Universe cooled below an energy state of 100 TeV. At this point, a transition occurred when the spatial dimension "folded" to create 2 dimensions. At 1 TeV, it folded again to create the Universe we know today: 3 dimensions of space, one of time. This may sound like a purely theoretical study, but there might be evidence of the evolution of universal dimensions in cosmic ray measurements and, potentially, in gravitational wave cut-off frequency."

Submission + - Icon Catalog Hits Million Page Views Per Month (softpressrelease.com)

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SoftPressRelease

on Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:52PM

SoftPressRelease writes: "SoftIcons.com, a free icon catalog, celebrates one year anniversary by sharing the statistics. Along with the numbers the creators of SoftIcons.com have revealed how they managed to reach the impressive rate of 1,000,000 page views per month in just one year.

In a year the catalog featuring a selection of usable icon sets has grown to attract favorable attention of web designers, developers and home users willing to enhance their product or working environment. "We believe the key to getting a million views is being interesting and having something to offer. As simple as that." — says Neil Sagitov of SoftIcons.com. "Weve been striving to give our visitors easy access to quality icons created by talented authors, and they seem to appreciate that."

Indeed, the SoftIcons.com team does a nice job bringing icons to those who seek them. Since March 19, 2010 when the first icon set was added, the catalog has been growing exponentially. Each day 3 new icon sets are added, one third of the sets are free for commercial use (note that detailed licensing information on each set is available at its SoftIcons.com page). The number of icons/images offered through SoftIcons.com today exceeds 165,000 items falling into 19 categories (including social media, web and culture).

Along with the icons, the website also provides free online tools for easy icon creation. If you already have just the right picture for your project, at SoftIcons.com youll be able to convert it into an icon and/or generate a favicon in a few mouse clicks. To give the icons even better look both Convertor and Generator feature basic image editing functionality.

Link:
Website address: http://www.softicons.com/"

Submission + - Lucid Virtu Pairs Sandy Bridge Quick Sync and GPUs (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid

on Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:32PM

MojoKid writes: "Intel's Sandy Bridge processors have won acclaim for their hardware-accelerated video transcoding capabilities, dubbed Quick Sync, but there are significant limitations in the current iteration. At present, there's no way to easily use a discrete graphics card and access Sandy Bridge's transcoding engine. The only way to overcome this is to manually switch one's monitor cable from discrete GPU to integrated, reboot the machine. LucidLogix, a company that's heretofore been known for its multi-GPU Hydra hardware, has developed a software-only solution named Virtu that it claims will solve one of the major issues that prevent enthusiasts from taking advantage of Sandy Bridge's transcoding performance, however. And it works relatively well actually."

Submission + - Drizzle Hits General Availability (infoworld.com)

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snydeq

on Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:25PM

snydeq writes: "MySQL fork Drizzle has been released for general availability, giving companies a viable alternative to Oracle-owned MySQL, InfoWorld reports. 'Organizations that have been seeking a less-expensive alternative to Oracle's brand of MySQL — or a variant devoid of feature bloat — now have an option that Drizzle's creators deem ready to package in Linux distributions.'"

Submission + - Researchers Determine Prejudice Has Evolutionary R (ibtimes.com) 1

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gabbo529

on Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:08PM

gabbo529 writes: "Researchers recently discovered prejudice is a trait humans have retained from their evolutionary predecessors. Yale researchers led by psychologist Laurie Santos determined that monkeys often treat individuals from outside their groups with same kind of xenophobia as their human cousins often do. Santos and her team studied the rhesus macaques, a type of monkey living on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, and performed a series of tests to make these conclusions."

Submission + - China Wants Transparency Over Japan Nuclear Power (articlechase.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 17, 2011 @02:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: China – The Chinese government are fed up with the different stories being released by their Japanese counterparts regarding the Nuclear Leaks at the Fukushima Reactor and conflicting stories regarding the other facilities damaged in the earthquake and following tsunami.

Submission + - Mozilla Schedules Firefox 4.0 For March 22 (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 17, 2011 @02:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla plans to launch Firefox 4.0 on March 22, 2011. The news comes straight from the horse's mouth: the new release date was posted on the Mozilla Wiki and on mozilla.dev.planning.
Mozilla has found problems in the current RC1 build, but it has decided that those issues aren't critical. RC1 will be released as the final version and a 4.0.1 release will be issued instead. The company will enable users to update Firefox versions 3.5 and 3.6 to 4.0 without the need to navigate to a download page.

Submission + - US-EU bank spying deal on verge of collapse (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger

on Thursday March 17, 2011 @01:51PM

jfruhlinger writes: "The CIA and other U.S. spy agencies have been snooping on European bank transactions since the 9/11 attacks, but only recently have those actions been legalized by a US-EU agreement. However, the Europeans are now accusing Americans of overstepping the terms, and may back out."

Submission + - Device-Level Encryption Arrives for Android (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Thursday March 17, 2011 @01:48PM

Trailrunner7 writes: As attacks on mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets have surged in recent months, security researchers and customers have continued to look for ways to lock down their devices and protect the data they store on them. Whisper Systems has jumped into the fray with WhisperCore, a new device-level encryption application for Android.

WhiseprCore is designed to enable users to encrypt the sensitive information that they store on their Android phones. The application, which is only available for the Nexus S phone right now, is in beta at the moment, but the company has plans to release versions for other Android devices in the near future.

Submission + - U.S. military commissions sock puppet program (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by chrb on Thursday March 17, 2011 @01:39PM

chrb writes: The Guardian and The Telegraph are reporting that U.S. based Ntrepid Corporation has been awarded a $2.76 million contract to develop software aimed at manipulating social media. The project aims to enable military personnel to control multiple "sock puppets" located at a range of geographically diverse IP addresses, with the aim of spreading pro-U.S. propaganda. The project will not target English speaking web sites (yet) but will be limited to foreign languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto. The project will be funded as part of the $200 million Operation Earnest Voice (OEV) program run by U.S. Central Command.

Submission + - Unmanned load carriers Japan needs them now (suasnews.com)

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garymortimer

on Thursday March 17, 2011 @01:37PM

garymortimer writes: "News channels throughout the world are showing images of manned helicopters flying to drop water on the failing nuclear power station at Fukushima Daiichi Japan. Its just the dull, dangerous or dirty task that unmanned systems will be very good at in near the future.

The multi-mission K-MAX is a 6,000-pound power lifter that maintains performance in hot/high environments. It is well suited for an array of military missions, including aerial re-supply, sensor applications and weapons delivery. The aircraft may be operated as an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) or with a pilot, depending on mission requirements."

Submission + - Gamestaq actually gives power to the players (gamersleak.com)

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Gamersleak

on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:16PM

Gamersleak writes: "More and more companies are starting to cut out the middle man. With their slogan being “We believe that the power should actually be given to the players,” Gamestaq is after some big fishes. As you may know, Gamestop is one of the biggest eater of the 2 billion used games market. They pay you unfair prices for brand new titles. As soon as you turn around and head home, they put the game up for sale with an incredible markup price. While gamers like us are not stupid and completely realize it, we all just got used to the process. Apart from Gamestop lets not forget Craigslist, we all know the risks there."

Submission + - Google Extends SSL to Developer Facing APIs (net-security.org) 1

Submitted by Orome1 on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:11PM

Orome1 writes: Firesheep's authors can be the satisfied with the gradual migration towards SSL that most of the biggest social networks, search engines, online shops and others have embarked upon since its advent. Google, which has already taken care of its users and encrypted its Web Search, Gmail and Google Docs, has now turned its attention to the APIs used by developers.

Submission + - Does Android Have A Linux Copyright Issue? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 17, 2011 @11:55AM

An anonymous reader writes: TheRegister says Google's attempt to purge copyright from header files has put mobile developers at risk of being forced to reveal their own source code, according to legal experts. This time it's not patents or Android's reinterpretation of Java that's causing problems, but the Linux code that compiles down into Android itself. The discussion started with a Huffington Post article by IP lawyer Edward Naughton, who has serious doubts about Google's approach to the Linux kernel header files. He in turn links to copyright law professor Ray Nimmer's blog post on disclosure risks on copyleft platforms. And IP blogger Florian Mueller believes Google faces a serious Linux copyright issue.

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