giulioprisco - Slashdot User

Submission + - Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support a New Fedcoin or Eurocoin? (bitcoinmagazine.com)

Submitted by giulioprisco on Sunday February 22, 2015 @04:17AM

giulioprisco writes: New Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, former Economist-in-Residence at game developer Valve Corporation, sees something like Bitcoin — or, more likely, a state-controlled “Fedcoin” — possibly playing a role in the (necessarily creative) rescue of the Greek economy. "The technology of Bitcoin, if suitably adapted, can be employed profitably in the Eurozone," he said.

Submission + - Fedcoin Rising (bitcoinmagazine.com)

Submitted by giulioprisco on Thursday February 19, 2015 @06:26AM

giulioprisco writes: US economists are considering a government-sponsored digital currency. On February 3, David Andolfatto, Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, wrote a blog post based on a presentation he gave at the International Workshop on P2P Financial Systems 2015. The title of the blog post is “Fedcoin: On the Desirability of a Government Cryptocurrency.”

Submission + - Georgia Institute of Technology Researchers Bridge the Airgap (hacked.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:20AM

An anonymous reader writes: Hacked has a piece about Georgia Institute of Technology Researchers keylogging from a distance using the electromagnetic radiation of CPUs. They can reportedly do this from up to 6 meters away. In this video, using two Ubuntu laptops, they demonstrate that keystrokes are easily interpreted with the software they have developed. In their whitepaper they talk about the need for more research in this area so that hardware and software manufacturers will be able to develop more secure devices. For now, Farraday cages don't seem as crazy as they used to, or do they?

Submission + - Ancient Viruses Hacked Human Brains (hacked.com) 1

Submitted by giulioprisco on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:32PM

giulioprisco writes: A new study from Lund University in Sweden indicates that inherited viruses that are millions of years old play an important role in building up the complex networks that characterize the human brain. The Lund study shows that retroviruses seem to play a central role in the basic functions of the brain — over the course of evolution, the viruses took an increasingly firm hold on the steering wheel in our cellular machinery. In particular, the retroviruses seem to play an important role in the regulation of which genes are to be expressed, and when.

Submission + - Gun Rights Hacktivists to Fab 3D-Printed Guns at State Capitol (hacked.com)

Submitted by giulioprisco on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @06:56AM

giulioprisco writes: On January 13th Come And Take Texas (CATI) will be manufacturing 3D-printed firearms on location at the State Capitol. In 2013 Defense Distributed made public the 3D printable files (STL files) for the world’s first fully 3D printable gun. Their more recent Ghost Gunner is designed to automatically manufacture publicly created designs with nearly zero user interaction.

Comment WELL DONE (Score 1) 355

by giulioprisco on Monday December 29, 2014 @10:31AM (#48688805) Attached to: School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees

WELL DONE! Kudos to the school.

Submission + - Real Virtual and Augmented Reality Apps, Coming Soon From Facebook (hacked.com)

Submitted by giulioprisco on Saturday December 27, 2014 @06:38AM

giulioprisco writes: Oculus VR, the Virtual Reality (VR) technology company acquired by Facebook earlier this year, announced recently that they are acquiring two small start-up companies, Nimble VR and 13th Lab, to fill gaps in their virtual reality capabilities. The acquisitions may indicate that, besides VR games and social worlds, Facebook may target Augmented Reality (AR) applications, like Google is doing with Google Glass.

Submission + - Magic Leap Hires Sci-Fi Writer Neal Stephenson as Chief Futurist (hacked.com)

Submitted by giulioprisco on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:47PM

giulioprisco writes: Magic Leap, a secretive Florida augmented reality startup that raised $542 million in October, hired renowned science fiction writer Neal Stephenson as its “Chief Futurist.” Stephenson offers hints at the company’s technology and philosophy: "Magic Leap is bringing physics, biology, code, and design together to build a system that is going to blow doors open for people who create things." According to the Magic Leap website, their Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal technology permits generating images indistinguishable from real objects.

Slashdot Top Deals