Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-15 – Public Turning Human Ashes into Beads South Korea is a densely-populated nation, and so has diminishing room for appropriate places to bury the dead. A law passed a decade ago even requires people to exhume loved ones within sixty years of burial. Cremation has thus become increasingly popular, and one company has responded to this change by offering to turn human ashes into small crystal beads: Bonhyang founder and CEO Bae Jae-yul says the beads allow people to keep their relatives close to them, wherever they go. He also says s… +1
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Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-15 – Public Square adds customer loyalty and printable receipts to the mobile payment mix In case you haven’t been paying attention, Square, the company that allows vendors to accept payments from various mobile devices, is starting to become a big deal. Now reporting days with over $11 million in transactions, the kids in San Francisco are looking to solve the pains of small business owners while driving repeat usage with a new opt-in customer loyalty system. Coming in the form of a software update, version 2.2 will empower merchants to track repeat visitors and offer sweet incen… 
Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-16 – Public Intel’s Newest Chip Has 50 Cores and Will Eat Your Family [Processors] Yes. Fifty cores. Five zero. All on a single, tiny chip. It’s real. More » 
Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-16 – Public How Applidium reverse engineered Siri’s protocol French mobile development company Applidium has reverse engineered the protocol that the iPhone 4S uses to communicate with Siri’s servers. Applidium’s developers have published a brief technical explanation of the protocol and some sample code that demonstrates how to use the service to tap into Siri’s hosted speech-to-text conversion capabilities. Their research shows that much of the heavy lifting for Siri’s speech recognition is done on the server side—which suggests that it’s theoretica… 
The Danse Macabre Collection The dance of death (usually represented by a skeleton) has been a recurring theme in art and literature for centuries -at least! BibliOddysey has a sampling of such illustrations from the Heinrich Hein University of Düsseldorf collection, ranging from 1736 to the 20th century. Link 
Windows 8 gets automatic updates, enforced restarts after 72 hours of polite harassment Windows 8 is renaming the second week of every month. After “Patch Tuesday” comes “Gentle reminder Wednesday,” “Polite yet firm suggestion Thursday” and “Automatic restart Friday”. In order to keep everyone’s system secure, Windows Update will download patches in the background before adding a notification on your lock screen that you’re due a restart. If you haven’t managed it within 72 hours, you’ll be given a 15 minute warning to save your work and close up before it forces the shutdown –… 
Tor-Enabled Browser For the iPad, and Easy Tor Nodes on EC2 An anonymous reader writes “While there has been a port of Tor for jailbroken iOS devices for a long time, there was no way to use it if you did not want to lose your warranty. Now it looks like Apple has approved a Web browser for the iPad called Covert Browser, which includes a Tor client. If you look at the first screenshot on the author’s page it looks like you can even select the Exit node. According to App Shopper it already hit place 64 in the iPad/Utilites category.” And from another …