Extremely critical crypto flaw in iOS may also affect fully patched Macs

This is why you don’t use gotos!  (Or switches.)  Mac security has been, well, disabled for a while now.  Patch everything and stay off the Internet for a week.  Of course, your patcher may be spoofed and you wouldn’t know…  Read More…

New 3D Printer by MarkForged Can Print With Carbon Fiber

I’m sorry I said shmedical.  It’s not a word.  And the medical powers of 3D printing are indeed awesome.  I still want a color 3D printer so bad.  Read more…

Stratasys launches multi-material colour 3D printer

Medical shmedical, and I have a house.  Full color 3D printing for games!  Read more…

Contour Crafting

3D printing a house.  I… 3D printing a HOUSE!  I knew 3d printing was going to be cool, but I just wanted it for wargames.  Now it has medical uses that save lives and you can print a HOUSE.  Read more…

10 times more throughput on optic fibers

Here’s another of those breakthroughs that are so cool.  Fiber optic cables are amazing, but if you send through multiple colors they are apparently hella amazing.  Sounds like cell phone tech, actually.  I wrote a paper on that.  Got an A.  Read More…

Chernobyl’s arch: Sealing off a radioactive sarcophagus

Oh yeah.  Chernobyl.  I remember that when I was a kid.  We never, you know… fixed it?  Original stopgap expired in ’06; it wasn’t a surprise.  But yeah, please cap the death-geyser.  Read more…

Will 2D tin be the next super material for chip interconnects?

It is hard to believe how many order-of-magnitude jumps in speed technology has gone through in my life alone.  But it takes a crazy idea (possibly from a hard working student) to break out of the “and this is as fast as it gets” mindset each time.  Replace all of the silicon with tin?  100% transmission efficiency?  Read more…

Smartphone Pin revealed by camera and microphone

This is a good idea for a homework assignment.  Use the camera and accelerometer detect passwords that are being typed in to a phone.  Read More…

Volume of nuclear waste could be reduced by 90 per cent says new research

I remember learning about this tech in Physics 2 in high school.  For twen, err… many years I’ve brought it out in conversations about nuclear power.  Well, it is finally happening.  From what I learned in Sim City, nuclear is a better choice than solar.  But this tech might be coming too late, as even Europe is starting to give up on it.  Read More…

Hated People: You Can Now Buy a $20K Bulletproof Suit

As you can tell from past posts, any time real life becomes a game I tend to freak out a little.  Well, Shadowrun makes the news again with bullet proof dress suits.  Those are a 3/2 if I recall.  A backup choice if worn under a duster, but essential in covert arcology runs.  Read more and roll initiative…