'We didn't mean to track you' says Facebook as social network giant admits to 'bugs' in new privacy row

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

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

Camera lens falls from sky

Donnie Darko ;)

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

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/

The Lotus Effect

Southern Lights As Viewed From ISS

Police Force (Warning: Graphic)

Bahrain:



New York:



:-( Bahrain Bonus:

Producer araabMuzik Kills It On The MPC.

FLüD Presents: Beats Per Minute with Araab Muzik from FLuD Watches on Vimeo.

World Population Growth

Year Population
1 200 million
1000 275 million
1500 450 million
1650 500 million
1750 700 million
1804 1 billion
1850 1.2 billion
1900 1.6 billion
1927 2 billion
1950 2.55 billion
1955 2.8 billion
1960 3 billion
1965 3.3 billion
1970 3.7 billion
1975 4 billion
1980 4.5 billion
1985 4.85 billion
1990 5.3 billion
1995 5.7 billion
1999 6 billion
2006 6.5 billion
2009 6.8 billion
2011 7 billion

Faces - Realtime face substitution

Faces from arturo castro on Vimeo.

Reminds me of the scramble-suit in A Scanner Darkly:

Tokya Slo-Mode

TOKYO SLO-MODE from alex lee on Vimeo.

Extreme Sports Compilation

Sky Writing 2011

Computer gamers solve problem in AIDS research that puzzled scientists for years

When scientists struggle with a problem for over a decade, few of them think, “I know! I’ll ask computer gamers to help.” That, however, is exactly what Firas Khatib from the University of Washington did. The result: he and his legion of gaming co-authors have cracked a longstanding problem in AIDS research that scientists have puzzled over for years. It took them three weeks.

Khatib’s recruits played Foldit, a programme that reframes fiendish scientific challenges as a competitive multiplayer computer game. It taps into the collective problem-solving skills of tens of thousands of people, most of whom have little or no background in science....

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/18/computer-gamers-solve-problem-in-aids-research-that-puzzled-scientists-for-years/

Testing wall street september 1st

A video story of a peaceful protest test on Wall Street last Thursday Sept.1st, showing that we are living in a police state.
Each of us who were detained will return there again, brining friends over.
We cary our beliefs and no fears.
More and more people will be coming beginning September 17th.
Meaningless nonsense charges against us will be dismissed in a court, as it was with one of us, the person who was kept in jail that night and brought to the court the next day.
We believe in our constitutional rights for freedom of speech and peaceful demonstrations.

Arctic archeological dig uncovers mysterious disks

The four small pieces, formed from clay, are round and adorned with markings. Two have neatly centered holes. They may be 1,000 years old and, at the moment, what they were used for is anyone's guess.

The existence of similarly decorated boulders at old village sites in Noatak National Preserve was first recorded by archaeologists in the 1960s. But the sites remained unstudied until last summer, when Scott Shirar, a research archaeologist at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, took an expedition for a closer look at two locations....

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/09/12/2064151/arctic-archeological-dig-uncovers.html#ixzz1YPxQ7rX0

An Artificial Sun on Earth

It is science’s star experiment: an attempt to create an artificial sun on earth — and provide an answer to the world’s impending energy shortage. Scientists believe that this can’t be achieved for the next hundred years, but having your own sun for energy need is not an impossible dream! Maybe in future we can solve energy crisis by developing our own artificial sun. Scientists have been trying to harness nuclear fusion since Albert Einstein had derived the equation E=mc² in 1905. This equation raised the hope that fusing atoms together could release incredible amounts of energy. If Einstein’s theory is put to practical use, the amount of energy locked up in one gram of matter is enough to power 28,500 100-watt lightbulbs for a year.

href="http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/

Timelapse of the ISS flying over Earth

Printing a human kidney

Mexican Drug Cartels Send Warning To Bloggers By Hanging Two People From Bridge

"This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet," one sign said. "You better! pay attention. I'm about to get you."

Contact (Movie) - Palmer Joss & Larry King

The question that I'm asking is this: Are we happier as a human race? Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home we surf the web.. but at the same time we feel emptier, lonelier, and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history. We're becoming a synthesized society.... In a great big hurry to get the next......

We're looking for meaning. What is meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things we think will fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

Palmer Joss - Contact

Japan: Waterfall

9/11: A Conspiracy Theory

Where's the Octopus?

"If cephalopods didn’t exist, I’m not sure any science fiction writer could have imagined them. Underwater aliens, right here on Earth:"

Invisibility Cloak for Military vehicles

Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera

Whats that sound?

Florida 1:
STRANGE Trumpet Sounds heard before earthquake.



Florida 2:



Moscow:



Canada:
Before Earthquake.



Kiev 1:



Kiev 2:



Kiev 3:
Turn your volume up for this one:

Vampire bats could save stroke victims

Research has found that a drug derived from the substance can thin blood and dissolve blood clots in the brain, saving lives and limiting the damage caused by strokes.

Currently, patients who suffer most types of strokes need to have clot-busting injections within four hours of the attack for the treatment to work.

But studies have found that jabs using a medicine derived from protein in bats' saliva can have the same effect for up to nine hours...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8739441/Vampire-bats-could-save-stroke-victims.html

Rare cloud spotted

Extreme weather conditions have produced a rare cloud formation over Australia's Mawson station in Antarctica.

Meteorological officer Renae Baker captured spectacular images of the nacreous clouds, otherwise known as polar stratospheric clouds, late last month.

Reflecting like an airborne mother-of-pearl shell, the cloud colours are produced when fading light at sunset passes through water-ice crystals blown along a strong jet of stratospheric air more than 10 kilometres above the ground....

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/extreme-weather-makes-rare-cloud/2006/08/01/1154198117951.html

Superb Lyrebird

David Attenborough presents the amazing lyre bird, which mimics the calls of other birds - and chainsaws and camera shutters - in this video clip from The Life of Birds. This clever creature is one of the most impressive and funny in nature, with unbelievable sounds to match the beautiful pictures. From the BBC.

Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness

(Reuters) - Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study.

With only about a third of cases receiving the therapy or medication needed, mental illnesses cause a huge economic and social burden -- measured in the hundreds of billions of euros -- as sufferers become too unwell to work and personal relationships break down.

"Mental disorders have become Europe's largest health challenge of the 21st century," the study's authors said...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/04/us-europe-mental-illness-idUSTRE7832JJ20110904

Wild fire + Wind

60 Million Dollar Views: Space hotel makes E.T. tourism reality

Meanwhile In New Zealand... Flash mob

Wingsuitman

Insane @ 1:15

Hail storm

100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON

'The Employment' by Santiago Grasso

Everything we use was created by another human being. It's somebody's job to make the lamp that we don't even notice. It's somebody's job to make or drive taxis. Everything we deal with is some other person's life.