Archive for January, 2014
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 […]
China Surpasses U.S. as World’s Largest Trading Nation
January 11th, 2014Via: Guardian: China became the world’s largest trading nation in 2013, overtaking the US in what Beijing described as “a landmark milestone” for the country. China’s annual trade in goods passed the $4tn (£2.4tn) mark for the first time last year according to official data, after exports from the world’s second largest economy rose 7.9% […]
Oracle Execs Sell Stock Near 13-Year High
January 11th, 2014Via: Barron’s: Two insiders at software giant Oracle sold 1,700,000 shares for $64,141,070, an average of $37.73 each, from Jan. 2 through 7, just after shares hit a 13-year high. Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development, exercised options and sold 1,200,000 Oracle (ticker: ORCL) shares for $45,201,920. Kurian now holds 32,327 shares directly, […]
Spectacular Bubble in Pot Stocks
January 10th, 2014Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Believe it or not, I ran one of my bottom feeding screens, fat fingered the minimum price and one of the companies that came up on the erroneous scan was HEMP. I laughed, thought, “Well I’ll be damned,” and moved on. […]
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 […]
Recovery: Participation Rate in Labor Force Matches 35-Year Low
January 10th, 2014Via: MarketWatch: Ouch. The economy gained a meager 74,000 jobs last month, the weakest result since early 2011, according to government data released Friday morning. Also not good: The participation rate in the labor force declined one-fifth of a percentage point to 62.8% in December, matching October’s level, which was the lowest since 1978.
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 […]
