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Medicine

Submission + - The race to $1,000 human genome sequencing (patexia.com)

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ericjones12398
ericjones12398 writes: "Just one decade ago, sequencing an entire human genome cost upwards of $10 million and took about three years to complete. Now, several companies are racing to provide technology that can sequence a complete human genome in one day for less than $1,000.
A genome sequence for $1,000 was a pipe dream, just a few years ago,” said Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, in a statement provided by Life Technologies Corp., one of the companies developing gene sequencing technology. “A $1,000 genome in less than one day was not even on the radar, but will transform the clinical applications of sequencing."

Submission + - TomTom flames OpenStreetMap (tomtom.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: TomTom Navigation has a recently launched article on what they call the 'negative aspects' of open data projects as OpenStreetMap. As there are no hard facts and details to the studies they refer, the OSM community identified this release as classical 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt'.
http://www.systemed.net/blog/index.php?post=23
The Military

Submission + - Backdoor in hardware (cam.ac.uk)

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udas
udas writes: "Quo Vadis Labs has a paper that shows a "backdoor in a military grade FPGA" using their patented technique that uses "Pipeline Emission Analysis". They "were able to extract the secret key to activate the backdoor".

The repurcussions can be catastrophic. This implies that an attacker with knowledge of the backdoor can not only sniff data whenever the chip is used, but can even alter it's functionality. Because of the backdoor being in hardware, there is no alternative but to stop using them until a new, fixed batch can be fabricated, tested, and deployed. Even if the backdoor cannot be used directly, the delay it imposes is, in itself, of great value."
China

Submission + - China Has Backdoor On US Military Chip (cam.ac.uk) 11

Submitted by jjp9999
jjp9999 writes: Based on claims that silicon chips could be infected, security researcher Sergei Skorobogatov claims he and his team developed chip scanning software to put this to the test. They got their hands on a US military chip "that is highly secure with sophisticated encryption standards," that also happens to be manufactured in China. What they found was the chip has a backdoor on it that can disable the chip or reopen it at will. "This particular chip is prevalent in many systems from weapons, nuclear power plants to public transport. In other words, this backdoor access could be turned into an advanced Stuxnet weapon to attack potentially millions of systems. The scale and range of possible attacks has huge implications for National Security and public infrastructure," Skorobogatov writes on his blog.
Privacy

Submission + - Britians "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect (arstechnica.com)

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Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes: "The British Gov might have more cameras up on street corners than just about anywhere else in the world, but it seems that the Gov doesn't want anyone else stepping on the privacy of their folks. In what the media have dubbed the "Cookie Law" all operators of websites in Britain must notify users of the tracking that the website does. This doesn't only cover cookies, but all forms of tracking and analytics performed on visitors. While there are potential fines up up to 500,000 pounds (Over US$750,000) for websites not following these new rules, the BBC announced that very few websites are ready, even most of its own sites aren't up to speed — and amusingly even the governments own websites aren't ready."
Japan

Submission + - Japan readies robot for work at crippled nuclear reactor (cio.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan. The robot, called "Rosemary," is about the size of a lawn mower and has four extended treaded feet that swivel up and down to help it climb over obstacles."

Submission + - Shouryya Ray solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Isaac Newton (news.com.au) 1

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johnsnails
johnsnails writes: "A GERMAN 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.
Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/german-teen-shouryya-ray-solves-300-year-old-mathematical-riddle-posed-by-sir-isaac-newton/story-e6frfro0-1226368490157#ixzz1w3LI5N1w"
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Groupon Takes Aim at Paypal with Payment Service 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Groupon is testing a payment service that will allow merchants to accept credit cards using its infrastructure, reports said, pushing the coupon company into market space already occupied by Paypal and Square.

The world's largest daily-deal company is testing a card reader manufactured by Infinite Peripherals allowing merchants to accept credit cards by plugging the device into a smartphone.

It may be able to undercut them with fees coming from other services it offers merchants.

Comment Re:Android Honeycomb's WebKit code (Score 1) 209

by gabriel (#36075194) Attached to: Apple Delays Release of LGPL WebKit Code

Thanks, but are your sure it doesn't use Webcore? It would make sense for them to use it, as it's the bit which does the actual heavy lifting. Plus, even Android's SDK references it eg ConsoleMessage is a "Public class representing a JavaScript console message from WebCore."

Also I had a look at Chromium sources, but couldn't figure out which one is used for Android.

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