According to the Agence France-Presse, “at least” one million cockroaches escaped a nursery in Jiangsu, China where they were being farmed for traditional medicine applications like cancer and inflammation treatments. The bugs got away because of an “unknown perpetrator” who tampered with the plastic greenhouse where they were being raised. Read more…
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A Million Cockroaches Escaped From A Chinese Farm And Are On The Move
Last night, Star Wars: Episode VII cinematographer Dan Mindel announced that the J.J. Abrams-directed movie will be shot on 35mm film, as opposed to digital video. The decision symbolizes the changing of the guard from the reign of George Lucas, and hopefully adds some much-needed vigor to the beloved franchise. Read more…
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The New Star Wars Will Be Shot on Film, Which Is Probably Great
Over a hundred years ago, archaeologists dug up these nine blackened, corroded lumps of stone from a pre-dynastic Egyptian cemetery. But it wasn’t until now that we realized just how old they are—and that they came from outer space. Read more…
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Archaeologists Just Realized 5K-Year-Old Egyptian Beads Are From Space
For the last 10 years, if you wanted to understand a complex legal issue in the news, your first stop was Groklaw. A free, open source exchange of theories and ideas, Groklaw has been an invaluable resource for lawyers and laymen alike. Last night, its owner pulled the plug. It was a matter of privacy. Read more…
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Legal Site Groklaw Shuts Down Rather Than Face NSA in Heartrending Post
No one really knows exactly how Apple makes sure the apps that wind up in its store are safe. All we know is that the App Store has a comparatively better track record than its Android counterpart . But nothing is ever totally safe. Researchers managed to sneak malware onto the App Store with ease by giving their app the power to transform . Read more…
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Researchers Snuck Malware Onto the App Store By Making It a Transformer
A Florida prison says that a computer “glitch” is to blame after all of the doors in the maximum security wing opened without warning. Wired has news for them , though. Sometimes, these kinds of glitches are caused by sneaky characters called hackers. And this situation looks pretty suspect. Read more…
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A "Glitch" Made All the Doors in a Max. Security Prison Open at Once
First time accepted submitter Consistent1 writes “A paywalled article in the “Nature Materials” journal describes the use of Magnetite to achieve ultra fast electronic switching, albeit, at the moment, only at extremely low temperatures. According to a story on Quartz, the team, led by Dr. Hermann Dürr from the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences hopes ‘to continue the experiment with materials that can operate at room temperature. One possibility is vanadium dioxide.’ Chips utilizing this technology may operate at clock cycles thousands of times faster than the silicon-based chips used today.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude.
AmiMoJo writes “A recent job posting by MI5 seeks to recruit ‘Data Exploitation Specialists.’ The core of the role is described as ‘provid[ing] tactical solutions and operational support to business users of information exploitation systems.’ In other words, industrial espionage. This open admission comes at a time when the UK and its partners are accusing China of the same thing. Pot, meet kettle?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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MI5 Hiring Industrial Espionage IT Support Staff
Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced that he would publish an alpha design for his crazy-sounding “Hyperloop” by August 12. According to Musk , the diagram above is as close as anyone has gotten to figuring out how the super-fast transit technology might work. And it seems bonkers. Read more…
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The Best Guess at How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transit Fantasy Might Work
If there’s one thing we all hate, it’s losing a yacht race. Owning a yacht and taking the time to think up a really clever name for it, only to become the laughingstock of the marina because it’s too slow, is a feeling few of us enjoy. That’s why when my next paycheck comes in, I’m going to pick one of these Adastra superyachts up. The trimaran design keeps most of the boat out of the water, allowing for swift speed with less fuel consumption; as soon as I’m skipper, I’ll ensure my old yacht-racing nemesis, Blake Chambers, will regretta his next Regatta. Every time I turn these lights on, I whisper to myself: “Boo-yah” (more…)
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The Fast, Fuel-Efficient Adastra: Officially the World’s Most Bad-Ass Superyacht