NSA headquarters.
The latest scoop from The Guardian’s concerns the ability of National Security Agency analysts to search vast databases of emails, online chats, and web browsing histories, among other online activity.
Top 100 tools for coders and developers
The world runs on coding these days.
Do you want job security? Then, become a developer. Do you want fame and fortune? Then, learn to code. These coding resources are comprised of many startups as well as established sites and services and they are sure to help you take your game to the next level.
Farm 432: A kitchen appliance that lets you breed insects for food
Farm 432 Insect Breeding device.
The Farm 432 Insect Breeding device is a self-contained black soldier fly habitat that allows the flies to breed and produce up to about a pound of larvae a week, which you will then eat. Mmmmm, black soldier fly larvae. (Photos)
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Veebot is a robot that can draw your blood
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Veebot, a California start-up, is combining robotics with image-analysis software to find a vein in your arm and place a needle at least as well as a human can.
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Raising the dead may soon become a medical reality
There isn’t a fixed moment in time when death occurs. It can take hours for brain cells to die. It is a misconception even among doctors that the body dies all at once. We are only a little dead when even an hour after the heart has stopped.
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XKeyscore – new NSA tool sees “nearly everything” you do online
The XKeyscore software collects the contents and metadata from emails, online chats and Web browsing history for virtually anyone.
A Guardian report has revealed that NSA training materials openly said that the XKeyscore system, which it says formed a significant part of its PRISM surveillance activities disclosed by Edward Snowden last month, collected massive amounts of data, including the contents and the metadata of emails and chats.
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3D printing could save the average home up to $2,000 a year: Study
Home 3D printers could save the average home $2,000 a year.
Authors at Michigan Technological University have produced a study on 3D printing that says a home 3D printer can provide a return on investment of 20 to 40 percent and can save the average home up to $2,000 in avoided purchase costs.
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When MOOCs profit, who pays?
A typical MOOC is an online course open to people all over the globe via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive open online courses that have been heralded as an inevitable transformation in higher education. They have been called a revolution, a boom, and, a “disruption” – a term that at first invokes a welcome alternative to the stagnation and elitism of the American university.
What happens in 60 seconds on the internet
Have you ever thought about your activity on the internet at any given moment? You could very easily be jumping from Twitter to Facebook, listening to Spotify, shooting off an email, downloading a movie, reading a news site, Googling background info to better understand aforementioned news site, and that’s just on a slow day. Now extrapolate that out to the billions of people online every minute of every day. (Infographic)
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Social business remade the economy while most companies weren’t looking
The online world has clearly and systematically changed the rules of business, and companies must adapt or risk irrelevance. This often seemed self-evident to many of us, even if the ranks of the Fortune 500 and Global 2000 didn’t actually seem to change very much as a result. But the times, they have recently changed.
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The GeoWeb will change consumer and business behavior
Maps and geography have helped humans understand their surroundings in the context of their neighbors, their town, their country, the Earth, and the Universe for about the past 2,000 years. For about 400 years, since Mercator figured out how to portray the curved Earth on a flat piece of paper, not much changed in the world of geography — until the launch of 24 GPS satellites by the U.S. Department of Defense about 30 years ago.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Obviously not impressed with her wardrobe!
Quote of the Day – “Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny – did you ever try buying then without money?” – Ogden Nash