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Wearable tech for tracking when cows are ‘in heat’? Sure, why not?

Mar24
by on March 24, 2014 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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2014 might be the year for wearable tech, but there’s no reason for it to stop at humans. Or dogs. Is there? That’s right, although it’s not quite the bovine Fitbit you might have been thinking of, the company behind the Silent Herdsman (formerly known as Embedded Technology Systems, an altogether less catchy name) cow collar has bagged another £3 million investment to bring it (and other new services) to farmers around the world. Rather than, err, counting calories burned, the Silent Herdsman collar has various sensors that continually track a cow and trigger an alert (on a phone, tablet or computer) if…

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Wearable tech for tracking when cows are ‘in heat’? Sure, why not?

Mar24
by on March 24, 2014 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

Cow
2014 might be the year for wearable tech, but there’s no reason for it to stop at humans. Or dogs. Is there? That’s right, although it’s not quite the bovine Fitbit you might have been thinking of, the company behind the Silent Herdsman (formerly known as Embedded Technology Systems, an altogether less catchy name) cow collar has bagged another £3 million investment to bring it (and other new services) to farmers around the world. Rather than, err, counting calories burned, the Silent Herdsman collar has various sensors that continually track a cow and trigger an alert (on a phone, tablet or computer) if…

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The NSA reportedly spied right into the heart of ‘security threat’ Huawei

Mar23
by on March 23, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, huawe, huawei

Huawei
The New York Times and German newspaper Spiegel Online have reported the existence of a document that purports to show the US government spying on Chinese tech company Huawei, the world’s second largest supplier of networking products, since at least 2009. The revelation is laced with irony because Huawei has long been labelled a national security risk by US politicians. Alongside fellow Chinese firm ZTE, Huawei has been the subject of multiple reports over alleged relationships with China’s army, and questions of whether its networking products could leave US organizations open to hacking from China if they were deployed on US soil. The answer seems…

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The NSA reportedly spied right into the heart of ‘security threat’ Huawei

Mar23
by on March 23, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, huawe, huawei

Huawei
The New York Times and German newspaper Spiegel Online have reported the existence of a document that purports to show the US government spying on Chinese tech company Huawei, the world’s second largest supplier of networking products, since at least 2009. The revelation is laced with irony because Huawei has long been labelled a national security risk by US politicians. Alongside fellow Chinese firm ZTE, Huawei has been the subject of multiple reports over alleged relationships with China’s army, and questions of whether its networking products could leave US organizations open to hacking from China if they were deployed on US soil. The answer seems…

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Sound familiar? Bitcoin exchange Vircurex freezes customer accounts as it battles insolvency

Mar23
by on March 23, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, bitcoin, Insider

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The implosion of Mt. Gox has been widely heralded as a sign of a new era of Bitcoin companies, but there are still examples of the unpredictable and shady side of the cryptocurrency world, as developments at Vircurex demonstrate. The Beijing-based virtual currency exchange is much smaller than Mt. Gox, but it is notable that it has stopped withdrawals of Bitcoin, Litecoin and other coins today, and it will freeze all existing user accounts from Monday after running into serious financial issues. Vircurex was hacked twice last year and had been using a reserve of ‘cold storage‘ currency to reimburse users…

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