Now Your Eyes Can Zoom With Telescopic Contact Lenses

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWReQlyYDnHjT-v7lO7-9ryZivDnUg5wPt6M3J1GTvr66pqffSxKyqZ0-i2bOIlKgRL0jpOjNvODSgBrTHgO5G0mB6XkRXoTjR_mpkDDOU8xllnKlxguDWnCpxx8X70GG45hU3xk9vysY/s1600/Now-Your-Eyes-Can-Zoom-Eith-Telescopic-Contact-Lenses.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWReQlyYDnHjT-v7lO7-9ryZivDnUg5wPt6M3J1GTvr66pqffSxKyqZ0-i2bOIlKgRL0jpOjNvODSgBrTHgO5G0mB6XkRXoTjR_mpkDDOU8xllnKlxguDWnCpxx8X70GG45hU3xk9vysY/s640/Now-Your-Eyes-Can-Zoom-Eith-Telescopic-Contact-Lenses.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Contacts have some clear advantages over eyeglasses, from being impossible to knock off by a hit or fall, to being essentially invisible unlike the edges of the eyeglass lenses. Now, they have just gained a huge new asset.<br /> <br /> We have all seen science fiction films about enhancements to our physiology, and fantasy ones where characters could see in the far distance.<br /> <br /> Now we can finally claim that we have the means to give everyone and their grandmother telescopic vision. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have introduced contact lenses with zoom support.<br /> The zooming contact lenses<br /> <br /> The brainchild of researcher <span class="highlight pop">Eric Tremblay</span>, the contacts were revealed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in California.<br /> <br /> They are still a prototype, but they can be very useful to counteract age-related mascular degeneration (AMD for short). Age-related muscular degeneration being the main cause behind loss of sight in adults over the age of fifty.<br /> <br /> The lenses have built-in telescopes that can zoom in at 3X. The lenses themselves are rigid, but they are also larger than the normal ones, covering not just the cornea but the sclera as well (the white of the eyes).<br /> <br /> 1.5 mm thick, the lenses have a ring of tiny aluminum mirrors inside, to bounce light around and magnify the view 2.8 times, increasing the perceived size of objects.<br /> <br /> You can switch between normal and zoomed view by winking the right eye, thus interrupting the light being reflexed from the contact to the glasses.<br /> <br /> And thus we reach the main drawback: the contacts don't work alone, but in tandem with <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Gadgets">smart glasses</a> which can distinguish between blinks and winks.<br /> <br /> When winking, the light being reflected from the contacts to the glasses is interrupted, activating a polarized filter in the glasses which guides light towards the telescopic part. Winking the left eye resets things to normal view.<br /> Practical applications<br /> <br /> The zooming contact lenses might not be superman-level telescopic vision, especially since they'd work while the Clark Kent persona is active, but they are still a significant achievement. Human tests haven't been carried out yet, however, and the amount of time the contacts can be worn is restricted, for health reasons.<br /> <br /> Source: Softpedia<br /> <br /></div>

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Millions of health records, LEAKED

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLH8RYn6seWRyOte7fXtY8K8pjplZLMBjUEMPHB27KS7ls5QCC0Jzb4NaBoSVfAeVodHSfn6y1kG2j7nR7RRpn2sZjb8EzvXwRmyGD8_cjfYBPqzkZW9R-KydPBqbJf4fnVfjjecvLBeE/s1600/health-records-dat-breach.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLH8RYn6seWRyOte7fXtY8K8pjplZLMBjUEMPHB27KS7ls5QCC0Jzb4NaBoSVfAeVodHSfn6y1kG2j7nR7RRpn2sZjb8EzvXwRmyGD8_cjfYBPqzkZW9R-KydPBqbJf4fnVfjjecvLBeE/s640/health-records-dat-breach.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dark web seller has four batches of data, going for close to $1 million in bitcoin.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <br /> A hacker is advertising hundreds of thousands of alleged records from healthcare organizations on a dark web marketplace, including social security and insurance policy numbers.<br /> <br /> The seller, who goes by the name "<b>thedarkoverlord</b>" began listing the data over the weekend, but could not be immediately contacted on Monday.<br /> <br /> The largest batch of data, which the seller claims to contain a little over 9.2 million health insurance records from US patients, is on sale for 750 bitcoins. At Monday's rate, that's about $486,000. The data includes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth and social security numbers.<br /> <br /> We couldn't verify the authenticity of the data contained in the seller's ad. The seller did not have any points to their name, unlike other known hackers, indicating that they are new to the site. News site Motherboard contacted some users who confirmed that their data was in a sample that was received.<br /> <br /> The hacker said the data was stolen by exploiting an disclosed <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability">zero-day</a> flaw in the remote desktop protocol (RDP), which can allow a user to remotely view another user's desktop.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAzvREp49HEWjUdGfKDRKILcDL3aKCdXrntu5j7Zj_tffLXRtaw2y4jD6yxyIY_qnd2kHKGqnh-AC6kr-Be9wbNxDLrME6ORJLvwJXFE3vqfwsjj8o8DFpFht59UIk7vnmOdpv2P0CGXw/s1600/health-recods-data-leak.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="467" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAzvREp49HEWjUdGfKDRKILcDL3aKCdXrntu5j7Zj_tffLXRtaw2y4jD6yxyIY_qnd2kHKGqnh-AC6kr-Be9wbNxDLrME6ORJLvwJXFE3vqfwsjj8o8DFpFht59UIk7vnmOdpv2P0CGXw/s640/health-recods-data-leak.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> It's not all that surprising, given that earlier this year a hacker exposed thousands of insecure desktops that anyone can remotely view, thanks to poorly-configured remote desktop software. In one case, we were able to see a computer used in a pediatrician's office, which contained personal details on hundreds of patients.<br /> <br /> Another batch of data includes 207,000 records from an unnamed healthcare organization in the US midwest region, on sale for 170 bitcoins (about $110,100 at the time of writing).<br /> <br /> The seller also claims to have close to 397,000 records from members in Atlanta, Georgia -- most of which are from Blue Cross Blue Shield and United Healthcare, which is being sold for 300 bitcoin (or about $194,000).<br /> <br /> Another smaller batch contains records on 47,800 members from Farmington, Missouri, which is on sale for 60 bitcoins (or about $39,000).<br /> <br /> The hacker said in one listing that the data was stored on an "accessible internal network" and stored in plaintext -- which if true would be in violation of federal healthcare privacy rules. Another database was allegedly stolen from a Microsoft Access database.<br /> <br /> It's not clear where the data came from, but healthcare providers and hospitals have been increasingly targeted for customer and patient data in recent months. Anthem was notably hit last year, in which hackers took off with over 80 million records.<br /> <br /> According to recent data, the healthcare industry tallies up as the highest cost of a<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Data%20Leak"> data breach</a> per record.<br />   </div>

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