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Source: engadget

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Source: CNET

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Source: Gizmodo

Source: http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2008/06/12/lights-camera-glassaction/

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliica

The Eliica (or the Electric Lithium-Ion Car) is a battery electric vehicle prototype, or concept car designed by a team at Keio University in Tokyo, led by Professor Hiroshi Shimizu. The 5.1 metre (16.7 feet) car runs on a lithium-ion battery and can accelerate from 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in four seconds. In 2004, the Eliica reached a speed of 370 km/h (230 mph) on Italy’s Nardo High Speed Track. The team’s goal is to exceed 400 km/h (248 mph), breaking the record set by today’s street-legal gasoline-powered vehicles.

The Eliica weighs in at 2400 kg (5291 lbs) and seats the driver and three passengers. The body was tested in a wind tunnel. The front doors open forward and the rear doors open upward like wings. The car’s platform contains 4 tracks of 80 batteries, which make up one third of the vehicle’s cost. They currently require about 10 hours of recharging from empty to full charge, and can be easily charged off of a residential power grid.

The car has eight wheels enabling it to be closer to the ground for better traction. Each of the wheels has a 60 kW (80 hp) electric motor, giving a 480 kW (640 hp) eight wheel drive which can tackle all kinds of road surfaces. The four front wheels steer. The electric motors mean that the Eliica can deliver a smooth acceleration free from gear shifts of about 0.8 g. Each wheel contains a disc brake and employs a regenerative brake system to recover energy.

There are currently (as of 2005) two versions of the Eliica: a Speed model and an Acceleration model. The Speed model is made to challenge gasoline-based records and has a top speed of 370 km/h (230 mph) with a range of 200 km (125 miles). The Acceleration model is made for the street and has a top speed of 190 km/h (118 mph) with a range of 320 km (198 miles).

The estimated cost of development was in excess of US$320,000. Once the team receives corporate sponsorship, they plan to produce at least 200 units. As of early 2007, the projected pricetag was ¥30,000,000, or about $255,000 US.

On December 19, 2005, the Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi tested this vehicle in a 10-minute ride to the Parliament. In 2006, the car was tested by Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo, as well as by the Crown Prince Naruhito.

Found this article at danny’s, very cool place, I’ll visit it for sure next time I’m in Japan

http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1498/Kawagoe.html

Source: Dailytech

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Another reason not to use and trust this failure of an OS.
If you are interested, here’s information and tools to exploit this bug: http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl/

A simple programming error reduced the entropy in the generated program keys created by the OpenSSL library.

Just two lines of code created crippling security holes in four different open source operating systems, 25 application programs, and millions of internet-attached computer systems.  The vulnerability was publicly discovered for the first time May 13, after having left the door open nearly two years.

The error reduced the number of keys that Linux can generate from 2^128 to approximately 2^15. Fixing the key problem is not as simple as fixing a buffer overflow vulnerability, another typical security flaw. As the keys generated our actual files, merely patching the system will not change these files. Every single key will need to be replaced in a difficult and time consuming process. Further keys need to be certified and distributed, which takes more time and is error prone.

The Valgrind code caused errors, so the programmers simply commented out all the code, including the other methods of generating randomness on accident. Only the code which utilized the process ID, an integer ranging from 0 to 32,767, remained to provide randomness.

One developer more alarmingly points out that the vulnerability has showed a perhaps fatal flaw in the state of the open source industry and in the computer security in general. One programmer can make a major change which can be blindly accepted by other developers with little understanding of the implications.

Source: BBCNews

An injection of stem cells has been used to cure mice with a normally fatal nervous system condition.

The therapy which helped repair faulty nerve wiring raises hopes of treatments for children with rare and deadly nervous leukodystrophy disorders.

Source: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap

Article explaining how to use videocard memory for swap in Linux.

Source: Dailytech

A new material composed of nanowires may aid pollution cleanup and water filtration.

Source: Dailytech

IBM scientists say stacked processors have higher power densities than nuclear reactors

Source: Japantoday

TOKYO —

Seven people died and 10 others were injured after a man hit pedestrians with a truck and then went on a stabbing rampage Sunday in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo’s busy Akihabara district, a popular electronics area and a magnet for comic and animation fans.

Police arrested the man, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato from Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, on the street and seized a survival knife he was carrying. He admitted to stabbing people with the knife from around 12:30 p.m., police said. The truck was rented in Shizuoka Prefecture.

‘‘I came to Akihabara to kill people,’’ investigative sources quoted Kato as telling the police. ‘‘I am tired of the world. Anyone was OK. I came alone.’’

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