The camera that can see through frosted glass and skin, and around corners

Scientists in Israel have created a camera that can see around corners, or through solid objects such as frosted glass, and skin. The most exciting facet of this innovation is that the camera uses natural light to perform the imaging — such as a lamp, or the Sun — and not lasers or X-rays. Ori Katz, Eran Small, and Yaron Silberberg of the Weizmann Institute have shown that they can accurately resolve an object that’s hiding behind nearly opaque obstacles, or around a corner (or in another room, as long as the door’s open. In both cases, the light is scattered by the obstacle (the frosted glass, the corner wall), creating what appears to be white noise — but their camera can take these speckles of noise and enhance them “1000-fold”...

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Using WiFi to see through walls

British engineers from University College London have developed a passive radar system that can see through walls using the WiFi signals generated by wireless routers and access points. The system, devised by Karl Woodbridge and Kevin Chetty, requires two antennae and a signal processing unit (i.e. computer), and is no larger than a suitcase. Unlike normal radar, which emits radio waves and then measures any reflected signals, this new system operates in complete stealth. The passive radar process is actually quite simple. In any space that has WiFi, you are constantly being bombarded by 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio waves. When these waves hit a moving object, their frequency is altered (the Doppler effect). By carefully “sniffing” the WiFi...

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How To Find Product Key Of Any Software

How to find the product key of any software that you want..?? Now it has become much easier to find product key of any software that you want by searching just one keyword on Google. All you need to have is just an internet connection and you have half done with that. Step 1: Go to http://www.google.com Step 2: In the search field type “Product name” 94FBReg. “dreamweaver” 94FBR Step 3:Get the result Find the product key in first search result and enjoy any software at free of cost. The very first result appearing in Google search will contain the product key of software you were searched for. How to find product key »How it works Quite simple really. 94FBR is part of a Office 2000 Pro cd key that is widelydistributed...

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New nanoparticle could save lives, limit brain damage by ‘rebooting’ brain blood flow

Researchers at Rice University are conducting tests on a molecule they believe could play an important role in limiting brain damage in a wide variety of injuries. The nanoparticle, polyethylene glycol-hydrophilic carbon clusters (hereafter referred to as PEG-HCC) is already being tested as a means of enhancing certain cancer treatments. The ability to reduce/prevent brain damage, however, could be even more important. Explaining what PEG-HCC does requires a brief discussion of reactive oxygen species (ROS) molecules. ROS molecules, including free radicals, are chemically reactive molecules that contain oxygen. The human body produces a certain number of ROS through the normal metabolization of oxygen; cells contain a variety of...

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Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine

Bioengineers at Harvard University have created the first examples of cyborg tissue: Neurons, heart cells, muscle, and blood vessels that are interwoven by nanowires and transistors. These cyborg tissues are half living cells, half electronics. As far as the cells are concerned, they’re just normal cells that behave normally — but the electronic side actually acts as a sensor network, allowing a computer to interface directly with the cells. In the case of cyborg heart tissue, the researchers have already used the embedded nanowires to measure the contractions (heart rate) of the cells. To create cyborg flesh, you start with a three-dimensional scaffold that encourages cells to grow around them. These scaffolds are generally made of...

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Google the hole in your Android security?

Android’s pattern lock is often considered one of the least secure methods of keeping your phone’s data away from prying eyes. Well, it appears that it’s at least secure enough to stymie the FBI. An undercover agent witnessed one Dante Dears using an Android device to run a prostitution and human trafficking gang. Upon seizing the phone, the FBI was locked out, and is now subpoenaing Google to gain access. Could Google itself be the real security hole in your Android phone? The just-approved FBI subpoena asks Google to provide an astonishing amount of information regarding that locked down cell phone. The government wants Dears’ user name, password, email, contact list, list of websites visited, text messages, photos,...

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Is there anything Google can do to solve the problem of slow Android updates?

Google is getting ready to roll out its very first Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) device, the Nexus 7 tablet, and while that’s exciting news, it’s also sobering for scores of Android users still waiting to unwrap Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.x). The numbers in Google’s own Dashboard for developers tell the story in disappointing detail, but they don’t pinpoint the problem. What they reveal are cold, hard facts — such as, just 7.1% of active Android users are currently sinking their teeth into ICS, even though it was released more than eight months ago. Honeycomb (Android 3.x) is looking more and more like a stopgap solution with a less than 3% market share, while the vast majority — nearly two-thirds —  of Android users...

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Google and Stanford create a digital brain that, like an infant, learns to identify a human face from scratch

In a tantalizingly terrifying hint of the future, Google has shown off a new neural network — a Google brain, if you will — that can learn to identify objects without human supervision. Operating from the mysterious Google X Lab, this system can, from scratch, analyze millions of random, unlabeled images, and sort them into categories such as “human face” or “cat.” Jeff Dean and his team from Google, working with Andrew Ng and Quoc Le from Stanford University, have effectively created a rudimentary, low-resolution digital version of the brain’s visual cortex. The system, which comprises of a cluster of 1,000 computers (totaling 16,000 processor cores), analyzes 10 million 200×200 still frames from YouTube. Over 3 days, the system’s software...

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I’ve seen the future: Hands-on with Google Glass

Like most of you, I’ve heard plenty about Google Glass and seen some interesting demos — including the amazingly cool one at the Google I/O keynote this morning that featured skydivers and stunt bike riders. It wasn’t until Sergey Brin put a prototype pair on my face this afternoon, though, that I realized just how cool they are and how important they may become. To start with the glasses really are featherlight. I know we’ve heard that before, but I didn’t really believe it until now. They may not be lighter than my plastic reading glasses, but they are definitely feel lighter than my sunglasses — perhaps because the weight is nicely balanced in front of and behind one ear, instead of being bulked up in front and weighing down on the...

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Unleash your Chromebox: How to dual-boot Ubuntu Linux on your Chrome OS device

Google’s new Chromebox has some compelling features for large-scale IT shops. Capable of providing solid, secure performance at a reasonable price with almost no administrative overhead, they will no doubt find their way onto trading floors and into hospitals and universities, among other places. For many of the rest of us, the Chromebox, and the Chromebook before it, are a waste of perfectly good hardware. The Chromebox given out at Google I/O, for example, comes with a Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 16GB SSD. It also has plenty of USB and video ports as well as a built-in speaker. That’s more than enough muscle to run a full-on OS like Linux instead of trying to live within the tight, web-only, confines of Chrome OS. Hacker-friendly...

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Control Any Device OnThe Planet From Anywhere With Elphi

Elphi is the first smart plug built for the 21st century.  With it you can monitor, control and even share devices with your friends from anywhere in the world.  Simply plug your devices into the Elphi plug and connect them to the Elphi cloud with our free app.  Our streamlined setup process usually takes less than sixty seconds.  We’ve designed our system to work with your existing WiFi network so you don’t have to buy any additional hardware.  ELPHI GOES EVERYWHERE The Elphi smart plug can be used to monitor and control all of the things you plug into the wall.  Elphi hasbeen using it to turn on the espresso machine on the way back from work, for turning on heaters and lights, and to check whether...

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Microsoft commits to user privacy in IE10; risks advertiser wrath over Do Not Track support

Microsoft has affirmed its commitment to shipping IE10 and Windows 8 with “Do Not Track” (DNT) enabled by default. In doing so, it’s set the stage for a major war over user privacy, and appointed itself an unofficial white knight of user privacy. Feel free to pause a moment and let the cognitive dissonance fade. For those of you just tuning in, Do Not Track is a proposed privacy flag whose implementation is currently being drafted by the W3C. As currently implemented, a browser with DNT activated notifies the target website that the user does not wish to be tracked. A website that supports DNT would (theoretically) honor the flag and agree not to track the visitor’s activities. DNT is a voluntary standard — there’s no federal or...

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Apple vs. Samsung, Samsung gets cozy with Microsoft

Less than one week after a jury handed down a decisive win for Applein its case against Samsung, the Korean company now appears to be moving away from its embrace of Android to the relatively safer waters of Windows Phone. On Wednesday, I argued that Microsoft was set to gain from the verdict due to its position as an alternative to Android. The Redmond, Washington company was smart enough to sign agreements with Apple for some of the same patents that Samsung was found guilty of infringing upon. Now according to a report in the Korea Times, it sounds like Samsung is finding Microsoft to be a much more attractive partner for that exact reason. Some further evidence of the company’s shift may be found in its announcements...

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Broadband ‘tax’ may be in the works to expand high-speed internet access

The subject of taxation on the Internetis once again on the radar of politicos in Washington. Federal Communications Commission officials are considering a proposed tax to be levied to all broadband internet connections nationwide. The tax would work the same as theUniversal Service Fund, a government-imposed fee that appears on all phone bills to ensure ubiquitous access to telephone service. President Barack Obama made the concept of broadband access for all a cornerstone of his technology platform. While a noble idea, it will cost a good deal of money, and in some areas may not be a profitable venture. Thus, a fund like the USF, this time called the “Connect America Fund,” has been set up by the FCC. Agency...

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Windows 8 phones home, tells Microsoft every time you install a program

Security researcher and blogger Nadim Kobeissi has uncovered evidence that Windows 8 doesn’t just keep a local log of installed programs — it phones home to tell Microsoft every time you install an application. This is a significant expansion of a technology Microsoft introduced in Internet Explorer 9, called SmartScreen. In IE9, Smartscreen was an optional feature that would warn users if they ran a program that wasn’t whitelisted/ lagged with a positive reputation according to Microsoft’s servers. It was part of a wider initiative to encourage developers to sign their code, and MS claimed that SmartScreen significantly reduced the chances of downloading and installing malicious malware. Redmond decided to up the ante in Windows...

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