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Author Archives: ivanmconsiglio
At 400,000 Years, Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries
Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans’ biological history. But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries. Continue reading
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Tagged Denisovans, DNA, Neanderthals
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Google is building Chrome apps support for Android and iOS, beta release coming as soon as January 2014
Google is working on bringing Chrome packaged apps from the desktop to the mobile world. The company is currently building a toolkit to help developers create Chrome apps for Android and iOS, as well as port their existing Chrome apps … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, Chrome, Google
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Smart weapons: Kill switches and safety catches | The Economist
Smart weapons Kill switches and safety catches Arms control: New technologies make it easier to track small arms and stop them working under certain circumstances. To what extent can they prevent the unintended or undesirable use of weapons? Technological tweaks … Continue reading
#Wikileaks #Zombies #blackfriday2013 #LOL December 4, 2013
#Wikileaks #Zombies #blackfriday2013 #LOL click below to see how consumers have been degraded to zombie level! December 4, 2013.
Let there be the Con
Web blogger Ramona Depares reports on year 2013 Malta Comic Con! Continue reading
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Tagged comicon, MALTA, Ramona Depares
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“Hands-on Social Media” training workshop
Following the huge success of last Friday’s social media strategy course at MISCO, Strategic Communications’ Director Dott. Fabio Giangolini will deliver an extraordinary session this Friday 6th December from 9am to 1pm. As an organisation, planning your social media strategy … Continue reading
The terrifying promise of robot bugs
When I read the title of the webpage that led me to this video, several fast fleeting images came across my mind from those sci-fi hit movies like MINORITY REPORT, the MATRIX trilogy, and the TERMINATOR franchise. Considering the advances … Continue reading
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Tagged bugs, nano technology, robots
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Syria Proving More Fertile Than Iraq to Al-Qa`ida’s Operations | Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
The dramatic growth of al-Qa`ida affiliates in Syria is a direct result of its preexisting networks in Iraq. These networks were built in 2004 and 2005, became nearly dominant in 2006 and 2007, and then suffered a dramatic series of setbacks at the hands of the U.S. military and the famed Sunni Awakening. Those setbacks were a result of endogenous conditions and exogenous factors.[2] They were enough to deeply damage al-Qa`ida in Iraq (AQI),[3] but not enough to destroy it. As a result, when the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned violent in Syria, AQI was ready to take advantage in a country where the context was quite different than Iraq. Continue reading
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Tagged al-Qa`ida, Bashar al-Assad, Iraq., Syria, Syrian President
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Rise and shine: the daily routines of history’s most creative minds
Benjamin Franklin spent his mornings naked. Patricia Highsmith ate only bacon and eggs. Marcel Proust breakfasted on opium and croissants. The path to greatness is paved with a thousand tiny rituals (and a fair bit of substance abuse) – but six key rules emerge
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey – review Continue reading
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