The value of water in the humanity development

Every human around the world uses water to life and evolve...

Is necessary to protect this resource for the sake of humanity

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The world needs to rethink the value of water
Valuing water for sustainable development | Science

Exploits over Intel firmware bugs

Some design issues on computer chips may be used by hackers to produce remote attacks on machines.

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U.S. government warns businesses about cyber bug in Intel chips
Intel Firmware Vulnerability | US-CERT

Redefinition of laws for quantify the universe

The scientist have to measure their work using the same units...

Nowadays the science tools to measure the universe are powerful enough to redefine this units in a more precise way.

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New definitions of scientific units are on the horizon : Nature News & Comment

DNA analysis and new crypto-techniques

The patients now have more security about sharing DNA sequence data.

Jagadeesh et al. describe a solution that combines a protocol from modern cryptography with frequency-based clinical genetics used to diagnose causal disease mutations in patients with monogenic disorders. This framework correctly identified the causal gene in cases involving actual patients, while protecting more than 99% of individual participants' most private variants.

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Genome analysis with near-complete privacy possible | News Center | Stanford Medicine

Deriving genomic diagnoses without revealing patient genomes | Science

DARPA wants AI to explain the plans

The kick development of AI makes the results go throw some kind of black box architecture.  DARPA doesn't like to have this kind of non-controlled technologies.

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The U.S. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves - MIT Technology Review

ICANN and IANA freedom

“This transition was envisioned 18 years ago, yet it was the tireless work of the global internet community, which drafted the final proposal, that made this a reality,” said ICANN Board Chair Stephen D Crocker. 

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NTIA Finds IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal Meets Criteria to Complete Privatization | NTIA
US government no longer manages internet's technical functions | The Independent
Internet handover is go-go-go! ICANN to take IANA from US govt • The Register
US govt OKs handover of internet's control panel to ICANN • The Register

Human rights on Internet

ONU defends humans rights on internet.

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The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet