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Flight Log: The First Private Expedition to the Moon
"The price per seat will slap your wallet or purse for a swift $100 million - but you'll have to get in line as the first voyage is already booked." Damn it - must get rich quickly.High Dive
"Ride a rocket into space and then abandon ship? You’d need to be nuts—or desperate. Either way, space diving could be the future of reentry ..." Insane indeed - but what a mad trip that wouGiant microwave turns plastic back to oil
"A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level – turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas." Intriguing.Japanese firm unveils artificial hand with 'air muscles'
"The robot maker unveiled what it called the world's first prototype of an artificial hand with "air muscles" that can do even delicate work like picking up a raw egg." Sex-toy indInterview: HiPiHI, a 3D digital world from China
"We recently had the chance to talk to Cindy Jiang, head of marketing at HiPiHi, to understand a bit more what HiPiHi is about and how it aims to attract users."Metaverse Roadmap Report
"... it's the first attempt to synthesize current and emerging social, economic and technological trends around virtual worlds, immersive networks, and ubiquitous information."DNA as Cosmic Code
"If you possessed technologies so advanced that you could seed life throughout the cosmos, wouldn’t you leave some marker that would identify your work?" Possibly, but even soGo Big or Go Home: Why Being Bold is Critical to Getting Noticed
"With so many blogs talking about the same topics, how will you differentiate yours from the rest? How can you come up with new and interesting angles on the same topics for both your post and yoPunk Rock Public Relations
"... an interview [with Jennifer Mattern] where we discuss going solo, learning the ropes of the interwebs and of course, a lot of personal branding, promotion and marketing ideas."Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
"How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?"10 Ways to Maximize The Value Of A Product Review
Does what it says on the tin.Artificial skin may reduce need for grafts
"A long-lasting artificial skin which is "fully and consistently integrated into the human body" has shown promising results in early clinical trials."Virus 'hybrids' can act as nanoscale memory devices
"A new type of memory device has been made by researchers in the US and Italy by attaching individual viruses to tiny specks of semiconducting material called quantum dots."Respectful Cameras
"... would obscure, with an oval, the faces of people who appear on surveillance videos." Wait, what?Woodward, Mach and Breakthrough Propulsion
"... a vehicle powered by a so-called Mach-Lorentz Thruster [...] could not only make the four lunar trips a day but deliver almost 3000 tons of cargo a year." As long as the theory isn't bu12 Stone Toddler - Does It Scare You?
Album reviewTesla - Real To Reel
Album reviewScientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target for the 21st Century
"Overall, Wood said that a workable plan can be scripted to raise the average temperature of Mars, rid the world of excess carbon dioxide, as well as generate soil to support agriculture." NIt's robot eat robot at the AI zoo
"Nine larger robots interact with visitors by following their movements, making defensive actions or opening their "petals" in response to crowds. The more aggressive robots cut the taiMe, Myself, and I
"Myself and what writer Patricia T. O’Connor calls its self-ish crew (yourself, himself, etc.) shouldn’t take the place of the ordinary pronouns I and me, he and him, and so forth. Learn when toInterstellar Conundrum: Is Stross Right?
Centauri Dreams replies to the recent Charlie Stross essay on space colonisation, and raises some good points. Lively discussion thread also.Call Me Lightning : 'Soft Skeletons'
Album reviewSlaraffenland - Private Cinema
Album review - excellent Danish post-rock, give them a try.Straylight Run - The Needles The Space
Album reviewPierce The Veil - A Flair For The Dramatic
Album reviewYou Are Better Than You Think
"I think as an SEO or webmaster, the largest hurdle you’ll ever face is getting from $0 to $100 in profit every month."Top 10 science fiction novelists of the '00s -- so far
"We are blessed so far this decade with an amazing crop of new science fiction novelists." We are indeed; and I can't think of how I'd have made this list differently, with the exception ofSecond Life Sketches: The Great Fissure
"The Great Fissure represents a slight change in style, and greater ambition, in that the area is designed around a geologic feature, a deep canyon cut through the middle of the sim." My SLThe High Frontier, Redux
Charlie Stross deflates the dreams of space colonisation. I know he's right on almost all points, but .... ah, damn.US troops to scatter crawling Wi-Fi mini-droids
"The idea is that the diminutive, cheap, expendable droids would be scattered about by US troops on foot. They would then link up to form a wireless voice/data network which could penetrate into