My friend +Alex Nunez rides along for a couple of hot laps in the new Ford Police Interceptor
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Wish I was going to be in DC, would love to see this
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Space Shuttle Discovery to fly over Washington, DC
NASA: NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the…
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I love tech and cars but I think a flying car or more accurately "roadworthy" plane is probably not something we really need. What do you think?
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Hubble Captures View of 'Mystic Mountain' | HH 901 and HH 902 in the Carina Nebula
This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks.
This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth.
Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of hot ionized gas can be seen flowing off the ridges of the structure, and wispy veils of gas and dust, illuminated by starlight, float around its towering peaks. The denser parts of the pillar are resisting being eroded by radiation much like a towering butte in Utah's Monument Valley withstands erosion by water and wind.
Nestled inside this dense mountain are fledgling stars. Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions off the pedestal at the top of the image. Another pair of jets is visible at another peak near the center of the image. These jets (known as HH 901 and HH 902, respectively) are the signpost for new star birth. The jets are launched by swirling disks around the young stars, which allow material to slowly accrete onto the stars' surfaces.
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on Feb. 1-2, 2010. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulfur (red).
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Explanation of the image from: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/image/a/
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The company must either give up on its pathologically secretive, central command ways or it's going to have acknowledge security as an issue and dramatically expand its efforts to detect and correct issues.
So far it hasn't really done either one and the longer it maintains the status quo, the greater the risk to the company's user base.
#applesecurity
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Apple fumbles security firm’s attempts to monitor Flashback
Security firm Dr. Web is credited with understanding the scope of Flashback, the Mac botnet malware making the news. But Apple has gotten in the company's way…
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For those interested in hearing more of Larry Burns' thoughts on the future of transportation, check out this great presentation he did a couple of years ago.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114133424228405038490/posts/TbqytJ8zauW
#larryburns #reinventingtheautomobile #autonomousvehicles
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Until his retirement in 2009, Larry Burns was SVP of research and development for +General Motors for 11 years where he led a team that worked on all kinds of really cool technology. Larry oversaw development on tech as ranging from robotics to fuel cells to autonomous vehicles and I was lucky enough to chat with him on a number of occasions.
GM has been researching semi and fully autonomous vehicles since at least the early 1990s and in 2007 a fully autonomous Chevy Tahoe built by GM and Carnegie Mellon University won the DARPA Urban Challenge. I was lucky enough to ride shotgun in "Boss" at CES in 2008 as it magically avoided obstacles in the parking lot of the Las Vegas convention center.
Following that victory Burns and director of advanced technology vehicle concepts Christopher Borroni-Bird turned their attention scaling down the technology to create personal urban mobility vehicles that debuted as the EN-V concepts during the 2010 Shanghai world expo.
Burns, Borroni-Bird and William Mitchell wrote a book on their ideas called Reinventing the Automobile that among other things looks at how cars can evolve to become more compatible with increasingly crowded urban environments in the 21st century. Smaller footprint vehicles that can drive and park themselves and be shared will likely be a big part of providing point-to-point personal mass transit in the coming years.
http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Automobile-Personal-Mobility-Century/dp/0262013827/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334063568&sr=1-8
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Self-driving vehicles, once thought to be a thing far in the future, will be available by 2020, Larry Burns, former head of r&d at General Motors, said today. Speaking at the U…
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