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hypnosec writes:
In a first of its kind initiative, Thom Feeney, a shoe shop worker from Yorkshire in the UK has started a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo to bailout Greece with a goal of €1.6 billion. The reason Feeney started this campaign was that he got bored of the daily dithering over Greece with various European countries deliberating whether they can help the Greek people or not. "Why don't we the people just sort it instead?" Feeney writes in the crowdfunding campaign description.
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hypnosec writes:
Researchers have found that some coral populations already posses genetic variants that could help them tolerate the increasing ocean temperatures and if such corals are mixed and matched with corals from different latitudes they can be made to survive global warming through 'genetic rescue'. Researchers exposed the corals' larvae to increasingly warm temperatures for long periods of time, and then analyzed the genes of the surviving individuals. Their results reveal that the more heat-tolerant corals produced larvae that were 10 times more likely to survive heat exposure than the larvae of the less heat-tolerant corals.
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hypnosec writes:
D-Wave Systems Inc. has announced a new technological and scientific achievement wherein it has managed to break the 1000 qubit quantum computing barrier through a new processor about double the size of D-Wave’s previous generation and far exceeding the number of qubits ever developed by D-Wave or any other quantum effort. The company says that this new breakthrough will enable its customers to solve more complex computational problems than was possible on any previous quantum computer.
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hypnosec writes:
If we go by the recent changes announced by Microsoft for the Windows 10 preview builds, anyone with a computer capable of running Redmond's latest operating system can get Windows 10 for free. According to the changes, users will be required to connect their registered Microsoft Account (MSA) to their Windows 10 preview systems to continue receiving future preview builds – both Slow and Fast ring – through Windows Update. He further adds that Windows Insiders running the Windows 10 Insider Preview (Home and Pro editions) with their registered MSA connected to their PC will receive the final release build of Windows 10 starting on July 29th. This means that users are not required to have any previous Windows license with them to receive the licensed copy of Windows 10. "As long as you are running an Insider Preview build and connected with the MSA you used to register, you will receive the Windows 10 final release build and remain activated", reads the statement.
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hypnosec writes:
Security experts have revealed that data of millions of app users is vulnerable and could be easily stolen owing to coding flaws that leave their data unprotected. Experts at Technische Universität Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT, based on their analysis of cloud databases like Facebook’s Parse and Amazon’s AWS, have found 56 million sets of unprotected data including email addresses, passwords, health records and other sensitive information of app users, which may be easily stolen and often manipulated.
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hypnosec writes:
At a time when video games are being blamed for Children’s lack of interest in physical activity, increased food intake; improper sitting postures; masculinity crisis; aggressive behaviour, slow mental decay and even obesity, a new research has showed that video games that involve active participation from players may be better for children than unstructured physical activity and that they may actually be a source of moderate or intense physical activity in children five to eight years old.
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hypnosec writes:
The European Space Agency (ESA) hasn't given up on the task of finding its Philae comet lander and according to the latest information from the space agency, it may have zeroed in on Philae's location as being the CONSERT ellipse measuring approximately 16 x 160 m.
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hypnosec writes:
A schoolboy on work-experience at Keele University has been attributed with the discovery of a new Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star 1000 light years away in our galaxy. Tom Wagg, the discoverer, spotted the planet by finding a tiny dip in the light of a star as a planet passed in front of it. Wagg, now aged 17, made the discovery when he was 15 and is believed to be the youngest person to have ever found a planet.
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hypnosec writes:
Campylobacter, the food bug which is mainly found on raw poultry and is considered one of the biggest cause of food poisoning in the UK, has been found in 73 per cent of chickens in the UK – a year long survey carried out by the Food Standards Agency has revealed. The FSA published its cumulative results for samples taken between February 2014 and February 2015 including results presented by major retailer. The survey found that 19 per cent of chickens tested positive for campylobacter within the highest band of contamination meaning that more than 1,000 colony forming units per gram (>1,000 cfu/g) were detected in those samples. The survey, which tested more than 4,000 samples of fresh whole chilled chickens and packaging, also found that 0.1 per cent (five samples) of packaging tested positive at the highest band of contamination and 7 per cent of packaging tested positive for the presence of campylobacter.
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hypnosec writes:
Concentrations of ozone depleting chemicals was at its peak in 1993, but over the years they have declined and a new research points out that the Montreal Protocol, which came into force in 1987, has played a major role in not only ensuring that use of these chemicals is reduced, but has also helped us avoid a severe ozone depletion.
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hypnosec writes:
Researchers in Australia have used the vortex fluidic device – the same device using which researchers unboiled an egg – to produce a four-fold increase in efficacy of carboplatin, a commonly used drug for ovarian, lung and other cancer.
73052527
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hypnosec writes:
In a quest for more disease resistant and resilient crops, researchers have moved a step closer to identifying the nanostructure of celluose – the building block of plant cell walls – by tapping into IBM’s supercomputing power. Researchers at IBM and Universities of Melbourne and Queensland have been able to model the structure and dynamics of cellulose at the molecular level – a development that is pegged as a significant step towards understanding of cellulose biosynthesis and how plant cell walls assemble and function.
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hypnosec writes:
Oskar Pernefeldt, a student at Beckmans University of Design in Stockholm, Sweden, has proposed an International Flag of Earth that would not only represent our planet but will remind us that we share this planet and we should take care of each other as well as the planet we live on. The flag packs seven rings forming a flower at its center, which according to Pernefeldt is a symbol of the life on Earth. These rings are linked to each other, and this, Pernefeldt says, represent how everything on Earth, directly or indirectly, are linked.
72975009
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hypnosec writes:
Using the age-old idea of employing yeast to convert sugar into alcohol, researchers have formulated key steps using which sugar-fed yeast can be turned into a microbial factory to churn out therapeutic drugs including morphine, antibiotics and possibly even anti-cancer drugs. Researchers have succeeded in replicating the early steps of the chemical pathway in the poppy plant in an engineered strain of yeast and have managed to synthesize reticuline, a compound in poppy, from tyrosine, a derivative of glucose using the engineered yeast. The research has been published in journal Nature Chemical Biology
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hypnosec writes:
Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), UK have launched an awareness campaign dubbed ‘Wake up – don’t fake up!’ warning consumers of the risks posed by fake beauty products. PIPCU notes that their laboratory tests have shown counterfeit perfumes often containing poisonous chemicals including cyanide and even human urine. Lab tests of fake cosmetics including eyeliner, mascara, lipgloss and foundation have shown toxic levels of chemicals and harmful substances such as arsenic, mercury and lead. There have been instances wherein rats’ droppings and poison have also been found in the fake cosmetic products.
