Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Kim Dotcom offers $5 million ‘bounty’ to whistleblowers in online piracy case
from blacklistednews.com: Internet mogul Kim Dotcom said Monday he was offering a US$5 million “bounty” to whistleblowers for information to help fight an online piracy case brought (against him) by the United States. The Megaupload founder, who is resisting extradition from New Zealand, said he had to resort to offering the money because the deck…
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Video: Delete Your #FaceBook
A real issue is people who are oblivious to what they are giving up. Not everyone is informed and educated, this video aims to start a conversation so that users can educate themselves and then make informed decisions. Remember how many kids use these services, many of which don’t even know what TOS stands for.…
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#OpenSSL Bug Allows Hackers to See Private Communication
from engadget.com: The world hasn’t yet recovered from the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL and now there’s news of a new bug affecting the popular open-source security package. This recently announced, and already patched, exploit could allow an attacker to see and modify traffic between an OpenSSL client and an OpenSSL server. This sounds worse than…
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Facial recognition up to 30% more accurate now than in 2010
from biometricupdate.com: Facial recognition algorithms are up to 30 percent more accurate than they were in 2010, according to a recent NIST report. The report by Patrick Grother and Mei Ngan, Performance of Face Identification Algorithms, includes results from algorithms submitted by 16 organizations. Performance was defined by recognition accuracy, as well as the time…
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#Samsung Says Smart Society Will Replace ‘Analogue Britain’
from techweekeurope.co.uk: Samsung says its products will help the UK move from a digital to a ‘smart society’, claiming the public want connected technology that will make work and home life more efficient. The Korean manufacturer, along with the Big Innovation Centre think tank, has published research suggesting that two thirds of Brits believe the UK is…
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Apple’s Next Big Move: iPhone-controlled ‘Smart Homes’
from asia.nikkei.com: Apple has thrown its hat into the ring in smart homes, detailing plans to launch a service for remote control of appliances this autumn by tying up with electronics manufacturers. The move by the company behind the iPhone is expected to add momentum to an emerging field that already includes Google and Microsoft.…
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DARPA Testing Brain Implants to “Cure” Mental Disorders in Soldiers
from occupycorporatism.com: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released information on their new program Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) that will place an implant into the brain of participating patients to wirelessly monitor activity in real-time to facilitate treatments for mental illness such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression. Researchers from the…
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‘Godzilla of Earths’ Identified
from bbc.com: There is a new class of planet out there that astronomers are calling the “mega-Earth”. It is an object with a hard surface like our own world but much, much bigger. The necessity for the new designation follows the discovery of a planet which has a mass some 17 times that of Earth.…
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NASA Captures Close-up Details of Solar Storm for First Time
from RT.com: NASA’s revolutionary solar observatory has captured rare footage of super-hot bubbles on the sun’s surface, known as coronal mass ejections. “The field of view seen here is about five Earths wide and about seven-and-a-half Earths tall,” NASA said in a description of the video, which shows the sun emitting flares into space. While…
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Japan Eyes Early Manned Mission to Mars
from houseofjapan.com: Japan, with the help of the international community, is working on plans to send a manned mission to Mars. Science ministry officials, citing the staggering costs and technological difficulties, said such an undertaking could only be accomplished with participation of other countries. In a May 30 meeting with an advisory council to discuss…
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Physicists Use Diamonds to Reach Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough
from engadget.com: Quantum teleportation promises a leap into the next great era of computing — but first we’ve got to get it working consistently. Scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft say they’ve managed to reliably teleport quantum info stored in one bit of diamond to another sitting three meters away (roughly 10 feet).…
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SpaceX Unveils Dragon V2 Spaceship for Astronaut Trips
from nbcnews.com: SpaceX unveiled the spaceship it expects to use to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, known as the Dragon V2, at its headquarters on Thursday amid surroundings as glitzy as an auto show. Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising, considering that the company’s billionaire founder and chief designer, Elon Musk, also runs…
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SpaceX Unveil the Dragon V2 “Space Taxi”
from spacex.com: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the next version of its Dragon spacecraft — Dragon V2 — on Thursday night from the company’s manufacturing facility in Hawthorne, California. The Dragon V2 is designed to ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station. It’s an upgraded version of the Dragon cargo ship, which…
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Facebook can now officially eavesdrop on you
from androidpit.com: The Facebook app was recently updated in the USA, adding a feature which turns on the device microphone in order to record background sound to know what is happening around you. Facebook sees this feature as a win for users, since status updates can be posted even quicker. On the other hand, skeptics…
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Google Unveils Self-Driving Car, Sans Steering Wheel
from cnet.com: Google has built a self-driving car from scratch — a vehicle that has no steering wheel or accelerator or brake pedals. A two-seater prototype of the vehicle was unveiled Tuesday by Google CEO Sergey Brin during an onstage interview at the Recode Code Conference in Palos Verdes, Calif. Instead of the car controls…