Day: April 30, 2011
Grass-Fed Beef Is the New Performance Enhancing Drug for Athletes [Food]
Organic! Local! Grass-fed! Fanned with palm fronds! All those terms used to describe food usually mean diddly squat to me because I'm a simpleton eater. If it tastes good, it is good. But athletes—people who need to care about their body—are starting to get into eating grass-fed beef craze because of the health benefits. More
WorldWideWeb: 18 years in the public domain
Eighteen years ago today, CERN released the source code of WorldWideWeb, the first Web browser and editor, into the public domain.
CERN’s intention in this is to further compatibility, common practices and standards in networking and computer supported collaboration.
WorldWideWeb (via Imaginary Foundation)
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WorldWideWeb: 18 years in the public domain
Triton 36,000 submarine to plumb ocean’s deepest depths, comes in yellow (video)
Richard Branson‘s not the only one eager to explore that other 70 percent of the world. Triton Submarines has designed a three-passenger sub able to dive 36,000 feet, reaching the deepest part of the world’s oceans. And while Sir Richard envisions a spaceship-like craft, Triton’s design evokes old school bathyspheres: it’s a glass globe. Of course, water pressure poses a serious engineering challenge when you descend seven miles below the surface — the last manned sub to reach that depth had only a single, small window made of plexiglass. The current design uses borosilicate glass (like those transparent displays we, um, saw through a while back) that actually grows stronger as depth pressure increases; it took eight months of careful heating and cooling to produce. Assuming the glass holds, it will take about 75 minutes to reach the bottom of the ocean. Anyone considering a test run should check out the PR video after the break, showing Triton’s other submarines in action.
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Shocker! Microsoft commands 79 percent of desktop OS market
Everyone knows that Windows is installed on the vast majority of computers, but it’s always interesting to be reminded of what a cash cow the OS has been for Redmond. According to Gartner, Microsoft owned 78.6 percent of the global market for desktop operating systems at the end of 2010 — up almost 9 percent from 2009. That means, of the $30.4 billion in revenue that various companies generated, $23.8 billion lined Microsoft’s coffers. But while Windows remains the kingpin, Mac OS X and — wait for it — Red Hat, posted more substantial gains. Apple’s market share shot up almost 16 percent to 1.7 percent market share, Red Hat surged 18 percent, while dark horse Oracle leaped from ninth place to fourth, with a 7,683 percent growth in market share — no small thanks to its 2009 acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Only one question remains, then — who’s the loser?
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AT&T Thought Future Cooking Would Look Like This Circa 1993 [Video]
More dispatches from At&T's eerily prescient vision of the future, all the way from the 90s. Here, the simple problem of needing an ingredient for a meal is solved with some cool retrofuturistic tech, replete with cheesy bleeps and boops. More
Android beats iPhone over number of free apps
Apart from Android overtaking iOS in terms of adoption rate, we now have another piece of news that will surely raise the flame wars between both camps up by another notch – app store analytics provider Distimo’s latest published report points toward the pricing of mobile applications across a range of platforms, and in the process discovered that folks rocking to Google’s Android Market will have 134,342 free applications for download, whereas others who are sticking to the tried-and-true Apple App Store will see their iPhone be on the receiving end of 121,845 free applications.
Android beats iPhone over number of free apps, By Ubergizmo. Top Stories : Apple iPhone 5 already shipped to developers?, EVO 4G Review,
Video of Lexus’ 360-Degree Carbon Fiber Loom
We love it when companies not particularly known for it start putting a lot of effort into materials research. The latest case of this is Lexus and the bad-ass 360-degree loom they’ve developed to weave strands of CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastic) into three-dimensional shapes.
Lexus engineers saw the need for the loom after experimenting with making an aluminum-bodied car on an aluminum frame and concluding it would not be strong enough for their needs.
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