Carbon nano fibres made from thin air
Scientists in the US have discovered a method to take carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and make carbon nano fibres, a useful manufacturing material.
Their solar-powered system runs a small current...
Flash ads will stop working in Chrome from Sept 1st, 2015
In case your advertisements are not on the search giant's network (Adsense), they better be in HTML5 – or they're lifeless to Chrome. If they are already on the Adsense, then...
Subatomic Particles that Appear to defy Standard Model Particle Physics
Subatomic particles have been discovered that seem to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The team working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have discovered proof of leptons decaying at completely...
Peer-to-Peer Predictions: The Greatest Gambling Platform in History?
An online gambling platform could do to the neighborhood bookie what electric refrigerators did to the ice delivery man.
Coming this fall, Augur will allow participants to wager money on any future...
Sensitive stuff that goes boom, even if touched by a mosquito
When a feather drops on it, or a mosquito lands on top of nitrogen triiodide – Booom! – an instantaneous dark purple or violet explosion occurs. It's because nitrogen triiodide is...
Buildings to be powered by Solar Windows
Manhattan has roughly forty seven thousand buildings with around 10.7 million windows, based on a 2013 estimate from The New York Times.
Now think about if just 1%, that's 100,700, of these...
Graphene Converts Heat into Electrical Energy
Graphene, an allotrope of carbon, was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov. In 2010, they had been awarded the Nobel...
Russian Spy Team Accused of Hacking Satellite Data
In case you’re a state-sponsored hacker siphoning data from selected computer systems, the very last thing you need is for somebody to find your command-and-control server and shut it down, finishing...
Serious Flaw Discovered in the OS used by Over a Billion Devices
There’s a simple vulnerability inside an extensively used operating system, although not one that most would be aware of, known as VxWorks. It happens to be the same software program used to control components...
Facebook is introducing the ‘Dislike’ button
Facebook is working on a "dislike" button for its posts. This was revealved by the company's co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg, during a question and answer session on Tuesday.
"People have asked...
