USA: theres another escape, but Snowden

Suspicion arose after appear news about a Counterterrorism program that was only conceived in August 2013, already after Snowden have gone to Russia. The article from The Intercept refers to a specific repository that serves as a database to identify the terrorists and that goes by the name of TIDE, of Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment.

 This base contains more than a million names of potential terrorists, although already have automatically identified 280 thousand names for not having any terrorist affiliation. The process to investigate potential terrorists through analyzing biometric data (such as facial features, fingerprints and retina), centralize all records of every citizen and make them available in a search for a driver's license.

Conflict in Gaza makes shooting DDoS attacks against Israel

A new study by Arbor Networks establishes an interesting parallel between geopolitics and DDoS attacks. Based on the analysis to the current dispute between Israel and Hamas, the software company concluded that DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service attack or distributed denial of service) to Israel were growing in direct proportion to the scale of the conflict.

So, in June, the average duration of the attacks was 20 minutes, and this value rose to 1:0 and 39 minutes in July. In addition, in the first week of last month had been recorded between 30 and 150 attacks per day, but on 21 July that figure peaked at 429. Namely, according to the data from Arbor Networks, DDoS attacks have increased in number, volume and duration, coinciding with the increase in violence in the conflict.

Another proof: the interruption of talks for a cease-fire verified on 3 August resulted in the largest DDoS attack in size-29 Gbps.

Microsoft loses 1.7 billion with Surface

The analysis was done by Greg Keizer, Computerworld, based on data revealed by Microsoft itself. The company has publicly disclosed the recipes with the Surface line, but in the past two quarters has not revealed the associated costs for these recipes.

In this paragraph are accounted for production costs, the cost of sending Surface to the market before the release and other associated expenses.

In fiscal year 2013, Microsoft will have a cost of 1.9 billion dollars and revenue of 853 million dollars. This year, the losses are by 676 million dollars, which allows asserting that, since last year, the Surface line cost 1.7 billion, reports the GigaOm.

It is recalled that the Xbox has losses for three years until Microsoft have begun to cash in on the consoles. The company is expected to adopt the same behavior for this bet in tablets.

@Evleaks account on Twitter may be terminated

In the last two years, almost all the early leaks, as regards industry of smartphones and tablets, were brought to us thanks to the famous @evleaks, Twitter profile run by Evan Blass and responsible for leaks of various manufacturers, well, it can be terminated.

Behind this controversial profile's Evan Blass, technology journalist who recently announced (and unfortunately) it is withdrawn from the branch of the leaks.

Evan Blass ensures that the main reason is in monetizing content created via Twitter. In an interview with The Next Web, Evan claims to have made several attempts to get sponsorships and donations to keep the project, but apparently were few efforts on the part of visitors see the @evleaks "on air".

Evan Blass looks for a new job (options should not miss), and can thus rest technology companies with regards to leaks of its new releases, at least while a new "leaker" does not appear.

What will be left of humanity: holes and tunnels

In the imagination of many, the last vestiges of humanity are skeletons, buildings in ruins or toxic deposits. In fact, according to a survey cited by Anthtropocene, Jan Zalasiewick explains that we have already made significant changes in the Earth's crust and that these changes will be our brand more permanent.

Animals, to build their dens, give an important contribution to that geologists can classify the geological age of certain areas. The process of constructing Burrows is imitated by human being, albeit at a larger scale. Researchers say even if there is no analogous process in the entire history of our planet. Currently, scientists estimate that if you add together the length of all existing holes on Earth, would be to go from Earth to Mars. For each living human there is a hole of almost seven feet, explains the Gizmodo.

This form of alteration of the terrestrial crust is the one that has the greatest potential to last, even after dying the last human being. Everything indicates that even the tunnels that will expose our presence on the planet.

Google wants to turn a phone booth in Wi-Fi hotspots

The city of New York wants to take forward a project to transform the telephone booths in Wi-Fi hotspots and challenged more than 50 potential interested parties to submit proposals to the Department of information technology and telecommunications. Google is one of the largest stakeholders, but will face competition from other weight technology, such as Cisco, IBM and Samsung, according to information put forward by Bloomberg.

The company responsible for the search engine is pursuing efforts to increase digital access in the United States (and around the world), in order to win more users and to benefit their advertising services. It should be noted that Google is also working on providing broadband services in several North American cities, which already offers wireless access in the region of Mountain View (site of their headquarters) and New York City neighborhood of Chelsea (where has an Office).

The project challenges the companies to create new designs to replace the current telephone booths-and which are more than 7300-and to provide Wi-Fi, telephone and advertising services in all five boroughs of New York. The goal of the Chamber is that companies can charge for telephone service, but not for the Internet access.

Despite the origin of the project remount the 2012, when Michael Bloomberg was Mayor of New York, the arrival of Bill of destinations of leadership Blasio ' Big Apple ' came to give new impetus to the initiative. The Board intends that the Wi-Fi hotspots work together, allowing the user to stay connected as you move through the city.

The judge opens the phase of liquidation of Bodaclick and declares dissolved the firm

The commercial court number 11 in Madrid has opened the phase of liquidation of Bodaclik and the entity, has declared dissolved as he has published on Thursday the official State Bulletin (BOE). In particular, the judge has agreed suspension of faculties administration and disposition company, at the time that their duties has ceased its administrators, who will be replaced by the bankruptcy administration.

Now, within the period of fifteen days from the notification of the decision, the bankruptcy administration will present a plan for the realization of the assets and rights embedded in the active mass of the company. This decision is a further blow to the alternative stock market (MAB), following the scandal of Gowex.

Bodaclick shares were suspended contributions in February, when marked priced at 0.47 euros, when he made his debut at a price of 2.78 euros in June 2010. Then, now CEO of OHL and Exteriores former Minister Josep Piqué was its President and responsible for bring it to bag.

Bodaclick presented the request for the opening of the stage of liquidation, after requesting the voluntary insolvency proceedings on February 14 "with a temporary situation of illiquidity" in early July.

The liquidation or sale extends to all subsidiaries of the group, as he said recently the company, which also pointed out that this decision comes despite the measures taken by administrators and materialized in two restructuring plans implemented in 2012 and 2013, aimed at overcoming the negative consequences to the business caused by the global economic crisis and competition on the Internet.

However, the firm continues to provide service to all customers in order to achieve a plan of liquidation that will allow the continuation of the activity in all of the countries in which they operate. The decision to apply for the opening of the liquidation phase was adopted unanimously by the Board of Directors held on July 2.

Laser makes vaccines seven times more effective

The first tests done on animals show an increased efficiency up to seven times. In this case, the researchers refer to vaccines and concluded that there were four to seven times more antibodies to be produced when lit up the skin with a laser, in the face of what happened when you used the laser.

The laser has a role similar to other chemical helpers, as aluminium salts and oils, which are used to make the vaccine more effective. In the study published in Nature Communications, researchers do not reveal what the expected effectiveness in flu vaccine, but will expect an increase in their effectiveness.

The laser creates microtermais areas on the skin, which end up self-regeneration. Upon being formed these areas of breakage, dying cells send "danger signals" and ask the body that sends immune cells to respond to viruses and other invaders. The body reacts sent defense cells that help recognize the threat and react. The lasers used in the study had been designed for cosmetic purposes and make your skin younger.

For now, the recognised side effects are smaller than those that can arise when using chemical helpers to increase the effectiveness of vaccines.

Google refuse to place wheel and pedals in its cars

A new Department responsible for policy motor vehicles of California requires Google to add steering wheel and pedals to their cars without driver.

This standard, which goes into effect next month, is applicable to the testing phase and determines that a human should be able to take immediate physical control of the vehicle if there is a software failure.

In practice, this means that Google will have to equip their fleet of cars with manual controls before the power put in public streets.

According to The Wall Street Journal, instead deciding to test the vehicle on private roads, Google will comply with the policy and install a small temporary system with steering wheel and pedals.

The Telegraph reports that this week the car without driver of Google had already received permission to exceed the speed limit set by law at about 15 km/h. The justification is that a recent test showed that it is safer for this car exceed the speed limit and keep track of the remaining traffic than to maintain a hard rhythm and cause obstacles in the circulation. However, it was made the proviso that the vehicle never exceed by more than 15 km/h the limit established by law.

Stay in the air an interesting question: If the car is fined for speeding, who pays the fine is the passenger, the owner or the Google, which developed the software?