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What happens when you no longer own your own DNA sequencing and the person who has it refuses to release it to you?.
Having your genome sequenced doesn’t always mean you have full access to the data.
Mar 6, 2016
Flexible Glass Could Bring Back the Flip Phone
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: mobile phones
Schott can make a sheet of glass thinner than your hair and half a kilometer long that bends, but doesn’t yet fold.
Mar 6, 2016
3D-Printed Drugs Coming Soon
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, health
Frankly, in the US this makes me really nervous. Placing drug making 3D printers in your local pharmacies. I hope that the manufacturer has a mechanism setup to cause the machine not to work if it is stolen by the local drug gangs.
The brave new world of 3D-printed drugs in the healthcare industry is heating up.
Mar 5, 2016
It’s official: Native Americans and Siberians are cousins
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: genetics
After more than a century of speculation, an international group of geneticists has conclusively proven that the Aztecs, Incas, and Iroquois are closely related to the peoples of Altai, the Siberian region that borders China and Mongolia.
Mar 5, 2016
Should We Worry That We’re Headed for Cyber World War I?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, internet, military
Reserve you calendars for March 9th because New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative is hosting its annual Cybersecurity for a New America Conference in Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, March 9, New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative will host its annual Cybersecurity for a New America Conference in Washington, D.C. This year’s conference will focus on securing the future cyberspace. For more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website.
So, what does cyberwar mean anyway?
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Mar 5, 2016
This Ransomware encrypts your files and then reads you the ransom note
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: cybercrime/malcode
Adding insult to injury.
From Russia with Love : Cerber Ransomware first encrypts your files and then reads out the ransom note.
Malware authors are know to be a ingenious lot and trust them to come with a Ransomware that actually reads out the ransom note to the victim.
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Mar 5, 2016
Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Was Caught Hacking 45 Years Ago
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode
Mar 5, 2016
IRS Hack Getting Worse as the Agency Discovers That More Accounts Has Been Compromised
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, finance
There finally comes a point that you have to question why even have unique identity cards or numbers anymore.
The United States Internal Revenue Services have been battling a huge hacking scandal for nearly a year now. In the month of May last year, the Internal Revenue Services discovered that their security system shad been compromised along with the account details and personal information of over 100,000 people.
Mar 5, 2016
ESA Planning To Build An International Village… On The Moon!
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
With all the talk about manned missions to Mars by the 2030s, its easy to overlook another major proposal for the next great leap. In recent years, the European Space Agency has been quite vocal about its plan to go back to the Moon by the 2020s. More importantly, they have spoken often about their plans to construct a moon base, one which would serve as a staging platform for future missions to Mars and beyond.
These plans were detailed at a recent international symposium that took place on Dec. 15th at the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk, Netherlands. During the symposium, which was titled “Moon 2020–2030 – A New Era of Coordinated Human and Robotic Exploration”, the new Director General of the ESA – Jan Woerner – articulated his agency’s vision.
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