7:54 PM
It is crazy to me that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the horrifically expensive main warplane of the future, has a huge blind spot directly behind it. Pilots that have been flying the F-35 say that the blind spot will get the plane shot down "every time". Critics of the over-budget, behind-schedule F-35 have been pointing out the blind spot by years, but the government and Lockheed have been saying that it is no big deal until now:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/f-35-blind-spot/
Scientists can now more precisely turn off genes, something that has been researched for years because it may enable cells to be reprogrammed to fight cancer, regenerate organs, etc.:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/scientists-can-more-precisely-turn-off.html
Japanese researchers have found a way to produce healthy mouse clones that live a normal lifespan and can be sequentially cloned indefinitely--they have already had 25 consecutive generations of cloning of a single mouse, leading to 581 clones:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/japanese-researchers-have-improved.html
Facebook has a new way to try to make more money--get Facebook users to pay to remove the ads that surround their profile pages:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50057&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Verizon filed a patent for a mobile surveillance system that can track children and the elderly, letting the system know if the owner of the device is in danger:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-patents-mobile-surveillance-system-could-track-children-elderly/2013-03-07
Apple is considering buying their chips from Intel instead of Samsung. That makes sense since Intel desperately wants to get into the mobile chip business and Apple wants to move business away from Samsung--their chief smartphone rival:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apple-could-ditch-samsung-intel-chip-production/2013-03-07
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/f-35-blind-spot/
Scientists can now more precisely turn off genes, something that has been researched for years because it may enable cells to be reprogrammed to fight cancer, regenerate organs, etc.:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/scientists-can-more-precisely-turn-off.html
Japanese researchers have found a way to produce healthy mouse clones that live a normal lifespan and can be sequentially cloned indefinitely--they have already had 25 consecutive generations of cloning of a single mouse, leading to 581 clones:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/japanese-researchers-have-improved.html
Facebook has a new way to try to make more money--get Facebook users to pay to remove the ads that surround their profile pages:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50057&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Verizon filed a patent for a mobile surveillance system that can track children and the elderly, letting the system know if the owner of the device is in danger:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-patents-mobile-surveillance-system-could-track-children-elderly/2013-03-07
Apple is considering buying their chips from Intel instead of Samsung. That makes sense since Intel desperately wants to get into the mobile chip business and Apple wants to move business away from Samsung--their chief smartphone rival:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apple-could-ditch-samsung-intel-chip-production/2013-03-07