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Submission + - Jimmy Carter Calls Snowden Leak Ultimately "Beneficial" (rt.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: According to RT, the 39th president of the United States made several statements worth noting. Carter said that 'America has no functioning democracy at this moment' and 'the invasion of human rights and American privacy has gone too far.' The second comment sounded like the Carter predicted the future would look favorably upon Snowden's leads — at least those concerning domestic spying in the United States — as he said: 'I think that the secrecy that has been surrounding this invasion of privacy has been excessive, so I think that the bringing of it to the public notice has probably been, in the long term, beneficial.' It may be worth noting that, stemming from Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, Jimmy Carter signed the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 into law and that Snowden has received at least one nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Submission + - Chevron granted access to environmental activists' email accounts (quora.com)

Submitted by mikeoride
mikeoride writes: Oil giant Chevron has been granted access to "more than 100 email accounts, including environmental activists, journalists, and attorneys" involved in a long-running dispute involving damage "caused by oil drilling" in Ecuador, reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which, with EarthRights International (ERI), is opposing the New York court's decision says:

After years of litigation, an Ecuadorian court last year imposed a judgment of over $17 billion on Chevron for dumping toxic waste into Amazon waterways and causing massive harm to the rainforest.

Submission + - Plants Talk to Each Other Through Messengers in the Soil (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Taffykay
Taffykay writes: Chinese researchers discovered in 2010 that a tomato plant infected with leaf blight alerts other plants, which then activate genes to ward off the disease. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen expanded that original study with broad bean plants, and discovered that the plants communicate with one other through a fungus messenger in the soil.

Submission + - Aerovelo's Human-Powered Helicopter Wins Elusive $250,000 Sikorsky Prize

Submitted by oritonic1
oritonic1 writes: Since 1980, several teams have tried (and failed) to build a human-powered helicopter that could win the elusive $250,000 Sikorsky prize. But a Canadian start-up, Aerovelo, has finally taken the crown with Atlas, a human-powered craft that managed to stay at least 10 feet in the air, for 60 seconds, within a 30'x30' area.

Submission + - "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Store Hundreds of Terabytes Indefinitely (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Recently, there have been advances in the area of digital data storage promising outstanding data density and super-long-term data storage. A new data storage technology developed at the University of Southampton can do both. Due to its similarities to the “memory crystals” used in the Superman films, it has been dubbed the "Superman memory crystal."

Submission + - The Wheel of the Future Has Arrived - And It's Shapes Like a Cube (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by formaggio
formaggio writes: You’d think that a cube-shaped wheel would be completely counterproductive, but Patrick’s angular SharkWheel (discovered by accident) has proved to be smoother and faster than a conventional skateboard wheel. The magic appears to be in the materials and the helix-shape which makes it possible for the wheel to take on virtually any terrain at speeds that would not be seen with a traditional wheel.

Submission + - Solar Impulse Airplane to Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by
markboyer
markboyer writes: "The Solar Impulse just landed at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California to announce a journey that will take it from San Francisco to New York without using a single drop of fuel. The "Across America" tour will kick off this May when founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg take off from San Francisco. From there the plane will visit four cities across the states before landing in New York."
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Submission + - Foster + Partners and ESA to 3D Print Building on the Moon (fosterandpartners.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Internationally acclaimed architecture firm Foster + Partners built the Hearst Tower, the Millennium Bridge, and the Gherkin here on earth — and now they're setting their sights on outer space with plans to produce a 3D printed building on the moon. Today the firm announced that it has partnered with the European Space Agency to develop a lunar base for four people that can withstand the threat of meteorites, gamma radiation and temperature fluctuations. Since transporting building materials to space is a challenge, the team is considering using on-site 3D printing as a solution.

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