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Cold/allergy meds shrink brain size and boost Alzheimer’s danger

Two medical research studies over the course of the last year have discovered that over the counter allergy and common cold medicines will shrink the size of the human brain and greatly increase the dangers of developing Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. The research team at the University of Indiana School of Medicine …

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“Brainprints” may be the future of personal ID

Scientists at the University of Binghamton, in New York,  have recently completed research that has determined that brainwaves may just be the way people will be identified in the future making fingerprints obsolete. Their research is scheduled for publication in July. The researchers claim that not only are these brain scans, these “brainprints”, accurate but …

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US cranks up cyber war against Islamic State

The United States military has upped the ante in its cyber war against the Islamic State. It is a far more extensive and destructive hacking campaign than what many have been led to believe. Last week, President Obama said that the U.S. was performing cyber operations in the hope of infiltrating and disturbing the Islamic …

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Is MIT’s “AI2” The Next Step In Cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity is perhaps the most important thing on the planet right now. Everything we have and need is on the internet: personal photo albums, business plans and government secrets. And all of it needs protection. For every barrier we learn how to erect, hackers find just as many ways to sneak around them. Unless the …

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Are paper towels safer than hand dryers?

The next time you are in a public restroom and you have the choice between using the forced hot air hand dryer and plain old paper towels, you may think twice before placing your hands under the hand dryer. According to recent research done at the University of Westminster, in England, forced hot air hand …

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Robot deaths mount as Fukushima recovery continues

Five years after the devastating tsunami and the destruction and meltdown of the nuclear power plants at Fukushima, Japan, the radiation levels are so high and so extreme that nothing can survive in the area for long. This, apparently, included the specially designed and built robots being used for the recovery efforts. The radiation levels …

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Microsoft sues Justice Dept. as data wars heat up

The war over data privacy between American corporations and the federal government heated up again late last week as Microsoft brought a law suit against the United States Justice Department. The battle continues between  a federal government that wants unlimited access to everything and American companies that seek to protect the data and digital privacy …

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Brain implant allows paralyzed man to use his hand

It is the first known instance of what is being called “limb animation” and it has been performed by doctors at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center on a 24 year old quadriplegic man. Through a computer chip implanted in the man’s brain, doctor’s have given him the use of one of his hands back. Ian …

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Forget The Cloud: The Future Is DNA Storage

External drives are increasing in quality and getting cheaper, but that still doesn’t prevent planned obsolescence or physical accidents. Cloud services are good but require immense server stations to collect all of our information. All of our information, stored in together. What would happen to the Cloud if those data centers were destroyed? Enter DNA …

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Company developing interface for mind controlled aircraft

The researchers at the Honeywell Aerospace company have been working at a frantic pace over the last year or so to perfect technology they have developed that may soon allow for mind controlled aircraft. Their scientific advances seem rather unbelievable yet their research and development wants to reach further to encompass the possibility that brain …

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