<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : technology : Popular Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://tech.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : technology : Popular Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://tech.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Koreans make plastics without fossil fuel chemicals]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/135950/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Smoke If You Have A Mac]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/135944/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Apple is voiding warranties of Mac laptops that need repair with traces of cigarette smoke.<br/><br/>*Another reason to quit*]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/135706/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I'm touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Prudence, I'm a mac, and he's a pc]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/135647/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;I recently married my dream husband. We have incredible chemistry and a shared commitment to each other. When we disagree, we settle our differences by balancing logic and gut feelings. That is, until we came to our disagreement on which laptop I should buy to replace my Mac PowerBook...&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook is an Alibi]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/135628/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Imagine if the most important sentence you ever wrote was a Facebook status update that goes something like this: &quot;ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK......WHERER MY IHOP.&quot; Now you know how it feels to be 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who used that all-caps message to keep himself out of prison.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Internet, nobody  knows you're a dog]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/135529/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Posting online comments under multiple aliases is apparently against the law, at least in the case of Raphael Haim Golb, 49, who is suspected of using 50 different e-mail addresses and monikers &#8212; some of the names belonging to academic rivals &#8212; to bolster his arguments about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To Use Your Hand As A Ruler]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134889/1/</link><description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever needed to measure the width of a box but have no ruler, here&#8217;s a handy (literally) tip.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ The Internet is about to die. Literally die!]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134721/1/</link><description><![CDATA[One research group continues to claim that the &quot;sky is falling&quot; on the Internet thanks to high data growth rates and that network neutrality means the whole Internet could just &quot;go away.&quot; Ars sifts through the hyperbole looking for a kernel of truth.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sky Tran]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134614/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Possibly the coolest new mode of public transportation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing the Blade-Free Fan]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134558/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the future.<br/>f**k Jetpacks.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Returns to the Moon- and doesn't Stop There!*]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134331/1/</link><description><![CDATA[*Because they're planning to crash into it.<br/><br/>This is happening Friday, 6:15am EST; you're supposed to be able to see it with a telescope!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robo-pop]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134189/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This Robot's Got Talent!<br/><br/>The amazing humanoid can sing songs by using brilliant new electronic voice technology.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[US spontaneous human combustion raygun ]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134132/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Flying frying machine gives car a nasty burn.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 150,000 Dollar Homework]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/134004/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Amazon settled a lawsuit over a teenager's homework, which was lost during the infamous <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/128311/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">deletion</a> of Orwell's <i>1984</i> e-book from all Kindle&#8482; devices, by paying a ridiculous amount of money.<br/>Personally, I think even in college I never submitted any homework that was worth more than 50 bucks.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judge saves thousands by allowing someone to testify via Skype instead of flying to New York.]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133689/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A Queens judge solved the problem of a civil trial that involved a plaintiff in India by simply having the man testify yesterday using the Internet telephone/video provider Skype, saving thousands in costs and days of people's time.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133616/1/</link><description><![CDATA[IT LOOKS inconsequential enough, the faint little spot moving leisurely across the sky. The mountain-top telescope that just detected it is taking it very seriously, though. It is an asteroid, one never seen before.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133438/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of almost $1.2 billion, set sail this week with a slew of show-off features, from two helipads, two swimming pools and six-foot movie screens in all guest cabins, to a mini-submarine and missile-proof windows to combat piracy and, an anti-paparazzi &#8220;shield&#8221;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric superbike smashes speed record by breaking through 150mph mark]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133371/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An electric superbike has broken a land speed record by bursting though the 150mph mark .<br/>The zero-emissions Mission One ridden by Jeremy Cleland became the fastest electric-powered vehicle when it hit an average speed of 150.059mph over two miles.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court OK's use of secret GPS tracking devices ]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133343/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, the state's highest court ruled today that the state Declaration of Rights allows police to break into a suspect&#8217;s car to secretly install GPS tracking devices, provided they have a warrant before they act.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[1,000 MPH car]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133230/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Richard Noble, the reigning king of land speed, is building a rocket on wheels to shatter his own record. The only problem: A ragtag American team might beat him to it]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nano-technology vs Kevlar]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133217/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Nanocomp Technologies, is the first in the world to make sheets of carbon nanotubes -- microscopic tubes stronger than steel but lighter than plastic.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Garlic farm wards off high-speed internet]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/133161/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A Nova Scotia garlic farmer has put the brakes on high-speed internet coming to Victoria Harbour, a rural community on the Bay of Fundy, fearing radiation from microwave towers will affect his crops.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two MIT Students Take Pictures From Space On a $150 Budget]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/132950/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps more significantly, they managed to accomplish this feat using components available off-the-shelf to the average layperson.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[9/11 Google Doodle]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/132865/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Well, more like there was none.  Not earth-shattering but it was surprising to me.  Did you guys think so too?  Just curious..]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again]]></title><link>http://tech.plime.com/technology/l/132777/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not.]]></description></item></channel></rss>