The Economist has a chart from Kaspersky Lab , a security firm, that shows that spam mail is on a decline. Supposedly, it’s a combination of spam filters actually working, the authentication of senders and more police crackdowns on Nigerian princes. In fact, in the past year, junk mail has declined from around 80% to 67%. Do you guys agree with this study? Are you noticing less spam in your inboxes? More »
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Are You Getting Less Spam Mail?
This startlingly orange gun isn’t something from a sci-fi film set. Instead, it’s a new firearm, from UK-based Selectamark, that fires non-lethal pellets—and marks its targets with DNA for later identification. More »
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This DNA Gun Will Tag Felons for Weeks
Working with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Big Blue has come up with a “hydrogel” that can beat back the bacteria that cause many deadly infections. [Read more]
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IBM says it has tool to kill deadly drug-resistant superbugs
You can get Legos in all the colors of the rainbow—even solid gold bricks to really flash up your creations. But wooden pieces? Unfortunately the Danish aren’t having any part of that; you’ll need to turn to the Japanese designers at Mokurokku for these beautiful knock-offs. More »
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Wooden Bricks Finally Let You Build That Authentic Lego Log Cabin
Netflix is currently rolling out infrastructure to pump 3D and higher-quality HD content through the pipes to your home. But Time Warner is upset : it thinks that Netflix’s plan to only offer the new conent to ISPs that participate in its Open Connect initiative is unfair on consumers. More »
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Time Warner: Netflix Is Unfairly Withholding High-Quality Content
Microsoft’s Office 2013 lineup should be launching soon. Here’s what we know so far about prices and packages. [Read more]
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Office 2013 pricing: What to expect
We the People platform quadruples the number of signatures required on petitions before they merit the Obama Administration’s attention. [Read more]
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White House raises petition signature threshold to 100K
If your organization uses Citrix services, then the background programs for this service may be a cause for some slowdowns. [Read more]
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Citrix background services taking 100 percent CPU in OS X
Going over your mobile data cap limit costs more than a long distance phone call from a hotel room and for what? Crossing some invisible line in the sand drawn by your carrier? That’s some bullsh*t. Brian Boyko explains exactly why data caps don’t so much protect network infrastructure as generate revenue. [ Blogphilo ] More »
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Why You’re Totally Justified in Hating Data Caps
Japanese kids learn to multiply with a completely different method than the one kids in the US do. The Japanese math voodoo/magic is more of a visual technique where you draw lines and count the intersections. More »
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Quickly Multiply Big Numbers the Japanese Way