Awesomesauce


22
Feb 12

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Years End – NYTimes.com

 

 

Pocket protector still sold separately.

According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600.

via Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Years End – NYTimes.com.


20
Feb 12

Totally Accurate

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http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2526


19
Feb 12

Financial Trading Markets Actually Giant Botnets

 

 

It’s like a botnet worm. Only, instead of eating data it erases market value.

…the Dow Jones stock index fell 600 points in just 6 minutes. Its nadir represented the deepest single-day decline in that market’s 114-year history… the “flash crash,” as it came to be known, was big, unexpected and scary — and a new study says flash events actually happen routinely, at speeds so fast they don’t register on regular market records, with potentially troubling consequences for market stability.

via Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire | Wired Science | Wired.com.


10
Feb 12

Campaign 2012: Billionaires and their super PACs – Feb. 10, 2012

http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/10/news/economy/super_pac_billionaires/?hpt=hp_abar


8
Feb 12

Symantec code ‘extortion’ claim

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16927660


31
Jan 12

FOUND

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24
Nov 11

Howard Hughes’ P.R. Firm

Fascinating invoice notes:

February 25, 1972: “Screening one hour version of 1970 Master’s Golf Tournament to ascertain occurrence of specific incident as to play by Jack Nichlaus at client’s request. Double checking all Nichlaus sequences in final round of tournament; notifying client representative as to findings.”

View more of the list here:

http://digital.library.unlv.edu/hughes/


18
Nov 11

CERN Confirms Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos; Unease Remains


This is a ten on my “Wow Scale” if anyone should ask.

… it had measured neutrinos arriving some 60 nanoseconds earlier than they would have if travelling at light speed.

So, yeah. There you go. Good luck with that.