Bitcoins: The Taxless Currency | Tax Break: The TurboTax Blog - (Private Browsing) In today’s economy, the value of the dollar is weaker than ever and the thought of a digital currency is becoming more of a reality with the recent introduction of bitcoins. Bitcoins can be compared to cash, but cash is limited to physical exchange, where as bitcoins can be sent throughout the Internet. Today there are more than 6.3 million bitcoins in existence and this number continues to grow.
So, how are bitcoins used and how have they become a currency that can be used like dollars, but is tax avoidable? Let’s explore. Embed the above image on your site using the code below: Free Tax Filing, Efile Taxes, Income Tax Returns – TurboTax.com. The 10 Coolest Things we saw at CES 2012 - mirror.co.uk - (Private Browsing) The tech industry decamped to Las Vegas this week to grant the world’s press a sneak peek at what gadget freaks will be saving up for during the rest of the year.
LG’s OLED TV and Cinema 3D technology Forget plasma vs LCD, there’s a new screen in town: OLED (or organic light emitting diodesm if you prefer). The clarity and colours of images produced by both Samsung and LG’s 55” were absolutely breathtaking and put many of the 4k2k (or quad HD) prototypes to shame. However, LG’s new Cinema 3D technology was the real star of the show. Set to be incorporated into around 60% of their 2012 TV sets, it literally had us ducking for cover when it showed footage of a football being kicked directly at the camera, it was the best thing we clapped eyes on all week.
Samsung Smart TVs Nowadays, if your goggle box isn’t an all-singing, all-dancing online media hub then it might as well be a toaster. Magnetic memory and logic could achieve ultimate energy efficiency. Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by University of California, Berkeley, electrical engineers. Today’s silicon-based microprocessor chips rely on electric currents, or moving electrons, that generate a lot of waste heat.
But microprocessors employing nanometer-sized bar magnets – like tiny refrigerator magnets – for memory, logic and switching operations theoretically would require no moving electrons. Nanomagnetic computers use tiny bar magnets to store and process information. The interactions between the polarized, north-south magnetic fields of closely spaced magnets allow logic operations like those in conventional transistors. (Credit: Bokor lab, UC Berkeley) Such chips would dissipate only 18 millielectron volts of energy per operation at room temperature, the minimum allowed by the second law of thermodynamics and called the Landauer limit. Landauer limit. Forget WiFi, Connect to the Internet Through Lightbulbs - Technology. Whether you’re using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you’ve probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network.
As more and more people—and their many devices—access wireless internet, clogged airwaves are going to make it increasingly difficult to latch onto a reliable signal. But radio waves are just one part of the spectrum that can carry our data. What if we could use other waves to surf the internet? One German physicist, Harald Haas, has come up with a solution he calls “data through illumination”—taking the fiber out of fiber optics by sending data through an LED lightbulb that varies in intensity faster than the human eye can follow. It’s the same idea behind infrared remote controls, but far more powerful. Photo (cc) via otto-otto.com. Antihydrogen could lead to antigravity - National Technology.
The Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) at the CERN particle physics laboratory announced that they have been able to hold 309 atoms of antihydrogen in a magnetic trap for 1000 seconds, approximately 10,000 times longer than before. When they experimented with the anti-atoms last year they verified that they were in fact antihydrogen atoms by releasing them from the trap and observing them being annihilated by hydrogen atoms. During that experiment they were only able to contain the atoms for 170 milliseconds. They have repeated this experiment, but have made a few changes. By cooling the antiprotons that create the antihydrogen they were able to lower their energy, this allowed for more atoms to be contained with a longer life span. The longer life will allow scientists to do more experiments, like checking if antihydrogen has the same energy level as hydrogen.
Scientist also want to find out if the anti-atoms exhibit antigravity effects. For more info: Cornell. 9 Implants that make human healthy body even more useful. Here’s a list of 9 ways you can modify your body to be even more useful, from bionic implants to portable power generators. 1. RFID Chips – A nice and easy way to start out with body hacking is to implant an RFID chip into you. An RFID chip is just a passive antenna that’s pre-configured to transmit a specific code when it’s brought near an RFID reader. Generally, RFID is used as a key of sorts; so for example, you can set up your computer or your phone to unlock only when you pick them up. Or install an RFID-enabled deadbolt on your front door and an RFID reader in your car and you won’t need to carry your keys around anymore.
It’s completely safe — you can even do it yourself. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Source. Logitech Harmony - All-TIME 100 Gadgets.