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Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer-based. More »
from Gizmodo
Over the weekend a do-it-yourself space program called Copenhagen Suborbitals successfully test-fired the largest amateur-built bi-liquid rocket engine in the world. Co-founder and Rocket Shop blogger Kristian von Bengtson reports.
from Wired Top Stories
No matter how fast postal delivery gets, nothing beats the immediate gratification of pushing a button on a vending machine and having your purchase tumble down into the delivery box. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/weird-vending-machines-live-crabs-cupcakes-umbrellas-push-a-button-gallery-1.88951 The Chinese live crab dispensor and http://www.artomat.org/ Art-O-Mat are old news, but the machine of the moment is the DreamVendor, a set of four MakerBot Thing-O-Maticsthat sit behind glass and 3-D prints your tchotchke of choice.
from Wired Top Stories
The battle over distance records sets up a fascinating race to be the first to teleport to an orbiting satellite
Just a couple of weeks ago, we discussed a Chinese experiment in which physicists teleported photons over a distance of almost 100 kilometres. That’s almost an order of magnitude more than previous records.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is suing several big banks over soured mortgage securities that were purchased by failed lenders the regulator seized in 2009.
The Synergy aircraft, propelled by a fan in back and buoyed by a boxy tail, promises to be cheaper, safer, quieter, and vastly more efficient than a jet airplane. The hitch is that it doesn’t quite exist yet, but it’s nearly halfway to its goal on Kickstarter, so now is your chance to invest.
The shape is not unlike the jets of the future we looked at in our May issue, but the technology is very different. A quarter-scale flying prototype was unveiled a year ago, demonstrating the unique “induced drag reduction” method developed by inventor John McGinnis.
I’m very curious to see the full-size prototype in action.
from Popular Science – New Technology, Science News, The Future Now
