Adam Segal, one of the Council on Foreign Relations' top experts on China and technology, talks to Fast Company about what's special about Chinese cybercriminals, Chinese fears of NSA backdoors, and bored East Asian teenagers. Cyberwarfare in 2011 is an odd beast
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Nokia's recent woes multiplied this week as the beleaguered Finnish firm shuttered online stores in the U.S.
Read More »Stop Mining for Oil (and Coal), Start Drilling for Heat
The center of the Earth is a roiling ball of heat, roughly 6,000 degrees Celsius as near as we can tell without a sci-fi tunneling effort. The closest humanity has come to that molten core is some 12 kilometers beneath the continental crust in Russia, which isn't even halfway through said crust and akin to drilling into an apple without piercing the skin
Read More »Facebook Hits A Wall
Usage data suggests that something unusual has happened to Facebook's membership growth in the U.S.
Read More »iFive: IMF Network Hacked, iPhone Rumors, Anonymous’ India Campaign Censored, Codemasters’ Site Hacked, Facebook’s Ceiling?
Area 51 doesn't exist officially, but newly declassified images show an exciting glimpse into its secretive past: An A12 aircraft (shown under radar testing here), stealthy forerunner to the amazing BlackBird, crashed out in the desert and had to be completely covered up so no data leaked. It was a success, until now. 1.
Read More »Canada Confirms It Will Reject New Kyoto Protocol
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Canada confirmed on Wednesday that it would not support an extended Kyoto Protocol after 2012, joining Japan and Russia in rejecting a new round of the climate emissions pact. The current Kyoto Protocol binds only the emissions of industrialized countries from 2008-2012. Poor and emerging economies want to extend the pact, creating a deadlock at U.N.
Read More »Germany expects more cases of bacterial infection
Authorities haven't pinned down source of E.
Read More »Big Plans for Nanotechnology in Russia
MOSCOW, RUSSIA. “As has often happened in Russia, we have had the priority in scientific invention, but completely lose the market,” Anatoly Chubais, chief executive of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, Rusnano[www.rusnano.com], told members of the Scientific American international editions during a visit today
Read More »New calculations on blackbody energy set the stage for clocks with unprecedented accuracy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks.
Read More »Alec Ross On The State Department’s Global Tech Efforts
Photograph by Douglas Sonders Alec Ross Senior Adviser for Innovation, Office of the Secretary of State Washington, D.C. Ross, 39, heads the State Department’s initiative to work with technologists in the private sector. "WE HAVE TO LEVERAGE technology in service of our diplomatic and development goals.
Read More »How Does a Floating Plastic Duckie End Up Where It Does?
In Moby Duck , Donovan Hohn tracks the fate of 28,000 plastic bath toys (“rubber” ducks, frogs, turtles and beavers) across the Northwest Coast to their origins in China and even through the North West Passage. But how did these bath toys come to be spread on the shores of Alaska, Washington, Hawaii and Russia? On January 10th 1992, the Ever Laurel, a large container cargo ship, was caught in a storm in the North Pacific with severe waves rolling her from side to side.
Read More »Padmasree Warrior On Cisco’s Russia Connection
Photograph by Tanit Sakakini Padmasree Warrior Chief Technology Officer, CISCO San Jose Warrior, 50, traveled to Russia in 2010 on a State Department technology delegation that included eBay CEO John Donahoe and actor Ashton Kutcher. "THE PURPOSE OF the delegation was to explore and begin a dialogue with Russia.
Read More »The 10 Most Innovative Companies In Russia
01 / Yandex > > For mastering search. The internet search company Yandex is already three times more popular than Google in its home market (Russia) and this year, it made its move onto Google's international turf with the launch of an English-language search engine. One of Yandex's key advantages has always been the complexity of the Russian language, whose Lego-set of prefixes, roots and suffixes has forced it to be a step ahead in the nuance of its algorithms.
Read More »iFive: Obama’s "Fun" Science, Facebook Lost iPhone Deal, Iran’s Space Monkey, Foursquare-Apple Rumors, Nokia-Microsoft Deal
1. Barack Obama once promised to have a science-friendly presidency, And at his ground-breaking town hall on Facebook , he promised more science . Specifically he wants to "start making science cool" and hopes the American people will think of the next "big energy breakthrough" the same way they felt about the moonwalks forty years ago
Read More »Russia, U.S. Plan a Nuclear-Powered Space Rocket, Making Mars Mission More Feasible
The Russian federal space agency has revealed that on April 15th, the U.S. and Russia will meet to discuss the development of a future joint nuclear-engine powered rocket project. The announcement was made by agency director Anatoly Perminov, and the joint project will also include other nations with a "high level of reactor manufacturing technology." This list could include France, Britain, Germany, China, and Japan
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