Day: January 13, 2017

Whatsapp bug allows viewing of encrypted messages

Whatsapp’s messaging app supposedly ensures strong end-to-end encryption, with the idea being that only the people involved in a conversation will ever be able to read the messages. But as it turns out, a programming bug – that Whatsapp has known about for some time and has not fixed – theoretically allows Whatsapp to snoop on any encrypted messages sent over the platform.

Nobel Prize exhibition in Ahmedabad attracts visitors

Ahmedabad , Jan. 14: People from across age groups thronged the Nobel Prize exhibition, aimed at stimulating engagement in science, in Ahmedabad. [NK India] Titled ‘The Nobel Prize: Ideas Changing the World’, the four-day exhibition tells the story of Novel Prize founder Alfred Nobel – a Swedish inventor and industrialist – and other Nobel laureates.

Sounds from the Silk Route

Later this month, the dome-shaped ceiling of the restored, 574-seater Royal Opera House will reverberate with music from a four-stringed Chinese lute called pipa, the Afghan rubab, qanun , saxophone and tabla. Playing the instruments, which represent the Eastern and Western ends of the historical Silk Route, will be six artistes from China, Afghanistan, Syria and Italy.

5G spectrum squatting case ends in $100M FCC fine

The FCC has fined a company US$100 million for not using licenses to spectrum that is now considered promising for future 5G networks. Straight Path Spectrum agreed on Wednesday to pay the civil penalty, surrender most of its licenses, and sell the rest, among other conditions in a consent decree with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

SpaceX finances ‘on a knife edge’ following disastrous rocket explosion

SpaceX finances ‘on a knife edge’ following disastrous rocket explosion – and Elon Musk is relying on satellite internet service being a success to fund his Mars plans, leaked figures show Elon Musk watched in horror as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 burst into flames and rained debris over the Atlantic Ocean in 2015. The botched takeoff led to delayed launches, hindered the firm’s ability to fulfill contracts and contributed to annual loss and drops in revenue.

Urodynamics Equipment and Disposables Market Earnings Likely to…

Transparency Market Research has announced the addition of a new report, titled “Urodynamics Equipment and Disposables Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 – 2020”. According to this report, the global urodynamics equipment and disposables market will progress at a moderate 6.10% CAGR during the forecasting horizon from 2014 to 2020.

Spacewalking astronauts upgrade orbiting lab’s power grid

The International Space Station’s solar power grid got three more top-of-the-line batteries on Friday during the second spacewalk in a week. This photo made by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency shows him in a selfie photograph with the Earth reflected in his visor, during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017.

The Evolution and Future of Analytics

Measurement metrics are just in time, predictive and need a lot of augmented intelligence; however, we’re developing more complex mind analytics when it comes to buying patterns. This new type of analytics can give us insight into how the customer feels and what he or she experiences.

Watch out for this Netflix phishing scam

Hackers are targeting Netflix subscribers via an effective-looking phishing scam that aims to take credit card numbers and personal information. The emails directs the user to a fake login page that mimic’s Netflix, asking them to put in all of their information including name and payment information, according to cyber security site FireEye.

toil 3.5.0a1.dev321

Toil is a scalable, efficient, cross-platform pipeline management system, written entirely in Python, and designed around the principles of functional programming. Full documentation for the latest stable release can be found at Read the Docs .

Scientists reprogram embryonic stem cells to expand their potential

Researchers from UC Berkeley have found a way to reprogram mouse embryonic stem cells so that they exhibit developmental characteristics resembling those of fertilized eggs, or zygotes. While typical embryonic stem cells are unable to make tissues like the placenta, which allow the embryo to communicate with the mother, blocking a microRNA unleashes the potential to make these extra-embryonic tissues .

Guccifer 2.0 & me

Who or what is Guccifer 2.0? US intelligence agencies believe the mysterious hacker persona was central to efforts to interfere with last year’s American election and responsible for distributing hacked documents that embarrassed the Democratic Party. But now Guccifer 2.0 has broken a two-month silence to deny any connection to Russia.

You Can Now Order Girl Scout Cookies Online

Yes, you heard that right! Rather than trying to track down the parent of a Girl Scout or roaming around your community centers looking for those ubiquitous tables, you can now buy boxes upon boxes of the tasty cookies from the comfort of your own home, according to Hello Giggles . It’s all thanks to the Digital Cookie platform .

British ex spy behind Trump dossier seen as a cool operator

Christopher Steele, the one-time British spy who has compiled an explosive dossier on President-elect Donald Trump, is a well-regarded operative who wouldn’t make up stories to satisfy his clients, according to diplomatic and intelligence experts who know him. Steele, 52, worked for MI6, Britain’s overseas intelligence agency, and served in Moscow in the early 1990s.

This startup’s wind generator flaps its wings like a hummingbird

Small wind power seems like a great idea for a home or business until you learn the facts about how much more efficient, both cost- and energy-wise, large conventional wind turbines are. For certain situations, notably off-grid and rural locations with adequate wind speeds, small wind generators on tall masts can be a good option, but for the rest of us, mounting a tiny wind machine on our roof or in the backyard and expecting it to produce meaningful amounts of electricity just isn’t realistic.

Integration & Orchestration Middleware Market Revenues to Reach US $15.29 Bn by 2024 End

According to Persistence Market Research, integration and orchestration middleware market will surpass US$ 15 Bn by 2024-end, expanding at a CAGR of 7.1% through 2024. Primarily fueled by widespread adoption of cloud computing, rapidly expanding digital transformation, and soaring adoption of API management, this market will also be impacted by several other technology trends.

Dave Davies Talks Smithsonian TV Series, New Album With His Son & Recent Demos With Brother Ray

Rock stars and their toys are the subject of a new Smithsonian Channel series — and the Kinks’ Dave Davies is happy to be a part of it. Davies joins Graham Nash , Motown legend Martha Reeves , Moby and others in Rock ‘N’ Roll Inventions , a six-episode weekly series kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 16. The first episode, “This Damn Music,” examines developments such as windup gramophones and 78rpm shellac records, vinyl singles, the jukebox, transistor radios, FM radio, cassette and videos, while subsequent chapters will take on everything from electric guitars and keyboards to studio technology and staging.