Archive: June 2012

Rice University researchers create spray-on battery, powered bathroom tiles Liquid solar cells are pretty neat, to be sure, but current-generating paint can be a hard color to match. Good thing, then, that researchers at Rice university have developed the perfect[…]

Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants “invalid,” mansion raid “illegal” Partying with the Megacake, Kim Dotcom-style Kim Dotcom On January 20, New Zealand police showed up in style at the mansion of flamboyant Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, swarming over the property[…]

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Reshared post from +NPR Words escape +NPR's +Mark Memmott on this.Credit goes to +reddit's SidIncognito and io9 for the story. George W. Bush’s Decapitated Head Appeared On ‘Game Of Thrones’ : NPR HBO says it is “deeply dismayed” and will have[…]

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Embedded Link Security flaw in MySQL, MariaDB allows access with any password—just keep submitting it When the latest release of MariaDB was announced in April by MontyProgram AB founder and MySQL creator Michael “Monty” Widenius, it came with a warning[…]

How a trio of hackers brought Google’s reCAPTCHA to its knees | Ars Technica Hackers exploit weaknesses in Google’s bot-detection system with 99% accuracy. View this post on Google+

Livermorium and Flerovium take a seat at the Periodic Table Just when we thought those pesky scientists had stopped messing with the Periodic Table, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry goes View this post on Google+