Smart contact lenses get closer to reality as Novartis teams with Google

     Novartis, the Swiss healthcare firm, has announced it will license Google’s exciting smart contact lens technology, initially unveiled by the Google X team at the beginning of this year. This is the first step in making the revolutionary lenses a reality, and potentially helping millions worldwide understand and manage certain medical conditions more effectively.

    Under the new agreement, Google will bring its experience in miniaturized electronics, microfabrication, and low power chips to the table. It’s Novartis’ eye care division Alcon that will provide the medical expertise, from understanding how the eye works, to developing and then successfully marketing a cutting-edge healthcare product.

    When Google first talked about the smart lens, it specifically mentioned how it would help anyone with type 1 or 2 diabetes. Instead of taking a blood sample, the smart lens would monitor glucose levels using tear fluid from the eye, then transmit the data to a smartphone or other device. Amazingly, the lens is powered by a static electrical charge, meaning it doesn’t need a battery.

    In addition to helping those with diabetes, Alcon also wants to develop lenses to combat presbyopia, a condition which stops the eye from focusing on close-up objects. The smart lens could help bring back this ability to quickly focus, and negate the need for corrective surgery, bifocal glasses or special soft contact lenses.

    The collaboration is exciting, but the chance to buy a set of Alcon/Google smart lenses is still a way off. There’s no mention of when either company expects to have a commercial product ready for release, only that the partnership will “accelerate product innovation based on Google’s smart lens technology.”

فيروس جديد يخطف ملفات الكمبيوتر ويطلب ثمناً لإعادتها

       ظهر أحد فيروسات الكمبيوتر في الآونة الأخيرة لينتشر مثل الطاعون بين أجهزة المستخدمين، وهذا الفيروس يعمل على إقفال جهاز الكمبيوتر وعدم السماح لصاحبه بالدخول إليه، إلا عند دفعه مبلغاً معيناً، وهو من الأنواع التي يصعب التخلص منها، بحسب تقرير نشرته شبكة "سي إن إن CNN" الإخبارية.

      وقد عمل مكتب التحقيقات الفدرالي على إيقاف عملية عرفت باسم "Cryptolocker" في مايو الماضي، لكن يبدو أن جهودهم في استبدال كمبيوترات المصدر الذي تتبعوه بعد "اختطاف" أجهزة عدد من المستخدمين، كان مجرد عملية إيقاف بسيطة للفيروس.

      ويقول الخبراء إن استبدال مكتب التحقيقات الفدرالي أجهزة القراصنة بأجهزتهم لم يقتل الفيروس، بل غير الطريقة التي ينتقل بها، إذ ستعود السلطات الفدرالية إلى مربع الصفر عند تعديل القراصنة لشيفرة الفيروس جزئياً واستخدامهم أجهزة أخرى.

     وهذه العملية ليست بسيطة إذ تمكن القائمون على "Cryptolocker" من اختطاف ملفات أكثر من 400 ألف شخص خلال تسعة أشهر، وطالبوا كلاً منهم بدفع 300 دولار بمهلة ثلاثة أيام للحصول على كلمة فك الإقفال، ورغم أن جزءاً بسيطاً منهم قد دفع مقابل الحصول على ملفاته مجدداً، إلا أن المجرمين تمكنوا من تحصيل أربعة ملايين دولار، ومن لا يتمكن من الدفع فإن ملفاته ستمحى للأبد.

    ويقول الخبراء في مكتب السلامة الأمنية للمعلومات بشركة "Dell" إن عينة صغيرة أخذوها من مجموع أجهزة الولايات المتحدة أظهرت إصابة أكثر من تسعة آلاف جهاز، وبمعدل يمكن أن يبلغ النصف في أميركا، وقد قدر أحد باحثي المكتب، كيث جارفيس، أن القائمين على هذه العملية يجنون ما يقدر بـ 150 ألف دولار أسبوعياً.

Remove the Lag from DOTA 2

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  >>>>>>>If you have a userconfig.cfg in that directory, open it. If you do not already have a userconfig.cfg:
Right-click in the folder
Go to: New>  Text Document
Rename the file userconfig.cfg
Open the file with Notepad
Type into the document clientport 270XX where XX are the last two digits of the clientport number. Acceptable values include 05 - 19 and 21 - 32
Save your userconfig.cfg
Launch your game 

Intel 18 Core and 36 Thread “Xeon E5-2699 V3″ CPU Spotted And Tested

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        Everyone knows that Intel’s Xeon processors offer a crazy level of CPU performance: the current flagship part, the E5-2697 V2, has a whopping 16 cores and 32 threads. With Haswell-EP, that’s the next generation of Xeon CPUs taking advantage of Haswell architecture instead of the current Ivy Bridge-EP based parts, that max core count gets bumped up to 18 cores and 36 threads. The new flagship part, the E5-2699 V3 has been spotted and it has a staggering 18 cores, 36 threads and 45MB of L3 cache running at 2.3GHz with a 145W TDP. 

       Interestingly this CPU has popped up at an Italian retailer selling for €3960.26 with alleged availability from June 12th. What’s even more interesting is that the same CPU part has shown up on the Chinese Chiphell forums giving an indication of its performance, which you can see below. Note that the below image is indicative of a dual CPU socket motherboard hence why the counts of cores and threads are doubled.

There are more details on other Haswell-EP parts that suggest there will be a:

• Intel Xeon E5-2690 V3 which has 8 cores, 16 threads and a 2.9GHz clock speed
• Intel Xeon E5-2692 V3 which has 12 cores, 24 threads and a 2.0GHz clock speed
• Intel Xeon E5-2695 V3 which has 12 cores, 24 threads and a 2.2GHz clock speed

Those CPUs have shown up at Chinese retail site Taobao and you can find those here, here and here respectively. Intel’s Haswell EP platform will be the first Xeon platform to take advantage of native Quad Channel DDR4 support with a base support speed of 2133MHz which is a bump from the DDR3-1866 of the current Ivy Bridge-EP platform. Haswell-EP will get a third revision of the LGA 2011 socket expected to be called LGA 2011-3. The processors for this socket will range from 70W to 145W in TDP with special 160W workstation parts. Rumour has it that the new Haswell-EP Xeon line up is likely to be released at Intel’s IDF 2014 event on the 9th-11th of September. However, given the information provided by certain retailers we may indeed see these parts sooner.

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Forget fillings, scientists just discovered how to regrow full teeth using lasers...!!!

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      Good news for all you taffy addicts and crystal meth smokers out there — a Harvard-led team of scientists has just devised a way to regrow teeth. If developed further, this technology could spell the end things like fillings and dentures, and even lay the groundwork for other regenerative procedures like wound healing, bone regeneration, and more.

      Published yesterday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the procedure used to achieve this tooth regrowth sounds like it’s taken straight out of a science fiction novel. The team used a low-power laser beam to trigger human dental stem cells and encourage them to form dentin: the hard, bone-like tissue that lies underneath a tooth’s enamel and makes up the bulk of a tooth’s mass.

     This is groundbreaking because up until now, stem cells –undifferentiated cells that have the ability to become different, more specialized types of cells– have proven difficult to manipulate with much precision. Scientists have long been fascinated with stem cells because of their potential to repair or replace damaged or worn out tissues, but generally speaking, medical researchers have struggled to figure out ways to coax them into becoming the specific types of cells, like dentin or skin, for example. 

     Pinning down the mechanism that causes a stem cell to transform into a particular type of new cell is tough. Previous techniques required scientists to isolate stem cells from the body, manipulate them in a lab until they grew into the particular kind of cell that was needed, and then return them to the body. Not only are these methods difficult and time-consuming, but they also face a number of regulatory hurdles, so progress in this area has been relatively slow.

     This new laser-based method, however, is considerably faster and vastly less invasive. Furthermore, the new technique was proven to work on multiple lab and animal models, which is extremely promising. We’ll let you dig into the technical details on your own, but the big takeaway here is that this was a big step for stem cell research, and will hopefully accelerate the pace at which next-gen restorative medicine is developed.

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The lowdown on DDR4 RAM: When will it get here, and what will it do once it arrives?

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         Over the past few years, nearly every PC component, including storage drives, graphics accelerators, motherboards, and CPUs, has seen significant performance updates—everything except the DDR (double data rate)DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips used as system RAM in our laptops, PCs, servers, and some tablets. The current DRAM standard, DDR3, was launched in 2007, and it has been the primary memory chip used in a wide range of computing devices for most of that time.

How fast is DDR4?

      Later this year, Intel will release its Haswell-based (Haswell-E) X99 chipset with support for DDR4: the new, faster memory chip standard. After being in development for five years, the new chips, which will provide roughly 50 percent more bandwidth, and consume about 30 percent less power. According to Intel, they’ll bedeployed in new motherboards in the “second half of 2014.”

      Not only will the X99 motherboard support DDR4, but it will also host 8-core processors—twice the number in the current Intel Core CPUs. The top DDR4 bus speed will be 3200MHz, compared to DDR3’s 2400MHz, and it will support data transfer rates of up to 3.2 billion transfers per second, which is twice the transfer speed of DDR3. Furthermore, the new chips use only 1.2 volts of power, compared to DDR3’s 1.5 volts. If those benefits aren’t enough, DDR4 also provides improved diagnostic and debugging tools for increased overall reliability.

When will we see DDR4?

        Samsung and a few other chip makers have already started manufacturing DDR4 memory sticks. Samsung Semiconductor says it’s churning out 32GB sticks for the premium server market, as well as what the company claims this is the world’s smallest and highest performing 4GB RAM chip. It’s expected that we’ll start seeing DDR4 chips first in high-end database and enterprise resource planning (ERP) servers, with DDR4-powered laptops and desktops coming to market in 2015. In addition, Samsung announced a low-power version of DDR4 (LP-DDR4) for mobile devices back in January 2014.

       According to the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC), the organization that sets memory standards, DDR4 also supports deep power down, which allows it to go into a mode of sleep that requires no memory refresh. Plus, it can refresh a single chip on a DIMM, instead of forcing a refresh of the entire DIMM. These, and some other power enhancements, allow DDR4 to use up to 40-50 percent less standby power.

DDR’s last dance

      Most experts believe that DDR4 is the last generation of DDR DRAM that will be made. A few other types of non-volatile memory that can retain data, such as phase-change memory, MRAM (magneto-resistive RAM), and RRAM (resistive RAM), are under development, and look promising.

Phase-change memory, or PCM/PRAM, provides higher read/write bandwidth, higher endurance, and lower latency than DRAM does. According to memory maker Micron, “it [PCM] addresses the growing performance gap between DRAM and nonvolatile memory technologies.”

With faster processors, and soon-to-be-released SATA Express solid state drive technology making our computing devices faster, it won’t be long before we need faster memory to keep up. DDR4 should fill that gap for the immediate future.

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Apple officially confirms the acquisition of Beats for $3 billion

  Apple officially announced that it will acquire Beats Music and Beats Electronics. The Cupertino giant will pay $3 billion for the purchase ($2.6 billion in cash and $400 million in stock), not the initially circulated $3.2 billion.

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Under the terms of the deal, the co-founders of Beats Audio Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre will join Apple’s executive ranks. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in Q4 this year.

Unsurprisingly, both parties expressed their satisfaction with the deal. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook tweeted a photo sharing a laugh with the new members of the company’s executive team. See it below.

Sharing a laugh with Jimmy, Dre, and @cue. Excited to welcome the #Beats team to#Apple. It's all about the music. pic.twitter.com/ZwyWgHFwhO

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) May 28, 2014

Jimmy Iovine, the Beats co-founder and one of the most respected figures in the music industry had the following to say:

“I’ve always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple. The idea when we started the company was inspired by Apple’s unmatched ability to marry culture and technology. Apple’s deep commitment to music fans, artists, songwriters and the music industry is something special.”

Both Beats Audio and Beats Music will keep operating on their after the acquisition. However, Apple’s top executives Eddy Cue and Phil Schiller will run the duo of businesses.

Furthermore, Tim Cook confirmed that the recently launched Beats Music streaming service will remain available for Android and Windows Phone devices after the acquisition. Beats Music is widely regarded as one of the main reasons for Apple’s interest in the transaction.

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How to make money online

How to make money online

1. The first step is to stop Googling things like, "how to make money online." Not because you shouldn't want to make money online, but because the stuff you're going to find by doing that is going to help you lose money online. Sort of like asking a casino owner how to make money in Vegas...
2. Don't pay anyone for simple and proven instructions on how to achieve this goal. In particular, don't pay anyone to teach you how to write or sell manuals or ebooks about how to make money online.
3. Get rich slow.
4. Focus on the scarce resource online: attention. If you try to invent a way to take cheap attention and turn it into cash, you will fail. The attention you want isn't cheap, it's difficult to get via SEO and it rarely scales. Instead, figure out how to earn expensive attention.
5. In addition to attention, focus on trust. Trust is even more scarce than attention.
6. Don't worry so much about the 'online' part. Instead, figure out how to create value. The online part will take care of itself.
7. Don't quit your day job. Start evenings and weekends and figure it out with small failures.
8. Build a public reputation. A good one, and be sure that you deserve it, and that it will hold up to scrutiny.
9. Obsessively specialize. No niche is too small if it's yours.
10. Connect the disconnected.
11. Lead.
12. Build an online legacy that increases in value daily.
13. Make money offline. If you can figure out how to create value face to face, it's a lot easier to figure out how to do the same digitally. The web isn't magic, it's merely efficient.
14. Become the best in the world at something that people value. Easier said than done, worth more than you might think.
15. Hang out with people who aren't looking for shortcuts. Learn from them.
16. Fail. Fail often and fail cheaply. This is the very best gift the web has given to people who want to bootstrap their way into a new business.
17. Make money in the small and then relentlessly scale.
18. Don't chase yesterday's online fad.
19. Think big, act with intention and don't get bogged down in personalities. If it's not on your agenda, why are you wasting time on it?
20. Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
21. This is not a zero sum game. The more you add to your community, the bigger your piece gets.

Hands on: Samsung Galaxy S5

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   I’ve covered tech for years, but Samsung’s Galaxy S5 announcement in Barcelona was the largest product unveiling I’ve ever seen. I was one of thousands of journalists herded into a ballroom that could only be outsized by a stadium. There was pushing, shoving, and much anticipation.

    Why all the fuss? Because of the number Samsung showed before it said anything else: 200 million. That’s how many Galaxy S phones have sold around the world. The Galaxy S5 will carry that torch for the next year, and from our early impressions, 201 million is just around the corner.

A Galaxy packed with new sensors, and waterproofed…ness

     Hardcore geeks may be disappointed in the Galaxy S5’s spec sheet, which breaks no new ground this year. It appears to be as powerful as top devices like the Galaxy Note 3, LG G2, and Sony Xperia Z1S, but no more so. It also looks almost identical to last year’s Galaxy S4. But this is because Samsung is focusing on other kinds of hardware advancements this time around. The GS5 has an IP67 waterproof and dustproof rating, a heart-rate monitor under its rear camera, and a fingerprint sensor inside its Home button. These are all real advancements that could be useful to real people. This is in stark contrast to Samsung’s Galaxy S4 unveiling, where it concentrated on numbers and a bunch of apps that nobody wanted or cared about.


    Waterproof: Last year, Samsung released the GS4 Active as a waterproof and dustproof variant of the Galaxy S4 model. It one of our favorite phones on AT&T, and we’re very excited to see the standard S5 pick up this superpower. You won’t have to worry about your phone if it’s raining, you’re shoved into a pool (it can happen), you drop it in quicksand, or you want to check if Stacy in Sales returned your Facebook message while you’re in the shower. Less worries means more happy.

    Heart-rate monitor: Not everyone will use or care about this feature, but if you want to check your heart rate after a workout, or for medical reasons, you can easily do so with the GS5. It has a small red light that shines through your finger on the back of the phone. The built-in S Health app will record your heart rate every day.

    Fingerprint scanner: We weren’t able to test this sensor properly, but Samsung’s new Home button doubles as a fingerprint scanner that works a lot like one from CrucialTec we demoed last year at MWC. Yes, it’s an iPhone 5S rip off, but if biometrics are going to take off, they have to be widely accepted. Samsung is launching fingerprint scanner with the ability to make payments over its system or PayPal, which is more than Apple is letting anyone do. This could be a huge addition to the GS5.

Same look, but a cleaner inside

     We like new bells and whistles on the outside of a phone, but we also appreciate that Samsung has cleaned up the inside, too. The Galaxy S5’s user interface is simpler and cleaner than previous devices. It’s easier to find features, and the Settings menu has a new gridded view that makes a lot of sense.


    Even the Recent Apps screen and Notification menu seem simpler. And if you want a real simple mode, you can make the icons extra big by turning on an old-folks mode that comes with a built-in magnifier.
Since there is only 16GB of space on the phone, we’re very happy that the unit we tested only had 42 apps installed on it. That’s opposed to about 80 on phones that came out late last year. Samsung has kept a lot of its own apps intact, but isn’t shying away from Google apps, either.

Ultra Power Saving Mode is a winner

    We briefly tried out Samsung’s new Ultra Power Saving Mode, which will help you conserve battery life in a jam. It’s the most intense battery-saving mode we’ve ever seen. It shuts down all services except a few vital ones, and turns the screen black and white. But according to Samsung, it can squeeze a full 24 hours out of a nearly empty battery.

 

Glam? We don’t think so

    Samsung used the word “glam” and “modern” several times to describe the pitted, soft-plastic battery cover on the GS5. We don’t really see it. There’s nothing bad looking about the new GS5, but there is nothing “glam” about it either. Samsung has succeeded in creating another Galaxy that’s mostly devoid of personality, but also won’t offend the tastes of many. It should sell well, is what we’re saying.

 

Conclusion

    The Galaxy S5 looks like a fantastic phone. It doesn’t look different, which will turn off journalists and elate iPhone fans the world over, but there’s a lot to love. For the first time, Samsung is innovating like Apple, instead of just mimicking it. Last year we got a bunch of new apps, and with the Galaxy Pro tablets at CES we saw a stupid new interface, but with the GS5, Samsung has taken a hard look at what people really want from its phone and tried to deliver a compelling new product. We can’t wait to get a Galaxy S5 in for review.

Highs

• Fast, powerful processor
• Clean, redesigned interface
• Runs Android 4.4 KitKat with less bloatware
• Waterproof and dustproof
• Built-in fingerprint scanner, heart-rate monitor
• Feels comfortable to hold
• MicroSD support
• Removable battery with new Ultra Power Saver Mode

Lows

• Stale design

 

 

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iPhone 6 Design Rumored To Be Finalized, Will Included Bigger Display?

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    It seems with every new year there are new rumors about what the next iPhone will be like. There has been plenty of rumors floating around recently and while nothing will be set in stone until Apple makes its announcement about the iPhone 6 there are several reliable sources that in the past have been close to accurate with their information about the upcoming release of the latest iPhone. It looks like, according to these numerous sources that we will be getting two new iPhone models in 2014, these will be an iPhone 6 and a new larger iPhone with a display that will be a mix in size between phone and tablet more commonly known as a phablet. While the debate about what size each of the new iPhones will be it seems a new report has come out claiming that the iPhone 6 design has now been finalized.

    Several sources have all claimed to have insider knowledge these being DisplaySearch, Respected Apple analyst Peter Misek and KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo. Display search are saying that the new iPhone 6 display will have a 4.7 inch screen with a 1,600 x 900 pixel resolution, while Apple analyst Peter Misek say it will have a 4.8 inch display. However Ming-chi Kuo from KGI Securities who has had without a doubt the best track record when it comes to Apple’s plans would only say that the display on Apple’s new iPhone 6 would be between 4.5 and 5 inches.

    While all this is speculation one thing that we can be sure of is that what ever the size of the display being used in the iPhone 6 is, it seems Apple have already finalized it. This news comes from Cowen and Company analyst Timothy Arcuri. This information came from a note to clients on Wednesday that was picked up by Apple Insider, with Arcuri stating that the iPhone 6′s design has been locked down and will have a 4.8 inch display.

    For a complete list of features in the new iPhone 6 we’ll have to wait until it’s launch which should be fall this year, although there is speculation that the iPhone will debut this summer at Apple’s annual WWDC conference.

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