Ever wanted a copy of Windows you can take with you wherever you go, to use on any computer you want? It’s possible: here’s how to install a portable version of Windows 8 on a USB hard drive that you can take anywhere. Read more…
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How to Run a Portable Version of Windows from a USB Drive
Beijing is one thirsty city. Its population of 22 million consumes barely 100 cubic meters of water per capita—one fifth the international water-shortage level—thanks to a chronic drought in the nation’s north. But this massive desalination plant could help supply a third of the city’s water singlehandedly. Read more…
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Beijing’s Giant New Desalination Plant Will Give Water to the People
Read a magazine, book or website and you’ll see the product of Matthew Carter’s labors all over it—because he’s the guy who designed hundreds of fonts, including Verdana and Georgia. In this video, he describes the interaction between technology and design in the creation of typefaces. Read more…
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The Man Who Designed Verdana and Georgia Describes a Life Making Fonts
Graphene may be the supermaterial to rule them all —but it turns out you can make it at home . In your kitchen blender. Here’s how. Read more…
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How You Can Make Graphene at Home in Your Blender
This is no 20 GB video file, painstakingly pulled from a render farm. All of it was generated in real time by one tiny algorithm. And it’s amazing. Read more…
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This Incredible Animation Was Made By Code That Could Fit on a Floppy
If you’re lucky enough to have a retractable sprayer attached to your kitchen faucet, you’ve probably noticed that its circular blast often isn’t powerful enough to really scrape dishes clean. To fix that, Kohler is introducing what it calls Sweep spray technology that blasts stuck-on food with a wide blade of water that works like a liquid scraper. Read more…
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This Faucet Sprayer’s Flat Blade of Water Scrapes Dishes Clean
New submitter CrAlt (3208) writes with this news snipped from BSD news stalwart undeadly.org: “After the news of heartbleed broke early last week, the OpenBSD team dove in and started axing it up into shape. Leading this effort are Ted Unangst (tedu@) and Miod Vallat (miod@), who are head-to-head on a pure commit count basis with both having around 50 commits in this part of the tree in the week since Ted’s first commit in this area. They are followed closely by Joel Sing (jsing@) who is systematically going through every nook and cranny and applying some basic KNF. Next in line are Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) and Bob Beck (beck@) who’ve been both doing a lot of cleanup, ripping out weird layers of abstraction for standard system or library calls. … All combined, there’ve been over 250 commits cleaning up OpenSSL. In one week.'” You can check out the stats, in progress. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week
New submitter BiancaM (3582365) writes “A group of chemists has shown the power of nanoparticles for closing and healing surgical wounds [abstract]. Using no more than a paintbrush they are able to close surgical openings as well as classical techniques such as sutures. However in fragile deep tissues such as liver even more remarkable results were found- normally fatal damage to internal organs is repaired in seconds using a nanoparticle glue. The results show that closing after surgery can be faster and simpler using nanomaterials to glue wounds shut.” For something between the above linked abstract and the research paper, there’s this write-up at PhysOrg, and a video of the technique in action. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Closing Surgical Incisions With a Paintbrush and Nanoparticles
1sockchuck (826398) writes “Microsoft will invest $1.1 billion to build a massive new server farm in Iowa, not far from an existing data center in West Des Moines. The 1.2 million square foot campus will be one of the biggest in the history of the data center industry. It further enhances Iowa’s status as the data center capital of the Midwest, with Google and Facebook also operating huge server farms in the state.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Server Farm In Iowa
Coral sex is a wonder to behold. On a summer night, always around a full moon, corals somehow all know to release billions of sperm and eggs into the sea, turning the water into a pink miasma of sex. This spawning relies on precise environmental cues, which could get scrambled in climate change. That’s why researchers are trying to get them to spawn in the lab. Read more…
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Look At These Beautiful Little Corals Grown Like Popsicles In A Lab