amigoro - Slashdot User

Submission + - Magic microchip patterning technique developed (pressesc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03, 2007 @08:52AM

An anonymous reader writes: The time and cost needed to produce microchips could be drastically reduced thanks to a simple low-cost a new process invented by Princeton engineers in which a thin polymer film is sandwiched between two flat plates that are then pulled apart creating ultra small grooves over large areas as if by "magic".

Submission + - "Free" wireless broadband sparks "free (pressesc.com)

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Enormous Coward

on Saturday September 01, 2007 @04:48AM

Enormous Coward writes: "A company that wants to offer "free" filtered Internet over unused TV spectrum band has hit back at criticism that its service is "free as in beer" but not "free as in speech". M2Z Networks (M2Z) today announced that in just the past 15 working days over 1,000 individuals from forty-nine states have written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting M2Z's pending application. Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC) opposes the application on the grounds that, although M2Z's application could provide significant benefits to the American people, "the proposed license conditions do not adequately ensure that M2Z would operate under open device rules or network neutrality rules of sufficient stringency to confer the full benefits of innovation and free expression to the public.""

Submission + - Don't censor gTLDs, public tells ICANN (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Friday August 31, 2007 @02:46PM

amigoro writes: "The public overwhelmingly opposes plans by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) to censor generic top-level domains (gTLDs), on the grounds of moral, political and commercial judgments and other non-technical criteria, according to comments received on its new policy guidelines."

Submission + - 'Touch' over IP coming soon (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Thursday August 30, 2007 @02:42AM

amigoro writes: "Shoppers, lovers, and gamers online could 'feel' different in the future, thanks to thanks to research being carried out at Queen's University into a new technology which has the potential to add the sense of touch to virtual worlds. Known as haptic technology, such systems interface the user via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations and motions to the user."

Submission + - Internet bandwidth to become a global currency (pressesc.com)

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Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @10:29AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Internet bandwidth could become a global currency under a proposed model for the future of e-commerce that exploits a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application designed by a trans-Atlantic team of computer scientists. Sounds great, but it remains to be seen whether this is implementable in real life."

Submission + - Physicists prove Schrödinger's cat (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Friday August 24, 2007 @01:51PM

amigoro writes: "A team of Australian and French scientists have proven the well known quantum physics theory known as Schrödinger's cat by successfully superposing light beams producing a state that appears to be both on and off at once, according to a letter in the journal Nature."

Submission + - Rocket-powered bionic arm successfully tested (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Monday August 20, 2007 @03:04PM

amigoro writes: "A rocket-powered bionic arm has been successfully developed and tested by a team of mechanical engineers at Vanderbilt University as part of a $30 million military program to develop advanced prosthetic devices for next generation of super-soldiers."

Submission + - Scientists discover how to erase memories (pressesc.com) 1

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amigoro

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @10:48PM

amigoro writes: "Neuroscientists have discovered that long-term memories are not etched in a "clay tablet"-like stable form as once thought, but the process is much more dynamic, involving a miniature molecular machine that must run constantly to keep memories going, jamming the machine briefly can erase long-term memories."

Submission + - Do you have to be smart to be rich? (pressesc.com) 3

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amigoro

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @06:11AM

amigoro writes: "Do you have to be intelligent to be wealthy?

The answer is yes, according to a study which tracks a large group of young US baby boomers, but only if all other factors are held constant. But regression results suggest that statistically, there is really no distinguishable relationship between IQ scores and wealth."

Submission + - Content beats commerce, communication and search (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Monday August 13, 2007 @11:43AM

amigoro writes: "Internet users spend almost half of their online time on content, while commerce, communication and search have to contend with the remaining time, according to latest finding by Online Publishers Association (OPA). We must appreciate the role sites like Slashdot played to hasten this transition."

Submission + - "Life" found in inorganic interstellar dus (pressesc.com)

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Anonymous Alien

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @10:10AM

Anonymous Alien writes: "Physicists have found evidence that inorganic dust with life-like qualities exists in interstellar space, according to new research published in New Journal of Physics that hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks and also offer a possible new explanation for the origin of life on Earth."

Submission + - God and colonization urge spurred human spacefligh (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @09:32AM

amigoro writes: "Believing that God was backing them, Americans embraced human space exploration because of its potential for extending US dominion beyond the final frontier and for the promise of colonization and expansion, a space historian argues in Acta Astronautica."

Submission + - Privacy winning search engine war (pressesc.com)

Submitted by

amigoro

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:54PM

amigoro writes: "Privacy is emerging as the real winner of the Internet search engine war as companies aggressively compete with one another by offering stronger protections for user records, a report published today by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) concluded. The report notes that until recently, most of the major Internet search engines kept detailed and potentially personally identifiable records of their customers' searches for as indefinitely. But today the companies are trying to outdo each other in privacy protection by announcing steps to delete old user data, strip the personally identifiable information out of stored search records, and, in one case, give users the option to have all of their search records deleted."

Submission + - Spam botnet Achilles' heel found (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Monday August 06, 2007 @02:23PM

amigoro writes: "While hundreds or thousands of compromised computers may be used to relay spam to users, most scams are hosted by individual Web servers and killing a single scam server or a spammer redirect will disable an entire botnet spam campaign, computer scientists from the UC San Diego have found."

Submission + - Senate website withholding wiretap law roll call (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Sunday August 05, 2007 @09:22AM

amigoro writes: "The US Senate website is not publishing the roll call of votes by Senators on the bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act making President George W. Bush's illegal wiretapping order retroactively legal."

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