This graphic guide will tell you which model is the perfect iPad 2 for you, depending on where and how you are planning to use it (click on the image to expand). More »
Which iPad 2 Should You Buy? [Guide]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Inception, if It Were 60 Seconds Long and From the 19th Century [Video]
What are the long-term problems facing tsunami survivors? [Tsunamis]
The initial impact of a tsunami is dramatic, but the long-term effects of such flooding can be just as devastating for survivors. More »
Best Stories of Today, March 11, 2011 [Total Recap]
NY Fed Chief Makes Ass of Himself by Comparing Food Prices to iPads [Verbatim]
How do you sway a crowd of people angry over the cost of putting food on the table? Not by comparing their worries to the cost of buying an iPad 2. More »
Watch the iPad 2 Being Torn Down in Realtime [Updated] [Ipad 2]
![Click here to read Watch the iPad 2 Being Torn Down in Realtime [Updated]](http://euvolution.com/futurist-transhuman-news-blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/afaa4_small_lduhbafuujnok5ok.jpg)
iFixit has the iPad 2 in their possession and they're tearing it down as we speak. But more importantly, they're posting photos as they complete each step in the teardown process, so you can observe in realtime. More »
The Japan Tsunami Casually Hits the San Francisco Bay [Video]
The Japan tsunami hit the San Francisco Bay Area, but left nary a scratch. This video of the tsunami gently rippling rippling through the Bay is a far cry from the damage done across the Pacific Ocean. [Telstar via BoingBoing] More »
Ruling Gives DOJ Access to Wikileaks-linked Twitter Accounts [Wikileaks]
A federal judge in Virginia issued a ruling today that allows the Department of Justice to access the Twitter accounts and associated data like the email addresses of principal Wikileaks members, including Julian Assange. The measure comes after the DOJ subpoena'd those members back in January in a probe to determine whether or not they broke the law in their involvement with the organization. The group's lawyers have already decided to appeal, so we'll have to wait and see just how much heat the Wikileaks higher-ups will be in should an investigation truly begin. [CNet] More »
Did Your Donation Really Reach Japan? (Probably Not.) [Disasters]
UPDATE: Japan has requested what looks to be limited foreign aid. So far, that call still seems to exclude several nonprofit aid groups (like The American Red Cross). More »
NASA’s Network of Automated Cameras Will Never Leave the Sky Unwatched [Space]
NASA is currently working on a project called the All-sky Fireball Network, its primary objective to monitor the entire night sky above the US for meteorite activity. Although limited to three fully automated cameras right now, a network of smart cameras that can record, analyze, and make publicly accessible all the events happening overhead could change our relationship with space. [Singularity Hub] More »
Japanese Nuke Officials: 1000x Normal Radiation Levels Inside Damaged Plant (Updated: Leaking Out) [Blip]
There's literally no such thing as a completely safe exposure to radiation. So official reports of 1000 times normal levels in the Fukushima plant's control room are very, very troubling—especially since this plant's venting air. More »
Irish nanotechnology centre reports significant milestones for 2009-2010 period
The Science Foundation Ireland funded centre CRANN has launched its public report for 2009-2010. The report highlights that CRANN, a Trinity College Dublin Institute founded in 2004, has continued to establish itself as a national and international force in nanoscience and nanotechnology research and collaborative industry engagement.
New nanomaterials for regenerative medicine is to be discussed at Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology conference
SMi is proud to present their Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Applications + Commercialisation conference, taking place in London on 29th and 30th June, 2011.
Carl Zeiss to Exhibit High Performance Optical and Electron Microscopy Solutions at Pittcon 2011
Carl Zeiss, a leading provider of microscopy solutions, announces that it will be exhibiting a range of high performance optical and electron microscopy products at the Pittcon Conference and Expo 2011, March 13-18, 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Putting the ‘Q’ in quantum mechanics
Everything moves! But in a world dominated by electronic devices it is easy to forget that all measurements involve motion, whether it is motion of electrons through a transistor, or the simple displacement of a mechanical element. New EU-funded research suggests that quantum mechanics may hold the answer to when motion will die out.
New measurement into biological polymer networks
The development of a new measurement technology under a research project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation is probing the structure of composite and biological materials.
Oxford Nanopore Announces Licence Agreement With Harvard University for Graphene DNA Sequencing
Under the terms of the agreement, Oxford Nanopore has exclusive rights to develop and commercialize methods for the use of graphene for the analysis of DNA and RNA, developed in the Harvard laboratories of Professors Jene Golovchenko, Daniel Branton, and Charles Lieber.
New nanotechnology increases the efficacy of medicines
Technology has been developed within Top Institute Pharma that helps medicines be absorbed quicker into the blood and thus be more effective. Researcher Hans de Waard, who is associated with the University of Groningen, will obtain his doctorate on this subject on March 11.
Researchers use nanotechnology in gene detection to show disposition to certain cancers
Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are perfecting a system to detect a gene mutation implicated in 90 percent of pancreatic cancers and often in lung cancer by running tiny amounts of blood over nanomaterials.
InfiniScale and CEA-Leti Collaboration To Focus on Process-Variability Management in SOI Sub-28nm Technology
The partnership will tap Leti's design and technological expertise and provide InfiniScale access to Leti's fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD SOI) technology to validate InfiniScale tools with measurements on silicon.