The electrical signals inside Lyric’s chips represent probabilities, instead of 1s and 0s. While the transistors of conventional chips are arranged into components called digital NAND gates, which can be used to implement all possible digital logic functions, those in a probability processor make building blocks known as Bayesian NAND gates. Bayesian probability is a field of mathematics named after the eighteenth century English statistician Thomas Bayes, who developed the early ideas on which it is based.

Whereas a conventional NAND gate outputs a “1″ if neither of its inputs match, the output of a Bayesian NAND gate represents the odds that the two input probabilities match. This makes it possible to perform calculations that use probabilities as their input and output.

via Technology Review: A New Kind of Microchip.

The iPhone Spy Data Recovery Stick is the ultimate recovery tool for anyone who wants to capture deleted information from any iPhone (running iOS to 3.x). The iPhone Spy Data Recovery Stick makes it easy to recover deleted text messages, contacts, call and web history, as well as photos, voice memos and calendar appointments — giving you a unique look into exactly what the user has been searching for, who they’ve been talking to, and even the types of pictures they’ve taken. With features like saved map search history, web searches, and text messages, the iPhone Data Recovery Stick is the only tool you need to catch a cheating spouse, monitor your kids, or backup your own iPhone data.

via iPhone SPY Data Recovery Stick | Read ALL Her Deleted Texts & MORE…?.

• Download information like:
  • Text messages
  • Phonebook contacts
  • Call history
  • Calendar appointments and reminders
  • Notes / voice memos
  • Graphics / photos
  • Multimedia files
  • Internet search and web history
  • Map history
  • Dynamic text (learned words like people’s names, restaurants, etc.)
  • Phone properties such as model, serial number, OS version, and more
  • And all other user data that can normally be backed up
• Deleted data types that can be recovered:
  • Text messages
  • Phonebook contacts
  • Call history
  • Calendar entries and reminders
• Speed of scan: approx 20 minutes per Gb of storage space
• Supported operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
• The iPhone Spy Stick software recovers deleted data only from iPhones running iOS 3.2.1 and earlier

And only $199,-

Haystack. The anti-censorship software is built on a sophisticated mathematical formula that conceals someone’s real online destinations inside a stream of innocuous traffic. You may be browsing an opposition Web site, but to the censors it will appear you are visiting, say, weather.com. Heap tends to hide users in content that is popular in Tehran, sometimes the regime’s own government mouthpieces. Haystack is a step forward for activists working in repressive environments. Other anti-censorship programs—such as Tor, Psiphon, or Freegate—can successfully hide someone’s identity, but censors are able to detect that these programs are being run and then work to disable the communication. With Haystack, the censors aren’t even aware the software is in use. “Haystack captures all outgoing connections, encrypts them, and then masquerades the data as something else,” explains Heap. “If you want to block Haystack, you are gonna block yourself.”

via Computer Programmer Takes On the World’s Despots – Newsweek.

Using the method you can use the sticky keys and a repair disk to reset your password. There’s also a link to using an Ubuntu CD to reset the password.

Hack the Sticky Keys Feature to Reset a Forgotten Windows Password.

These “E-Sense” films developed by Senseg and Toshiba can be placed anywhere, including on a touchscreen and by charging the area the finger is on differently, you can create different sensations, such as wood, stone, unevenness, etc. This is called electrotactile feedback.

Electrotactile Arrays for Texture and Pressure Feedback During Robotic Teleoperation | Hizook.

A good list of what’s available or will be and how much it costs as well as links to reviews. What does the iPad have to face?

iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More.

This is a bittorrent site with a penchant for movies and a very nice indexing system

The visualising data blog has a few interesting graphs of how the wikileaks data shows the war in Afghanistan is spreading and getting progressively worse. They’ve also used data analysis to show that the data isn’t faked.

Visualising the wikileaks war logs using tableau public

Wikileaks War Logs: A triumph in ‘data journalism’?.

PhoneAble takes your iPhone library key and applies it to any number of other iTunes installations, allowing you to manage your music on whatever computer you happen to be at.

via MemeCode – PhoneAble.

1. Open Cydia > Manage > Sources

2. Edit source and add http://repo.benm.at

3. Search Frash and install it.

NB. it’s still very very beta…

via The Easier Way to Install Flash on iPhone 4 and iPad.

Not only do you get to feel like a criminal upon entering the US, but your private information is also shared with other governmental agencies for no apparent reason. And if you come from the EU, you get to pay for the privelige on entry too.

VS belast verplicht afgeven Nederlandse privédata | Webwereld.

This system uses a laser and a webcam to scan an item, which can then be printed with the cheap Markerbot 3D printer, or other printers.

MakerScanner – open source 3d scanning.

This is pretty clear: Apple has submitted a patent using a picture that looks exactly like an app which has been in the app store for a few years. Bastards.

Slashdot Apple Story | Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas.

IBM has published the most detailed map of a macaque brain ever, with 6602 of it’s pathways in 383 regions of the brain. Besides being pretty it’s very interesting

Well, there’s a surprise: airport full body scanners not only get peeked at by their collegues and turn into full colour pictures when you put a negative filter on them in photoshop, but they’ve been storing the images for ages.

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.”

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.

This follows an earlier disclosure by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for “testing, training, and evaluation purposes.” The agency says, however, that those capabilities are not normally activated when the devices are installed at airports.

via Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images | Privacy Inc. – CNET News.

This works on laptops and is very customisable.

MouseFIGHTER – mouse free PC !.

To get apps outside of the app store mafia, you had to jailbreak and install Cydia. Now you can use this. This will allow web based apps. Only for Iphone for now, but hoping to expand to other devices.

OpenAppMkt.

Which basically means that the arm of the law becomes the arbiter of the law, instead of just carrying out the aims of the law. As this concerns freedom of speech and expression, these decisions need to be made by judges.

Hosters furieus over ‘censuurplan’ Justitie | Webwereld.

Ultrasn0w has been updated to work for IOS4 and the new basebands for both the 3G/3GS and Iphone4

Dev-Team Blog.

This shows which devices can be jailbroken by what software and links to a tutorial. Very friendly.

iPhone & iTouch Jailbreak / Unlock Matrix | jailbreakmatrix.com.

All you do after the update is surf to the site and make it run

JailbreakMe 2.0.

Why don’t people get it? Centralised databases are dreadfull things! The CIOT (Centraal Informatiepunt Onderzoek Telecommunicatie) database, which contains IP addresses, email addresses and name and address data, is accessed around 3m times a year. Apparently only 1% of these accesses is legal. Not only that, but users freely trade logins to the database, meaning that there are loads of people accessing the database who shouldn’t have any access to it at all!

Ophef over gebrekkige controle telecomdatabase CIOT | Webwereld.

Wikileaks has released logs from the Afghanistan war covering 2004 – 2010. The amount of data is massive and Wikileaks is down

Wikleaks

The Guardian has a good rundown going on about the data and has some analysis.

Afghanistan war logs: live blog | World news | guardian.co.uk.

So anyone with a friend in the Greek police force (and by friend I mean name and bank account number) can find out allll kinds of stuff about anyone in the database – which will soon be everyone. Sounds secure. Not.

Vingerafdruk Nederlanders in 2011 Europees gedeeld | Webwereld.

Apple claims that allthough it the new privacy policy enables them to gather and share this information, the information is anonymised and is currently not being shared with anyone. The information is sent in batches every 12 hours and the collection can be turned off by changing the setting on locational services to off.

So… does anyone have a firewall that can block these packets then?

Reactie Apple op vragen congresleden VS.