Public Release: 26-Apr-2017 New genes are more likely to emerge full-fledged from a genome’s ‘junk’ DNA, according to UA scientists. University of Arizona New genes are more likely to appear on the stage of evolution in full-fledged form… Read More ›
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Hackers can crack your cell phone PIN# 100% of the time in 5 attempts or less
Public Release: 10-Apr-2017 Are your sensors spying on you? How criminals can steal your PIN by tracking the motion of your phone Newcastle University Hackers are able to decipher PINs and passwords just from the way we tilt our phone… Read More ›
Upgrading humans into GODS will be the next ‘billion dollar industry’ expert claims
Expert said today’s humans will become obsolete within the next 60 years Humans will transform themselves into ‘gods’ with technology upgrades But because the technology will be expensive, not everyone will be able to do so Will cause a… Read More ›
Very low frequency electromagnetic field exposure linked to motor neurone disease
Public Release: 29-Mar-2017 Association evident among men exposed through work BMJ Workplace exposure to very low frequency electromagnetic fields may be linked to a doubling in risk of developing the most common form of motor neurone disease–amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,… Read More ›
Desktop scanners can be hijacked to perpetrate cyberattacks
Public Release: 28-Mar-2017 American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev BEER-SHEVA, Israel…March 28, 2017 – A typical office scanner can be infiltrated and a company’s network compromised using different light sources, according to a new paper by researchers… Read More ›
Dark Matter; Your phone has been permanently bugged, even if factory reset-Wikileaks
Dark Matter 23 March, 2017 Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Dark Matter”, which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by… Read More ›
Wi-fi on rays of light: 100 times faster, and never overloaded
Public Release: 17-Mar-2017 Eindhoven University of Technology gets a speed of 42.8 Gbit/s with a ray of light in an optical wireless network Eindhoven University of Technology Slow wi-fi is a source of irritation that nearly everyone experiences. Wireless… Read More ›
Researchers show how to hack a smartphone using sound waves
Thursday, 16 March 2017 A security loophole that would allow someone to add extra steps to the counter on your Fitbit monitor might seem harmless. But researchers say it points to the broader risks that come with technology’s embedding… Read More ›
RAND study examines 200 real-world ‘zero-day’ software vulnerabilities
Public Release: 9-Mar-2017 RAND Corporation Zero-day software vulnerabilities – security holes that developers haven’t fixed or aren’t aware of – can lurk undetected for years, leaving software users particularly susceptible to hackers. A new study from the RAND… Read More ›
Machines will soon know how to make you cry
Public Release: 9-Mar-2017 Songs that make robots cry Osaka University IMAGE: This is a Brain Music EEG headset. Credit: Osaka University Music, more than any art, is a beautiful mix of science and emotion. It follows a set of… Read More ›
The Darknet protects itself by being more robust against attacks
Public Release: 6-Mar-2017 This hidden network is used for sensitive and often illegal purposes such as drug trafficking or exchanging child pornography and can counter large attacks on its own by spontaneously adding more network capacity Universitat Rovira i… Read More ›
VAULT 7 “YEAR ZERO” CIA HACK Wikileaks – Press Release
Editors Note (Ralph Turchiano): Unfortunately at this time it appears that the CIA may have been majorly compromised Press Release Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…. Read More ›
ObamaGate: List of Politicians and Journalists Obama Spied on, WikiLeaks 06 March 2017
Monday, 06 March 2017 It is not unfounded that former President Obama would wire tap President Trump during the election process. This is because he has done this before, many, many times. Here is a list of individuals who… Read More ›
Computer bots are more like humans than you might think, having fights lasting years
Public Release: 23-Feb-2017 Bots interact with one another, whether or not by design, and it leads to unpredictable consequences University of Oxford Researchers say ‘benevolent bots’, otherwise known as software robots, that are designed to improve articles on Wikipedia sometimes… Read More ›
Cameras can steal data from computer hard drive LED lights — Ben-Gurion U. study
Public Release: 22-Feb-2017 American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev BEER-SHEVA, Israel…Feb. 22, 2017 – Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have demonstrated that data can be stolen from an isolated… Read More ›
The heart of a far-off star beats for its planet
Public Release: 14-Feb-2017 Scientists observe first planet-induced stellar pulsations Massachusetts Institute of Technology For the first time, astronomers from MIT and elsewhere have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet. The star, which goes by the… Read More ›
Now you can ‘build your own’ bio-bot
Public Release: 13-Feb-2017 University of Illinois College of Engineering Caption This is a schematic of a bio-bot: Engineered skeletal muscle tissue is coupled to a 3-D printed flexible skeleton. Optical stimulation of the muscle tissue, which is genetically… Read More ›
DeepMind’s AI can learn to act aggressively | WIRED UK
By MATT BURGESS Thursday 9 February 2017 Artificial intelligence changes the way it behaves based on the environment it is in, much like humans do, according to the latest research from DeepMind . Computer scientists from the Google-owned firm have… Read More ›
Stanford research shows that anyone can become an Internet troll
Public Release: 7-Feb-2017 Stanford University Internet trolls, by definition, are disruptive, combative and often unpleasant with their offensive or provocative online posts designed to disturb and upset. The common assumption is that people who troll are different from… Read More ›
Passing the chemical Turing test: Making artificial and real cells talk
Public Release: 25-Jan-2017 American Chemical Society The classic Turing test evaluates a machine’s ability to mimic human behavior and intelligence. To pass, a computer must fool the tester into thinking it is human–typically through the use of questions… Read More ›
Your Android device’s Pattern Lock can be cracked within 5 attempts
Public Release: 23-Jan-2017 The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just 5 attempts — and more complicated patterns are the easiest to crack, security experts reveal Lancaster University Caption… Read More ›
Your ‘anonmyized’ web browsing history may not be anonymous
Public Release: 19-Jan-2017 Princeton University, Engineering School IMAGE: Arvind Narayanan, assistant professor of computer science, Princeton University. Credit: Frank Wojciechowski Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a study… Read More ›
Heartbeat could be used as password to access electronic health records
Public Release: 18-Jan-2017 Researchers use heart’s electrical pattern as encryption key for electronic records Binghamton University IMAGE: Zhanpeng Jin is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Thomas J. Watson School of… Read More ›
Researchers use world’s smallest diamonds to make wires 3 atoms wide
Public Release: 26-Dec-2016 LEGO-style building method has potential for making 1-dimensional materials with extraordinary properties DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park, Calif. — Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered… Read More ›
University of Minnesota research shows people can control a robotic arm with only their minds
Public Release: 14-Dec-2016 Groundbreaking study demonstrates potential to help millions of people with disabilities University of Minnesota IMAGE: Research subjects at the University of Minnesota fitted with a specialized noninvasive brain cap were able to move the robotic… Read More ›
Baby robots help humans understand infant development
Public Release: 5-Dec-2016 Wiley Caption To understand the world, human beings fabricate and experiment. To understand ourselves and how we come to be the way we are, researchers are currently building baby robots with mechanisms that model aspects… Read More ›
How it takes just 6 seconds to hack a credit card
Public Release: 1-Dec-2016 Newcastle University New research reveals the ease with which criminals can hack an account without ANY of the card details Dubbed the Distributed Guessing Attack, the team from Newcastle University, UK, say it can take just… Read More ›
University of Leicester researchers outline how kinds of products of our technology now outnumber the planet’s biotic species
Public Release: 30-Nov-2016 Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons, research finds University of Leicester IMAGE: These are changes to planet. Credit: University of Leicester The planet’s technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons – a mass of… Read More ›
It takes less than a second to tell humans from androids
Public Release: 28-Nov-2016 TV shows may have us fooled, but in real life, our brains make accurate snap judgments about what is real University of California – Berkeley It can be hard to tell the difference between humans… Read More ›
Google says its artificial intelligence has taught itself to ‘translate between languages that it doesn’t even know’ | Daily Mail Online
‘Zero-shot translation’ can translate between languages it doesn’t know Deep-learning researchers developed Google Neural Machine Translation GNMT developed algorithm that ‘self-teaches’ it to translate languages By ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 10:58 EST, 27 November 2016 | UPDATED: 14:11 EST,… Read More ›
How to protect your laptop — even when it’s asleep
Public Release: 23-Nov-2016 Concordia researchers design a new solution for safer computing Concordia University Montreal, November 23, 2016 — In the age of WikiLeaks, Russian hacks and increased government surveillance, many computer users are feeling increasingly worried about… Read More ›
Malware that turns PCs into eavesdropping devices, even without a microphone
Public Release: 22-Nov-2016 Malware that turns PCs into eavesdropping devices demonstrated by Ben-Gurion U. American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev BEER-SHEVA, Israel, Nov. 22, 2016 – Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have demonstrated malware that can… Read More ›
Adult Friend Finder Website Hacked: How To Search The Leaked Database Of Emails And Usernames For The Adult Dating Site
Adult Friend Finder has been hit with a data breach 10 times larger than last year’s Ashley Madison attack, and anyone worried that their information may be out will be able to search the adult website’s hacked database. The website,… Read More ›
Major breakthrough in Cyborg Technology
Public Release: 15-Nov-2016 Researchers create living bio-hybrid system Interdisciplinary approach makes linking biological materials and electronic devices possible American Institute of Physics These are immunofluorescence analysis of SH-SY5Y cells treated for 5 days with 10uM Retinoic Acid and 50ng/ml… Read More ›
Pro-Trump and pro- Clinton software robots produce 3.8 million tweets masquerading as humans
Public Release: 4-Nov-2016 Fake Tweets, real consequences for the election A USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Scientist worries that robot-generated tweets could compromise the presidential election University of Southern California Software robots masquerading as humans are influencing the political… Read More ›
Illuminating lies with brain scan outshines polygraph test, Penn study finds
Public Release: 3-Nov-2016 fMRI spots more lies in first controlled comparison of the 2 technologies University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Caption Image is a Z-statistic map threshold at voxel-height probability of P<.001and cluster probability of P<.05 displayed… Read More ›
The State Department in 2015 was helping Hillary Clinton with her emails – WikiLeaks
New emails suggest coordination between State Department and Clinton camp WikiLeaks has published a new cache of emails from Clinton staffer John Podesta. The latest trove appears to show the State Department telling Clinton about the report that broke the… Read More ›
Can a brain-computer interface convert your thoughts to text?
Public Release: 25-Oct-2016 Recent research shows brain-to-text device capable of decoding speech from brain signals Frontiers Ever wonder what it would be like if a device could decode your thoughts into actual speech or written words? While this… Read More ›
Researchers find weakness in common computer chip – weak point in address space layout randomization (ASLR)
Public Release: 25-Oct-2016 Team shows weak point could allow computer hackers complete control Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY – Researchers from Binghamton University–State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell… Read More ›
Artificial Intelligence may help in human rights trials
Public Release: 23-Oct-2016 AI predicts outcomes of human rights trials University College London The judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been predicted to 79% accuracy using an artificial intelligence (AI) method developed by researchers… Read More ›
The E-Mail that Compromised President Obama as well as others
I am only linking to Wikileaks https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/73877 there you will find bobama@ameritech.net from an e-mail blast by the sender laura@wassermans.com. Ironically these e-mails were compromised through the Sony Hack. Even though the Presidents E-mail was considered Hacked in 2008,… Read More ›
Robot journalists to start writing news and sports stories for Britain and Ireland’s national news agency – Mirror Online
Non-human hacks will be rolled out to cover sports, football and elections at the Press Association Robot journalists are set to start working at Britain and Ireland’s national news agency. The cybernetic scribes will be “more accurate” than flesh and… Read More ›
If you post this cat photo on Facebook, your account may get deleted
Actual Photo Below Tanveer Mann for Metro.co.uk Monday 3 Oct 2016 12:36 pm If you share this cat photo, your Facebook account could be shut disabled. Google cats and you’ll be in feline heaven. Small, large, furry, innocent, they’re… Read More ›
Clinton Leaked Fundraiser Remarks – Washington Free Beacon
“Will you cancel this program if President Obama doesn’t in the next 11 months and lead the world in a ban on this particularly destabilizing, dangerous type of nuclear weapon?” Weber asked at around 39:00 in the recording. Clinton said… Read More ›
ICANN will soon have the power to shut down ‘.gov,’ preventing public access to state websites."
Four States Sue USA to Try to Stop Transfer of Internet Manager By CAMERON LANGFORD GALVESTON (CN) – With the U.S. government set to cede control at midnight Friday over the nonprofit that manages the internet, Texas and… Read More ›
Russian Robot Arrested during Rally, tried to Escape Twice from Manufacturer
Tuesday, 27 September 2016 A robot has been arrested while taking part in a political rally in Russia, after police intervened to prevent it from interacting with the public. According to reports, the activist robot – called Promobot, and… Read More ›
Are we making AIs racist and sexist? Researchers warn machines are learning to have human biases | Daily Mail Online
When large data sets include social bias, machines learn that too, explains James Zou, Assistant Professor for Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. AI systems take as input large amounts of raw data and extract patterns When these large… Read More ›
Your body may soon be inhabited by swarms of microrobots
The microdoctors in our bodies Date: September 21, 2016 Source: ETH Zurich Summary: Researchers are developing tiny, sophisticated technological and biological machines enabling non-invasive, selective therapies. Their creations include genetically modified cells that can be activated via brain waves, and… Read More ›
President Obama caught Directly Lying in regard to Hillary E-Mail Server ?
‘How is this not classified?’ Obama used a code name to talk with Hillary on her personal email, as new FBI records reveal that even her top aide Huma was shocked by unsecure messages Huma Abedin told FBI the White… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 