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2013_0607 - NSA, 3D Print

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Legal recognition for those who don't identify as either 'M' or 'F' Norrie first registered sexless person. Androgynous . . .

Norrie first registered sexless person

Norrie is the first person in NSW to be officially recognised as neither man nor woman by the state. CNN: NSA phone snooping, a new kind of creepy. I'm finding hard to get too worked up over yesterday's revelation that the National Security Agency has been authorized by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to collect all our call data from Verizon.

CNN: NSA phone snooping, a new kind of creepy

Hasn't everyone already assumed this? Displair, l’écran à air et à particules d’eau arrive en France à l’automne prochain. Le pari de Maxime Kamanine, étudiant russe en physique théorique semble réussi.

Displair, l’écran à air et à particules d’eau arrive en France à l’automne prochain

Il a levé 1,5 millions de dollars de fonds pour mettre au point un écran de 30 pouces capable de projeter des images à partir d’air et de particules d’eau. Brain implants: Restoring memory with a microchip. U.S. researchers are hopeful that human trials on a revolutionary memory implant could get underway in the next two years.

Brain implants: Restoring memory with a microchip

Scientists say that the implant could help people restore the memories of people who have had a stroke or suffered localized brain injury. The researchers are focusing on the hippocampus -- the place in the brain where short-term memories are made into long-term memories. In a separate study, Stanford University researchers recently created an 3-D animation (pictured) that renders the hippocampus region of a mouse brain transparent. Deep brain stimulation using electrodes and implants for epilepsy and other conditions has helped to pave the way for social acceptance of invasive brain procedures. A precision robot helps doctors learn how to perform brain surgery, reducing the fear factor in patients.

More Analytics of Ingenie Telematics Data on the Horizon. 4 Reasons Ingenie's Usage-Based Insurance Strategy is Different. NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies' Servers, Including Google and Facebook. [Editor’s Note: This story was based on an article originally published by the Washington Post indicating that the government had direct access to the servers of internet companies.

NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies' Servers, Including Google and Facebook

The Post later revised its story after the companies acknowledged they provided the government with data requested under court order but did not give the government direct access to their servers. As if news of the National Security Agency collecting phone records on millions of Americans wasn’t enough, a new report reveals that the NSA and FBI are directly tapped into central servers at nine U.S. internet firms, in order to provide constant monitoring of audio, video, photos, emails and documents as well as connection logs. Click to Open Overlay Gallery The companies whose servers are being mined are reportedly Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.

The Post notes that PalTalk hosted significant traffic during the Arab Spring and during the ongoing Syrian civil war. PRISM, Apple, Google, Microsoft: How the NSA's surveillance program could ruin Silicon Valley. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Every major tech company that has been reported to be participating in PRISM, the massive surveillance program revealed by the Guardian and Washington Post, has denied involvement in the program.

PRISM, Apple, Google, Microsoft: How the NSA's surveillance program could ruin Silicon Valley

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know - Politics. Yesterday, we learned that the NSA received all calling records from Verizon customers for a three-month period starting in April.

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know - Politics

That's everything except the voice content: who called who, where they were, how long the call lasted -- for millions of people, both Americans and foreigners. This "metadata" allows the government to track the movements of everyone during that period, and a build a detailed picture of who talks to whom.

America through the N.S.A.'s PRISM. [Updated, 2 A.M.

America through the N.S.A.'s PRISM

June 7th] “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” an unnamed intelligence officer told Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras of the Washington Post. “They” are the National Security Agency, and the Post report reveals that an N.S.A. program called Prism has, for the past six years, been “tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program. The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S.

U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program

Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post. The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. NSA/Verizon surveillance: You’re sharing your private data all the time. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images While you were tweeting an Instagram of your home-cooked tikka masala last night, we learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting data on millions of Verizon customers.

NSA/Verizon surveillance: You’re sharing your private data all the time

The Guardian published the full top-secret court order that forced Verizon to deliver customer information daily to the NSA. In essence, this meant that every time my 3-year-old daughter called to tell me that her imaginary friend Spiral Bunny just recited the alphabet, the NSA probably knew about it. Drone contrôlé par la pensée. 01net. Mind-Controlled Drones Actually Aim To Do Good. There’s something uncanny about drones, those autonomous aeroplanes that kill insurgents and civilians — but mostly civilians — and anger the pants off many liberty-loving Americans. But drones aren’t all bad. Self-Driving Cars for Testing Are Supported by U.S. On Thursday, the Transportation Department made its first formal policy statement on autonomous vehicles. In a nonbinding recommendation to the states, it said that driverless cars should not yet be allowed, except for testing. But it said that semiautonomous features, like cars that keep themselves centered in lanes and adjust their speed based on the location of the car ahead, could save lives.

8 Stocks Soaring on Short Squeezes. Bears, beware: The short squeeze is officially on. The obvious canary in the coal mine here is Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA ), the electric car manufacturer that the bears love to hate. +++ ExOne's Big News Pulls 3D Systems Shares Higher. A narrow profit posted by 3-D printing newcomer ExOne ( NASDAQ: XONE ) after Wednesday's close has buoyed the beleaguered sector today. Not only has ExOne risen by more than 6.5% today on news that it earned $902,000 in net income (compared to a consensus estimate of a $2.8 million loss), but 3D Systems ( NYSE: DDD ) has also jumped, gaining about 3.5%, while Stratasys ( NASDAQ: SSYS ) is enjoying small gains.

Is this genuinely good news for all three companies, or are investors casting too wide a net? Let's take a look at how ExOne's report compares to the most recent quarterly earnings of the two established players ( click here for 3D Systems' latest report , and click here for Stratasys' latest report ). Formlabs Starts to Ship Its Professional 3-D Printer. Shipping: The Form 1 3-D printer is now coming off a factory production line. Desktop 3-D printers are about to become available with higher-definition capabilities, with a new startup shipping its first model this month. At $3,299, the Form 1 could expand the market for 3-D printing technology.

+++ ExOne Gets a Mulligan - DDD, SSYS, XONE. +++ ExOne IPO Soars In 3D Printer Maker's Stock Market Debut XONE. 3D Systems raises forecast as printer sales soar. 3D Systems stockholders approve rise in authorised shares of common stock. 3D Systems Corporation: NYSE:DDD quotes & news - Google Finance. Motorola veut transformer le corps humain en mot de passe. Motorola aurait-il embauché Q, le célèbre pourvoyeur de gadgets de James Bond ? Presque, à en juger par les deux projets dévoilés la semaine dernière par la filiale de Google , lors de la conférence D : All Things Digital : une pilule intelligente à ingérer et un circuit imprimé tatoué sur la peau, permettant l’une ou l’autre de transformer le corps humain en sésame pour tous les équipements électroniques. « L’électronique est carrée et rigide, les humains sont souples et en courbes », constate Regina Dugan, chef des projets spéciaux pour Motorola.

Une quadrature du cercle sur laquelle se penche avec attention celle qui a dirigé, avant d’être recrutée par Google, rien de moins que la Darpa (« l’Agence pour les projets de recherche avancée de Défense » aux Etats-Unis). Elle travaille aujourd’hui sur l’interaction homme-machine, et en particulier sur l’épineuse question de l’authentification. Password Tattoos and Pills from Motorola at D11 (Video) - Liz Gannes - D11. Google's Regina Dugan Demos Electronic Tattoos & Ingestible Passwords - Liz Gannes - D11. Philippe Starck, le documentaire "L'incroyable voyage dans le futur" MÉDIAS - Allons-nous devenir des cyborgs, des mutants ou des clones vivant dans l'espace ou sur des îlots autosuffisants à la surface des océans ?

De grands chercheurs interrogés par le créateur Philippe Starck y répondent dans un étonnant documentaire , diffusé le 4 juin sur Arte. Depuis la naissance du système solaire il y a 4,5 milliards d'années, les mutations de tous ordres se sont enchaînées sans jamais s'arrêter. L'implosion du soleil est prévue dans 4 milliards d'années. Xerox Tests Workforce Science from Evolv in Its Call Centers. Xerox is screening tens of thousands of applicants for low-wage jobs in its call centers using software from a startup company called Evolv that automatically compares job seekers against a computer profile of the ideal candidate.

Driven by the Future. MindDrive : une voiture électrique alimentée par les médias sociaux. Incroyable mais vrai ! Des lycéens de Kansas City ont réalisé un projet scolaire, MindDrive, qui sort de l’ordinaire. Ils ont retapé une vieille voiture (une Volkswagen de 1967) et l’ont transformé en véhicule électrique. Un travail complet, mêlant différents types de tâches, de l’électronique à la peinture en passant par de la mécanique et de la soudure. Mais surtout, ils l’ont programmé pour être alimenté en fonction des messages reçus sur les médias sociaux ! Un like sur leur page Facebook , un hashtag #MindDrive sur Twitter ou Instagram, une vidéo vue sur Youtube et la voiture pourra avancer. Prochaine étape du projet, la mise en route de la voiture, bien sûr. MINDDRIVE Social Fuel Tour. MINDDRIVE Social Fuel Tour Embarks to D.C. Powered by Social Fuel.

The $1.3B Quest to Build a Supercomputer Replica of a Human Brain.  Mapping the human brain connectivity. Teen invents device that could charge mobile phone in seconds - Technology Industry News. Romanian teenager takes out $75,000 Intel prize with low-cost, self-driving car system.

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The first budget is the deepest; the last, the saddest. The boom is dead. Long live the boom? Monetary policy: the debate. Low inflation may be the new normal. Jobless rate drops to 5.5pc. 'Terminator-style' killer robots are almost a reality, warn campaigners. Battlefield 'killer robots' almost a reality, campaigners warn.