Discovery has an article talking about the first few moments our universe existed (those unspeakable time units shortly after the big bang). Scientists have calculated that the universe might have been going from one dimension + time, to the three dimensions + time that we value so much. They even expect the universe to go…
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That you can fight war on the internet is nothing new: the situation in Egypt und Tunesia shows how important the internet has become in that respect. That is something the US military would like to use as well. So they ordered a piece of software that enables them to manipulate opinion on social media…
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I was lucky enough to interact with a North Korean, and film it! Spending time with the hairdresser, Kim Hye-Sun was unlike spending time with any of the usual North Koreans you get to meet. She was charming and quirky. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing something real, that wasn’t shown…
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Taken from boingboing: Photo by Reuters Documents from Tokyo Electric, the operator of the Japanese nuclear plants in crisis after Friday’s devastating quake and tsunami, reveal that the company tested the Fukushima plant to withstand a quake up to magnitude 7.9. That threshold is well below the force of Friday’s quake, recently upgraded to 9.0.…
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Here is a screen from Amazon Web Services. I think the advertisement they make for their new datacenter is unlucky, to say the least. Link.