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concertina226 writes:
A leading child leukaemia and cancer evolution expert is controversially calling for scientists worldwide to stop trying to cure cancer and instead focus on prevention.
Professor Mel Greaves, the director of the Centre for Evolution and Cancer at The Institute of Cancer Research, said most cancers cannot be cured, so scientists should give up trying.
"With a lot of respect to oncologists, we need to get smarter. Very intelligent people who aren't scientifically minded think there must be a cause, there must be a cure and it's just not right. It's fundamentally wrong," Greaves said.
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concertina226 writes:
Surgeons at Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, Shaanxi province in Northwest China are using 3D-printing in a pioneering surgery to help rebuild the skull of a man who suffered brain damage in a construction accident.
Numerous international experts were called in to consult on the case as the surgery to repair Hu's skull is particularly risky and complicated.
The patient's scalp and meninges (protective membranes covering the brain) melded together after the accident and had to be carefully peeled apart before the titanium mesh can be implanted.
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concertina226 writes:
Yesterday in Littleton, Colorado, professional Counter-Strike gamer Jordan Mathewson (known by the username "Kootra" online) was live-streaming a game on Twitch when an fully-armed SWAT team burst into the office building he was in and arrested him.
Mathewson is the founder and a member of The Creatures Twitch channel, an online business which is headquartered in an office complex in Littleton.
The channel is currently offline, and in a YouTube video posted by a viewer who was watching the stream at the time of the raid, Mathewson can be seen being searched and then handcuffed to a chair.
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concertina226 writes:
In TV shows such as Prison Break, and movies throughout history, people have escaped prisons by making a mould of the necessary key by pressing it into a bar of soap, and then filling the mould with plastic from a melted toothbrush or some other fanciful, though non-believable, material.
But what if you could actually make a skeleton key out of plastic?
Jos Weyers and Christian Holler, competitive lock-pickers and security consultants, have found a way to use the traditional lock-picking technique of "bumping", where key blanks are "bumped" into the lock by tapping the end of the key with a hammer.
Even without the original key, the lockpickers have found a way to create a 3D model of a high-security key and print it onto a plastic key that works multiple times.
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concertina226 writes:
Doctors from the Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH) in Beijing, China, have become the first in the world to use 3D-printing in complex spinal cord surgery, after replacing a section of cancerous vertebra in a boy's neck with a piece created on a 3D printer.
The procedure to remove this form of cancer is so complex that only five hospitals in China are equipped to perform the surgery. The tumour affects the top of the spinal cord in the neck, but also the internal and external carotid arteries, and the patient's windpipe.
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concertina226 writes:
The Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company (SWAT Archaeology) has discovered a Neolithic henge and archaeological remains from several periods on housing development grounds in Sittingbourne, Kent.
The structure, which is 30m in diameter, is over 6,000 years old and was found at Iwade Meadows, just east of the industrial town. It is just one of several prehistoric monuments to have been discovered on a north-west slope above the Ridham fleet stream, which runs through the centre of the excavation site.
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concertina226 writes:
Scientists at China's Southwest University in Chongqing are working on a new type of camera that takes Big Brother to a whole new level – the camera is meant to detect highly stressed individuals so that police can catch them before they commit a crime.
The camera makes use of hyperspectral imaging, i.e. a "stress sensor" that measures the amount of oxygen in blood across visible areas of the body, such as the face.
Chinese authorities are deeply concerned about the recent spate of deadly attacks occurring in public places, such as the mass stabbing attack by eight knife-wielding extremists in the city of Kunming, Yunnan in March, which left 29 civilians dead and over 140 others injured.
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concertina226 writes:
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to launch satellites into space cheaply to be used as a source of never-ending space solar power and end the world's energy crisis for good?
This is the future as imagined by Roger Shawyer, a British scientist who has spent years promoting his research on a highly controversial space propulsion technology called EmDrive.
Although he has been ridiculed and even accused of fraud by some in the international space community after New Scientist wrote about his invention in 2006, the proof is in the pudding as now Nasa has started testing the technology and says that it does indeed work.
"The space industry doesn't want to know about it as it's very disruptive. If the customer will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on launching a satellite, why would you want to make something that could do it cheaper?" Shawyer tells IBTimes UK.
"This technology is a quantum leap – it would enable vertical take-off and landing for airplanes, it's quiet and it uses liquid hydrogen as a fuel, so it's green too."
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concertina226 writes:
The Russian federal government is concerned about the number of people using Tor to anonymously surf the web in the country and has set up a competition to find a technological solution to solve the problem.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is offering 3.9 million roubles ($111,000, £65,370) to researchers who will "study the possibility of obtaining technical information about users and users equipment on the Tor anonymous network," according to a translated version of the proposal.
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concertina226 writes:
Can people still have contact with their loved ones beyond the grave? Gamers on the internet are tearing up right now over a YouTube user's supernatural tale of rediscovering his father's spirit in an old Xbox game a decade after he passed away.
One of the users responding to the YouTube video was user 00WARTHERAPY00, who commented that after his dad died when he was six years old, he had been unable to touch the Xbox console that his father had played games with him on.
However, recently he discovered that the RalliSport Challenge game had saved his dad's winning lap and would replay the video of that lap over and over again, even though it was a decade since the record was set.
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concertina226 writes:
Do you enjoy illegally downloading movies, songs and games? Do you think that all information should be free, and think that paying your internet bill should be enough?
Well too bad. It's not legal, and from 2015, your internet service provider (ISP) will send you four letters a year to tell you to stop downloading, paid for by a £3.5 million ($6m) taxpayer-funded awareness campaign.
That's it. No, really, that's it.
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concertina226 writes:
Hacker collective Anonymous has announced that it has taken down over a thousand crucial Israeli websites in a huge new coordinated cyber-attack called #OpSaveGaza on 11 July and 17 July, in support of the people of Palestine.
Some of the websites, such as the Tel Aviv Police Department's online presence, are still offline two days after the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and numerous Israeli government homepages have been replaced by graphics, slogans, and auto-playing audio files made by AnonGhost, the team of hackers who coordinated the attack.
The official Israeli government jobs website has had its homepage replaced by a graphic titled "Akincilar", which is Turkish for the Ottoman Empire's troops.
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concertina226 writes:
A UK start-up has come up with a revolutionary solution for individuals and small businesses who are worried about their online privacy, thanks to Edward Snowden's NSA spying revelations.
Rather than relying on conventional webmail providers or web servers, which can be intercepted by government intelligence agencies, how about having a server in your home or office that hosts your email and cloud storage on-site?
The Wedg is rather quirky, nifty piece of hardware – measuring just 16cm x 16.5cm, it's a tiny portable server that just requires a Wi-Fi connection and an AC plug point to work.
It comes programmed with everything you need to host a website, email as well as personal cloud storage, and there are multiple levels of encryption to keep all the data safe.
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concertina226 writes:
David Cameron has decided to rush through new emergency legislation known as the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP) into law this week, saying that there is an urgent need for better legislation since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overturned the EU Data Retention Directive in April.
Some of the changes from the 2009 Data Retention Regulations potentially give the UK government more powers for monitoring our data, from allowing the UK government to give warrants to non-UK companies to issuing warrants to forum owners, online storage services like Dropbox and webmail providers.
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concertina226 writes:
It seems you can 3D-print anything these days – a 42-year-old Japanese artist has been arrested in Tokyo for distributing a 3D printer data file via email to over 30 people, that would allow them to digitally replicate her vagina.
Megumi Igarashi, more commonly known by her artist name Rokudenashiko, which translates to "b*****d child" in Japanese, has been trying to break down Japanese taboos relating to female genitalia through her art.
To that end, she started a campaign on Japanese crowdfunding website Campfire in June, inviting backers to support the world's first "manko boat" (which translates as "c***" in Japanese) – a canoe in the shape of a vagina, which she deemed as "a man's dream boat".
