Oliver and Amelia make a bee box

Oliver is five, and has produced this lovely bee box for school. He did the modelling, the painting and some of the soldering, and had lots of help from his very talented big sister Amelia, who is

Robot hands gain a gentler touch: Tactile sensing technology builds on tiny barometer chips

What use is a hand without nerves, that can't tell what it's holding? A hand that lifts a can of soda to your lips, but inadvertently tips or crushes it in the process? Scientists have now developed a

Miracle mix looks like liquid but shatters like glass

WALKING on water is possible - just as long as it contains corn starch. Now it seems this miracle mixture, dubbed oobleck, can also shatter like glass. Knowing how and why could help guide its use in soft body armour and car suspensions.

International Space Station to get 787-style batteries

NASA is pressing ahead with a plan to install lithium-ion batteries on the International Space Station (ISS), New Scientist has learned. The batteries are similar to those used on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft, all 50 of which have been taken out of commercial service worldwide since January following battery fires on two planes.

Sequoia supercomputer transitions to classified work

07:32, Electronics/Hardware The Sequoia supercomputer.The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that its Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has completed its transition to classified computing in support of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, which helps the United States ensure the safety, security and effectiveness of its aging nuclear weapons stockpile without the use of underground testing.

Raspberry Pi colocation

In late February we began giving people the opportunity to colocate their Raspberry Pi in our data center - for free. Now, almost two months later, we have over 400 people making use of the initiative with new signups still coming in daily.

Mobile | Siri Remembers Your Secrets, But for How Long?

Not everyone realizes this, but whenever you use Siri, Apple's voice-controlled digital assistant, she remembers what you tell her. How long does she remember? Apple isn't saying. And the American Civil Liberties Union is concerned. A few years back, pressure from privacy advocates and the European Union forced Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to clear up exactly what they were doing with search data.

Rotating MySQL slow logs safely

This blog post is part two of two. Like part one, published Wednesday, this is a cross

Equipping teens with hands-on approach to robots

Hello, I am Frank Magazu. I am 16 years old and go to school in Pasco, Florida. I make robots with the Arduino and got interviewed by my school district. Here is a video of me. Thanks for helping me become proficient at robotics as well as electronics and programing in general.

Next Evolution of Facebook Platform for Mobile

Today, we are hosting our Mobile Developer Conference in New York City, where we?re introducing the next evolution o

Qt-project.org under Open Governance

Right before Qt Developer Days in Berlin, November 2012, we began discussing with the qt-project.org moderators how to bring rest of the Qt Project into Open Governance. This includes the conte

NASA's Kepler spacecraft to reveal it discovered aliens?

The space agency is announcing new sightings found by the Kepler spacecraft mission. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been in hot pursuit of extraterrestrial life for four years now. And, on Thursday, it's letting people know just what it's found lurking in the Milky Way.

HapiFork: Vibrating novelty or health revolution?

The vibrating fork designed to curb quick bites heads to Kickstarter. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) When HapiFork first debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the brightly-colored, vibrating fork caused a stir, landing press coverage from all over the world, including a mention on The Colbert Report.

MySQL Installer 5.6

MySQL Installer provides an easy to use, wizard-based installation experience for all your MySQL software needs. Included in the product are the latest versions of:

Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Transparent Data Encryption and Native Network Encryption

We have good news to share. Many of you have told us that data encryption, at rest and in transit, is very important to you as you move mission-critical database workloads to Amazon RDS. Today, Ama

Amazon DynamoDB Announces Support for Local Secondary Indexes

We are thrilled to announce that we have expanded the query capabilities of DynamoDB. We call the newest capability Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). While DynamoDB already allows you to perform l

Instagram fan makes a DIY wooden photo-booth

Photographer and Instructables user Alexander Morris created a giant Instagram inspired photo-booth and published all the steps to make one yourself. It's the perfect solution to pimp-up your parties! What's inside of the box?

MySQL Community Server 5.6

MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.

Frog-like robot will help surgeons

Researchers at the University of Leeds are using the feet of tree frogs as a model for a tiny robot designed to crawl inside patients' bodies during keyhole surgery. The tiny device is one of a growing stable of bio-inspired robots being built in the University's School of Mechanical Engineering.

Windows 8 Shows off Silicon Scale at DEMO Mobile in San Francisco

Four very cool apps for Windows 8 made their debut at DEMO Mobile2013 today as teams from as far away as Poland and Australia competed for attention in front of Silicon Valley's leading mobile investors, developers and designers in San Francisco. Two Windows 8 apps launched on stage.