Cool science, might lead to designer babies – which IMHO are a good thing…
Serious mitochondrial disease: new techniques to prevent transmission – Consultations – GOV.UK.
UK Gov may allow kids from 1 sperm + 2 eggs = 3 donors
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Monthly Archives: February 2014
DIY Radar
But today we can use the good stuff that, until recently, was only available to military: radar. In this post we will discuss how radar works, commercially available small radar devices, and where to learn more to help make it easy to add radar to your next project.
via Guest Post: Try Radar for Your Next Project.
There are several different types of RADAR explained: Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler, Impulse, Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW).
Most important bits you can get for around $10,-.
Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward
This book addresses the simple and complex issues that have been identified through the development of space elevator concepts over the last decade. The report begins with a summary of those ideas in Edwards’ and Westling’s book The Space Elevator (2003). Out of these beginnings has risen a worldwide cadre focused upon their areas of expertise as applied to space elevator development and operational infrastructure. The report answers some basic questions about the feasibility of a space elevator infrastructure.
via Science Deck – Space Elevators.
This study was conducted under the auspices of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) […] , as well as the International Space Elevator Consortium. […] There were 41 authors and 5 editors.
Global Internet Porn Habits Infographic
This is a live feed of the porn searches being performed. Also, it has a map so that you can see what the top porn searches are per country.
Global Internet Porn Habits Infographic | PornMd Sex Search.
NL Gov decides Police can break into houses with (almost) no cause
All that is needed to break into and search a Dutch residence is a “suspicion” that there “may be” an illegal immigrant in there. Once inside, the (military) police is allowed to search through absolutely everything in a violent manner, stopping short of breaking down walls. You can stop them by showing your identity papers (“Ausweiss, Bitte!”) but they can of course claim that they suspect there are more people hiding under beds, in cupboards, etc. until they have satisfactorily destroyed your belongings.
Obviously there is no way that the <sarcasm>incredibly competent</sarcasm> NL Police force would misuse this power, just as there is no abuse of CCTV footage, telecoms tapping, airport pervert scanners etc etc. In this case personal vendettas are an easy thing to fix, but scarier is the race targeting they could do. Considering this is part of anti-immigrant legislation, this may be a portent of Fred Teeven and the VVD / PvdA coaltion governments plans.
See you freedom, welcome police state!
Teeven breidt mogelijkheden vreemdelingentoezicht uit | Nieuwsbericht | Rijksoverheid.nl.
US carmakers collect and keep driven locations
The Detroit News reports, ‘A government report finds that major automakers are keeping information about where drivers have been — collected from onboard navigation systems — for varying lengths of time. Owners of those cars can’t demand that the information be destroyed.
http://m.slashdot.org/story/196543
Real-Time Face Substitution Will Hide You In The Scariest Way Possible
How to create your own cryptocurrency
Chorus Beams Music to Multiple Android Devices at Once
Wall Street Survivor – learn how to invest
It’s a huge library of video courses you can take for free.
Learn to Invest: Learn how to buy stocks and how to invest.
ULTIMEYES® – an app that claims to improve your vision!
ULTIMEYES® optimizes visual processing to reduce blurring. Proprietary algorithms monitor your performance and adapt to it, creating a customized session to ensure optimal progress.
Numerous scientific studies conducted over more than a decade support the principles upon which ULTIMEYES® was created.
via ULTIMEYES®.
OZONE Widget Framework
A customizable open-source web application that assembles the tools you need to accomplish any task and enables those tools to communicate with each other.
It allows you to take information from different web based software packages you might have and turn them into widgets on a centralised website dashboard.
OZONE is a web application that allows users to easily access all their online tools from one location. Not only can users access websites and applications with widgets, they can group them and configure some applications to interact with each other via widget intents.
via OZONE Platform.
Data visualisation packages
To bring your data to life, there are plenty of options around.
D3 is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.
As you can see, there are loads of different graphs, graphics, plots, etc you can generate to display your data differently.
Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library for large datasets that natively uses the latest web technologies. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of Protovis/D3, while delivering high-performance interactivity over large data to thin clients
The advantage these packages have over, say, IBM ManyEyes is that they are locally installed and you don’t give your data away.
Eerste 3D-printerwinkel in Rotterdam
Ridix op de Westblaak. You can buy printers, rent them or print off your designs.
Eerste 3D-printerwinkel in Rotterdam – Emerce.
Drugs and cheating: Half of U.S. nuclear missile wing implicated!
Just over half (92) of the 183 nuclear missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in a widening exam cheating scandal, the Air Force said on Thursday, acknowledging it had “systemic” problem within its ranks.
The cheating was discovered during an investigation into illegal drug possession among airmen, when test answers were found in a text message on one missile launch officer’s cell phone. The Air Force initially said 34 officers either knew about the cheating or cheated themselves.
After, an investigation was started and all work personal were investigated. Due to the 2018 DOT drug testing regulations, each and all work personal had to take an obligatory drug test. Thankfully, the company, USA Mobile Drug Testing, offers their services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Therefore, all employees were pulled aside for a total of 15 minutes to get tested.
via UPDATE 1-Half of U.S. nuclear missile wing implicated in cheating | Reuters.
DARPA Open Software catalog
DARPA Open Catalog contains a curated list of DARPA-sponsored software and peer-reviewed publications. DARPA funds fundamental and applied research in a variety of areas including data science, cyber, anomaly detection, etc., which may lead to experimental results and reusable technology designed to benefit multiple government domains.
Police will have ‘backdoor’ access to health records despite opt-out, says MP
The database that will store the entire nation’s health records has a series of "backdoors" that will allow police and government bodies to access people’s medical data.
David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary, told the Guardian he has established that police will be able to access the health records of patients when investigating serious crimes even if they had opted out of the new database, which will hold the entire population’s medical data in a single repository for the first time from May.
via Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP.
This despite the UK’s long and torrid history of giving out huge unencrypted centralised databases on USB sticks and laptops to seemingly whoever wants them. Don’t they realise the backdoor will also be usable for hackers, insurance companies, etc? It also shows the mission creep these centralised databases allow themselves to be misused for.
The Most Common Smartphone Repairs You Can Do Yourself
fix the screen, digitizer, headphone jack, where to find more guides and where to buy replacement parts!
The Most Common Smartphone Repairs You Can Do Yourself.
First man/machine nerve grafts restore amputee’s sense of touch
After years of research and hours of gruelling surgery, scientists have successfully attached sensors from a prosthetic hand to human nerve tissue to allow the device to give its wearer a sense of touch.
via First man/machine nerve grafts restore amputee's sense of touch • The Register.