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BitTorrents by BitcoinSun, 2011-10-23 16:09Here is an interesting business idea that departs from the usual quite a bit. Essentially it is a BitTorrent download service. You upload a torrent file, they quickly download the BitTorrent file package for you, then you download it through HTTP from their web server. What does it cost? 0.05 BTC per GB. BTC? Yes, that's 0.05 Bitcoins per Gigabyte with discounts from 20% to 50% available. Here is the link:
Gamers solve problem that riddled scientists for 15 yearsSat, 2011-09-24 17:08By Tessel Renzenbrinkon Players of the online game Foldit produced accurate models of an enzyme. For over a decade scientists had been trying to determine the structure of the retroviral enzyme as it unlocks important information about battling the AIDS virus.
$80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes in Kenya, the World Next?Wed, 2011-08-17 16:49 · Forum/category:
Read the complete article on singularityhub.com It seems like just yesterday when only the slickest kid on the block had a smartphone, but now, this revolutionary gadget is selling like hotcakes in the developing world. Earlier this year, the Chinese firm Huawei unveiled IDEOS through Kenya’s telecom titan, Safaricom. So far, this $80 smartphone has found its way into the hands of 350,000+ Kenyans, an impressive sales number in a country where 40% of the population lives on less than two dollars a day. The IDEOS’s success in this market firmly establishes the open source Android as the smartphone of the people and demonstrates how unrelenting upswings in price-performance can jumpstart the spread of liberating technologies. Thanks to low-cost Androids, the geographically-untethered smartphone is here to stay, and it simply cannot be stopped. How digital detectives deciphered StuxnetWed, 2011-07-13 20:13
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History From: WIRED - THREAT LEVEL By Klm Zetter July 11, 2011 | 7:00 am | Categories: Stuxnet It was January 2010, and investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the cascade rooms where thousands of centrifuges were enriching uranium.
All about the CyanogenMod dockbarThu, 2010-12-23 15:50 · Forum/category:This article is based on CyanogenMod 6.1, an enhanced version of Android 2.2.1. Much of it is also valid for CyanogenMod 6.0, which is based on Android 2.2. The Android dockbar
Every Android user knows the dockbar, which rests on the lower edge of the desktop and, by default, contains the following three action buttons: (12 votes) Long live the WebSun, 2010-11-21 13:04The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending By Tim Berners-Lee, in Scientific American The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990. It consisted of one Web site and one browser, which happened to be on the same computer. The simple setup demonstrated a profound concept: that any person could share information with anyone else, anywhere. In this spirit, the Web spread quickly from the grassroots up. Today, at its 20th anniversary, the Web is thoroughly integrated into our daily lives. We take it for granted, expecting it to “be there” at any instant, like electricity.
Has Facebook lost control of the Platform?Sun, 2010-11-07 14:02
Youth jailed for refusing to divulge his passwordSat, 2010-10-16 18:09
RIPA 2000 invoked A YOUTH HAS BEEN JAILED in the UK for refusing to give police his encryption password.
Google researcher gives Microsoft 5 days to fix XP zero-day bugSat, 2010-06-12 09:09
Google tweaks search results with mystery site speedometerSun, 2010-04-11 10:43Slow-to-loads get the drop By Cade Metz in San Francisco Google is now using site speed—"how quickly a site responds to web requests"—as part of the criteria for ranking links on its world-dominating search engine.
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