Now Watch The Single Cells Moving Inside The Brain- MRI Sniper Scope

When it comes to a living brain, all that matter is the stimulation and recording of neurons. The main aspect of a brain is the presence and functioning of the neurons. The brain interface can be expected to be much better, if we are able to set more dialogs with the neurons. The truth basically lies in the presumption that the electric chattering between the neural cells (the ones which are in feral protists) are now covered in the cranial vault and undertake the full spectrum activities inside their writhing mass. Now researchers from Osaka, Japan have found the perfect way to see these cells in the brain and watch them in their actual elements and activities. They have developed a clear way to watch the activities of the brain and their functions.

Brain Sniper scope: 

The first and the vital requirement of the brain sniper scope is the need of tremendous power. Researchers were able to get this power from a top-of-the-line MRI, which basically generates rivet-popping 12 Tesla magnetic field. The main fact to know here is that the current upper bound of physiological safety is known to be 12T and is is also almost double in potential when compared to any implantable medical device manufacturer can ever acknowledge even exists or can be made. Differentiating between the cells is now easier with the single cell resolution that comes with a resolution that comes with a higher power. The main trick here lies in the tiny magnetically active particles also called as SPIOs as they provide super-paramagnetic nanoparticles of iron oxide.

The researchers started testing their ideas by insjecting the SPIOs into the blood stream of the mice and they were able to see that these particles got rapidly absorbed by the blood immune cells also known as macrophages. These immune cells can easily travel throughout the vasculature of the brain and depending on the movements of the cells; we can take look at their movements.

The researchers injected the LPS (lipopolysaccharides) to increase the natural macrophage curiosity. These LPS has been derived out of gram-negative bacteria. Under these situations, the immune cells undergo lots of craziness similar to the septic shocks these bacteria’s will go through. Through this method, the researchers were able to see the movement of the cells in and out of the brain vessels. At present if, we see almost all the neural transplant procedures are carried out with a hope of giving auxiliary nourishing function to the existing faulty neurons rather than acting as the primary neural cells.

We already know that science has developed so much that at present we have the exceptional ability to track down the immune cells. These cells invade the brain at the time of any inflammation or infection and this has already been found very useful. However, this discovery will be more useful in neural dysfunctions and movement disorders. By using SPIOs and other technique now, we will be able to see the flux of whole cell bodies axonal emissaries.

US DOJ States iPhone Encryption Could Lead to Child Death

Government worried with the new tougher and stricter encryption schemes which are being implemented by Apple in its iOS and Google in Android have the ability to prevent the law enforcers from getting their hands on the user’s data.

Snowden whistle blowing incident has accused major upheaval in the tech industry which has resulted in the plummeting of their trust rating. Now the tech companies are scrambling around to reinstate their image and business by using much aggressive and strong encryption for saving users privacy.

Tech Giants Moving Towards Advanced Encryption

Apple is first company to include the encryption by default in its recent iOS 8 version while Google is working towards bringing the encryption on all the devices with its Android 5.0. Past week the Facebook owned messaging service provider WhatsApp has flipped the switched and had enabled the much needed end-to-end encryption on its messaging platform. These encryptions are seen as the boon for the users and consumers as it will give much more privacy but it is also acting as a major tumbling block for the government.

Government Worries Grows With Widespread Use Of Encryption

The government officials are extremely worried regarding the rampant use of advanced encryption in the consumer products by the tech companies. Officials had asserted that these very same features which protect user’s privacy could end up in protecting the criminals. In earlier times the tech companies were extremely cooperative as well as complacent in providing the government with essential information which was taken as shock by the general mobile phone and network users. But the advanced encryption works through not storing the encryption keys on the Apple’s or Google’s servers, thereby the concerned authorities won’t be able to get their hands on it even if they possess the required warrant.

Apple Could Become A Reason For Child Death

The Wall Street Journal reports that a Department of Justice (DOJ) official had eventually told the Apple executives during a classified meeting that in near future their company could be directly responsible for the death of a child.

The logic behind stating such grave point is that government officials believes that one day criminals probably a kidnapper could rely on the Apple’s encrypted devices for hiding themselves from the law enforcement authorities. Such inability of law enforcement in accessing the data on that person’s phone could inevitably allow him to evade detection and kill a child as well.

Apple had rubbished such accusation and even calls it inflammatory as well as inaccurate. Apple further said that the government have much more better means in such cases like taking help of the cellular carriers which would pinpoint the location of the suspect in a faster and convenient manner.

This incident reflects that in the future with advent of strong and advanced encryption method government would be kept at bay from large chunk of information and at the same time the privacy of the users would become more stable. However government should take more advanced steps in strengthening its reach but not at the cost of citizen’s privacy.

Florida Trade Commission Shuts Down Two Tech-Support Scam Companies

A federal court had temporarily shut down two companies which were providing bogus ‘tech support’ for computer throughout the country. It is been believed that these companies had managed to dupe an estimated $120 million.

Both of the accused companies modus operandi were fuelled by the greed and lack of knowledge on the part of honest customers. These companies have sold consumers unneeded software by tricking them to believe that their computers are under imminent threat or suffering from grave security threats which needed quick and instant technical help.

FTC Building Strong Case Against Scamming Companies

Jessica Rich, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection has stated that these companies operations were essentially based on the lack of technical knowledge by the honest consumers. They had resorted to malpractices like the use of deceptive sales pitches accompanied with high-pressure tactics to sell their useless software and services and wreak millions of dollars out of it.

This isn’t the first time that the FTC has shut down the company resorting to scam based operations or business tactics. Earlier it had also shut down another fraudster company which ran an alleged scam wherein the callers pretended to be tech support for the giant tech-companies like Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT).

How These Companies Worked? 

Consumers are required to download an unpaid version of the software which is supposed to improve their computer’s performance. That software simply runs a system scan and identifies all sorts of problems, errors and threats. Later on users are asked to get their computer repaired and errors fixed by buying that particular software for $29-$49. Once they had bought it, they would be gently directed to a call a phone number which supposedly activate the software. Even after buying the consumers are pounded with more sales pitch to buy more number of computer repair services for better reason.

These companies also used to take remote access of the computers and promised to solve the technical issues and remove the threats from the devices for a whopping charge of $500.

FTC Gears Up For A Decisive Fight

A federal court in Florida has already taken the initial steps of temporarily shutting down these companies and their partners. Even appointed receivers and froze their assets until the case could be heard. Furthermore court has also ordered the respective authorities to disable their websites and phones numbers.

The FTC lawsuits have alleged these companies of violating the federal consumer protection laws along with telemarketing sales rules and the Florida Deceptive & Unfair Trade Practices Act.

The defendants are California based PC Cleaner Inc, Netcom3 Global Inc., dba Netcom3 Software and Florida based telemarketing companies PC Vitalware LLC; Inbound Call Experts LLC, Super PC Support LLC and Advanced Tech Supportco.

The defendants in another suit are Massachusetts-based Boost Software Inc and Florida based telemarketer OMG Total Protection, Vast Tech Support LLC, dbs OMG Tech Help, OMG Back Up, OMG Tech Help LLC, Success Capital LLC, downloadsoftware.com and softwaresupport.com.

New Start Up ‘Primary Data’ Grabs Wozniak and Stirs Virtual Storage Fight

Primary Data is creating right noises at the right time by grabbing up Apple co-founder Steve Wonziak as its chief scientist who was earlier working for the Fusion-io. Primary Data is asserting that it will be reinventing the ‘file virtualization’ for the software-defined data centers in a simple and fluid manner in coming time. Its announcement shows that the company is determined to take the head-on EMC’s ViPR and Quantum’s StorNext which works at the same level.

How Primary Data Came Into Being?

Primary Data has an interesting birth which mainly revolves around the shuffling of the major founders and players of the Fusion-io. Its founder David Flynn had also founded the server flash card startup Fusion-io in 2005 where Wozniak joined in 2009. In June this year Fusion-io was bought up by SanDisk for a whopping $1.1 billion. However Flynn and cofounder Rick while quietly left it before the sale and started up the Primary Data in the latter half of the 2013. Through shrewd administrative skills David brought back the Wozniak on its team in Primary Data.

Primary Data Introduces Its Virtualizing Data Plans

Primary Data’s ideas is to provide a symbolic scale-out meta-data service which give a centralized control and management at the same time staying out of the data path. It would also provide a single enterprise name space with multiple data paths for enhancing the performance.

David Flynn had described the Data Virtualitzation as the inevitable next step for the enterprise architectures. It has the potential to seamlessly integrate the existing infrastructure and its full spectrum of specialized capabilities is provided by the ultra performance and ultra capacity storage resources.

Data Hypervisor- An Innovative Solution By Primary Data

This technology would also possess a data hypervisor which will hide all the storage hardware and software below a global file namespace. It would also contain separate channels for sending and receiving data as well as controlling the access to the stored data. The data administrators could set the policy definitions for placing and moving information as per their needs. It would be done under set rules reflecting the storage performance, protection needs and price.

This software performs all the hard work in fluid manner of its utmost capacity and keeps the bytes in line. The data hypervisor can also migrate the information between file, block and object storage tiers as required with ease and grace.

Disaster recovery and backup methods are extremely simplified through snapshot policies which ensure that the data is protected and available. The snapshot layer is not integrated in the data path which makes it extremely fast and painless.

Primary Data Set To Revolutionalize the Enterprise Data

Primary Data has not disclosed which interfaces and access protocols it will support. It is supposed to be mediated by the enterprise as per their need and size. Software-defined data centre platforms had two key players namely EMC’s VMware and Openstack which are now feeling the heat of the emerging threat and challenge from the Primary Data.

GPS Satellites: Planet-Sized Dark Matter Detector Already In Orbit

The most common strategy that is pitched by the physicists is that they always try to take responsibility of their field’s limitations and they point out to the shortcomings in the modern physics and make it a reason for big investments in order to continue their physical research.

This strategy has been the same when the physicists tried to pitch about the dark matter and their related investigations. According to the physicists, they know that this dark matter and that two more than five to one. Although its gravity dictates the allocation of visible galaxies, they still do not have much information about it. Even though modern physics has given us with strong idea displaying the level, of ignorance, we have and this ignorance is being used against and for conducting costly experimenting event like the Large Hadron Collider.

Distributed Orbital Dark Matter Detector: 

According to a paper, which was published in the journal, Nature, this week comes forward to provide a solution. The paper states that our GPS satellites constellation, which is orbiting the Earth for decades, might be useful and can be used to carry out the function in the form of a planet-sized dark matter detector. This paper was written by a physicist himself, and he has specialty in atomic clocks. These atomic clocks allow keeping time about the nuclear decay and which allows everything including ultra-profitable high frequency trading on the stock market and global communications.

These clocks are also useful as they power the GPS satellites and provide accurate time-of-flight measurements about GPS signals. The system becomes very useful as they can provide precise information about the relative speed and the difference about the multiple GPS satellites and that too moving in completely different directions. Velocity and gravity are the way to warp the time.

The basic principle, which has been very clearly depicted in the recent sci-fi epic Interstellar clearly highlighted that, states that any amount of object, which is moving with different speed with give, measure the time differently and the same can be easily applied to objects moving around in the gravitational fields.

The paper clearly indicates that we might be able to track down the track matter with the help the GPS satellites network, which are orbiting our planet. If reports have be believed than $5-6 billion has already been paid for the Distributed Orbital Dark Matter Detector, which by the way is slightly less than the Large Hadron Collider.

Scientists will now be able to see the invisible dark matter, which create errors when they come close to the GPS satellites. Physical separation of the GPS clocks, which are orbiting, is very critical for this experiment. From what has been observed, looks like these dark matters does not cluster together as the other matters do in the space.

Scientists are expecting to see gravitational hotspots, expecting these dark matters to be collected in some dark planet or some dark star. As if now, these dark matters cannot compress themselves to form stars or black holes but they move freely in the universe. Even if the GPS is unable to detect the dark matters in the universe, it does not means that they don’t exist.