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Sytek on Friday

2009-07-10T08:05:42Z

- Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? (Green Car Reports)
- Applying Evolutionary Algorithms to the Galactic Arms Race (Ai Game Dev)
- What Would You Want In a Large-Scale Monitoring System? (Slashdot)
- How Heavy Is A Petabyte? (MatrixStore)
- Canon unveils augmented reality dinosaur show in Japan (Engadget)
- Q&A: Robotics engineer aims to give robots a humane touch (CNet)
- VMware CEO: Intel chip design too complex (CNet)
- Overclocking and the latency game (The Inquirer)
- SSD RAID scaling under Windows 7 (HardOCP)
- Appreciation of “jumping hour” watches that display time as linear (BoingBoing)
- Computer learns sign language by watching TV (NewScientist)
- Open source rising as the economy continues to fall (CNet)
- Grazing robot would run on biomass (CNet)
- Playing together and staying together (BBC)
- Bruce Sterling’s closing talk at Reboot — life in the next decade (BoingBoing)

Sytek on Giovedì

2009-07-09T04:07:47Z

- Limited-colour screens could boost cellphone battery life (NewScientist)
- SAHİMO Hydrogen Vehicle Travels 568 Kilometers on 1 Liter of Fuel (Inhabitat)
- Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence (NewScientist)
- Solar for Dark Climates (Technology Review)
- Magnetic Brain Stimulation Improves Skill Learning, Study Finds (ScienceDaily)
- Interplanetary internet gets permanent home in space (NewScientist)
- One step closer to an artificial nerve cell (PhysOrg)
- Ray Kurzweil on How to Combat Aging (Technology Review)
- Emotional robots: Will we love them or hate them? (NewScientist)
- EU Creates Self-Tuning Compiler (Robots.net)
- The Rise of the Modular Robot: A Review in Videos (Singularity Hub)
- A Sample of Synthetic Human Skin for Just 34 Euros (Singularity Hub)
- Getting to the bottom of TSMC’s 40-nm issues (EE Times)
- Carbon chip technology goes commercial (EE Times)- Limited-colour screens could boost cellphone battery life (NewScientist)
- SAHİMO Hydrogen Vehicle Travels 568 Kilometers on 1 Liter of Fuel (Inhabitat)
- Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence (NewScientist)
- Solar for Dark Climates (Technology Review)
- Magnetic Brain Stimulation Improves Skill Learning, Study Finds (ScienceDaily)
- Interplanetary internet gets permanent home in space (NewScientist)
- One step closer to an artificial nerve cell (PhysOrg)
- Ray Kurzweil on How to Combat Aging (Technology Review)
- Emotional robots: Will we love them or hate them? (NewScientist)
- EU Creates Self-Tuning Compiler (Robots.net)
- The Rise of the Modular Robot: A Review in Videos (Singularity Hub)
- A Sample of Synthetic Human Skin for Just 34 Euros (Singularity Hub)
- Getting to the bottom of TSMC’s 40-nm issues (EE Times)
- Carbon chip technology goes commercial (EE Times)

Worldwide readings on humpday

2009-07-08T08:45:15Z

- In Latest Upheaval, China Applies New Strategies to Control Flow of Information (NY Times)
- Finland ends Estonia’s reign in wife-carrying competition (AFP)
- Life in Pyongyang (BBC in 2000)
- Third land link to Europe envisioned (China Daily)
- Fame, fortune for Web tutors in education-crazy South Korea (IBT)
- Equilibrium exchange rates (VOX)
- Historic Bible pages put online (BBC)
- The Dollar: It’s an Overhang, not a Hangover (CFR)
- The Man Who Crashed the World (Vanity Fair)
- Tabasco has all the heat of its Louisiana homeland, and a history that’s just as fiery (Times Online)

Sytek on Mercoledì

2009-07-08T04:10:31Z

- COBOL’s future lies in the clouds (SD Times)
- Next-gen superdesktops: Nehalem-EX or EP (The Inquirer)
- Robot invented to crawl through veins (The Inquirer)
- Relativistic jets originate close to a black hole’s pull (ArsTechnica)
- Microsoft’s Gazelle browsers takes a radical path (CNet)
- The Divnich Debrief: The Implications of DLC (Industry Gamers)
- Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers (PhysOrg)
- Modified invisibility cloak could make the ultimate illusion (NewScientist)
- Lockheed Martin and Microvision developing wearable displays for DARPA (Engadget)
- Panasonic breaks into robotics with medical robot (AP)
- The Dilemma of Level vs Skill – How Old Became New Again (Ten Ton Hammer)
- Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge (NY Times)
- Prolonged Sunspot Drought Ends as New Spots Appear (Space.com)
- ‘Flexible camera’ replaces lens with fiber web (PhysOrg)
- New SunCatcher power system unveiled at National Solar Thermal Test Facility (Sandia)
- Firefox stability to get a boost with multiprocess browsing (ArsTechnica)
- British scientists say created sperm from stem cells (AFP)

Wiki entry: Box jellyfish

Who is the president of Mexico?

2009-07-07T10:56:09Z

Responses from Americans:

Kidding, kidding. It’s another instaclassic from The Onion. Seriously though, how many of you would’ve chosen Santa Anna?

Mexico Builds Border Wall To Keep Out US Assholes

Sytek for Tuesday

2009-07-07T06:51:08Z

- Lab Test: Inject Genes Into The Brain, Fat Disappears (Medical News Today)
- Coffee ‘may reverse Alzheimer’s’ (BBC)
- Fellow students smell your exam fear (NewScientist)
- Multitouch surface made from commodity PC components (BoingBoing)
- Large Hadron Collider grid stress-tested (CNet)
- Open Source Search Engine Benchmarks (Slashdot)
- Review: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport (Wired)
- Stand-up console plays Nintendo DS and Sony PSP games, somewhat defeats the purpose (Engadget)
- Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity (Wired)
- When gaming communities go wrong (CNet)
- 800 TFLOP real-time ray tracing GPU unveiled, not for gamers (ArsTechnica)
- Science moves from the stacks to the Web; print too pricey (ArsTechnica)
- NSA’s power- and money-sucking datacenter buildout continues (ArsTechnica)
- HTML 5: Ogg Theora Vs H.264 In The Battle For A Web Video Standard (TechCrunch)
- Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed (Slashdot)
- Sega Toys’ Dream Cat Venus is sure to be your favorite fake pet ever (Engadget)
- The laser that can halt blindness and offer hope for millions (Daily Mail)
- Google Will Star in Emerging News Model (Internet Evolution)
- VX-200 demonstrates superconducting first stage at full power (Space Fellowship)
- Nanopillar Solar Cells (Technology Review)

Worldwide readings on Martedì

2009-07-07T06:03:17Z

- We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? (NY Times)
- Toyota: America’s Car Company (Clusterstock)
- It’s Time For A Market In Human Organs (Clusterstock)
- North Korea moves to restrict economy (LA Times)
- Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe is an atheist and respects Richard Dawkins (Examiner)
- Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? (Chronicle)
- The Year The Newspaper Died (SAI)
- Xinjiang oil boom fuels Uighur resentment (FT in 2008)
- Robert McNamara, Who Led, Regretted Vietnam War, Dies (Bloomberg)

Wiki entries: MBC unethical journalism :: Dream of the Red Chamber

Sytek to start the week

2009-07-06T03:26:23Z

- That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger (NY Times in 2006)
- Luggable 75 lb “laptop” from 1968 (BoingBoing)
- Space observatory: Planck achieves ultra-cold state (BBC)
- VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support (ArsTechnica)
- Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate (ArsTechnica)
- More details emerge on the Intel/TSCM deal and Moorestown (ArsTechnica)
- Spiral Jetty, earthwork extraordinaire (CNet)
- Ramen robots invade japan restaurant (CNet)
- Neuromancer turns 25: What it got right, what it got wrong (Macworld)
- The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later (ACM)
- From predator to plant in one gulp (Byte Size Biology)
- Wearable Sensors Help Analyze Behaviors of Factory Workers (Tech On)

Sytek on Domenica

2009-07-05T00:37:36Z

- American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse (Wired)
- Bluetooth “Big Brother” tracks festival-goers (Reuters)
- Snowfall on Mars? NASA’s Phoenix Lander recorded it (ArsTechnica)
- Laser light switch could leave transistors in the shade (NewScientist)
- Sound imaging: clever acoustics help blind people see the world (PhysOrg)
- ‘Toy Universe’ Could Solve Life’s Origins (Space.com)
- Quantum encrypted networks coming soon to business (iTnews)
- Catching a Wave, Powering an Electrical Grid? (Smithsonian)
- Stephen Hawking: “Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution” (Daily Galaxy)
- Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released! (Programmer Fish)
- Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it (CNet)
- CompuServe shuts down: CompuServe Requiem (basex)
- Billions stolen in online robbery (BBC)
- $288,000 in prizes for technology to make a difference (EE Times)
- Optical transistor made from single molecule (EE Times)
- Electromagnetic Leak: Entertaining the Galaxy (Abstruse Goose)
- Feeding Frenzy: Manta Rays (National Geographic)
- Fireworks Shapes: How Do Pyrotechnicians Do That? (AIP in 2008)

Worldwide readings on Samstag

2009-07-04T10:17:15Z

- Germany’s mediocre universities: On shaky foundations (The Economist)
- The Great American Bubble Machine (Rolling Stone)
- Short Lived: China’s Commodity Buying Spree (NY Times)
- The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. (Daily Mail)
- Limiting migration: People protectionism (The Economist)
- The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (arXiv)
- The Don Martin Dictionary — Alphabetical Listing (Doug Gilford)
- North Korean Defector Describes Inner Workings of Isolated Regime (Fox)
- North Korea launches beer advert (BBC)

India:
- India May Seek $5.2 Billion a Year From Asset Sales (Bloomberg)
- India flying on one engine (Live Mint)
- Why India is a Better Business Prospect than China (Press Media Wire)