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Earth's Infrared Radiation: New Renewable Energy Frontier?
The Earth continuously emits 100 million gigawatts of infrared heat into outer space. That’s enough to power all of humanity many thousands of times over. Capturing even a fraction of that would mean an end to our energy woes. Harvard University researche
The Earth continuously emits 100 million gigawatts of infrared heat into outer space. That’s enough to power all of humanity many thousands of times over. Capturing even a fraction of that would mean an end to our energy woes. Harvard University researcheNASA admits astronaut's suit leaked the week before near-drowning during spacewalk
NASA today will admit that the near-death of an astronaut during a spacewalk last year could have been avoided, according to a report from ABC News. In a report to be released Wednesday morning, NASA will acknowledge that astronaut Luca Parmitano's suit l
NASA today will admit that the near-death of an astronaut during a spacewalk last year could have been avoided, according to a report from ABC News. In a report to be released Wednesday morning, NASA will acknowledge that astronaut Luca Parmitano's suit l
Ford Said to Drop Microsoft for BlackBerry QNX in Sync Systems
Ford Motor Co., struggling with in- car technology flaws, will base the next-generation Sync system on BlackBerry Ltd.’s QNX and no longer use Microsoft Corp.’s Windows, according to people briefed on the matter.Reindeer get fluorescent antlers to reduce roadkill
Rudolph the reindeer is having a glittering antler makeover — the latest attempt to halt some of the thousands of road deaths of the roaming caribou in the wilds of Finland.
Rudolph the reindeer is having a glittering antler makeover — the latest attempt to halt some of the thousands of road deaths of the roaming caribou in the wilds of Finland. Online ‘trolls' show signs of being sadists, psychology study finds
Internet “trolls” appear to have some extreme personality issues, based on the results of a new study. They show signs of being sadistic and Machiavellian, says the recent study by Erin Buckels, a University of Manitoba psychology graduate student, and psThe future of wind turbines? Bizarre-looking funnel produces SIX times more energy than traditional designs
The Minnesota-based Sheerwind turbine directs wind through a funnel. It is passed through a tube to the turbine's generator to create a so-called 'jet effect'.
The Minnesota-based Sheerwind turbine directs wind through a funnel. It is passed through a tube to the turbine's generator to create a so-called 'jet effect'. Edmonton Public Library launches makerspace
The Edmonton Public Library (EPL) has opened one of the first 'makerspaces' in Canada. A makerspace is an open area that provides people a chance “to learn, create, collaborate and discover with free access to the latest technology and equipment.”US drone use highlights questions for journalists
Tech | 88 hits | 12:22 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
This malware is frighteningly sophisticated, and we don't know who created it
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Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1 : The New Yorker
A Microsoft spokesman said only that Mr. Gates’s first day in his new job had been “a learning experience” and that, for the immediate future, he would go back to running Windows 7.
A Microsoft spokesman said only that Mr. Gates’s first day in his new job had been “a learning experience” and that, for the immediate future, he would go back to running Windows 7. CSEC's collection of metadata shows ability to 'track everyone'
Recent allegations about domestic spying by one of Canada’s security agencies has inspired a great deal of confusion about metadata, and whether it's as harmless as the security establishment says it is. Scammer alert: Missed a call from a mystery number? Don't call them backTech | 224 hits | 2:58 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Better Business Bureau is warning people about a recent phone scam that’s “caught on like wildfire” in the U.S., and may be making its way to Canada. BlackBerry 10 update adds data-free FM radio to latest models
BlackBerry has launched a new feature that it can boast even the latest iPhones don’t have: FM radio. A new version of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, which the Waterloo, Ont.-based company says includes hundreds of enhancements and new features, starNvidia worker killed by Caltrain was trying to save man on tracks
Philip Scholz, a popular Silicon Valley tech worker at Nvidia who was killed on Caltrain tracks Monday, was apparently trying to help get someone else who was on the tracks to safety when he was killed by a commuter train roaring through the station, acco
Tech | 141 hits | 8:57 PM on Sunday | posted by commanderkai
Philip Scholz, a popular Silicon Valley tech worker at Nvidia who was killed on Caltrain tracks Monday, was apparently trying to help get someone else who was on the tracks to safety when he was killed by a commuter train roaring through the station, acco Welcome to the U.S.A, er, Victoria: Island residents irked by U.S. roaming charges
Dave Shishkoff is used to receiving an alert on his cellphone while walking or biking along Dallas Road: “Welcome to the U.S.A.” The 37-year-old Victoria resident said he receives the notification a few times a month and has been charged for roaming, evenCreating Tastier and Healthier Fruits and Veggies With a Modern Alternative to GMOs
Mazourek belongs to a new generation of plant breeders who combine traditional farming with rapid genetic analysis to create more flavorful, colorful, shapely and nutritious fruits and vegetables. These modern plant breeders are not genetic engineers; in
Mazourek belongs to a new generation of plant breeders who combine traditional farming with rapid genetic analysis to create more flavorful, colorful, shapely and nutritious fruits and vegetables. These modern plant breeders are not genetic engineers; in Chemical process turns any plant matter—even trees—into biofuels | Ars Technica
Nearly any plant material can be broken down into simple sugars. Biofuel production focuses on taking the carbon that's already present in plants and converting it into burnable carbon-based fuels. Most of the carbon in a plant comes in the form of sugars
Nearly any plant material can be broken down into simple sugars. Biofuel production focuses on taking the carbon that's already present in plants and converting it into burnable carbon-based fuels. Most of the carbon in a plant comes in the form of sugarsAdware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates
One of the coolest things about Chrome is the silent, automatic updates that always ensure that users are always running the latest version. While Chrome itself is updated automatically by Google, that update process also includes Chrome's extensions, whi
One of the coolest things about Chrome is the silent, automatic updates that always ensure that users are always running the latest version. While Chrome itself is updated automatically by Google, that update process also includes Chrome's extensions, whi5 ways technology is revolutionizing your ride
Go driverless, link a smartwatch, take a selfie—it's the dawn of a new auto era
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Go driverless, link a smartwatch, take a selfie—it's the dawn of a new auto era Why your smartphone is telling this Toronto tech firm all about you
While most Canadians are aware that their personal data is being collected by telecom providers, phone manufacturers and even some of the apps they use, many don’t realize there are other parties accumulating databases of consumer behaviour without their 3-D printing tries to find a home
The companies that make 3-D printers want a spot in your home. They're just not sure exactly why you need one of their futuristic devices yet.
Tech | 126 hits | 11:41 AM on Wednesday | posted by wildrosegirl
The companies that make 3-D printers want a spot in your home. They're just not sure exactly why you need one of their futuristic devices yet. Google's targeted ads violate Canada's privacy law: privacy commissioner | CTV News
Google ads prompted by sensitive personal health information gleaned from users’ online search history violate Canada’s privacy law, the interim privacy commissioner said Wednesday. Two-Tier Internet Is Big Telecom's Plan For Canada: Michael Geist
As telecom giant Rogers reportedly prepares to launch its own competitor to Netflix, a prominent tech expert is warning such moves may lead to a “two-tier” internet, where some content is favoured over others. Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in I Organic battery hailed as cheap renewable energy solutionTech | 157 hits | 5:53 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
A cheap rechargeable battery that harnesses energy by using the electrochemistry of organic molecules rather than metals is being touted by Harvard researchers as a breakthrough for renewable energy. Leaner CES a showcase for innovations that challenge status quoTech | 133 hits | 5:48 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
Rather than a stodgy venue where tech behemoths roll out unimpressive iterative products, the Consumer Electronics Show is quickly becoming what it was really meant to be: a showcase for innovative and exciting new advancements. CES 2014: The Knightscope K5 Robot Redefines Security Industry
We know Hollywood loves to glamorize and criminalize robots and their usefulness or demise to humans in our fictional future. But we don’t need to because that future just started with the introduction of Knightscope K5, the first real, practical security BlackBerry's QNX Software develops sound system to give quiet cars a retro roar
For car lovers, there is just something about a revving engine that gets the blood moving faster.
Now automakers can capitalize on that feeling by teaming with a division of BlackBerry that is developing a way to replicate the sound of yesteryear’s driIntel Edison: an SD-card sized PC for wearable computing | News | PC Pro
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has revealed the company's vision for wearable computing - and at its core is an SD-card sized PC called Edison. Edison is based on Quark technology, the tiny, low-power system-on-a-chip that was designed for wearable computers, s
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has revealed the company's vision for wearable computing - and at its core is an SD-card sized PC called Edison. Edison is based on Quark technology, the tiny, low-power system-on-a-chip that was designed for wearable computers, s U.S. home electricity use declines for 3rd straight year
The average amount of electricity consumed in U.S. homes has fallen to levels last seen more than a decade ago, despite more and more electrical devices becoming commonplace in people's lives. Catalog Reveals NSA Has Back Doors for Numerous Devices
After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.Massive Android Mobile Botnet Hijacking SMS Data
A mobile botnet called MisoSMS is wreaking havoc on the Android platform, stealing personal SMS messages and exfiltrating them to attackers in China.
A mobile botnet called MisoSMS is wreaking havoc on the Android platform, stealing personal SMS messages and exfiltrating them to attackers in China.Amazon accidentally removes Disney Christmas special from owners' accounts
Users who bought a festive cartoon from Amazon found themselves unable to watch it in the run up to Christmas after the company removed access to digital copies from their account. Disney's Prep & Landing, a Christmas special first aired in 2009, has been
Users who bought a festive cartoon from Amazon found themselves unable to watch it in the run up to Christmas after the company removed access to digital copies from their account. Disney's Prep & Landing, a Christmas special first aired in 2009, has been Phablets expected to outsell tablets in 2014
Smartphones with oversized screens, like the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Sony's Xperia Z Ultra, will soar in popularity next year, Deloitte Canada predicts.NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The agency's internal present
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The agency's internal presentPirate Bay Founder Held in Solitary Confinement Without a Warrant
Since his arrival in Denmark to face hacking charges Gottfrid Svartholm has sat in solitary confinement, denied free access to mail and denied access to his books. The situation has outraged Wikileaks' Julian Assange who says Gottfrid is now a political p
Since his arrival in Denmark to face hacking charges Gottfrid Svartholm has sat in solitary confinement, denied free access to mail and denied access to his books. The situation has outraged Wikileaks' Julian Assange who says Gottfrid is now a political pRocket with secret payload launches
A rocket carrying a secret payload for the U.S. government has successfully launched from the central California coast.
A rocket carrying a secret payload for the U.S. government has successfully launched from the central California coast.Data haul by Android Flashlight app 'deceives' millions
Millions of Android users have been "deceived" by a developer who covertly gathered personal data, says the US Federal Trade Commission. GoldenShores Technologies took ID and location data from the millions using its Brightest Flashlight app.
Millions of Android users have been "deceived" by a developer who covertly gathered personal data, says the US Federal Trade Commission. GoldenShores Technologies took ID and location data from the millions using its Brightest Flashlight app. Wireless code gives customers new rights starting today
Cellphone customers will get caps on their excess data and roaming fees and other new rights starting today, under the CRTC's new wireless code. Faux plane crash SOS from Avery's puzzles authorities
The Canadian military mobilized search aircraft in a desperate hunt for a large passenger plane they believed had crashed in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, after a farm market inexplicably emitted an electronic SOS signal, CBC News has learned. Boeing 747 jumbo jet that landed at wrong airport reaches destination
The Boeing 747 jumbo jet that mistakenly landed at a small Kansas airport not far from the air force base where it was supposed to land has, on its second attempt, successfully reached its destination, although questions still remain as to what brought thGoogle Books ruled legal in massive win for fair use | Ars Technica
A long-running copyright lawsuit between the Authors' Guild and Google over its book-scanning project is over, and Google has won on the grounds that its scanning is "fair use." Scans that show snippets are legal—they don't replace the full book.
A long-running copyright lawsuit between the Authors' Guild and Google over its book-scanning project is over, and Google has won on the grounds that its scanning is "fair use." Scans that show snippets are legal—they don't replace the full book.Back to Canada News
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