Swiss scientists should expect to find a desire for cheese HPE has sold an SGI 8600 supercomputer system to a Lausanne-based research institute for the Blue Brain Project’s modelling of a mouse brain’s thalamus and neocortex.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Watch the little pixelated Glover do the dance from his viral music vid. …read more Source:: CNet

Cops may have a hard time cracking your iPhone after this. …read more Source:: CNet

Our long breakfast nightmare is over. …read more Source:: CNet

The 4-mile-long iceberg made quite an exit. …read more Source:: CNet

Advocates of “data as labour” think users should be paid for using online services. An anonymous reader shares a report: Labour, like data, is a resource that is hard to pin down. Workers were not properly compensated for labour for most of human history. Even once people were free to sell their labour, it took…

Many different projects started with the same thought: “That’s really expensive… I wonder if I could build my own for less.” Success is rewarded with satisfaction on top of the money saved, but true hacker heroes share their work so that others can build their own as well. We are happy to recognize such generosity…

It only affects cars sold in Japan, not the US. …read more Source:: CNet

A silicon-nanowire thermoelectric generator has been developed by a team of researchers from Waseda University, Osaka University, and Shizuoka University. From a report: According to the Japanese researchers, this experimentally demonstrated a high-power density of 12 microwatts per 1cm2, enough to drive sensors or realise intermittent wireless communication, at a small thermal difference of only…

Assemble Systems is focused on the BIM and construction data management space. …read more Source:: ZDNet