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Exploring New Ways Tech Can Significantly Change Hospital Procedures And Patient Care My mom always told me I should really think twice before going to the hospital, as there’s a good chance I will leave sicker than when I arrived. It turns out it’s not just an old wives tale, and that there are actual risks involved with hospital visits and routine procedures. Here’s one Israeli MedTech company, ART MEDICAL, that’s doing something about this....

However, he quickly took to Twitter to insist that the incident was not a prank call, “just a wrong number!” “I’d like to apologise to the lady I just called by mistake saying ‘Hello, is this planet earth?’ — not a prank call… just a wrong number,” he tweeted from the ISS on Christmas day. — Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) December 24, 2015 Father of two, Peake, 43, of Chichester, has been unlucky with calls to earth and had earlier got his parents’ answering machine when he tried to wish them a Merry Christmas....

Sony Hack results unpaid checks for Hollywood stars while Sony Productions starts shooting for James Bond’s upcoming film Spectre in RomeMeanwhile James Bond and Spectre move to Rome for shoot Latest casualty of the Sony hack attack seems to be the Hollywood films stars who acted in or had some sort of agreement with Sony. They havent been paid for 3 months and will have to wait for some more months before they receive their paychecks....

“These websites have not been compromised themselves, but are the victim of malvertising,” the researchers said Wednesday in a blog post. “This means an advertisement provider, providing its services to a small part of a website, serves malicious advertisement aimed at infecting visitors with malware.” Angler is among a menu of exploit kits available on underground forums and used in campaigns to own websites and redirect victims off to sites hosting banking malware and other types of malicious code....

The LHC experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a new class of sub-atomic particles known as ‘Pentaquarks’. The association has submitted today a paper reporting these results to the journal Physical Review Letters. LHCb spokesperson Guy Wilkinson said, “The pentaquark is not just any new element”. “It represents a way to aggregate quarks, specifically the basic constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons, in a pattern that has never been observed before in over 50 years of experimental searches....

Well, a company named SLD Laser showcased a demonstration of its latest version of laser Li-Fi at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. During the demonstration, the company managed to transfer data at a speed of 20 GB/s. It is worth noting that, 5G wireless network can only offer data transfer speed of 1GB/s. Unlike conventional Wi-Fi, the Li-Fi technology displayed by SLD Laser uses laser light instead of radio waves to transmit data at improved speeds....

Rumors of a fully Android-powered BlackBerry device popped up again last month, and today Evan Blass aka @evleaks came out on Twitter to say that BlackBerry’s Android-powered “Venice” smartphone is on its way to AT&T for an official launch later this year in the month of November. It’s not clear exactly which device we are looking at but it’s definitely odd. It features a physical keyboard along the bottom, however that is what looks to be an on-screen keyboard as well....

According to the FCC, in August 2014, a hacker using the alias EvilJordie, a member of the “Lizard Squad” hacker group presented himself as a Cox tech employee and successfully convinced a company customer service representative and a Cox contractor to give up authentication keys that unlocked the sensitive customer data. This is what the Lizard Squad had to say about the FTC penalty : https://twitter.com/LizardLands/status/662478595504406528 After obtaining that information, the hacker got access to personal information on Cox customers, which included names, addresses, email addresses, secret questions and answers, PINs and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security Numbers The breach became public when EvilJordie shared some of the stolen information on social media sites, and also distributed some of it among other Lizard Squad members....

A number of new resources from macOS Sierra suggest support for the rumored OLED touch bar. For instance, “kHIDUsage_LED_DoNotDisturb” reference points to a Do Not Disturb button, and “kHIDUsage_LED_NightMode” suggests a night mode button on the OLED touch bar. At present, Do Not Disturb can be accessed on the Mac from the notifications pane, but with the inclusion of OLED touch bar, there would be a dedicated touch button for the feature....

Rony Abovitz’s Magic Leap would bring sheer magic to the smartphone screens by combining technology with biology. Google had made an investment of $542 million last year to support Magic Leap’s ‘technology.’ Magic Leap’s magical wand is still top secret and CEO Rony Abovitz is making it all that more mysterious by keeping a close guard on the secrets; however he has given out some information about Magic Leap in his recent Reditt AMA....

Olsen said that he was searching for “a simple set of good outdoor surveillance cameras” for a friend, when he found what he thought was a good deal for 6 Sony Chip HD PoE cameras and recording equipment. The seller, Urban Security Group, had mostly good reviews, so Olsen made the purchase. After purchasing the kit, Olsen started setting up the surveillance system, logging into the administrator panel to configure it....

However, the Townhall took a weird twist when a handful of Facebook’s more high profile users, including Stephen Hawking, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffington, chimed in with their own questions for the Facebook boss. In the literal sense of the word, the conversation was the most overwhelming of the bunch. It’s hard to imagine this kind of public interaction, between Zuckerberg and one of the world’s greatest scientists, taking place in a world without the Internet, or without Facebook....

The browser regularly sends a small encrypted ZIP file containing the user’s entire browsing history, including Google searches, queries and a complete list of software installed on the user’s computer, all without the prior authorization of the user, according to a recent report released by the firms. Information about the system includes the CPU, memory, the adblocker status and the startpage. Using this information, if attackers obtained the user’s email they could send a message, authenticated by its content, containing an attachment armed with a remote code execution exploit that could compromise the user’s device, the report said....

Hack Rod is a collaboration between Primordial Research Project, design software giant Autodesk and media company Bandito Brothers. The key persons behind Hack Road are Autodesk research fellow Mickey McManus and Bandito Brothers CEO and creative director Mouse McCoy. The idea of building Hack Road came to McCoy. Two years ago, McCoy told Fast Company, he decided to figure out the future of making things. “I knocked on the door of Autodesk,” he recalled, and ended up meeting McManus, who soon became inspired to see how his interest in digital fabrication and machine learning could be applied to the trillion-dollar auto industry....

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The parties have cleared conditions to go Contract-In-Force (CIF) with their plans, and the construction of the “state of the art” undersea cable system will begin in August 2016 with over 6,600 kilometers to be laid by October 2017. Frank Rey, Microsoft Director for global network acquisition described that “this marks an important new step in building the next-generation infrastructure of the Internet.” Christian Belady, General Manager, Datacenter Strategy, Planning & Development, Microsoft Corp, said “As the world is increasingly moving toward a future based on cloud computing, Microsoft continues to invest in our cloud infrastructure to meet current and future growing global demand for our more than 200 cloud services, including Bing, Office 365, Skype, Xbox Live and the Microsoft Azure platform....

For those unaware, a digital identity is the body of information about an individual, organization or electronic device that exists online. Digital identities of customers are usually the key to accessing enterprise applications and services and interacting across the Internet. Phillip Misner, Microsoft’s Principal Security Group Manager, in a blog post noted that the company has heavily invested in the “creation, implementation, and improvement of identity-related specifications that foster strong authentication, secure sign-on, sessions, API security, and other critical infrastructure tasks, as part of the community of standards experts within official standards bodies such as IETF, W3C, or the OpenID Foundation....

Microsoft planned to buy Slack for $8 billion back in March 2016 but backed out after stiff opposition from founder Bill Gates and current CEO, Satya Nadella. After failing to convince Gates and Nadella into buying Slack, the Microsoft honchos have decide the next best way to get it, kill it with competition! According to a report on MSPowerUser, the Redmond-based tech giant is reportedly working on creating a Slack competitor — with the help of Skype....

The tool installs Build 15063 of the Windows 10 Insiders Build program, which will become the official Windows 10 Creators Update next week. Those interested in downloading the tool can do so via the Microsoft site. This option is intended for advanced users on devices running a licensed version of Windows 10. If you don’t have Assistant, then click here to download it, and follow the instructions to update to version 1703....

Besides Xbox Series S, the Redmond giant is also expected to unveil Xbox Series X – the more powerful console – with a price tag of $499. Both consoles will reportedly launch on November 10th, 2020. Initially trusted Microsoft leaker Brad Sams leaked a photo render via his Twitter account and Thurrott.com showing the Xbox Series S console is white in color. It is placed next to a white Xbox controller and doesn’t seem to have a disc drive....