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Bugs pick up pesticide resistance from pesticide-eating bacteria
arstechnica.com
The indiscriminate spraying of pesticides has probably caused as many problems as it has solved, but here's one that was not expected: some bacteria have decided that one insecticide is a very tasty meal. Unfortunately for us, one of the strains of bacteria that has evolved the ability to...
Koubachi WiFi Plant Sensor takes your cactii's temperature, sends it to your iPhone
www.engadget.com
Plants, like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone's blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we'll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi's got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden...
Nokia 808 PureView now available stateside, $700 via Amazon
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Finnish phone purveyor Nokia has delivered on its promise to bring its flagship camera phone to US soil, with or without carriers' support. The company is offering up the PureView 808 on Amazon, complete with Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia Belle, for a cool $700 contract free. That's no...
Plants have a memory of pests that spans generations
arstechnica.com
In the age of industrial agriculture, seeds are often purchased in bulk from corporate growers that use heavy doses of pesticides. They then travel many miles to a farm where climate, soil and pest conditions are dramatically different. As a result, crops often encounter new ailments that never impacted...
Mastery And Mimicry
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The Internet is an amazing place. Last weekend an email arrived in my inbox with the subject line "Hello From MIT". That got me to open it. Turns out it was from Sep Kamvar, a faculty member at the MIT Media Lab, and before that the Stanford computer science department....
How Much Is Expert Testimony Worth To Apple? $75,000
techcrunch.com
In the case of Samsung vs. Apple, one of the biggest tech trials on U.S. soil, today’s been all about Peter Bressler, one of Apple’s expert witnesses. He’s fought with Samsung lawyers, and affirmed just about everything Apple has accused Samsung of. As an inventor or co-inventor on about 70...
Researchers use satellite imagery to discover long-lost human settlements
www.theverge.com
Researchers at MIT and Harvard have mapped approximately 14,000 former human settlements over almost 9,000 square miles in Syria — using satellites to discover changes in the soil that humans left behind. Using a combination of satellite photos from the 1960s, digital maps of the Earth's surfaces, and multispectral...
Megaupload’s lead programmer is out on bail but banned from using the Internet
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It’s been a month since the FBI raid of Megaupload took place, shutting the site down and arresting many of its top employees. One of the released employees is lead programmer Bram van der Kolk, and he spoke with the Sunday Star Times in New Zealand, where he is awaiting...
Why The Supreme Court Needs To Make Sure That Selling A Used iPad Isn't A Copyright Violation
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Over the last few years, we've been following a series of cases that have challenged the first sale doctrine -- which says that if you buy a product that has some element covered by copyright (i.e., a book) you're able to resell that item at a later date without seeking...
Nears Arrives From Brazil to Take on Foursquare In the Mobile Marketplace
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With Yelp, Groupon, Foursquare, and Belly – and that’s just to name a few – the local offers space is getting crowded, but a bootstrapped Brazilian startup has just thrown another app into the mix. Nears, which is today available as an iOS app and will soon come to Android,...
Crowdfunding's Next Frontier: Academic Research?
www.insidehighered.com
Blog: Hack (Higher) EducationCrowdfunding has become increasingly popular lately. That is, those who are looking for funding for their various projects can now turn to the community at large, which makes small contributions that are pooled resources into some pretty sizable chunks of change. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter have been able...
Incredible: Disney just figured out how to make any plant into a multi-touch sensor
thenextweb.com
Disneyland is going to get a touch more awesome if new research coming out of Disney’s Pittsburgh research lab gets its day. The project, called Botanicus Interacticus, turns plants into multi-touch sensors. Just check out this promotional video for its SIGGRAPH 2012 exhibition and tell me it’s not rad: The...
Disney's 'Botanicus Interacticus' turns any plant into an interactive toy
www.theverge.com
Disney Research is no stranger to creating unique touch interfaces, and its latest is able to turn any plant into a multi-touch controller. Dubbed Botanicus Interacticus, the system consists of a single electrode that's placed into the soil, turning an ordinary plant into something much more interactive. It can...
European Drone Companies Should Address Privacy Issues, Lawyer Says
www.pcworld.com
European residents are better protected by law from privacy intrusions by unmanned aircraft than people on U.S. soil, but companies operating drones commercially......
Signs of life on Mars--from 1976
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Building on previous tests that found signs of microbial life, scientists reexamine data from the Viking mission and once again find strong signs of organic compounds in soil from Mars. [Read more]...
Stone Spray project uses 3D printer to build long-lasting, intricate sandcastles
www.theverge.com
Researchers have created a 3D printing robot that uses organic materials to build some truly stunning sandcastles. The Stone Spray project, created by Anna Kulik, Inder Shergill, and Petr Novikov at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, was intended to explore a new way of creating architecture out...
NASA on track to launch astronauts in 5 years
www.computerworld.com
NASA announced Friday morning that it's on track to once again launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil within five years....
Is Virgin Media to blame for damaged fence and discarded cable?
www.guardian.co.uk
Workmen installing services next door trespassed on to my property, broke my fence and left debris in my gardenIn mid-February I noticed a large reel of cable had appeared in my garden and that my fence had been damaged, so I phoned Virgin Media to ask why it was there....
EPA: Stubborn Environment Refusing To Meet Civilization Halfway
www.theonion.com
WASHINGTON—The EPA called most of the environment’s day-to-day processes rude and inconsiderate, like its over-reliance on "perfectly clean soil" for sustainable growth, and its continual inability to act in good faith and adapt to rising carbon dioxide levels....
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Keep Car Windows From Fogging with a Potato [Clever Uses]
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If you'd like a clever and cheap way to keep windows, goggles, and other glass and plastic surfaces from fogging up, you can use a potato to keep the vision-blocking condensation at bay.Photo by jimmihomeschoolmom. We're almost out of the so-cold-your-breath-fogs-the-windshield weather in most of the US but this trick...
Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds
www.washingtonpost.com
U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday. Read full article >>...
MPAA Worries About Pirating U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
torrentfreak.com
It is no secret that the MPAA is involved in an ongoing battle against copyright infringers in the United States. Tens of thousands of copyright notices are sent out each year informing illegal file-sharers that they are breaking the law. Less known are the movie industry’s efforts to clamp down...
How are we building our “community soil? | Full Circle Associates
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Breathe, Device For Growing Your Plants Without Soil | Home and Gardening
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