First mind-controlled, bone-mounted robotic arms to be implanted in 2013

A postdoctoral student has developed a technique for implanting thought-controlled robotic arms and their electrodes directly to the bones and nerves of amputees, a move which he is calling "the future of artificial limbs". The first volunteers will receive their new limbs early in 2013.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee flags UN net conference concerns

Sir Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the world wide web - is the latest voice to raise concerns about a meeting of communication tech regulators in Dubai.

He spoke of concerns that some attendees would push for a UN agency to "run the internet" rather than leaving it to groups already "doing a good job".

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has also highlighted the issue on Google's site.

But the UN agency itself is playing down suggestions of a power-grab.

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On Automation

The Tyranny of Algorithms

Do we want a world where a software program 

picks the next pop-music star and legals system 

run on opaque pieces of code?

By EVGENY MOROZOV

In "Player Piano," his 1952 dystopian novel, Kurt Vonnegut rebelled against automation. For Vonnegut, the metaphor of the player piano—where the instrument plays itself, without any intervention from humans—stood for all that was wrong with the cold, mechanical and efficiency-maximizing environment around him. MORE HERE

Report: Eastern European Hackers More Sophisticated Than Asian Counterparts

A new report from a cyber security firm has concluded that Eastern European hackers are launching more sophisticated attacks on U.S. businesses than their Asian counterparts, in part because hackers in Russia and nearby countries work in a more nimble, mercenary fashion. 

The report from Tokyo-based Trend Micro Inc. compares two of the main sources of global computer attacks – and finds distinct differences, notably that the Eastern European hackers are more often “hired guns’’ trying to steal money, while East Asian hackers tend to be part of larger organizations intent on swiping corporate or government secrets. 

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Mobile Sim Card Registration is a Sign of Satanism- Says Christians

Some Christians in Kitwe have raised concerns
over the SIM card registration exercise that is
currently being conducted by mobile service
providers countrywide.

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority -ZICTA late last month
directed all mobile cell phone subscribers to start
registering Mobile Subscriber Identity Module -
SIM- cards.

Read more: http://zibanizambia.com/2012/09/13/mobile-sim-card-registration-is-a-sign-of-satanism-says-christians/#ixzz26syOkPeh

Anonymous Hacker AnonWormer Unmasked by Girlfriend's Cleavage Picture

A member of Anonymous has allegedly been arrested in Australia after authorities tracked down his identity and whereabouts from a graphic cleavage shot of a bikini-clad woman.

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Tongue Drive System

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Paparazzi: Sharks of the French Riviera - drone journalism

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updatable digital displays onto cloth

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Kiss Usb Model

This time we stick to the old cd - model, in future we will deliver the dogtime USB stick. I think people would like to have that thing rather than a ol fashioned cd. think so?

Robot Teachers

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