Technically speaking, in computer architecture, 32-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are at most 32 bits (4 octets) wide. Bill Gates at one point in time said that „we will never make a 32-bit operating system“, and that didn’t quite go as planned, but for the better.
Objective Europa is basically a group, led by Kristian von Bengtson, that is in the early planning stages of sending astronauts to Jupiter’s moon Europa to look for life. One caveat: the trip is one-way with no hope of return at the end of the mission.
This is different from the Mars One idea of sending volunteers to the Red Planet as colonists without a return ticket, and paying for their upkeep by featuring the settlers on a reality show. Objective Europa appears to be purely self-sacrifice in the name of science.
The main reason for this extraordinary project is to look for life elsewhere in the Solar System. Especially after recent findings on Mars, Europa looks to be the most logical candidate for finding life in our Solar System.
Official Source: http://www.gizmag.com/objective-europa/29132/
A loggerhead turtle named „Yu“ lost her front flippers in 2008, but since then she’s gone through 27 prosthetic fins swimming around her new home at Suma Aqualife Park near Kobe in Japan.
ABC News reports that while there have been various attempts to fit turtles with prosthetic limbs around the world, Yu is the only turtle to enjoy swimming using her rubber limbs without any problems.
The 200-pound female turtle wears a black vest to which the rubber flippers are attached, after aquarium staff had previously tried other versions, which squeezed her stumps and caused her discomfort.
Yu has become a tourist attraction and is thought to be approximately 25-years-old, but she could live to over 50 years of age.
Official Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2429860/Swimming-turtle-RUBBER-flippers-lost-fins-vicious-shark-attack.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElQjSH30Js
Researchers at Cornell University and Germany’s University of Ulm discovered the world’s thinnest sheet of glass by accident while attempting to manufacture graphene. That’s right, the researchers noticed „what they called ‚muck‘ on the substance they were attempting to create, so they took a closer look.“
That look revealed something that wasn’t supposed to be there, something that had never before existed (at least, not to our knowledge). But thanks to a small air leak in their equipment, there was glass – glass that’s two atoms thick, making it the thinnest glass known to man.
In 1932 a physicist named William Houlder attempted to map out the arrangement of glass molecules, and though he came close, he never managed to pull it off. Yet this laboratory accident has allowed researchers to produce the exact arrangement of the atoms in glass via electron microscopy.
Official Source: http://www.dvice.com/2013-9-13/scientists-accidentally-discover-worlds-thinnest-glass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAMZPXhxBxo&feature=player_embedded#t=0
It’s finally official, NASA’s Voyager 1 has left the solar system and entered interstellar space. Approximately 36-years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered probe is more than 11 1/2 billion miles from the sun, cruising through what scientists call interstellar space – the vast, cold emptiness between the stars, NASA said.
Voyager 1 will now study exotic particles and other phenomena in a never-before-explored part of the universe and radio the data back to Earth, where the Voyager team awaits the starship’s discoveries.
The interstellar ambassador also carries a gold-plated disc containing multicultural greetings, songs and photos, just in case it bumps into an intelligent species.
Official Source: http://geekologie.com/2013/09/go-go-go-voyager-1-has-reached-interstel.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2419353/Voyager-1-leaves-solar-enters-interstellar-space.html
After 10 days and 93 bids, an historic server used to host Wikileaks’ treasure trove of secret documents has sold on eBay — to a 17-year-old who used his dad’s email account without permission.
Swedish ISP Bahnhof, which had hosted Wikileaks for about eight months starting back in 2010,decided to sell the server last week, hoping to raise money for two charities: Reporters Without Borders and the 5th of July Foundation, a digital rights group.
The winning bid was $33,000. But according to Bahnhof CEO John Karlung, soon after the auction closed this morning, he got a message from the buyer, saying he wants to back out of the deal. His son bought the item without his knowledge or permission.
According to eBay’s records, the boy initially bid $10,200 for the server, back on September 7. He then bid seven more times as the auction heated up.
After it was unplugged in June 2011, the server — a Dell Poweredge R410 worth maybe $4,000 — had served as a conversation piece in a bar in one of Bahhof’s Stockholm data centers. Bahnhof has wiped the data from it and is selling it as a historical curiosity.
Wikileaks — which wasn’t in line to benefit from the auction — was no fan of the sale, saying that Bahnhof had exaggerated the role played by the server, and that the Swedish ISP “did not seek permission to auction the WikiLeaks server or to use it for marketing purposes, or to send the proceeds to others.”
The server was one of several used to host the Iraq War Logs, but was never a primary server, Wikileaks said.
“We do not support Bahnhof exploiting the privacy and good name of their clients for marketing purposes,” the whistle-blowing outfit said via Twitter last week.
Wikileaks never actually owned the box. They rented it from Bahnhof.
Karlung wouldn’t identify the buyer, saying he wanted to preserve his privacy. But he put us in touch with the unlucky server-winner. He says he’s an industrial maintenance worker who lives just outside of Lisbon. He forwarded us the messages he sent Karlung after his son won the auction.
“My son is 17 years old and is crazy about conspiracy theory,” the winner wrote to Karlung.
In an email interview, the forlorn winner said that he was “speechless” when he learned about his son’s purchase. But they haven’t had time to talk yet. “A more serious conversation will be tomorrow,” he said.
The number-two bidder now gets a shot at owning a piece of history — for $32,900. Lucky them — provided their bid is legit.
Official Source + Pictures: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/teen-wikileaks/?mbid=social11865724
Not everyone who wants plastic surgery can afford it, but now some of those people are able to slip on a Uniface Mask by Chinese designer Zhuoying Li. Simply put, „the science team behind this unique beauty product has developed ‚bionic-skin‘ technology to produce a human-skin-like mask, which is extremely thin and breathable through its pores.“
Once applied, Uniface stays on and becomes your everyday face. According to the product site, the glue adheres to human skin and can only be removed at professional clinics, by Uniface experts.
If you experience any kind of discomfort or if for any reason you want the mask removed during the first month after purchase, the company’s science team will remove it free of charge. After the trial period has expired, users will need to pay a removal fee of $59.
Official Source: LINK
Always wanted to created real 3D models from flat 2D pictures? If so, then „3 Sweep“ is just for you. Users will not only be able to „just extract them, but then manipulate them, transform them, copy them, and move them around the image.“
You get the feeling that this is still in its early developmental stages, so there are some visible limitations. But in terms of what it’s capable already, we’ve never seen anything like it.
If Adobe doesn’t have their eye on these guys, they’re making a big mistake.
Official Source: LINK