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The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012
via io9.com “We watched a cyborg compete at the Olympic Games, and marveled at the news that NASA was actually working on a faster-than-light warp drive. It was also a year that featured the planet’s first superstorm, the development of an artific…
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Hacked terminals capable of causing pacemaker deaths – Hackers – SC Magazine Australia – Secure Business Intelligence
???The worst case scenario that I can think of, which is 100 percent possible with these devices, would be to load a compromised firmware update onto a programmer and ??? the compromised programmer would then infect the next pacemaker or ICD and then …
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Tech Confessional: The Googler Who Looked At The Worst Of The Internet
via buzzfeed.com “One of the most shocking parts of my job was working on porn issues. Child porn is the biggest thing for internet companies. By law you have to take it down in 24 hours upon notice and report it to federal authorities. No one wan…
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TED Blog | Unreasonable people unite: John Wilbanks at TEDGlobal 2012
via blog.ted.com “Wilbanks??? proposal is a medical commons, a way for people to gather this medical data and share it freely. People are neurotic about privacy and keeping control of their data. ???Some of us like to share as control.??? And, he believ…
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![via dawn.com "Hamied, chairman of generic drugs giant Cipla, last month slashed the cost of three medicines to fight brain, kidney and lung cancer in India, making the drugs up to more than four times cheaper. [..] Hamied, 76, was pilloried by Wes...](https://gle.ovo.kom.uni.st/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/836a9-media_httpdawncompkfi_gjhta-scaled1000.jpg "India firm shakes up cancer drug market with price cuts")
India firm shakes up cancer drug market with price cuts
via dawn.com “Hamied, chairman of generic drugs giant Cipla, last month slashed the cost of three medicines to fight brain, kidney and lung cancer in India, making the drugs up to more than four times cheaper. [..] Hamied, 76, was pilloried by Wes…
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del-fi ??? 23andme: It’s In Their Nature
The Scorpion and the Frog is a fable about a scorpion asking a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown…