Technology
- Television content over the Internet
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In a recent post on my personal blog, I talked about television content delivery and pricing. What I didn’t mention in that post, particularly when I talked about the lack of choice, is that there is another option for content delivery (besides cable/fibe ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jan 27 2010 - 11:31am
- Once more, on passwords
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Recently, the New York Times came out with yet another article about how people consistently pick bad passwords. It’s a hackneyed subject by now, but I shouldn’t complain: I cover this sort of old ground repeatedly, myself. But what makes this article rem ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 1 2010 - 6:01am
- Introducing Hackademe!
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My latest online project: Hackademe! Hack: A clever use of technology, software, or modified items to solve a problem or increase efficiency. Academe: The community of scholars and students engaged in higher education and research; also known as academia o ...
Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Jan 31 2010 - 12:56pm
- Beetles Inspire Human Wall Walking
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A palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond just might make walking on walls possible for humans. The rapid adhesion mechanism could lead to such applications as shoes or gloves that stick and unstick to wall ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2010 - 6:56pm
- A new spam study
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According to the lede in a recent New Scientist article: Spammers’ own trickery has been used to develop an “effectively perfect” method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer scientists claims. ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 4 2010 - 6:01am
- Glowing Wallpaper Made Of Plastic- Much Less Annoying Than It Sounds
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Using graphene, Swedish and American researchers say they have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component which they claim will be inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. The invention was published in ACS Nano by scientists at Linkö ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2010 - 11:46pm
- Cure Governmental Financial Crisis By Using More Holograms
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This is a science site and not a political or economics one and therefore we have poor grasp of things we know nothing about, like how missing cigarette tax revenue can possibly be responsible for bloated governments being unable to pay their bills. But ap ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 19 2010 - 3:16pm
- Internet school bus
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Last week, the New York Times published an item about putting wireless Internet on a school bus. Using a $200 router and $60/month for Internet service, a school district in Arizona has equipped a bus, and is allowing students to use the Internet connecti ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Feb 17 2010 - 8:03pm
- Metal Foam Could Build Better Bones, Car Bumpers
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No, this isn’t a close-up of the surface of a golf ball. It’s a new type of material, one that is porous and elastic, lighter than solid aluminum yet stronger than steel, one that its creators are calling an “ultra high-strength metal matrix composite foa ...
Article - Lauren Rugani - Feb 19 2010 - 1:48am
- Science Imitating Art: Why Is 21st Century Science Obsessed With The Mona Lisa?
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Heads up, banner-plane pilots: you, like so many before you, could lose your job to a sleek, 21st century technology that not only performs better than you, but looks way cooler doing it. ...
Article - Lauren Rugani - Feb 22 2010 - 11:35am
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