“In Moldova, most of the media is controlled by the Communists, the net is one of the only free sources of information where there is no censorship, where you can find out what’s going on. It’s one place where you can feel free.”

“I think that’s why the mobile phone system wasn’t working yesterday. They wanted to stop us communicating by text message,” Ciobanu said.

The Communists appear to have realised the news blackout did not stop information travelling freely.

Moldovans outwit Communists with Twitter

Science recruits weak AIs to finish it’s homework

From WIRED:

In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings.

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CB2 – first true member of the robo-species?

From PhysOrg:

Below the soft silicon skin of one of Japan’s most sophisticated robots, processors record and evaluate information. The 130-cm (four-foot, four-inch) humanoid is…

CB2 – first true member of the robo-species?

warning: you may be a terrorist

(ganked from the horrible walled garden of Facebook)

warning: you may be a terrorist

Samurai Princess

Juncker had said on Tuesday that if Luxembourg were put on any international list of offshore financial centres then Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming should also be named and shamed as tax havens.

Tax haven furious over G20 list