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24th December 2012 Archive

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  • China seeks ‘Oceanauts’ for deep sea exploration

    Six scientists, two of them hyper-intelligent women, sought for marine mining mission

    China is set to recruit six intrepid “oceanauts”, including two women, as it increases the frequency of its deep-sea exploratory missions. The People’s Republic set a new record in June when its Jiaolong manned submersible reached a depth of 7,062 metres below sea level on a mission to the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean …

    Science 24 Dec 03:22

  • AWS’ gift to sysadmins: a cloudy command line

    Bah humbug! The documentation is scanty

    With Christmas all-but upon us, Amazon Web Services has issued a gift to a certain type of Sysadmin: a command line interface for its cloud computing services. The gift is perhaps a little too well-wrapped: you’ll need to visit GitHub to download the package and then have Python versions 2.6.x - 3.3.x. handy to run it. And of …

    Cloud 24 Dec 05:05

  • Boffins build elastic wires with liquid metal

    Headphone cable stretches, band keeps playing

    Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown “conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning.” The wires have been tested, and demonstrated in the video below, to work perfectly well as headphone wires. Sound continues to reach the headphones even as the …

    Science 24 Dec 06:48

  • Trust the cloud with my PRECIOUS? You gotta be joking

    Violated, deleted... put your data up there and bad sh*t HAPPENS

    Being a hardcore music geek of a certain age, I own several thousand LPs, CDs, and cassettes that I accumulated over the course of several decades. But as any serious record buff knows, collections like this are not remotely scaleable. I have several closets bursting with music in assorted physical media and I know people who …

    Cloud 24 Dec 11:02

  • Review: Kingston Hyper-X 3K 240GB SSD

    Feeding the 10Gbit monster Kingston targets fans... and mostly doesn't disappoint

    To build storage capable of running tests that can challenge 10Gbit network cards and switches, a flash array is required. I chose eight Kingston Hyper X 3K 240 SSDs to provide this high-speed storage layer. Before I built my VMware cluster of ultimate doom, however, the SSDs needed some torture testing. The drives advertise …

    Storage 24 Dec 12:26

  • Boffins build substrate for 'peel and stick' solar cells

    Technique suitable for LEDs and printed circuits

    A team of scientists from Stanford University has developed a "peel and stick" solar cell to demonstrate a new flexible substrate with the potential to be used by the wider electronics industry. Thin-film solar cells can be printed on an increasing variety of rigid surfaces but the team noted that it might be possible to …

    Science 24 Dec 22:00