Several neat publications and announcements — can’t wait for Bluetooth 4.1 (and USB 3.1) to make it into consumer gear in the next year.
- Bluetooth SIG gets ready for “Internet of things” with Bluetooth 4.1 from ArsTechnica
- The Latest Artificial Heart: Part Cow, Part Machine from MIT Technology Review
- Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android from The New York Times
- Three New Baby Planet Pictures from Slate
- Ocean-driven heating of Europa’s icy shell at low latitudes from Nature
- Project ranks billions of drug interactions from Nature
- Weird Black Hole’s Incredible Brightness Perplexes Scientists from Space.com
- Magnetic tape to the rescue from The Economist
- Hubble Telescope finds signs of water on five alien planets from NBC News
- Robots and telepresence: Bandwidth-heavy tools invade the business world from ArsTechnica
- How the Bitcoin protocol actually works by Michael Nielsen (lots of technical analysis)
- Why it’s time to lay the selfish gene to rest from Aeon (slightly misleading title, it’s been superceded)
- New Hi-Res Footage Shows Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Like Never Before from io9
- The Moore’s Law blowout sale is ending, Broadcom’s CTO says from IT World (maybe it is, but smart people have been saying this for a decade now)
- Astronomers discover planet that shouldn’t be there from TG Daily
- People “will start becoming technology” says human cyborg from dezeen (maybe a few will this decade)
- Use of ancient lead in modern physics experiments ignites debate from UPI
- Firms race to transmit Wall Street data at nearly light speed from Los Angeles Times (using microwaves, very clever)