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John Arnold, Hedge Fund Manager And Former Enron Trader, Retires At 38 Years Old With $3.5 Billion. Energy Generating Soccer Ball Brings Clean Power to Off-Grid Areas. When the sun goes down many developing countries rely upon dangerous kerosene lamps, which emit hazardous fumes and generate 190 million metric tons of CO2 each year. Seeking an eco-friendly alternative to this trend, four Harvard engineering students developed the Soccket – a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play.

Soccer is found in just about every African country, so the energy-generating ball has great potential to encourage healthy activity while producing clean electricity to light up the night. Photo from Soccket’s study of soccer play in Nairobi, Kenya The Soccket was designed for use in off-grid areas where electricity for interior lighting and charging cell phones is hard to come by. The ball works by capturing kinetic energy through an inductive coil mechanism, which works in a similar manner to those flashlights that are powered by shaking. As the ball is batted about, it draws a magnet through a coil, creating current that is stored in a battery.

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Marilyn Monroe Hologram: Late Actress Is Among Celebrities Who May Be Digitally Resurrected. The hologram trend continues to trudge along, with each week bringing news of plans for another late celebrity's digital resurrection. This week: Marilyn Monroe. THR reports Monroe (who would have turned 86 Friday) is the center of an upcoming show with the working title "Virtual Marilyn Live -- A Musical Celebration of the Birth of the Pop Icon" (hopefully that will change). She's not the only one: Usher will dance with fan holograms during his upcoming June 11th concert, which will be streamed live on YouTube.

That event is part of a series which pairs musicians with luminaries in film (the most recent, and notable, of these performances was the Gary Oldman-directed Jack White concert). Other names being floated (by THR) for hologram consideration include Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando and Haank Aaron (why not!). As with most things in the entertainment industry, the holograms are a big business. Of course, where there is money, there are lawyers. So what say you, readers? Supporting Technology Hubs in Africa. Microsoft Is Expected to Introduce a Tablet. Apple Sold 5 Million New iPhones in First Weekend. Hipstamatic Founders Launch Monthly iPad Magazine. Before Lucas Buick cofounded Synthetic, the company that created popular iPhone app Hipstamatic, he was employed as a graphic designer at a trade magazine — a post, he says, he ultimately decided to leave in pursuit of more creative freedom.

On Thursday, Buick is reentering the magazine business on his own terms, launching a free monthly iPad magazine called Snap. The title, edited by longtime music blogger and Synthetic social media manager Katie Carroll, is compromised of eight sections and three feature stories based on a monthly theme. The content is largely focused on art, culture, music and fashion. Two of the eight sections are devoted to travel, another purely to profiles of "elite" photographers. One section, called "Climax," is designed to spark conversations about more polarizing topics, including sex, religion and politics. The first issue, "Make Beautiful," looks at movements and individuals enacting positive change in the world. Snap is available for download here. Technology / I NEED THIS!!! HDMI Pocket Projector // For projecting anything from slideshows to movies.

Norwegian teenagers arrested over denial-of-service attacks. Over 170,000 people are part of the Sophos community on Facebook. Why not join us on Facebook to find out about the latest security threats. Hi fellow Twitter user! Follow our team of security experts on Twitter for the latest news about internet security threats. Already using Google+? Two teenagers have been arrested in Norway in connection with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites in the country, and elsewhere around the world. Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) has refused to go into much detail of which websites were targeted by the attacks, but news reports have suggested that victims are believed to include the Norwegian Lottery, the Norwegian Police Security Service, the Norwegian bank DNB, Germany's Bild Magazine, and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

SOCA was hit by a high profile denial-of-service attack last week, preventing internet users from reaching it. Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward Commercialization. Solar to dye for: The colored windows at left in a government building in Seoul, South Korea, generate power using technology from Australian dye-based solar developer Dyesol. Easy-to-make solar cells that capture light with dyes have garnered an impressive string of scientific awards, including the Millennium Technology Prize in 2010. Yet they’ve had little commercial impact since their invention in 1988. A novel design reported by Northwestern University researchers last week could change that, delivering a device that eliminates the dye-sensitized solar cell’s inherent liability: its leak-prone and corrosive liquid electrolyte. Unlike thin-film and silicon panels, dye-based panels can be produced in cheap roll-to-roll processes akin to printing. So even if they are less efficient than silicon solar cells, they could prove cost-effective.

In a dye-sensitized solar cell, incoming light excites a porous layer of titania coated with a dye, generating negative and positive charges. Technology / SO CRAZY! Philips Fluid flexible smartphone design concept. Technology / Social media is a big place, and navigating the many networks and tools can be tough. Here are 10 great ways small businesses can make the most of social media. Apple Is Said to Discuss an Investment in Twitter. Why Microsoft Is Being Left in the Dust. Alex Goldfayn’s new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn’t).

He is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute, a marketing consultancy with clients that include T-Mobile, TiVo, and Logitech. Follow him @alexgoldfayn. There are now a number of companies — Apple, Google, Amazon, and others — that have Microsoft in their rear-view mirrors, disappearing quickly on the horizon in a cloud of dust. That kick of dust in the company’s face is being emitted by Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Amazon’s Kindle, and Google’s search and cloud domination. If you want to know why Microsoft’s share price has been flat for 11 years while Apple, Amazon, and Google shares have soared, this is why. Microsoft Has Not Capitalized on its Partnerships and Acquisitions Last year, Microsoft announced a broad strategic partnership with Nokia, presumably to use Windows operating systems and software on Nokia’s smartphones. The Internet Defense League - Protecting the Free Internet since 2012.

Bredolab: Jail for man who masterminded botnet of 30 million computers. A man who was in command of a botnet of some 30 million computers worldwide has been sentenced to four years jail in Armenia. According to prosecutors, Georg Avanesov was earning 100,000 Euros (£80,000 or $125,000) a month from his Bredolab botnet business, renting out access to the compromised computers to criminals who wanted to send out spam, and spread malware and fake anti-virus attacks. The criminal income allowed the hacker to live a pretty lavish lifestyle by all reports, as he jetted off to the Seychelles with his attractive girlfriend and fancied himself as a DJ. At its peak, it is estimated that Avanesov's botnet was spewing out over 3 billion infected emails every day.

Avanesov's comeuppance began in October 2010, when Dutch police announced that they had wrestled control of 143 Bredolab botnet command & control servers, and were using it to display a warning to infected computer users. (There's an important lesson for website administrators to learn here. Japan Unveils Mind Control Robot‬‏ Google Launches 'Search As You Type' Pilot Program for Merchants. Google has rolled out a pilot program in which advertisers can display relevant search items before a consumer has finished typing a query.

Called "Search as You Type," the initiative is aimed at AdWords advertisers. Google has so far partnered with two brands — Hasbro and Lowe's — for the program. In the example below, someone starting to search "transformers" on Hasbro's site will see various Transformer products. Google is providing Search As You Type for free for the first 25 million searches annually. After that, licensing fees kick in. Image via iStock, Hillary Fox. Spotify Apps Find You a Date Based on Your Music Tastes. Two new apps have been launched on Spotify that aim to match you with potential dates based on what music you like. Fellody and Tastebuds.fm both integrate seamlessly with the popular music streaming service, scanning your music library to find your favorite artists, the songs you listen to the most, and your collection of playlists, to find other users with similar picks. You are then shown the profiles of the people who share the same taste, so you can see what you have in common.

Tastebuds.fm lets you filter by gender, age and location, and you can message matches in real-time or share songs with them. The app also allows users to share mixtapes with each other using Spotify’s in-built playlists. Fellody lets you drag and drop playlists into the app and then finds potential dates with the highest match rate. Tastebuds.fm Fellody Photo by Jon Ãslund.

Apple Now Worth More Than Microsoft, Google Combined. How high can Apple soar? The tech juggernaut is closing in on $500 per share, a dramatic psychological threshold that underscores the company’s stunning performance over the last decade. How massive has Apple become? It’s now worth more by market capitalization than Google and Microsoft combined. The company’s latest stock price surge is being fueled by rumors that a new version of the iPad — the iPad 3 — will appear next month. In mid-day trading Friday, Apple shares were up 0.6% t0 $496.14, bringing the company’s market capitalization — or the number of outstanding shares times its stock price — to a staggering $462 billion, or nearly half a trillion dollars. That’s greater than the sum of Microsoft’s market cap — $257 billion — and Google’s market cap — $197 billion. So what’s driving Apple’s sky-high valuation? It’s hard to put amounts this large in perspective, but various outlets around the web have been trying.

Know What’s Crazy? People Are Signing $100 Million NBA Contracts On An iPad. For industry people who keep up with the daily technology news cycle of incremental feature updates, startup launches, and seed funding stories, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture of how tech has changed how the world operates. So sometimes, it’s fun to just step back and realize how crazy something that’s happening today would seem to someone who time-traveled from, say, 100 years ago — or even how improbable it would seem to yourself just five years back. To wit: People are now signing $100 million contracts not with a pen, but with a finger. And it’s not because they’re signing in blood. It’s because they’re using an iPad. Now, digital signatures are nothing new — surely anyone who has received a UPS package or used a credit card at Walgreens in the past few years has done a similar thing. But when it comes to huge money and major contracts, it always takes a bit longer for people to adopt digital tools.

And of course, he Tweeted the moment too: It’s funny. 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked on Russian hacker site - Tech Talk. LinkedIn Logo. (PRNewsFoto/PwC) AP (CBS News) LinkedIn is investigating reports that 6.5 million passwords have been leaked on a Russian hacker site. "Our team continues to investigate, but at this time, we're still unable to confirm that any security breach has occurred," the LinkedIn team posted on Twitter Wednesday.

LinkedIn is a professional social networking site, where users can post their resumes and connect with colleagues or industry contacts. According to The Verge, a user on a Russian forum claimed responsibility for the hack. The BBC consulted security researcher Graham Cluley on the authenticity of the reports of the hack. "We've confirmed there are LinkedIn passwords in the data," Cluley told the BBC. Several sources are reporting that the passwords are not encrypted using a method called "salting," which would make the text nearly impossible to interpret. Video: Leap Motion’s 3D Control System is 100 Times More Precise than Kinect. Make Any Website Appear In 3D Without The Glasses. What would you say if you could turn any website online into 3D? Well, developer Edan Kwan has created a program which uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that converts any website into 3D. By simply bookmarking the script to your bookmarks bar, you can turn your usual (boring) 2D site into 3D—with just a simple click of the mouse!

What initially started as joke to his colleagues at digital agency Firstborn, has become quite a success with daily site visits going from 100 to around 12,000 in a few weeks. He was able to convert websites into 3D by separating different elements on a website into different layers. According to Kwan, he said that the scripts works on most HTML sites. If you would like to download the script, you can visit his site. Click to view enlarged version Click to view enlarged version [via Fast Co. Receive interesting stories like this one in your inbox. Japanese Scientists Create Touchable Holograms‬‏ Storing Digital Data in Living DNA Cells: Scientists Suceed in Groundbreaking Experiment.

Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images Science fiction writers, you have a new inspiration. Researchers have successfully stored data in the DNA of living cells. After three years and 750 different trials, scientists finally found a method for repeatedly encoding, storing, and erasing the digital information within the DNA, as part of a partnership between Stanford University’s schools of engineering and medicine. Think of their creation as a bioengineering bit; Graduate student Pakpoom Subsoontorn explains, “If the DNA section points in one direction, it’s a zero. If it points the other way, it’s a one.” How could this data storage be used?

Don’t get your hopes up too fast though—researchers say engineering biology further could be a decade away at least. Video produced by Krishnan Vasuvedan. TEDxSpeakers. Pinterest Adds iPhone 5 Support; Pinning from Camera, Photos on iPad. 20 September '12, 07:28pm Follow Just a few hours after its Vimeo update, Pinterest today updated its iOS app with iPhone 5 support and new pinning options for the iPad. You can download the latest version from the official Apple App store.

The iPhone 5 is launching tomorrow, and Pinterest wants to be ready for when it does. It’s of course very likely that new iPhone users will be download apps on day one, and Pinterest will look very good if it’s up-to-date, unlike many other apps and competitors (*cough* Facebook *cough* Twitter). It’s not exactly clear what support for Apple’s latest and greatest means, but I would wager it translates to taking advantage of the device’s slightly larger screen.

The app’s page now claims the following: “Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. The official changelog for version 2.0.3 is below: Image credit: stock.xchng. In ‘iDisorder,’ a Look at Mobile-Device Addiction - Review. 'Leak it all!' Anonymous calls for Fight Club-style 'Project Mayhem-2012' Google Aims to Smooth the Path for Android Developers. Samsung starts mass producing 128GB flash chips for smartphones and tablets. Marilyn Monroe Hologram: Late Actress' Estate Threatens Legal Action Over 'Virtual Marilyn' Social TV: 350 Million Interactions So Far This Year | Social TV and Trending Topics: What's Hot Right Now. New Yahoo CEO Is Just the First Step. News Summary: First new BlackBerry gets touch only. Senator admits: SOPA “really did pose some risk to the Internet”

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