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Mar 6, 2016

L.A.’s U.S. Bank Tower is Installing Glass Slide

Posted by in category: futurism

The U.S Bank Tower in Los Angeles will be opening a fully enclosed glass side called SkySlide, which will perch 1,000 feet above the street. Read on.

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Mar 6, 2016

Own Your DNA

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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.

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Mar 6, 2016

Flexible Glass Could Bring Back the Flip Phone

Posted by 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.

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Mar 6, 2016

3D-Printed Drugs Coming Soon

Posted by 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.

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Mar 5, 2016

It’s official: Native Americans and Siberians are cousins

Posted by 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.

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Mar 5, 2016

Should We Worry That We’re Headed for Cyber World War I?

Posted by 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 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 in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode

World’s most famous hackers: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.

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Mar 5, 2016

IRS Hack Getting Worse as the Agency Discovers That More Accounts Has Been Compromised

Posted by 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.

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Mar 5, 2016

ESA Planning To Build An International Village… On The Moon!

Posted by 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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