Laptops May Affect Male Fertility

With the Increase in population the usage of laptops is also increasing exponentially, so this topic is needed to be shared with everyone....

DO YOU HAVE LAPTOP ?

Laptops, Internet, Smartphones, and Bikes are the basic needs of this generation so I think Laptop is present with more than 70% of worlds population. And also all of you are merely busy browsing net now a days.
Millions of millions of men are using laptops especially those in the reproductive age range.
As the name indicates Laptops are meant because they are portable and are basically kept on laps, BUT HAVE YOU EVER PONDERED THAT it can cause you some problem in future.?

NO.... NEVER..............

According to YELIM SHEYNKIN (a urologist at State University of New York at Stony Brook) said that When you use laptops keeping on your laps then after just 10 to 15mins the temperature of your reproductive organ go above the optimum level but you are not aware, which can cause you some reproductive problem in future or may affect male fertility.
Instead you can use cooling pads available in the market....

I wouldn't say that if you start to use laptops, you will become infertile though frequent use might contribute to reproductive problems.

So guys be prepared and try to use cooling pads, its not only for your welfare but also think for the future generation of World.

Digital Iris Can Fool Biometric Scanners

At the recently held Black Hat Security conference by academics in Spain and the U.S., a new technique of recreating iris images using the digital codes that are stored in databases and used by iris-recognition systems to identify people was shown. Interestingly, the replica images were so amazing that they could even trick the commercially graded iris-recognition systems.

“The idea is to generate the iris image, and once you have the image you can actually print it and show it to the recognition system, and it will say ‘okay, this is the [right] guy,’” says Javier Galbally, who conducted the research with colleagues at the Biometric Recognition Group-ATVS, at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and researchers at West Virginia University. 

Earlier, researchers could create wholly synthetic iris images with the characteristics of real iris images. Though the images fooled iris-recognition systems into thinking they were real irises, but the problem was they were not quite useful in impersonating a real person.

"But this is the first time anyone has essentially reverse-engineered iris codes to create iris images that closely match the eye images of real subjects, creating the possibility of stealing someone’s identity through their iris," mentions a report by Threat Level.

“At each iteration it uses the synthetic images of the previous iteration to produce a new set of synthetic iris images that have an iris code which is more similar (than the synthetic images of the previous iteration) to the iris code being reconstructed,” Galbally says.

Pacemakers and other Medical Devices Can be Hacked

Hacking a computer is not a difficult task now a days but killing or injuring a person like this could be interesting case to resolve & very good tactics to make people scary about these things & nice planning to promote and sell their new medical product as well.

Computers and smartphones aren’t the only electronics that can be hacked. Alarmingly, during the past few years several researchers have found that wireless and wearable medical devices, like pacemakers, insulin-delivery systems, and neural implants, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Though none have reportedly been hacked in field use yet, researchers have been hard at work finding ways to secure such medical devices before it’s too late.

A team of professors and graduate students from Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind., and Princeton University recently developed a prototype firewall that could go a long way in warding off attacks.
The group includes Meng Zhang, an electrical engineering graduate student at Princeton; IEEE Fellow Anand Raghunathan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue; and IEEE Fellow Niraj K. Jha, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton.

The team was inspired to develop its prototype, Medmon, after researching the vulnerability of a variety of medical devices in 2011, including pacemakers, glucose-monitoring and insulin-delivery systems, neural implants, and so-called smart prosthetics. “Our work showed that these are surprisingly easy to hack,” Raghunathan says.

“The correct functioning of implantable and wearable medical appliances is life-critical,” he says. “Any security attacks that can disrupt them, or even leak private information, are of great concern.”
Breaking into an insulin pump is not difficult, and it takes only a small investment. “A few research groups, including ours, have shown that medical devices can be hacked using relatively inexpensive [worth less than US $1000] off-the-shelf equipment such as a PC and a software-programmable radio,” Jha says. “We were able to snoop on sensitive health information and take control of the insulin pump to prevent the delivery of insulin or to deliver it when it was not needed.”

Although the likelihood of someone’s insulin pump being hacked is considered low, the researchers say it’s important to act now, before an incident occurs.

But I think, this research is in its preliminary stages so its difficult to say that hackers have access or can attack these devices!
I think, perhaps we need a new protocol or VPN like thing for the implanted devices.

Samsung's Galaxy Beam projector-phone

Samsung has released the new version of the Galaxy Beam smartphone, which has a built-in projector, in the UK.

The handset can cast high-definition content onto a wall or ceiling at a size of up to 50 inches. Its current iteration was first shown off in February, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

"It's the kind of device you won't find anywhere else — a high-definition projector within a standard-sized smartphone — and is great for people who want to watch movies, show photos to friends or need to give a presentation while they're out and about," Samsung UK and Ireland vice president Simon Stanford said in a statement.

A first iteration of the device was unveiled in 2010. The update brought a larger screen, measuring four inches rather than 3.7 inches. However, the device still carries what is now a very outdated version of Android, 'Gingerbread' 2.3.

The 145g smartphone runs the OS on a dual-core 1GHz processor, and also features a 5-megapixel camera and 8GB of internal memory.

Samsung did not announce any official UK pricing for the Galaxy Beam, nor did it say which networks, if any, will be carrying it.

At the time of writing, none of the major operators' websites showed the Beam on offer. Various independent online retailers are offering the smartphone for around £400.

Wait!!!! Dont Wash Your Cars

Researchers have developed a technology that could make washing your car a thing of the past.

Catarina Esteves and her colleagues from Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have created a highly water-resistant car coating that not only heals superficial scratches, but encourages specs of dirt to roll off the car in drops of water.

Near Field Communication Can Infect Android Remotely

Android and Nokia N9's MeeGo operating system can be exploited by using near field communication (NFC), that too without any user interaction.


Near field communication (NFC), a new radio communication technology, which connects similar smartphones when they are touched or brought close to each other, is already in use in several high end smartphones. However, it can be a potential threat to Android and Nokia phones.

Charlie Miller, a security specialist at the Black Hat information security conference in Las Vegas used NFC to transfer malicious code to different smartphones without interacting with the smartphone owner. 


Miler studied the process of infecting via NFC for about nine months and focused on applications that use the radio interface like Google's Beam. Miler explained that, “if a victim's smartphone is placed in the vicinity of a tag that has been tampered with, the phone's browser will be launched and will access a web site – in this case one that contains malware exploits for Android,” according to The H Online report. A tag is an unpowered NFC chip.

The demonstration also revealed that majority of the Android devices are outdated and are easily vulnerable to this bug, which can infect devices without any user interactions using NFC technology.

Also, Nokia N9's MeeGo operating system got infected as it is programmed to arbitrarily accept NFC communication. Miller stated in The H Online report: "The file rendering applications contain numerous bugs that can cause buffer overflows and enable attackers to take control of a device."

An attacker can also activate the N9's Bluetooth interface via NFC and then pair the device with a notebook, after which it can be used to send premium-rate SMS text messages or call premium numbers, or can even be used to export address book, and access the N9's filesystem. 

With the ever expanding horizons of technology, data security remains a prime concern that needs to be addressed before deploying a large scale technological solution. 

Meet The Transparent Solar Cell!

Made of photoactive plastic, the new transparent solar cell is 70 per cent transparent to human eye so you can still see outside.

UCLA researchers have developed a new see-through solar cell for windows that generate electricity. According to the researchers, it is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. In other words, these transparent solar cells could one day be used to build solar windows or even sun collecting smartphones.

The UCLA team says that the new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light, not visible light, making the cells almost 70 per cent transparent to the human eye. They made the device from a photo active plastic that converts infrared light into an electrical current.

Their study has been published in the journal ACS Nano.

"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaic and in other applications," said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering. Yang is also director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI).

According to Yang, there has been intense worldwide interest in so-called polymer solar cells due to their advantages over competing solar cell technologies. "Our new PSCs are made from plastic-like materials and are lightweight and flexible," he said. "More importantly, they can be produced in high volume at low cost."

Scientists are said to be investigating these PSCs for their potential in making unique advances for broader applications. Several such applications would be enabled by high-performance visibly transparent photovoltaic (PV) devices, including building-integrated photovoltaic s and integrated PV chargers for portable electronics.