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10 Shocking And Bizarre Riot Control Weapons From Around The World
Post Date: 2016-01-23 08:11:40 by Ada
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JANUARY 22, 2016With economic turmoil, global climate change, and wars across the globe, riots and protests have become an increasingly big problem for world governments. While some still go with the old-fashioned methods for brutally cracking down on protesters, some governments have turned to technology for more effective ways to corral their own citizens. Some of these weapons are quite terrifying, hardly humane in the least, and could have terrible consequences if we allow them to become a normal part of everyday life. Click for Full Text!
Planet 9: Secret, dark world may be hiding in our solar system
Post Date: 2016-01-21 08:28:40 by Ada
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The mysterious object has been spotted disturbing the movement of smaller objects in the outer solar system — but is too far away to be spotted directly This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night side Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) A huge planet might be sitting at the edge of our solar system without ever being seen. The world — which could be about ten times as massive as Earth — would be large enough to become the ninth planet of our solar system. The planet hasn’t yet been seen by scientists. Instead, they have found ...
Earth's temperature depends on where you put thermometer
Post Date: 2016-01-20 13:02:20 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to measuring global warming, it's all about altitude. Temperature readings taken close to Earth's surface — about 6 feet off the ground — show a slightly warmer planet than measurements taken from on high by satellites in orbit. And that discrepancy has given ammunition to climate-change doubters. Government agencies and most scientists rely primarily on ground measurements, and they show that 2015 was the warmest year on record. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NASA, the Japanese and British meteorological agencies and the World Meteorological Organization all use ground data. It's a matter of better accuracy ...
Nissan's new 400 bhp engine fits in carry-on luggage
Post Date: 2016-01-20 09:00:35 by NeoconsNailed
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It’s a common problem: You’re off to Le Mans with your new 400 bhp engine and you discover that it won’t fit in the airplane's overhead compartment. This week, Nissan showed off the answer to this traveler’s nightmare with its ultralight DIG-T R 1.5 liter, three-cylinder petrol engine that is small enough to fit in carry-on luggage and boasts a power-to-weight ratio better than the engine of a Formula 1 racer........ Click for Full Text!
The Inevitability of Eugenics: A Race of Self-Designing Tinker Toys
Post Date: 2016-01-19 07:10:08 by Ada
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Mention of eugenics inevitably results in whoops of horror, gnashing of hair, rending of teeth, and discussion of Hitler. Occasionally, however, matters of importance merit discussion even if they lead to Hitler. If by “eugenics” is meant both the selective breeding of humans and genetic manipulation of ourselves, we will shortly have to discuss it, Fuehrer or no Fuehrer. Google on “Designer babies.” To the gnashers and renders, eugenics always involves the killing of genetically inferior children, preferably by uniformed Nazis. A better term for this might be “first-degree murder.” Usually it would be. On the other hand, medical ambiguities exist. What ...
Prof Stephen Hawking Has More Bad News For Humanity: We’re About To Wipe Ourselves Out
Post Date: 2016-01-19 06:40:49 by BTP Holdings
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Prof Stephen Hawking Has More Bad News For Humanity: We’re About To Wipe Ourselves Out feed_manager_auto_publish_494--autopubtest_WPTUMBLR_485 2 hours ago Cheery physicist Professor Stephen Hawking says that mankind could be wiped out by our own creations within the next 100 years. Answering audience questions at this year’s BBC Reith Lectures, he said that our rush to understand and improve life through science and technology could be humanity’s undoing. He has previously suggested that colonising other planets will be the only way that the human race can survive, but he warns that we may lose Earth to some kind of major disaster before we have a chance to properly do ...
The World Is Hemorrhaging Methane, and Now We Can See Where
Post Date: 2016-01-15 14:02:18 by Horse
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Lunatic Left
Post Date: 2016-01-14 06:35:23 by Dead Culture Watch
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Experts predicts some genetic changes could take place quickly For example, some humans already have a mutation that causes webbing A layer in the retina may develop to help us see in poor light under water Our noses and face size would increase to help warm inhaled cold air in the nasopharynx, the area behind the nose Humans may evolve bizarre features such as webbed feet and eyes like cats in response to changing environments, a scientist claims today. Experts calculated how our physical appearance could change under a number of scenarios, including a 'water world' if melting ice caps cause rising sea levels. They also considered what would happen in a second ice age which could ...
New material converts CO2 into clean fuel with unprecedented efficiency
Post Date: 2016-01-09 04:10:24 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A new material made from microscopic layers of cobalt can convert carbon dioxide gas into formate - a fuel that can be burned with no toxic byproducts and used as a clean energy source. Developed by a team of researchers in China, the material could be one way to deal with the 36 gigatonnes of CO2 we release into the atmosphere each year due to fossil fuel use. Scientists have been struggling for decades to come up with an energy-efficient way to transform CO2 into something useful, and early testing points to this new material as being one of the most promising options we’ve seen so far. "This represents a fundamental scientific breakthrough," Karthish ...
Can’t arrest a robot’: Snowden's hi-tech disguise surprises audience at Vegas convention
Post Date: 2016-01-09 03:42:25 by Tatarewicz
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Published time: 9 Jan, 2016 04:43 Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden © Charles Platiau Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden © Charles Platiau / Reuters Appearing on a telepresence device, former National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden talked cybersecurity and playfully taunted the US government, saying, “The FBI can’t arrest a robot.” TagsSciTech, Snowden The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas features cutting edge technology, but the biggest surprise this year was a whistleblower. Snowden showcased the Beam, a screen-on-wheels robot by Suitable Technologies for offices ...
Pedal, solar power aims to be the new hybrid
Post Date: 2016-01-08 22:36:27 by Tatarewicz
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yahoo... Las Vegas (AFP) - Is it a car, a bike or some other kind of contraption? It looks like an inverted tricycle with an egg-shaped shell. The makers of the Elf vehicle tout it as the future of environmentally friendly urban transport, combining pedal power with battery propulsion and solar charging. Take a look inside: there are no doors or floorboards, making it appear like a car that came out of a "Flintstones" cartoon. "We believe in human-powered mobility," said Craig Sparks, showing off the vehicle from startup Organic Transit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. "This is a town runner. You can run your errands, go to the grocery store. You ...
No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
Post Date: 2016-01-08 11:15:30 by Horse
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This Chinese octocopter wants to fly you at 60 mph
Post Date: 2016-01-07 01:54:31 by Tatarewicz
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[CNET] The EHang 184 AAV is designed to fly a passenger for a trip lasting up to 23 minutes. Think Amazon delivery drones are a radical idea? A Chinese startup called Ehang has used the same technology to build an aircraft to carry a passenger more than 20 miles. The EHang 184 AAV is a one-person pod lifted by eight rotors mounted in pairs on four folding arms -- thus the number 184. Announced Wednesday at the CES tech show in Las Vegas, the battery-powered aircraft is designed to carry a passenger for 23 minutes at about 60 miles per hour. The machine pilots itself. For decades, people have dreamed of soaring over traffic jams with jetpacks, flying cars and other personal aircraft. ...
Japanese scientists claim ‘mind-reading’ ability in fresh study
Post Date: 2016-01-06 06:59:19 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A Japanese professor has discovered a way of reading thoughts before a person actually voices them. The study centered on finding a connection between sound waves made by speech and the brainwaves elicited just before that. To arrive at his conclusions, Professor Toshimasa Yamazaki of the Kyushu Institute of Technology asked several groups of participants of all genders and ages to recite particular words in Japanese – "goo," "scissors" and "par." The common thing between them is the very similar waveforms they produced, both when spoken and left unsaid. READ MORE: Blind woman fitted with ‘bionic eye’ sees for first time in 6yrs ...
Four new elements have been added to the periodic table
Post Date: 2016-01-04 04:11:49 by Tatarewicz
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The Verge/Yahoo... Four new elements have been permanently added to the periodic table, after their discoveries were verified by the global chemistry organization that oversees the table. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) last week announced that elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 have met its criteria for discovery, making them the first elements to be added to the periodic table since 2011. Their addition also completes the seventh row of the periodic table. All four man-made elements currently have placeholder names, and will be officially named over the next few months. Elements 115, 117, and 118 were discovered by a team of scientists from the Joint Institute ...
New company claims they'll be able to RESURRECT THE DEAD by 2045
Post Date: 2016-01-04 01:49:41 by Tatarewicz
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Express... Entrepreneur Josh Bocanegra attracted a lot of attention when he announced his new artificial intelligence company Humai. Why? Because he claims that by 2045, they'll be able to resurrect the dead. The new company are aiming to “extend and enhance life" by freezing human brains for extended periods of time using cryonics, a deep freezing technology using very low temperatures, and then putting them into artificial bodies. But Josh claims the company's ultimate goal is to preserve a human brain BEFORE a person dies. He claims if they were able to transplant a live person’s brain into a bionic body, than it would “achieve a point where no one has to ...
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 ...
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