Batteries powered by...a virus? It sounds like something out of a comic book, but scientists are working on a mixture of a harmless, genetically engineered virus that will provide cheap, easy to produce power...
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" Confidential records and sensitive intelligence on tens of thousands of the most prolific criminals in England and Wales have been lost in a major breach of data security at the heart of Whitehall. Scotland Yard...
Three Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device. Their deaths come two days after 10 French soldiers were killed in the biggest loss of life in a single incident in three years for Western troops in Afghanistan. "The Canadian deaths...
Seventh post of this concept design: Looking Glass
I’m pretty sure companies like Ikea would quickly start to use this device this way if it became really available.
"Do you wish your computer was faster? Engineers and physicists from Germany have demonstrated the quickest prototype yet of an advanced form of RAM tipped by hardware manufacturers to be the future of computing. The device is so fast it brushes against a fundamental...
Go shopping from your home or Appartment directly in the market.Clean electric motor keeps you running, balancing your body makesfun. 3 versions available, ranging from 'practical' to 'hands-free sporty' "August 3,...
"OMG U R SoooooSoOoOoO HOT"Vegas, Texting & Booze = recipe for a morning full of regretGood thing what happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas...that is unless there are fertalized eggs or std's involved....but i...
If you have ever watched the Sci Fi channel then you know an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) can wreak havoc on electronics. It also might not come as a surprise to hear an EMP is also a byproduct of a nuclear...
A pretty amazing story that shows how journalists can be in life-threatening danger."A FOX News cameraman helped save the life of an injured Marine in Afghanistan — and was injured himself — when the armored Humvee convoy he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb...
The last time I travelled was in April when I went to Boston. The baggage checks and metal detector lineups weren't as bad as I thought it would be. It was quite a hassle to take off your shoes and belt but what...
highlighted by JeffHuang | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago 1225 views | 33 comments
The whale had been seen in the area over the past few days and headed out to sea but came back in last night and became beached at Langstone Bridge"The northern bottlenose whale became stranded on mudflats at Hayling...
This is a follow up on NowPublic Member Glc3 's post found here I read this story as I would any other but what is sad are the comments left under the CBS story highlighted here. Everyone blaming others once again. I believe, and this is only my opinion, that we all need to...
People living in the UK already pay a tax based on the number of televisions they have in the household, so a new proposal to tax downloaders of pirated software really comes as no surprise.In the proposal, which is garnering lots of heat from angry citizens online, the...
Four bombs exploded in the north of Spain today. Nobody was injured in the blasts, as the areas surrunding the devices had been evacuated. According to the police, Eta (a Basque separatist group) had warned them of...
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