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US Judge Orders Apple To Help FBI Hack An iPhone
The problem of law enforcement and encryption is mostly talked about in vague terms of “backdoors” and “a new Manhattan Project”, but here’s something concrete: a US District Court Judge just ordered Apple to help the FBI access files on one of the iPhones of the San Bernardino shooters.
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Brain Implant Will Let Amputees Move Individual Fingers On Prosthetics With Thoughts Alone
For the first time ever, researchers have successfully demonstrated a system that enables a person to move the individual fingers of a prosthetic hand using just their thoughts.
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‘Chopsticks Of Light’ Reveal What Makes Spider Silk So Stretchy
Spider silk is nature’s Kevlar. It’s stronger than steel, it’s waterproof, and you can stretch it as much as 30 to 40 per cent before it snaps. Now biophysicists at Johns Hopkins University think they know the secret to spider silk’s remarkable elasticity: protein threads that serve as stretchy “superstrings”. The researchers describe their work…
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How Long Before Dubai’s New Observation Tower Is Engulfed In Flames?
A new observation tower will be built in Dubai, and it’s already being billed as an “architectural wonder that will be as great as Burj Khalifa and Eiffel Tower”. That’s great, but what I really want to know is this: Will it catch on fire?