by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, TECHNOLOGY
from the mr.-fusion dept. If Joseph Zawodny, a senior scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, is correct, the future of energy may lie in a nuclear reactor small enough and safe enough to be installed where the home water heater once sat. Using weak nuclear...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS, TECHNOLOGY
from the gonna-ask-you-to-come-in-on-saaaaaturday dept. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reported and tweeted that Marissa Mayer (CEO since July 2012) has just sent an all-hands email ending Yahoo’s policy of allowing remote employees. Hundreds of workers have...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | LAW, TECHNOLOGY
from the commons-problem dept. Some two million people have bought cell-phone wireless signal boosters and have been using them to get better communication between their phones and distant cell towers. But now, the FCC says they all have to turn their boosters off and...