Public Release: 31-Jan-2018 UNIGE researchers show the limits of the precision of decoding brain activity, via modern machine learning techniques, particularly in processing speech sounds. Université de Genève For about the last ten years, researchers have been using artificial… Read More ›
Technology
Bitcoin wallet devices vulnerable to security hacks, study shows
Public Release: 23-Jan-2018 University of Edinburgh Devices used to manage accounts on the innovative payment system Bitcoin could be improved to provide better protection against hackers, research suggests. Computer scientists have identified security weak spots in gadgets that manage personal… Read More ›
From healthcare to warfare: How to regulate brain technology
Public Release: 18-Jan-2018 University of Basel Ethicists from the University of Basel have outlined a new biosecurity framework specific to neurotechnology. While the researchers declare an outright ban of dual-use technology ethically unjustified, they call for regulations aimed at… Read More ›
Developing a secure, un-hackable net
Public Release: 11-Jan-2018 University College London A method of securely communicating between multiple quantum devices has been developed by a UCL-led team of scientists, bringing forward the reality of a large-scale, un- hackable quantum network. To date, communicating via… Read More ›
NTU study finds that hackers could guess your phone PIN using its sensor data
Public Release: 26-Dec-2017 Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 26 Dec 2017 NTU study finds that hackers could guess your phone PIN using its sensor data Data from the physical sensors in a smart phone could be used by hackers to… Read More ›
Researchers found a security flaw that had 10 million banking app users at risk
Public Release: 6-Dec-2017 University of Birmingham Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed a tool to perform semi-automated security testing of mobile phone apps. After running the tool on a sample of 400 security critical apps, they… Read More ›
How can humans keep the upper hand on artificial intelligence?
Public Release: 4-Dec-2017 EPFL researchers have shown how human operators can maintain control over a system comprising several agents that are guided by artificial intelligence Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne IMAGE: The researchers from right to left: Rachid… Read More ›
Virtual reality for bacteria
Public Release: 1-Dec-2017 An interdisciplinary group of researchers interfaced individual bacteria with a computer to build a hybrid bio-digital circuit – Study published in Nature Communications Institute of Science and Technology Austria Caption Individual cells are digitally guided… Read More ›
Time between world-changing volcanic super-eruptions less than previously thought
Public Release: 29-Nov-2017 University of Bristol IMAGE: The Toba caldera was the site of a massive super-eruption 75,000 years ago. Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. After analysing a database of geological records dated within… Read More ›
Experts call for ethics rules to protect privacy, free will, as brain implants advance
Public Release: 13-Nov-2017 Columbia University The convergence of artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces may soon restore sight to the blind, allow the paralyzed to move robotic limbs and cure any number of brain and nervous system disorders. But without… Read More ›
For $1,000, anyone can purchase online ads to track your location and app use
Public Release: 18-Oct-2017 University of Washington Caption This map represents an individual’s morning commute. Red dots reflect the places where the UW computer security researchers were able to track that person’s movements by serving location-based ads: at home (real… Read More ›
Cells programmed like computers to fight disease
Public Release: 18-Sep-2017 Cells can be programmed like a computer to fight cancer, influenza, and other serious conditions – thanks to a breakthrough in synthetic biology by the University of Warwick University of Warwick IMAGE: This is a… Read More ›
Why we did not evolve to live forever: Unveiling the mystery of why we age
Public Release: 15-Sep-2017 Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, have made a breakthrough in understanding the origin of the ageing process. They have identified that genes belonging to a process… Read More ›
AI uses less than two minutes of videogame footage to recreate game engine
Public Release: 11-Sep-2017 Georgia Institute of Technology Game studios and enthusiasts may soon have a new tool at their disposal to speed up game development and experiment with different styles of play. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed… Read More ›
Are we being watched? Tens of other worlds could spot the Earth
Public Release: 8-Sep-2017 Royal Astronomical Society Caption Image showing where transits of our solar system planets can be observed. Each line represents where one of the planets could be seen to transit, with the blue line representing Earth;… Read More ›
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability
Public Release: 5-Sep-2017 Boron compounds play role in stabilizing sugars needed to make RNA, a key to life DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory IMAGE: A selfie of the NASA Curiosity rover at the Murray Buttes in Gale Crater, Mars, a… Read More ›
Black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies, allowing light to escape
Public Release: 30-Aug-2017 Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light University of Iowa Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark. The intense, seminal event that created the cosmos churned up so much hot, thick… Read More ›
Monkeys with Parkinson’s disease benefit from human stem cells
Public Release: 30-Aug-2017 Transplantation of neurons made from induced pluripotent stem cells show long-term benefit in monkeys with Parkinson’s disease Center for iPS Cell Research and Application – Kyoto University IMAGE: Monkeys show reduced Parkinsonian symptoms following a donor-matched… Read More ›
Mathematical mystery of ancient Babylonian clay tablet solved
Public Release: 24-Aug-2017 University of New South Wales IMAGE: The 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York. Credit: UNSW/Andrew Kelly UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose… Read More ›
Follow the Bitcoin to find victims of human trafficking
Public Release: 16-Aug-2017 New machine learning algorithms will trace authors of exploitative advertising NYU Tandon School of Engineering BROOKLYN, New York – A team of university researchers has devised the first automated techniques to identify ads potentially tied to… Read More ›
Electronic devices can be covertly turned into active sonar devices to monitor you and others even through walls
Public Release: 16-Aug-2017 Computer scientists use music to covertly track body movements, activity University of Washington Caption Left-to-right: UW professor of computer science and engineering Tadayoshi Kohno, UW doctoral student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar and UW associate professor of computer science… Read More ›
Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch
Public Release: 7-Aug-2017 Device instantly delivers new DNA or RNA into living skin cells to change their function Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State’s College of Engineering have… Read More ›
Astronauts to bring asteroid back into lunar orbit
Public Release: 7-Aug-2017 Italian Space Agency presents plans to develop a robotic solar-powered spacecraft capable of displacing a near-Earth asteroid towards lunar orbit for ease of study Springer Future space exploration aims to fly further from Earth than… Read More ›
Why humans find faulty robots more likeable
Public Release: 4-Aug-2017 New social robotics research finds that humans prefer interacting with faulty robots significantly more than with robots that function and behave flawlessly Frontiers IMAGE: One of the study participants interacting with the robot during the… Read More ›
Recreating the wild: De-extinction, technology, and the ethics of conservation
Public Release: 4-Aug-2017 The Hastings Center Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology to “recreate” extinct species such as the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon. Could such “de-extinction”… Read More ›
Our solar system’s ‘shocking’ origin story
Public Release: 3-Aug-2017 New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin Carnegie Institution for Science Caption The colors represent the relative amounts of short-lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron-60, injected… Read More ›
Man versus (synthesis) machine
Public Release: 3-Aug-2017 Active machine learning for the discovery and crystallization of gigantic polyoxometalate molecules Wiley Who is the better experimentalist, a human or a robot? When it comes to exploring synthetic and crystallization conditions for inorganic gigantic… Read More ›
A robot that grows
Public Release: 20-Jul-2017 Mechanical engineers develop a robot that can navigate its environment by extending its reach University of California – Santa Barbara At first glance, robots would appear to have exactly nothing in common with sweet peas… Read More ›
Empowering robots for ethical behavior
Public Release: 18-Jul-2017 Researchers have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots and humans to work and live side-by-side safely and effectively Frontiers Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK have developed a concept called Empowerment… Read More ›
Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries
Public Release: 18-Jul-2017 University of Colorado at Boulder The origin and nature of Mars is mysterious. It has geologically distinct hemispheres, with smooth lowlands in the north and cratered, high-elevation terrain in the south. The red planet also has… Read More ›
Shh! Proven security for your secrets
Public Release: 14-Jul-2017 Kyoto University demonstrates the strength of its new cipher Kyoto University IMAGE: Kyoto University demonstrates the security of a cipher based on chaos theory. Credit: Kyoto Univeristy / Eiri Ono Kyoto, Japan — How do… Read More ›
A single nuclear warhead could cause devastating climate change resulting in widespread drought and famine that could cost a billion lives.
Public Release: 13-Jul-2017 Why a single nuke’s impact shouldn’t only be measured in megatons Study: Even ‘limited’ nuclear strike could cause widespread drought, famine University of Nebraska-Lincoln A test in 1952 of a nearly 10.9-megaton nuclear bomb at Enewatak… Read More ›
New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis
Public Release: 12-Jul-2017 FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology IMAGE: Will another planet be added to the list of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in our Solar System? Credit: NASA Last year,… Read More ›
Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do
Public Release: 5-Jul-2017 New study demonstrating that human ethical decisions can be implemented into machines has strong implications for managing the moral dilemmas autonomous cars may face on the road Frontiers Can a self-driving vehicle be moral, act like… Read More ›
Milky Way could have 100 billion brown dwarfs
Public Release: 5-Jul-2017 Royal Astronomical Society IMAGE: This is an artist’s impression of a T-type brown dwarf. Credit: Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Our galaxy could have 100 billion brown dwarfs or more, according to work by an international… Read More ›
Who is responsible if a brain-controlled robot drops a baby?
Public Release: 29-Jun-2017 Neuroethics: Neurotech experts call for new measures to ensure brain-controlled devices are beneficial and safe Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering Wyss Center, Geneva, Switzerland – As brain-controlled robots enter everyday life, an article published in… Read More ›
Beyond bananas: ‘Mind reading’ technology decodes complex thoughts
Public Release: 26-Jun-2017 Carnegie Mellon University Caption This latest research led by CMU’s Marcel Just builds on the pioneering use of machine learning algorithms with brain imaging technology to “mind read.” The findings indicate that the mind’s building… Read More ›
Unknown, unseen "planetary mass object" in our solar system may be making its presence known
Public Release: 21-Jun-2017 The curious case of the warped Kuiper Belt The plane of the solar system is warped in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, signaling the presence of an unknown Mars-to-Earth-mass planetary object far beyond Pluto, according… Read More ›
Blue Brain team discovers a multi-dimensional universe in brain networks–Up to 11 Dimensions
Public Release: 12-Jun-2017 Blue Brain team discovers a multi-dimensional universe in brain networks Using mathematics in a novel way in neuroscience, the Blue Brain Project demonstrates that the brain operates on many dimensions, not just the 3 dimensions that we… Read More ›
3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring
Public Release: 16-May-2017 Bioprosthetic ovaries produced mouse pups in otherwise infertile mice Northwestern University Used 3-D printing to create bioprosthetic mouse ovary to restore fertility, boost hormone production Targeted to women who survived childhood cancer, have had treatments… Read More ›
Under cyber attack: UH researchers look at how to catch a ‘phisher’
Public Release: 16-May-2017 UH study aims to help organizations improve email filters University of Houston As cybersecurity experts scramble to stop another wave of ransomware and malware scams that have infected computers around the world, computer science experts… Read More ›
Research increases distance at which supernova would spark mass extinctions on Earth
Public Release: 11-May-2017 University of Kansas LAWRENCE — In 2016, researchers published “slam dunk” evidence, based on iron-60 isotopes in ancient seabed, that supernovae buffeted the Earth — one of them about 2.6 million years ago. University of… Read More ›
Hospitals must be prepared for ransomware attacks (Printed just prior to the attacks)
Public Release: 10-May-2017 BMJ Hospitals need to be prepared for ransomware attacks, warns a doctor in The BMJ today. Dr Krishna Chinthapalli, a neurology registrar at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, describes how a virus… Read More ›
FBI has ‘been advising Hollywood studios to just pay hackers’ ransoms’
At least a half-dozen extortion attempts have been made against Hollywood firms in the past six months The FBI’s office in LA has become so overwhelmed with cases that they can’t properly investigate them all Industry sources told the… Read More ›
Mysterious Group Hacks The NSA – Equation Group / SHADOW BROKERS – Requested repost from AUG 2016
Tuesday, 16 August 2016 The latest hack revealed over the weekend has nothing to do with the Democratic Party or George Soros, and instead a mysterious hacker group by the name “The Shadow Brokers” claims to have hacked the… Read More ›
Cameron aide gave ‘top secret’ advice to Macron
Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor May 10 2017, 12:01am, The Times One of David Cameron’s top aides gave secret advice to the campaign for the French president-elect Emmanuel Macron, leaked emails have revealed. Ameet Gill, the former director of… Read More ›
New technology generates power from polluted air
Public Release: 8-May-2017 KU Leuven IMAGE: The new device must only be exposed to light in order to purify air and generate power. Credit: UAntwerpen and KU Leuven Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University… Read More ›
Please go to #MacronLeaks for current details. Torrent File link to Macron Emails in this post, or go to 4CHAN or Wikileaks – github
https://twitter.com/hashtag/macronleaks?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash https://archive.is/Sumq4 Torrent Files: http://archive.is/macronleaks.github.io Raw data portal to: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/124234624/#124234624
French Government Shuts Down 4Chan links of Macron Illegal Agitation at Le Pen rallies, Tax Evasion #MacronLeaks
This is bad. Really bad for Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. Stealing, cheating and inciting to violence against Le Pen. French government just shut down 4chan links with spreadsheet of Macron offshore banking details,and emails concerning illegal agitation at Le Pen… Read More ›
Are Emmanuel Macron’s Tax Evasion Documents Real? MAY 4, 2017 by GOTNEWS
Jessica Gomez is the pseudonym of this GotNews guest contributor. I am an auditor with over 2 decades of experience in one of the Big Three accounting firms. I have extensive experience examining large corporations that have subsidiaries around the… Read More ›
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