Tech: April 2011 Archives

Thursday April 21, 2011

New Mining Frontier: The Deep Sea

This week marks the first anniversary of the BP oil disaster. We've been drilling for oil in the deep seas for about 60 years and become increasingly reliant on that oil. Now Nautilus Minerals, a Canadian based company believes it's at the forefront of a similar kind of deepwater industrial expansion: mining the ocean floor for minerals.

Here's Day 6 producer Nick McCabe-Lokos' piece on deep sea mining.

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Categories: Audio, Day 6 Blog, Promote, Science, Tech

 

Tuesday April 19, 2011

Iran plans for "Halal" Internet

Ali Aghamohammadi, head of Iran's economic affairs, has announced plans to launch a "halal" edition of the Internet. According to reports, the network would run parallel to, well, the Internet, in hopes of eventually replacing it altogether and countering western influence in Muslim countries.  Read more »

Categories: Day 6 Blog, Foreign, Online, Politics, Tech

 

Sunday April 10, 2011

Neuro-Cinema: Brain Scans And The Future Of Movies

What if your brain activity could be harnessed to change the fate of a character in a movie? According those in the business of "neuro-cinematics" that's just around the corner. NeuroFocus is a company that's in that game. Here's the company founder Dr. AK Pradeep.

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• March 2012
  • Fri., 16 – UPDATE: Mike Daisey Fabricated Parts of Apple Monologue
     
  • Tue., 6 – UPDATE: Iran Court Orders New Trial in Spy Case
     
  • Fri., 2 – Startups at Sea
     
  • Fri., 2 – Google Privacy Policy Explained
     
• February 2012
  • Fri., 3 – Facebook Shares, Should I Buy It?
     
  • Fri., 3 – Sudden Wealth Syndrome
     
• January 2012
  • Fri., 13 – Episode 60 - War Games
     
• December 2011
  • Fri., 16 – Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs: Heartbreaker of 2011?
     
• November 2011
  • Wed., 23 – Call of Duty Modern Warfare Widow Sells Husband (sort of)
     
• October 2011
  • Fri., 14 – Mark Bowden's "Worm: The First Digital World War" - Book Giveaway
     
  • Fri., 7 – Ep. 46 - Wall Street North
     
  • Thu., 6 – Jobs Death: "Mouse" Creator on Innovating With Steve
     
• September 2011
  • Fri., 16 – Episode 43 - EuroTrashed
     
  • Fri., 9 – Episode 42 - Day 6 Round 2
     
• June 2011
  • Thu., 16 – $500,000 stolen in alleged BitCoin heist
     
  • Fri., 3 – Interview: Are cyber attacks on the rise?
     
• April 2011
  • Thu., 21 – New Mining Frontier: The Deep Sea
     
  • Tue., 19 – Iran plans for "Halal" Internet
     
  • Sun., 10 – Neuro-Cinema: Brain Scans And The Future Of Movies
     
  • Fri., 1 – Investing In Canadian Election Markets
     
• February 2011
  • Tue., 15 – Interview: Facebook Not Big in Japan
     
  • Fri., 4 – Interview: Protesting? There's an app for that.