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by Anonymous Coward in Mother Robot can build and test its own Children on 2015-12-20 07:39 (#Y8GB)

Full article: http://robotglobe.org/a-mother-robot-that-can-design-build-and-test-its-own-children/

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by Anonymous Coward in Hydrogel-based Wound Dressing,Hydrogel Wound Dressing,Wound Dressing sensors,Wound Dressing electron on 2015-12-20 07:38 (#Y8GA)

Original MIT news article and MIT video: http://news.mit.edu/2015/stretchable-hydrogel-electronics-1207

Harvard link (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in 3D-Printed jumping Soft Robots from Harvard on 2015-12-20 07:36 (#Y8G9)

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/207/a-jump-for-softbodied-robots

Links (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Self-assembly of thousand little robots "Kilobots" to form complex shapes. on 2015-12-20 07:34 (#Y8FZ)

Research project: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/progSA/kilobot.html
Full article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/a-thousand-kilobots-self-assemble

Article link (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in 3D Printing Technology to build 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours. on 2015-12-20 07:30 (#Y8FB)

http://3dprinting.com/news/future-talk-3d-printing-entire-house-less-20-hours/

Original article (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in MIT's "Polarized 3D" makes 3-D imaging 1,000 times better. on 2015-12-20 07:29 (#Y8F9)

http://news.mit.edu/2015/algorithms-boost-3-d-imaging-resolution-1000-times-1201

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by Anonymous Coward in Cockroach-inspired Robot easily slips through obstacles on 2015-12-20 07:22 (#Y8F8)

https://www.iop.org/news/15/jun/page_65809.html

Link to original article (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Bake your own Robot: These printable robots self-assemble when heated on 2015-12-20 07:20 (#Y8F7)

http://news.mit.edu/2014/bake-your-own-robot-0530

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by Anonymous Coward in Stanford's skyscraper-style Chip Design "N3XT" boosts performance Thousand Times. on 2015-12-20 07:18 (#Y8EY)

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/december/n3xt-computing-structure-120915.html

At this point I am wondering if the owner of that youtube channel will be shutdown down for ripping off other people's content

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-20 07:15 (#Y17Y)

Does the Vatican openly place a bounty for killing someone that doesn't like catholicism?
There's no such large organization for Muslims (nor for Protestants for that matter). A Pakistani politician is not comparable. There's plenty of Christian hate groups trying to kill muslims:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-build-ray-weapon-kill-muslims-sentenced-prison/story?id=35807538

There's much more overt anti-Muslim rhetoric from Jewish rabbis. Those "price tag attacks" against Muslims have been rather prolific.
terrorism by other factions was common in the past, but what about recently?
Everything above is quite recent. Anders Breivik's rampage was just back in 2011.

You should really have read through the links I provided and not just the HEADLINE! They do a good job answering your (loaded) questions very directly:
in 2013, there were 152 terror attacks in Europe. Only two of them were "religiously motivated," while 84 were predicated upon ethno-nationalist or separatist beliefs.
...
In December 2013, FLNC terrorists carried out simultaneous rocket attacks against police stations in two French cities. And in Greece in late 2013, the left-wing Militant Popular Revolutionary Forces shot and killed two members of the right-wing political party Golden Dawn.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html
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Why don't islamic countries want islamic refugees?
Turkey is taking responsibility for fully HALF of Syrian refugees, at great expense. Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt are home to nearly all the rest. The number going to Europe is miniscule by comparison:

"In three days in September 2014, Turkey received some 130,000 refugees from Syria - more than the entire European Union had in the past three years"
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/11/20/amnesty-international-85-percent-syrian-refugees-in-turkey-living-outside.html

Successful Muslim (Gulf) countries like Saudi Arabia are JUST AS DISTANT from Syria as the EU is. Those same distant Muslim countries ARE now contributing significant amounts of money to support the current crop of Syrian refugees (though it certainly took them quite a while, and they could reasonably be doing more). They have some peculiar issues with taking in more refugees, which seem quite strange to someone in a western country:

"these countries are already overloaded with foreigners. For example, 88 percent of the population of the United Arab Emirates are foreigners. For Qatar, it's 85 and Kuwait 70 percent." http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-03/what-are-gulf-countries-doing-help-syrian-refugee-crisis

Lots more useful information is available here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War

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by Anonymous Coward in BKS Iyengar Google Doodle. 97th Birthday of "Iyengar Yoga" Founder on 2015-12-20 07:14 (#Y8EE)

A link to the wikipedia page on the topic would be useful - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar
A link to an article discussing the doodle would be useful - http://www.india.com/whatever/bks-iyengar-google-doodle-yoga-gurus-97th-birthday-doodle-is-inspirational-782149/
Google doodles are indexed from: https://www.google.com/doodles
Suggest linking to the google doodle page for this doodle: https://www.google.com/doodles/bks-iyengars-97th-birthday

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by Anonymous Coward in MIT's New Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Nanoscale Video of Chemical Reactions on 2015-12-20 07:08 (#Y8ED)

http://news.mit.edu/2015/new-microscope-real-time-videos-nanoscale-1214

Video linked is terrible (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Samsung Galaxy S7 will have Pressure-Sensitive Display and USB Type-C port: WSJ on 2015-12-20 07:06 (#Y8EC)

Try linking to an article?
That video is just a rip off of the original article - http://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-adding-pressure-sensitive-display-high-speed-charging-port-to-galaxy-s7-1450083387

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by Anonymous Coward in NextPV suggests Balloon-based Solar Farms above the Clouds for Uninterrupted Power on 2015-12-20 07:03 (#Y8DY)

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/balloon-based-solar-power/

True but not newsworthy (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Sundar Pichai Suggests Working with Better People, Encouraging Creativity and Taking Risks. on 2015-12-20 07:00 (#Y8DF)

Anyone who has worked with jerks knows what quitting or leaving is the best option. This is not new.

Google Trends 2015 (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Google's Year in Search 2015 - Most Searched Words in 2015 on 2015-12-20 06:59 (#Y8DE)

https://www.google.com/trends/story/2015_US?__37d9d6e9=_37d9d6e9

Re: I like them all (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org in The Best Bond: on 2015-12-20 06:36 (#Y8CS)

His treatment of women, though, is strictly for personal enjoyment.
Unlikely. In just about every film, a Bond Girl is a crucial tool to help him accomplish his ("government agent") goals. In at least a few films, he gets tacit approval to pursue one woman or another.

Re: Some problems (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Li-Fi is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. LED lights could be used for delivering data on 2015-12-19 23:27 (#Y7QW)

That's not funny. Surely you know we're talking about through-the-air transmission, and specifically not cabling.

Re: I like them all (Score: 1)

by wootery@pipedot.org in The Best Bond: on 2015-12-19 22:55 (#Y7PD)

Bond doesn't exactly shy away from assault... in fact he murders people. Which one would you say is worse?
Bond is a government agent. As far as I can recall, he's never killed someone out of mere personal dislike. He kills people, but I don't see that Bond is any more a murderer than is an honest soldier. (Ignoring little things like jurisdiction and international law, that is.)

His treatment of women, though, is strictly for personal enjoyment.

One wheeled skateboard (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Alternative vehicles in 2015 on 2015-12-19 10:06 (#Y67R)

I can't find those one wheeled skateboards anywhere

Zoom (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Alternative vehicles in 2015 on 2015-12-19 10:04 (#Y67G)

This article inspired by the high number of humans on powered devices zipping around on mono wheeled powdered devices and the mini segways. It like back when rollerblading was suddenly popular 2 decades ago with lots of young people dodging through crowds on the pavement at speed.

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1)

by entropy@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-17 21:23 (#Y1FH)

Ethno-nationalist, or separatists beliefs are not religiously motivated? Here's one attack in 2013 that caught my eye:
2013.11.04 Thailand Pattani 52-year-old woman is shot to death by Muslim 'separatists'.
Guess that wouldn't be in the statistics...but islamic separatists seem kind of religiously motivated to me.

Even if they are relatively tame in europe, they are not in other parts of the world.(See previously posted list of terror attacks)

Re: Some problems (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Li-Fi is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. LED lights could be used for delivering data on 2015-12-17 10:31 (#XZER)

It's a solved problem, especially for backbone links, and was the longhaul link of choice in every large LAN infrastructure project I've ever seen.

Thanks! (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in [SOLVED] How to provide non-free firmware files to the Debian Jessie Installer. on 2015-12-17 09:39 (#XZBG)

Hey, I was installing Debian in a Dell Laptop and this was very useful for me.
Thank you.

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1)

by entropy@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-17 03:42 (#XYNG)

Your argument seems compelling, at first. And terrorism by other factions was common in the past, but what about recently? Does the Vatican openly place a bounty for killing someone that doesn't like catholicism? (http://news.yahoo.com/pakistani-official-places-bounty-anti-islam-filmmaker-214532413.html) ... Also here's a handy website that lists islam motivated terror attacks:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Your website analyzes attacks 1980-2005... That seems to be a cherry-picked year range, and 1980-1990 is incredibly less relevant than 2011-2015. Here are the attacks in 2015 alone:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2015.htm

Here are 2014:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2014.htm

Also... Why don't islamic countries want islamic refugees? Saudi Arabia has tents that could house millions of them, yet they don't actually let them in. If their country isn't working, and they are far less willing than other cultures to adapt to a different way of life...what is the point of letting them in France, or other countries? They will just muck it up.

Re: Current status? (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org in Google's Project Ara Prototype Demo on 2015-12-16 18:16 (#XXBD)

More Information at their homepage and on Wikipedia.

I remember seeing some articles a few months ago about delaying until 2016 because the modular components would break apart when dropped.

Current status? (Score: 2, Interesting)

by mth@pipedot.org in Google's Project Ara Prototype Demo on 2015-12-16 10:11 (#XVXX)

I thought 2014 was a typo, but the video is actually 1.5 years old. Does anyone know the current status of the project? There is no recent Twitter activity from the project, but I don't know whether that means no-one is working on it or there are people working on it who rather spend their time on engineering than writing tweets.

MIT link (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in MIT’s “MultiFab” 3D printer can print 10 materials at once on 2015-12-16 07:54 (#XVKH)

http://news.mit.edu/2015/multifab-3-d-print-10-materials-0824

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 2, Informative)

by evilviper@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-14 16:34 (#XNSD)

So it's just a coincidence France lets a bunch of muslims in...and now has terrorist problem...right?
France has had "terrorist problems" for CENTURIES... And Germany has just as many Muslims as France, with far fewer incidents of terrorism. All those Syrian refugees aren't going to France, so Germany should have a significantly larger Muslim population in a few years.

Nearly a year-old, but directly on-the-nose:
Want to guess what percent of the terrorist attacks there were committed by Muslims over the past five years? Wrong. That is, unless you said less than 2 percent.
...
We are talking about groups like France's FLNC, which advocates an independent nation for the island of Corsica. In December 2013, FLNC terrorists carried out simultaneous rocket attacks against police stations in two French cities.
...
one of the worst terror attacks ever in Europe in 2011, when Anders Breivik slaughtered 77 people in Norway to further his anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and pro-"Christian Europe" agenda as he stated in his manifesto,
- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html
- http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/01/08/3609796/islamist-terrorism-europe/

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-14 05:25 (#XM4P)

Not just France. Read http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did-british-police-ignore-pakistani-gangs-raping-rotherham-children-political-correctness/

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-14 05:20 (#XM4N)

It must be pure coincidence that France now has such a serious social problem with rape and assault of females that they now advise females to cover themselves so as not to invite attention and not to go near males in cars.

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1)

by entropy@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-14 05:07 (#XM3M)

So it's just a coincidence France lets a bunch of muslims in...and now has terrorist problem...right?

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 2, Informative)

by evilviper@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-13 19:27 (#XJZM)

No, recently.

Anti-government, secessionists, anti-abortionists, KKK, neo-nazis, anti-secular evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, etc. Not to mention all the new anti-islamists crazies who go and murder random brown-skinned people.

Even with just mass shootings, only a tiny minority are done by Islamists.

Not a great list, but this should put things in proper perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#2010.E2.80.93present

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism#United_States

I don't mean to be US-only, just that the english Wiki doesn't do an in-depth job on much else.

Even more on-the-nose:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/05/muslims-only-carried-out-2-5-percent-of-terrorist-attacks-on-u-s-soil-between-1970-and-2012.html

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1)

by entropy@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-13 17:47 (#XJSJ)

Maybe 1,500 years ago.

Re: How about block islam? (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-12 21:06 (#XGNJ)

There have been more deaths in the west due to Christian terrorists, than Islamic ones.

How about block islam? (Score: 1, Insightful)

by entropy@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-12 20:42 (#XGKZ)

That'd fix the terrorist problem.

news? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Google play forces updates like Windows 10 on 2015-12-12 18:02 (#XGA0)

I'm fairly sure Google has always been able to push apps and updates, as well as removal.

Re: The strange part (Score: 2, Interesting)

by pete@pipedot.org in Dell Laptop Security Hole Acknowledged on 2015-12-12 17:57 (#XG9J)

Right? Not for lack of denying it at first, of course! I'm not a big fan of theirs anymore, as I type from the last one I will own...anyone have suggestions for manufacturers that don't suck, and provide long term support, ie, at least 4 years...Dell stopped updating the software and drivers for my laptop 2 years after it was released. Seems way too short by any standard...

Re: Do we have a figure for Australia yet (Score: 2, Informative)

by pete@pipedot.org in 175 million pounds per year to collect UK metadata on 2015-12-12 17:26 (#XG7G)

Quick roundup:
  • A$131m was budgeted recently, $124m of which is earmarked for ISPs.
  • A survey of ISPs found that 60% said it would cost less them than A$250,000 to implement,12% said $1mil, and the largest telcos estimating around $10m.
  • An assessment done earlier this year estimated compliance costs around A$190-320m
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500257908/Mixed-signals-fuel-mixed-feelings-about-Australias-data-retention-plan

Do we have a figure for Australia yet (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward in 175 million pounds per year to collect UK metadata on 2015-12-12 12:04 (#XFJE)

How much will it cost for the recently enabled spying in Australia? Sure someone has an answer by now

The strange part (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward in Dell Laptop Security Hole Acknowledged on 2015-12-12 12:03 (#XFJD)

... is that they admitted to this

It's funny, you know... (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward in 175 million pounds per year to collect UK metadata on 2015-12-12 01:25 (#XEHE)

As a kid, I was always taught that if the Left Wing parties got control of a nation, they would raise taxes and implement unprecedented surveillance on their citizens. Papers please, do as we tell you, don't do or say anything that goes against what we say is best for you.

30 years later, it turns out that it's not the Left Wing, and I'm fairly sure it's not the Right Wing either.

It's people.

These guys, the ones ruling us and not leading us, have been waiting in the wings for years. They've been working in big business, learning about marketing and manipulation of public opinion, how to influence what is said about them, how to market themselves. Now that they have their opportunity, they're going to use it to turn themselves into kings, and what will we do about it?

We will cheer them on, because they've worked hard so they deserve it.

This changes *everything* (Score: 1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward in Huawei reveals new smartphone battery that charges 10 times faster on 2015-12-11 16:18 (#XD26)

This is a game changer. Some of the weakness of batteries:

* Cycle wear-out
* Charging time
* Physical size
* Physical weight
* Cost to produce
* Pollution from products or by-products

Now if only this new technology could be made from pasta then some of the other weaknesses could also be addressed.

Impact on battery life (Score: 1)

by fnj@pipedot.org in Huawei reveals new smartphone battery that charges 10 times faster on 2015-12-11 16:06 (#XD0D)

The critical information here is that the rapid charging allegedly does not affect the life of the batteries. If that is truly the case, this tech is extremely promising.

Re: Some problems (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward in Li-Fi is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. LED lights could be used for delivering data on 2015-12-11 08:20 (#XBPS)

Could be more useful as a backbone than having to run cables across a room. Or you could put it behind a false ceiling, and nobody would see it except for a technician who might clean a lens every few years.

Re: Too fast for humans to notice? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward in Li-Fi is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. LED lights could be used for delivering data on 2015-12-11 08:17 (#XBPC)

I think the suggestion was that light scatters, and the corporate data could be read by just anybody, regardless of relationship with the company. Meantime, my workplace hasn't even managed to get 100 megabit working at faster than 300k/sec for a workplace of around a dozen people.

Re: Too fast for humans to notice? (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward in Li-Fi is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. LED lights could be used for delivering data on 2015-12-10 20:21 (#XA4Z)

Not sure what you think the problem is? Laser diodes are pretty cheap these days and the ones in laser pointers focus pretty well. If the receivers don't reflect the laser back out, then it seems like a wire that you don't have to snake through the ceiling. Interrupted by paper airplanes? What's the problem??

Re: Or (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org in Transparent solar cells that could power skyscrapers on 2015-12-10 18:21 (#X9QM)

I'm not sure I get the distinction between protecting forest ecosystems and desert ecosystems.
Compare the density of plant and animal life in a desert, with a forest. Deserts are necessarily sparse, and so you can develop far more desert land while doing much less damage. Since development isn't going to stop, the LESS destructive method is preferable.
I can tell you there are lots and lots of plants in the "mostly-empty" desert.
We won't run out of creosote bushes.
The whole idea of protecting individual animals and plants is that all species play a role in the ecosystem
Actually the popularity of the endangered species act is all about people wanting to preserve their childhood, and the animals they remember. The smaller and less significant the animal, the less public interest in protecting them. In truth, many species go extinct all the time, their impact on the ecosystem is low, and nearly nobody cares when it happens. It's only when large animals disappear that people bat an eyelash.
taking one species out threatens others in ways that are often unpredictable.
That sounds a little too much like the fear-mongering mantra of anti-chemical/vaccine/GMO/nuclear groups to me. The ecosystem of Arizona didn't collapse when the Santa Cruz Pupfish (Cyprinodon arcuatus) went extinct. In fact, can you point to ANY ecosystems that collapsed as the result of a few minor plants or animals going extinct? Particularly when we're talking about one endangered minor sub-species of an animal that's otherwise doing fine, it's hard to justify all the expensive efforts to preserve it. And in the deserts, too, there are state and federal parks and preserves which will provide sanctuary for endemic species.

Re: Or (Score: 1)

by fishybell@pipedot.org in Transparent solar cells that could power skyscrapers on 2015-12-10 16:59 (#X9DX)

I'm not sure I get the distinction between protecting forest ecosystems and desert ecosystems. As someone who lives in the west I can tell you there are lots and lots of plants in the "mostly-empty" desert. Very few parts of the vast expanse between the continental divide in Colorado and the Sierra Nevadas in California are not filled with sage brush, juniper trees, pinyon pines, etc. Just because it's not an old-growth forest doesn't mean it isn't worth protecting. The whole "it's just the desert" mentality is why there are hundreds of threatened, endangered, and critically endangered species in the west. The whole idea of protecting individual animals and plants is that all species play a role in the ecosystem, and taking one species out threatens others in ways that are often unpredictable.

Re: Doubtful (Score: 1)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org in After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi on 2015-12-10 14:55 (#X8YQ)

I also don't get the distinction between "free" and shared wifi. If they have trouble tracking people using shared wifi, then does it really matter if they pay or not?

I mean if France's favorite restaurant included wifi access with their Royale with Cheese, it wouldn't help anything.
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