Systematic attacks are probing internet defenses to map out how to take down the internet according to a security guru

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. Bruce Schneier claims that there is evidence over the past year or two that Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet Bruce is the author of 13 books–including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data …

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DARPA seeks smart pixels with thousands of transistors combined with machine learning to provide the most useful view from many sensors

DARPA is seeking to have each camera pixel where each pixel is a smart pixel with 1,000 integrated transistors, which provide each and every pixel with a tiny reprogrammable brain of its own. This could mean selecting between different thermal (infrared) emissions or different resolutions or frame rates, or even collecting 3-D LIDAR data for …

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Computers models show that Mars has briny liquid water in the top 2 inches of soil each night and it evaporates in the morning

Liquid water collects in the Martian soil each night, before evaporating during the day, according to NASA’s Curiosity rover. If future missions can confirm this water cycle, it means astronauts could one day farm moisture to provide drinking water on Mars. Planetary scientists have seen a lot of evidence for frozen water at the Martian …

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Call the Singulary University a Super-sized Futurist Startup Bootcamp

Jamais Cascio does not like the Singularity University and suggests a Futurist liberal arts program. No corporate executive will pay $25,000 for future social studies/liberal arts crash course with a future twist. The target is Singularity executive MBA and advanced tech business brainstorming. People who have money or super techie geeks who have money or …

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Glasses with displays projected into your retina ? Old school. Now contact lens with displays

Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. Previously the Virtual Retina display (VRD) was invented at the University of Washington in the Human Interface Technology Lab in 1991. Advances in …

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