Archive for November, 2012
British Company Claims Biggest Engine Advance Since the Jet
November 30th, 2012Via: Reuters: A small British company with a dream of building a re-usable space plane has won an important endorsement from the European Space Agency (ESA) after completing key tests on its novel engine technology. Reaction Engines Ltd believes its Sabre engine, which would operate like a jet engine in the atmosphere and a rocket […]
How Joe Biden Stages Those Average-Joe Pictures
November 30th, 2012Via: The Atlantic Wire: Only in a few shots can you see just how many people were recording Biden as he, for example, looks at pies. Related: Vladimir Putin, Action Man
The Secret to Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop
November 30th, 2012Via: The Atlantic Wire: Earlier this month, Iran’s news agency provided visual evidence that its government had figured out to make a fancy new drone that could take off and land vertically. What they didn’t tell us is that they used Photoshop to make it stop taking off from the roof of Japan’s Chiba University, […]
How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers
November 30th, 2012Via: Wired: Chris Pinkham was walking through a data center that would one day house Amazon’s seminal cloud computing service — the Elastic Compute Cloud — when he came face to face with a cage of Google machines. This was a decade ago, when Pinkham oversaw the hardware and software that ran Amazon, and the […]
Cryptogon Is Now a BookDepository Affiliate
November 30th, 2012Your BookDepository purchases now support Cryptogon.
Staples to Offer 3D Printing Services in Copy Centers
November 30th, 2012Via: Fabbaloo: In a blockbuster announcement, Mcor, the makers of the IRIS color 3D printing system based on plain old paper, say they’ve struck a huge deal with print services giant Staples to supply 3D printing equipment for their numerous print and copy centers. This will obviously take a while to implement, so Staples Printing […]
Sentry System Combines a Human Brain with Computer Vision
November 30th, 2012I’ve posted this one at least a couple of time over the years, but in case you missed it… Via: MIT Technology Review: Sentry duty is a tough assignment. Most of the time there’s nothing to see, and when a threat does pop up, it can be hard to spot. In some military studies, humans […]
MexicaNZ Three Amigos: Mexican Food in Mangonui, Coopers Beach, Cable Bay, Northland New Zealand
November 30th, 2012As you may or may not know, besides an affordable and good Internet connection, Mexican food is the only thing I miss about California. Sure, we can make our own Mexican food, but it’s nice to be able to go out sometimes with our children. Now, look what I found today: MexicaNZ Three Amigos (Facebook […]
Syria: Internet Taken Down
November 30th, 2012My guess is that U.S. Special Forces are restoring “Internet” access right now. *wink* Well, what this probably means is that, when you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. For example, when you type in cnn.com or google.com, what you see may be quite different from what […]
‘The Cashless Society is Almost Here’
November 30th, 2012I first heard about the cashless society back around 1988. By 2000, cash would be gone, or so the stories went. haha. Now, in 2012, the cashless society is almost here… I’d say that it’s closer to being here than it was in 1988, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people who are waiting for […]
