Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human faces as viewed by other people.
via YaleNews | Yale researchers reconstruct facial images locked in a viewer’s mind.
The glass brain is a Unity3D brain visualization that displays source activity and connectivity, inferred in real-time from high-density EEG using methods implemented in SIFT and BCILAB.
via Glass Brain | Projects | Neuroscape lab.
China’s central bank has ruled that all banks and payment service providers in the country must cease dealing in Bitcoin.
The ruling, effective from April 15th, basically shutters all Bitcoin trading sites in the Middle Kingdom and means cash purchases will soon be the only way to buy into the virtual currency.
via Bitcoin bloodbath as China shutters all trading sites • The Register.
Doctors in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are now waiting for a patient to show up with a gaping chest wound, who’s lost around 50% of his / her blood so they can replace the entire blood supply with a cold saline solution, which rapidly cools the body and stops almost all cellular activity. This reduces the amount of oxygen required by the heart and other vital organs. They hope to fix the structural issues whilst the patient is in a cooled state, then return the blood and warm it up slowly.
This has been demonstrated in pigs in 2002.
Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death – health – 26 March 2014 – New Scientist.
We crawl the web to find the companies that track people, then Disconnect blocks those companies’ tracking requests in your browser. Click the items below to learn more about Disconnect’s features.
via Private Browsing.
RoomScan draws floor plans all by itself – just touch each wall with your phone! To get the best from the app, please have a look at these demo videos: http://locometric.com/demo
via RoomScan – The app that draws floor plans by itself on the App Store on iTunes.
Gravitational waves squeeze space as they travel, and this squeezing produces a distinct pattern in the cosmic microwave background. Gravitational waves have a “handedness,” much like light waves, and can have left- and right-handed polarizations.
“The swirly B-mode pattern is a unique signature of gravitational waves because of their handedness. This is the first direct image of gravitational waves across the primordial sky,” said co-leader Chao-Lin Kuo (Stanford/SLAC).
via First direct evidence of cosmic inflation (Update).
IE yes, there /was/ a big bang
OKCoin has grown rapidly over the past few weeks and is now the biggest Chinese exchange, according to its CEO Star Xu. He claims the exchange’s current daily trade volume is approximately 50,000 bitcoins per day.
Interestingly, on top of that, the exchange allegedly trades 5 million litecoins per day. The company claims that at its peak it reached over 300,000 bitcoin and 13 million litecoin trades.
OKCoin Raises $10 Million to Become China’s ‘Largest Exchange’.
The city-state says the regulations for transacting digital currencies will be similar to those currently imposed on money changers and remittance businesses that undertake cash transactions.
BBC News – Singapore to regulate virtual currency exchanges.
It’s an invisibility cloak for SONAR!
It doesn’t look like it can be used for ships or subs though, as it’s in the shape of a pyramid…
Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound | Duke Pratt School of Engineering.
From a man who has done plenty wrong in privacy recently, this is a very very good idea. People who want the source code do have to sign a NDA. I don’t know what’s in the NDA, but this seems reasonable.
Plasterk geeft broncode Basisregistratie Personen vrij – Webwereld.
Samsung Galaxy devices running proprietary Android versions come with a back-door that provides remote access to the data stored on the device.
In particular, the proprietary software that is in charge of handling the communications with the modem, using the Samsung IPC protocol, implements a class of requests known as RFS commands, that allows the modem to perform remote I/O operations on the phone’s storage. As the modem is running proprietary software, it is likely that it offers over-the-air remote control, that could then be used to issue the incriminated RFS messages and access the phone’s file system.
via SamsungGalaxyBackdoor – Replicant.
Which goes to show – closed, proprietary code is almost never a good thing!
A hybrid conversion is a cutting-edge technology designed to transform your existing vehicle, or a new one via ship-thru installation, into a hybrid electric vehicle. XL Hybrids system is designed to work on the most popular Class 1-3 fleet vehicles, including cargo/utility/shuttle vans.
By adding hybrid powertrains to your fleet, you can cut fuel costs, reduce your exposure to fuel price fluctuations, and reduce emissions.
XL Hybrids adds an electric motor, an advanced lithium ion battery pack, and sophisticated control software to the vehicle – without making significant modifications to the original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) internal combustion engine or transmission.
XL Hybrids’ parallel hybrid system saves fuel through regenerative braking, a process by which the electric motor helps slow the vehicle when drivers brake, charging the battery. The battery then releases the energy to the electric motor, helping propel the vehicle when drivers accelerate.
via Hybrid Technology Engineered For Commercial Fleets | XL Hybrids.
In the first half it was 714 accounts. In 2012 it was 1438 accounts. This is information from Office 365, Hotmail and Skype.
Nederlandse politie vordert meer klantdata bij Microsoft – Webwereld.
Krita is especially useful if you have a tablet. It’s been out on Linux for a long time and is very popular for comic art.
News.
After having lost court case after court case, NORMA has won in the highest courts, saying that it should get money for each form of media – hard disk, ipod, SD Card, basically anything that allows digital content copied to it – in order to ‘pay the artists’ that could, potentially have their music copied to this media. Not only will the artists not see any of this money, but there is no way of determining who should get how much! Do Dutch judges not understand digital thingamies? Are they still locked into a battle with paper and pen whilst the rest of the world has advanced into a tablet and pc world?
Hoge Raad: bevriezing thuiskopieheffing illegaal – Webwereld.