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Perfect Armor: developed the strongest in the history of substance

2010-10-25T23:24:00.000-07:00

Israeli scientists have developed the most durable of the existing organic materials. He denser stainless steel and is superior to indicators of strength bulletproof Kevlar.
Use the resulting material engineers intend not only to make your reservation (more than a cheap and easy, that soldier is important). Also there are plans to implement a set of "peace" projects: improvement in the strength of composite materials, development of new types of exceptionally good glass.
It turns out, make a hole in the plate of the new substance can only tool with diamond tip. Effort that is necessary in order to make a dent on the surface of the material must exceed twice the figure for Kevlar.

After 20 years people will be able to store data of the brain?

2010-10-24T14:30:00.000-07:00

Daily Mail reports that Raymond Kurzweil (Raymond Kurzweil), a well-known near their developments such as speech recognition, said during a recent performance in Austria, that in 20 years people will be able to save the contents of your brain.
This person needs to understand is talking about, because in 15 years, he created a program that can recreate the music in the style of the great composers, so he was invited to the White House for a meeting with U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. Later, he created a machine that could read the texts for the blind.

Raymond Kurzweil argues that after 20 years in the blood of people will be "live" thousands of nanorobots, which should focus on treating the body, improving the characteristics of a person and even be able to backup the contents of the brain. According to him, it will be possible to keep every thought, every experience, in a word much of what makes people individual.
He notes that these forecasts are sound strained, but in the early 1980's people also seemed crazy to predictions about the emergence of the Web in mid-1990.

Android-developers are protecting the OS from the criticism of Steve Jobs

2010-10-23T15:14:00.000-07:00

Two prominent Android-developer does not agree with the accusation of Apple CEO Steve Jobs on mobile operating system, Google Android, put forth in a recent speech.
Iain Dodsvors, head of TweetDeck, and Andy Rubin, who heads the development of Android, rejecting assertions by Steve Jobs about the negative effect of fragmentation of users and developers of various versions of Android's open mobile operating philosophy from Google.

Iain Dodsvors said that his team Twitter Deck has no problems with the development of applications for Android and Steve Jobs overestimates the effect of fragmentation. We recall, Apple said that Twitter Deck in developing its applications for Android had to take into account 100 different versions of Android to 244 different smartphones.

Fucking Avatar

2010-10-22T15:17:00.000-07:00

An extended version of the famous James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar" will be released Nov. 16 on DVD and Blu-Ray discs. Directed by the team decided to add scenes and episodes that are not included in the basic version of the film, which brought $ 2.8 billion at the box office. Mainly it is the top fighter, where Cameron shows life on Earth in the 22 century. A former Marine, and now people in wheelchairs, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington, Sam Worthington) vegetate between his tiny shabby number and a bar in constant drinking bout. However, despite appearances surrendered and dropped a man, Jake is not broken, and remained a soldier with a capital letter. He even picks a fight, stood up for women.

Cameron specifically reduced the start in the first version of "Avatar" in an effort to quickly show the viewer the world of Pandora and meeting with Na'vi. "The main thing for me in the film was met with Jake Naytiri and their love. So every minute of delay would be a further test of viewer loyalty "-" James said.

The Internet makes us smarter, or ... vice versa?

2010-10-22T04:51:00.000-07:00

For several years now in the circles of scientists and users is a discussion about what impact the Internet on people. Does he smarter than us, or vice versa?
Internet allows you to get free access to large amounts of information almost instantly. Of course, the quality and reliability of this information can vary greatly. In addition, information is available in various formats. With the web people can share experiences with other users, store of knowledge and, ostensibly, to become smarter.
Nevertheless, in this respect there are other opinions. For example, a scientist Nicholas Carr (Nicholas Carr) in 2008 put forward the hypothesis that search engines like Google make users stupid. The presence of fast facts, no need to search for nuances and work with a lot of additional literature adversely affected as a result of the work, and at the level of intelligence user.
However, to summarize, in this case is also not worth it. Internet can be compared with the same reference book or encyclopedia. Different people use, seek and accumulate information in different ways.

Ukraine no longer wants to supply weapons to Georgia

2010-10-21T12:03:00.000-07:00

Ukraine does not plan to supply weapons to Georgia, said at a press conference, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Klyuyev countries, commenting upon the request of a Russian journalist about possible plans to resume arms supplies to the republic of Georgia.

"We're all friends, but everything to do with the arms of Georgia, the first time I hear from you. I think you are misinformed," - said Klyuev. In this regard, he ruled out the possibility of worsening relations between Ukraine and Russia on the grounds of the Georgian weapons issue. "With Russia, we have brotherly relations," - he said.

Recall, after the armed conflict in South Ossetia in August 2008. in Ukraine, a scandal involving violations of the law in supplying weapons to Georgia. In September of 2009. Ukraine's prosecutor general's office has denied the information about the alleged number identified in state-owned Ukrspetsexport gross violations in connection with the sale of Georgian arms and military equipment. "Established that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) involvement in the conflict have not accepted, weapons and military equipment MAT in this state there was no military assistance to the Georgian side is not available" - Prosecutor General's Office said in a message.

The first completely robotic surgery was successful

2010-10-21T01:21:00.000-07:00

If you had to lie down on the operating table, would you like to see on a human or robot? In any case, until the robotics of the filigree of the progress has not yet reached, but the DaVinci robot is now successfully functioning as a "hand of the surgeon, never tremble and guide the tool with precision accuracy. However, doctors at McGill University Health Centre (McGill University Health Centre, MUHC) have gone further to fully recover operating on the human presence - for anesthesia responsible designated robot McSleepy, who "practice" since 2008.

Prostatectomy (surgery to remove the prostate) in the wall of the Centre, became the world's first completely robotic surgery. «DaVinci allows the doctor to work remotely and accurate way to position the instruments, while being arbitrarily far from the operated" - says the chief urologist at MUHC Aprikyan A. (A. Aprikian).
"To provide anesthesia in robotic surgery to remove the prostate is extremely difficult, largely because of the specific positioning of the patient's compliance and a high degree of muscle relaxation required for compliance with the best possible conditions during the operation," added Dr Hemmerling. Automated anesthesia with McSleepy guarantees high quality of the procedure, regardless of the subjective experience of the doctor. Of course, there is still much to develop - the robots used in surgery for a long time, but only now we could rely on them in carrying out operations. " Dr. Aprikyan adds: "This experience will allow us to perform surgery faster, safer and more accurate, which ultimately has a positive effect on the patient's condition."

YAAAAAY

2010-10-20T14:54:00.001-07:00

I hit 100! Thanks all of you! Good luck, I love you!

Google digitized the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls

2010-10-20T14:41:00.000-07:00

By the spring of 2011 on Google servers, Israel will be posted the first images of the Dead Sea Scrolls - biblical and apocryphal texts, which date from the beginning of our era were discovered in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran on the Dead Sea in 1947.

In order to digitize all 900 scrolls, broken by 30 thousand fragments, the scientists take a few years. Each piece will be photographed at six different wavelengths, after which the images will combine with each other. This method of treatment would lead to high-definition images, and they can see parts of the parchment, blackened on the original scrolls under the influence of time. In addition to the actual images in the publications will include translations of texts and detailed background information. The project budget is estimated at $ 3.5 million

Creating a complete digital copies will rarely disturb themselves scrolls, and will also make available the possibility of free combination of fragments, which may contribute to a new interpretation of certain texts.

Berkman Center research: the main features of Russian blogs

2010-10-20T02:07:00.000-07:00

Scientific organization Berkman Center, working at Harvard University, published the results of his study «Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization», devoted to studying the peculiarities of the Russian-language blogosphere. Starting with an analysis of five million blogs, the researchers gradually reduced the number of sources considered to about 11,000, constituting, in their opinion, "the core of a debate" with a high degree of activity. We offer you the main conclusions reached by experts.
Unlike their counterparts in the U.S. and the rest of the world, Russian bloggers prefer platforms that combine the features of their own blogs with social networking services (social network services, SNS), such as Facebook. In the Russian dominated by a few of these blogs «SNS-hybrids. While the current blogosphere is largely divided on the platforms, a central core of the discussions, which contains the bulk of the discussions of politics and public life. Nucleus are predominantly, though not exclusively, blogs on LiveJournal.
Topics discussed in the center of the debate, divided into four main groups:
politics and public life (for a discussion of news, business, financial, and social activism, political events);
culture (including literature, cinema, elite and popular culture);
regional themes (Russian-language bloggers in Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Israel, etc.);
instrumental subjects (writing and paid for blogging on foreign orders).

Facebook caught in the disclosure of personal data of users

2010-10-19T13:25:00.000-07:00

This week, the world's largest social networking site Facebook has become the focus of press attention, and critics - a result of the publication of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigation found that some popular applications service without users' knowledge transfer personal data to third parties. In total, formed by journalists list appears at least 25 advertising agencies and organizations involved in the collection of private data.
Among implicated in the transmission of data lighted popular game FarmVille from Zynga Game Network Inc, a monthly audience of which is 59 million. In total, Facebook recorded more than 500 million accounts. Thus, according to the newspaper, the number of users whose data have been leaked, could amount to tens of millions. At the same time affected even those of the account holder, who set the most stringent privacy settings.

77% of Americans use social networking sites during working hours

2010-10-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

The company Panda Security has conducted a study of small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. on the use of members of social networks. Revealed that 77% of employees use social networks in the workplace, while 33% complained that the victims of the virus, infected through social networks.

Ranked Among the employees of small and medium business Facebook is the most popular social network: 69% of respondents reported that they have personal pages on this site. In the second place in popularity is Twitter (44%), the third - YouTube (32%), and then recruiting service Linkedln (23%).

iPad - favorite tool for terrorists

2010-10-18T14:29:00.000-07:00

It turns out that the tennis tournament US Open to the U.S., which was not so long ago, the organizers prohibited to bring the plates. This was done deliberately, on the grounds that the device can be used by terrorists. In this case, potential terrorists could freely carry the iPhone.
According to Reuters, some visitors Stadium Arthur Ashe Stadium, who took with him a popular tablet by Apple, had been contemptuously rejected, when the guards found that they would be willing to match a dangerous weapon.
Visitors were taken aback clearly explains that the device is a favorite tool of terrorists, through which they can direct aircraft to the stadium or use it for remote detonation of the charge.

Google expects billions of new web users

2010-10-18T03:23:00.000-07:00

Following a report on the excellent results of Google in the third quarter of this year, while celebrating the 25 th anniversary of the MIT Media Lab, executive director of the corporation, Eric Schmidt (Eric Schmidt) spoke about how he sees the future of his company and the Internet in general.
When he was asked about the fact that Google has already earned a billion on mobile advertising, Eric Schmidt said: "anything that pays a billion dollars - well, if there is growth, then even better."

Following a significant number which counts Google with its employees, billions of people around the world who have access to computing devices. The world has been used for nearly 4 billion mobile phones, and from 800 million to a billion of them are smartphones.

Merkel: NATO seeks closer cooperation with Russia

2010-10-17T14:16:00.001-07:00

Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke in favor of deeper integration of Russia into NATO. Relevant application of the federal chancellor of Germany was made in the eve of the day tripartite summit in Normandy with the participation of Germany, France and Russia, the Deutsche Welle, with reference to the German media.

In his statement, Angela Merkel stressed that the Cold War, "a thing of the past once and for all," and NATO seeks closer cooperation with Russia. According to her, at a summit in Normandy "will discuss how to ensure better cooperation between Russia and NATO."

Iran ready to resume talks on nuclear program

2010-10-17T06:37:00.000-07:00

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is prepared to resume talks on its nuclear program that was interrupted last year, reports the Associated Press.

It is expected that consultation on this issue will begin in November. The talks will be attended by the five permanent UN Security Council members - the U.S., Britain, China, Russia and France and Germany.

According to the Iranian leader, "West himself made the first step." "They came and said:" We will negotiate. "Well, we will negotiate with you" - said Ahmadinejad.

Meanwhile in France

2010-10-16T16:23:00.000-07:00

The latest wave of protests against raising the retirement age took place today in France. According to unions, today's protest to support 2.5 million people.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Home Affairs says more modest figures. According to them, a protest against pension reform in France today raised 825 thousand participants.

It is worth noting that due to strikes refineries country is violation of the supply of fuel. At least nine of the 12 companies on the distillation of raw materials are still closed. In addition, the French continued disruptions in air and rail links, closed the country's main port of Marseilles.

North Korea ready to resume six-party talks

2010-10-16T10:14:00.000-07:00

North Korea ready to resume six-party talks, said the spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry. It is reported by Xinhua, citing the official KCNA news agency of North Korea.

Until then, North Korean media made several bellicose statements. Talked about Pyongyang's intention to "thousandfold" increase the power of the North Korean army in response to Washington's refusal to lift the sanctions imposed on North Korea.

In addition, First Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kyo-kwan said that Pyongyang will not return to negotiations in the format of the disarmament-for-food program until the sanctions are not cease to operate.

Medvedev tweet about mayor of Moscow

2010-10-15T15:57:00.000-07:00

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who offered 15 October the mayor of Moscow candidate Sergei Sobyanin, wrote about this in his Twitter.

Sergei Sobyanin - an experienced manager who possesses the necessary qualities to be Mayor of Moscow ", - writes user KremlinRussia. To his post Dmitry Medvedev attached photograph, which depicts himself with Sobyanin.

Election of Moscow Mayor

2010-10-15T12:30:00.000-07:00

Consideration by President Dmitry Medvedev candidacy for mayor of Moscow will take place no earlier than next week, said today by RBC Chairman Vladimir Platonov, the Moscow City Duma.

"On Monday (October 18) we will have a meeting of the Commission on the organization of the Moscow City Duma. There we will decide when to consider running for mayor. We have 10 days in which to make a wise decision", - said Vladimir Platonov to RBC .

Vice-Speaker of the MHD Andrei Metelsky noted that the candidacy of Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow will be considered after consultation with the candidate at an extraordinary meeting of the Moscow City Duma

Movie: Prince of Persia

2010-10-15T10:53:00.000-07:00

Great picture, good links to the game "Prince of Persia" and "Assassin's Creed", a nice parkour and fights.

I sincerely do not understand the wave of crap that individuals shed on the film. Say, "the plot a bit predictable." Well, yes, it's ekshin, fantasy-thriller, where it hitrozakruchenny story? Type of film can be viewed at once? How many fantasy fighters 2000 release can be viewed more than once? Type of film debased the Great Game? Guys, remember Doom, Far Cry and Blood Rayne - that's quiet horror, disfigured all the principles of games in which, allegedly, movies were filmed. And then everything in general, correct.