”Att polisen deltagit var inte sant”.

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have designed a super-thin flexible skin that lights up when touched. 'Thinner than a sheet of paper, the skin is made from layers of plastic and a pressure-sensitive rubber. A conductive silver ink, organic LEDs, and thin-film transistors made from semiconductor-enriched carbon nanotubes are sandwiched between the layers. Applying pressure sends a signal through the rubber that ultimately turns on the LEDs, which light up in red, green, yellow or blue. Instead of using the material to create bodysuits for Burning Man or other illuminated party tricks, scientists suggest that it might be used for smart wallpapers, health-monitoring devices, or in robotics. The type of interactive pressure sensor developed by the Berkeley scientists could also be useful in artificial skin for prosthetic limbs'"

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Daniel_Stuckey writes "Artist Nickolay Lamm, a blogger for MyDeals.com, decided to shed some light on the subject. He created visualizations that imagine the size, shape, and color of wi-fi signals were they visible to the human eye. 'I feel that by showing what wi-fi would look like if we could see it, we'd appreciate the technology that we use everyday,' Lamm told me in an email. 'A lot of us use technology without appreciating the complexity behind making it work.'"

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African Union starts investigation as Sudan and South Sudan level accusations of helping rebels against each other.

French PM says subsequent violence was "unacceptable" and called on everyone to respect the law.

UN says although genital cutting is on decline, female genital mutilation remains "almost universal" in some countries.

En prins har fötts i London, tillkännager det brittiska hovet.

snydeq writes "Stings, penetration pwns, spy games — it's all in a day's work along the thin gray line of IT security, writes Roger A. Grimes, introducing his five true tales of (mostly) white hat hacking. 'Three guys sitting in a room, hacking away, watching porn, and getting paid to do it — life was good,' Grimes writes of a gig probing for vulnerabilities in a set-top box for a large cable company hoping to prevent hackers from posting porn to the Disney Channel feed. Spamming porn spammers, Web beacon stings with the FBI, luring a spy to a honeypot — 'I can't say I'm proud of all the things I did, but the stories speak for themselves.'"

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Using Markdown in Fargo

• As we continue the march through features introduced by the Trex CMS, let's take a look at how Markdown works.
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• Check out this post by our mythical tech evangelist, Kim Parker.
• Note that it's missing all the usual dressing. There's no menu, none of the usual embellishments that come from using a template.
• That's because the type of the post is markdown. When we render that type, we simply pass the text through the markdown processor and display the result.
• Macros still work
• You can put macros and glossary entries in the text, and they will be evaluated.
• Observation
• In this mode, you can think of Fargo as an outline-based content management system for Markdown.
• Combining templates and Markdown
• There's a clever trick that lets you use one of the standard templates or one you create yourself, and still use Markdown in the body of the post. That's done with the method attribute.
• In Kim's second Markdown post, she leaves the type as it was as outline, and adds a method attribute with the value markdown.
• So the body of the post is in markdown, but it's rendered through the outline template.
• Best of both worlds! :-)
• Markdown in feeds
• When Fargo generates your RSS feed, if an item is of type or method markdown, instead of generating hierarchic markup for the description element of the RSS item, we just run the text through the markdown processor.

Head of Catholic Church to attend international youth festival in Rio on his first foreign trip as pontiff.

Prinsparets barn föddes i dag.

Sammanstötningar vid Tahrirtorget.

An anonymous reader writes "Times sure have changed: it is no longer cool to be a fighter pilot. The Pentagon expects to be short some 200 fighter pilots this year, and is projecting that shortfall will increase to 700 pilots by 2021. Various factors seem to be involved: better paying jobs in the commercial sector with more stability, the stress of repeated overseas deployments, and the threat that ultimately the job they trained to do — fly planes — is being superseded by remotely-controlled drones. With demand for commercial aviators heating up as thousands of pilots are expected to reach mandatory retirement age (65) in the next five years, the Air Force is caught in a quandary. Where are they going to get the pilots to fly their shiny new F-35s?"

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