May 21, 2012
- Google Chrome is the top browser in the world according to Stat Counter
ZD NEt - Google’s Chrome appears to be the most used browser as it passed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, according to StatCounter. The larger question about the browser war revolves around whether...
- Here is a NASA site for a recent Symposium on Telerobotics for Space
Top Three Fallacies of Telerobotics from Dave Akin (University of Maryland Space Systems Lab)
* Cylon Fallacy – Humans are the competition!
The best way to maximize accomplishments in space is a... - Researchers at the Fraunhofer IWS Dresden inexpensively produce single-walled carbon nanotubes for industrial applications using a process that is worldwide unique.
Fraunhofer IWS Dresden has developed a process suitable especially for the mass production of single-walled carbon nanotubes. The single-walled carbon nanotubes are produced inside a reactor...
- Business Week - Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Those who survive often suffer from low IQ, diabetes, and heart disease when they reach adulthood. According to the World Health Organization, 75% of these deaths and ailments could be averted by simply keeping...
- WSJ blog - As the prospect of Greece leaving the euro becomes more real by the day, economists are trying to figure out what would happen next to the economy and to the markets.
Guesses about the Future of Greece and Europe
JP MORGAN: There’s now a 50% chance of Greece leaving, up from 20% before the country’s politicians failed to...
May 20, 2012
- I saw Lit Motors at Maker Faire yesterday. They have a mockup of what they intend to build, which is shown in the photo and they have their metal prototype.
They want to build a gyro stabilized enclosed electric motor cycle. It will have 220 miles of range on one charge and a maximum speed of 120 miles per hour and the big thing is a target price of $12000 to $16000.
They are a startup which has gotten to the prototype...
May 19, 2012
- Wired Danger Room - Last year Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the J-20 wouldn’t be ready until at least 2020. Now, the Pentagon’s top China official has now revised that estimate. The J-20, China’s first stealth jet, will be operationally ready “no sooner than 2018,” David Helvey, deputy secretary of defense for East Asia and Asia Pacific Security Affairs.
The new anticipated...
May 18, 2012
- BBC News - Researchers have revealed details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip.
The device is a "memristor", a long-hypothesised but only recently demonstrated electronic component.
A memristor's electronic properties make it suitable for both for computing and for far faster, denser memory.
Researchers at the European... 
Confabulation happens all the time in the business world. And it’s no laughing matter. Tweet me your confabulation sniglets. Once we compile them, I’ll...
