Submission + - CyanogenMod Domain Stolen (cyanogenmod.org)
Submission + - Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code (muktware.com)
Submission + - The Empire In Decline?
Submission + - Salt Lake City Police to wear cameras. (ksl.com)
If Chief Burbank gets his way, these tiny, weightless cameras will soon be on every police officer in the state.
With all the opposition of police officers being recorded by citizens that we are seeing throughout the country it is quite a surprise that they would make a move like this. The officers would wear them when they are investigating crime scenes, serving warrants, and during patrols. Suddenly Utah isn't looking like such a bad place to be. Now we just need to hope other states and departments would follow suite. It sure will be nice when there is video evidence to show the real story.
Submission + - New WiFi protocol boosts congested wireless network throughput by 700% (extremetech.com)
Submission + - Band uses nuclear isotopes to make music (foxnews.com)
Submission + - Battery-Powered Transmitter Could Crash UK's 4G Network (ibtimes.co.uk)
This information comes from research carried out in the US into the possibility of using LTE networks as the basis for a next-generation emergency response communications system.
Jeff Reed, director of the wireless research group at Virginia Tech, along with research assistant, Marc Lichtman, described the vulnerabilities to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which advises the White House on telecom and information policy.
"If LTE technology is to be used for the air interface of the public safety network, then we should consider the types of jamming attacks that could occur five or ten years from now. It is very possible for radio jamming to accompany a terrorist attack, for the purpose of preventing communications and increasing destruction," Reed said."
Submission + - Nate Silver turns his eye to the American League (nytimes.com)
Submission + - 'Rogue (wandering) planet' spotted 100 light-years away (bbc.co.uk) 1
"We observed hundreds of millions of stars and planets, but we only found one homeless planet in our neighbourhood."
This planet appears to be an astonishingly young 50-120 million years old.
The paper is published at arxiv.org.
Here's hoping the Mayan End-of-World-2012 people don't seize upon this as some kind of impending rogue planet on a collision course with Earth, but one can expect it'll be bantered about on such forums.
Submission + - Everspin launches non-volatile MRAM that's 500 times faster than NAND (extremetech.com)
Submission + - Why Gerald Crabtree's speculations about declining human intelligence are wrong (guardian.co.uk)
Submission + - Firefox To Get Native Flash Support The Shumway Project (muktware.com)
Submission + - Honda's "Micro Commuter" Features Swappable Bodies (gizmag.com)
Submission + - Artificial Wombs in the near future? (ieet.org) 3
"Cornell University's Dr. Hung-Ching Liu has engineered endometrial tissues by prompting cells to grow in an artificial uterus. When Liu introduced a mouse embryo into the lab-created uterine lining, "It successfully implanted and grew healthy," she said in this New Atlantis Magazine article. Scientists predict the research could produce an animal womb by 2020, and a human model by early 2030s."
The author of the article seems to believe that birth via artificial wombs could become the new norm, but is it really feasible, desirable or even affordable for the majority of Earth's population?"