From Around the Web
Build you Own Recession Special – PC Magazine walks readers through the parts and components necessary to build a “surprisingly robust” system for only four hundred dollars.
Duck Duck Go – A new search engine that can recognize special category pages, calculations, phone numbers, zip codes, ISBN numbers, product codes, as well as street and IP adresses. It’s displays about five of the most relevant sites to prevent info overload, and does a pretty good job keeping them relevant.
Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars – Robots are officially on the battlefield—UAVs like the Predator and Reaper patrol the skies while militarized bomb-disposal robots like the Talon detonate explosives on the ground. But where are the humanoids? Roboticist and author Daniel H. Wilson makes the case for a humanoid robot army.
Mozilla Labs Jetpack – Mozilla has released an experimental program, Jetpack, that allows anyone who can build a web page to build a Firefox add-on. This means that if you only know HTML, you can build simple extensions for the popular browser. Jetpack also supports CSS design and Javascript.
The Quad-Core, 1-kW, Liquid-Cooled Desk – Popular Mechanics outlines the construction of a serious cool desk that contains its own computer.
Research Show Robots Forming Human-like Societies – A lone group of Swiss scientists have been using scattered LEDs, neural circuity, and an army of miniature robots to explore the very basis of good and evil. No, you aren’t reading the back cover of a DVD in the “one dollar each, please get this trash out of our store” bin of your local blockbuster -this research is very real and very, very awesome.
Tech News
4chan organized the mass porn “carpet bombing” of YouTube
At the science fair, girls dominate the class
Climate change odds much worse than thought
Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It
Pandora Predicts First-Ever Profit
Twitter Cofounder: Of Course We Like Ads!
World’s first battery fuelled by air
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