Among successful entrepreneurs, for example, they see higher incidences of three particular traits: self-regard and narcissism, manipulation and trickery (known as Machiavellianism) and — perhaps most disturbingly — what they refer to as “subclinical psychopathy”. This trio is what psychologists call the “dark triad”.

As recognized by both NIST and the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, cloud computing is an area vital to the economic growth and competitiveness of the nation. The CISE community has responded vigorously to the challenge, as evidenced by the wide range of research efforts underway that are supported by numerous programs throughout the CISE Directorate.

In the end, as a writer, you are a TARDIS. You are bigger on the inside. And constantly inviting wide-eyed young things to see the insides of you, to come with you to places extraordinary and terrible, to trust you to give them a story worth leaving the real world behind. It’s an awful, intimate thing. Black magic for true.

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If the bad news — or, as I would argue, “bad news” — is that we have access to more information, more ideas, more writing than we can conceivably process — the good news is that smart programmers are creating some amazing instruments for controlling the ever-more-powerful stream.

Until now, transactional memory has been a technique best described as “experimental.” The theoretical gains—a simpler programming model that allows much greater concurrency than lock-based systems—are well-known, but practical (software-based) implementations have offset those gains due to their poor performance. Even IBM’s implementation is designed with an eye on experimentation to see if transactional memory is useful in practice. But with Intel planning to include the feature in a mainstream, mass-market processor, that changes: transactional memory will start being used for real. For parallel programmers, that’s an exciting prospect indeed.

And notions of what consumers would pay for — and what they should even be asked to pay for — were turned on their heads. By early 1996 the media theorist (and former Grateful Dead lyricist) John Perry Barlow was writing in Wired that the optimal price for information in many cases was … free. “Most soft goods,” Barlow declared, “increase in value as they become more common. Familiarity is an important asset in the world of information. It may often be true that the best way to raise demand for your product is to give it away.”

The researchers propose that, while the Maunder Minimum may have contributed to the Little Ice Age, it did not cause it. Several large volcanic eruptions nudged the climate into a cooler state, where feedbacks kept it for several centuries.

The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month.

The basic goal of the research was to see if something like a cockroach could generate enough electricity from stored sugars to power electronic devices.

Compared to rapid quenching of PPMA, MAPLE produces a glass with a significantly higher transition temperature (about 40°C hotter), meaning the same material is stable at higher temperatures. Using index of refraction measurements, the researchers also determined the glass to be about 60 percent of the density achieved using other techniques, meaning it’s a much lighter weight material. Despite the significant reduction in weight, the MAPLE-deposited PPMA showed no substantial loss in rigidity: the lighter glass is as strong as glasses produced using quenching.

One thing that lets me down about inertial confinement fusion is that the implosion that gets the fusion reaction going also acts to stop the fusion. One idea for improving the fusion reaction that has been floating around for a while is to use magnetic fields in place of lasers to increase the efficiency of the fusion burn. But until recently, no one could figure out how to make it work properly.