Monkey Light Pro turns bicycle wheels into colorful, animated displays

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http://www.gizmag.com/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display/27700/

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD7x55B4YoA&feature=youtube_gdata_player / deck out your bicycle MonkeyLectric Monkey Light Pro LED bars attach bicycle wheel programmed to play colorful animations Web based app /

Android spreads out

Into all-in-ones:


Credit: Acer/ Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57586918-92/acer-all-in-one-will-run-android/

And $200 notebooks:


Credit: Samsung/ Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57586918-92/acer-all-in-one-will-run-android/ / Intel Atom Arm processor Windows Android Acer Android PC PCs market Acer DA220HQL 21.5 inch multi-touch touch screen display 1,920x1,080 display Android 4.0 a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 dual-core ARM Coretex-A9 processor CPU resellers Haswell 4430 processor 1GB memory 8GB internal storage front-facing camera built-in speakers Wi-Fi Micro-HDMI Micro USB 2.0 wireless keyboard mouse micro HDMI Intel CEO Paul Otellini touchscreen PCs prices $200 operating system products would run Dadi Perlmutter executive vice president chief product officer notebooks priced running mobile processor Windows 8 PCs hit price Microsoft good technology enables a very cost-effective price point," Perlmutter said. The price of Windows 8 laptops "depends on how Microsoft prices Windows 8 /

Go Google Go!

A programming language called "Go"? This could yield as many puns as the Forth programming language did. Perhaps the least objectionable of those was the, "Venturing Forth", programming manual.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/my-favorite-programming-language-googles-go-has-some-coders-raving/ / Todd Kuehnl developer programmer programming programme program language Go programming language Google conversion  favorite programming language work experienced coders languages damous Ken Thompson creator Unix C B programming language back-end systems designs its own servers software OS  operating systems employees use engineers  engineering Beachfront Media new platform Beachfront.iO serves video ads mobile devices tablets development platform enables concurrency computations execute simultaneously interact running service millions  requests 5 to 10 thousand transactions per second reliable reliability reliably stack stacks benchmark benchmarks productive performant performance code written performs all the heavy lifting back-end load balancing choosing ads advertisement advertisements serve up server PHP Node.js single-threaded concurrent concurrency concurrently options Java memory overhead modern patterns static execution speed C C++" more compositional feel script high performance high-performance modern language video ad service Ubuntu Linux servers hosted Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud cloud-based virtual machines instance instances pain points website orders of magnitude faster legacy networks compiler fast interpreted language big speed boost Dart core infrastructure services cluster management large-scale distributed processing MapReduce tools software development popular language GitHub Google Trends companies BBC Bit.ly Canonical CloudFlare Disqus Mozilla Tumblr poor planning version control developer remote management system Raspberry Pi Ground Control Web server monitoring daemon /

Google password pill & tattoo research projects

Passwords have a number of problems, not least of which are bad choices made by users. 

A number of initiatives exist to replace the password, some of which have been reported on these pages.  

One of the most recent to appear are research projects initiated by Google to explore the possibility of using a computer readable pill which is swallowed to facilitate user authentication.  Presumably, the pill would have to be replaced after it exits the body.

More permanent, would be a computer readable tattoo.  Here the potential problem would be replacing the tattoo if its security is compromised.

http://bgr.com/2013/05/30/google-password-pills-tattoos/#more-631772 / password pills.” AllThingsD Regina Dugan former chief of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA head of Motorola special projects division ingested battery powered battery-powered stomach acid 18 bit 18-bit internal signal transforms swallower swallow whole body D11 conference Google Motorola partner partnering company MC10 design electronic tattoo authenticate user traditional seriously thinking outside the box eliminate passwords make accessing content Web easier permanent security hack hacker hacking /

Facebookers, beware: That silly update can cost you a job

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57586767-93/facebookers-beware-that-silly-update-can-cost-you-a-job/ / festive photo pint of beer glass red wine post posted image Facebook profile parent complained school officials resignation resign resigning suspend suspended suspension resigned officials hiring hire candidate the social Web interview employee turning down young job candidates post social media commonplace report On Device Research photos comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest other social networking sites persons young people rejected employment social media profiles profile marketing manager Sarah Quinn career prospects education career careers /

Mucus found to harbor a previously unknown human immune system

Credit: San Diego University/ Gizmag

http://www.gizmag.com/mucus-new-human-immune-system/27658/ / protective barrier underlying tissues moist trap traps bacteria foreign organisms researchers at San Diego State University SDSU discovered surface site independent human immune system infectious agents tissue lines inner surfaces body outer environment mouth nose sinuses throat lungs gastrointestinal tract protection passive research team biology post-doc Jeremy Barr immune system surface mucus layer bacteria-infecting bacteria bacterium virus viruses bacteriophage actively attack kill infectious harmless bacteria multiply adheres immunity invading bacteria surface layer bond sugar molecules E. coli bacteria attacked killed powerful anti-microbial anti microbial barrier protects animals infection disease hypothesis cells coated coated cells varieties bacteriophage collected defend infection killing infectious intruders comfortable living conditions food hosts replication proposes new immune system demonstrates symbiotic relationship phage animals /

Your brain could be your new password

Credit: Wiki Commons/ Dvice

Really?  Could be some resistance to the headwear.

http://www.dvice.com/2013-4-16/your-brain-could-be-your-new-password / security gatekeeper gate keeper remembering remember forget forgotten multiple passwords technology software solutions lock out data records information university California UC Berkeley School of Information brainwave signals performing set repeatable tasks subjects students thoughts preferences favorite songs brainwaves  Bluetooth headset records Electroencephalographic EEG activity software analyze activity scientists discovered system accurately match brain signals 99% accurate Professor John Chuang study accurately authenticate users unique thoughts individual brain wave patterns identify /