That weird little thing pictured above is a prototype of a tool-wielding snake that can crawl inside your body for surgery. I can’t stop shuddering.Is the piracy war going to end up like the drug war? Pirate Bay, for one, may be impossible to destroy thanks to the site’s hundreds of IP addresses.Orwellian crime fighting: ShotSpotter is a service increasingly used by police departments around the country that uses microphones placed around a city to recognize and locate gunshots. “Mindblowing” is the adjective that comes to mind.Here’s how to turn the public against ecology: a rogue group of ‘eco-anarchists’ is attacking scientists, especially those in the nuclear and nano fields.There’s a new Stuxnet: ‘Flame’ is targeting Iranian computers, and it’s massive.Good news for music geeks: the Open Source Bach project has been completed. Apparently Bach’s complicated notation style required the development of new capabilities in notation software.Drones are taking over the world, part 5329: Australian mines are increasingly using UAVs for surveying.That right there is Olympicene, a new compound created by British scientists to commemorate the Olympics.Here’s some great fodder for Made in the USA folks: Chinese chips used in the military apparently have a backdoor built-in. Perhaps we shouldn’t be buying military architecture from rivals?Up for auction: a pre-Apple notes from 19-year old Steve Jobs about how to improve Atari’s pinball game World Cup.Vogue Italy has the story of the Macao building in Milan, which was recently hit with forceful evictions after long being a squatter’s utopia.Another week, another warning that sitting is killing you.Congress is pissed at Google for the search giant’s cavalier aggregation of semi-public data.
NASA has now issued guidelines for who can touch what on the Moon. I guess that means we’re that much closer to Moon vacations, right?Your SEO-honed subject matter of the week: NASA space drink removes wrinkles.Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, is looking for more professional censors and more creative ways to enforce censorship rules.Richard Leakey says the evolution debate will soon be history.Cheers to you LA! The city became the largest in the country to ban the sale of plastic bags.
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