A four-year-old startup says it has built an inexpensive battery that can discharge power for days using one of the most common elements on Earth: iron. From a report: Form Energy’s batteries are far too heavy for electric cars. But it says they will be capable of solving one of the most elusive problems facing…

85% of those jobs will be rehired, just in cheaper countries Around 10 per cent of Rackspace staff, predominantly in the US it seems, got an unwelcome email this week informing them they were being let go.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

But this year the shirtless, glossy Tongan taekwondo athlete has competition from Vanuatu. Plus: What’s with the team entrance order? …read more Source:: CNet

A small minority of US drivers account for a disproportionately large percentage of the billions of gallons of gasoline consumed each year. …read more Source:: CNet

Through Our Eyes is out now. …read more Source:: CNet

An unexpectedly vehicular collection of chaos and confusion for your consideration Welcome back for another compendium of tomfoolery from this week for those who enjoy a bit of light-hearted piffle. And let’s face it, who doesn’t?… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Alex Restrepo, cybersecurity researcher at Veritas, lays out the key concepts that organizations should be paying attention to now and implementing today. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The walking bridge took four years of research and 4.9 tons of stainless steel to construct. …read more Source:: CNet

“Software research is a train wreck,” says Hillel Wayne, a Chicago-based software consultant who specialises in formal methods, instancing the received wisdom that bugs are way more expensive to fix once software is deployed. Wayne did some research, noting that “if you Google ‘cost of a software bug’ you will get tons of articles that…

Regular readers will likely be aware of the considerable debate over changes being made to the free and open source audio editor Audacity by the project’s new owners, Muse Group. The company says their goal is to modernize the 20 year old GPLv2 program and bring it to a larger audience, but many in the…