Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer – CSMonitor.com.
Iran used GPS spoofing to hijack US UAV and force it to land
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Microsoft to kill IE 6+7 using auto updates
Chrome and Firefox do it, and it’s about time Microsoft did it! Well done on killing that old shit. It’ll be updated seamlessley for everyone with automatic updates on.
Microsoft to force IE auto updates – ZDNet Asia News.
Moon Express wants the Lunar prizes
These guys hope to launch a hovercraft to the moon which can mine, place things there and do scientific experiments in 2013. They’re expecting to be able to do it with a budget of around $70m, because they’re based on existing technologies.
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Looks like EU is US’s ACTA Bitch
EU looks like it will ratify US totalitarian ACTA anti copyright agreement driven solely by the big patent trolling businesses lobby. While we’re in a recession, let’s also completely kill innovation.
Europees ja tegen ondertekening ACTA | Webwereld.
Rear projected transparent DJ Mix Decks
Macro Cell Lens Band for any mobile phone
Tart cherry juice drinkers gain sleep advantage
2 glasses of cherry juice per day allows you to sleep on avg 39 minutes longer and more efficiently as well as reducing napping behaviour.
Tart cherry juice drinkers gain sleep advantage.
TimeScapes Time Lapse Photography
This movie shows the earth at its’ best. Shot by the astronomy photographer of the year, Tom Lowe.
TimeScapes 4K from Tom Lowe on Vimeo.
TimeScapes Time Lapse Photography.
Interactive images float in space
Using fog to project on, they project 3D images and allow you to use standard 2 finger rotation and zoom actions, as well as project a keyboard.
InAVate – Interactive images float in space.
Gene therapy protects against HIV in mice
Carrier IQ logs keystrokes and SMSses on millions of phones worldwide
Jetlev R200 – $100,000 water powered jetpack
For only $100,000 you get a jetpack which pumps water in through a hose via an engine and then out again with such ferocity that it lets you fly up to 30 ft for 4 hours at 25 mph.
DIY Hobbit house for GBP 3K + 2K hours work
How to make Rum Caviar
Detect and identify people through walls and in crowds by their heartbeat
Heston Blumenthal’s Christmas recipes for home
Heston Blumenthal’s Perfect Christmas
Without a doubt the ultimate perfect and crazily expensive Christmas dinner, by the chef of the Fat Duck.
Heston Blumenthal’s Perfect Christmas.
Sim-based NFC solution for GSM being adopted widely
eBlaster – set android to alarm when leaving or entering virtual fences
Set up virtual fences around key locations, such as malls, parks, beaches, movie theaters, sports facilities, work locations … and be notified when children or employees enter or leave these important places.
via SpectorSoft – eBlaster | mobile for Android.
It can do a lot more scary stuff as well, such as transmitting SMS / Web history / voice call logs and finding current location
OpenedFilesView – View opened/locked files in your system (sharing violation issues)
OpenedFilesView displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file, and more…
Optionally, you can also close one or more opened files, or close the process that opened these files.
via OpenedFilesView – View opened/locked files in your system (sharing violation issues).
Farmville maker to employees: Give back our stock or you’ll be fired
That’s a pretty crass threat and bizarre that a US company can do this!
Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you’ll be fired | The Digital Home – CNET News.
Nanotube strands of a real ‘invisibility cloak’ created
By heating carbon nanotubes a Texas scientist has created a small invisibility cloak.
Texas scientist Ali Aliev makes strands of a real ‘invisibility cloak’ | Mail Online.
Page Speed – optimise web loading times
Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools
via Page Speed Home.
Adobe Kills mobile browser Flash, goes for Adobe AIR apps
The evolution of deceit
Why do we lie? Robert Trivers has written a book “The Folly of Fools” that covers deception from an evolutionary standpoint.
The evolution of deceit – Salon.com.