Archive for the 'Technology' Category
NSA Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
January 14th, 2014Via: New York Times: The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has […]
Decade After Decade: Security on SCADA Systems Is Crap
January 13th, 2014Via: IT News: Over 60,000 exposed control systems found online. Researchers have found vulnerabilities in industrial control systems that they say grant full control of systems running energy, chemical and transportation systems. The vulnerabilities were discovered by Russian researchers who over the last year probed popular and high-end ICS and supervisory control and data acquisition […]
New Google Venture: California Life Company
January 13th, 2014Via: CNN: Calico — or the California Life Company — has been set up to research subjects related to aging and its associated diseases. Announcing Calico at a media briefing, Google said that the new and independent company will largely focus on age-attendant conditions such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease.
DARPA Funds Development of EEG Headset That You Can Print at Home
January 13th, 2014Via: Wired: Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy have a dream: They want to create an open-source brain scanner that you can print out at home, strap onto your head, and hook straight into your brainwaves. This past week, they printed their first headset prototype on a 3-D printer, and WIRED has the first photos. Bootstrapped […]
Atmosphere Processors for Beijing [???]
January 10th, 2014Do not miss the conceptual visualization of the pH Conditioners: Via: Next Big Future: In the past 30 years, China has suffered from air pollution and heavy haze created by fast industrial growth and economic expansion. An Environmental Chemistry Letter research journal article reviews the techniques for remediation of air pollution. A geoengineering method is […]
U.S. Military on Path to Become Google’s Single Largest Customer
January 10th, 2014Via: DailyCaller: Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor. Google recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department. This development invites attention to Google’s broader military contracting ambitions — especially since Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics company […]
‘Robot Farmers Are the Future of Agriculture’
January 10th, 2014Via: Guardian: Will robot feet in near-future time walk upon England’s mountains green? And will there be drones flying overhead from England’s pleasant pastures seen? A new vision of robots patrolling the meadows and cornfields of the UK may seem dark and satanic to some, but according to farmers and the government it is the […]
What It’s Like When The FBI Asks You To Backdoor Your Software
January 10th, 2014Via: PC Mag: At a recent RSA Security Conference, Nico Sell was on stage announcing that her company—Wickr—was making drastic changes to ensure its users’ security. She said that the company would switch from RSA encryption to elliptic curve encryption, and that the service wouldn’t have a backdoor for anyone. As she left the stage, […]
‘We were pressured to weaken the mobile security in the 80’s’
January 10th, 2014Via: Aften Posten: Audestad says that the British were not very interested in having a strong encryption. And after a few years, they protested against the high security level that was proposed. They wanted a key length of 48 bit. We were very surprised. The West Germans protested because they wanted a stronger encryption to […]
Gamers Who Play for Hours ‘Prone to Hallucinations’ [???]
January 8th, 2014I just assumed that a crew from 4chan was responsible for this, because I’ve played games for hours and none of this stuff has ever happened to me. See the bit in bold at the bottom. Via: Telegraph: Gamers who play for hours are prone to hallucinations and seeing distorted versions of reality, according to […]
