| "The purpose of this flight test was to demonstrate the platform's capability to implement multi-vehicle missions using the task advisor to run the entire mission. In this video we demonstrate the tasking system's capability to command two vehicles to search different areas of the room and track multiple objects - both stationary and moving. In this test, we have three R/C vehicles on the floor, and the two air vehicles search for them. Note that the system does not know where the ground vehicles are going to be a-priori. The videos are from a test flight which took place on August 8th." | |
Friday, September 29, 2006
MultiUAV Search and Track
No, I can't fix your computer!
"In a world where the term "computer expert" can refer to many things, why do people assume that ALL people in the computer field can solve their computer problems?"
-Now, I am trained in fixing computer problems, it's what I started out doing.. but I found this quite funny. Partially because it's so true, and I get asked this kind of stuff all the time... But these days, most everyone has been using a computer for more than a year or two atleast... So there's no excuse for not knowing how to do something as simple as adding a printer! Oh and that floppy disk you can't get to work, it needs to be formatted not "formulated"! Seriously, one day someone came to me asking for help because they wanted to put some files on a disk but couldn't get it to work... and said "Yeah my daughter told me it needs to be formulated or something first.".
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-Now, I am trained in fixing computer problems, it's what I started out doing.. but I found this quite funny. Partially because it's so true, and I get asked this kind of stuff all the time... But these days, most everyone has been using a computer for more than a year or two atleast... So there's no excuse for not knowing how to do something as simple as adding a printer! Oh and that floppy disk you can't get to work, it needs to be formatted not "formulated"! Seriously, one day someone came to me asking for help because they wanted to put some files on a disk but couldn't get it to work... and said "Yeah my daughter told me it needs to be formulated or something first.".
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Google Reader Introduction
| Chris Wetherell, Google Reader Engineer, introduces the new version of the feed reading application. --- Now please fix Google Video's blog posting problems. Please! It's taken me 3 attempts just to post this one video to my blog on Blogger which isn't owned by some other company, it's owned by you Google, so why don't they play well together??? | |
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Awesome Pics of Redbull Offices
Check out these awesome pics of the Redbull Offices, now this is a place I would like to work at.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Scientists Protest Dolphin Slaughter
Scientists Protest Dolphin Slaughter:
"Fishermen herd hundreds of dolphins into shallow bays by banging on partially submerged rods. Researchers say the dolphins are corralled into nets and then speared, hooked, hoisted by their tails, and finally eviscerated alive."
"Fishermen herd hundreds of dolphins into shallow bays by banging on partially submerged rods. Researchers say the dolphins are corralled into nets and then speared, hooked, hoisted by their tails, and finally eviscerated alive."
Monkeys will pay for Paris Hilton smut
Monkeys will pay for Paris Hilton smut:
"Celeb-hungry macaques in pay-per-view revelation
It's official: monkeys are as obsessed with celebrity and pay-per-view porn as the next man.…"
"Celeb-hungry macaques in pay-per-view revelation
It's official: monkeys are as obsessed with celebrity and pay-per-view porn as the next man.…"
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Restricting Food Intake Can Help Fight Disease, New Research Shows
A new study directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine extends and strengthens the research that experimental dietary regimens might halt or even reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Restricting caloric intake may prevent AD by triggering activity in the brain associated with longevity.
Mars echo from Italian radar reported
Italian and U.S. space agency officials say they've received the first signals from an Italian radar orbiting Mars to search for water or ice on the planet.
Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists
Satellite images acquired from Aug. 23 to 25 have shown for the first time dramatic openings -- over a geographic extent larger than the size of the British Isles -- in the Arctic's perennial sea ice pack north of Svalbard and extending into the Russian Arctic all the way to the North Pole.
Trojan.Vimalov - A zero-day exploit in VML in Internet Explorer
"The trend of new exploits being released immediately after Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is continuing (we are starting to call it 'exploit week'). Symantec Security Response have confirmed a new Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability today. It was first reported by Sunbelt Software. Security Response is rating it as critical because an exploit for this vulnerability is already in-the-wild.
We have confirmed that this exploit takes advantage of a bug in VML (Vector Markup Language, which is an XML language used to produce vector graphics) to overflow a buffer and inject shell code. The exploit then downloads and installs multiple Security Risks, such as spyware, on the compromised machine.
An interesting feature of the Web sites hosting the malicious pages is that they appear to track the IP addresses of visitors, preventing further downloads."
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Monday, September 18, 2006
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
Yes, you're right, you've seen it before, but it's being updated quite frequently. Take a look. Read on
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
New Frontiers in Astronomy: Hubble and Beyond
| Google TechTalks April 11, 2006 Alberto Conti Carol Christian ABSTRACT A revolution is now underway in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The next decade will witness the completion of massive, wide-area, multicolor imaging and spectroscopic surveys of the local and distant Universe. With its strong legacy of public outreach, Hubble's Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has been responsible for how most of the world views our universe. We recognize that, given the coming flood of information, the next step of this task is to allow users to actively explore the cosmos themselves. In this talk we hope to show some of the potential explorations of this wealth of data to help us all better understand and appreciate the universe in which we live. We will explore several facets of using the Multi-mission Archive at Space Telescope's (MAST) along with other survey mission such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey can be combined with these holdings to do new and previously unattainable projects. And finally we will discuss how the current trend of data source unification, as being explored by the International Virtual Observatory Affiliation (IVOA) members will help astronomy tackle the oncoming tsunami of data. | |
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Here Without you (WoW)
| Music video for "3 Doors Down - Here Without You" made in World of Warcraft. It's been around for a bit, but I thought I'd post it anyway. | |
Never before seen 30 minute video of WTC attack
A video blogger has uploaded an unedited 30 minute video of the WTC attacks to Revver. It was filmed from their home 500 yards from the north tower. This is the first time this video has been publicly released.
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Mozilla fixes several Firefox flaws
Mozilla released Firefox 1.5.0.7 to address flaws that could expose systems to man-in-the-middle, spoofing and cross-site scripting attacks.
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Xena Renamed to Eris
Provisionally designated 2003 UB313, and nicknamed Xena by its discoverers, this newly discovered dwarf planet has been officially named Eris by the International Astronomical Union. The name was proposed by Mike Brown, a member of the team that made its discovery, and the name was accepted by the committee. In Greek lore, Eris is the goddess of discord and strife. Its moon has been named Dysnomia, the Daimon spirit of lawlessness.
[via Universe Today]
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Spam filter design to benefit from internet routing data
"A database of more than 10 million spam email messages collected at just one Internet 'spam sinkhole' suggests that Internet service providers could better fight unwanted junk email by addressing it at the network level, rather than using currently available message content filters."--[ Link ]--
Monday, September 11, 2006
The Future is Now: Next-gen Chevy Sequel hydrogen fuel cell car unveiled
The follow up to the original GM Sequel hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle has been officially badged a Chevrolet in order to bring the next gen powerplant to the masses via a familiar brand. It's also wrapped in a much more production feasible body, as well.
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Why gigantic screens are the best computer upgrades ever.
Whether you're a PC or Mac user, the humongous 24-inch iMac that Apple unwrapped on Wednesday drives home a point: Speed is good, but spread is better.
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One-two Particle Punch Poses Greater Risk For Astronauts
A study simulating radiation exposure conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and published in the September 2006 edition of Radiation Research found that human cells were three times more likely to develop properties similar to those in the initial stages of cancer when they were exposed to two types of high-energy particles in a short period of time.
No obvious damage after shuttle launch
AP - Space shuttle Atlantis thundered into orbit Saturday with no obvious damage from debris to worry NASA or the six-member crew as they prepared to resume construction of the international space station for the first time since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Acoustic Data May Reveal Hidden Gas, Oil Supplies
Just as doctors use ultrasound to image unborn babies, MIT researchers listen to the echoing language of rocks to map what's going on tens of thousands of feet below the Earth's surface. Now the scientists will use their skills to find pockets of natural gas and oil contained in fractured porous rocks in a Wyoming oil field. If the method proves effective, it could be used at oil and gas fields across the country.
Physicists Trap, Map Tiny Magnetic Vortex: Cell-sized 3-D Structure Could Hold Key For Next-gen ...
In a research first that could lead to a new generation of hard drives capable of storing thousands of movies per square inch, physicists at Rice University have decoded the three-dimensional structure of a tornado-like magnetic vortex no larger than a red blood cell. The findings, published online by Physics Review Letters, were made with a one-of-a-kind scanning ion microscope that trapped and imaged cone-like magnetic vortices on tiny cobalt disks.
Atlantis soars into orbit for crucial space station work (Update)
The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off Saturday after nearly two weeks of delays, heading to the International Space Station on the first NASA construction mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Virulent new strain of TB in South Africa
A new drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that appears to be almost untreatable has been found in South Africa.
Google's Cool Free Book Downloads
Google's project to scan the world's books new features free PDF downloads of classic public-domain books, via the Google Book Search site....
Microsoft Moves into Robotics
Microsoft believes the demand for consumer, research, and military robots will grow significantly--and it wants to own the market, with Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) and the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE).
MSRS is a visual programming environment, similar to the LabView-based software provided with LEGO's Mindstorms NXT kit. It allows users to drag and drop box-like symbols for simple, low-level behaviors and services (such as accessing a sensor) and string them together to create complex robotic programs.
MSRS also uses the AGEIA PhysX physics engine, which powers many PC games, to provide a visual simulation of the robot and its environment, complete with realistic friction, drag, gravity, and other factors.
The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos
The universe might end in intelligent life, not a Big Crunch or oblivion in an infinite expansion, says James Gardner in ...
Fastest supercomputer to be built
IBM will build the world's most powerful supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory by 2008. The machine, codenamed Roadrunner, will be able to achieve 1.5 petaflops. The new computer is a hybrid design, using both conventional supercompu...
Gene genius: Are scientists closing in on the holy grail?
RNA interference (RNAi) could be the biggest advance in healthcare since the development of antibiotics. There is barely an area of medicine that may not be touched by future advances in RNAi -- a technique for switching off genes selectively and pre...
Magnetic vortices could store thousands of movies per square inch
In a research first that could lead to a new generation of hard drives capable of storing thousands of movies per square inch, physicists at Rice University have decoded the three-dimensional structure of a tornado-like magnetic vortex. It could l...
Semantic memory pinpointed in the brain
The part of the brain responsible for the way we understand words, meanings and concepts has been revealed as the anterior temporal lobe. The findings may one day help researchers treat dementia by targeting gene therapy or administering drugs dir...
Saturday, September 09, 2006
World Community Grid
Originally uploaded by CoreBurn.
From their page:
"World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor."
World Community Grid
Texas Ahead Of California On Wind Power
"FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group has announced that 'as of the end of August it had completed 662 megawatts of the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Texas making it the largest wind farm in the world. When the last phase of the project is complete later this month, the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center will have a total capacity of 735 megawatts'. The Center has '291 GE 1.5 megawatt wind turbines and 130 Siemens 2.3 megawatt wind turbines...' OK Arnold, you better get kickin because: 'According to AWEA, at the end of the second quarter of 2006 Texas' cumulative total stood at 2,370 megawatts of capacity followed by California's 2,323 megawatts'."
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Friday, September 08, 2006
Motorcycle Airbag Testing
| Honda Goldwing impacts minivan at 50km/h (31MPH) If I had to pick, I would rather be the guy on the right... | |
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Trackmania Sunrise 1000 Car Replay
1000 separate replays from the same track combined into one using Trackmania's powerful replay editor. The end result is 1000 cars racing at the same time.
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Cure @ PS3
"With this new technology (as well as new advances with GPUs , we will likely be able to attain performance on the 100 gigaflop scale per computer. With about 10,000 such machines, we would be able to achieve performance on the petaflop scale. With software from Sony, the PlayStation 3 will now be able to contribute to the Folding@Home project, pushing Folding@Home a major step forward...
The PS3 client will also support some advanced visualization features. While the Cell microprocessor does most of the calculation processing of the simulation, the graphic chip of the PLAYSTATION 3 system (the RSX) displays the actual folding process in real-time using new technologies such as HDR and ISO surface rendering. It is possible to navigate the 3D space of the molecule using the interactive controller of the PS3, allowing us to look at the protein from different angles in real-time."
"With this new technology (as well as new advances with GPUs , we will likely be able to attain performance on the 100 gigaflop scale per computer. With about 10,000 such machines, we would be able to achieve performance on the petaflop scale. With software from Sony, the PlayStation 3 will now be able to contribute to the Folding@Home project, pushing Folding@Home a major step forward...
The PS3 client will also support some advanced visualization features. While the Cell microprocessor does most of the calculation processing of the simulation, the graphic chip of the PLAYSTATION 3 system (the RSX) displays the actual folding process in real-time using new technologies such as HDR and ISO surface rendering. It is possible to navigate the 3D space of the molecule using the interactive controller of the PS3, allowing us to look at the protein from different angles in real-time."
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
New attempts to crack Saturn's 'walnut' moon
The mysterious equatorial ridge on Saturn's moon Iapetus is either a fossil ring system that fell to the surface, or a pile up of crustal rocks formed as the satellite changed its shape. These are the latest theories from planetary scientists.
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