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Submission + - Court: Newspaper Articles not Copyrightable (ekonomika.sme.sk)

Submitted by

Yenya

on Monday January 09, 2012 @03:50PM

Yenya writes: "In Slovakia, newspaper articles can be freely aggregated and archived, and are not worth copyright protection. The district court in Bratislava, Slovakia, stated in the case between news publishing house Ecopress and a news monitoring company Storin, that while the news articles manifests traces of creativity, it is not enough to be considered worth protecting the authors rights."

Submission + - Logitech Calls Google TV a 'Big Mistake' (latimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11, 2011 @02:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: Logitech CEO Guerrino De Luca spoke bluntly about Google TV yesterday, referring to it as a 'beta' product and saying that relying on it for the Revue set-top boxes was a mistake. The company will stop production of the Revue, and plans to implement significant price cuts to get rid of their remaining inventory. 'He said there are "no plans to introduce another box to replace Revue." Further, he predicted that the "grandchild of Google TV" might succeed but not the current product. For now, that leaves Sony televisions with the Google software for people looking for the Google TV experience.'

Submission + - Ping pong robots (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Friday November 11, 2011 @12:05PM

mikejuk writes: Meet Wu and Kong — the latest in ping pong playing robots. They may not achieve exciting matches at the moment, but the fact that they can do the job at all is an indication of how fast things are moving.
Unlike many other game-playing robots these two players are humanoid and are kitted out in old style chinese jackets. They are about 1.6 meters tall and weigh in at 55 kilos. They track the ball with video cameras situated in their heads and then play a variety of strokes.They were developed by Zhejiang University and are currently turning up on the Chinese media as a novelty item. The current record for a rally is 144 rounds between robots. Humans can compete against them, but the robots lack the variety of shots that makes table tennis a game of strategy as well as accuracy.

Submission + - Nokia Unveils OLED Phone You Control by Bending (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by jldailey618 on Thursday October 27, 2011 @03:14PM

jldailey618 writes: Nokia just unveiled an OLED smartphone that is controlled by flexing the device with both hands. By bending corners and pushing the sides inward and outward, the user can scroll, zoom, and select. Researchers would not discuss exactly how the processor behind the twisty screen functioned, but they did say that it would be compatible with most current operating systems.

Submission + - Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by

greenrainbow

on Monday August 15, 2011 @12:37PM

greenrainbow writes: "According to scientists, there are mussels at the bottom of the ocean that are efficiently converting hydrogen into energy in their very own, nature-made hydrogen fuel cells. The mussels were found near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and have onboard symbiotic bacteria that convert hydrogen into energy. With this discovery, researchers might be able to clone the hydrogen eating bacteria to create all-natural hydrogen fuel cells to power things other than sea life."

Submission + - NASA to Launch $96mill Cleanup of Shuttle Program (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Elliot Chang on Monday August 01, 2011 @12:11PM

Elliot Chang writes: NASA reports that the pollution caused by Space Shuttle launches at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will cost the government $96 million and will take 30 years to properly clean up. NASA officially ended the Space Shuttle Program on July 21st as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center. It seems that the plumes of smoke resulting from the 135 shuttle launches caused toxic chemicals to seep into the sandy soil around the space center.

Submission + - Oyster 800 Wave Energy Generator Unveiled Today (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @02:38PM

MikeChino writes: We've learned about Scotland's wave energy initiatives in the past, and just this morning the nation unveiled Aquamarine Power's next-generation Oyster 800 wave power plant. The new generator can produce 250% more power at one third the cost of the first full-scale 315kw Oyster that was installed in Orkney in 2009. The device’s shape has been modified and made wider to enable it to capture more wave energy, and a double seabed pile system allows for easier installation. Inhabitat has fresh photos and details from the unveiling.

Submission + - Scientists Breeding Super Bees (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by Elliot Chang on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:04PM

Elliot Chang writes: Over the last five years the world’s honey bee population has been steadily dwindling, with many beekeepers citing 2010 as the worst year yet. In order to save these extremely important insects, scientists are working on breeding a new super honey bee that they hope will be resistant to cold, disease, mites and pesticides. If all goes well, the new and improved insect will continue to pollinate our crops for years to come.

Comment Re:Not sure of how I feel about this (Score 1) 4

by jldailey618 on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @03:54PM (#36440534) Attached to: Argentina Clones Cow to Produce Human-Like Milk

I agree with you, deeelovely. Yes, I understand that most cow's milk cheese and a slew of other cheeses are genetically modified, but the fact that this is cow's milk modified to be like human milk really weirds me out. What's the point?

Submission + - Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by b0bby on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @02:02PM

b0bby writes: The NY Times reports that "Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the first state where they could be legally operated on public roads. ...The two bills, which have received little attention outside Nevada’s Capitol, are being introduced less than a year after the giant search engine company acknowledged that it was developing cars that could be safely driven without human intervention. "

Submission + - Students Invent Revolutionary Solar Sterilizer (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by

greenerd

on Saturday May 07, 2011 @12:46PM

greenerd writes: "Engineering students at Rice University have solved a huge health concern in developing countries by creating a device that uses the sun to sterilize medical instruments. This invention could help prevent the spread of infection and illness in clinics around the world without access to proper sterilization tools."

Submission + - 92,000 Lego Robots To Take Over Peruvian Schools w (olpcnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 08, 2011 @05:20AM

An anonymous reader writes: The president of Peru, Alan Garcia, decided to celebrate the 500,000th One Laptop Per Child XO laptop in that country in style, announcing orders for half a million more and 20,000 additional Lego education WeDo robot kits for public schools. The latest OLPC laptop, the XO-1.75, has the lowest power draw ever thanks to a Marvell Armada 600 ARM processor and runs Fedora GNU/Linux with dual desktops Sugar (in Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua) and GNOME. For the first time, the XOs will be manufactured locally; the previous 2 million, including the blue high school variant with grownup keyboard, were all made by Quanta Computer. Meanwhile, parallel development continues on the upcoming XO-3 tablet; OLPC's New Technologies director is exploring software paths including GTK3 for Sugar, Android and Chrome. I, for one, salute our new plastic Peruvian overlords.

Submission + - Google's driverless car, saving lives and logic (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Saturday April 02, 2011 @09:56AM

mikejuk writes: Google's driverless car could save more than 1 million deaths per year and tens of millions of injuries. It is an impressive achievement, but will we allow it to take over the wheel? Sebastian Thrun puts the case for it in a persuasive TED Talk video.
However it may be OK for human drivers to kill millions of people each year but one human fatality might be enough to finish the driverless car project — in fact it might not even take a death as an injury might cause the same backlash.
Robot drivers might kill far fewer people than a human driver but it remains to be seen if we can be logical enough to accept the occasional failure of algorithm or hardware.
Put simply we might have all seen too many "evil robot" movies.

Submission + - Students Create Thought-Controlled Prosthetic Arm (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Friday April 01, 2011 @10:56AM

Zothecula writes: Two undergraduate students from Toronto's Ryerson University have created a prosthetic arm that is controlled by its wearer's brain signals, and powered by compressed air. Not only is the Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm said to offer a greater range of movement than traditional prostheses, but it also doesn't require the amputee to undergo invasive surgery, is easy to learn to use, and it is relatively inexpensive to make.

Submission + - Earth's graviational shape in detail (esa.int)

Submitted by RobHart on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:13AM

RobHart writes: The European Space Agency (ESA) has released detailed information about the Earth's gravitational shape, based on data from the ESA's GOCE satellite (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer). The link includes an interesting animation of the data, using an appropriately distorted Earth.

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