Tag: science & technology
All the articles with the tag "science & technology".
The Case of the Missing Ancestor - The Denisovans
National Geographic has a great article on the discovery and further research related to our cousins the Denisovans . Everyone knows about the Neandarthals, and at this point I think most people know …
Facebook's suggested gifts algorithm needs some work
Some good friends of ours recently had their first child and posted photos on Facebook. When viewing that post on the desktop version of Facebook it had a little ad which suggested giving a gift to th…
Myelin regrown in multiple sclerosis models
Per the UT : "Ordinary skin cells have been directly converted into the myelinating cells destroyed in multiple sclerosis, according to two new papers in Nature Biotechnology. This has huge potential …
Death of Windows Media Center
I've been using Windows Media Center for years. I run WMC on my desktop computer to a projector and speakers. We don't have a TV, so this is how I get my fix of Netflix, DVDs, and loads of downloaded …
What is SOPA and how does it work?
The Verge has a great writeup on SOPA/PIPA if you are not familiar with it: What is SOPA and how does it work? The Stop Online Piracy Act explained
To what extent was it his biology, and to what extent was it him?
I've been catching up on a lot of reading with my kindle and the lovely instapaper.com . I found this article particularly good. Not only because it outlines how technology will change how we view cri…
Professional Chinese WoW Gold Farmer interview
This video is six months old, which is ages World of Warcraft's RMT (Real Money Transactions) economy, but it still contains a lot of great information on the game market economics. For those of you n…
AWS micro instances for personal & learning use
Too much money, too much downtime. That sums up my experience with my web hosting company over the last couple years. My shared hosting account costs about $120/year, and sure didn't feel like I was g…
SSH to an AWS EC2 server from an iPhone
The first round of SSH clients for the iPhone presented some problems when connecting to Amazon Web Services EC2 Linux server instances. EC2 instances require a private certificate key file to be used…
IT service administration apps on the iPhone
Stuff breaks. Usually when I'm nowhere near a computer. These 4 apps help keep me sane: 1. Jaadu Remote Desktop ( app store link ) . Pricey, but the best RDP client of the bunch. This plus the built i…