MIT researchers have now developed a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine.
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The researchers now plan to survey health care workers in developing nations in Africa to get input on the best way to implement this type of vaccination record keeping.
Methusalem wurde 969 Jahre alt…
… aber der Stern Methuselah im Sternbild Waage ist 14.46 Milliarden Jahre alt. Zum Vergleich: Das Universum ist nur 13.8 Milliarden Jahre alt. Moment. Was?
https://www.space.com/how-can-a-star-be-older-than-the-universe.html
Bitcoin uses as much energy as the whole of Switzerland
Probabilistic Programming and the German Tank Problem
Toying around with JPEG
https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/
And, Yes! it has an RSS-Feed!
Repositories to the web
“Raise the nose, HAL.” “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.”
This article looks like a must-read for software developers.
“The flight management computer is a computer. What that means is that it’s full not of aluminum bits, cables, fuel lines and all the other accoutrements of aviation. It’s full of lines of code. And that’s where things get dangerous.”
Also published here
https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer
Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996
HTTP/3
“The protocol that’s been called HTTP-over-QUIC for quite some time has now changed name and will officially become HTTP/3. This was triggered by this original suggestion by Mark Nottingham.”
On Github – A web based mission control framework
Was Vorratsdatenspeicherung bedeutet
…lässt dieser Vortrag von 2016 ahnen, in dem 2,5 Jahre Spiegel Online ausgewertet werden.
Google Dataset Search
Mit Google Dataset Search stellt Google eine Suchmaschine für Forschungsdaten zur Verfügung. Bei der Indexierung soll vor allem schema.org zum Einsatz kommen. Anbietern von Forschungsdaten stellt Google ein Tool zur Verfügung, mit dem die eigenen Metadaten getestet werden können. Eine ausführlicher Artikel zu der neuen Suchmaschine ist im Google Blog zu finden: http://ai.googleblog.com/2018/09/building-google-dataset-search-and.html
Track user movement by WiFi transmissions
As authors of “Adversarial WiFi Sensing” state in their conclusion:
“Our work brings up an inconvenient truth about wireless transmissions. While greatly improving our everyday life, they also unknowingly reveal information about ourselves and our actions. By designing a simple and powerful attack, we show that bad actors outside of a building can secretly track user presence and movement inside the building by just passively listening to ambient WiFi transmissions (even if they are encrypted). To defend against these attacks, we must control the volume and coverage of WiFi signals, or ask APs to obfuscate signals using cover traffic.
While our attack targets WiFi localization and tracking, our methodology can be generalized to sensing mechanisms at different RF frequencies (e.g.UHF, cellular, millimeter wave [63]) and other mediums (acoustic [32], ultrasound [47, 61], visible light, magnetics). Beyond this single attack,we hope to highlight largely overlooked privacy risks from ambient RF (and other) signals around us.”
Tim Berners-Lee – Daten selbst verwalten mit Solid
Tim Berners-Lee arbeitet weiter an seiner Vision des World Wide Web. Sein neues Projekt heißt Solid und soll es Personen und Organisationen erlauben, ihre Daten selbstbestimmt zu verwalten. Webapplikationen können dann gezielt mit Daten versorgt werden. Wo die Daten gespeichert werden und wer darauf zugreifen darf, dies bestimmt der Benutzer selbst, indem er Daten in einem selbst kontrollierten Webbereich ablegt. Mit der Solid Plattform kann der Benutzer seinen Bereich kontrollieren und administrieren.
https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/one-small-step-for-the-web-87f92217d085