For the first time in half a decade, the ice atop Lake Superior has frozen thick enough to provide visitors safe passage to the “Sea Caves” of Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands , where centuries of erosive, wave-on-sandstone action have hewn arches, chambers and passageways into the region’s various cliffsides. Read more…
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Did you know Lake Superior has ice caves?
Hey there, world traveller. Say you want to go on a cruise but can’t afford a fancy oceanfront room on the Empress deck. No big deal! Royal Caribbean’s got you covered. Read more…
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Bad Rooms on the New Royal Caribbean Ship Come with Virtual Balconies
An anonymous reader writes “Sony claims that both the new 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models of its Haswell-equipped Vaio Pro ultrabooks are the world’s lightest. The 11.6-inch model weighs in at 1.9lb (0.87k , where as the 13.3-incher is a little heavier at just 2.33lb (1.06kg). But it’s the battery life on offer here that really makes the new Pros stand out. The 11.6-inch Vaio Pro offers 11 hours of battery life as standard, while the 13.3-inch achieves 8 hours. However, Sony is also offering a sheet battery you can connect to the base of the ultrabooks. On the 13.3-inch Pro that increases battery life to 18 hours, but on the 11.6-inch you get a true day-long amount of juice with 25 hours of battery life claimed.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Sony Touts 25 Hour Battery Life For Haswell-Equipped Vaio Pro
hypnosec tipped us to news that India is rolling out a new intrusive monitoring system, using the authority of a 2000 telecom law. Quoting The Times of India: “However, Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court advocate specialising in cyberlaw, said the government has given itself unprecedented powers to monitor private Internet records of citizens. ‘This system is capable of abuse,’ he said. The Central Monitoring System, being set up by the Centre for Development of Telematics, plugs into telecom gear and gives central and state investigative agencies a single point of access to call records, text messages, and emails as well as the geographical location of individuals.” Privacy advocates are worried about abuse, partially because India has no effective privacy legislation, and the “…Indian government under PM Manmohan Singh has taken an increasingly uncompromising stance when it comes to online freedoms, with the stated aim usually to preserve social order and national security or fight ‘harmful’ defamation.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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India Rolls Out Central Monitoring System To Snoop On All Communications
Your chances of being split open sternum to sphincter for a medical procedure are quickly declining (whew) thanks to the advent of endoscopic surgery and robotic surgical platforms like the DaVinci , though even these revolutionary procedures have their limitations. But thanks to a team of Stanford researchers, size is no longer one of them. More »
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This Hair’s-Width Endoscope Will Revolutionize Micro-Surgery