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Submission + - Syrian Cyber-Activist Bassel Khartabil Confirmed Executed

Submitted by TheSync on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:19PM

TheSync writes: The Syrian open source developer, blogger, entrepreneur, hackerspace founder, and free culture advocate Bassell Khartabil was swept up in a wave of military arrests in March 2012. A CBC report states that his wife wrote on Facebook late Tuesday that she has received confirmation that security services executed Khartabil in October 2015 after torturing him in prison. Before his arrest, his most recent work before being included a 3D virtual reconstruction of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.

Submission + - Cuba's Internet Routing is Messed Up

Submitted by TheSync on Friday October 30, 2015 @07:55PM

TheSync writes: "During their study, Bustamante and Bischof found that when a person in Havana searched for a topic on Google, for example, the request traveled through the marine cable to Venezuela, then through another marine cable to the United States, and finally landed at a Google server in Dallas, Texas. When the search results traveled back, it went to Miami, Florida, up to the satellite, and then back to Cuba. While the information out of Cuba took 60-70 milliseconds, it took a whopping 270 milliseconds to travel back."

Submission + - "Cosmos" remake coming to FOX in 2014 1

Submitted by TheSync on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @02:06AM

TheSync writes: The long-awaited remake of Carl Sagan's amazing "Cosmos" series, "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey", will be coming to FOX television next year. It will star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Surprisingly, Seth MacFarlane of "Family Guy" fame is an executive producer. MacFarlane was introduced to Carl Sagan's widow Ann Druyan by deGrasse Tyson, and MacFarlane helped them pitch the show to FOX executives.

Submission + - NY AG Subpoena's Craigslist for Post-Sandy Price Gougers (nypost.com)

Submitted by TheSync on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:54PM

TheSync writes: In the wake of Hurrican Sandy, the New York State Attorney General has subpoenaed Craigslist, demanding that the site identify more than 100 sellers whose prices on post-Sandy gas, generators and other supplies were of an “unconscionably excessive price” during an emergency. AG Eric Schneiderman said: “Our office has zero tolerance for price gouging [and] will do everything we can to stop unscrupulous individuals from taking advantage of New Yorkers trying to rebuild their lives."

Submission + - BSkyB to Launch 3D TV Service in 2010 (guardian.co.uk)

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on Thursday July 30, 2009 @08:38PM

TheSync writes: "The Guardian reports that BSkyB will launch Europe's first 3D TV service in 2010. You will need the Sky+ HD set-top box, and a "3D ready" TV set (glasses-based stereoscopic system such as LCD shutter glasses or polarized glasses). Note that the first 3D TV service was from Nippon BS Broadcasting BS11 for use with Hyundai 3D sets."

Submission + - "Definitive evidence" for ancient lake on (eurekalert.org)

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on Thursday June 18, 2009 @04:07PM

TheSync writes: "Eurekalert reports on "definitive evidence" for an ancient water lake on Mars. A UC Boulder research team has discovered evidence of a shoreline on Mars of a 3 billion year-old lake 80 square miles in area and 1,500 feet deep (roughly the equivalent of Lake Champlain). Images came from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Water carved a 30-mile-long canyon that opened up into a valley and forming a large delta during a time when Mars is generally believed to have been cold and dry. The lack of additional, lower shorelines, shows that the lake dried up very quickly."

Submission + - First Images of Memories Being Made (eurekalert.org)

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TheSync

on Thursday June 18, 2009 @03:59PM

TheSync writes: "Eurekalert reports that researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill and UCLA have captured the first image of protein translation that underlies long-term memory formation. A fluorescent protein showed the increased local protein synthesis during memory formation, which requires cooperation between the pre and post-synaptic compartments of the two neurons that meet at the synapse."

Submission + - No Free Broadband 100 Years Ago (Pneumatic Tubes) (divisionoflabour.com)

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TheSync

on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @01:41PM

TheSync writes: "Division of Labor blogs on a report written 100 years ago by a commission appointed by the Postmaster General that came to the conclusion "That it is not feasible and desirable at the present time for the Government to purchase, to install, or to operate pneumatic tubes." The original NYT article is here. If only we had gotten the free government Intertubes in 1908!"

Submission + - Consumer 3D Television Moving Forward (hollywoodreporter.com)

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TheSync

on Monday July 21, 2008 @01:34PM

TheSync writes: "The Hollywood Reporter claims that SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) will "establish an industry task force to define the parameters of a mastering standard for 3D content distributed via broadcast, cable, satellite, packaged media and the Internet, and played-out on televisions, computer screens and other tethered displays." Already Japanese Nippon BS viewers with Hyundai 3D LCD sets can watch an hour of 3D programming daily. Even your existing DLP TV set might be 3D capable today with the addition of LCD shutter glasses."

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