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- Sun May 03, 2015 11:52 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Wireless routers could spy on your breathing and heartbeat
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Wireless routers could spy on your breathing and heartbeat
mg22630182.100-1_300[1].jpg A radar-like system that fits inside a Wi-Fi box can record health data and keep tabs on your mood – without you even noticing IT HAPPENS the moment you walk in: without you being aware of it, an undercover system discreetly records your breathing and heartbeat. Welcome ...
- Sat May 02, 2015 8:12 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A Russian spacecraft is spinning out of control – but don't
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A Russian spacecraft is spinning out of control – but don't
dn27434-1_300[1].jpg [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspWdAt4Fbc[/media] News that a Russian spacecraft is spiralling out of control and plunging to Earth may have alarmed you this morning, but don't worry – the situation is more like a missed parcel delivery than a Hollywood apocalypse movi...
- Fri May 01, 2015 10:47 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Amazon boss Jeff Bezos just launched a secret rocket to spa
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos just launched a secret rocket to spa
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwsVA8K6pqc[/media] In a move that will garner begrudging respect from Bond villains around the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos secretly launched an uncrewed rocket to space yesterday from his private launch facility in the Texas desert. Bezos' rocket company,...
- Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:12 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Paper turned into an eco-friendly light-emitting display
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Paper turned into an eco-friendly light-emitting display
PAPER, light thyself. A light-emitting display has been created out of ordinary paper. It could one day make disposable displays for packaging or newspapers, using cheap and environmentally friendly materials. Ludvig Edman from Umeå University in Sweden and his team sprayed six layers of different m...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:37 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Your smartphone's secrets could help you bag a bank loan
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Your smartphone's secrets could help you bag a bank loan
mg22630182.400-1_300[1].jpg Who you call, what you post on Facebook and where you are will soon all be used by banks to gauge how much money you can borrow WHEN Kyle Meade first moved to the US from Canada, he just couldn't get a loan. "I had no debt, no previous information on me in the US," he sa...
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:28 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: UK people happy to cut energy use, but wary of smart meters
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UK people happy to cut energy use, but wary of smart meters
dn27419-1_300[1].jpg It's understandable that some people don't want the world to know what they do online. But could the same apply to data about when they turn on their washing machines or the way they use their freezers? It seems so. A study has found that many people in the UK are worried about...
- Mon Apr 27, 2015 11:06 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Technology can give political power back to the people
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Technology can give political power back to the people
mg22630182.800-1_300[1].jpg Digital tools haven’t transformed politics as much as we expected. But that’s about to change – and just in time POLITICS is broken. Across the globe, voter turnout has been in decline for decades. The electorate believes that "the parties are all the same, the politicia...
- Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:11 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their
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Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYYqXY3L2wc[/media] Mighty things come in small packages. The little robots in this video can haul things that weigh over 100 times more than themselves. The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford University in California – will be presen...
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:01 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Hair analysis on trial after FBI admits to using flawed evi
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Hair analysis on trial after FBI admits to using flawed evi
Can a hair really reveal who committed a crime? The FBI has admitted that flawed evidence was accepted in nearly all of the trials that took place over the 1980s and 90s that included hair analysis evidence. Since 2012, the FBI has been reviewing 2600 cases in which hair evidence was among that used...
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:25 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Robots go deep inside Fukushima nuclear plant to map radiat
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Robots go deep inside Fukushima nuclear plant to map radiat
mg22630172.300-1_300[1].jpg [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ICYcsWZbo[/media] Robots armed with new radiation-sensing cameras are performing surveys in areas of the stricken plant where radiation levels are too high for humans to enter IN THE dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nucle...