Whistleblower WikiLeaks has registered in media-friendly Iceland its first known legal entity — a business that so far has no office or activity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers have devised a theoretical quantum computer that could function even if one in four quantum bits (qubits) were missing.
With scientists struggling to build devices as large as three qubits, the new method could bring future applications closer by lowering the engineering requirements of a functional machine — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Wall Street Journal posted a story yesterday about the Obama administration’s plan to add a privacy watching task force to evaluate rules on cookies, metacookies, flash cookies and all the other online threats to consumer privacy.
It’s part of a pretty useful section tracking privacy issues, privacy protection tools and the threats thereof from online marketers, from the point of view and on the technical level of a relatively savvy consumer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The house is sited on a high, thin peninsula, affording 270 degree views from South through West to North. The long axis of the house is perpendicular to the axis of the peninsula, aligning it with sunrise and sunset. The main space is open from North to South, with bedrooms behind a wall that angles away toward the South-East, making the space wider at the West end of the house. The effect is akin to a lens opening up to the view across a bay and other islands beyond — via Architecture Blog
Being essentially a set of tritium-filled tubes that are installed on hour markers (1st-11th are green and the 12th is orange) and hour and minute hands, the LLT tubes are very bright significantly increasing watch’s legibility in twilight and tend to serve for as a long as 25 years.
The watch is powered by an inexpensive Ronda 517 Swiss quartz movement, which is built on one jewel, is 26.20 mm in diameter and 3.0 mm thick. Sporting a standard three-hands layout and capable of displaying current day and date, the movement can run for about 45 months before changing the battery and is accurate within -10/ +20 seconds per month — via World Watch Review
Jason Wonder will build you a bike only if you promise you’re really going to ride it. And owner Ricky Powell enjoys his Wonder Customs Rev-2 to the max. It’s a lithe concoction wrapped around a beefy V-Rod motor, and an excellent showcase for Wonder’s fabrication skills — via Bike EXIF
The design is based on the Danish atrium house typology from the 60s and 70s and has an outer brick wall and an inner façade which is mostly glazed. The northern wing contains sleeping quarters and bathrooms; the eastern wing is the living area. The house is penetrated by several lightwells, and lines-of-sight play with the eye as you move through the rooms — via ArchDaily
This project is a spatial dialog between traditional Persian Architecture and aspects of modern architecture. It creates an architectural space through the incorporation of modern architecture tenets with traditional Persian architecture — via ArchDaily
Hacked and malicious sites designed to steal data from unsuspecting users via malware and phishing are a dime a dozen, often located in the United States, and are a key target for takedown by ISPs and security researchers. But when online miscreants seek stability in their Web projects, they often turn to so-called bulletproof hosting
providers, mini-ISPs that specialize in offering services that are largely immune from takedown requests and pressure from Western law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mozilla have released the latest Beta of their Firefox 4 browser for Windows. Beta 7 is being billed as pretty much what will be released as version 4 in the first part of 2011, although it does seem that they are planning a beta 8 and 9 in the next few months. However, word out of Mozilla is that nothing fundamentally new will be added to the release version, and nothing present in this Beta will be removed — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
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