Samsung Galaxy Note 5 International Giveaway!

Welcome to the Sunday Giveaway, the place where we giveaway a new Android phone or tablet each and every Sunday.

A big congratulations to last week’s winner of the OnePlus 2 giveaway: Sergiy G. from Ukraine.

This week we are giving away a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 courtesy of Cujo.

Cujo, a new project that just launched on Indiegogo, aims to take the guesswork out of securing your connected devices, from smartphones to baby monitors.

Hacks are no longer the stuff of Hollywood flicks. These days, the chances of falling victim to a very real – and potentially very nasty – hacking incident have shot up. And, despite popular belief, hackers don’t target just corporations and public figures. Determined hackers can and will breach your personal devices. Laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles, thermostats, even cars – if they connect to the internet, they’re vulnerable.

This is where Cujo, a smart security device developed by an LA-based startup, comes in. Think of Cujo as your final line of protection against internet threats. This little white box plugs into your router with just one cable and zero fuss. After that, it immediately begins scanning traffic, protecting you from intrusions, malware, and other types of threats. Whenever an incident is detected, you can get a detailed notification on your Android or iOS smartphone, so you can act and keep your home safe.

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More Giveaways this month:

• Nexus 9 giveaway at TabTimes.com
• JayBirds X2 Bluetooth Earbuds giveaway at SoundGuys.com

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Researchers draft the first comprehensive tree of life

It’s very poetic to talk about a tree of life, where every species can trace its roots, but actually illustrating this tree is no mean feat when Earth has been home to at least 2.3 million known species. However, scientists have finally given it a shot. They’ve published the first draft of a comprehensive tree of life that shows every major evolutionary branch, ranging from the very first organisms to complex beings like humans. This isn’t a complete tree, of course (it’s doubtful that we’ll ever know all the species that ever existed), but it beats the patchwork from before.

The best part is that this tree isn’t buried inside an academic paper or otherwise hidden to the public. Its creators have posted the tree of life online (it’s down as I write this, likely due to high traffic), including both the pure data and the source code for tying it all together. If you need to trace the history of a species any time soon, this may be your go-to resource.

[Image credit: Duke University]

Via: Phys.org, Gizmodo

Source: Duke University, PNAS, Open Tree of Life

MRI scans used to create 3D-printed hearts for surgery practice

Heart surgeries could be so much safer if surgeons can see and feel an actual representation of the patient’s organ before the procedure itself. A system developed by a group of researchers from MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital might make that a viable option. By using MRI scans as a blueprint, it allows doctors to print out a model of the patient’s heart within just three hours. When you do an MRI scan, the machine takes hundreds of cross-sectional images of your organs. In order to create an accurate 3D-printable model, though, the boundaries between each part of the organ must be determined. It’s critical for each part to look distinct, especially if the patient needs surgery due to an unusual anatomy.

If a human manually designates boundaries for each of the heart’s parts in the 200-plus scans needed to created a model, it would take him 10 hours. Since that’s just too much time, one of the researchers developed an algorithm that speeds up the process. The person in charge of marking boundaries only need to work on around eight cross sections, after which the algorithm will take over to finish the job in an hour. The printing itself takes just a couple of hours more.

Note that the technology’s still young, and seven cardiac surgeons at the Boston Children’s Hospital will still have to assess how useful the 3D-printed models are this fall. Just recently, select surgeons from the facility started practicing procedures on 3D-printed vasculature. They found that the preparation cut some surgeries’ time considerably, making them a lot safer for the patients.

[Image credit: Bryce Vickmark]

Via: Computerworld

Source: MIT

Watch these drones build a rope bridge

One of the big selling points of drones is that they can get to areas that aren’t exactly safe or accessible by humans. That’s why watching quadrocopters assembling a rope bridge that’s sturdy enough for a person to walk across is so damned awesome — it immediately calls to mind a real-world use scenario that probably all of us can relate to. The video below was filmed at RTH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, and, according to the YouTube description, aside from the scaffolding on either side of the bridge, the structure is “entirely realized by flying machines.” Every knot and braid in the 7.4 meter (just over 24 feet) bridge was tied by the UAVs using Dyneema rope. As Robohub tells it, the material has a low weight-to-strength ratio that makes it pretty great for aerial construction uses.

That isn’t the whole story, though. Before the first ropes are wrapped, the room in question is outfitted with motion capture devices that offer positional measurements that feed back into the custom-made drones. The researchers involved say that this experiment “acts as a demonstrator” and is the first effort showing that diminutive air-borne drones are able to build load-bearing structures at full scale. No, you can’t drive a tank over this, but the bridge is definitely more useful than drone-delivered mistletoe.

Via: Robohub

Source: ETH Zürich

AVG says it can sell your browsing data in updated privacy policy

AVG has updated its privacy policy’s language, and in the amended document, the security firm admits that it can “make money from [its] free offerings with non-personal data.” These “non-personal” info include your device’s brand, language and apps in use, among other things. The company is adamant that it doesn’t sell anything with identifying information, and the data that it does collect is anonymized and stored without anything that can link it back to you. According to the updated policy, AVG can collect data you yourself provide — plus, it can use cookies to track your searchers and your activities on websites, apps and other products. It can then use those details to “build anonymous data profiles” or create statistical information, which it can then sell.

A spokesperson from the company told Wired UK that AVG updated the language to be more transparent and make sure people know that it can make money off its free products using their information. The new rules will take effect on October 15th, 2015 and by continuing to use AVG after that, you already agree to the collection — unless you take the steps to opt out. The spokesperson said that “users who do not want [the security firm] to use non-personal data in this way will be able to turn it off.”

[Image credit: CharlieAJA/Getty]

Via: Wired

Source: AVG Privacy Policy