Topic: COMPUTER - on June 15, 2012 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Storyboard: 20 Years Later, a Look Back at Wired‘s Beginning
The first issue of Wired hit newsstands almost two decades ago. This inaugural edition is now available digitally on tablets, complete with behind-the-scenes notes and pop-up annotations—even for the ads. (Beware the crowded, multi-font design of the early ’90s.) Plus: An oral history that interviews people who played a key role in getting that first issue out the door.
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Topic: Drone - on June 15, 2012 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Pentagon Lists 110 Potential Drone Bases in U.S.
The Department of Defense has identified 110 sites in the United States that could serve as bases for military unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones. A new report to Congress lists each of the 110 sites “and the UAS likely to fly at that location.” See “Report to Congress on Future Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training, Operations, and Sustainability,” Department of Defense, April 2012 (pp. 9-12).
The newly disclosed DoD report was first reported by InsideDefense.com.
The actual or potential drone bases are located in 39 of the 50 states, from Fort McClellan in Alabama to Camp Guernsey in Wyoming, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 15, 2012 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
Former Federal Judge Calls US Prosecution Of Megaupload 'Really Outrageous'
To hear folks in Hollywood talk about it, the US's indictment and prosecution of Megaupload are a done deal. Without any actual trial, people have decided that the company is clearly 100% evil and guilty. Yet, as we keep noting, the details of the indictment and prosecution keep turning up significant errors on the part of the US, as well as questions about the legality of what the US did. And plenty of people who really understand this stuff deeply are speaking out in agreement. The latest is a former federal judge, Abraham David Sofaer, who found the whole situation so troubling that he's helping the EFF -- for free -- with its efforts to get Megaupload users' data back.
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Topic: MAKE - on June 15, 2012 at 10:41:00 AM CEST
Redbull Creation Contest 2012
Calling all hackers, builders and inventors in between! Red Bull Creation, the 72-hour themed innovation competition, is returning for its second year with a new digital format, upgraded technology and higher stakes. Last year's marathon brought the best groups of four to Brooklyn to create side-by-side. This year, the competition goes TO the top makers, individually or in teams across the country...taking place in their own domain, using their own tools. The possibilities are endless.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 15, 2012 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
Hawking is First User of SGI ‘Big Brain’ Supercomputer
Calling your product the “Big Brain Computer” is a heady claim. It helps if you have Dr. Stephen Hawking say that the product can help unlock the secrets of the universe.
That’s the scenario for UV2 “Big Brain” computer from SGI, which is being unveiled in time for next week’s International Supercomputing Conference. The company is billing the UV2 as the world’s largest shared memory system, with the ability to scale up to 4,096 cores and 64 terabytes of memory. At a peak I/O rate of four terabytes per second, SGI says the UV 2 could ingest the entire 10 terabyte contents of the U.S. Library of Congress in less than three seconds.
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Topic: WEB - on June 15, 2012 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
.WTF? — 20 New Top-Level Domain Names That Should Exist, But Never Will
On Tuesday, the list of new proposed top-level domains, and the companies seeking to control them, was published by ICANN.
The new contenders to the throne of .com’s dominance include Amazon with .book, Google with .youtube, and three companies seeking .sucks. There are also applications for .lol, .bar, and .beer.
While the list is interesting to read, it’s lacking in entertainment value — perhaps because the $185,000 fee to apply for consideration, which you pay even if your application is rejected, is prohibitive of amusement.
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