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Submission + - Ericsson: 90% Of World's Population To Own A Smartphone By 2020 (gizmorati.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ericsson Mobility Report, the detailed update on mobile trends leveraging big data from live networks worldwide has recently released its latest edition. Mobile research prospects for future indicate that 90 percent of World’s population will have a mobile phone by 2020.

Submission + - A Mysterious Twitter Account Is Leaking Morocco's Secrets

Submitted by blottsie
blottsie writes: For the past three months, an anonymous Twitter account has been leaking classified Moroccan diplomatic documents, much to the dismay of the African country's government.

“Le Makhzen,” or @chris_coleman24, is referred to routinely in regional press as "Morocco’s Snowden," in reference to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, and is commonly compared to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. The account began disseminating classified documents and correspondence from the government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and General Directorate for Studies and Documents early in October this year. Some of the "leaks," however, reportedly include fabricated misinformation.

Submission + - Brain shield brings neural network to the Arduino (indiegogo.com)

Submitted by Paul Bristow
Paul Bristow writes: The Arduino has done a fantastic job in making things react, move and blink. Now http://neuromorthings.com/ are making the Arduino think as well. They're running an Indiegogo campaign to produce the Braincard, a neural network shield for Arduino that incorporates a CM1K 1024-node neural network chip. One variant includes a camera so that the Arduino will be able to do real-time image recognition. Oh, and they built in a stacking mechanism to you can expand to 9000+ neurons.

You could use it to teach a robot to read, or count the number of beers in a room, or get a drone to chase frisbees, or make a beer fridge that only opens for you and your buddies. The technology has been around for a while, but the scientists have only just realised that the maker movement could do some really cool things with this. The same board works with Raspberry Pi and PMOD sensors too.

Any ideas what you would make?

Submission + - Desolenator uses solar power to make clean water for less than the cost of a TV (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by colindp
colindp writes: Solar water stills" are nothing new, but efficiency is the key to the Desolenator, which produces 15 liters per day for 20 years with nearly no maintenance. Add to that the fact that it costs less than a big screen TV and you have a versatile device that can provide clean drinking water to people around the world.

Submission + - Net Neutrality in Argentina!

Submitted by plerner
plerner writes: Argentina has a new Net Neutrality law; law no. 27.078. It was passed by congress this week and published yesterday. Original text in Spanish can be foud at http://www.boletinoficial.gov....

Article 1 reads (translated by google):"Object. Declared of public interest the development of Information Technologies and Communications, Telecommunication, and their associated resources, establishing and ensuring complete network neutrality.
Its purpose is to allow access to all the inhabitants of Argentina to the services of information and communication equitable social and geographical conditions, with the highest quality standards.
This rule is of public order and excludes any type of content regulation, whatever their means of transmission."

Theres a little bit more about it on articles 56 and 57 of the same law.

Submission + - This is why you're always getting lost (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Have you ever stared at a map on your phone, utterly confused, as your GPS cryptically directed you to “head east”? It turns out that the entorhinal region of the brain—an area best known for its role in memory formation—may be at least partly to blame for your poor sense of direction. According to a study published online today in Current Biology, this brain region may help humans decide which direction to go to reach a destination. In the study, participants explored a virtual, square room with four unique objects in each corner and different landscapes on each of the four walls. Once they were familiar with the environment, the volunteers had to navigate a series of paths from one corner to another while the researchers monitored their brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging. The entorhinal region has long been known to help people identify which direction they’re facing already, but to plan a route, navigators must also imagine the direction of their destination. The study showed that this brain region likely also has a role in decisions about which directions to face next to get where we want to go. And as the participants imagined their way through the virtual room, the researchers found that the strength of the signal from this region was directly related to navigational performance.

Submission + - FBI Retaliates on North Korea for Sony Attacks (nationalreport.net)

Submitted by barbariccow
barbariccow writes: Wednesday evening, over 1,100 documents were leaked on the Internet by a North American hacker group, revealing a lengthy list of North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un’s most embarrassing secrets, including medical records that detail his struggles with erectile dysfunction.

Submission + - [meta] accidentally flagged 1

Submitted by TheSHAD0W
TheSHAD0W writes: So I accidentally clicked the "flag" icon on a submission, which immediately disappeared. I don't see any obvious way to undo this... I'm not sure how many accidental flaggings there are, but offering a way to un-flag a comment would reduce the load on moderators. Perhaps instead of making the entry disappear entirely, instead obscure the text and leave it there, so a second click on the icon would perform an undo?

Submission + - Woman game developer may have never "fled her home" (theralphretort.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Previously unknown indie game developer Brianna Wu made international news, including on the green, after claiming on October 11 that threats from the Gamergate movement had forced her to flee her home. As one report briefly mentioned, at that time Wu was on a planned trip to New York where she was scheduled to speak at Comic-Con. Later news interviews placed Wu at her home as they reported that she had fled from it, raising the question of whether she had ever been forced to flee her home at all.

As has come to be usual for any news on this subject, Medium administrators deleted an article that had provided additional evidence that Wu's secret media interview location was in fact her own home from which she had never fled.

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