Year: 2013

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Analysis, Business, Science & Technology News

Cyber Gym: Israeli hacking school that trains corporate cyber warriors

Trainees work in front of their computers at the “Cyber Gym” center.

Israel’s new state-of-the-art “Cyber Gym” is where IT and infrastructure company employees train to defend against cyber attacks. The facility is a series of small buildings in the shadow of the looming Orot Rabin power station on Israel’s northern coastline. It was inaugurated this month by the Israel Electric Corp (IEC), which has experienced its fair share of cyber attacks.

 

 

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Analysis, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Making big things out of small 3D printed pieces

A sample of the cellular composite material is prepared for testing of its strength properties.

Researchers at MIT have developed a lightweight structure whose tiny blocks can be snapped together much like the bricks of a child’s construction toy. The new material could revolutionize the assembly of airplanes, spacecraft, and even larger structures, such as dikes and levees, according to the researchers.

 

 

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Business, Entertainment, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

3D printing is Hollywood’s smartest new marketing tool

“The Key to Erebor”

Hollywood is embracing 3D printing in a big way. Warner Bros. will offer fans digital blueprints of “The Key to Erebor” to help market he Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.  “The Key to Erebor” is a key item from the series, which fans can 3D print on their own or send to a company like Shapeways to print for them.

 

 

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Alternative Transportation, Business, Robots, Science & Technology News

Google could one day deliver packages with self-driving cars and robots

A Google self-driving car.

Amazon and UPS are looking into package delivery via automated flying drones. But, according to the New York Times, Google’s recent interest in robotics lays out an interesting hypothetical situation: imagine a self-driving car pulling up in your driveway, and a robot getting out to deliver your package instead of a living, breathing UPS human bedecked in brown.

 

 

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Energy, Science & Technology News

Growing algae in sewage to create biofuels

A channel in which algae is bred and gently stirred with a paddlewheel.

Growing algae on sewage could generate affordable biofuels. To make this work you begin with a series of small artificial rivers where waste water flows and algae is cultured. In those ponds is a paddle wheel, which pushes the water about and mixes algae into the waste water. The shallowness of the rivers encourages sunlight and helps the algae grow. And that algae is pretty important, because it’s what gets turned into biofuel.

 

 

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Report, Science & Technology News

Mobile penetration in Africa hits 80% and is still growing

Mobile penetration in Africa is still growing at 4.2 percent annually.

People tend to have certain paradigms about the “developed world” and the “developing world.” Including, of course, media-fed images of Africa as a place of almost irredeemable poverty, deprivation, and pain. Many of our paradigms are, of course, illusions.

 

 

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Analysis, App, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

54% of parents will buy tech gifts this year, big opportunity for tablet and app creators

There are more tablets available with kid-protections and controls.

Tech is topping the Christmas lists this year as parents are prepared to indulge. A PBS Kids survey shows that 54 percent of parents plan to pick up a techie gift this year, more specifically tablets. Kids want bigger screens to play games and watch movies on. Kids want tablets more than they want game consoles, according to the survey.

 

 

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