July 6, 2009

Sytek for Tuesday

Filed under: Sytek — Tim @ 11:51 pm

- Lab Test: Inject Genes Into The Brain, Fat Disappears (Medical News Today)
- Coffee ‘may reverse Alzheimer’s’ (BBC)
- Fellow students smell your exam fear (NewScientist)
- Multitouch surface made from commodity PC components (BoingBoing)
- Large Hadron Collider grid stress-tested (CNet)
- Open Source Search Engine Benchmarks (Slashdot)
- Review: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport (Wired)
- Stand-up console plays Nintendo DS and Sony PSP games, somewhat defeats the purpose (Engadget)
- Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity (Wired)
- When gaming communities go wrong (CNet)
- 800 TFLOP real-time ray tracing GPU unveiled, not for gamers (ArsTechnica)
- Science moves from the stacks to the Web; print too pricey (ArsTechnica)
- NSA’s power- and money-sucking datacenter buildout continues (ArsTechnica)
- HTML 5: Ogg Theora Vs H.264 In The Battle For A Web Video Standard (TechCrunch)
- Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed (Slashdot)
- Sega Toys’ Dream Cat Venus is sure to be your favorite fake pet ever (Engadget)
- The laser that can halt blindness and offer hope for millions (Daily Mail)
- Google Will Star in Emerging News Model (Internet Evolution)
- VX-200 demonstrates superconducting first stage at full power (Space Fellowship)
- Nanopillar Solar Cells (Technology Review)

Worldwide readings on Martedì

Filed under: News links — Tim @ 11:01 pm

- We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? (NY Times)
- Toyota: America’s Car Company (Clusterstock)
- It’s Time For A Market In Human Organs (Clusterstock)
- North Korea moves to restrict economy (LA Times)
- Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe is an atheist and respects Richard Dawkins (Examiner)
- Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? (Chronicle)
- The Year The Newspaper Died (SAI)
- Xinjiang oil boom fuels Uighur resentment (FT in 2008)
- Robert McNamara, Who Led, Regretted Vietnam War, Dies (Bloomberg)

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