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Vaporware 2009: Inhale the Fail – “Take a deep breath and savor the sweet stench of disappointment. It’s time for another installment of Wired.com’s Vaporware Awards…”
We May See a Hybrid Ferrari Next Year – “Ferrari’s long-rumored gas-electric supercar could break cover as early as spring. Italy’s Quattroroute magazine says Maranello is building a hybrid based on the 599 GTB Fiorano (shown above) using a variation of the kinetic energy recovery system in its Formula 1 cars. The concept car could appear at the Geneva auto show in March….”
Demonstrating a CO2 Recycler – “Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully demonstrated a prototype machine that uses the sun’s energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into the molecular building blocks that make up transportation fuels. The “Sunshine to Petrol” system could ultimately prove a practical way to recycle CO₂ from power and industrial plants into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, assuming the process can become at least twice as efficient as natural photosynthesis….”
Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear? – “Bacteria, viruses and fungi have been primarily cast as the villains in the battle for better human health. But a growing community of researchers is sounding the warning that many of these microscopic guests are really ancient allies…”
Why you shouldn’t make your glass fronted building shaped like a parabolic mirror
Top 10 Science stories of 2009 by Scientific American – ” diggredditstumbleupon
The science publications organization Scientific American has listed what it considers the top 10 science stories for 2009. They range from the collision of protons and a flu epidemic, to a world conference on climate. The SciAm slideshow highlights these major science stories in the year 2009….”
What a RC Plane Sees When You Try to Kill It With Fireworks:
2010 preview: Will a neutralino steal Higgs’s thunder? – “The world’s biggest experiment is primed to answer one of the universe’s biggest questions: what is the origin of mass? But an unexpected particle could yet steal the show…”
NASA crashes helicopter to test new shield for cars – “NASA has intentionally crashed a 3,000-pound MD-500 helicopter loaded with dummies to test a new safety shield, which could someday be used to make the cars we drive safer…”
The city of tomorrow may be built on water – ” A Dutch architect imagines entire cities being built in water. In The Hague’s hinterland, this vision will soon become reality…”
How To De-Crapify A PC Efficiently – “As I’ve been doing PC repair for quite a while now (see my guide to doing local pc repair), the most common repetitive action I do is cleaning up someone’s PC. Over the years, I’ve found the most efficient way is to do a complete re-install (obviously). However there are times when you can’t or don’t want to do a complete reinstall. I’ve found that with 6 quick easy steps you can effectively de-crapify a computer, leaving it running much faster overall. I have literally tried this on uncountable machines, so you can be sure that this method works…”
Forty Years of Farmed Salmon … and One Genetic Mystery – “It’s known that escaped fish from Norwegian salmon farms can interbreed with wild salmon, and thus must have changed the genetic and physical makeup of the country’s famed wild salmon stocks. But how much? Biologists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are trying to answer this question by breeding special fish families to determine the exact genetic differences between farmed and wild salmon stocks…”
17 Interesting Tricks of the Body
AT&T Stops Some iPhone Sales in NYC – “The Consumerist reports that one of its readers has been unable to buy an iPhone from AT&T’s online store. According to the report, an AT&T customer representative told him that “the phone is not offered to you because New York is not ready for the iPhone […] You don’t have enough towers to handle the phone.”” See also: AT&T Customer Service: “New York City Is Not Ready For The iPhone”
Gallery: Looking Back at the 100 Best Innovations of 2009 – “Our Best of What’s New 2009 winners, all in one place…”
Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet – “For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients’ networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it. Last June, he began publishing his findings online. In November, he suddenly switched from defense to offense. And Mega-D–a powerful, resilient botnet that had forced 250,000 PCs to do its bidding–went down…”
Gravity Wells in our solar system
The Most Secure Jobs for 2010 – “Thinking of embarking on a new career in 2010, but not sure where to begin? How about with a job that not only pays well but offers considerable stability? After all, a handsome paycheck isn’t worth much if it’s in a field that’s expected to become the next recession casualty. Following are eight of our top picks for gigs expected to be both prosperous and abundant in the coming decade…”
Should Employers Ban Facebook at Work? – “Should employers ban access to social networking sites like Facebook at work? If you look at the potential security risks alone, the answer would be resounding yes for most enterprises. Aside from the security risk, there’s the huge hit that social networking has had on employee productivity. One estimate — from IT consulting company Morse — figures employee use of social-networking sites cost employers $2.25 billion a year in lost productivity…”
7 “Hot” Products: Radioactive Gifts and Gadgets of Yesteryear – “The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab drops the proverbial bomb on today’s kiddie microscope sets. It boasted more than 150 different experiments using four varieties of uranium ore (uranium is weakly radioactive), along with radioactive isotopes of lead, ruthenium and zinc, plus an array of detection instruments, including a Geiger counter…”
How the Times Square ball works – “Each year, millions of eyes from all over the world are focused on the sparkling Waterford Crystal Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball. At 11:59 p.m., the Ball begins its descent as millions of voices unite to count down the final seconds of the year, and celebrate the beginning of a new year full of hopes, challenges, changes and dreams…”
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