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LibreSSL is backed by OpenBSD and will be prepped for other platforms later. Now they’re working through a complete rewrite as apparently OpenSSL is just too too messy. Read the story here:OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of “LibreSSL” fork | Ars Technica. read the rage and the coding diffs here on OpenSSL Rampage
This is an incredible story: The Silk Road 2.0 decided not to fold and has been repaying customers that lost their BTC by randomly assigning service costs BTC to duped customers instead of paying it out to staff. How Silk Road Bounced Back from Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack | Motherboard.
Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source OCR engine available. Combined with the Leptonica Image Processing Library it can read a wide variety of image formats and convert them to text in over 60 languages. It was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it Read more about tesseract-ocr – An OCR Engine for 60 languages[…]
Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. […] When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average Read more about US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study | Common Dreams[…]
Afterburner Inc sued the Corps Group – ex military pilots – for using pictures of fighter aircraft and cockpits, wearing flight suits and using fighter pilot parlance. Not only does this show that the CEO of Afterburner Inc, Jim Murphy, is a dick, but it also shows how broken these laws are in the USA. Read more about Afterburner inc proves copyright is broken after dissallowing figher pilots to speak like fighter pilots, wear their flight suits[…]
The plans for the hand are open source as well, so you can make your own. Robohand » Customised, Fitted, Mechanical Fingers and Hands.
Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, demonstrate proof-of-concept of novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from seawater and conversion to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel. The predicted cost of jet fuel using these technologies is in the range of $3-$6 Read more about Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel From the Sea Concept – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory[…]
How to Start Parkour: A Beginner's Guide to Parkour.
This will probably cost the copyright owners millions, because the current system won’t work any more. Considering studies keep showing that freely shared content sells better than DRM content, copyright will shoot itself further in the foot. Well done on furthering shortsighted, US business interests, EU. The Netherlands Must Outlaw Downloading, EU Court Rules (Update) Read more about The Netherlands Must Outlaw Downloading, EU Court Rules[…]
Beginner Roll Tutorial (Part 1) – Parkour Ukemi – YouTube.
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Lilian Weng, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn from Cornell University have created a model that can take a small amount of tweets and tell 2 months in advance whether the tweets will go viral and become a meme or not. This is a network based model, that takes into account: connectivity: number of early adopters, size Read more about Predicting Successful Memes using Network and Community Structure [on Twitter][…]
This app tabulates the different access permissions given to apps on your device. DCentral 1 by John McAfee – Android Apps on Google Play.
OpenSSL heartbeat PoC with STARTTLS support.. Also some exploiting tool called openmagic
Last month, physicists used this idea to build the world’s first entanglement-enhanced microscope that dramatically increases its resolution over purely classical instruments. They created entangled photons and used one to illuminate the object. The second photon can then give them information about the first that they use to increase the resolution of the resulting image. Read more about How To Build A Quantum Telescope[…]
This system is incredibly efficient at low wind speeds. DualWingGenerator | Festo Corporate.
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 Read more about Bitcoin bloodbath as China shutters all trading sites[…]
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. Read more about Gunshot victims to be suspended by replacing their blood[…]
This cool pad and pen lets you sketch in 3D using augmented reality.
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.
You can put these on your laptop monitor and still be able to read the screen in the sunshine Nushield 3M HP