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3 Big Tech Trends for 2016
Post Date: 2016-01-03 06:56:55 by BTP Holdings
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3 Big Tech Trends for 2016 Yahoo Finance By Andy Serwer December 30, 2015 8:11 AM Prognostication is a humbling business. Last year at this time Mark Anderson, a tech futurist type and CEO of the Strategic News Service, predicted that Amazon (AMZN) would have a tough time in 2015, citing e-book squabbles, drone expenditures and the Fire phone flop. Oops. All Amazon did was blow the doors off in 2105, with the stock up over 120% in a flat market. What's up with that, Mark? “I thought Jeff [Bezos] was making too many mistakes, and that the shareholders and or customers would take it out on him,” he wrote to me in an email. “But AWS [Amazon Web Services] has been ...
German scientists make big stride towards fusion
Post Date: 2016-01-03 06:39:36 by Tatarewicz
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Local.de... Scientists in Germany said Thursday they had reached a milestone in a quest to derive energy from nuclear fusion, billed as a potentially limitless, safe and cheap source. Nuclear fusion entails fusing atoms together to generate energy – a process similar to that in the Sun - as opposed to nuclear fission, where atoms are split, which entails worries over safety and long-term waste. After spending a billion euros and nine years' construction work, physicists working on a German project called the "stellarator" said they had briefly generated a super-heated helium plasma inside a vessel – a key point in the experimental process. "We're very ...
Crows caught on camera fashioning special hook tools
Post Date: 2016-01-03 05:59:57 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists have been given an extraordinary glimpse into how wild New Caledonian crows make and use 'hooked stick tools' to hunt for insect prey Dr Jolyon Troscianko, from the University of Exeter, and Dr Christian Rutz, from the University of St Andrews, have captured first video recordings documenting how these tropical corvids fashion these particularly complex tools in the wild. The pair developed tiny video 'spy-cameras' which were attached to the crows, to observe their natural foraging behaviour. They discovered two instances of hooked stick tool making on the footage they recorded, with one crow spending a minute making the tool, before using it to probe for ...
9 science-backed reasons to own a dog
Post Date: 2016-01-03 04:53:56 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... If this holiday season you’re thinking about welcoming a new furry friend into the family, consider a dog. Loyal, protective, and always happy to see you, the dog has been a human companion for more than 18,000 years, making it one of the first domesticated animals in history. Don’t just take our word for it. Scientists have proof that dogs make us laugh more than cats, keep us more active than the average human companion, and even reduce our chances of depression. If you need a little more convincing, or you need to convince someone else in the household, here are the cold, hard facts for why you should own a dog. 1. Dogs Make Us Laugh People who own dogs laugh ...
Theoretical physicist proposes radical new hypothesis for why humans exist
Post Date: 2016-01-03 02:10:36 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Where do we come from? Well, it depends on who you ask. For example, an astrophysicist might say that the chemical components of our bodies were first forged in the nuclear fires of stars. On the other hand, an evolutionary biologist might look at the similarities between our DNA and that of other primates’ and conclude we evolved from apes. Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University, has a different, and novel answer, which she describes in her latest book Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. Randall has written other popular science books including The New York Time’s bestseller, Warped Passages: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe’s ...
Where are Downloads in Microsoft’s Edge Browser?
Post Date: 2016-01-02 19:33:05 by BTP Holdings
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Where are Downloads in Microsoft’s Edge Browser? December 28, 2015 / Dave Taylor This is weird: I was downloading a file while in the Windows 10 Web browser and when I accidentally closed the tab from that page, the download vanished. Except I think it was still downloading. My question: Where’s the “Downloads” window in Edge, the Win10 Browser? I never really thought about it, but you’re exactly right that the new Web Browser called Microsoft Edge that’s included with Windows 10 and 10.1 is missing a downloads shortcut or progress button of some sort. Google Chrome has one. Apple Safari has one, but if you’re downloading a big file in Microsoft Edge ...
850M PCs with Deceptive Java Security
Post Date: 2016-01-02 19:26:59 by BTP Holdings
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850M PCs with Deceptive Java Security Oracle has reached a settlement with the FTC over charges that it had been deceptively promoting security updates for its Java SE platform. Oracle Agrees to Settle FTC Charges It Deceived Consumers About Java Software Updates Company Will Be Required to Notify Consumers of Risk, Provide Tools to Uninstall Insecure Older Versions (12/21/2015) Oracle has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers about the security provided by updates to its Java Platform, Standard Edition software (Java SE), which is installed on more than 850 million personal computers. Under the terms of a proposed consent order, Oracle will be ...
Top Seven Hacks of 2015
Post Date: 2016-01-02 18:24:05 by BTP Holdings
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Top Seven Hacks of 2015 December 28, 2015 kayla As of December 22, 2015, the Identify Theft Resource Center had reported a total of 766 data breaches. These data breaches reached a staggering total of 177,840,420 files being exposed. Below are the top seven breaches, in 2015, identified by iDigitalTimes in terms of the most users affected. #1. Anthem 7 Largest Data Breaches Of 2015 Show Nearly 200 Million Personal Records Hacked. Which Ones Affected You? 78.8 million patient records were accessed. #2. Ashley Madison 37 million user files were exposed. #3. OPM 7 Largest Data Breaches Of 2015 Show Nearly 200 Million Personal Records Hacked 21.5 million records were ...
Digital rights battles in 2015: NSA reform, net neutrality, CISA and beyond
Post Date: 2016-01-01 21:06:29 by BTP Holdings
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Digital rights battles in 2015: NSA reform, net neutrality, CISA and beyond by Rainey Reitman This article by activism director Rainey Reitman originally appeared on the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From John Oliver’s quizzing Edward Snowden on whether the National Security Agency is collecting our “dick pics” to Electronic Frontier Foundation’s legal team’s obliterating the patent that was used to go after podcaster Adam Carolla, digital rights issues were in the public spotlight last year. For the most part, 2015 found us winning hard-fought battles to advance our freedoms online. We had an important, if substantively small, victory with the ...
Scientists are building computers that can give us artificial brain boosts
Post Date: 2016-01-01 01:07:24 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists are working on computers with the ability to boost our brain function when they notice us getting tired, and the technology could eventually be used to tailor our user experience depending on how stressed or how worn-out we're feeling. It works via a technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS. Two sensors on the scalp beam a harmless red light into the skull. This red light analyses the amount of blood vessels in the brain, and from this it can determine the levels of oxygen present at any given moment. High oxygen levels mean the brain is working hard, and low levels mean it's basically cruising along on autopilot. The system has ...
NASA Rover Spots Claw Of ‘Living Alien’ On Mars
Post Date: 2015-12-31 12:53:25 by BTP Holdings
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NASA Rover Spots Claw Of ‘Living Alien’ On Mars feed_manager_auto_publish_494--autopubtest_WPTUMBLR_485 7 hours ago Could this be the ‘smoking gun’ that UFO fans are waiting for? A NASA Rover has captured the claw of an actual, living alien on the surface of Mars - and the space agency made a botched attempt to cover it up. At least, that’s the opinion of the tireless UFO hunter Scott C Waring of UFO Sightings Daily - behind sightings such as a baby polar bear, a ‘dark lady’, and a weird space crab on Mars. If Waring is right, the Red Planet must be a very busy place indeed. Waring says, ‘On the hand that is visible on the far left of the ...
Chinese Scientists Invent Chip Similar To A Human Brain
Post Date: 2015-12-31 04:24:09 by Tatarewicz
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The Science Times Chinese scientists have invented an advanced chip that is allegedly similar to that of a human brain. The so-called "Darwin" is a joint creation of researchers from both Hangzhou Dianzi University and Zhejiang University. The human-brain like chip, otherwise called Darwin Neural Processing Unit, is launched earlier this week after a yearlong of hardwork and research. "It can perform intelligent computer tasks by simulating a human brain's neural networks, in which neurons connect with another via synapses," Dr. Ma De of Hangzhou Dianzi University said. The new technology that can carry out sophisticated tasks and decode ambiguous information is ...
Missing Electrons in the Atmosphere Possibly Found
Post Date: 2015-12-30 23:34:51 by Tatarewicz
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[LiveScience.com]Yahoo... The layers of Earth's atmosphere. A mysterious decline in the concentration of free electrons occurs in the D-region of the ionosphere, a phenomenon known as the D-region ledge. Now, researchers suggest the ledge can be explained by the burn up Scientists may have finally found the cause of a mysterious disappearance of electrons dozens of miles above Earth. It turns out that a layer of invisible meteor dust falling to Earth every day may be sucking up electrons coming from higher in the atmosphere, creating the so-called "D-region ledge," where the concentration of electrons suddenly plunges, Earle Williams, an atmospheric electrician at the ...
Floating anti-plastic waste dam to be tested in North Sea
Post Date: 2015-12-30 12:40:00 by Horse
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The Hague (AFP) - A revolutionary floating dam that traps plastic bags, bottles and other waste choking the world's oceans will be tested at sea for the first time in 2016, the Ocean Cleanup foundation said. "It will be the first time our barrier design will be put to the test in openwaters," the foundation said of the 100 metre-long (62 miles) barrier segment that will be deployed 23 kilometres off the coast of The Netherlands in the second quarter of the year. Most ocean waste collection programmes use boats to scour the surf for the plastic flotsam and jetsam in which dolphins, seals and other sea creatures become entangled. Ocean Cleanup's barrier uses currents to ...
Astronomers look to high-mass stars for clues to the origins of life
Post Date: 2015-12-30 02:28:14 by Tatarewicz
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"High mass stars play an important role in the evolution of galaxies and ultimately hold the secrets of the origins of life on Earth," explained researcher Takeshi Sakai. Researchers believe 70 percent of all stars are born in clusters. Astrophysicists are looking to high-mass stars in faraway clusters for clues to the origins of life. TOKYO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- New research out of Japan promises to bolster the search for the origins of life in the distant cosmos. The chemical building blocks of biological life were born in the fiery formations of stars. But which stars, and where and how? Astrophysicist Takeshi Sakai believes large stars born in the stellar clusters 10,000 ...
Scientists have invented a new glass coating for omnidirectional solar panels
Post Date: 2015-12-30 02:10:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... One of the limitations of current solar panel technology is the panels need to be facing in a certain direction to make the most of the Sun's rays, otherwise the amount of energy they can absorb drops off dramatically. A newly invented material could make the direction of solar panels much less of a concern in the future. The material has been produced by electrical engineers at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia and Taiwan's National Central University. Not only does the glass coating they've come up with soak up sunlight from multiple angles more effectively, it's also able to keep itself clean - the newly ...
4 things you should buy to save money and enrage your cable company
Post Date: 2015-12-30 00:14:41 by Tatarewicz
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[BGR News] Think about how much money you’ve paid to your Internet and cable service provider over the years. Each and every month you cough up $50, $75, $100, $150 or even more for your home Internet, television and phone service, but a big portion of your bill isn’t even for those services. You pay extra for equipment, and what cable companies don’t tell you is that you don’t always have to. And while the services themselves are necessities for some people, cutting the cable TV cord and going with Internet service only can save you even more cash. Best of all, the more money you save each month, the the more money your cable company will lose and the angrier ...
Russia’s 'Terminator' Chopper to Become Immune to Missiles, Radars
Post Date: 2015-12-29 23:52:07 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik...Russia’s Mi-8AMTSh “Terminator” armored assault helicopters are being fitted with radio-electronic warfare technology, making them immune to enemy missiles, an Eastern Military District spokesman told reporters on Monday. “The Vitebsk onboard electronic jammer ensures protection against enemy missiles and radar by generating optical and radio-electronic interference. It can also sidetrack heat-seeking missiles by creating an “electronic dome” around the helicopter and blinding oncoming missiles with a laser beam,” Alexander Gordeyev said. Mi-8 AMTSh helicopters © Sputnik/ Vitaliy Ankov Crews of Russian Mi-8 'Terminator' Helicopters ...
Ancient Irish Genome Sequenced By Scientists, Reveals Massive Migration
Post Date: 2015-12-29 08:47:16 by Ada
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Genetic analysis of a neolithic woman from near Belfast, Ireland, shows that she had black hair and brown eyes. Pictured: The reconstructed skull of the neolithic woman. A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast has sequenced the first genomes from ancient Irish people, providing insights into questions about the origins and culture of the region. Results of the study were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The researchers sequenced the genome of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast some 5,200 years ago, and those of three men from a later period, around 4,000 years ...
Now's your last chance to see Comet Catalina in your lifetime
Post Date: 2015-12-29 00:57:24 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Over the next few weeks, one of the most beautiful comets we’ve ever discovered, Comet Catalina, will pass by Earth in what’s expected to be its first and only visit to the inner Solar System. And while its closest flyby for those in the Northern Hemisphere will be on 17 January 2016, you might want to stash some binoculars in your bag on New Year’s Day - on 1 January, Comet Catalina is expected to move within 0.4 degrees (less than the apparent width of the Moon) of Arcturus - one of the brightest stars in the sky. If ever there were a ridiculous space photography moment, this is it.
Do you share more genes with your mother or your father?
Post Date: 2015-12-28 04:24:26 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Many of your relatives probably have an answer to the question of whether you are more your mother or your father’s child. But the correct answer to the question is not as simple as it might seem. Genetically, you actually carry more of your mother’s genes than your father’s. That’s because of little organelles that live within your cells, the mitochondria, which you only receive from your mother. Mitochondria are the energy-producing factories of the cell; without them, a cell would not be able to generate energy from food. Mitochondria have an interesting history, as about 1.5-billion to 2-billion years ago they were free-living organisms. The ...
New Technology in Gold Mining Sector Could Be a “Game Changer”
Post Date: 2015-12-27 19:33:21 by BTP Holdings
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New Technology in Gold Mining Sector Could Be a “Game Changer” As promised, we have a very special report for you. There is something going on in the Junior Gold Space that you need to know about. In fact… it could Revolutionize the Mining Industry. There is a new technology created by an innovative mining company that is about to be rolled out – and it could be a GAME CHANGER. David Morgan, Editor of the renowned newsletter known as The Morgan Report, will reveal ALL THE DETAILS on this breakthrough. In order to get this special report just follow the arrow. You need to enter in your first name, your primary email address and click the “Get Special ...
What Is "The Internet of Things"? We Traveled 9,000 Miles to Find Out
Post Date: 2015-12-27 14:08:40 by BTP Holdings
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What Is "The Internet of Things"? We Traveled 9,000 Miles to Find Out With Apple and Google both pushing to become major players in the Internet of Things, the Fool goes on a 9,000 mile journey to explore the trend. "Industrial Internet could add a sizable $10 [trillion]-$15 trillion to global GDP -- the size of today's U.S. economy." -- General Electric "We estimate the potential economic impact of the Internet of Things to be $2.7 trillion to $6.2 trillion per year by 2025." -- McKinsey & Company The numbers surrounding the "Internet of Things" are astonishing, and with each passing week more and more companies are planting their own ...
Astronomers Warn of Looming Giant Comets
Post Date: 2015-12-27 06:00:57 by Tatarewicz
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Despite our best efforts to identify potential asteroid strikes that could wreak havoc on Earth, astronomers are now warning that debris from giant comets could pose an even more dangerous threat to the planet. In an article in the Royal Astronomical Society journal, researchers explained that hundreds of massive comets have been observed in our distant solar system over the last two decades. On rare occasions when these comets enter the gravitational field of other planets, they could be deflected in the direction of Earth and, in turn, crumble into a huge field of debris due to the sun. Should such an event occur, they warn, the onslaught of debris on the planet would be devastating. ...
Comcast has just started rolling out its gigabit internet service
Post Date: 2015-12-27 04:07:14 by Tatarewicz
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[The Verge] When you think about gigabit internet connections for consumers, Google is certainly one of the first names that comes to mind. Now, over three years after Google Fiber launched in Kansas City, Comcast is moving forward with its own gigabit service. The company says that its first customer using the service has been set up in Philadelphia. To get 1000 Mbps down and up to the home, Comcast is taking a different approach than Google. Instead of laying new fiber connections to houses, it's using the new DOCSIS 3.1 standard which works over the existent "hybrid fiber coaxial" networks. That means it's a lot less expensive to roll out, and once Comcast gets ...
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