The Brave New World of Mobile Phone Privacy
Marketers’ plans to track you may not be nefarious. But they sure can feel that way.
[PC World, May 20, 2011. See Orignal]
When Apple sneezes, the world takes interest in ear-nose-throat medicine. So upon learning that their iPhones have been building a bloated file of location data, consumers started wondering if mobile service also means mobile surveillance.…
Like Lost, with normal people. Oh yeah, and Zombies
I’m clearly not alone in my new guilty addiction, AMC’s The Walking Dead. (I gotta do something while waiting for the next season of True Blood.)
But I must admit, my first thought was – ugh, more zombies. Despite the apparent fascination of the entertainment press, this is a very well-worn genre. I Am Legend, Resident Evil, Zombieland, 28 Days, Weeks (and Years?) later – to name just a few of many.
But here’s what really fascinates me about The Walking Dead: It has so-so looking people. Not the Zombies. They are spectacularly ugly. I mean the un-undead – the stars.
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Is the Web Going Away? Or is It Going All Over the Place?
When Wired hyperbolically declared that “The Web is Dead,” it didn’t challenge my worldview but rather surfaced what I knew subconsciously.The browser is not always (and increasingly less so) the best window to the Internet — especially on mobile gadgets. For years on my iPhone — and now on my Droid – I’ve foregone digging around in a tiny browser in favor of burrowing straight to what I want through an app – the New York Times, Facebook, The Weather Channel…
[Technologizer. Read Original]
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Consumers Put 3D TV to the Test
Do real people think 3D movies, sports, and shows are neat? Sure. But that doesn’t mean they’re ready to plunk down money.
[Technologizer. Read Original]We’re hearing a lot about 3D television these days– from TV manufacturers, directors, journalists and pundits. But do consumers like it? And will they pay for it? …
Safer Nuclear
Six Generation III+ reactors set for the U.S.
[Popular Science. Read Original]
The Big Picture: It’s nearly impossible to imagine making meaningful carbon dioxide reductions without designing safer, cleaner reactors and rolling them out immediately — because no one wants to build more of the reactors we have today.…
Heart Healer
An artery-fixing tool does its job, then fades away
[Popular Science. Read Original]Every year, 800,000 Americans elect to have a tiny metal-mesh tube inserted into their coronary artery to prop it open and improve blood flow to cardiac muscle tissue. It’s an easy choice — the alternative entails cracking open the chest and operating on a stopped heart. …
Getting Climate Science Right
Denmark calls a global conference, and puts an American in charge
[Popular Science. Read Original]Katherine Richardson is atypical. This American oceanographer is thriving at the University of Copenhagen, where she serves as Vice Dean of Science. In the genteel worlds of academia and northern Europe, she’s a straight-talker who doesn’t mince her words–uttered with a hearty Massachusetts accent.
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Stevie Wonder: Geek Musician
Tech-savvy artist pushes for gadgets that everyone can use
[Popular Science. Read Original]Twenty-two-time Grammy winner Stevie Wonder has created new sounds, even genres, by absorbing and reshaping every musical and audio technology he’s encountered.
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Prius in the Sky
A new competition aims to inspire the 100mpg personal plane
[Popular Science. Read Original]
Imagine a ’57 Chevy cruising through the air, and you get an idea of what single-engine, propeller-driven airplanes do to the environment. The average private plane, such as the popular two-seat Cessna 172, is 30 years old. It carries a four-cylinder piston engine designed in the 1940s that burns leaded gasoline, has no catalytic converter, and gets as little as 12 miles per gallon.…
Turning Black Coal Green
A radical new power plant aims to convert our dirtiest fossil fuel into clean-burning hydrogen
[Popular Science. Read Original]
Big lumps of sooty coal hardly seem like the future of energy, but that’s exactly what the U.S. Department of Energy predicts. Consumption of the fossil fuel-the main source of greenhouse gas and a major contributor to acid rain, smog and mercury poisoning-will hit 10.6 billion tons a year by 2030, a near doubling of the 5.4 billion tons burned in 2003, according to the agency.…
When Wired hyperbolically declared that “The Web is Dead,” it didn’t challenge my worldview but rather surfaced what I knew subconsciously.
