Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
Missing the end of the game, thanks to your VCR was part of the accepted technology norm during the format’s hey day in the 80s. Not for Marion Stokes, though, who managed to keep the VCR wheels turning for over three decades straight, amassing quite the archive of news coverage as she did so. Also, we’ve got one new island, and an Ice Age DNA puzzle. Where else but alt-week?
GENEVA (AP) — Talks between Iran and six world powers seeking to curb Tehran’s nuclear program bogged down early Sunday despite the personal intervention by Secretary of State John Kerry and other foreign ministers whose presence had raised hopes for a breakthrough.
Diplomats refused to spell out details of the talks, which dragged on past midnight into a fifth day. But both sides suggested negotiations focused on detailed wording that could be key in shaping an agreement that both sides could live with.
We’ve spent a good bit
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Next time you go to Titan—one of Saturn’s moons—remember this cool factoid: "The atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping ‘wings’ attached to their arms" as pointed out in Robert Zubrin’s Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. How awesome would that be?
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After yesterday’s very promising news
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This article was written on July 03, 2007 by CyberNet.
FeedBurner just announced that because they were acquired by Google they are now able to offer their PRO package at no cost to all users. What kind of goodness does such a package get you? For starters you can get advanced stat tracking that lets you see who has viewed or clicked items in your feed. It also lets you see the "Reach" which is an estimate of how many subscribers interact with your feed on a daily basis.
That’s not all though, you can also get "MyBrand" without paying a dime! As long as you don’t mind playing around with the DNS entries for your site you’ll be able to create your own feed URL. Instead of having an URL that looks like http://feeds.feedburner.com/CyberNet you could have one that looks like http://feeds.cybernetnews.com/CyberNet. This has several benefits to it, with the most significant being a professional-looking feed URL.
So how do you setup the two services? Here’s what you have to do:
I have a feeling that this will just be the beginning. It is only natural that Google will begin working to combine the FeedBurner statistics with Google Analytics. This would give a central location to monitor both your site and feed stats, and I don’t think there is any denying that this will happen.
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When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler confirmed the agency’s proposal to lift the ban on in-flight voice calls, he also issued a statement that sounded like he favored the change. According to AP, that didn’t sit well with a bunch of folks , and the FCC’s phones rang off the hook with complaints — one representative even called him a “wireless lobbyist.” Well, it looks like that’s caused the chairman’s quick change of heart: while he previously called the agency’s rules “outdated and restrictive,” he now agrees with passengers who’d prefer that cellular services remain banned on planes. If you were one of those who got excited at the prospect of making calls in the air, though, don’t feel bad that Wheeler doesn’t have your back anymore. In a new statement on FCC’s website, he says that even if the agency lifts the ban, it’s still the carriers that’ll have to decide whether to adopt the policy and allow voice connectivity.
Filed under: Misc
Via: ABCNews
Source: FCC
Northrop Grumman’s newest infomercial about its unmanned autonomous air, land, and sea vehicles feels like one of those typical foretelling montages that you see in dystopian sci-fi movies.
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You need to see how incredibly awesome Disney’s new animated snow technology is. They created it for Frozen—their new (non-Pixar) 3D animation feature. This video presented at the latest Siggraph shows how it works:
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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn is the U.S.’s longest suspension bridge, surpassing even the Golden Gate Bridge. Since 1976, it’s served as the starting point of the New York City Marathon, which hosted over 50,000 competitors on November 3rd. Watch them all in this gorgeous time-lapse.
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