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Submission + - A simple inhaler shows promise preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease (healthline.com)

Submitted by LesterMoore
LesterMoore writes: Among the most promising research on Alzheimer's disease from the last year highlighted by the NIH come a few studies that suggest that blood sugar is a key factor in the disease and that a simple insulin inhaler can prevent dementia & even improve existing symptoms. Compared to failed attempts to use new pharmaceuticals, that seems like a big deal.
Iphone

Submission + - Find my iPhone used to locate plane crash in Chile (9to5mac.com)

Submitted by spagiola
spagiola writes: Late last week, a military transport aircraft with 17 people on -board went missing near Robinson Crusoe, Chile. The relatives of one of the crash victims logged into Find My iPhone and were able to isolate the coordinates of the last known whereabouts of the plane before it crashed.
Power

Submission + - Ammonia: The Fuel Technology Of The Future? (allcartech.com)

Submitted by thecarchik
thecarchik writes: Ammonia: Useful in fertilizers, cleaning products and fairly unpleasant in direct human contact. Used as a fuel for vehicles? Certainly not impossible.

Rather than using hydrogen to power fuel cells and the associated high-pressure storage problems associated with this, we could would use water to produce hydrogen from electrolysis, and this is then combined with nitrogen from the air to produce ammonia.

The ammonia itself would then be burned in an internal combustion engine, but the burning process only releases water vapor and nitrogen, rather than the unburned hydrocarbons and other pollutants that internal combustion is normally associated with.

In theory, the ammonia is also simple and cheap to produce — enough so that it could be sold at 20 cents per gallon. As long as researchers keep working on radical ideas such as Ammonia powered cars or "urine powered cars", they are bound to one day to hit on the formula that can be widely adopted.

Submission + - CS Majors do badly in the jobs market (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: British CS majors do badly in the job market — with, four years after graduation, a higher than average (for college graduates) unemployment rate and fewer returning to higher education. The only good news is that a higher propertion than average are in employment. Brit CS majors also do badly immediately after graduation. No similar US figures exist reports the Computing Education Blog.
Crime

Submission + - London Riots + Facial Recognition Technology (forbes.com)

Submitted by nonprofiteer
nonprofiteer writes: A bunch of vigilantes are organizing a Google Group dedicated to using recently revealed facial recognition tools (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/1533210/How-Face-Recognition-Can-Uncover-SSNs) to identify looters in the London riots. While Vancouver discussed doing something similar after the Stanley Cup riots, it never actually moved forward on it. Ring of Steel London, though, is far more likely to incorporate FRT into its investigative work.

http://groups.google.com/group/london-riots-facial-recognition (now a private group)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/google-group-members-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-london-rioter/
Technology

Submission + - An E-Reader That Doesn't Require Electricity (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by LesterMoore
LesterMoore writes: Faced with a choice between paper and channeling electricity through the latest gadget, it's easy to feel guilty about reading. But you don't need to fret anymore, because Taiwanese researchers have developed re-writable “paper” that allows you to channel the benefits of an e-reader, all without the need to keep it powered up.
Blackberry

Submission + - RIM About To Shut Down BBM (theappwhisperer.com) 1

Submitted by
theappwhisperer
theappwhisperer writes: "Despite responses from RIM during the night that they will not be shutting down their BBM service it is now looking increasingly likely that they will. Tottenham MP David Lammy has called on RIM to shut down its BlackBerry Messenger service overnight, in the hope that it will prevent rioters coordinating more attacks throughout England.

Lammy went on to speak on Radio 5Live earlier today where he said the BBM service was, "one of the reasons why unsophisticated criminals are outfoxing an otherwise sophisticated police force".

We have been speaking with RIM's PR department today and so far there is no official word that this will happen, the message is to 'stay tuned' with a statement following (hopefully) in due course. We will keep checking back on this and as soon as we have an update we will let you know."
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook Use May Lead to Psychological Disorder In (gizmocrazed.com) 2

Submitted by
Mightee
Mightee writes: "Too much Facebook may lead to psychological disorders such as antisocial behaviors, mania and aggressive tendencies in teenagers, according to a study carried out by Psychology Professor Larry Rosen at the California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Professor Rosen presented his research at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association which states that social media has its advantages and risks to children, and parents who try to block their children's of networking are wasting their time as it is quite easy for teenagers of today to find loopholes. The presentation was titled Poke Me: How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids."
Science

Submission + - Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range by 300% (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by LesterMoore
LesterMoore writes: Japanese company Sumitomo Electric Industries have developed a new material that they believe can improve the range of EVs by an impressive 300%. The ‘super material’ is a form of porous aluminum called “Aluminum-Celmet.” It is a light-weight metal that SEI believes can be utilized in lithium ion batteries as its 3D structure can reportedly triple battery capacity.
Science

Submission + - Constant Charging Solar 'Sponge' Battery (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by LesterMoore
LesterMoore writes: A team from MIT is on the cusp of creating a solar battery made from carbon nanotubes that can be recharged constantly via exposure to the sun. The device absorbs the sun’s heat in a chemical form – instead of instantly converting it to energy, like a solar cell, it stores the heat in a heavily insulated container.
Firefox

Submission + - Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Firefox product manager Asa Dotzler determined that figuring out the 64-bit confusion surrounding Firefox it will be “near the top” of his to-do list this summer and fall. One could conclude that Mozilla has no idea at this point what people are expecting from a 64-bit version of Firefox, so Dotzler is asking for some feedback. More speed? More security? What about plug-in availability? All of the above, please.

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