jsuda writes "For those billions of people for whom the current political-economic system doesn't work–the Occupy Wall Street people, the Tea Partiers, the 99%-ers and have-nots, the middle and lower classes, and the rest of the unwashed masses, Occupy World Street is a starburst of enlightenment and a practical vision of hope for a new and advanced society." Read on for jsuda's review
An anonymous reader writes "For over 70 years, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which 'looks through' an object to see atomic features within it, has been constrained by the relatively poor lenses which are used to form the image. The new method, called electron ptychography, dispenses with the lens and instead forms the image by reconstructing the scattered electron-waves after they have passed through the sample using computers. Scientists involved in the scheme consider their findings to be a first step in a completely new epoch of electron imaging. The process has no fundamental experimental boundaries and it is thought it will transform sub-atomic scale transmission imaging."
Thinkcloud writes "The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project has published version 7.1 of its manual for building a custom Linux installation. The new release of the step-by-step instructions is 345 pages long and uses more up-to-date components than previous versions – for example, the 3.2.6 Linux kernel and version 4.6.2 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The update also includes fixes to bootscripts and corrections to the text, as well as updates to 20 packages."
An anonymous reader writes "DuQu, the malicious code that followed in the wake of the infamous Stuxnet code, has been analyzed nearly as much as its predecessor. But one part of the code remains a mystery, and researchers are asking programmers for help in solving it. The mystery concerns an essential component of the malware that communicates with command-and-control servers and has the ability to download additional payload modules and execute them on infected machines."
JoeRobe writes "According to spaceweather.com, a major X5 solar flare is on its way to deliver a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetic field. This is the second x-class flare to be released by the same sunspot in the past few days, the first being an X1. In both cases, the sunspot (spot 1429) was not directly facing Earth, but it is still active, and poses a threat for a large, Earth-directed flare in the next few days."
adeelarshad82 writes "As expected, Apple announced the new iPad complete with a Retina Display, quad-core processor, 4G LTE, and an improved camera. The new iPad will run the rumored A5X processor, which according to Apple will provide four times the performance of the Tegra 3. The revamped tablet will also include a 2048-by-1536 display, apparently most in any mobile device. And finally with 4G LTE, the new iPad will provide up to 73 Mbps download speeds; partners for which include Verizon, Rogers, Bell, Telus, and AT&T."
First time accepted submitter robably writes "A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months. Nigel Robinson from Hull said he called police after trying to download music but instead finding pornographic images on his laptop last November. As a result social services said he 'should not have unsupervised access with his own or other children.'"
uigrad_2000 writes "Yesterday, we learned that one of the top members of LulzSec (Sabu) had been an FBI informant for almost 6 months, and that this confidant of the LulzSec leader 'anarchaos' had given the feds what they needed to take him down. More details have come out now, completing a picture of how the sting took place from start to finish. It turns out that even the server space given from Sabu to anarchaos storing the details of 30,000 credit cards (from the Stratfor hack) had been funded by the FBI."
vinn writes "Wine 1.4 was released today and includes support for a wide range of applications, including Office 2010. There are some major architectural changes, including a built-in DIB engine for better graphics display and a new audio stack designed around the newer Vista / Win 7 system and integrated into the native audio system. Almost every other subsystem received substantial updates, including Direct3D, the Gecko-based web browsing components, and better internationalization. The release notes contain more detail and you can download the source code now, or wait for packages to appear soon."
First time accepted submitter null action writes "Want to have your code run on a satellite in space? Take a look at this. MIT Space Systems Laboratory and TopCoder are hosting a DARPA competition to create the best algorithm for capturing a randomly tumbling space object. Contestants in the Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge will compete in online simulations, and four finalists will have their algorithms tested aboard the International Space Station on small satellites called SPHERES. 'In this challenge, you have no advance knowledge of how it will be rotating. We're pushing the limits of what we can do with SPHERES and we hope to break new ground with this challenge,' said Jake Katz of MIT."
The folks over at Anandtech managed to spend some time with early Ivy bridge production samples and perform a few benchmarks. The skinny: CPU performance is mildly increased as expected, but the GPU is 20-50% faster than the Sandy Bridge GPU. Power consumption is also down about 30W under full load. The graphics, however, are still slower than AMD's Llano (but the Ivy Bridge CPU beats the pants off of the Fusion's). Is the tradeoff worth it?
alphadogg writes with an excerpt from an article over at Network World: "Almost 30,000 WordPress blogs have been infected in a new wave of attacks orchestrated by a cybercriminal gang whose primary goal is to distribute rogue antivirus software, researchers from security firm Websense say. The attacks have resulted in over 200,000 infected pages that redirect users to websites displaying fake antivirus scans. The latest compromises are part of a rogue antivirus distribution campaign that has been going on for months, the Websense researchers said."
A keyboard's arrangement could have a small but significant impact to how we perceive the meaning of words we type.
If you've dismissed Google Play as just a rebranding of various Google media sites, Wired.com's Mike Isaac dispels that notion, calling it "Google?s iTunes moment." But a bigger takeaway on Google Play is that the cloud has gone prime time on Channel G, making for a critical mass of cloud consumers.
Everyone on the internet seemed to be liveblogging or reading liveblogs of Apple's iPad 3 launch event on Wednesday. Everyone, that is, except for Apple founder and number-one fanboy Steve "Woz" Wozniak. He was in Las Vegas, hanging out with the IBM data center geeks at its Pulse 2012 conference.
I watched the iPad 3/HD announcement this morning with a technofile friend of mine and we were blown away by the new features: Retina screen, the A5X chipset, iSight and 4G LTE support. I?m salivating now, even writing about it. Yet its true power is held back by large enterprise software corporations that cannot keep pace with the new devices designed with cloud computing in mind, writes Alexander Haislip.
Apple pulled back the curtain on its next generation of consumer products in San Francisco on Wednesday, revealing a quad-core 4G version of the iPad -- replete with the rumored "Retina Display" -- as well as a 1080p Apple TV refresh.
Your smartphone is an inherently social device, so the games you play on it should easily incorporate social-gaming elements. Right? As it turns out, it's not that simple.
In just two days, a viral video raising awareness for the arrest of one of the world's worst war criminals has racked up over 4 million views on YouTube. "Stop Kony" -- Joseph Kony of the infamous Lord's Resistance Army -- is just the beginning of an ambitious effort to spur global Internet culture into humanitarian action. So why do some human rights activists think it could do more harm than good?
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Swedish explorer Johan Ernst Nilson is nearing the end of a 20,000-mile trek from the North Pole to the South Pole. We catch up with him to ask about the epic journey of a lifetime.
Scientists conducting deep-sea dives around the Galapagos Islands have identified a new species of shark. Part of a family known as a catsharks, the new species is about 1.3 feet long, roughly the same size as a typical housecat.
The Mexican army has taken out a senior Zetas commander during a shootout in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, following increased pressure by the army in recent months against the cartel.
What we're seeing isn't a tablet market defined by iPad and its close siblings, but an emerging post-PC ecosystem.
A new census of wine yeasts in "grubby" Sicilian vineyards show that many of the microbes can compete with, or even outstrip, widely sold industrial yeasts used to make wines.
For the first time, the Pentagon sounds like it's considering going to war in Syria. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified on Wednesday that Team Obama is looking at options to stop the brutality of dictator Bashar Assad, "including potential military options if necessary."
Adobe Shadow is like synchronized swimming for websites. Shadow mirrors your website across dozens of mobile devices. You can then tweak, test and polish your site, watching as your changes happen in real-time, simultaneously across all the connected devices.
Planning a do-it-yourself suborbital space mission doesn't mean compromising your planning regimen. Space architect and Rocket Shop blogger Kristian von Bengston lays down some rules to ensure success.
For its upcoming tour, indie rock band of Montreal created a trippy visual show using Microsoft?s Kinect and Google SketchUp.
The Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane gets more mysterious by the day. Designed to spend up to nine months skipping across orbits on its unspecified errands, the second copy of the Boeing-made craft has now been in space for a year and two days -- and is still going strong. The endurance milestone is unqualified good news for America's space force at a time when its funding and future missions are in doubt.
Forget the A-bomb: In writer Jonathan Hickman and penciller Nick Pitarra?s new comic The Manhattan Projects, the War Department worked on much more bizarre things in its secretive labs.
The Drendel collection is more than a collection. It is a potted education in the history of blown Porsches, and its sale is a landmark event.
Roald Amundsen reaches Australia with the news that his Norwegians have taken the South Pole. But Robert Falcon Scott does him one better by dying in the attempt, thereby becoming the legend.
John Carter is an epic adventure, made with the passion only a lifelong fan could bring to such a project.
Chip designer AMD just entered the server business by snatching the free-thinking startup SeaMicro out from under the nose of Intel, its chief rival. But Intel isn't fused. On Tuesday, the world's largest chip maker said it had the chance to buy SeaMicro -- and turned it down. "We weren't interested," said Diane Bryant, the general manager of Intel's datacenter and connected systems group. And then she landed a sucker punch. She said that Intel "wasn't even interested" in SeaMicro core technology, a server "fabric" that links hardware across machines and the data center.
After a 10-year search, two experiments from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois report tantalizing hints of what may be the Higgs boson. The finding bolster results announced last year from CERN's LHC experiment, which may have spotted the elusive particle at around 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more than $1 million in prize money for their hacking prowess.