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Submission + - Taking a QUIC Test Drive (connectify.me)

Submitted by agizis
agizis writes: Google presented their new QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) protocol to the IETF yesterday as a future replacement for TCP. It was discussed here when it was originally announced, but now there’s real working code. How fast is it really? We wanted to know, so we dug in and benchmarked QUIC at different bandwidths, latencies and reliability levels (test code included, of course), and ran our results by the QUIC team.

Submission + - Crowdsourced Networking Planning (wheredoyouwantfasterinternet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Tom’s Hardware reports on the Connectify Switchboard software that “divides the user's traffic between Wi-Fi, 3G/4G and Ethernet-based connections on a packet-by-packet basis. Even a single stream — such as a Netflix movie — can be split between two or three Internet connections for a higher resolution and faster buffering.“ As part of its Kickstarter campaign, Connectify is geolocating their backers to optimize deployment of their servers. This is a clever way for supporters to influence the project beyond pledge levels and stretch goals, and it’s actually kind of fun to watch.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - 10 Internet Connections at Same Time (connectify.me) 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As a follow up to the story about Verizon being forced to allow tethering, the engineers at Connectify climbed on the roof and made a video showing an 85Mbps download rate through a combination of a tethered Verizon mobile phone and ALL of the available open Wi-Fi networks. It’s a darn shame that they cancelled the unlimited 3G on the Kindle, tether 20 of those bad boys and you could have had a real Internet connection.

Submission + - The Verge interviews Neal Stephenson (theverge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: You all like Stephenson, right? "In a sprawling interview with The Verge, the author offered up some of his many plans and thoughts, including a new “research-heavy” novel, his trouble with Twitter, and why Kickstarter might be superior to venture capital."
User Journal

Journal Journal: 2 Billion "loss" and Investing in Inflation 4

Journal by roman_mir

Earlier it was reported that $2 Billion was lost in some shady trading transactions by Kweku Adoboli, a UBS trader. This of-course ran all sorts of alarm bells, having worked in banking it's difficult to imagine that it would be possible for a single trader to be able to trade with so much money without anybody noticing. It's much more likely that there is higher management involved in this and the poor sap, who will
Intel

Submission + - Intel's Thunderbolt With Fiber Optics Years Away (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week at IDF. Originally introduced in February on Macs, Thunderbolt was pitched as being optical technology but currently uses copper wires. Dadi Perlmutter of Intel's Architecture Group said copper wires are working much better than expected, and that fiber was expensive. 'It's going to be way out,' Perlmutter said. 'At the end of the day it's all about how much speed people need versus how much they would be willing to pay.'"
ISS

Submission + - Roscosmos close to findings on Soyuz & Proton. (spaceflightnow.com)

Submitted by neBelcnU
neBelcnU writes: It's still early, but there are findings for the recent losses of a Proton and Soyuz rockets. There was a procedural error in the Proton's flight planning, and the 3rd stage gas-generator is the center of attention in the Soyuz. This means a return-to-flight, which would allow the ISS to remain staffed.
China

Submission + - Chinese want to capture an asteroid (dvice.com)

Submitted by
geekmansworld
geekmansworld writes: "Dvice reports that the Chinese want to capture an asteroid into earth's orbit and mine it. From the article: "At first glance, nudging an asteroid closer to Earth seems like one of those "what could possible go wrong" scenarios that we generally try and avoid, and for good reason: large asteroid impacts are bad times. The Chinese, though, seem fairly optimistic that they could tweak the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid by just enough (a change in velocity of only about 1,300 feet-per-second or so) to get it to temporarily enter Earth orbit at about twice the distance as the Moon.""
Displays

Submission + - UCLA develops stretchable OLED display (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: While there have been some intriguing developments recently in the field of stretchable electronics and flexible OLED displays, one thing we haven't heard much about is stretchable displays. So is it possible to make a screened device in which every part of it could be stretched. The answer could now be yes, with news that researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated a stretchable polymer light-emitting device.

Submission + - Tulane Uses Bacteria to Power Cars (tulane.edu)

Submitted by Lifyre
Lifyre writes: Scientists at Tulane have found the a natural bacteria (dubbed TU-103) that produces butanol. While butanol producing bacteria aren't new there are a few important points about this particular bacterium. It is the first natural bacteria that converts cellulose directly to butanol without the cellulose needing to be processed into sugar first and it can do this in the presence of oxygen, which kills other butanol producing bacteria. The simplification of the process could significantly decrease the production costs of butanol. This bacteria could allow virtually any plant product, such as paper or grass clippings, to be used to produce fuel for conventional vehicles.
Encryption

Submission + - Pakistan Bans Encryption (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After some rumors of this last month, Pakistan has now officially told all of the country's ISPs that they need to block all encrypted VPNs since content running over such things cannot be monitored by the government.
Science

Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All 269

Posted by Soulskill from the act-now-while-supplies-last dept.
cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "You've heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. Some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up the Earth — physicists say that's impossible — and have petitioned the United Nations to stop the $5.5 billion LHC. Curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, Einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way. Now a computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole." That said, they estimate the required energy for creating a black hole this way to be roughly "a quintillion times higher than the LHC's maximum"; though if one of the theories requiring compact extra dimensions is true, the energy could be lower.
The Gimp

Submission + - GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04 (digitizor.com) 2

Submitted by kai_hiwatari
kai_hiwatari writes: It seems like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. So they are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. This actually feels like a good reason as most people uses GIMP as a "Paint"-like software.

Submission + - AT&T loses first legal battle against Verizon (cnet.com)

Submitted by FutureDomain
FutureDomain writes: In an uncommon display of common sense, a federal judge in Atlanta has declined a retraining order from AT&T that would have prevented Verizon from running ads that compared their 3G coverage to AT&T's. AT&T felt that Verizon's ads "mislead consumers into thinking that AT&T doesn't offer wireless service in large portions of the country, which is clearly not the case." Verizon argued that the ads clearly indicated that the maps were only of 3G coverage, and that AT&T is only suing because it doesn't want to face the truth about its network.
Programming

Submission + - Building a 32-bit One Instruction Computer

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "The advantages of RISC are well known — simplifying the CPU core by reducing the complexity of the instruction set allows faster speeds, more registers, and pipelining to provide the appearance of single cycle execution. Al Williams writes in Dr Dobbs about taking RISC to it's logical conclusion by designing a functional computer called One-Der with only a single simple instruction — a 32-bit Transfer Triggered Architecture (TTA) CPU that operates at roughly 10 MIPS. "When I tell this story in person, people are usually squirming with the inevitable question: What's the one instruction?" writes Williams. "It turns out there's several ways to construct a single instruction CPU, but the method I had stumbled on does everything via a move instruction (hence the name, "Transfer Triggered Architecture")." The CPU is implemented on a a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device and the prototype works on a "Spartan 3 Starter Board" with an XS3C1000 device available from Digilent that has the equivalent of about 1,000,000 logic gates costing between $100 and $200. "Applications that can benefit from custom instruction in hardware — things like digital signal processing, for example — are ideal for One-Der since you can implement parts of your algorithm in hardware and then easily integrate those parts with the CPU.""

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