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smooth wombat writes:
Travelling to a time in the past is, as far as we know, not possible. However, Einstein postulated a faster-than-light effect known as 'spooky action at a distance'. The problem is, how do you test for such an effect? That test may now be here. If all goes well, hopefully by September 15th, John Cramer will have experimented with a beam of laser light which has been split in two to test Einstein's idea.
While he is only testing the quantum entanglement portion, changing one light beam and having the same change made in the other beam, his experiment might show that a change made in one beam shows up in the other beam before he actually makes the change.
An interesting sidenote is that the money for this project was raised not from the scientific community but from the public at large. His fans have sent him the money necessary to purchase the equipment to test Einstein's idea.
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unchiujar writes:
Britain became separated from mainland Europe after a catastrophic flood some time before 200,000 years ago, a sonar study of the English Channel confirms.
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DaveWick79 writes:
From the article: "Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
The "brain-machine interface" developed by Hitachi Inc. analyzes slight changes in the brain's blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals.
A cap connects by optical fibers to a mapping device, which links, in turn, to a toy train set via a control computer and motor during one recent demonstration at Hitachi's Advanced Research Laboratory in Hatoyama, just outside Tokyo."
Might this technology be adaptable in the near future to operation of PC's or other technology? Obviously, they've got to cut down on the size of that headgear.
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l-ascorbic writes:
Google Street View is great, but the coverage is very limited. A mobile apps researcher in Vienna wanted coverage of his hometown, so created his own Google Street View, using the CleVR panorama viewer and the Google Maps API.
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goredwingsgo writes:
One of the owners of a Swedish software company Alphacash, that has developed a nation-wide credit card transaction system, is suspected of hijacking at least 20,000 credit card numbers belonging to individuals. The Alphacash system acts between the point of purchase and the bank or credit card company. Hence, several banks and credit card companies are affected, including SEB, Nordea and Eurocard.
More intriguingly, the owner, now at large and believed to be in Brazil, was convicted of handling of stolen goods last fall (IDG.se Swedish only).
One of the banks affected, SEB, says the customers will not lose out financially (TheLocal.se).
Well, in the end, the customers sure will have to pay up for the banks ignorance.
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startling writes:
The BBC has released its On-demand service that lets people watch TV shows after they have screened, but only on Windows.
From the article: "Earlier this month BBC Future Media boss Ashley Highfield said the corporation was committed to rolling out the iPlayer on Windows PCs first of all, and then cable TV services, Apple Macs, and eventually Freeview boxes. But the BBC said it could not commit to a two-year deadline to achieve this goal, saying it was up to the third parties concerned."
So, no mention of Linux there. Would this stop many from considering a Linux-based PC? I can imagine the sales spiel: "Will you want to watch TV on your PC? Then you'll need a Microsoft Windows PC — it's the only one that works..."
Is this a case of the BBC abusing its monopoly position to help another monopoly: Microsoft? Having seen the recent BBC, ahem, "documentary" about Vista I was shocked as it looked to me like a half-hour long advert for Microsoft Vista.
