Tag archive: Yale

The danger of dying from a laser attack — or, more likely, cancer — just got a little smaller. Scientists at Yale University have successfully constructed the world's first “anti-laser” — so called because it cancels out beams of light generated by a laser rather than emiting them, reports Wired. While a standard laser amplifies light with the use of a “gain medium” and mirrors, and emits a beam of light that… Read More

If you’re a student at University College, London (UCL) or Trinity College, Dublin, a new academic service means you’ll be able to download lectures from iTunes, making the alarm clock a thing of the past. They’re the latest addition to the so-called iTunes U, where lectures from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley and MIT are all available for free. Video and audio recordings of the Trinity College and UCL… Read More

Legal scholars from Yale, Harvard, and Stanford along with public advocacy groups have filed a network neutrality complaint (PDF) with the Federal Communications Commission against U.S. cable provider Comcast, claiming the company is intentionally degrading network performance and discriminating against customers' use of the network—specifically, blocking the use of peer-to-peer file sharing applications like BitTorrent and… Read More

Get ready for Ivy League sports over the satellite radio waves. Sirius today said they'd inked a deal with the big eight – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale - to broadcast a game of the week plus a select number of other events. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Sirius said, the game of the week to be broadcast will draw from the sports of football and men's basketball.… Read More