See instead http://www.iop.org/news/14/nov... and http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pap... Really, Zothecula, the shameless clickbaiting for gizmag is getting pretty tiresome.

Not much new here, but a small increase in speed at a huge increase in price. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

Silly, everyone knows that the dietary fancy of C. elegans is E. coli strain OP50, so that should probably be "Do Caendroids Dream of Electric Germs?" (further reading at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...)

Once our robotic overlords figure out how to enjoy that, we may be safe from extinction.

Autocorrect? Or perhaps not????

What's that in English?

Thousands of dollars per school would mean a system just won't be provided to poor schools, a simply unconscionable form of economic discrimination. Fortunately there's a way better answer.
Put an app on many of those smart phones, enabled by the reverse 911 lockdown message. By the time the cops show up on scene, each such phone can have responded to report its GPS position and a half-second timestamped audio clip of the sound of (presumed) shots as heard through each classroom door. Centrally process those clips to determine the time offsets as the sound goes down the hall from one classroom to the next. You don't need to put any special hardware in the school, though having a floorplan on record would improve accuracy. Once the approach works, it can be rolled out for nearly no cost, practically overnight, everywhere that reverse 911 is in place.
I'm happy to release this idea into the public domain for anyone who'll code it as free (Libre and beer) software. Who wants to put together a quick little project?

Didn't Apple and Google both assure us that our data was safe in their clouds? That even they couldn't read it? What could possibly go wrong?

Not all fishermen are hookers, many are found with fishnets. Besides, "honest judge, that fish was thiiiss big!!!"

Well, it's a PDF, so whether you can burn it depends on what you print it on. Paper ought to work.

It's not necessary to take the logs' accuracy entirely on faith. A sloppy or less-than-competent navigator's work showed up when he made landfall in the wrong place. The logs will show the error corrections that had to be made at those times. Checking these corrections should be enough to validate the balance of his work.