Organic Light With No Wasted Electricity – “These researchers have developed an organic lighting device with “100 percent internal quantum efficiency” by employing newly designed host materials coupled with optimized device architecture…”

Colemak Keyboard Layout – Better Than QWERTY, Better Than Dvorak – “If Dvorak is an alternative keyboard layout, then Colemak is an alt-alt-layout. Designed to be easy to learn for QWERTY keyboard users, the Colemak keyboard layout has a lot going for it as far as being not only a better keyboard layout for typing, but also one that people might even be compelled to switch to! “

Pranks with electronic road signs stir worry – “The latest breach came Tuesday during the morning rush hour near Collinsville, Ill., where hackers changed a sign along southbound Interstate 255 to read, “DAILY LANE CLOSURES DUE TO ZOMBIES.”"

The Army’s Remote-Controlled Beetle – “A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week…”

How The Kernel Manages Your Memory – “After examining the virtual address layout of a process, we turn to the kernel and its mechanisms for managing user memory…”

Mission One EV sport bike unveiled – 150 MPH, 150-mile range – “Today, Mission Motors unveils a revolutionary vehicle, the Mission One, the world’s fastest production all-electric motorcycle…”

FAQ: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) – “COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) is a framework for first-responders to customize a set of command line tools. It is a framework that law enforcement can use to leverage publically available tools to access information on a live Windows system operating from a USB storage device. The tool allows law enforcement to run over 150 commands on a live computer system and save the results for later analysis, preserving information that could be lost if the computer had to be shut down and transported to a lab…”

What can I say? We have been pwned by the Indian government! – “At least, this time, almost the entire world – every news outlet, online and offline – got pranked. We are not alone…”

How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA – “Inside one Harvard Law professor’s bid to turn his students into cyberactivists and to force the music industry to face the future in the process…”

Toxic Gases Caused World’s Worst Extinction – “An ancient killer is hiding in the remote forests of Siberia. Walled off from western eyes during the Soviet era and forgotten among the endless expanse of wilderness, scientists are starting to uncover the remnants of a supervolcano that rained Hell on Earth 250 million years ago and killed 90 percent of all life…”

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