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Richie BartlettOne step closer to “Ghost in the Shell” type of world. Chips under the skin: Biohacking, the connected body is ‘here to stay’ Would you be comfortable with a chip in your hand replacing your smartphone and credit ⋯

Richie BartlettYou’ve been PWNED!!! ⚠️ Ugh — another week, another nasty widespread security bug to worry about. The twist this time: this one has apparently been around since the 90s. Dubbed “FREAK” by the researchers who ⋯

Richie BartlettLight-speed ahead HAL9000! Germany to digitize autobahn, ready for self-driving car tests The German Ministry of Transport is paving the way for autonomous cars to hit one freeway with both dedicated and mixed ⋯

The amount of sunlight that hits the Earth every 40 minutes is enough to meet global energy demands for an entire year. The trick, of course, is harnessing it and converting it into useful electricity. A new study has revealed ⋯

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & ScienceJanuary 16, 2015Paralyzed patients have been given new hope of recovery after rats with severe spinal injuries walked again through a ‘groundbreaking’ new cyborg-style ⋯

How One Man Hacked His Way Out Of Homelessness A DIY workshop helped Marc Roth find a job. Now he’s helping others overcome poverty. In November 2011, Marc Roth spent the last of his savings on new work clothes. Two months ⋯

Richie BartlettSoon, we will have the ability to control convicts in real-life war-games… (see 2009 movie: “Gamer”) Abstract 🔗 Human sensory and motor systems provide the natural means for the exchange of information between ⋯

Richie BartlettThey may not be a T-800, but these little bots have learned “self preservation!” Next, we may find ourselves competing with not other Humans, but the offspring of these bastards. With the development of killer ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Won’t be too long before I can get a brain upgrade too! ;) Stanford bioengineers create circuit board modeled on the human brain Stanford bioengineers have developed faster, more energy-efficient microchips ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Who needs plastic made from oil products when you have tons of carbon to make something far better?! I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. No, fans of “The Graduate,” the word isn’t ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Encryption based on biology!ery cool. SD Times Blog: New ‘nearly unbreakable’ encryption scheme is inspired by human biology Researchers at Lancaster University in the U.K. have hit on a radically new way to ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.DARPA = Open source? DARPA publishes all its open source code in one place The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sponsors a lot of technology through grants to universities and private ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.cool Get ready for multicolor fonts – maybe in motion, too Impelled by a need to support emoji characters, Mozilla, Adobe, Microsoft, and Google are working to standardize technology for showing fonts that ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Play the GOV’s games for free (labor)… DARPA is crowd-sourcing its software testing with a series of online games aimed at seeking out bugs and vulnerabilities. The Last Starfighter it ain’t, but if you ever ⋯

In response to: http://www.chevrolet.com/volt-electric-car/specs/trims.html Mom, here’s a hybrid car that you can get for about $15,000 after government and GM coupons applied! Think of the gas you can save in a hybrid.

Richie Bartlett Jr.A “Smashing” street view through the Hadron collider! Explore the tunnels and control rooms of the world’s biggest particle collider from the comfort of your own home using Google Street View. Perhaps Google ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Down with the Draconian rules!!! The unpopular requirement that passengers shut electronics down during take-off and landing will soon be lifted, as long as communications capabilities are disabled. An ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Finger print security?What security???! Video (61 seconds) 🔗 iPhone 5s TouchID fingerprint hack .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; ⋯