Engineers from University of Southhampton made and flew the first “printed aircraft ever.” The plane is an unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The entire structure of the plane was printed including the control surfaces, access, hatches, and even the wings. During the build of it, no fasteners were used and all the equipment was “snapped in” so it could be put …Continue Reading
Just when you thought your Smartphone couldn’t get any smarter, a new app has successfully been tested to detect cancer. How? First you use a special scanner, developed by Harvard and MIT researchers, to extract cells using a tiny needle. Then you hook it up to your Smartphone, which analyzes the cells and delivers a diagnosis within an hour. The most …Continue Reading
You can’t buy love, but can you engineer it? A project at the National University of Singapore with all kinds of somewhat unsettling implications is trying to create the means for human-robot love by giving robots all the emotional and biological tools that human have. Read more here
You still can’t use Flash on it, but at least the iPad now allows you to swipe, pinch, and scroll through the entire human genome. A new app from the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia lets users travel through the entire human genome–all 3 billion base pairs of it.
Today is Data Privacy Day, a international holiday that raises awareness and promotes the education of data privacy. This day is celebrated every year on January 28th by educators, governments and professionals all over the world. Today, I’m using this holiday to reflect on the great strides Intelius has made in the area of data privacy. One notable accomplishment is …Continue Reading
In an effort to proliferate their malicious software, a growing segment of cybercriminals are now using USB devices to attack unsuspecting computer users, according to security firm Avast. PCWorld reports that 700,000 recorded attacks from last week – 12.5 percent of the total number of attacks – came from USB devices. Hackers use the AutoRun feature supported by Windows to …Continue Reading
Microsoft is set to patch a record-tying high of 34 vulnerabilities in its operating systems this week, reports Computer Weekly. The number of fixes included in the updates equals records set by patches made in October 2009 and June 2010. The security patches mainly address specific software vulnerabilities in Microsoft-developed software, rather than openings in the core operating system. As …Continue Reading
County police in Maryland are reminding parents of the importance of talking to their children about the dangers of the internet, reports the Maryland Gazette. According to Bruce Lohr, community crime prevention specialist for Maryland’s Department of Public Safety, 60 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 receive communications from strangers online. Of the youths contacted, nearly …Continue Reading
Intelius Chief Privacy Officer Jim Adler spoke yesterday on at the 20th Annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Networked Society. Jim was one of the panelists on the forum “Information Brokers and Privacy: Where’s the Balance”. You can catch his remarks at CFP Wiki page on the conference. Jim’s remarks begin at 27:10. What a fascinating discussion!
With the World Cup upon us, Naveen Jain, along with countless sports fans worldwide, has been enraptured futbol fever.