The 2012 gold medal will be awarded to the Millennium Project at a June 4th Awards dinner. This year’s ceremony will take place on Monday, June 4, 2012 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Laureate registration opens at 5:00 p.m. and the evening concludes around 9:30 p.m. Please note [...]
The philosophical status of the wavefunction — the entity that determines the probability of different outcomes of measurements on quantum-mechanical particles — would seem to be an unlikely subject for emotional debate. Yet online discussion of a paper claiming to show mathematically that the wavefunction is real has ranged from ardently star-struck to downright vitriolic since the article was [...]
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Authorities in Europe are ready to lay out plans to introduce an electronic identity system across Europe, with the proposals to be unveiled at the end of this month.
Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has outlined a proposal to bring in an electronic identity system across the EU.
On Wednesday, the European Commissionpublished a [...]
Hactivists – not cybercriminals – were responsible for the majority of personal data stolen from corporate and government networks during 2011, according to a new report from Verizon.
The Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigation Report found that 58% of data stolen in 2011 was the result of hactivism, which involves computer break-ins for political rather [...]
LOS ANGELES – 08 Mar 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists today will report on a prototype optical chipset, dubbed “Holey Optochip”, that is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second, the equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will be presented [...]
A few countries, like Estonia, have gone for internet-based voting in national elections in a big way, and many others (like Ireland and Canada) have experimented with it. For Americans, with a presidential election approaching later this year, it’s a timely issue: already, some states have come to allow at least certain forms of [...]
There are few people in the world with a resume like Eric Schmidt. Just finishing his decade long run as Google’s CEO, Schmidt is also a former Apple board member, former Stanford Business School Professor, and a pretty kickass programmer back in the day. In his time [...]
We know that demand for the new iPad met expectations with Apple telling USAToday demand is “off the charts.” Apple also confirmed that the initial pre-order supplies were purchased with shipping times for the device slipping to “2-3 weeks.” Now, a new ChangeWave Research study of “1,604 business IT buyers” gives some insight into [...]
Ever since University of Manchester scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov first isolated flakes of graphene in 2004 using that most high-tech pieces of equipment – adhesive tape – the one-atom sheet of carbon has continued to astound researchers with its remarkable properties. Now Professor Sir Andre Geim, (he’s now not only a Nobel [...]
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have announced a breakthrough in prosthetics that may one day allow artificial limbs to be controlled by their wearers as naturally as organic ones, as well as providing sensations of touch and feeling. The scientists have developed a new interface consisting of a porous, flexible, conductive, biocompatible material through which [...]
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Announcing the new iBook edition
of the First Earth Battalion Field Manual including Original size, easier to read, graphics, iTextbook like features, and a video of the "Goats Declassified" featurette on the DVD release of the infamous George Clooney movie, "The Men Who Stare at Goats"
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The real "light at the end of the tunnel" from the Viet Nam War.
A reprint of the original hand illustrated field manual of the "First Earth Battalion" that inspired the George Clooney movie, "the Men Who Stare at Goats".
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