Japan Down To ONE Nuclear Reactor

- Japan down to one nuclear reactor (Telegraph, Mar 26, 2012): The vast utility’s entire stock of 17 reactors are now idle, including three units that suffered a meltdown when the tsunami hit Fukushima, as Japan warily eyes a spike in electricity demand over the hot and humid summer. Only one of Japan’s 54 units [...] continue reading the breaking news

Japan Government Bans Sale Of Foreign Radiation Dosemeters

Looks like Japan is turning into one big ‘RADIATION CAMP’. ?- “Foreign dosemeters are banned to sell” (Fukushima Diary, Mar 19, 2012): A Japanese citizen tweeted a shop said they are no longer allowed to sell foreign dosemeters. ????RT @yasaitabeteru??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? — kazukazu721 (@kazukazu721) March 19, 2012 <Translate> My geiger counter got out of order, went [...] continue reading the breaking news

CIA Director David Petraeus: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher

And now Petraeus is CIA Director = Change we can believe in! - CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher (Wired, Mar 15, 2012): More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot [...] continue reading the breaking news

MIT Study: LED’s Efficiency Exceeds 100%, Reaches An Efficiency Of 230%!

- LED’s efficiency exceeds 100% (PhysOrg.com, Mar 5, 2012): For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that an LED can emit more optical power than the electrical power it consumes. Although scientifically intriguing, the results won’t immediately result in ultra-efficient commercial LEDs since the demonstration works only for LEDs with very low input power that [...] continue reading the breaking news

U.S. Court Approves Warrantless Searches Of Cell Phones

- U.S. court approves warrantless searches of cell phones (Reuters, Mar 1, 2012): U.S. police can search a cell phone for its number without having a warrant, according to a federal appeals court ruling. Officers in Indiana found a number of cell phones at the scene of a drug bust, and searched each phone for [...] continue reading the breaking news

Russian Mogul Dmitry Itskov’s Avatar Project For Immortality: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever

YouTube - Russian Mogul’s Plan: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever (Wired, Feb. 29, 2012): The Pentagon’s new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who’d act as “surrogates” for their human overlords in battle. But according to Dmitry [...] continue reading the breaking news