July 2, 2009

Sytek on Friday

Filed under: Sytek — Tim @ 11:11 pm

- Cyber-Scare: The exaggerated fears over digital warfare (Boston Review)
- U.S. Shoots for the Moon, This Time to Stay (TIME)
- Printed battery could power bank cards (EE Times)
- Record-breaking solar cells are tailored to their location (NewScientist)
- Video: SCRATCHbot hunts like a rat for those trapped like one (Engadget)
- Video: Grocery cart morphs into electric go-kart, insanity ensues (Engadget)
- Comets Seeded Earth’s Early Atmosphere (Technology Review)
- Study Finds Patent Systems May Not Be an Effective Incentive to Encourage Invention of New Technologies (Business Wire)
- The NSA Plans 1M Sq. Ft. Data Center in Utah (The WHIR)
- Michael Jackson First Artist to Sell Over 1 Million Downloads in a Single Week (Wired)
- Force feedback controller allows you to “touch” CGI objects (Engadget)
- NVIDIA Ion 2 coming by end of 2009: over twice the shaders of 9400M? (SlashGear)
- Ant mega-colony takes over world (BBC)
- Scientists find a black hole that’s “just right” (ArsTechnica)
- Take two video games and call me in the morning (Scientific American)
- Blizzard chooses cloud over LAN for new game (CNet)
- Giant Model Railroad Is an Analog SimCity (Wired)
- Blackest Black Ever: Ultra-thin Material Absorbs Almost 100% Of Light (ScienceDaily)
- Running fiber through a city sewers with a model sub (BoingBoing)