Looking to develop a way to block the government and private companies from monitoring people’s messages, Peter Sunde is working on an app called Hemlis “where no one can spy on you, not even us.” [Read more]
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Pirate Bay founder creating surveillance-free messaging app
We’ve seen a number of efforts to build a better artificial skin , or ” e-skin , ” over the years, and a team of researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology now say they’ve made a breakthrough that could lead to some of the most sensitive e-skin yet. The key development is a new type of flexible sensor that would not only allow the artificial skin to detect touch, but humidity and temperature as well. Those sensors are comprised of gold-based nanoparticles that are just five to eight nanometers in diameter and laid on top of a substrate — in their research, the scientists used PET, the type of plastic you’d normally find in soda bottles. That substrate conducts electricity differently depending on the way it is bent, which means researchers can adjust its sensitivity just by increasing its thickness. As you might expect, this is all still in the early stages, but the researchers see plenty of possibilities for the future, from bringing a sense of touch to artificial limbs to using the same technology to monitor stress on bridges. Filed under: Science , Alt Comments Via: PhysOrg Source: American Technion Society
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At Dropbox’s first DBX developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Drew Houston announced a new Dropbox Platform for developers, which is essentially a suite of tools to make it easier for apps to access data across devices and operating systems. Built on top of the Sync API, Houston says the new Dropbox Platform is designed to “replace the hard drive” and that “sync is the new save.” The platform is comprised of “Drop-ins, ” which provide cross-platform UI components, “Chooser, ” which gives apps instant access to files in Dropbox, and “Saver, ” which provides one-click saving to the cloud. Dropbox also announced the Datastore API, which lets you sync data like contacts, to-do items and game state — so you can save your Angry Birds level across your different gadgets for example. Some of the third-party companies that have signed onto the new Dropbox Platform include Shutterstock, PicMonkey, Asana, Yahoo! Mail, Animoto, 1Password, CloudOn, FedEx and Fargo. As part of the announcement, Dropbox also announced a Developing… Comments
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Dropbox announces the Dropbox Platform, syncing between third-party apps
Scuba divers have found a 50, 000 year-old Bald Cypress forest that was likely uncovered when Hurricane Katrina swept through the region back in 2005. Read more…
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An ancient underwater forest has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico
A Southern California woman who mocked American authorities via Twitter—after having fled the country—was finally arraigned on Monday in a San Diego courtroom. Wanda Lee Ann Podgurski, 60, was arrested in Rosarito, Mexico on July 4, 2013. This was a month after she tweeted “ Catch me if you can , ” seemingly directed at San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis , apparently the only person Podgurski followed on Twitter at the time. A superior court judge sentenced Podgurski in absentia on June 21, 2013 to 20 years and four months in state prison. She was convicted (PDF) of 29 felony counts stemming from an insurance fraud scam. Podgurski worked as a clerk for Amtrak and held health insurance policies with six different companies, then she filed claims with all of them after she declared that she was disabled from supposed fall in her home in August 2006. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Female scammer who taunted US authorities online finally caught in Mexico
cold fjord writes “From the Examiner: ‘…the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. … part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. … There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs. Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing. … Temp jobs made up about 10 percent of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, but now make up a tenth of the jobs in the United States. In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.’ The NYT has a chart detailing the problem.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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America’s Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency
In 1908, Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda created monosodium glutamate , more commonly known to English-speakers of the 21st century as the often-maligned MSG. Ikeda thought that his discovery was so special that the taste deserved to be described with a brand new word, a word that a century later has become quite popular among food critics and even graces the signs of a burger chain here in Southern California. Ikeda’s word was umami . Read more…
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“Umami” Was Coined by the Inventor of MSG to Describe Its Taste
The latest stage in their content arms race, Netflix extends its agreement for classic and recent CBS shows, after Amazon Prime starts streaming “Under the Dome” days soon after they air. [Read more]
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So what’s the most annoying thing about using Twitter across multiple devices? I don’t know, maybe it’s the fact that direct messages don’t sync. Well, Twitter is finally addressing that annoyance today by adding in DM sync. Read more…
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iOS 7 was revealed less than a month ago, and already Apple has pushed out its third beta release for the operating system. Yes, mobile devs, that means you’ve got a new download coming to you from Cupertino that’ll fix a plethora of problems found in beta 2 , and add a few improvements as well. The full list of additions is too lengthy to include here, but registered devs can find the full release notes at the source, and other folks can peruse them over at 9to5Mac . Filed under: Software , Mobile , Apple Comments Via: 9to5Mac Source: Apple Developer
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iOS 7 beta 3 released, brings a bundle of bug fixes and improvements