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Firm uncovers more hacks on U.S. retailers
Post Date: 2014-01-18 04:34:27 by Tatarewicz
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A cybercrime firm says it has uncovered at least six ongoing attacks at U.S. merchants whose credit card processing systems are infected with the same type of malicious software used to steal data from Target Corp. Andrew Komarov, chief executive of the cybersecurity firm IntelCrawler, told Reuters that his company has alerted law enforcement, Visa Inc and intelligence teams at several large banks about the findings. He said payment card data was stolen in the attacks, though he didn't know how much. IntelCrawler's findings are the latest sign that the cyberattacks disclosed by Target Inc and upscale department store Neiman Marcus are part of a wider assault on U.S. retailer ...
..One of These Fridges Might Be Spamming You Right Now
Post Date: 2014-01-18 03:51:17 by Tatarewicz
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....A security firm has discovered that non-phone or non-computer smart devices that are Internet-capable are also susceptible to hacks. Not only that, about 100,000 household devices — including at least one fridge — sent out tons of spam messages around Christmas-time last year. Thanks a lot, evil refrigerator. According to ProofPoint, more than 750,000 sketchy messages were sent out from a number of smart appliances: Home-networking routers, connected multi-media centers, televisions and at least one refrigerator... had been compromised and used as a platform to launch attacks. As the number of such connected devices is expected to grow to more than four times the number of ...
Microsoft planning Windows 9 launch in April 2015
Post Date: 2014-01-18 03:09:40 by Tatarewicz
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Microsoft is currently working on the next version of the Windows operating system and has a tentative release date of April 2015. According to digitaltrends.com, this next version of Windows is codenamed "Threshold" within the company, but will probably be called Windows 9 eventually. This new version is aimed at leaving behind some of the criticisms associated with Windows 8, allowing Microsoft to move forward with a clean slate, says Techradar.com. Windows 8 has set back Microsoft, and Windows, by years, and possibly for good, says Winsupersite.com. Winsupersite.com also tells us that Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows at the BUILD developer conference ...
Five Of The Top Trends From CES 2014
Post Date: 2014-01-17 22:06:01 by Tatarewicz
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The Consumer Electronics Show is a showcase of modern technology on a massive scale. This year’s event in Las Vegas was equivalent in size to 28 football fields, and filled with tens of thousands of new products or product announcements. If history is any indication, some of those products will go on to define their market category, or even change the way consumers live. Other products will fall by the wayside, failing to live up to commercial expectations, even with the boost of appearing at CES 2014. In a few short years, high definition televisions have gone from an ultra-expensive luxury and relative novelty to an inexpensive industry standard. Prices have fallen so fast that ...
Israeli company says first flying car could be available in 15 years
Post Date: 2014-01-17 00:10:19 by Tatarewicz
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli company is developing an unmanned rotor-less helicopter that could make flying cars a reality in 15 years, said the firm's marketing manager. The AirMule, developed by Tactical Robotics, can take off, land and move without a pilot, using ducted fans inbuilt in the machine, Janina Frenkel-Yoeli told Xinhua. The idea came from Dr. Rafi Yoeli, an aeronautical engineer who founded UrbanAero, the parent company of Tactical Robotics, in 2007. After designing manned vehicles for more than 20 years, Yoeli, who also holds a PhD in artificial intelligence, decided to try a failed U.S. army project from the 1960s. "The difference with that U.S. ...
Epic Auroras Light Up Norway's Skies
Post Date: 2014-01-16 20:51:34 by Southern Style
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These shimmering aurora boeralis were captured in the skies near Nordreisa, Troms, Norway from August through November 2013 by Level 4 (www.level4.no), a media company based in the same area which specializes in capturing 'naturally epic' videos. Click Here
Finally, a Way to Authenticate Premium Chocolate
Post Date: 2014-01-16 04:16:33 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Jan. 15, 2014 — For some people, nothing can top a morsel of luxuriously rich, premium chocolate. But until now, other than depending on their taste buds, chocolate connoisseurs had no way of knowing whether they were getting what they paid for. In ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists are reporting, for the first time, a method to authenticate the varietal purity and origin of cacao beans, the source of chocolate's main ingredient, cocoa. Share This: Tweet Dapeng Zhang and colleagues note that lower-quality cacao beans often get mixed in with premium varieties on their way to becoming chocolate bars, truffles, sauces and liqueurs. But ...
First Plastic Cell With Working Organelle
Post Date: 2014-01-16 03:59:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Jan. 14, 2014 — For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps of a chemical reaction. This was done at the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) at Radboud University Nijmegen. The discovery was published in the first 2014 issue of the journal Angewandte Chemie, and was also highlighted by Nature Chemistry. It is hard for chemists to match the chemistry in living cells in their laboratories. After all, in a cell all kinds of complex reactions are taking place simultaneously in an overfull, small container, in various compartments and incredibly efficiently. This is why ...
How Electricity Helps Spider Webs Snatch Prey and Pollutants
Post Date: 2014-01-16 03:43:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily,,, 14, 2014 — Spider webs actively spring towards prey thanks to electrically-conductive glue spread across their surface, Oxford University scientists have discovered. The researchers found that the electrostatic properties of the glue that coats spider webs causes them to reach out to grab all charged particles, from pollen and pollutants to flying insects. They also showed that the glue spirals can distort Earth's electric field within a few millimetres of the web, which may enable insects to spot the webs with their antennae 'e-sensors'. The study, published in Naturwissenschaften, shows how a quirk of physics causes webs to move towards all airborne ...
Say goodbye to privacy: How Nest might transform Google
Post Date: 2014-01-16 03:21:07 by Tatarewicz
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BGR.com It’s no wonder some people are freaking out over Google’s $3.2 billion Nest Labs acquisition: it’s another step towards a future when Google has enough access to lives of high-income consumers to gain psychological insights that no company has ever possessed. Nest’s Learning Thermostat can track movements and activity of people in their homes, an ability no doubt improving by leaps and bounds. If you combine this with analysis of email and search patterns, as well as smartphone GPS mapping of movement outside the home, you get to an exceptionally sweet spot for building an intimate profile of not only current consumption patterns, but of likely future choices ...
Latest SpaceShipTwo Flight Highest Yet
Post Date: 2014-01-15 21:57:54 by X-15
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January 15, 2014 - Virgin Galactic has made another significant step toward first public space flights as SpaceShipTwo (SS2) reached 71,000 feet and Mach 1.4 in its third rocket-powered supersonic flight January 10 from Mojave Air and Space Port. Chief pilot Dave Mackay and Scaled Composites' test pilot Mark Stucky also successfully tested the spaceship's reaction control system (RCS) and the newly installed thermal protection coating on the vehicle's tail booms. WhiteKnightTwo piloted by Virgin Galactic's Mike Masucci and Scaled's Mike Alsbury carried SS2 to 46,000 feet and released the craft, and SS2 ignited its rocket motor. SS2's feather re-entry system was ...
New study uncovers a jaw-dropping fact about water and natural gas "fracking"
Post Date: 2014-01-15 19:48:17 by BTP Holdings
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New study uncovers a jaw-dropping fact about water and natural gas "fracking" By Matt Badiali editor, Resource Report Wednesday, January 15, 2014 For every gallon of water used in fracking, Texas saves 33 gallons overall. You read that right… fracking saves water. Let me explain… That was the result of a recent University of Texas at Austin water use study. It's critical information because Texas is just coming out of a massive drought. In 2011, 98.2% of the state suffered from severe to exceptional drought. It was the hottest, driest year on record. The current drought is the second longest in Texas (back to 1899). And water is critical to Texas' ...
MIT Professor Urging Climate Change Activists To ‘Slow Down’
Post Date: 2014-01-15 08:42:06 by Ada
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BOSTON (CBS) — A new proposal on climate change focuses on public health, energy, transportation and basic infrastructure. Under the plan unveiled Tuesday, $40 million will go to help cities and towns shore up the power supply and keep the lights on. Ten million will be earmarked for the coast, to protect it from rising sea-levels. But will it work? While the governor and others painted a dire picture of what global warming might do to us, others are more skeptical. MIT Professor Richard Lindzen is a leading international expert on climate change. “The changes that have occurred due to global warning are too small to account for,” he says. “It has nothing to do ...
Massive Die-Off of West Coast Sea Life Accelerates Locals say it’s far worse than what the national and international media are reporting
Post Date: 2014-01-13 12:47:59 by Horse
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Oregon natives confirmed to Infowars Friday that strange anomalies have sprung up along the Pacific coast in what amounts to further testimony supporting the fact the media is suppressing both the surge in extremely high radiation readings along the West Coast and the subsequent die off of sea life in the area. Several residents in the Charleston fishing village described suspicious anomalies such as disintegrating bioluminescent jellyfish and Japanese “tsunami debris” washing ashore, with one lifetime resident even telling us he saw about a hundred dead starfish near the Bastendorff Beach County Park. Marine biologists had originally encountered “melting” starfish off ...
NYPD SOP 9 - ANALYSIS OF POLICE COMBAT
Post Date: 2014-01-12 22:08:57 by X-15
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The article below has interesting statistics and information relating to police shootouts. The studies were made by the NYPD. The results are very interesting and are important enough for review by membership of VCOPS and all law enforcement officers in Virginia. We offer you this article for your information and advise that the information contained in it be evaluated as a part of your entire firearms training program. NYPD SOP 9 - ANALYSIS OF POLICE COMBAT In 1969, the Firearms and Tactics Section of the New York City Police Department instituted a procedure for the in-depth documentation and study of police combat situations. It was designated Department Order SOP 9 (s. 69). Data ...
.357 Magnum Stopping Power
Post Date: 2014-01-12 13:23:26 by X-15
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I grew up during the golden age of the wondernine. Every big PD in America was switching from wheelguns to Berettas and 3rd Gen S&W pistols. The gun rags of the era were filled with “9mm vs. 38" and “9mm vs. .357" articles. As is to be expected, most of the articles decried the downgrade in “stopping power” that the 9mm offered vs. the legendary .357 Magnum. The more sordid gun rags were filled with stories of bad guys going down after one hit from a .357 Magnum, reduced to a shower of gore by the powerful “man-stopper.” Probably the most legendary of the .357 Magnum rounds was the famous Remington 125 grain jacketed hollowpoint. Pushing an old ...
Warning Not to Use E15 Gas in Your Car
Post Date: 2014-01-12 13:01:24 by X-15
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Russia Holds Tender for Suicide Bomb-Detecting Device
Post Date: 2014-01-12 06:00:46 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, January 10 (RIA Novosti) – Amid the search for new ways to prevent terrorist attacks, Russia’s Interior Ministry has announced an open tender to develop a device able to remotely detect explosives worn by suicide bombers. The gadget would have to detect explosive devices concealed on the human body from up to 10 meters (33 feet) away with 98-percent reliability, according to the order by the ministry’s special equipment division. The ministry said it would pay a maximum of 39 million rubles ($1.2 million) for the device, which the order said should be able to boot up within 5 minutes, process signals in half a second or less, and signal positive readings with audio ...
Predicting mega-earthquakes
Post Date: 2014-01-12 04:41:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert...Earthquakes occur at boundaries between tectonic plates, and the largest quakes, such as the one that devastated Chile in 2010, only occur at subduction zones. The key to predicting mega-earthquakes, new research shows, is to understand which subduction zones are capable of generating earthquakes and which ones aren't. Image: ermess/ShutterstockA team of international researchers, led by Monash University’s Associate Professor Wouter Schellart, have developed a new global map of subduction zones, illustrating which ones are predicted to be capable of generating giant earthquakes and which ones are not. The new research, published in the journal Physics of the Earth ...
How you practice matters for learning skill quickly.
Post Date: 2014-01-11 04:33:10 by Tatarewicz
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SienceDaily Jan. 7, 2014 — Practice alone doesn't make perfect, but learning can be optimized if you practice in the right way, according to new research based on online gaming data from more than 850,000 people. The research, led by psychological scientist Tom Stafford of the University of Sheffield (UK), suggests that the way you practice is just as important as how often you practice when it comes to learning quickly. The new findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Stafford and Michael Dewar from The New York Times Research and Development Lab analyzed data from 854,064 people playing an online game called ...
44 Reasons Why Evolution Is Just A Fairy Tale For Adults
Post Date: 2014-01-10 11:37:57 by christine
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The theory of evolution is false. It is simply not true. Actually, it is just a fairy tale for adults based on ancient pagan religious philosophy that hundreds of millions of people around the world choose to believe with blind faith. When asked to produce evidence for the theory of evolution, most adults in the western world come up totally blank. When pressed, most people will mumble something about how “most scientists believe it” and how that is good enough for them. This kind of anti-intellectualism even runs rampant on our college campuses. If you doubt this, just go to a college campus some time and start asking students why they believe in evolution. Very few of them will ...
The largest EMP in the solar system
Post Date: 2014-01-10 07:32:04 by BTP Holdings
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The largest EMP in the solar system EMP, power4patriots | 52 Comments Ever hear of the Carrington Event? Probably not. It occurred more than 150 years ago and its effects were minimal. But if anything like it happens again – and scientists are convinced it will – the effects could be devastating. Named after Richard Carrington, an astronomer who witnessed the incident, the Carrington Event was a super solar flare that shot directly toward the earth. Causing what we now know as an EMP, this solar storm produced a high intensity burst of electromagnetic energy that disrupted communications and shocked technicians when it shot through telegraph lines. Fortunately, there ...
rganic Mega Flow Battery Promises Breakthrough for Renewable Energy
Post Date: 2014-01-10 05:55:12 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Jan. 8, 2014 — A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar far more economical and reliable. Share This: The novel battery technology is reported in a paper published in Nature on January 9. Under the OPEN 2012 program, the Harvard team received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop the innovative grid-scale battery and plans to work with ARPA-E to catalyze further technological and market breakthroughs over the next ...
Shake Internet Trackers In 4 Steps
Post Date: 2014-01-09 07:57:55 by BTP Holdings
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Solar firms face "total eclipse" in the US
Post Date: 2014-01-08 02:15:57 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese solar companies will be "entirely blocked" from the United States market if that nation's government imposes new duties on solar cell products made in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, experts have warned. "It will keep all the Chinese companies out of the US market if new duties are imposed, in addition to the already unfair trade environment," said Sun Guangbin, secretary-general for solar energy and photovoltaic products at the China Chamber of Commerce of Machinery and Electronic Products. The US solar panel producer SolarWorld Industries America Inc petitioned the Department of Commerce and the US International Trade ...
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