Technology
- The Stuff Of 5,000 Year Old Armor Could Be The Material Of The Future
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Imagine a bullet-proof vest made from a relatively simple protein processed from water- fashionable for those high-risk warzones yet still environmentally terrific. Ancient people knew about this material 5,000 years ago and even made armor from it but mo ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2010 - 12:58am
- The Star Trek Computer Is Stupid
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As a freelancer, I ran into a pay issue with Human Resources, that worked like a bad Star Trek episode. Distilling down the two weeks of back-and-forth, we get this mess: Me: My pay is short-- is it hours, pay rate, or deductions? HR: You worked X hours. ...
Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 6 2010 - 2:46pm
- Are Science Blogging Networks Dead?
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No one here at Science 2.0 really noticed the Scienceblogs Pepsigate thing, being busy writing about science, but I lurk in a number of other places and, since Scienceblogs is the Big Kahuna in science blogging, it merited some attention, at least from me. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 17 2010 - 1:49pm
- LiquidPublication- Publishing Without The Peer Review Hassle
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Fabio Casati and his collaborators at LiquidPublication, an EU-financed research project, want to change how you do science. Namely by allowing you to do more of it, instead of sifting through journals. “The more papers you produce, the more brownie point ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 9 2010 - 2:51pm
- Fotopedia App- A Free World Heritage Sites Coffee Table Book For Your Apple Stuff
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Fotopedia Heritage, in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, has brought together 20,000 photos, illustrating all World Heritage Sites and 3,000 points of interests in a free application for the iPhone and iPad. Fotopedia Heritage is part o ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2010 - 3:26pm
- Indonesia, Brazil And Venezuela Lead Global Surge In Twitter Usage
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RESTON, Virginia, August 11, 2010-- comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report on Twitter.com growth worldwide. The study found that in June, nearly 93 million Internet users visited Twitter.com, an increase of 109 pe ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2010 - 4:01pm
- Fiction Becomes Reality? Android Compromised
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A few months ago, Google opened the Android Market to allow anyone to load software but now studies show that an average of one in every five applications had access to personal information, which could lead to all sorts of viruses, spyware, and malware b ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2010 - 5:33pm
- K.I.T.T., The Hydrogen-Powered "Knight Rider" Car, Gets A Bit Closer
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If you watched Comedy Central last night, you may have seen a celebrity roast of David Hasselhoff and some research today is another reminder of "Knight Rider". ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2010 - 11:05am
- Mendeley Hires Spotify's Paul Brown As Chief Operating Officer
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LONDON, August 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/-- Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com), a media technology startup billing itself as the world's largest research collaboration platform, announced that Paul Brown will join the team as Chief Operating Officer, a ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 19 2010 - 10:42pm
- Cloudy: more thoughts on cloud computing
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My esteemed colleague Nathaniel Borenstein recently had an article published in TechNewsWorld, “ Is the IT Pendulum Winding Down? ” ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Aug 23 2010 - 2:03pm
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