Now that tattoos are mainstream and piercings passé, America’s youth have taken to some extreme measures to make a statement. And for Lucy Luckayanko of New York City, that statement comes in the form of a permanent, platinum twinkle implanted smack-dab onto her eyeball. Read more…
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Woman Has Heart-Shaped Twinkle Surgically Implanted on Her Eyeball
The zippy Snapdragon 800 pushes pixels beautifully on gadgets like the Nexus 5 and the Kindle Fire HDX, but now there’s a new kid on the block. Qualcomm just announced its Snapdragon 805 complete with 4K powers, and it’s coming to devices starting next year . Read more…
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With a development that will surely appeal to airports, Philips has announced a partnership with flooring manufacturer Desso to produce a light transmissive LED-powered carpet that can be used to display warning messages, directions, or even fancy glowing designs. And airports are just the tip of the glowy-floor iceberg. Read more…
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LED Carpets Guarantee You’ll Never Get Lost In an Airport Again
Nerval’s Lobster writes “The Vatican, while notoriously secretive about things buried in its vaults and archives, is being as public as the digital age allows it to be about the nearly completed restoration of catacombs early Christians used as secret churches as well as burial sites. Contractors, archaeologists and art experts spent the past five years restoring the Priscilla catacombs under the Vatican using lasers, among other techniques, to restore frescoes painted on the walls of the burial chambers. The Vatican unveiled the work Nov. 19 with a press conference in the Basilica of San Silvestro outside the burial tunnels, accompanied by a virtual tour of the Priscilla catacombs provided by Google Maps. The basilica is divided into an area for religious services and another that acts as a deposit for sculptures and artifacts dug up during excavations of the catacombs and other areas underneath the Vatican.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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A hack on niche online dating service Cupid Media earlier this year has exposed names, e-mail addresses and—most notably—plain-text passwords for 42 million accounts, according to a published report. The cache of personal information was found on the same servers that housed tens of millions of records stolen in separate hacks on sites including Adobe , PR Newswire , and the National White Collar Crime Center, KrebsonSecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported Tuesday night . An official with Southport, Australia-based Cupid Media told Krebs that user credentials appeared to be connected to “suspicious activity” that was detected in January. Officials believed they had notified all affected users, but they are in the process of double-checking that all affected accounts have had their passwords reset in light of Krebs’s discovery. The compromise of 42 million passwords makes the episode one of the biggest passcode breaches on record. Adding to the magnitude is the revelation the data was in plain-text, instead of a cryptographically hashed format that requires an investment of time, skill, and computing power to crack. As Krebs noted: Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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GitHub is experiencing an increase in user account hijackings that’s being fueled by a rash of automated login attempts from as many as 40,000 unique Internet addresses. The site for software development projects has already reset passwords for compromised accounts and banned frequently used weak passcodes, officials said in an advisory published Tuesday night . Out of an abundance of caution, site officials have also reset some accounts that were protected with stronger passwords. Accounts that were reset despite having stronger passwords showed login attempts from the same IP addresses involved in successful breaches of other GitHub accounts. “While we aggressively rate-limit login attempts and passwords are stored properly, this incident has involved the use of nearly 40K unique IP addresses,” Tuesday night’s advisory stated. “These addresses were used to slowly brute force weak passwords or passwords used on multiple sites. We are working on additional rate-limiting measures to address this. In addition, you will no longer be able to login to GitHub.com with commonly used weak passwords.” Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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GitHub resets user passwords following rash of account hijack attacks
Google’s Street View may have already taken us on a virtual tour of some US national parks , but its total number of natural sites now sits at an impressive 44 US and Canadian locations. With permission from the US National Park Service and Parks Canada, the search giant’s cars, trikes and backpack-worn Trekker units have mapped some of most picturesque and historical sites in North America, providing us with new 360-degree views of Mount Rushmore, the Alamo Mission in Texas and the crystal-clear lakes of Banff National Park, to name but a few. All of these different locations — with multiple trails — are online now and you can check them out by hitting the source below. Filed under: Internet , Google Comments Source: Google Maps , Google Lat Long Blog
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Street View update maps North America’s biggest parks and monuments
It’s not always easy for nurses to find the right vein for an intravenous drip — the target vessels are sometimes hidden below the skin. Evena Medical’s new Eyes-On smart glasses may make those injections a little easier. The Moverio -based eyewear overlays a 3D blood vessel map on the patient, helping the nurse insert even a tricky IV line on the first try. It can also tap into a hospital’s medical records and share imagery with doctors in remote locations. There’s no word on just which hospitals will use Eyes-On when it ships in the first quarter of 2014, but don’t be surprised if it makes your hospital stay a little more bearable in the near future. Check out a close-up shot of the glasses after the break. Filed under: Wearables Comments Source: Evena Medical
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Evena’s smart glasses offer nurses a through-the-skin view of patients’ veins
We have seen a lot of its bow, but check out this unique view of the stern of the USS Gerald Ford—the first unit of America’s new aircraft carrier class. It’s surprising to see the new location of the island on the aft, which actually makes this ship completely different from the previous Nimitz-class carriers. Read more…
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US Navy’s new aircraft carrier looks mighty from the back too
Most water filters make filling a glass a gaming of waiting, but EveryDrop changes that. The small raindrop-shaped device filters water through it almost as fast as it would come straight out of your faucet and lasts quite awhile. Read more…
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EveryDrop Purifies Water Instantly and Needs Few Filter Replacements