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The Secret Government Laser That Instantly Knows Everything About You - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...tly-knows-everything-about-you

technology privacy security

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 10 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 50 meters away
  • From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body
  • Their plan is to install this molecular-level scanning in airports and border crossings all across the United States.
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  • quickly identify explosives, dangerous chemicals, or bioweapons at a distance
  • ten million times faster—and one million times more sensitive—than any currently available system
  • can be used systematically on everyone passing through airport security
  • penetrate clothing and many other organic materials and offers spectroscopic information, especially for materials that impact safety such as explosives and pharmacological substances.
  • incredible biomedical and industrial applications
  • easily transported for use in many environments
  • molecular-level feedback at distances of up to 50 meters in just picoseconds
  • attached to a computer running a program that will show the information in real time
  • you might start seeing them in airports as soon as 2013
Trevor Sweetland

Study: Apple's Siri is wrong over one third of the time | Digital Trends - 1 views

www.digitaltrends.com/...ong-over-one-third-of-the-time

apple siri

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Sweetland on 03 Jul 12
     
    Apple's Siri not so hot, getting beaten out by Google's own voice assistant in terms of accurate results. Will it improve in iOS 6?
Trevor Sweetland

Facebook's email switch prompts criticism by users - 2 views

www.bbc.com/...technology-18590929

news facebook web

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 26 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Sweetland on 26 Jun 12
     
    Facebook quietly replaces all email addresses on users' profiles with @facebook.com addresses. Users respond: "OMG so annoying", and "totally lame".
Trevor Sweetland

Google reports 'alarming' rise in censorship by governments - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ports-alarming-rise-censorship

google censorship news

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • rise in the number of times governments attempted to censor the internet
  • requests to remove political content
  • from western democracies
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  • Google was asked by Canadian officials to remove a YouTube video of a citizen urinating on his passport and flushing it down the toilet
  • Google complied with an average of 65% of court orders
  • 47% of more informal requests
  • more than one million requests a month from copyright owners
  • the main reason Google had removed links
  • The company complied with 97% of requests
Trevor Sweetland

.NET 4.0 and System.Threading.Tasks | CodeThinked - 1 views

www.codethinked.com/et-40-and-systemthreadingtasks

.Net

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Sweetland on 15 Jun 12
     
    On the use of System.Threading.Tasks to do multi-threading in .NET 4.0
Trevor Sweetland

A Google a Day - 1 views

agoogleaday.com

Google challenge puzzle

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Sweetland on 14 Jun 12
     
    A daily puzzle from Google. Test you Google-fu!
Trevor Sweetland

Mobile tactile tech gets physical - 1 views

www.tgdaily.com/...ile-tactile-tech-gets-physical

tech

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 06 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Sweetland on 06 Jun 12
     
    A touch screen device that can generate physical buttons/shapes/guidelines on demand
Trevor Sweetland

ReSharper 6 Cheat Sheet - 1 views

www.jetbrains.com/...r60DefaultKeymap_VS_scheme.pdf

ReSharper cheat-sheet

shared by Trevor Sweetland on 04 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Sweetland on 04 Jun 12
     
    I think most developers here are using ReSharper, here's a handy cheat sheet in case you keep forgetting the keyboard short cuts (like me).
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