L’un des créateurs d’internet est mort, Paul Baran avait 84 ans
Un des homme qui auront révolutionné la face du monde et rendues possibles tant de choses, des LOLcats à la révolution du jasmin et wikileaks en passant par votre nouvelle vie sur Facebook et Twitter, s’est éteint aujourd’hui à 84 ans des suites d’un cancer du poumon d’après The New York Times. Retour sur les contributions de Paul Baran à ce réseau presque magique qu’est internet.
Un réseau répartit
La création de l’Internet est généralement attribuée au développement d’un réseau de l’armée américaine appelé ARPANET qui fût le premier réseau à transfert de paquets développé aux États-Unis par la...
The Pentagon's Bogus Bomb-Zapper: A Love Story
For years, Pentagon officials and the president blasted journalists for disclosing details about a miracle weapon that could destroy improvised explosive devices with bolts of man-made lightning. The accusers conveniently neglected to mention that the weapon never really worked.
A new report reveals just how lame the lightning weapon was — and how the technology lives on, despite a gaggle of failed tests.
The builders of the golf cart-sized “Joint IED Neutralizer,” or JIN, convinced the Pentagon to give it $30 million on the promise that it could use short-pulse lasers to carve conductive cha...
Bananas Could Make Cars Leaner, Greener
Updated: Additional information from Alcides Leão was added to this story March 28 at 8:05 p.m. EDT.
Researchers are going bananas in the quest to build cleaner, greener cars.
Brazilian scientists have developed a way of using fibers from bananas, pineapples and other plants to create plastic that is stronger and lighter than the petroleum-based stuff. So-called nanocellulose fibers rival Kevlar in strength but are renewable, and the researchers believe they could be widely used within a couple of years.
“The properties of these plastics are incredible,” Alcides Leão, a researcher at Sao Paulo St...