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A Light Bulb that Breathes

The perfect light bulb. But at $50? Maybe you’re one of those people who thinks it’s hard to get excited about a light bulb. Then you’re also one of those people who hasn’t heard about General Electric’s new 100-watt equivalent LED bulb, just introduced at the Light Fair conference in Las Vegas....


MONDAY 7. MAY 2012



SATURDAY 5. MAY 2012


Could Technology Tame the Internet Meme?

Jonathan Zittrain calls for a technological solution to the ethical questions raised by Internet culture. Zittrain’s message: Internet meme creators and remixers can be a force for good, in that they “look for a pathos in the world and try to capture it,” thereby exposing absurd aspects of commercialization and mass media; but it is increasingly important that those who love memes...


FRIDAY 4. MAY 2012


Five Hints on Our Facebook Future

Based on its pre-IPO video, expect more ads, changes to its mobile offerings, and a world where all software links to Facebook. As Facebook heads for an expected $100 billion debut on the stock market two weeks from today, many users of the site may be wondering what this means for their experience of the social network. The...


THURSDAY 3. MAY 2012


RIM's Hail Mary

Prototypes of the BlackBerry 10 phone are given to developers On Tuesday, Research in Motion unveiled prototypes of the BlackBerry 10 phone and operating system--a product more or less unanimously considered to be the company’s last chance (if that moment hasn’t already passed). Emphasis on the...

Fine-tuning Nanotech to Target Cancer

Programmable nanoparticles have shown promise in early cancer trials, and may finally fulfill the promise of nanomedicine. The results of the human trials are startling. Even at a lower-than-usual dose, multiple lung metastases shrank or even disappeared after one patient received only two-hour-long intravenous infusions of an experimental cancer drug. Another patient saw her cervical...


WEDNESDAY 2. MAY 2012


A Glimpse of Glasses-Free 3-D

So I was curious but skeptical when MasterImage 3D, whose 3-D offerings include digital 3-D projectors for movie theaters, asked me to check out its take on it. It has built its technology into an Android-running Qualcomm tablet that it first showed off at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and it hopes to include the technology in smart phones starting late this year and tablets...


TUESDAY 1. MAY 2012


Ancient Egyptians Recorded Algol's Variable Magnitude 3000 Years Before Western Astronomers

A statistical analysis of a 3000-year old calendar reveals that astronomers in ancient Egyptian must have known the period of the eclipsing binary Algol The Ancient Egyptians were meticulous astronomers and recorded the passage of the heavens in extraordinary detail. The goal was to mark the passage of time and  to understand the will of the Gods who kept the celestial machinery at...