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Concrete-Dissolving Bacteria Are Destroying Our Nation's Sewers(gizmodo.com)
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Climate change shifts the earth in Alaska(aljazeera.com)
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IBM Tech Group Leader: It is too late to stop 24/7 biometric tracking(wired.co.uk)
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by gphilip 13y ago
Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organizations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security engineers.
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Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers(reuters.com)
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UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer(torrentfreak.com)
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It’s (Probably) Okay Not To Have Any Ambition (2011)(ruthlessculture.com)
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by gphilip 13y ago
"... we're sharing some details of the work Facebook's Connectivity Lab is doing to build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone. Our goal with Internet.org is to make affordable access to basic int
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Zuckerberg: Facebook to use Lasers, Satellites and Drones to spread the Internet(facebook.com)
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by gphilip 13y ago
In a recent example, an LA Times writer-bot wrote and posted a snippet about an earthquake three minutes after the event. The LA Times claims they were first to publish anything on the quake, and outside the USGS, they probably were.
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New Battery Biodegrades Inside The Human Body(iflscience.com)
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More News Is Being Written By Robots(singularityhub.com)
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Quantum cryptography: Keeping your secrets secret(phys.org)
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by gphilip 13y ago
"Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer."
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Folding AT home: What if you could help find a cure?(folding.stanford.edu)
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Six Alternatives to Oculus Rift(gamespot.com)
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by gphilip 13y ago
Microsoft has released a "Fix It" to disable opening RTF documents: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2953095
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MS Word 2010 Security Advisory: Don't open documents named ".RTF"(blogs.technet.com)
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by gphilip 13y ago
Is it just me, or does the linked article read like an ad?
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by gphilip 13y ago
The first paper linked from the webpage describes how to use the framework. For a specific example, see Section 8 of the paper (Building a Mylar Application) which starts with "To demonstrate how a developer can build a Mylar applicati
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by gphilip 13y ago
From the blurb: Mylar protects data confidentiality even when an attacker gets full access to servers. Mylar stores only encrypted data on the server, and decrypts data only in users' browsers. Simply encrypting each user's data w
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Mylar: A platform for building secure web applications(css.csail.mit.edu)
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The professor's point is about group brainstorming, not individual brainstorming. Indeed, what he says in the context of brainstorming (see around 13:00 in the interview) supports individual intellectual effort as a better way to come
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by gphilip 13y ago
The interview is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMvqkrQkYQ . I didn't see any ads, probably because of AdBlock.
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Interview with Prof Vincent Walsh of UCL, one of the world’s preeminent cognitive neuroscientists. Some interesting points from the interview: 1. You’re only aware of less than 1% of your brain activity, and most creativity happens in the
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"Brainstorming is a terrible way to generate good ideas"(improvides.com)
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One distinct advantage that smartphones have over simple phones is the ability to make unlimited, essentially free [1] phone calls and messages to people who may not be in the same region as you are. Think Viber. It takes just one significa
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by gphilip 13y ago
Records for nearly 56,000 San Francisco patients, some with Social Security numbers, were stored in computers stolen last month from a medical billing firm in Torrance, said San Francisco’s Department of Public Health on Friday. Los Angeles
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Over 200K SF and LA patient records stolen from contractor(latimes.com)
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Current night vision technology needs bulky cooling equipment to stop the detectors getting confused by their own heat radiation, but the graphene-based models can do the same job using just a few layers of the atom-thick material.

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