Items tagged for circulation in the tech digest.
A team at the University of Washington developed a malaria test on a disposable card small enough to fit into a wallet, with its chemical contents dehydrated so they last for months without refrigeration. The test is printed on a disposable Mylar card.
The inventor of a car slightly wider than a strand of DNA took out a top prize in nanotechnology.
James Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University, won the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology for his nanocar, which is four nanometers across and includes a chassis with an engine, [...]
This is the first of a great 3-part series on finance. Better to laugh than cry.
Medical
Not surprisingly, researchers have established brain tissue loss in high altitude summiters. Now to study politicians.
The milk contamination saga goes on. How did so many people become involved without anyone stopping to ask whether this was ultimately a good thing? Reminds me of sub-prime.
Fifteen more Chinese dairy companies were identified Wednesday as producing [...]
More backlog blogging – tech industry data.
iPhones are twice as reliable as Blackberries and Treos,
SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for [...]
Back from APEC, and Peru, and before I get into all that I’m going to post the backlog of tech snippets I’d collected before I left… (long post)
Futures
The teaser – what do games look like on a 150″ plasma screen… it weighs 1700 lbs, and burns 7KW.
While they are still fresh, here are some immediate thoughts on the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum which I was indeed fortunate to be invited to attend…
First off, it’s pretty clear that ASEAN as a project is a shared journey, not any particular destination. Pulling together a group of 520 million people as diverse as this [...]
The SEC has decided to provide “guidance” (pdf) for Wall Street lawyers on possible lines of argument to take when defending their clients’ pretense that their holdings are still worth more than the going market price.
The determination of fair value often requires significant judgment…
Determining whether a particular transaction is forced or disorderly requires judgment… [...]
A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.
A lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models that can almost be called life… Szostak’s protocells are built from fatty molecules that can trap bits of nucleic acids that [...]
The state of blogging report by technorati says around 1.5 million blogs updated in the last week, 900k in the last 24 hours…
Bloggers have been at it an average of three years and are collectively creating close to one million posts every day. Blogs have representation in top-10 web site lists across all [...]