Heritage Black Bay Big Crown / Tudor

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23 February 2012
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Consider the new Tudor Heritage Black Bay (Ref.79220R) 99% official now — though you’ll have to wait until Baselworld 2012 (March) for the official nod. Unlike its big brother Rolex, Tudor has been having some fun in recent years with its Heritage collection and this seems to be a continuation of the same spirit.

41mm steel case, Big Crown, gilt dial, snowflake hands, convex glass, automatic mechanical movement, on bracelet or leather strap with folding clasp, additional fabric strap with buckle — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog

Construction firm aims at space elevator in 2050

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23 February 2012
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It may be possible to travel to space in an elevator as early as 2050, a major construction company has announced.

Obayashi, headquartered in Tokyo, on Monday unveiled a project to build a gigantic elevator that would transport passengers to a station 36,000 kilometres above the Earth.

For the envisaged project, the company would utilise carbon nanotubes, which are 20 times stronger than steel, to produce cables for the space elevator.

The idea of space elevators has been described in several science-fiction novels. Obayashi, however, believes it is possible to construct one in the real world thanks to carbon nanotubes, which were invented in the 1990s, the company said — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Wi-Fi Passpoint standard could end hotspot sign-on hassles

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23 February 2012
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The Wi-Fi Alliance will launch a program to simplify the use of Wi-Fi hotspots in July, making it easier for both users and mobile operators to get off strained cellular networks.

Users of smartphones, tablets, cameras and other Wi-Fi-equipped devices will be able to get onto hotspots without entering usernames or passwords, the group said in a white paper released on Tuesday. The paper outlined the program, called Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint, and said the first phase of certification tests will begin in July. A second phase beginning next year will add more features — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Clocktower Apartment / Minimal USA

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23 February 2012
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When it comes to conversions — particularly ones with sweeping views — it is hard to beat the minimalist approach, letting context and background speak for themselves.

And so it is with this project by Minimal USA, a partial renovation in DUMBO on the waterfront, in the most luxurious residence the area has to offer (valued at 25 million dollars).

The building and tower itself date back to 1915, with the top later converted into a whopping 6500-square-foot loft that looks out in all directions — via Dornob

Cut Paper Pendants / Jessica Jones

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23 February 2012
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I created a design in Adobe Illustrator, cut a dozen shapes out of cardstock using my Silhouette cutting machine, and glued them into a stack. When the glue dries, the pendant is hard and strong. Each of these is about 2″ tall and 1/8″ thick. See here for a slightly more detailed how-to — via How About Orange

Access Your Computer From Afar This Weekend

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22 February 2012
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So you’re out of the house for the weekend, and you’ve brought your trusty laptop with you, but you need something from your home machine. Here are a ton of different ways you can get to your home computer from anywhere, whether you just need a few files or full, unfettered access — via Lifehacker

HR 1981: SOPA Author Lamar Smith’s New Internet Surveillance Bill Intensifies Threats to Online Privacy

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22 February 2012
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Following the massive world-wide protests over the Internet in January, the infamous SOPA and PIPA are mostly dead with the author Lamar Smith saying he won’t take the bill up in committee until a wider agreement on a solution is reached.

While people have been celebrating the victory over SOPA and PIPA, here’s what has managed to slip by relatively unobserved, until now.

A bill, titled HR 1981, Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, is being sponsored by Lamar Smith and is considered to be a wide-ranging Internet surveillance bill with many other domineering attempts by the government to invade privacy and control the Internet.

According to David Seaman, a prominent new media advocate, the bill has been named thus so that politicians in the House and Senate are strong-armed into voting for it, even though it contains utterly insane 1984-style Big Brother surveillance provisions — via redwolf.newsvine.com

SNN221 / Seiko

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22 February 2012
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The Seiko SNN221 has a reliable quartz movement, hardlex crystal, water resistance to 100m, and what looks to be generous lume on the hands. Of course, here, we also have the addition of a simpler chronograph complication.

The subdial at 12 o’clock registers the minutes tracked (up to 60); the other subdial (at 6 o’clock) registers the elapsed seconds. The last remaining feature on the dial would be the date display at 3 o’clock, and it blends in perfectly with the dial. You’ve got a 42mm stainless steel case (12mm thick) paired up with a 22mm bracelet — via Wrist Watch Review

Mexico violence: taxi drivers gunned down in Monterrey

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22 February 2012
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Five taxi-drivers have been shot dead in the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico, the authorities say.

Gunmen with assault rifles fired on the drivers as they waited for passengers at a taxi-rank in the mid-morning.

The motive for the attack is not known, but it is thought they may have been targeted by criminal gangs who extort money from local businesses — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs

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22 February 2012
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After creating the Decaptcha software to solve audio CAPTCHAs, Stanford University’s researchers modified it and turned it against text and, quite recently, video CAPTCHAs with considerable success. Video CAPTCHAs have been touted by their developer, NuCaptcha, as the best and most secure method of spotting bots trying to pass themselves off as human users. Unfortunately for the company, researchers have managed to prove that over 90 percent of the company’s video CAPTCHAs can be decoded by using their Decaptcha software in conjunction with optical flow algorithms created by researchers in the computer vision field of study — via Slashdot

Hrdlicka House / Durbach Block Jaggers

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22 February 2012
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Conceived of as a peninsular jutting out from the circulation box abutting the slope, the planar inflection of the space opens to the shimmering expanse of harbour towards Sydney Heads. Essentially a strip of terraced hillside hemmed in by glazed piles sporting steeply retained pools and patios that exploit Sydney’s premier views, the Hrdlicka House [Durbach Block Jaggers] seems unduly modest in siting and compactness — via ArchDaily

Pancreatic cancer: Trial drug MRK003 shows promise

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21 February 2012
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Scientists say they may have found a new weapon against pancreatic cancer after promising early trial results of an experimental drug combination.

Giving the chemotherapy agent gemcitabine with an experimental drug called MRK003 sets off a chain of events that ultimately kills cancer cells, studies in mice show.

Patients are now testing the treatment to see if it will work for them.

The Cancer Research UK-funded trials are being carried out in Cambridge — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Rio’s biggest pink diamond gets the cut

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21 February 2012
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The biggest pink diamond ever found by mining giant Rio Tinto is being cut and polished in a painstaking 10-day process.

The 12.76 carat gem to be known as the Argyle Pink Jubilee was found at Rio Tinto’s Argyle mine in the remote east Kimberley region of Western Australia, which produces more than 90 per cent of the world’s supply of pink diamonds.

The gem is being cut and polished as a single stone by Richard How Kim Kam, who has worked for the company for 25 years — via redwolf.newsvine.com

How Tigers Got Their Stripes

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21 February 2012
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Researchers from King’s College, London, have proven that tiger stripes are formed because of morphogens — a substance secreted by group of cells.

In 1950, Alan Turing, a famous code-breaker and mathematician suggested that repetitive patterns in biological systems were generated by a pair of morphogens that worked together as an activator and inhibitor, of each cell.

Turing suggested the combined activity of these two morphogens were the reasons why some animals had stripes… and some spots.

The researchers sought to test theory on lab mice — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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