Kenneth Tucker

EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free.
Video streaming by Ustream

Newly discovered Majorana particles are scientists’ best chance to create subatomic supercomputers that could store as many pieces of information as there are particles in the universe. The discovery was made by researchers in the Netherlands who say it could be applied to make today’s computer technology obsolete. Reuters’ Jim Drury reports.

CloudFTP is a pocket-size adapter that can turn any USB storage device into a wireless file server, sharing files with WiFi-enabled devices (iPad, iPhone, computer etc.).

Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, exams, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.

more...

F-Secure's analysis offers a method for detecting the unpatched Java vulnerability exploit called Flashback by running the following three commands sequentially in the OS X Terminal utility:

defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

If your system is not infected then the output of these commands will state in part that the domain/default pair "does not exist"

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem launched the updated and expanded Einstein Archives website, at http://www.alberteinstein.info, containing a complete catalog of more than 80,000 documents in the University’s Einstein Archives. This includes more than 40,000 documents contained in Albert Einstein’s personal papers and over 30,000 additional Einstein and Einstein-related documents discovered, since the 1980s, by the Einstein Archives staff and the editors of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

Nevada is now the first state in the U.S. to legalize driverless, autonomous cars. Nevada Assembly Bill No. 511 (PDF) was passed Thursday, authorizing the Department of Transportation to draft a new set of regulations and rules governing self-driving vehicles.

A number of anonymous Google employees are reporting that the company is currently developing Android-powered glasses that can provide a heads-up display to the wearer and connect over wireless data services. The glasses will purportedly work like a wearable version of the Google Goggles app, providing real time information on a user's location via GPS and motion sensors. Even more surprising, the same sources are saying these "Google glasses" could be available to the public by the end of this year.

The device, called MinION, and claims it can sequence simple genomes – like those of some viruses and bacteria – in a matter of seconds. More complex genomes would take longer.

A team of scientists have published a new way of using heat to store data magnetically, which could increase the speed of hard drives over a hundredfold.

One step closer to a direct computer interface that bypasses traditional IO methods.

A tiny revolutionary fold-up car designed in Spain’s Basque country as the answer to urban stress and pollution was unveiled Tuesday before hitting European cities in 2013.

Google plug-in lets you know when you are on a site that supports SOPA

M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.