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Nothing but the Soylent: we’re trying 1 full week of the meal substitute 27 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
Five days worth of Soylent. God help me. Lee Hutchinson An unassuming USPS box arrived in my mailbox this afternoon, but the label had a word in it that I'd been hoping to see: "SOYLENT." Unpacking,...
PBS documentary on concussions leaves ESPN black and blue 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
The potential for repeated brain injuries was perhaps best exemplified by the Parkinson's symptoms suffered very publicly by the boxer Muhammad Ali. But, within the academic world, a growing body of l...
Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Oak Ridge National Lab Nerve cells communicate through short, fleeting pulses of electrical activity. Yet some memories stored in the brain can persist for decades. Research into how the nervous syst...
“thereisnofatebutwhatwemake”—Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords 27 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
Dan Goodin For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people...
Amazon and Microsoft, beware—VMware cloud is more ambitious than we thought 27 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
vCloud Hybrid Service integrates with on-premises VMware deployments. VMware VMware today announced that vCloud Hybrid Service, its first public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, will become...
Intellectual Ventures opens DC office to push $1M lobbying effort 27 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
The world's largest patent-holding company, Intellectual Ventures (IV), has opened up a Washington DC office, according to The Washington Post's Capital Business blog. The move appears to be a ramping...
Insane Omate TrueSmart smart watch has its own cell modem, camera, and GPS 26 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
Omate TrueSmart Kickstarter The tech industry has collectively decided that "smart watches" are going to be The Next Big Thing. While the major players are taking their time, many smaller companies a...
German politician: Stop US trade talks until NSA surveillance is disclosed 26 Aug 2013 | 10:10 pm
A German political opposition leader has called for a complete halt to the ongoing European Union-United States trade negotiations, further indicating a breakdown between the two longstanding allies o...
VMware re-virtualizes networks and storage to keep pace with the cloud 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
So much hardware to virtualize, so little time. Intel Free Press SAN FRANCISCO—VMware is still the big kahuna in virtualization, and the company is hosting its annual VMworld conference this week to...
Chromecast could stream local files—until Google killed the feature 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Koushik Dutta demoed his app at the beginning of August. Its functionality dies with the most recent Chromecast update. A Chromecast app that allowed users to feed local files from a mobile device di...
