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First direct evidence of cosmic inflation
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 Raises $10 Million to Become China’s ‘Largest Exchange’
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’.
Singapore to regulate virtual currency exchanges
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.
Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound | Duke Pratt School of Engineering
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.
NL gov gives away source code for person registration system
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 Backdoor
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!
Convert your van into a hybrid for $8000,- and save around 20% fuel in urban environments
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.
NL Police get office info from 1551 accounts in 2nd half 2013
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 – digital painting tool – now also on Windows
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.
NL High court rules that musicians should get money for every media sold that could copy music onto it
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.
Gravity Screen Uses Sensors to Turn your Phone On, Off Automatically
UK Gov may allow kids from 1 sperm + 2 eggs = 3 donors
Cool science, might lead to designer babies – which IMHO are a good thing…
Serious mitochondrial disease: new techniques to prevent transmission – Consultations – GOV.UK.
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.