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Stagefright Android MMS Vulnerability (July 2015)
A security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the Android MMS system which could be exploited to control Android phones without the user doing anything. It was reported to Google in April and a...
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NASA’s JPL releases Two Math Libraries
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has released two large math libraries under an open source (BSD) license. Via Degenerate Conic: “MATH77 is a library of Fortran 77 subroutines implementing...
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Update on the Rosetta (comet) mission
The Rosetta orbiter is continuing its science until the end of the extended Rosetta mission in September 2016. The lander’s future is less certain. This film covers some of what we’ve learnt from...
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R language Development 1997-2015
The open-source world keeps surprising me. It is really amazing how internationally distributed individuals meet and collaborate on open-source projects and develop amazing products that exceed...
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Assorted links – Data Science with R
last updated: 2015-08-29 References & Most helpful commands Short R Reference Card (PDF) R commands Knitr Reference Card Advanced R (wiki), Hadley Wickham Programming in R, UC Riverside...
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5 Really Interesting Kickstarters @ CrowdSupply
The Portland Press – a consumer french press (life-time guarantee) a responsibly made consumer (and sustainable) product. If it breaks we’ll replace it for you. cost: $45 – $159 Official website...
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Purism introduces the “Pure OS” and its “Pure” privacy-respecting laptops
Purism Offers Free (as in Freedom) Laptops (Video) Purism uses its own OS, PureOS, which is a Debian derivative by way of Ubuntu and other members of the Debian-derivative family, but with no taint of...
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Best Practices for Scientific Computing
Ibrahim El Merehbi:A summary of a very interesting paper on “Best Practices for Scientific Computing” I read a year ago. Originally posted on andrea cirillo's blog: I reproduce here below principles...
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Academic Torrents – a torrent sharing website for Academics & Researchers
Academic Torrents Sharing data is hard. Emails have size limits, and setting up servers is too much work. We’ve designed a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets – for researchers, by...
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Kaufman’s Folly, or, How Movies Can Secretly Drive You Mad
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Physics for Fun – Mixing and Unmixing Colors in a Fluid
Most of us know that when you mix two substances together there’s no way of returning them to their original state. For example mixing some colors in water This is true for non-viscous fluids. On the...
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Matlab – Symbolic & Function Handles
Consider you want to define a function in Matlab, plot it, and differentiate it. This can be done in two ways. Let’s demonstrate the two methods on the function whose derivative is The first is using...
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Hack Academy – French Awareness Project on Online Security
Below are 4 interesting videos for the “Hack Academy” raising people’s awareness on the basic techniques “crackers”, rather than “hackers”, use to exploit you....
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Vortices in my coffee and the Perpetual Ocean
In a previous post I shared a video on mixing and unmixing of fluids. This time I share with you an image I took of my coffee. With some milk fluid dynamics created amazing vortices. “Milk vortices”...
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Interesting Animated Map of the Internet of Things Undersea Cables
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Charles Elachi, director of JPL of Lebanese origins to retire in June 2016
On October 28, 2015, Charles Elachi, the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of Lebanese origins, announced his intent to retire by June 2016 to become a professor emeritus at the...
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OCO-2 scientists @ JPL find patterns in Carbon Dioxide concentrations
On October 29, 2015 JPL announced that scientists have found patterns in the carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere. What is most interesting is tha “…OCO-2 scientists are now beginning to...
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Amazing NASA simulation of Solar Wind Striping the Martian Atmosphere
The following video by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Center simulates the Martian atmosphere being striped by incoming solar wind. More videos and images can be found here. Mars is a cold and barren...
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Two Flying Jetmans along Emirates’ Airbus A380 (and the behind the scenes)
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BDL Accelerate 2015
Banque du Liban (that is Central Bank of Lebanon) is, for the second year, organizing the BDL Accelerate 2015 startup conference following the success of the BDL Accelerate 2014 which I attended last...
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