Science & Technology – Week of 10.27.13

A Bathroom of One’s Own
In These Times | 30 October 2013
In a Kenyan slum, pocket privies offer women safety, autonomy and a way to make a living…

Chaos-On-a-Chip Model Shows Market Bubbles May be Predictable, Controllable
Phys.org | 18 October 2013
It’s an idea financial regulators have dreamed of…

Will Robots Make Farm Work a 24/7 Business?
Robotics Business Review | 01 March 2013
John Deere, Toro and USDA Seek Solutions for $5B Orchard Harvests…

Drones Delivering Pizza? Venture Capitalists Wager on It
Bloomberg | 30 October 2013
Commercial drones will soon be populating U.S. airspace, and venture capitalists like Tim Draper are placing their bets…

United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan
Scientific American | 28 October 2013
Earth is not prepared for the threat of hazardous rocks from space, say astronauts who helped formulate the U.N. measures…

Artificial Intelligence Startup Claims to have Cracked CAPTCHA
Wired | 28 October 2013
In an attempt to take the first step towards building a machine that works like a human brain…

Facebook Wants To Track Your Mouse Cursor
The Huffington Post | 30 October 2012
Facebook has a knack for angering people with its privacy policies…

Google Takes Secrecy to New Heights With Mystery Barge
Reuters | 29 October 2012
How badly does Google want to keep under wraps a mysterious project taking shape on a barge in San Francisco Bay?

Toshiba 4-Legged Nuclear Plant Inspection Robot

YouTube | 21 November 2012
Toshiba unveiled a 4-legged nuclear plant inspection robot…

Cracking the Apple Trap
The New York Times | 29 October 2013
At first, I thought it was my imagination…

Mozilla Lightbeam for Firefox: NSA Spying Row Leads Firm to Expose Who’s Watching While You Surf
Belfast Telegraph | 24 October 2013
Mozilla’s Lightbeam for Firefox, a download produced by the US free software…