Topic: MUSIK - on December 10, 2013 at 4:34:00 PM CET
DrumPants: An Entire Band in your Pocket
World's first industrial quality wearable musical instrument. Watch someone play it to believe it. Play whenever inspiration strikes.
Traditional instruments can’t be replaced, but they have not kept up with our increasingly mobile, on-the-go lifestyles. We want you to play anywhere, from jamming with friends to performing live on stage.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 10, 2013 at 4:32:00 PM CET
Wie wir überwacht werden
Vier Szenarien aus dem Alltag zeigen, warum sich Bürgerinnen und Bürger für die vom Staat über sie gesammelten Daten interessieren sollten
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 10, 2013 at 4:31:00 PM CET
Geheimdienste spionierten Online-Rollenspiele aus
Britische und US-Geheimdienste haben Medienberichten zufolge millionenfach genutzte Online-Rollenspiele ausgespäht. Die US-Dienste CIA und NSA sowie der britische GCHQ haben demnach Undercover-Agenten in die Spielwelten von World of Warcraft und Second Life geschickt, berichteten der Guardian, ProPublica und die New York Times. Sie beriefen sich auf geheime Dokumente des Whistleblowers Edward Snowden. Die Geheimdienste hätten sich außerdem Zugang zu dem Netzwerk der Microsoft-Spielekonsole Xbox verschafft, das weltweit fast 50 Millionen Nutzer hat.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 10, 2013 at 4:30:00 PM CET
Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies
To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs.
That vision of spycraft sparked a concerted drive by the NSA and its UK sister agency GCHQ to infiltrate the massive communities playing online games, according to secret documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 10, 2013 at 4:29:00 PM CET
Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA
A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners at the request of the U.S. National Security Agency.
The leaked NSA document being reported exclusively by CBC News reveals Canada is involved with the huge American intelligence agency in clandestine surveillance activities in “approximately 20 high-priority countries."
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 8, 2013 at 2:04:00 PM CET
Aktivisten wollen NSA-Rechenzentrum Wasser abdrehen
Mit Druck auf lokale Politik - Serverfarm soll pro Tag 6,4 Millionen Liter Wasser verbrauchen
Der US-Geheimdienst NSA hat nicht nur im Ausland zahlreiche Gegner, sondern auch Kritiker im Inland. Auf bundesstaatlicher Ebene will nun eine Gruppe von Aktivisten gegen die Organisation vorgehen und ihr buchstäblich das Wasser abdrehen, wie TPM berichtet.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 8, 2013 at 2:02:00 PM CET
FBI’s search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats, highlights use of malware for surveillance
The man who called himself “Mo” had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform. When he made a series of threats to detonate bombs at universities and airports across a wide swath of the United States last year, police had to scramble every time.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 8, 2013 at 2:00:00 PM CET
Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon
The documentary "Fela Kuti Music is the Weapon" wit the Afrobeat legend, political revolutionary, musician, composer and performer, mixes footage of Fela Anikulapo Kuti performing at his Shrine nightclub, interviews with the controversial musician, glimpses of life at his not-so-palatial Kalakuta Republic compound, and scenes of Lagos street life. Some voice-over narration gives basic information on Kuti's musical career and Nigerian politics, but for the most part, the images are left to speak for themselves. Well shot in color, it's an important historical document capturing Kuti in stage and home environments that were most crucial to his life and work.
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Topic: FUN - on December 7, 2013 at 3:46:00 PM CET
Unique motorbike stunt
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 6, 2013 at 4:39:00 PM CET
Unbekannte zweigten monatelang Teile des Internetverkehrs ab
Offenbar grundlegendes Problem im Routing-System für Spionage genutzt - Regierungs- und Finanzorganisationen als Ziel
Intensiv wurde in den vergangenen Monaten über die Überwachung des Internets diskutiert, hat sich doch anhand der Enthüllungen von Edward Snowden gezeigt, welch massive Spionage die NSA oder der britische GCHQ betreiben. Nicht zuletzt über das Abzweigen von Glasfaserkabeln ist es den Geheimdiensten gelungen eine beinahe flächendeckende Überwachung zu etablieren.
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Topic: e-bay - on December 6, 2013 at 2:37:00 PM CET
Nottingham teenager furious after paying £450 for a photo of an XBox One on eBay
A TEENAGER has been left fuming after mistakenly buying a photo of an in-demand computer console online.
Peter Clatworthy thought he had paid £450 for an XBox One console on eBay, but actually received a picture of one in the post.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on December 6, 2013 at 2:32:00 PM CET
400,000-Year-Old Human Ancestor DNA Sequenced --"Shows Link to Extinct Relatives of Neanderthals"
Researchers sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old hominin from Sima de los Huesos, the “bone pit”, is a cave site in Northern Spain that has yielded the world’s largest assembly of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils. Using novel techniques to extract and study ancient DNA researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, determined an almost complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a 400,000-year-old representative of the genus Homo and found that it is related to the mitochondrial genome of Denisovans, extinct relatives of Neandertals in Asia. DNA this old has until recently been retrieved only from the permafrost.
dailygalaxy.com Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins Oldest Known Early Human DNA Recovered A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos
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