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The Hidden FM Radio Inside Your Pocket, And Why You Can't Use Itnpr.org
Most smartphones have a built-in FM chip. But whether or not it's activated is in the hands of the mobile carriers, who profit when you stream radio. The broadcast industry is pushing to change this. -
Autistic Traits Aren't Linked To Brain Anatomy? - Neuroskepticblogs.discovermagazine.com
According to a large study just published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, there’s no correlation between brain anatomy and self-reported autistic traits. Dutch researchers P. Cedric M. P. Koolschijn and colleagues looked at two sa... -
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Fateful Phone Call Spawned Moore’s Law [Excerpt]scientificamerican.com
Nobel laureate physicist William Shockley recruited Gordon Moore to help advance transistor technology, kicking off the creation of Silicon Valley and the digital revolution itself -
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blogs.plos.org
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Bytecode features not available in the Java languagestackoverflow.com
Are there currently (Java 6) things you can do in Java bytecode that you can't do from within the Java language? I know both are Turing complete, so read "can do" as "can do significantly faster/b... -
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First in Flight? Not Wright Brothers, Says Connecticutnytimes.com
Ohio and North Carolina have long fought over which could lay claim to aviation’s pioneers, the Wright Brothers. But a report that someone else got aloft first has a third state entering the fray. -
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The Woman in Green: A Chinese Ghost Tale from Mao to Ming, 1981-1381—Vol. 1, No. 2theappendix.net
In 1965, a Chinese playwright named Meng Chao fell afoul of the cultural revolution because of a fictional ghost named Li Huiniang. In 1381, that ghost came to life, challenging a tyrant for the love of another poor writer. Maggie Greene follows Li Hui... -
When a Phillips is not a Phillips!m.instructables.com
Cross-head, Cross-Point, Cruciform, Square Drive Screws and Drivers These screw types have a + shaped recess on the head and are driven by a cr... -
Graphene Brings Photodetectors to the Brink of Terahertz Speeds - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
Graphene's properties overcomes charge carrier cooling times, which had limited switching speeds -
Kinds of Continuityrjlipton.wordpress.com
Congratulations to John Nash and Louis Nirenberg on the 2015 Abel Prize Combined from src1, src2. John Nash and Louis Nirenberg have jointly won the 2015 Abel Prize for their work on partial differ... -
Scientists Perturbed by Loss of Stat Tool to Sift Research Fudge from Factscientificamerican.com
The journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology recently banned the use of p-values and other statistical methods to quantify uncertainty from significance in research results -
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