Stalking Venus

This just in from our Canadian correspondent, Jeremy Swanson. Thanks J! This is a photo of the Global Hawk UAV that returned from the war zone recently under its own power. (Iraq  to Edwards AFB in CA) – Not transported via C5 or C17….. Notice the mission paintings on the fuselage. It’s actually over 250 [...]

My dad just sent me a link to a website which pretty much held me head-locked to the floor, drilled a hole in my skull and then fucked me in the mind until I was weeping for mercy. This is probably the most awesome bit of technology I’ve seen since Google came along, and from [...]

Fujitsu have just launched the world’s first colour e-book reader that makes use of e-paper technologies, meaning that the display can hold 250,000 different colours and the battery will last 40 hours when fully charged. I’m not sure I’d want to spend US$1000 for the extra colours though – after all, I’d mostly be reading [...]

There’s an interesting article over at The Silicon Alley Insider that states the New York Times could buy every single subscriber an Amazon Kindle e-book reader and it would still cost them only half of their existing publishing costs. From the article: According to the Times’s Q308 10-Q, the company spends $63 million per quarter [...]

Nasa: In the year 2020, NASA will be back on the moon. This time NASA will explore thousands of miles of the moon’s surface with individual missions lasting six months or longer. Just as we did during the Apollo program, NASA will be developing new concepts and technologies that also will benefit life on Earth. [...]

Deutsche Welle has an interesting article on what they say may one day dethrone plastic. The substance, dubbed liquid wood is a special formula of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose – natural components of wood. “The lignin is not needed in papermaking,” says ICT team leader Emilia Regina Inone-Kauffmann. “Our colleagues mix that lignin with fine [...]