Despite claims to the contrary, it turns out, antibacterial soaps sold in the US, may do more harm than good. The US government health watchdog said exposure to one of the key chemicals found in many antibacterial soaps, may even cause health risks. It first began evaluating the health concerns over the chemical ingredient Triclosan forty years ago, but has only just issued its preliminary ruling. Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett reports from Washington DC.
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We've put together a list of 10 interesting ways to make that bottle of vinegar work for you. Audible Trial: http://audible.com/household Topics covered: 1. Unclogging a drain 2. Removing adhesive residue 3. Getting rid of awful smells. 4. DIY Cleaning Products 5. DIY Fruit fly Trap 6. Getting Wrinkles out of clothing (My favorite) 7. Preventing pets from scratching 8. Make flowers last longer 9. Cleaning your glasses perfectly 10. Removing baked on gunk in a frying pan
The Resident: How to protect yourself from radiation
The FCC hasn't updated its cellphone radiation guidelines since 1996, and the World Health Organization's Agency for Research and Cancer listed cellphones as a possible carcinogen in 2011. But cellphones aren't the only radiation-emitters around us on a daily basis - our PCs, laptops, routers, cameras, and other wireless devices emit some level of radiation. To date, those levels are unquantified and unqualified - so it might be time for us to protect ourselves. The Resident (aka Lori Harfenist) discusses a few options. Subscribe
What's the Difference Between the US Using Chemical Weapons and Others Doing the Same?
David Stockman nails the heart of US war-mongering hypocrisy with this question: "After having rained napalm, white phosphorous, bunker busters, drone missiles, and the most violent machinery of conventional warfare ever assembled upon millions of innocent Vietnamese, Cambodians, Serbs, Somalis, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Yemeni, Libyans, and countless more, Washington now presupposes to be in the moral-sanctions business?"...read more
Safeguards keeping the NSA from spying on Americans were removed by the Obama administration | The Verge According to a new report from The Washington Post, President Obama's administration sought to relax restrictions on National Security Agency surveillance in 2011, winning permission from a surveillance court to deliberately search for the intercepted phone calls and emails of citizens without a warrant. The court also reportedly extended the length of time that the NSA is permitted to store intercepted US communications to 6 years, up from 5, and even longer under "special circumstances." The 2011 decision overturns a 2008 ban on warrantless searches of the NSA's databases containing email and phone call records of American citizens and legal residents....read more
Bet you've never seen anything like this before! World, meet the Cyber-shot QX10 and QX100 Lens-style Cameras.
These babies will easily link to your smartphone** (iOS *and* Android!) and allow you to capture high-zoom, high quality photos which you can immediately share on Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks.
Another sweet feature: these lens-style cameras can act as a remote viewfinder, letting you capture unique photos from different angles and perspectives.
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**The camera acts as access point which can be discovered by other devices just like access points at home and office. It's Peer-to-Peer connection.
CSR (http://www.csr.com) has developed the world's thinnest wireless touch interface to demonstrate the revolutionary potential of Bluetooth® Smart for computing interfaces. The flexible device, which is less than 0.5 mm thick, turns any area into a touch surface. Combining CSR's low-power wireless technology with the latest in printable, flexible electronics from Conductive Inkjet Technology and touch screen sensing from Atmel, the device can be used to extend the touch interface of tablets and smartphones.
Windows 8 Controller lets you control your Windows 8 PC as if it is a tablet. Just using your Android phone and Windows Phone (for Windows phone, the app title is Win8 Controller), you can experience the Windows 8 gestures like pinch, stretch, rotate, swipe, side gestures etc. Easily scroll through web pages, pinch to zoom in your photos, cycle through open apps... It's fast and fluid! Give it a try, you'll love it!
Towards the end of February, scientists in the US announced that they had created a so-called brain-to-brain interface that made it possible for one rat to influence another one's behavior with the help of brain signals sent via the Internet alone. Scientists at the University of Washington now say that they have successfully performed the same experiment on humans. What they did was set up a human-to-human brain interface that made it possible for a researcher to control the hand motions of one of his colleagues....read more
The NSA bugged offices in the UN's New York headquarters as part of a comprehensive surveillance program, says Der Spiegel. According to files leaked by Edward Snowden, the agency has bugged more than 80 embassies and consulates under a program called the "Special Collection Service." The program is "intensive and well organized and has little or nothing to do with warding off terrorists." In New York, that included tapping into video conference calls, which the NSA managed to do in the summer of 2012. ...read more
Apple patented the means to transmit an encoded signal to all wireless devices, commanding them to disable recording functions. Those policies would be activated by GPS, and WiFi or mobile base-stations, which would ring-fence ("geofence") around a building or a "sensitive area" to prevent phone cameras from taking pictures or recording video. Apple may implement the technology, but it would not be Apple's decision to activate the "feature" – it would be down governments, businesses and network owners to set such policies, analyzes ZDNet technology website.
Tunnelbear is a great, easy to use VPN service that gives you access to content available in the US or the UK with one click. Now it's available for Android, and it's just as fast and easy. Encrypt your data & browse the internet on your Android tablet or smartphone with privacy. read more
Displays of Noctilucent Clouds and Aurora during one night are rare. Noctilucent Clouds, NLC's for short, (aka Night Shining Clouds or Polar Mesospheric Clouds) are the world's highest types of cloud forming on the edge of space at height of about 80 km (50 miles) which is also height where auroras occur. Unlike most of other clouds types, which are mostly made of water vapour, NLCs are comprised of extremely small ice crystals. They are normally too faint to be seen, and are visible only when illuminated by sunlight from below the horizon while the lower layers of the atmosphere are in the Earth's shadow. They can be observed in the summer months at latitudes between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator.
With so much press surrounding the NSA and privacy concerns, it's important to know the alternatives to providing Internet information through your browser. While not as nostalgic a solution as Russia's, anonymous browsing could be the perfect revolution for the Internet Surveillance Age. In order to understand this type of browsing, we need to examine how "normal" browsers work. read more
Eye surgeon blames smartphones for increase in short sightedness If you've been experiencing worsening eye problems over the last several years, you aren't alone. An eye surgeon in the U.K. has noticed a 35 percent increase in the number of patients diagnosed with advancing myopia (short sightedness) which he believes is being cause by smartphones.
NSA violated privacy rules thousands of times, leaked audit reveals An audit leaked by The Washington Post has revealed a staggering amount of privacy violations performed by the National Security Agency (NSA), resulting in thousands of cases of unauthorized surveillance on Americans each year.
Google now automatically encrypts all Google Cloud Storage data Google's Cloud Storage service now encrypts all data before it is written to disk using the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The search giant recently announced as much via their Cloud Platform blog, noting the change will come without additional charge for customers.
New species of carnivore looks like a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear Observed in the wild, tucked away in museum collections, and even exhibited in zoos around the world -- there is one mysterious creature that has been a victim of mistaken identity for more than 100 years. A team of Smithsonian scientists, however, uncovered overlooked museum specimens of this remarkable animal, which took them on a journey from museum cabinets in Chicago to cloud forests in South America to genetics labs in Washington, D.C. The result: the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) -- the first carnivore species to be discovered in the American continents in 35 years.
Voyager 1 has left the solar system Voyager 1 appears to have at long last left our solar system and entered interstellar space, says a University of Maryland-led team of researchers. Their model indicates Voyager 1 actually entered interstellar space a little more than a year ago, a finding directly counter to recent articles suggesting the spacecraft was still in a fuzzily-defined transition zone between the Sun's sphere of influence and the rest of the galaxy.
Superconducting wire yields unprecedented performance The ability to control nanoscale imperfections in superconducting wires results in materials with unparalleled and customized performance, according to a new study.
Invisibility cloak made from simple mirrors can stop time indefinitely Researchers at Northwestern University have designed an invisibility cloak that can temporally hide objects for an indefinite period of time. Objects covered by this invisibility cloak wouldn't disappear from sight, but rather it would appear that time has completely stopped for the cloaked object. A clock, for example, would continue to tick -- but to the human observer, the hands would never move.
Plastic solar cells' new design promises bright future Harvesting energy directly from sunlight to generate electricity using photovoltaic technologies is a very promising method for producing electricity in an environmentally benign fashion. Polymer solar cells offer unique attractions, but the challenge has been improving their power-conversion efficiency. Now a research team reports the design and synthesis of new polymer semiconductors and reports polymer solar cells with fill factors of 80 percent -- a first. This number is close to that of silicon solar cells.
First hundred thousand years of our universe Researchers have taken the furthest look back through time yet -- 100 years to 300,000 years after the Big Bang -- and found tantalizing new hints of clues as to what might have happened.
Scientists create tiny bendy power supply for even smaller portable electronics Scientists have created a powerful micro-supercapacitor, just nanometers thick and less than half a centimeter across, that could help electronics companies develop mobile phones and cameras that are smaller, lighter and thinner than ever before.
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