Month: January 2015

Airgap attack from 6 metres by reading your CPU electromagnetic signals

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All CPUs emit electromagnetic signals when they are performing tasks, and the first thing these researchers discovered was that binary ones and zeroes emit different levels. The second thing they discovered is that electromagnetic radiation is also emitted by the voltage fluctuations and that it can be read from up to six meters away. These Read more about Airgap attack from 6 metres by reading your CPU electromagnetic signals[…]

People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

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Evidence from some wrongful-conviction cases suggests that suspects can be questioned in ways that lead them to falsely believe in and confess to committing crimes they didn’t actually commit. New research provides lab-based evidence for this phenomenon, showing that innocent adult participants can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that they had Read more about People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened[…]

Toyota understands that patents stifle innovation, allows the use of Hydrogen Fuel Cell patents royalty free to foster innovation

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Toyota is opening the door to the hydrogen future, making available thousands of hydrogen fuel cell patents royalty free. Announced today at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, this Toyota initiative will spur development and introduction of innovative fuel cell technologies around the world. Toyota will invite royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 fuel cell related patents Read more about Toyota understands that patents stifle innovation, allows the use of Hydrogen Fuel Cell patents royalty free to foster innovation[…]

NL old spyboss uses Charlie Hebdo to invade your privacy

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He wants to use it to couple databases such as the license plate data they gather everywhere in NL with the tax database, creating huge centralised databases. Because centralised databases are great! Especially when everyone can access them. Do people never learn? Centralised databases are a very very bad idea. Privacy volgende slachtoffer van Charlie Read more about NL old spyboss uses Charlie Hebdo to invade your privacy[…]

fitlet – tiny fanless pc, competes with Intel NUC

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CompuLab is introducing fitlet – a miniature 0.22l fanless quad-core PC that is not only packing more features than any other PC in its class, but is also designed from the ground up for unprecedented openness: Memory, storage, networking, extension cards and operating system can all be easily installed and upgraded by the user. The Read more about fitlet – tiny fanless pc, competes with Intel NUC[…]

Indian Science Congress doing well.

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There were a lot of controversies generated at the Indian Science Congress earlier this month, including claims of ancient aircraft in India, the use of plastic surgery there, and ways to divine underground water sources using herbal paste on the feet. One argument that could be tested using some form of evidence was the assertion Read more about Indian Science Congress doing well.[…]

KeySweeper – a DIY usb wall charger that logs keystrokes from MS wireless keyboards

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KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboards (which use a proprietary 2.4GHz RF protocol) in the area. Keystrokes are sent back to the KeySweeper operator over the Internet via an optional GSM Read more about KeySweeper – a DIY usb wall charger that logs keystrokes from MS wireless keyboards[…]

Antibiotic Pulled From Dirt Ends 25-Year Drug Drought – Bloomberg

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Scientists have discovered an antibiotic capable of fighting infections that kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, a breakthrough that could lead to the field’s first major new drug in more than a quarter-century.The experimental drug, which was isolated from a sample of New England dirt, is called teixobactin. It hasn’t yet been tested Read more about Antibiotic Pulled From Dirt Ends 25-Year Drug Drought – Bloomberg[…]

new role for proteins: assembling amino acids without DNA and RNA

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Results from a study published on Jan. 2 in Science defy textbook science, showing for the first time that the building blocks of a protein, called amino acids, can be assembled without blueprints – DNA and an intermediate template called messenger RNA (mRNA). A team of researchers has observed a case in which another protein Read more about new role for proteins: assembling amino acids without DNA and RNA[…]

Besides Lifestyle and Inherited Genes, Cancer Risk Also 66% Tied to Bad Luck

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The researchers, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, analyzed published scientific papers to identify the number of stem cells, and the rate of stem-cell division, among 31 tissue types, though not for breast and prostate tissue, which they excluded from the analysis. Then they compared the total number of lifetime stem-cell Read more about Besides Lifestyle and Inherited Genes, Cancer Risk Also 66% Tied to Bad Luck[…]