News Bytes for 6/29/2009
Follow-up: Investigators suspect computer problems on doomed Air France Airbus jet
Follow-up: Bozeman, MT backs down and apologizes over request for job applicants’ personal social media account info
Follow-up: China not backing off on requirement for “Green Dam” filtering software on all PCs sold there, despite leaking of the software’s source code to Wikileaks
Associated Press issues strict Facebook, Twitter guidelines to staff
US Court of Appeals Judge thinks linking to copyrighted material should be illegal
Email patterns may be able to predict impending corporate doom
Financial shenanigans have officially wiped out any/all gains in economic productivity made from digital technologies since 1965
Adam Savage charged $11k for a few hours of web surfing using phone in Canada
US electric car company Tesla scores $425 million in DOE low-interest loans, but may make play to become supplier of electric powertrains only
Wind power has the potential to yield 23x the current energy needs of the US
Scientists in Berkeley, CA working on non-volatile digital memory built to last a thousand years
Researchers expand clinical study of neural interface brain implant
New lithium battery delivers 10x the energy density of today’s rechargeables
If you want results, talk in a person’s right ear
Pre-corrupted Word files now being sold to students who need more time on assignments
Twitter, circa 1935
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