Robotic Limbs that Plug into the Brain

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9 November 2010
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Most of the robotic arms now in use by some amputees are of limited practicality; they have only two to three degrees of freedom, allowing the user to make a single movement at a time. And they are controlled with conscious effort, meaning the user can do little else while moving the limb.

A new generation of much more sophisticated and lifelike prosthetic arms, sponsored by the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), may be available within the next five to 10 years. Two different prototypes that move with the dexterity of a natural limb and can theoretically be controlled just as intuitively — with electrical signals recorded directly from the brain — are now beginning human tests — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Court date for INXS over stolen website design allegations

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8 November 2010
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An internet executive is suing the rock band INXS for $2.8 million, alleging the group stole his design for a lucrative INXS website aimed at connecting fans with big retail brands.

Robert Manning says he and a business partner, Stephen Allende, came up with the idea in 2003 and pitched it to the band and its long-term manager, David Edwards.

He says Mr Edwards and the band liked the concept and told them to keep working on the website that promoted big brands to fans and allowed them to download songs, ringtones and video music clips — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Google bars data from Facebook as rivalry heats up

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7 November 2010
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Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users’ information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants.

Google will no longer let other services automatically import its users’ email contact data for their own purposes, unless the information flows both ways. It accused Facebook in particular of siphoning up Google contact data, without allowing for the automatic import and export of Facebook users’ information — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize

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5 November 2010
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So you learned the base id, class, and descendant selectors – and then called it a day? If so, you’re missing out on an enormous level of flexibility. While many of the selectors mentioned in this article are part of the CSS3 spec, and are, consequently, only available in modern browsers, you owe it to yourself to commit these to memory — via Nettuts+

Massive Denial Of Service Attack Severs Myanmar From Internet

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5 November 2010
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The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks.

The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT), the main conduit for Internet traffic in and out of the authoritarian nation — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Anonymous DDoS Takes Down The United States Copyright Office

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4 November 2010
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As part of its ongoing punishment of any institute or company that defends copyright, Anonymous has now taken down the website of The United States Copyright Office. The group managed to take copyright.gov offline for half an hour. After that the website started to respond again slowly, with occasional outages — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Libraries Say ‘No DRM’; Springer Agrees

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4 November 2010
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We’re not concerned about piracy, said George Scotti, Springer Verlag’s director of channel marketing, when asked about the Springer e-book program, which allows institutional customers to lend Springer e-books without DRM protection. Seventy percent of Springer’s business comes from big academic and research libraries, Scotti said, and they are adamant that they don’t want DRM or other such restrictions on the e-books they buy from Springer — via redwolf.newsvine.com

File-Sharers To Receive Warning Letters, But No 3 Strikes

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2 November 2010
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In an effort to reduce illicit file-sharing, draft legislation was passed in Finland last week which will require Internet service providers to send letters to customers suspected of unauthorized sharing. The warnings will be initiated by copyright owners, but at no stage will Internet subscribers’ identities be compromised. A three strikes-style regime is not on the agenda — via redwolf.newsvine.com

UK Government Wants to Make ISPs Responsible for Third Party Content Online

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2 November 2010
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The UK governments Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has ominously proposed that broadband ISPs could introduce a new Mediation Service that would allow them the freedom to censor third party content on the internet, without court intervention, in response to little more than a public complaint — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The Chrome Assault: IE’s Walls Are Crumbling

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2 November 2010
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Internet Explorer 8 suffered an unexpected loss of market share in October – for the first since the browser became generally available as a beta in March of 2008. The reason is not so much the launch of the IE9 Beta, but a strong adoption rate of Google Chrome, which is now set to break the 10% mark by the end of the year. In Europe, Firefox is ready to take the lead from Microsoft. At this time, IE9 cannot stop IE’s bleeding of browser market share — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Will the next wireless infrastructure be humans wearing radios?

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2 November 2010
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A team of Irish researchers are studying how humans can become the next wireless infrastructure, by wearing sensors, radios and gateways linked together in body-to-body networks.

With redesigned antennas, low-power radios, and new network protocols, potentially huge, constantly shifting body networks could create an ultra-high-bandwidth mobile infrastructure. Such networks could offload even large file transfers from cellular networks, by making use of parallel transmission and routing through a mesh of body nodes. The body node can link to fixed access points, gateways, or cellular networks when needed. — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Vecebot botnet strikes Vietnamese anti-communist blogs

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2 November 2010
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A botnet has been systematically attacking Web sites that post blogs or forums containing content critical of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The botnet, thought to include about 15,000 bots, is launching massive denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to make the content unavailable, according to security firm SecureWorks — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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