If you want to be a drone pilot this is where you start. You don’t start with a crazy $1,200 semi-autonomous eye in the sky, but a cheap miniature quadcopter.
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81% of Tor users can be de-anonymized by analyzing router information: Study
More than 81% of Tor clients can be ‘de-anonymized’ – their originating IP addresses revealed – by exploiting the ‘Netflow’ technology that Cisco has built into its router protocols, and similar traffic analysis software running by default in the hardware of other manufacturers, according to research undertaken between 2008 and 2014.
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Graphene-based supercapacitors will make battery-free electric cars possible
Another immediate benefit of the supercapacitor film technology is in charging time.
Researchers at Rice University and the Queensland University of Technology have conducted a study that has resulted in the creation of a graphene-based supercapacitor film that could possibly replace the need for a conventional battery in electric cars.
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Growing Bolder TV interview with Thomas Frey, one of the world’s top futurists
Futurist Thomas Frey
If there’s one thing we all wonder about, it’s the future. Being able to predict the future would come in handy when it comes to running your business and your life. Did you know you could turn to a futurist for answers? (Video)
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App developers giving up on Google Glass before it even launches
Nine of the 16 app Glass app makers admitted they’d abandoned their efforts.
A little over a year and a half ago, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he found having to talk to Google Glass out loud “the weirdest thing” and admitted that there would be “places where Google Glass are inappropriate.” The average person could have told Google this long before they spent millions developing Google Glass.
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The future of computing UI could be more like listening to music
Joaquin Phoenix in the movie, Her.
In the movie Her, the computers don’t demand that their users sit down in front of a screen and type on a keyboard. They connect with them using voice recognition, a tiny earpiece always present in the ear, and an ultra simple handheld device.
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The Internet of Things isn’t set to unleash a deluge of data… yet
The startup called Spark is building a microcontroller for connected devices.
Billions of devices, from forks to jet engines, are already connected to the internet. All signs point to a huge surge in the years to come. For example, Cisco, predicts 21 billion of them in 2018, up from 13 billion in 2013. But despite those numbers, the companies that will be storing all that device data are less concerned sheer volume and more concerned about making it usable.
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The average American thinks the unemployment rate is 32 percent
The unemployment rate was at its lowest level in six years, 5.8 percent, according to the latest jobs report. But Americans aren’t convinced that things are nearly that good.
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Tableside phone charging top of diners demands when eating out: Study
Diners more concerned about charging phones than eating good food at restaurants.
A new study by the British Hospitality Association has found that fussy diners are less interested in eating good food and more concerned about charging their iPhones.
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There are more women-run businesses than ever, but why aren’t they making millions?
Setting ambitious goals goes a long way in a company’s development.
There is a big disparity when it comes to the gender wage gap. But there is even a bigger disparity when it comes to how much male- and female-run businesses make. There are more women-run businesses now than there ever was, but they still aren’t making as much money as their male-run competition. Here’s how to change that.
NASA to create bioengineered drones made of mushrooms and bacteria
Prototype of the bioengineered drone.
Autonomous drones can seem like they have minds of their own and that creeps out some people. But a new, NASA-backed research project seeks to create something quite different: A living, breathing, biodegradable drone made out of bacteria and fungi.
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AngelList: A disruptor that is upending angel investing
Naval Ravikant at the AngelList office.
Recently, Naval Ravikant, a wildly successful angel investor—Uber, Twitter, etc.—and serial entrepreneur met with a group of institutional money managers to pitch them his latest venture. He didn’t ask them to invest in it, but he asked them to invest through it. If enough of the money managers take him up on the offer, it could usher in an era of radical disruption in the world of angel investing.
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