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Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf
"The article notes that unlike earlier devices, which used costly ingredients, the new device is made from inexpensive materials and employs low-cost engineering and manufacturing processes."
news  energy  science  technology  research  chemistry  power  interesting  photosynthesis 
21 days ago by milkmiruku
edX
"Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners."
education  university  online  internet  web  video  collaboration  technology  edX  interesting 
29 days ago by milkmiruku
This Homemade Headphone Amplifier is a Work of Art
"I've seen many good looking electronics projects in my time, but few of them can compare with the simplicity, style, and elegance of the build that I am about to show you."
blog  audio  design  diy  electronics  aesthetics  cool  technology 
5 weeks ago by milkmiruku
5 Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records
"Today we’ll bring you a list of 5 single torrent files that each broke an impressive record, from the largest through to the oldest, and the one that transferred most data."
article  bittorrent  technology  software  media  download  storage  history  interesting  hdd 
8 weeks ago by milkmiruku
Plug It In | Blog | Tesla Motors
"A single blogger is spreading a rumor about electric vehicles becoming inoperable. “Bricking” is an irrational fear based on limited information and a misunderstanding of Tesla’s battery system. Here is why the rumor is unfounded: "

Dun-dun-dun!!
car  battery  electric  twitter  response  technology  businesss 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired's Kevin Kelly
Dyson: In some creation myths, life arises out of the earth; in others, life falls out of the sky. The creation myth of the digital universe entails both metaphors. The hardware came out of the mud of World War II, and the code fell out of abstract mathematical concepts. Computation needs both physical stuff and a logical soul to bring it to life. These were young kids who had just come through World War II, who could repair the electronics on airplanes and get them flying the same day, and von Neumann put them together with mathematical logicians who could imagine a universe created entirely out of 0s and 1s.
interview  article  history  technology  computing  hacker  maths  engineering  narrative  myth 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
A Case against Wayland
"Imag­ing you'd sim­ply hold your smart­phone be­sides your PC's mon­i­tor a NFC (near field com­mu­ni­ca­tion) sys­tem in phone and mon­i­tor de­tects the rel­a­tive po­si­tion, and flick the email ed­i­tor over to the PC al­low­ing you to con­tin­ue your ed­it there. Now imag­ine that this hap­pens ab­so­lute­ly trans­par­ent to the pro­grams in­volved, that this is some­thing man­aged by the op­er­at­ing sys­tem. This is where I want to go. Not that cheap ef­fects lol­lipop desk­tops Ubun­tu/Canon­i­cal, In­tel, Red­Hat/Fe­do­ra and Gnome(3) aim for."
linux  unix  wayland  x  server  client  graphics  system  software  technology 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
"The Commission proposes to update the 2003 Directive on the re-use of public sector information by: Making it a general rule that all documents made accessible by public sector bodies can be re-used for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, unless protected by third party copyright; Establishing the principle that public bodies should not be allowed to charge more than costs triggered by the individual request for data (marginal costs); in practice this means most data will be offered for free or virtually for free, unless duly justified. Making it compulsory to provide data in commonly-used, machine-readable formats, to ensure data can be effectively re-used. Introducing regulatory oversight to enforce these principles; Massively expanding the reach of the Directive to include libraries, museums and archives for the first time; the existing 2003 rules will apply to data from such institutions."
news  politics  technology  eu  opendata  openformats  publicsector  legislation 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
File Format Spectrograms - Imgur
"Spectrograms of various file formats that you would encounter as a DJ/Producer/Audio Enthusiast. This test was done using a WAV purchased on Beatport, then converting it into MP3 using the LAME encoder in foobar2000 and AAC using the Itunes converter."
audio  music  technology  compression  format  flac  wav  mp3  ogg  vorbis  gallery  interesting  algorithm 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Ron K Jeffries - Google+ - #geeky and #OMG QUOTE: [Craig S Wright ] says: I was…
"For those who do not know, 747's are big flying Unix hosts. At the time, the engine management system on this particular airline was Solaris based. The patching was well behind and they used telnet as SSH broke the menus and the budget did not extend to fixing this. The engineers could actually access the engine management system of a 747 in route. If issues are noted, they can re-tune the engine in air."
technology  flight  scada  security  it  networking  vlan  transport  wtf  internet  telnet 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"So what did Ofcom do? Naturally, it listened to the public, ignored the uncompetitive rent-seeking proposals from the commercial sector, adhered to EU law, and rejected the proposal. Well, that's what they did in a parallel universe. In this universe, Ofcom accepted the self-serving arguments of the companies they're meant to be regulating, ignored the public whose interests they were meant to be safeguarding, and gave the BBC what it asked for. Why did it do this? It's a secret. But not any more."
news  article  bbc  drm  ofcom  legal  software  technology  video  media  streaming  licensing  business  rights  hdtv  tv  politics 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Everything Sysadmin: Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic
"SaaS: It's a web site!
PaaS: It's a framework!
IaaS: It's a VM!"
blog  computing  technology  sysadmin  cloudcomputing  iaas  paas  saas  vm  platform  web  web2.0 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Apple Computer Hoards Cash, Makes Products in Abusive Conditions | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
"In its fourth quarter earnings report released last week, Apple Computer revealed that 2/3 of its on-hand cash – some $54 billion — is squirreled away outside the boundaries of the United States, presumably to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. In the meantime, reports Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), a Hong Kong-based group, Apple’s major manufacturing contractors routinely subject employees to forced overtime, wage theft and no breaks — and even unprotected exposure to toxins."
apple  news  technology  business  humanrights  toxic  work  illegal 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Invisible glass may solve screen reflection problems
"As you can see in the image below, the glass on the right really is nearly invisible to the naked eye. It could drastically improve the viewing experience of displays in the future as well as in other situations where glass is used, such as for windows."
technology  news  glass  nanotechnology  display  optics  cool 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Kevin Karsch's Homepage
"We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements."
technology  graphics  algorithm  video  3d  photography  software  research  gallery  interesting  cool 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
How Siri Works
"But whether [Apple] Siri becomes the model for how humans interact with computers in the future or whether it gets laughed off the stage of technical innovation like so many AI systems that have come before hinges on whether it can tell the difference between “Andrew” and “Andrea”—especially when I’m in a crowded coffee shop, speaking with a Southern drawl, with a stuffed-up nose from a bad cold."
blog  technology  news  siri  apple  ai  voice  os  hci  software  algorithm  audio  interesting  business 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Siri says some weird things
"Look, I’m not going to go into great detail about what I’ve been doing with Siri during my testing period, but I will tell you this — Siri says some crazy stuff.

Hit the gallery below for a look at a number of bizarre items the AI-powered / voice-recognizing “intelligent assistant” lays on you on the new iPhone 4S."
apple  iphone  siri  voice  regocnition  ai  technology  humour  interesting  gallery  images  mobile  software  os  ios 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
The Rick Astley Project on Vimeo
"The concept: In realtime you get to remix Rick Astley's legendary 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. You do it simply by pushing a bunch of buttons on a physical, custom built controller. You can change all the elements of the song and for example make a nice mashup of black metal, rap, gospel, gameboy sounds and Spanish vocals. You can also change the intensity and mood of the mix. It's just about as weird and fun as it sounds."
audio  music  video  technology  hardware  hack  arduino  controller  humour 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
HTML5 Rocks - How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
"In the years of IE 90% dominance there was nothing much to do but regard the browser as a "black box", but now, with open source browsers having more than half of the usage share, it's a good time to take a peek under the engine's hood and see what's inside a web browser. Well, what's inside are millions of C++ lines..."
technology  design  reference  web  html  internet  software  opensource  article  research  interesting  dom 
august 2011 by milkmiruku
Fighting e-waste with recyclable laptops - SmartPlanet.com
"Students from Stanford and Finland's Aalto University have developed a prototype laptop that can be disassembled in less than three minutes without the use of any tools. Once it's taken apart, the laptop's materials can easily be recycled."
news  video  hardware  laptop  research  recycling  technology 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
The Art of Unix Programming
"This book is both practical and philosophical. Some parts are aphoristic and general, others will examine specific case studies in Unix development. We will precede or follow general principles and aphorisms with examples that illustrate them: examples drawn not from toy demonstration programs but rather from real working code that is in use every day."
programming  books  book  linux  unix  reference  technology  software  free  creativecommons 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Dutch Design Week
"He transformed a machine retired from a Chinese production line into a large scale, low-res 3D printer."
blog  article  video  3d  printing  technology  cool  furniture  plastic  art  design 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Real World Mapping with the Kinect « Decorator Pattern (Martin Szarski's Blog)
"Putting those together, one can take the depth image from the Kinect and turn it in to a metric point cloud with real distances. Then, those points can be projected back to the RGB camera centre to determine which RGB pixel corresponds to each depth point, and hence arrive a colour for each point in the cloud."
3d  hack  mapping  technology  blog  kinect 
january 2011 by milkmiruku
Infusion Profusion: Game-Changing Fast ‘N Cheap Technique
"You can infuse flavors into liquor (and water based things, too) almost instantly with nothing more than an [nitrous] Cream Whipper. You can use seeds, herbs, spiced, fruits, cocoa nibs, etc. Here’s how:

Put room-temperature booze into the cream whipper. Add herbs, seeds, whatever. Close the whipper and charge it with nitrous oxide (N2O –the regular whipped cream chargers). Swirl gently 30 seconds and let stand 30 seconds more. Quickly vent the N2O out of the whipper, open it, and strain out the infusion. Done."
blog  food  drink  devices  technology  cooking  tutorial  interesting  howto 
august 2010 by milkmiruku
Door Closer Adjustment
"CAUTION: DO NOT COMPLETELY UNSCREW DOOR CLOSER HYDRAULIC ADJUSTMENT SCREWS OR YOU WILL RUIN THE CLOSER AND VOID THE WARRANTEE. Also, hydraulic fluid will leak out of the closer and make a mess. This will make you unpopular. "
article  howto  hardware  housing  door  hydraulic  technology 
august 2010 by milkmiruku
Unfold Fab: The future's here baby! (first successfully printed ceramic vessel)
"We took some time to play around and get used to the dynamics of the clay print process. ... After some calibrating I decided to print a test design that would be hard to make using conventional techniques: a double walled vessel with fins connecting in- and outside."
news  blog  3d  materials  diy  fablab  fabrication  3dprinter  technology  hardware  interesting  cool  crafts  making  prediction 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
"It is hard to imagine a better resurrection for a country that has been devastated by financial corruption than to turn facilitating transparency and justice into a business model."
news  politics  iceland  technology  journalism  press  censorship  law  legal  interesting  transparency  jurisprudence  wiki  wikileaks  media 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Supergeek pulls off 'near impossible' crypto chip hack
"Using off-the-shelf chemicals, Tarnovsky soaked chips in acid to dissolve their hard outer shells. Then he applied rust remover to help take off layers of mesh wiring, to expose the chips' cores. From there, he had to find the right communication channels to tap into using a very small needle.

The needle allowed him to set up a wiretap and eavesdrop on all the programming instructions as they are sent back and forth between the chip and the computer's memory."
news  security  hardware  hack  encryption  cryptography  business  interesting  technology 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Last orders for pint glass as we know it?
"The government hopes introducing safer pint glasses, still made of glass, will help reduce injuries. As well as the human cost, it also hopes it will reduce the financial burden of alcohol-related crime, which currently costs the NHS £2.7bn a year.

Now, two new prototypes for beer glasses have been unveiled, as part of a programme involving the Design Council. Launched by the Home Office's Design and Technology Alliance, the aim is to use design to tackle crime."
bbc  news  uk  drink  technology  beer  glass  plastic  safety  violence 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
White Goat Recycler: Office Paper to Toilet Paper - GOOD Blog
"This device (video below) shreds your sensitive business documents and turns them into new toilet paper. ...

At half an hour per roll, that would take 100,000 hours—about 11 years. So the White Goat may not make economic sense yet (unless we put a price on the trees being saved) but surely the next version will be cheaper and smaller, right?"
news  technology  hardware  toilet  recycling  ecological  business  interesting  socialecology  poop  video  youtube 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
77 iPad Updates That May or May Not Please the Critics
"For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to make some improvements to Apple's iPad. Some of these entries are definite improvements. Others? Uh, not so much."
apple  photoshop  images  gallery  ipad  humour  technology  tablet  hardware 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
OnLive Game Service Preview - Is this the future of PC gaming?
You can see that there are clearly a lot more questions that need to be answered about gaming services like OnLive both in terms of the user experience and how it will interact with the rest of the gaming community at large, both PC and console. I see a lot of potential for OnLive to revolutionize gaming and how this entertainment medium works across any number of platforms.
news  article  gaming  computer  streaming  technology  pc  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
BLAWGDOG: Google's Angry, Sacrifice and the Accelerated Splitting Internet
"Twitter is blocked in China, but yesterday the Chinese twitters made tag #GoogleCN climbed to the top ten of twitter's keywords. It is a bit touching, and a bit hopeful - A profitable, foreign company get this means filtering and block still not make Chinese people (at least some of them) losing their eyesight and judgment to what is good and what is bad.

However, they are losing, and may lose faster, along with the Cinternet's separation from the Internet. Here are the top 20 websites according to Alexa:"
news  china  censorship  politics  internet  web  search  google  technology  sociology  socialservices  blogging 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go
"We’ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can't be embedded on websites, and in certain countries can't be seen at all. And we want you to know: we hear you, and we’re sorry. We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it’s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago."
music  video  internet  web  content  copyright  marketing  advertising  youtube  business  riaa  audio  culture  art  technology  law  google  archive  embed  activism  interesting  emi 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Technology Review: The Year in Robotics
"In the past year, researchers have developed new robots to tackle a variety of tasks: helping with medical rehabilitation, aiding military manoeuvres, mimicking social skills, and grasping the unknown. Here are the highlights."
technology  robots  social  ai  hardware  software  2009  military  medical  education  psychology 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Kepler telescope spots 'Styrofoam' planet - space - 04 January 2010 - New Scientist
"During its first six weeks of observations, it found five new planets. All are giants – four are heavier than Jupiter and one is about as massive as Neptune. They all orbit their host stars so closely that their surfaces are hotter than molten lava. "Looking at them might be like looking at a blast furnace," says lead scientist William Borucki, who presented the results on Monday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC. ...

One, called Kepler 7b, is about as dense as polystyrene. It is about 1.5 times as wide as Jupiter, but only about a tenth as dense, making it one of the most diffuse planets yet found."
news  science  space  astronpmy  exoplanets  technology  satellite  planets 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With New E-Reader Platform Blio | Singularity Hub
"Ray Kurzweil, prolific inventor and Singularity enthusiast, is planning to debut Blio at CES 2010 in January. Blio is an e-reader platform, not hardware, that can be used on PC, MAC, iPhone and iPod touch."
news  technology  software  books  ebooks  pc  singularity  free  interesting 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Wired 1997 | Wiring the Jet Set
Boeing is equipping factory-floor workers with a modified VR setup - and rapidly cutting the time it takes to wire new jetliners.
article  augmentedreality  mobile  technology  hardware  aeroplane  electronics  business  visualization  cool  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab: Smashing the Mega-d/Ozdok botnet in 24 hours
"FireEye's formal effort to shutdown this botnet stared last night. The research team here worked in multiple directions simultaneously. The purpose was to work against all the fallback mechanisms so fast that bot herders wouldn't get a chance to counter react."
news  security  spam  internet  email  networks  botnet  technology  interesting  malware  virus 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System
"On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally. The system also lets anyone independently audit election results to verify the votes went to the correct candidates."
news  politics  software  election  elections  opensource  technology  security  privacy  java  cryptography  interesting  usa  government 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
"The group is developing silk-silicon LEDs that might act as photonic tattoos that can show blood-sugar readings, as well as arrays of conformable electrodes that might interface with the nervous system."
news  technology  hardware  electronics  led  tattoo  bme  interesting  prediction  cool  research  biology  biotech 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Helmet Cam Avalanche Survival Video
"It’s a pretty sobering video. Skier Chris Cardello is riding a line in Haines with a helmet cam for Rage Films. An avalanche breaks off all around him, and he’s buried, while the cam continues to roll. He manages to get his Avalung into his mouth, and thanks to a speedy rescue, he’s pulled out alive after just five minutes. The incident happened last April, but it’s just as relevant today as ever."
video  sport  technology  skiing  snow  interesting  scary 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Internet Archive uncloaks open ebook dream machine
"Dubbed BookServer, the open platform is meant to provide a standard means for booksellers, publishers, libraries, and individual authors to serve texts onto laptops, netbooks, smartphones, game consoles, and specialized ereaders a la the Amazon Kindle. The Archive has already demonstrated an early incarnation of the architecture with the Kindle and Sony's Reader Digital Book."
news  books  economics  publishing  library  openformats  literature  technology  interesting  distribution  ebooks  archive.org 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Charlie's Diary: Why I hate Star Trek
"The biggest weakness of the entire genre is this: the protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances. The scriptwriters and producers have thrown away the key tool that makes SF interesting and useful in the first place, by relegating "tech" to a token afterthought rather than an integral part of plot and characterization. What they end up with is SF written for the Pointy-Haired [studio] Boss, who has an instinctive aversion to ever having to learn anything that might modify their world-view."
blog  tv  sci-fi  technology  media  literature  startrek  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Energy-from-waste powers US army
"The PyTEC system heats mixed waste, releasing a gas that can be burned to produce five times more energy than is required to drive the system. ... The approach could see use in urban areas, reducing municipal waste volume by 95% while producing energy."
news  environment  energy  technology  power  hardware  military  chemistry  interesting  prediction 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Microsoft Research shows off multitouch mouse prototypes
"Microsoft Research has just surfaced some of its incredibly wild multitouch mouse prototypes. Each one uses a different touch detection method, and at first glance all five seem to fly in the face of regular ergonomics."
news  technology  hardware  research  microsoft  gadget  mouse  inputdev  prediction  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Nissan gives silent electric cars 'Blade Runner' appeal | Los Angeles Times
“We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to make it beautiful and futuristic,” Toshiyuki Tabata, Nissan’s noise and vibration expert, told Bloomberg. “We wanted something a bit different, something closer to the world of art.”
news  cars  technology  hardware  sound  futuristic  electriccar  legal  transport 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
blog.cat.org.uk » Turned on! The UK’s First Micro Grid Goes Online
"This week, Jase Kuriakose an engineer at CAT turned on the UK’s first totally renewable micro grid. The systems works by combining all the wind, solar, bio mass and hydro energy we produce at CAT and storing it in a battery bank. When it needs more energy it simply connects to the grid through an intelligent electronic control device to take more, when we are producing too much it gives the energy to the national grid."
uk  news  technology  sustainability  hardware  power  solar  wind  hydropower  battery  electricity  microgeneration  interesting  prediction  autonomy 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Military robot 'hops' over walls
"Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high. Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot - which is being developed for the US military - uses its four wheels to get around."

But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated "leg" to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.
bbc  news  robot  us  military  technology  hardware  interesting  video 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Three Major Singularity Schools
"Singularity discussions seem to be splitting up into three major schools of thought: Accelerating Change, the Event Horizon, and the Intelligence Explosion."
technology  research  singularity  philosophy  evolution  taxonomy  prediction  sci-fi  science  transhumanism  ai  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Words for Webstock - Bruce Sterling
She poured a coffee, then touched the breakfast table. “Where are my shoes?” “Your sister borrowed them.” “Again? Where is Susan?” “She’s downtown now.” “Susan! Why did you swipe my favorite shoes again?” “Look at this dress.” “Oooh, that dress is darling.” “It would look even better on you.” “You’re right. Get it for me. You can’t have it.” “Trade you for these shoes.” “Let me check that with Henry. Yeah, okay.” Karen had another sip of fair-trade coffee. It tasted weird, but it was still hot.
blog  literature  writing  sci-fi  culture  technology  augmentedreality  prediction  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Poynter Online - Writing Tools (On Twitter)
"The moral is that the brevity of an e-mail message, a blog post, a text message, even a tweet, is no obstacle to powerful information, a persuasive argument, a literary moment, a zinger, a joke."
article  technology  culture  twitter  writing  grammar  newmedia  journalism  language  web  tools  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
IEEE Spectrum: Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
"We have built a lens with one LED, which we’ve powered wirelessly with RF. What we’ve done so far barely hints at what will soon be possible with this technology."
technology  science  hardware  electronics  computing  interface  biotech  display  vision  augmentedreality  interesting  cool  prediction  singularity  sci-fi 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
KurzweilAI.net | What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? by Vernor Vinge
"It's 2045 and nerds in old-folks homes are wandering around, scratching their heads, and asking plaintively, "But ... but, where's the Singularity?" Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge--who originated the concept of the technological Singularity--doesn't think that will happen, but he explores three alternate scenarios, along with our "best hope for long-term survival"--self-sufficient, off-Earth settlements."
op-ed  technology  history  society  prediction  singularity  ai  sci-fi  interesting  space 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech
"The Chameleon Guitar -- so named for its ability to mimic different instruments -- is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. This inserted section, the soundboard, can be switched with one made of a different kind of wood, or with a different structural support system, or with one made of a different material altogether. Then, the sound generated by the electronic pickups on that board can be manipulated by a computer to produce the effect of a different size or shape of the resonating chamber."
music  audio  design  technology  physics  digital  guitar  cool  usa  video  hardware 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
Behind the music: The real reason why the major labels love Spotify
"So, in the light of recent revelations, I'm afraid I'm going to have to withdraw the virtual Fair Trade stamp I gave Spotify a few months back, until they prove that they are, indeed, concerned about treating artists right."
news  article  music  technology  streaming  digital  licensing  internet  business  interesting 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
"It is the liking system that Berridge believes is the brain's reward center. When we experience pleasure, it is our own opioid system, rather than our dopamine system, that is being stimulated. This is why the opiate drugs induce a kind of blissful stupor so different from the animating effect of cocaine and amphetamines. Wanting and liking are complementary. The former catalyzes us to action; the latter brings us to a satisfied pause. Seeking needs to be turned off, if even for a little while, so that the system does not run in an endless loop."
article  psychology  neuroscience  science  interesting  technology  internet  search 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
There’s No App for That « Riverturn Blog and Talk Back
"Repeated emails yesterday to Apple have still been ignored at this point. We did receive a voicemail at our main office from the same Richard who called our competitor. Unfortunately it wasn’t until today that we were able to connect for our “conversation”. The word conversation really doesn’t cover it because what transpired was not informative by design and felt like theater of the absurd. It went roughly like this:"
blog  news  apple  software  business  voip  apps  mobiles  usa  technology 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
Foxconn engineer commits suicide after losing iPhone 4G prototype - SlashGear
"A Foxconn employee in China has committed suicide, after a fourth-gen Apple iPhone prototype he was entrusted with went missing. 25 year-old Sun Danyong worked in the company’s product communications department, and was responsible for shipping prototypes from Foxconn to Apple. Having reported the missing handset, Sun’s apartment was illegally searched by Foxconn employees and he was, according to unsubstantiated allegations, detained and physically abused. On Thursday July 16th, just after 3am, he jumped from the window of his apartment."
news  technology  mobiles  china  usa  apple  hardware  business  wtf  telephone 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
bbc  article  technology  music  history  uk  mp3  mobile  hardware  interesting  humour 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Twitter Trumps 911
"“Need a paramedic on corner of John Wesley Dobbs and Jackson st. Woman on the ground unconscious. Pls ReTweet,” Hall tweeted, eschewing the use of his cell phone as, well, a phone, to call 911 since his battery was low and he didn’t want to lose contact if it died while he was trying to save a life."
news  media  social  twitter  health  technology  internet  web  usa 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
InnoDisk unveils miniscule 128GB nanoSSD
"At this year's Computex, [InnoDisk] showcasing yet another new storage model: the 128GB SATA nanoSSD. The tiny device was even strapped onto a motherboard that was vibrating out of control in order to show its resistance to the shakes, which honestly, is the most provocative aspect of the whole thing. Hop on past the break to see what we mean."
news  technology  hardware  storage  ssd  memory  interesting  prediction 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
The Seeing Tongue | Science News
"Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are developing this tongue-stimulating system, which translates images detected by a camera into a pattern of electric pulses that trigger touch receptors. The scientists say that volunteers testing the prototype soon lose awareness of on-the-tongue sensations. They then perceive the stimulation as shapes and features in space. Their tongue becomes a surrogate eye."
research  science  biology  inputdev  vision  tongue  interesting  cool  technology  hardware 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - O'Reilly Radar
"If you're like me, you had no idea there was so much HTML 5 already in play."
news  blog  internet  web  technology  software  standards  html  web2.0  browser  programming  prediction  trends  html5  firefox  google  opera  safari 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Top 10 Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs
"If you haven’t heard about it yet, the new computational search engine Wolfram Alpha launched this week to much fanfare and attention. The service can calculate integrals, tell you the flying time between San Francisco and London, or even the (lack of) nutritional content of your M&M’s. But Stephen Wolfram and his team didn’t stop there, and they certainly didn’t lack a sense of humor when they built their Mathematica-based engine. Slowly but surely, people have been finding some interesting quirks within Wolfram Alpha, triggered by specific questions or events. These interesting easter eggs will make you smile or raise an eyebrow in bewilderment."
internet  computing  search  technology  software  service  humour  eastereggs  wolfram  maths 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Slashdot Comments | Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups
"Unfortunately you are wrong about recovering data that has been overwritten by using magnetic magic. That is an urban legend that has been disproven. Maybe 20 years ago using low density MFM drives it was theoretically possible, but now it is not. ... When data is deleted it is NOT overwritten. When a hard drive is re-formatted almost nothing is over-written. When a file is overwritten with zeros or random bytes there are probably 10 more copies of that file and previous versions of that file floating around in unallocated sectors, swap space, file slack, hibernation files, etc. But what IS overwritten is gone."
slashdot  comments  storage  hardware  technology  computing  hdd 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Sky Map for Android - A Mobile Planetarium
"We decided to use the location features in the Android platform to implement search in an easy-to-use way. You enter the name of an object of interest, like Saturn, and the phone displays an arrow pointing to the object. As you get closer, the color of the arrow goes from blue to red and the app circles the object when you find it. Voila!"
news  software  google  mobiles  astronomy  technology  gps  interesting  cool 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
LongPen lets Conrad Black see fans
"By taking LongPen instead of an airplane to this event, Conrad Black will save 1,764 lbs. of CO2 emissions," stated a LongPen poster. In reality, as a LongPen press release delicately put it, "legal complications" made it impossible for Black to appear in person."
technology  robot  internet  books  literature  canada  usa  interesting  law 
april 2009 by milkmiruku
Gizmodo - NYU Student Conducts Most Adorable Robot Experiment Ever - Tweenbot
"The tweenbot, a cardboard-bodied, cheerful little bugger, is equipped with a flag stating its intended destination. Since it can only move forward, it depends on the kindness of strangers to guide it and remove obstacles."
robot  sociology  psychology  technology  education  cool  interesting  cute  art  social  cardboard  newyork  usa 
april 2009 by milkmiruku
Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera
"The Plenoptic camera is a novel single-lens camera that captures 3-D scene information. A plenoptic image is captured with a single lens and a lenticular lens array at the imaging plane. This image, like an insect's compound eye, consists of multiple sub-images each imaging the scene in front of it, in the plenoptic camera, the main lens aperture is imaged behind each lenticular element. ... [photos] Photographs digitally refocused at different depths, computed after a single exposure of our light field camera. The fourth image shows what a conventional camera would have produced."
photography  technology  hardware  graphics  camera  research  dslr  interesting  cool  plenoptic  3d 
march 2009 by milkmiruku
Macroanonymous Is The New Microfamous - Fimoculous.com
"A month ago on the eve of ROFLcon, I interviewed the founder of 4chan for a magazine story that never ended up running. ... 4chan is actually one of the most robust, complex, annoying, disgusting, illuminating, perverse, fascinating online communities ever created. It is the direct or indirect source for many of the strangest internet memes: RickRolling, LOLcats, Sarah Palin's email hack, Anonymous, Chocolate Rain, and many other minor and major feats of esoterica (i.e., fucked up weird porn)."
internet  culture  interview  4chan  meme  humour  weird  anonymous  technology  society  interesting  anime 
february 2009 by milkmiruku
DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers
"In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us. Some are more involved than others but all are fun and will provide you with some new lighting gear to experiment with."
photography  camera  video  photo  diy  hack  tips  reference  digital  lighting  hardware  technology  gadget  dslr  blog  interesting  cool 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Tiny boat skims over water like a bug - tech - 14 January 2009 - New Scientist
"WATCHING Sung Kwon Cho's model boat glide silently across the still water with no propellers or sails, you'd be forgiven for thinking a phantom hand was drawing the vessel forward. The boat is actually being driven by water surface tension, the same force that allows some insects to skate across the surface of a pond."
news  robot  water  transport  interesting  cool  technology 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Reaction Engines Limited :: Projects - Skylon
"Skylon is an unpiloted, reuseable spaceplane intended to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space. Currently in proof-of-concept phase, the vehicle will take approximately 10 years to develop and will be capable of transporting 12 tonnes of cargo into space."
space  engineering  technology  travel  images  robots 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Technology Review: Videos - Back-Button to the Future
"Mira Dontcheva, a researcher at Adobe Systems, explains how Zoetrope can be used to browse back through a Web page’s history. She demonstrates a few advanced techniques for looking at historic data and shows how to compare several Web pages over time."
technology  software  internet  web  video  visualization  research  archive  statistics  interesting 
december 2008 by milkmiruku
Brain Surgery Helps a Mute Man Speak
"A surgical procedure performed by a team from Boston University, Massachusetts led by Professor Frank Guenther, has enabled a mute man to speak again. An electrode implanted in the patient’s brain made it possible for the patient to produce vowels by thinking them, using a speech synthesizer. In the future, this breakthrough may help patients with similar injuries produce entire sentences, using signals from their brains."
news  technology  health  audio  brain  surgery  implant  neuroscience  interesting  cool 
december 2008 by milkmiruku
How-To: Build a WiFi biquad dish antenna - Engadget
"We expected to get one AP, but five is even better. Looking through the info strings we were able to determine where the APs were since the WISP had named them according to the town they are in. The AP on channel 5 is the one we pointed at in town A, 2.4 miles away. The AP on channel 6 is located in town B, 8.2 miles away. The two APs on channel 1 are a bridge between town A and town C which is located 2.6 miles directly behind the dish."
wifi  hardware  internet  networking  wireless  communication  design  reference  howto  diy  cool  security  antenna  project  technology 
november 2008 by milkmiruku
ESA Multimedia Gallery - ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
"In 2012, Vega will carry ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle into space. The vehicle will then return to Earth to test a range of enabling systems and technologies for atmospheric re-entry. The video shows computer-generated animations of the vehicle and its mission."
space  video  technology  travel  eu  science  engineering  cool  esa 
november 2008 by milkmiruku
brad's life - Android Garage Door Opener, part 2
"it figures out using wi-fi signals when Brad is approaching his house, so even if he turns it on an hour before it won't actually open until he's close by. This isn't possible on other phones because they don't let you get access to the wi-fi bits to do AP scanning."
blog  technology  wifi  googleandroid  opensource  mobiles  transport  cool  geek 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
NASA's New Lunar Rover
"The Chariot lunar rover would serve as a mobile home away from home for astronauts venturing from a lunar base to explore the lunar surface."
news  space  nasa  technology  travel  transport  science  moon 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
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