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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.

Paul Baran

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...

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