PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable AA batteries
Apparently these batteries last around twice as long as other rechargeable batteries and aren’t as insanely expensive. PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable AA batteries: finally, some cells worth buying.
Apparently these batteries last around twice as long as other rechargeable batteries and aren’t as insanely expensive. PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable AA batteries: finally, some cells worth buying.
Turns out that there is malware out there that downloads kiddie porn to your PC without you knowing – until the police pay you a friendly visit. Fortunately the download rate is something like 40 sites per minute, which is humanly impossible, but try explaining that away! AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn — by Read more about Framed for child porn[…]
This is a very comprehensive flight test review of the Rafale. FLIGHT TEST: Dassault Rafale – Rampant Rafale.
The U.S. Air Force has a morale problem with its combat pilots. The issue is lack of action for the pilots. That, plus the increased use of unmanned aircraft, and the very real prospect that the age of the manned combat aircraft may be coming to an end. http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmoral/articles/20091102.aspx
Epic Games has released the Unreal engine for free! You can develop your own game using the Unreal engine and do with it whatever you like. This should cut down massively on game development costs and because it’s such a huge platform, should give you loads of possibilities. UDK – Unreal Development Kit – Epic Read more about Unreal Development Kit[…]
The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) recently demonstrated autonomous operations by multiple “swarms” of unmanned air and ground vehicles, unattended ground sensors, video cameras and other devices linked together in an intelligent network powered by EdgeFrontier platform technologies from Augusta Systems, Inc. via NAVAIR And Augusta Demo Operations Of Multiple Swarms Of UAVs And Read more about US Navy Swarm UAVs[…]
An interesting article – if you have bank customer information, which you’ve stolen from a bank, governments will pay you for that information. If you’re a spy you’d be shot for it. It’s not right that the Dutch government is using tax payers money on criminally attained information to find people who have foreign cash Read more about Booming business, steal and sell to governments[…]
Any car built this century has an OBDII interface. This allows mechanics to plug in their laptop and get real time engine data. Lots of information about the running of the car. Nowadays there are quite a few USB / Bluetooth OBD-II connectors, which allow streaming of this data to your laptop, Garmin navigation system Read more about OBDII and iMFD Data Logging[…]
They are on now, and the first teams are already succesful, being able to climb 899m at 3.9 m/s! The game is to get a robot up a line being held by a helicopter in flight. The robot is powered by just a laser beam. The Space Elevator Games.
Japan is committed, now NASA has 3 teams qualified to try to get their laser powered robot to climb a cable hanging from a helicopter one km in the air. Elevator to space? They’re really trying :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation.
Open a Bottle of Wine with Your Shoe – Drinks – Lifehacker.
This means you can use your Pre outside the O2 network by using a special SIM card produced by Rebel. GSM Palm Pre unlocked with a little Rebel assistance.
This article explores why computers can’t do floating point maths, which is what makes Excel and all those online calculators such lousy mathematicians – basically because computers are binary, they can’t calculate anything after a decimal point, so the workaround is to put the number including the decimal point in a register of a certain Read more about Why computers suck at maths[…]
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Fantastic – this guy port scans the T-Mobile range and finds the jailbroken iphones on the network, then SSH’s in using the default password and blips a message to the iphone telling the user the iphone has been hacked. Users can find out how to close the hole by visiting a website and paying EUR. Read more about Dutch Hacker informs Jailbroken iPhones that they’re insecure[…]
Terraherz waves, used to make x-ray type machines that can look through clothes and walls and more are also being deployed in airport scanners that look through your clothes. It turns out that under certain circumstances, they can resonate with your DNA, thus destroying it. Lovely. Slashdot Science Story | How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart Read more about Airport 3D scanners may rip your DNA to shreds[…]