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kc123 writes:
The team that runs the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has released a photo showning a new impact crater on Mars, formed sometime early this decade. The crater at the center is about 30 meters in diameter, and the material ejected during its formation extends out as far as 15 kilometers. The impact was originally spotted by the MRO's Context Camera, a wide-field imaging system that provides the context—an image of the surrounding terrain—for the high-resolution images taken by HiRISE. The time window on the impact, between July 2010 and May 2012, simply represents the time between two different Context Camera photos of the same location. Once the crater was spotted, it took until November of 2013 for another pass of the region, at which point HiRISE was able to image it.
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kc123 writes:
Two of the UK's largest pawn shop chains are selling second-hand phones which still contain swathes of deeply personal information from their previous owners. Photos, text messages, passwords, credit card information and internet searches were left on the phones and easily accessed, leaving their former owners vulnerable to identity theft, fraud and blackmail. Customers are assured that their devices will be wiped before being sold on. However, with freely available and easy-to-use software itt took less than an hour to pull off intimate and personal information that the phone's previous owner had stored.
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kc123 writes:
David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary has has told the Guardian that police would be able to access the new central NHS database without a warrant as critics warn of catastrophic breach of trust. The database that will store all of England's health records has a series of "backdoors" that will allow police and government bodies to access people's medical data. In the past police would need to track down the GP who held a suspect's records and go to court for a disclosure order. Now, they would be able to simply approach the new arms-length NHS information centre, which will hold the records. The idea that police will be able to request information from a central database without a warrant totally undermines a long-held belief in the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship.
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kc123 writes:
From Google Developers Blog:Back in July we announced the developer preview of the Google Cast Software Development Kit (SDK), the underlying Chromecast technology that enables multi-screen experiences across mobile devices (phones, tablet, laptops) and large-screen displays. Starting today, the Google Cast SDK is available for developing and publishing Google Cast-ready apps
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kc123 writes:
From TechCrunch — "This is a pretty obvious movie tie-in, but it’s still pretty cool: Google has partnered with LEGO to build an app that lets you play with LEGOs right in the browser. Using WebGL and other modern web technologies, a Google team in Australia first developed this application as an experiment in 2012 and now Google is opening it up to everybody."
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kc123 writes:
Apple has released financial data for Q1 2014 including record revenue of $57.6 billion and profit of $13.1 billion. In that period it sold a record 51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads.Mac sales were also up at 5.8M and iPod sales slumped to 6M.
