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Comment Re:Easy way to massively improve fuel consumption (Score 1) 674

by charliebear on Saturday September 27, 2008 @11:32AM (#25177597) Attached to: Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20%

plenty of european and japanese cars already feature such a device.

Some American cars have had "instant fuel economy" readouts as an option for many years. I know the 1992 Lincoln Town car had this as an option. Of course it still got 12 miles per gallon, but at least you knew about it.

ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew 158

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 07, 2008 @10:16AM from the yay-for-august dept.

TnGoastiiaiu submitted a space.com story that expands on coverage we've had earlier about improvements being made to the ISS to increase crew capacity. He writes "ISS gets new recycling gear that transforms human waste to drinking water. Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too. This way it will soon be possible to host more crew members. " Also, someone needs to smack the webmaster over there for putting a background texture behind the text. It's pretty unreadable along the left hand side of the screen.

Firefox Goes for World Download Record 344

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 29, 2008 @07:59AM from the record-for-the-lamest-marketing-campaign dept.

Kelson writes "For the upcoming release of Firefox, Mozilla is preparing Download Day 2008: a campaign to set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Participants are asked to pledge to download Firefox 3 on the day that it's launched. The exact date hasn't been scheduled yet, but everything seems on track for June."

3D Crystal Grown On a DNA Lattice 61

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @07:58PM from the holy-grail dept.

An anonymous reader suggests an article over at ScienceDaily about the achievement of the holy grail of nanoscience: "[R]esearchers at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have for the first time used DNA to guide the creation of three-dimensional, ordered, crystalline structures of nanoparticles. The ability to engineer such 3-D structures is essential to producing functional materials that take advantage of the unique properties that may exist at the nanoscale — for example, enhanced magnetism, improved catalytic activity, or new optical properties."

Feed USB BB gun sports barrel-mounted webcam, ensures home security (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @12:32PM

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household

While there's certainly a variety of options to keep watch and protect your property from curious intruders, the latest branch of vCrib gives a new meaning to being on guard. Crafted by the designer of the Virtual Crib home automation software, the USB BB gun sports automatic firing, manual reloading, and the ability to fire based on commands given remotely on a PC. Moreover, the weapon actually packs a webcam on the barrel, allowing users to login via computer, tilt / swivel the gun with simple mouse flicks, and fire away if you spot any intruders within its broad line of sight. It shouldn't need mentioning that we'd make absolutely sure our landlord was cool with mounting a remotely-controlled weapon in the window, but if you need to take home security into your own hands (without actually being at home), be sure to click on through to see this controversial creation spittin' hot fury.

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Feed Bee Colony Collapse Disorder And Viral Disease Incidence Under Investigation (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @12:12PM

Researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory have been playing an important role investigating viral disease incidence as it relates to honey bee colony deaths, specifically the increased deaths in bee colonies with unique symptoms, called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Blurring Images Not So Secure 166

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 07, 2007 @10:21AM from the release-the-blue-dot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dheera Venkatraman explains in a webpage how an attacker might be able to extract personal information such as check or credit card numbers, from images blurred with a mosaic effect, potentially exposing the data behind hundreds of images of blurred checks found online, and provides a ficticious example. While much needs to be developed to apply such an algorithm to real photographic images, he offers a simple, yet obvious solution: cover up the sensitive information, don't blur it."

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