Facebook has admitted that it has been watching the web pages its members visit – even when they have logged out.
In its latest privacy blunder, the social networking site was forced to confirm that it has been constantly tracking its 750million users, even when they are using other sites.
The social networking giant says the huge privacy breach was simply a mistake - that software automatically downloaded to users' computers when they logged in to Facebook 'inadvertently' sent information to the company, whether or not they were logged in at the time.
Most would assume that Facebook stops monitoring them after they leave its site, but technology bloggers discovered this was not the case.
In fact, data has been regularly sent back to the social network’s servers – data that could be worth billions when creating 'targeted' advertising based on the sites users visit.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042573/Facebook-privacy-row-Social-network-giant-admits-bugs.html#ixzz1ZHo1dU9Y
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
CIA-backed IT firm offers view into the future. Recorded Future?
A CIA-backed Swedish-American company claims that it’s new technology can predict disease, terrorist threats, economic swings and resource shortages. The Local’s Karen Holst explores.
A look into the future may no longer require palm readings, star alignments or tarot cards after the release of a new technology purporting to be an all-encompassing oracle of the future.
The Swedish-American software company, Recorded Future, has developed a program that specialises in predictive analysis and with backers including the CIA investment arm In-Q-Tel, it is hoped that averting terrorist attacks could be one of its uses.
“It is a useful aid but prediction is always difficult. The world we face has wicked problems, and it’s important to understand that people like (Anders Behring) Breivik and Al-Qaeda are pretty savvy in concealing themselves through code words and disguised meanings,” says Magnus Ranstorp, Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College (Försvarshögskolan) and one of Sweden’s foremost experts on Islamic terrorism.
http://www.thelocal.se/36384/20110927/
Treasure worth £150m found in Atlantic shipwreck
A SHIPWRECK holding silver worth £150million has been discovered in the Atlantic – the largest amount of precious metal ever found at sea.
About 200 tons of the bullion sank off Ireland with British cargo steamer the SS Gairsoppa when it was hit by a German torpedo in 1941.
But it has now been found by US treasure hunters awarded a contract to conduct a search by our Department for Transport.
They will now attempt to salvage the silver and will have to hand 20% of its value to the British Treasury.
The US team lowered a robot 2.9 miles to the seabed and it found a gaping hole in the side of the ship where the torpedo had struck 70 years ago.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/27/treasure-worth-150m-found-in-atlantic-shipwreck-115875-23448625/#ixzz1ZAhmu68V
About 200 tons of the bullion sank off Ireland with British cargo steamer the SS Gairsoppa when it was hit by a German torpedo in 1941.
But it has now been found by US treasure hunters awarded a contract to conduct a search by our Department for Transport.
They will now attempt to salvage the silver and will have to hand 20% of its value to the British Treasury.
The US team lowered a robot 2.9 miles to the seabed and it found a gaping hole in the side of the ship where the torpedo had struck 70 years ago.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/27/treasure-worth-150m-found-in-atlantic-shipwreck-115875-23448625/#ixzz1ZAhmu68V
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Reconstruction from brain activity
The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject's brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video. (In brief, the algorithm processes each of the 18 million clips through a model of each individual brain, and identifies the clips that would likely have produced brain activity as similar to the measured brain activity as possible. The clips used to fit the model, those used to test the model and those used to reconstruct the stimulus were entirely separate.) Brain activity was sampled every one second, and each one-second section of the viewed movie was reconstructed separately.
The actual paper:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211009377
The actual paper:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211009377
Electric Eel Man
Electric-Eel Man John Chang aka Dynamo Jack produces energy and heat with his hands. Mo Pai Qigong Ring Magus of Java of Fire An Indonesian Odyssey
Charming Turnip Rock
This island is really located on the rocky shores of Lake Huron. This place is charming and unbelievably beautiful! Take a look at real photos of a wonderful island:
http://izismile.com/tags/Turnip+Rock/
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