Implantable Chip, On Sale Now
By Julia Scheeres
“The maker of an implantable human ID chip has launched a national campaign to promote the device, offering $50 discounts to the first 100,000 people who register to get embedded with the microchip. “
Student Surprised to See Black Hole Eat Star
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It began like a routine measurement on a quasar, a somewhat boring look at the emissions from a distant, early galaxy — but it turned out that the graduate student was actually watching a black hole swallow part of a star. “
*sigh* As if students didn’t have enough promiscuous sex already.
Students Asked to Test-Run Condoms
“LONDON (Reuters) – British students are being recruited to test condoms, rating them for their pleasure, comfort and performance qualities. “
Programmable Water
By Paulo Blikstein
“Computation is not just about electronics.”
“The idea of the project was to build some devices that could do computation without electrons. Water was a interesting choice, in fact, Fluidics is a very important field of study that is widely used in aerospace or mission-critical applications, where electronic control devices don’t offer the reliability of cannot support the environment. Also, military technologies use Fluidics in order to prevent malfunction in a nuclear war, when electric devices cease to work.”
America has more than its fair share of problems and failings, but we have more freedoms than Europeans, as evidenced by this article.
Report: Sites Missing From Google
By ANICK JESDANUN
"What you get through Google's powerful and popular search engines may depend on where you live."
"A report Thursday from Harvard Law School found at least 100 sites missing from search results when accessing Google sites meant for French and German users."
"Most of the missing sites are ones that deny the Holocaust or promote white supremacy. France and Germany have strict laws banning hate speech, while the United States favors freedom of expression even for unpopular viewpoints."
"The sites themselves were not blocked. But the effect is the same when users cannot find them, said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com."