If you head over to your Facebook Apps Settings page, you’ll be shocked to know how many useless apps you’ve got attached to your account. My account, for instance, is hooked up to 448 apps (there’s something called ” are u in love?!?!?
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Facebook’s Revamped App Settings Page Makes It Easy To Unhook Apps
Lockheed Martin has an affinity for lasers — that much is apparent . Not satisfied with simply having ground-based energy weapons , though, the outfit has recently tested its airplane-mounted death ray over the skies of America’s High Five, Michigan. The Aero-optic Beam Control (or ABC, as its friends are fond of saying) was recently run through its paces to prove airworthiness, among other things. The kicker here is that the laser can rotate 360 degrees and eliminate targets from basically any direction. Yeah . Lockheed says that the turret’s been designed to engage bogies at basically any position and there’s tech in place to counterbalance any turbulence caused by the protruding sphere (pictured above). The trials aren’t done just yet however, and they’ll only increase in complexity to further prove the system’s military-aircraft mettle as time wears on. So, you know, enjoy hiding out in your secret lair while it lasts. Filed under: Transportation , Science Comments Source: Lockheed Martin
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If you download Kindle ebooks from dubious sources aka anywhere other than Amazon, watch out. A security researcher has discovered a security hole in the “Manage Your Kindle” page on Amazon’s website that outs your Amazon credentials to hackers when you upload a malicious ebook. Read more…
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Your Amazon Account Can Be Hacked Via a Malicious Kindle Ebook
If you’re hoping for a new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus and haven’t nailed yours down yet, you’re effectively screwed for the time being. But if you were one of the lucky 4 million buyers, there’s a decent-ish chance your shiny new toy is in the photo above, where it just flew across the Pacific, boarded up with more than 195, 000 of its brethren. That is one hell of a cargo. Read more…
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concertina226 writes Harvard scientists have invented a new artificial spleen that is able to clear toxins, fungi and deadly pathogens such as Ebola from human blood, which could potentially save millions of lives. When antibiotics are used to kill them, dying viruses release toxins in the blood that begin to multiply quickly, causing sepsis, a life-threatening condition whereby the immune system overreacts, causing blood clotting, organ damage and inflammation. To overcome this, researchers have invented a “biospleen”, a device similar to a dialysis machine that makes use of magnetic nanobeads measuring 128 nanometres in diameter (one-five hundredths the width of a single human hair) coated with mannose-binding lectin (MBL), a type of genetically engineered human blood protein. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood Using Magnets
It’s not as hard to make an invisibility cloak as you might think, but making one that’s truly sophisticated is another matter; metamaterials (substances that change the behavior of light) are hard to build. Rice University appears to have solved part of the problem, however. It just developed a squid-like color display (shown below) that should eventually lead to smart camouflage. The new technology uses grids of nanoscopic aluminum rods to both create vivid, finely-tuned colors as well as polarize light. By its lonesome, the invention could lead to very sharp, long-lasting screens. The pixels are about 40 times smaller than those in LCDs, and they won’t fade after sustained light exposure. That’s just the start, though. Rice eventually hopes to combine its invention with light-sensing tech that changes the colors to match the surroundings. If that happens, you could easily see combat uniforms and vehicles draped in displays that render them almost invisible. That’s not going to happen in the near future, but the discovery suggests that the disguises you see in Harry Potter and Predator aren’t all that far-fetched. Filed under: Displays , Science Comments Source: Rice University
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Invisibility suits are coming thanks to squid-like displays
The rumors are true, Microsoft is snapping up the block-based blockbuster Minecraft and the studio behind it. But don’t freak out; Microsoft promises that Minecraft will continue to be available on all the platforms it’s already on, including PC, Android, iOS, and yes, Playstation. Read more…
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Microsoft Is Buying Minecraft for $2.5 Billion
Cortana is coming to Windows 9 , according to these screenshots coming to us by way of German blog WinFuture , which show her off in a very experimental form. Not much of a surprise, but they seem to confirm what we’re already expecting—that the digital assistant will find a home on the PC, too. Read more…
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Leaked Windows 9 Screenshots Show Hints of Cortana on the Desktop
After 6 years and over one billion dollars in development, the FBI has just announced that its sinister new biometric facial recognition software system is finally complete. Meaning that, starting soon, photos of your face along with tens of millions of others’ will be uploaded to the national system on a daily basis . Read more…
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The FBI Just Finished Its Insane New Facial Recognition System
