Researchers Can Keylog Your PC Using Your iPhone's Accelerometer →

Researchers at Georgia Tech and MIT have developed a proof of concept to demonstrate that it is possible to record a computer user's keystrokes using an iPhone 4's accelerometer. The researchers developed a method to accurately translate the vibrations from typing on a keyboard picked up by the device's accelerometer when placed on a desk near a PC.

Probably cooler than using the accelerometer as a keylogger on a touchscreen phone as I posted last month.

Branding 10,000 Lakes →

One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Every day.

Impressive endeavor. Possibly my favorite part? Just knowing there's a lake called "Big Ole Lake".

Think Immigrant, Artisan, and Waitress →

Approach the world with the view that nothing is owed you, nothing is given, that you have to make it on your own. Be a person who makes things or provides services with a distinctive touch and flare in which you take personal pride. Leverage what you control to delight the people around you.

The Lecturers' Filibuster →

The University of California last week tentatively agreed to a deal with UC-AFT, the University of California chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, that included a new provision barring the system and its campuses from creating online courses or programs that would result in "a change to a term or condition of employment" of any lecturer without first dealing with the union.

(via Tightwind)

New Hardware Powers Through DNA Tests in Under 3 Minutes →

The Polymerase Chain Reaction, which amplifies specific DNA sequences out of mixtures, has revolutionized molecular biology, enabling DNA-based tests that once took months to be performed in an afternoon. But even an afternoon is pretty slow for some purposes. A team of impatient researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab has now managed to cut the time needed for a PCR reaction down from a few hours to less than three minutes.

How To Bring Good Design To a Platform →

I can think of far, far more companies that "Skip steps 1-3" than those that perform them.

White House Kills Insurance Program for Long-Term Care →

Because the insurance program had been projected to reduce the federal deficit by $86 billion over the next 10 years, terminating it complicates the nation's budget picture.

(via Tightwind)

Speedy Neutrino Mystery Likely Solved, Relativity Relatively Safe After All →

Back in September, physicists ran an experiment where they sent bunches of neutrinos from Switzerland to Italy and measured how long the particles took to make the trip. Over 15,000 experiments, the neutrinos consistently arrived about 60 nanoseconds early, which means 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Einstein's special theory of relativity says this should be impossible: nothing can travel faster than light.

It's now looking as though the faster-than-light result was a fundamental flaw, and appropriately enough, it's a flaw that actually helps to reinforce relativity rather than question it.

The experiment on relativity forgot to take into account the GPS satellites' relativity? Really?