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Nike+ FuelBand SE BLE Protocol Reversedevilsocket.net
During the last two weeks I had fun playing with the BLE protocol of the Nike+ FuelBand SE, a device to track daily steps, calories, time, etc. I've completely reversed its protocol and found out the following key points: The authentication system is v... -
Study identifies biological mechanisms for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depressionmedicalxpress.com
Common psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression share genetic risk factors related to immune function and DNA regulation, according to new findings by a large collaborative research project from the Psychiatric... -
How We Come to Know Ourselves In the Age of the Quantified Selfgizmodo.com
My grandmother recently had a pacemaker implanted. Major surgery and its aftermath are frightening at any age, but for a 93-year-old and her family it is a particularly scary tightrope to walk. Had her recovery been filmed for a montage in a family dra... - quantifind.com
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Project Silkhacks.mozilla.org
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang's personal blog. For the past few months, I've been working on Project ... -
Getting The Band Back Together: Why The Justin.TV Mafia Returned To Y Combinatorfastcompany.com
Y Combinator helped make the guys behind the ne plus ultra of silly startup ideas rich. Now they're helping to remake the startup factory. - mobile.nytimes.com
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Silicon Valley ageism versus the productivity of famous inventorsthomason.io
A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a friend who half-jokingly asked me if I was ready to retire yet. I half-jokingly quipped that I was well past the age of "fundable" established by Silicon ... -
The tell-tale signs of a galactic mergerspacetelescope.org
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has twisted its spiral arms out of shape, dragged streams of material... - efekarakus.github.io
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Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
Enormous databases of medical records have begun to reveal the hidden biological missteps that make us sick. -
How would the world change if we found extraterrestrial life?phys.org
In 1938, Orson Welles narrated a radio broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' as a series of simulated radio bulletins of what was happening in real time as Martians arrived on our home planet. The broadcast is widely remembered for creating public panic, al... - medium.com
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The surprising history of hippy crackboingboing.net
People have been having fun with nitrous oxide – even in the name of science – virtually since its discovery more than 240 years ago. -
Food & Consequences: Food for Monsters?luckypeach.com
Evidence of a world roamed by giants, found in an avocado seed.