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Scott Thompson, who resigned as Yahoo CEO earlier today, reportedly told the board he’s been diagnosed with thyroid cancer — though not until his explanation for his inflated resume had apparently started to unravel.
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(Phys.org) — Sony has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for a glasses-free 3-D display that will adjust the picture so that the user gets an optimal view no matter how far or close to the screen. In its application, “Stereoscopic Image Processing Method and Apparatus,” Sony defined its patent intent: “A stereoscopic image processing method for a stereoscopic image pair forming a 3-D image comprises the steps of evaluating whether the distance of a user is closer or further than a preferred distance from a 3-D image display upon which the stereoscopic image pair is to be displayed, and if the evaluation indicates that the user is further than the preferred distance from the 3-D image display, adjusting the respective displacements between corresponding image elements in the stereoscopic image pair, thereby changing the stereoscopic parallax in the 3-D image.”

What would you destroy if you had the Spyder III Krypton handy? Just don’t pretend it’s a lightsaber.
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We review thousands of tech products. Every week, CNET Reviews Editor in Chief Lindsey Turrentine tells you which gear impresses us right now and why.
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(Phys.org) — Most children at some point in their schooling are taught about the water table and many wind up being tasked with creating a model of some sort to represent how it all works. Some use clay, but many more likely use sand, as it’s far easier and faster than most anything else. Now researchers at UC Davis have taken that model to new extremes by building a sandbox system that is capable of automatically adding augmented reality real-time coloring to the sand to indicate altitude and moving water as changes are made to the terrain with a hand or small tool.

The conversation about getting women into the tech industry is far from over, and unfortunately, vicious sexism is still alive and well. Don’t get complacent, folks. It’s still bad out there.
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(Phys.org) — Today, electronic touch pads are widely found on laptops, tablets, and other computing devices. Less common uses, but gaining in popularity, are book covers and food labels. These and other low-tech applications become possible as touch pads become extremely inexpensive, with applications ranging from beer bottle labels to disposable medical device labels. Now a team of researchers from the US and France have developed paper-based electronic touch pads that cost just 25 cents per square meter, a price at which touch pads can simply be thrown away when no longer needed.

The company was helped by an aggressive push of its Monthly 4G plan, and saw its profits rise slightly.
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After government criticism and a temporary shutdown of Web comments, China’s biggest microblogging site plans to introduce a “user contract” that could impede the free flow of information.
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(AP) — Gov. Susana Martinez and a group of investors announced Tuesday that a city in the heart of southeastern New Mexico’s oil and gas country will be the site of a new $1 billion scientific ghost town where researchers will be able to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks.