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Smartwatch goes retro: smartwatch hack runs Windows 95
The Drinkable Book – Reading & Purifying Water
Facebook’s Internet Planes Will Be Huge, Solar Powered
Facebook Messenger Friend-to-Friend Payment System Is on the Way

Smartwatch goes retro: smartwatch hack runs Windows 95

Posted: 06 Oct 2014 10:11 AM PDT

If you ever feel like going back to the 90s, listen to grunge, and be amazed at just how many megabytes fit in a CD as opposed to a floppy disk, this hack is for you.

Who needs Android OS when you can straight up run classic Windows 95 on your smartwear and gadgets? Although not useful at all unless you want to run some classic games like Wing Commander or Ultima 7, the fact that it’s possible to just cram an old OS from 20 years ago in a smartwatch is commendable. See how it works in the video below these lines.

Via The Verge

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The Drinkable Book – Reading & Purifying Water

Posted: 06 Oct 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Still in production and not yet distributed to those who need it, chemist Theresa Dankovich in collaboration with WaterisLife, has invented paper water filters and his hoping to distribute them where they’re needed the most.

The paper she’s created can reduce water bacteria by 99%, which makes it comparable to tap water in the United States. It is done by embedded microscopic silver particles that kill Cholera, E. Coli and typhoid. These particles coat each page, which also comes with an educational message about drinking water.

Each page costs mere pennies to make, and each page in the book can provide 30 days of clean water. An entire book has the potential to last for almost four years.

Dankovich has recently returned from Northern Ghana where she undertook some field research, and had this to say: I am delighted that this project has received so much attention and support. It shows tremendous potential to make a positive impact in peoples' lives. I am looking forward to the day we start distributing these Drinkable Books to people who need them.

Facebook’s Internet Planes Will Be Huge, Solar Powered

Posted: 06 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT

After revealing that they would create Internet-beaming planes, Facebook has now shed more light on the ambitious project.

Although it’s only been around for a few decades, the Internet has entirely changed the way we do things and even how we think. Beyond the fact that ‘I can Google it’ is now a phrase (along with LOL, LMAO and adorkable) the Internet has gifted us such incredible opportunities like watching TV shows without actually having to turn our TVs on, saving lives (or alarming hypochondriacs) via the means of webMD and most notably, it has even led to entire revolutions with populations of certain countries using social media to inspire democracy. But imagine that you live in a location where the Internet doesn’t exist. Not just a spotty connection that makes your Netflix stream a bit laggy but entire lifetimes of being offline. Absolutely dreadful. Facebook wants to fix that though, with massive, Internet-beaming planes.

According to Facebook themselves, their Internet plane project (created in partnership with Internet.org) will get the remaining 15% of the global population, who aren’t yet connected, online. Speaking to Mashable, the social media company says that not only will they fly across 21 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia but that they’ll also do so at an impressively high altitude “that’s between 60,000 and 90,000 feet. Routinely, planes don’t fly there, and certainly not drones.”

These Internet gifting planes will also be massive, “roughly the size of a commercial aircraft, like a 747,” with one plane that the team is working on being the length of “about six or seven Priuses, but is the weight of four of the tires of a Prius,” according to Yael Maguire, engineering director at Facebook Connectivity Lab.

Plenty of environmentally conscious folks will be wary of so many planes that size adding to the existing number, but Facebook explains that due to technical restrictions the planes won’t actually use fuel at all. As the planes will fly for several months at a time, they’ll have to be solar powered as there’s no fuel that allows a plane to fly for that long. So renewable energy is in by default, but there are still other questions that remain.

Other questions have been posed such as how the planes will be piloted. Each plane is unmanned, Facebook says, and they’re operating under a one pilot per plane rule at the moment but with their ultimate goal being ‘connect everyone in the world to the Internet’ that policy, for want of a better phrase, just isn’t going to fly. Furthermore, there’s also no regulation about flying planes that high, nor is there a policy about beaming Internet to people from them so this is something that Facebook will have to consider in good time.

They are on course for a test in 2015 though, flying over an unnamed US location (they may not even reveal the location) and Facebook hopes to put their Internet planes in action in the next three or five years or so. We’ll keep you posted.

Source: Mashable

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Facebook Messenger Friend-to-Friend Payment System Is on the Way

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 01:49 PM PDT

The social network will soon enable us to send money to our friends and Nigerian princes using its Messenger app. While the feature is already there, it hasn’t been turned on for the general public.

Just in case Facebook didn’t already have enough information on you, your friends and family, now it will also have access to debit card information. That is, if you want to use the Facebook Messenger friend-to-friend payment system.

The hidden feature was discovered by Stanford student Andrew Aude who used Cycript, a tool that enables developers to take mobile apps apart in order to learn how to modify them. Judging by what he told Gizmodo’s Kate Knibbs, this didn’t actually happen in the past week, but a month ago: “I first found it a month ago with Jonathan Zdziarski’s security research into Facebook Messenger.” One of Zdziarski’s screenshots triggered Aude’s curiosity and motivated him to dig deeper into the matter. After performing some research, he discovered that the payment feature is actually part of Facebook Messenger, and not a stand-alone app.

Ex-PayPal president David Marcus joined the social network not long ago as the head of Messenger, so this new feature somehow makes sense. The man came and did what he knew best. While PayPal itself doesn’t appear in the app, the code discovered by Aude mentioned that payment processor, which means that Facebook won’t handle the payments on its own.

The Facebook Messenger version discovered by Aude only featured debit card payments. Credit cards and bank accounts weren’t available, even though they might be added at a later point. The only security measure was represented by a PIN, and I really think Facebook should work more on that, as it seems something a bit too easy to bypass.

Notes suggesting the possibility of making payments to multiple parties were also found by Aude within the app’s code. Other than that, the transactions are private, which can only be a good think. It would be awkward and disturbing if incoming or outgoing payments should up as a status update for others to like.

Thank you very much, Facebook, but I’ll just let established companies handle my dough! The company declined to make any comments on Aude’s discovery, and as far as I’m concerned, it hope it kills the project, altogether.

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