Rare extreme close up photo of a living human brain

A living human brain. Looks gross. But think about how amazing this is. You have one of these things inside your head, a mass of organic matter in which billions of connections make you—every memory, everything that ever was in your life is inside this mass. So yes, it may look gross, but it's freaking amazing.

The photo was taken Robert Ludlow—of the Institute of Neurology at the University of Central London—while operating a patient to treat his epilepsy. It won the Wellcome Image Award two years ago.

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The Desolate State of Athens Olympic Venues 10 Years Later

Ten years ago this week, the Summer Olympics triumphantly returned to their historic home with splashy opening ceremonies in Athens, Greece. Unfortunately, the glory did not last after the Games. While the dilapidated state of Athens' venues post-Games has been well-documented, new photos taken this week show just how devastating the Olympics were for the city.

Athens reportedly spent $12 billion building brand-new venues specifically for the Games, most of which sit unused today, covered in graffiti, with massive cracks in their exteriors. Like haunting relics from a lost civilization, the stadiums have taken on the same kind of vibe as the 2,500-year-old Parthenon.

It's no secret that of all the cities which have hosted Olympic Games in the last several decades, Athens suffered the worst economic fallout. While the aftermath is certainly not as bad as some cities—Sarajevo, for example, was torn apart by a bitter civil war just a few years after hosting the Winter Olympics—Athens seems to be a special case. Some say the economic devastation wrought upon Greece in the last decade was due to the government financially overextending itself just to host the Games.

We've written extensively about the issues many cities face after the Games due to pressure from the IOC to overbuild. Just one look at these images proves how much reform is desperately needed.

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IBM Unveils a ‘Brain-Like’ Chip With 4,000 Processor Cores

The human brain is the world’s most sophisticated computer, capable of learning new things on the fly, using very little data. It can recognize objects, understand speech, respond to change. Since the early days of digital technology, scientists have worked to build computers that were more like the three-pound organ inside your head. Most efforts […]







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Έτοιμα τα γυαλιά εικονικής πραγματικότητας

Σκεφτείτε να μπορούσατε, με το πάτημα ενός κουμπιού, να εισέρχεστε σε έναν εικονικό κόσμο ικανό να λαμβάνει τη μορφή των ονείρων σας -από έναν εξωτικό προορισμό μέχρι το σπίτι όπου περάσατε τα παιδικά σας χρόνια. Μακρινό όνειρο; Mάλλον πραγματικότητα, καθώς γερμανοί ερευνητές από το Ινστιτούτο Μαξ Πλανκ κατάφεραν να δημιουργήσουν ένα «holodeck» - στο «Star Trek», αποτελούσε μια αίθουσα στην οποία ο χρήστης έμπαινε και αλληλεπιδρούσε εικονικά με ολογράμματα.
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BitTorrent Bleep: The P2P Plan to Make the World's Most Secure Chat

Last fall, BitTorrent (the company) announced and experimental plan to build a secure chat system using the protocol that's most famous for enabling file sharing. Today, we're getting our first look at the what will eventually become a finished product: BitTorrent Bleep.

BitTorrent Bleep launches today as an invite-only pre-alpha on Windows 7 and Windows 8, with other platforms set to launch soon. (Click here to get on the list for an invitation.) The idea is to create a secure chat service that's immune to government snooping and tribunal-mandated data requests. According to development documents, BitTorrent's decentralized infrastructure makes it ideal for just such a platform.

When you're using a traditional chat service like Google Hangouts or AIM, you're really just interfacing with an app on a central server. This server needs to know who you are and, as BitTorrent points out, stores metadata about your interactions. Even if a service offers end-to-end data encryption, your chats aren't really secure because if someone gains access to the central server, you're compromised.

Instead of using a central server as a conduit for messages and information, BitTorrent has built a decentralized engine that uses a public key to identify you (instead of a username). Then it establishes a direct connection between you and whoever you're talking to. Not only does that mean that nobody can eavesdrop on your conversation, it also means that there's no metadata about your interactions stored on central servers.

BitTorrent Bleep is still pre-alpha, so we'll be interested to learn more as additional technical details about thee service emerge. But in the mean time it's nice to see technology fighting back against the government's prying eyes. [BitTorrent]

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