SpaceX lands on ISS and more
Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, is a company specializing in space transportation and it’s been making quite the name for itself. Founded by Co-Founder of PayPal.com Elon Musk in 2002, the company has since made great strides in space exploration. Beginning …→
AIDS research making strides
It is hard to imagine a scourge worse than the AIDS virus. In the year 2011 alone, about 1.7 million lives were claimed by the disease. Yet there is a glimmer of hope. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine …→
Info on a new app that tracks STDs
Sexually transmitted diseases are a touchy subject by all accounts. For Qpid founder and California native Ramin Bastani, just the mention of STD testing ruined a potential one night stand. Bastani fondly remembers the event which inspired his Los Angeles …→
Chinese cyberwarfare division
One single Chinese military unit has been stealing massive amounts of computer data from around the globe, dating back to 2006—allegedly. In a report by Mandiant, a private American information security firm, the firm alleges that the Chinese government is …→
Six Internet Strikes
This Monday marks the first day of existence for the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). CCI signifies a collaboration between the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and five of America’s largest Internet Service Providers …→
Supercapacitors and you
Want a phone that charges almost instantly? How about an electric car that charges in seconds? Supercapacitors might just make all of that a reality, and possibly not too long from now either. “Batteries have a bad reputation, but what …→
Data Collection Tax
It’s no secret that major social networks and search engines, among others, collect data about you and your Internet activity, but what if that could be turned into a taxable commodity? France’s government thinks it might be. The issue facing …→
Federal research at your fingertips
The White House has proposed a novel idea: Make all federally funded research free to the public online. The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) will require all 11 agencies with an annual budget of over $100 million to make …→
Close call: Asteroid misses Earth by 17,000 miles
Last Friday, two unrelated cosmic events gripped the public imagination and the international media’s attention. First, a meteor struck a rural part of the Russian Federation causing widespread injury and panic. Then, a 160-foot wide asteroid known to astronomers as …→
3-D printing is at your fingertips
Three-Dimensional printing might just revolutionize the way we make everything Tired of your phone? Want a new one? Why not just print one out? Until only recently, printing has been restricted to two dimensions. That is now changing, and fast. …→
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