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Submission + - Surgeon Performs First Remote Augmented Reality Surgery With Google Glass (kurzweilai.net)

Submitted by line72
line72 writes: The world's first Remote Augmented Reality surgery just took place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Utilizing Google Glass and VIPAAR's virtual presence technology, two surgeons collaborated remotely in real time throughout the live operation. Dr. Ponce of UAB performed the surgery in Birmingham, AL while wearing Google Glass. Using VIPAAR, Dr. Dantuluri was able to see a live image of the case as well as reach his hands and tools into the real surgical field from Atlanta, GA. Dr. Ponce could see Dr. Dantuluri's hands and tools floating in the live surgical field using Glass. Their shared first-person Augmented-Relaity view greatly enhanced their collaboration and discussion of the live procedure. Here's a video of the interaction.

Submission + - Canonical Sends legal notice to EFF staffer who criticizes Privacy of Ubuntu

Submitted by sfcrazy

Submission + - Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View data (france24.com)

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: France 24 reports, "Brazilian judges have given US Internet search giant Google until Saturday to turn over private data collected through its Street View program ... Failure to do so would mean a daily fine of $50,000, up to a maximum of $500,000. ... According to a complaint from the Brazilian Institute of Computer Policy and Rights (IBDI), the car-borne software also enables Street View to access private wi-fi networks and intercept personal data and electronic communications. IBDI pointed to similar occurences in other parts of the world and demanded that Google reveal if it had engaged in such practices. It said Google had admitted collecting data while insisting they were not used "in its products and services. The US search engine stressed that it had now removed the data collection software from its vehicles."

Submission + - CIA Pays AT&T Millions to Voluntarily Provide Call Data

Submitted by binarstu
binarstu writes: The New York Times reports that 'The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company’s vast database of phone records, which includes Americans’ international calls, according to government officials. The cooperation is conducted under a voluntary contract, not under subpoenas or court orders compelling the company to participate, according to the officials.'

Submission + - GIMP Abandons SourceForge. Distributes via FTP Instead (gimp.org)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds
Dangerous_Minds writes: GIMP, a free and open source altenernative to image manipulation software like Photoshop, recently announced that it will no longer be distributing their program through SourceForge. Citing some of the ads as reasons, they say that the tipping point was "the introduction of their own SourceForge Installer software, which bundles third-party offers with Free Software packages. We do not want to support this kind of behavior, and have thus decided to abandon SourceForge." The policy changes were reported back in August by Gluster. GIMP is now distributing their software via their own FTP page instead. Is Sourceforge becoming the next CNET?

Submission + - Researches use computer generated 10 year old girl to catch online predators 1

Submitted by mrspoonsi
mrspoonsi writes: Dutch researchers conducted a 10 week sting, using a life like computer generated 10 year old Filipino girl named sweetie. During this time 20000 men contacted her, 1000 of these men offered money to remove clothing, 254 were from the US, 110 from the UK and 103 from India. Terre des Hommes launched a global campaign to stop "webcam sex tourism".

Submission + - Google Chrome Is Getting Automatic Blocking Of Malicious Downloads

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced Chrome is getting an automatic download blocking feature for malware. Google has already added the new functionality to the latest build of Chrome Canary. All versions of Chrome will soon automatically block downloads and let you know in a message at the bottom of your screen. You will be able to “Dismiss” the message, although it’s not clear if you will be able to stop or revert the block.

Submission + - Artificial blood made in Romania (dailymail.co.uk) 3

Submitted by calinduca
calinduca writes: Artificial blood that could one day be used in humans without side effects has been created by scientists in Romania. The blood contains water and salts along with a protein known as hemerythrin which is extracted from sea worms. Researchers from Babe-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, hope it could help end blood supply shortages and prevent infections through donations.

Submission + - NSA is Collecting Lots of Spam. 1

Submitted by wiredog
wiredog writes: Lots of it. Overwhelming amounts, perhaps. From The Washington Post

when one Iranian e-mail address of interest got taken over by spammers. The Iranian account began sending out bogus messages to its entire address book. ... the spam that wasn't deleted by those recipients kept getting scooped up every time the NSA's gaze passed over them. And as some people had marked the Iranian account as a safe account, additional spam messages continued to stream in, and the NSA likely picked those up, too....Every day from Sept. 11, 2011 to Sept. 24, 2011, the NSA collected somewhere between 2 GB and 117 GB of data concerning this Iranian address.

Submission + - Lavabit Briefly Allowing Users To Recover Their Data (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August have 72 hours (starting yesterday at 7 p.m. U.S. Central Time) to change their passwords and start recovering their data. 'Following the 72 hour period, Thursday, October 17th, the website will then allow users to access email archives and their personal account data so that it may be preserved by the user,' said Lavabit's founder and owner Ladar Levison.

Submission + - IBM Researcher Can Decipher Your Personality From 200 Of Your Tweets

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Dean Takahashi reports at Venture Beat that IBM researcher Michelle Zhou says she can make a good educated guess about your personality from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. The evaluation is based on “psycholinguistics,” or analysis of word choice. “Computers can derive people’s traits from linguistic footprints,” says Zhou. “That hasn’t been widely applicable before, because where do you get those linguistic footprints? Now, you can do that with social media and digital communications. Those are readily available, so we saw an opportunity there.” Zhou says she can perform a personality analysis in a disciplined and automated fashion using the science of data analytics and that companies that use this research could save hundreds of millions of dollars. For example, you can use the technology to evaluate the personality of a company representative in business negotiations. The data can also tell a marketer a lot. For instance, Zhou knows that idealistic people often opt to buy organic foods or use organic skin care product and people who are happy or depressed use different words. "Some would say this is just another effort to sell more to more people. But I think that the better we understand our customers, and people in general, the better we can serve them and help them." Zhou’s analysis aims to extract intrinsic traits, such as personality, values, and needs and it gathers that information by making correlations between such traits and a person’s word choice and activity patterns. “Those intrinsic traits include what motivates you, what you believe, your fundamental needs,” says Zhou.

Comment Re:This has been going on for hundreds of years (Score 1) 754

Most people don't think too highly of the folks behind Standard Oil, but an honest assessment would suggest that they did more to save whales than anyone at Greenpeace -- by making whale oil a less cost effective heating mechanism

Actually, the primary use for whale oil was illumination. Its use was superseded briefly by natural gas, and then permanently by electricity - so there's no credit to Standard Oil on that point.

Submission + - London UK Police demand summary domain takedown, hijack traffic to competing www (easydns.org)

Submitted by Stunt Pope
Stunt Pope writes: This morning Toronto based domain registrar easyDNS received a request from the City of London (UK) police demanding that they summarily take down a bittorrent search site based out of Singapore — or else they would "refer the matter to ICANN" — suggesting easyDNS could lose its accreditation.

They directed them to point all traffic for the domain at an IP address that promoted competing commercial online music services based out of London, UK.

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