Technology

The purpose of this article is to present a framework and a method for cyber-target categorization. The framework contains factors, which influence on cyber targeting process and the presented categorization method provides an example, how cyber-targets could be categorized to support targeting decision making. The article is based on literature study. Research method was to build an analogy between conventional and cyber targeting. Cyber targeting does not seem to be studied widely, but the common approach to cyber security seems to be “threat-based”. This article presents a new…

Donald Spector is Chairman of New York College and just received Patent# 8,823,512 for a Wearable Biosensor, which he is donating to the college. The Wearable Biosensor patent predates the patents of the industry's leading technology companies, making it extremely valuable to a college, which can license it off to an Intellectual Property company that will get rich suing everyone. Why can he afford to do that? Because he has a lot more patents. He is the most prolific living inventor that most people could never identify by name. Don Spector has been responsible in the past for launching…

The Obama administration opened up a new front in the culture wars by creating a stunning social media campaign to get out the vote, and they have leveraged new media since; only one internal photographer gets to take pictures, for example, and those pictures go right to social media. And they don't involve media organizations in reaching places like the Middle East and North Africa, they go right to Twitter. A new analysis in the Journal of Public Relations Research looked at the U.S. State Department's use of social media and identified key actors who drive its messages to audiences around…

Off the road we go! It’s really like off road when you say it about Mars rover driving on Earth soil, and it’s even more off road speaking of it being tested in some remote location outside the city. The Wrocław based Scorpio Team that will participate in the upcoming European Rover Challenge 2014, has already tested its rover's driving skills and OK’d it for the competition, confident that a difficult, resembling the Red Planet terrain is not a problem at all. “The rover is capable to go through sandy slopes, even 45 degrees, not only when it climbs straight, but also along…

A new battery-less cardiac pacemaker is based on the automatic wristwatch concept - it is powered by heart motion. The prototype device  presented at ESC Congress 2014 by Adrian Zurbuchen from Switzerland does not require battery replacement. Zurbuchen is a PhD candidate in the Cardiovascular Engineering Group at ARTORG, University of Bern and said, "Batteries are a limiting factor in today's medical implants. Once they reach a critically low energy level, physicians see themselves forced to replace a correctly functioning medical device in a surgical intervention. This is an unpleasant…

Nano-robots have cancer in their sights. Credit: StephenMitchell/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Dr. Jason Liu, Monash University It sounds like a scene from a science fiction novel – an army of tiny weaponized robots traveling around a human body, hunting down malignant tumours and destroying them from within. But research in Nature Communications from the University of California Davis Cancer Centre shows the prospect of that being a realistic scenario may not be far off. Promising progress is being made in the development of a multi-purpose anti-tumor nanoparticle called “nanoporphyrin” that can…

Image credit:  Peter Blanchard via flickr | http://bit.ly/1q1sNlt. Rights information: http://bit.ly/c34Awz By:  Benjamin Plackett,  Inside Science (Inside Science) -- It may be unintentional, but it’s possible that your car insurer may know a lot more about where you go than you’d like. A computer scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has developed an algorithm, which demonstrates that the information gathered by the boxes insurers place in your car in exchange for the possibility of lower premiums is enough to tell them where you've been and where…

Checking for glaucoma. Image credit: communityeyehealth,  CC BY-NC By David Crabb, City University London Scientists have proposed a way to monitor glaucoma using a tiny device implanted in the eye. Readings from the device could be monitored by a smartphone. The technology could help prevent some people from going blind. Glaucoma describes a group of eye diseases in which there is progressive damage to the optic nerve. This nerve connects the retina to the brain, and damage to it causes a person to lose peripheral vision. What makes glaucoma a dangerous disease, however, is that this…

Are you in the target market to eat insects? The easiest uptake will be by a young male who claims to care more about the environment, believes they are progressive and adventurous about food, and already doesn't care about meat.  Matching those criteria, the likelihood that this type of person is willing to eat insects as a meat substitute is estimated more than 75%, according to a new paper published in Food Quality and Preference. The authors investigated the role of personal and food-related attitudinal determinants of consumers’ readiness to adopt insects as a meat…

One evening, during the drearily sodden summer of 1816, Lord Byron and his friends read Fantasmagoriana, a French translation of a German book of ghost stories (they were intellectuals after all) in his Villa Diodati in Switzerland (they were rich intellectuals). Afterward, Byron suggested they all write a horror story. Everyone did except Mary, the wife of his friend, Percy. She kept demurring, saying she had not yet thought of anything suitable. Then one night they discussed the rumor that Erasmus Darwin had electrically "galvanized" a piece of a worm; an electric current…