Scientists have finally decoded the bizarre behaviors of brain cells — and recreated them in tiny computer chips.

The tiny neurons could change the way we build medical devices because they replicate healthy biological activity but require only a billionth of the energy needed by microprocessors, according to a University of Bath press release.

Neurons behave similar to electrical circuits within the body, but their behavior is less predictable — especially when it comes to parsing the relationship between their input and output electrical impulses. But these new artificial brain cells successfully mimic the behavior of rat neurons from two specific regions of the brain, according to research published Tuesday in Nature Communications.

“Until now neurons have been like black boxes, but we have managed to open the black box and peer inside,” University of Bath physicist Alain Nogaret said in the release. “Our work is paradigm changing because it provides a robust method to reproduce the electrical properties of real neurons in minute detail.”

The ultimate goal is to use these neurons to build medical devices that can better cater to patients’ needs, like a smarter pacemaker that can respond to new stressors and demands on a person’s heart — essentially upgrading devices to be more in tune with the body.

Julian Paton, a physiologist at the universities of Auckland and Bristol, said in the release that recreating biological activity was exciting because it “opens up enormous opportunities for smarter medical devices that drive towards personalized medicine approaches to a range of diseases and disabilities.”

India’s Nuclear Power plants hacked !

After denying reports of a system malware infection Tuesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted yesterday that it had indeed been hacked.

“Identification of malware in NPCIL system is correct,” read a Wednesday statement. “The matter was conveyed by CERT-In [India’s national computer emergency response team] when it was noticed by them on September 4, 2019.”

Big Hack

The hack represents yet another example of broad infosec vulnerabilities in critical power systems. Hacker groups have previously infiltrated power grids in Europe and North America in the past. In 2017, hackers targeted nuclear facilities in the U.S. as well.

“The investigation revealed that the infected PC belonged to a user who was connected in the internet connected network for administrative purposes,” the statement read. It also claimed the hack was “isolated from the critical internal network,” and that plant systems were not affected.

North Korean Malware

The malware identified as a version of “Dtrack,” which is backdoor trojan software reportadly developed by the Lazarus Group, North Korea’s state-owned hacking unit. It was first discovered by the Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team in September and can be used to upload and download files to target systems.

And there may other targets as well. Threat analyst Pukhraj Singh, who reported the breach to India’s National Cyber Security Coordinator, called the malware attack a “casus belli” — an act of war — in an interview with Ars Technica thanks to a still unknown “second target, which I can’t disclose as of now.”

READ MORE: Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm [Ars Technica]

5G makes your internet fast but may double the chance of getting cancer!!

As 5G cellular network tech looms, conventional wisdom dictates that cell phone radiation is more or less safe or less safe for humans.

But writing for the widely respected magazine Scientific American, University of California, Berkeley, public health researcher Joel Moskowitz argues that we don’t yet understand the risks — and that more study is necessary before we roll out 5G infrastructure.

Moskowitz’s main concern: there just isn’t any research on the health effects of 5G. But he also points to a swathe of studies a swathe of studies that suggest that the existing standards 2G and 3G are more dangerous than generally believed.

“Meanwhile, we are seeing increases in certain types of head and neck tumors in tumor registries, which may be at least partially attributable to the proliferation of cell phone radiation,” he wrote in SciAm. “These increases are consistent with results from case-control studies of tumor risk in heavy cell phone users.”

It’s hard enough to quantify the health effects of things that have already been deployed, nevermind an upcoming technology. But in SciAm, Moskowitz argues that regulators should listen to the 250 doctors and scientists who recently signed the 5G appeal, a petition for a moratorium on public rollout of the tech until the health implications are better understood.

“As a society, should we invest hundreds of billions of dollars deploying 5G, a cellular technology that requires the installation of 800,000 or more new cell antenna sites in the U.S. close to where we live, work and play?” he asked. “Instead, we should support the recommendations of the 250 scientists and medical doctors who signed the 5G Appeal that calls for an immediate moratorium on the deployment of 5G and demand that our government fund the research needed to adopt biologically based exposure limits that protect our health and safety.”

Definition of God

This is perhaps the best definition of God that I have come across. It’s so true......Read on........👇🏻

*”Did you know that when Einstein attended some conferences in the numerous universities of the USA, the recurring question that the students asked him was:*

*Do you believe in God?*

*And he always answered: I believe in the God of Spinoza.*

*For the ones who haven't read Spinoza, I hope this will give them an idea.*

*Baruch De Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher, of Portuguese Jewish origin, considered one of the great rationalists of his time along with the French philosopher, Rene Descartes. Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in the 17th century of a businessman father who was successful but not wealthy.*

*This is the nature of the God of Spinoza:*

*God would have said:*

*"Stop praying and giving yourselves blows on your chests, what I want you to do is to go out into the world to enjoy your life.*

*I want you to enjoy, to sing, to have fun and enjoy everything I've done for you.*

*Stop going to those gloomy, dark and cold temples that you built yourself and that you call my house.*

*My home is in the mountains, in the forests, the rivers, the lakes, the beaches. That's where I live and express all my love for you.*

*Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you that you were a sinner.*

*Stop being so scared. I do not judge you, nor criticize you, nor am I ever angry with you, nothing bothers me, nor do I devise punishment. I am pure love.*

*Stop asking me forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive. If I made you... I filled you with passions, pleasures, feelings, needs, limitations, inconsistencies... of free will, how can I blame you if you do or say something out of that what I put in you? How can I punish you for being as you are, if I'm the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who misbehave, for the rest of eternity?*

*What kind of God can do that?*

*Forget about any kind of commandments, of any kind of laws; those are wiles to manipulate you, to control you and only to create guilt in you.*

*Respect your peers and don't do to others what you don't want for you. The only thing I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that your alert status is your guide. This life is the only thing there is, here and now, and the only thing you need.*

*I have made you absolutely free, there are no prizes or punishments, there are no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one carries a record.*

*You are absolutely free to create in your life a heaven or hell.*

*I couldn't tell you if there's anything after this life, but I can give you a tip. Live as if there wasn't.*

*As if this was your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.*

*So, if there is nothing, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, be sure that I will not ask you if you behaved well or not. I will ask you - Did you like it?... Did you have fun?... What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?...*

*Stop believing in me; believe is to assume, guess, imagine. I don't want you to believe in me; I want you to feel me when you kiss your beloved, when you play with your little girl, when you love your dog, when you bathe in the sea.*

*Stop praising me. What kind of egotistical God do you think I am?*

*I'm bored of your praise, I'm fed up with thanks. Do you feel grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world around you. Do you feel  overwhelmed?... Express your joy! That's the way to praise me.*

*The only thing sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.*

*What do you need more miracles for? Why so many explanations?*

*Don't look for me outside, you won't find me. Find me inside... I'm beating in there for you."*

*Baruch De Spinoza.”*

BMW thinks their self driving cars could be better use for Sex !!

Autonomous driving will bring us a number of freedoms. Passengers will be able to watch movies, read newspapers — if they still exist — or play video games while the AI drives.

But BMW thinks being chauffeured by a self-driving car can get a whole lot more exciting than that. The German carmaker released — and then promptly deleted — an ad called “New Moments of Joy,” about a future where people can have sex inside their self-driving BMW version iNext cars.

Sexual Interstate

The racy ad was uploaded to BMW’s futuristic sub-brand BMWi’s Twitter account on Monday, but has since been taken down.

It’s unclear why exactly BMW removed the ad, but here are a couple of hints as to why they might have: encouraging people to drive without wearing seat belts isn’t exactly the best idea in 2019, despite a warning in the ad noting that it’s “a demonstration only” and that “BMW does not offer self-driving cars.”

Future Shock

Companies like Tesla have come under increased scrutiny for advertising self-driving features of their vehicles that might mislead customers about the tech’s limitations.

Or was it the raciness of the ad that raised one too many eyebrows? It’s a controversial ad that was bound to start a conversation about the future of self-driving. And it makes a good point: why stop at reading a book or watching Netflix while inside the car? Perhaps the world just wasn’t ready for that vision.
READ MORE: BMW ad hints in-car sex is part of our self-driving future [CNET]

The entire Galaxies are dying, Astrophysicists warn the scientific society!

Stripped of their ability to produce new stars, the unfortunate galaxies are stuck in time, slowly vanishing as their existing stars fade away or die in violent supernovas.

Now a team is investigating the nearby Virgo Cluster to figure out what’s going on in hopes that similar phenomena are happening there, project leader and McMaster University astrophysicist Toby Brown writes in The Conversation. Brown suggests that galaxies are being killed as they interact with the extreme conditions of tightly-packed galaxy clusters — but he’s not sure why.

Narrowing Down

To clarify, when Brown writes that “in the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed,” he doesn’t mean that they’re suddenly vanishing. Rather, the formation of new stars within them is being shut down by yet-undetermined factors.

So far, Brown’s team has arrived at two possibilities, and Brown hopes that using advanced telescopes to probe the still-forming Virgo Cluster will tilt the scales one way or another.

Cosmic Starvation

The first possibility is called ram pressure stripping, a process through which all of the gas that a galaxy would use to form stars is vacuumed away by nearby intergalactic plasma. The other is that the environment inside a galactic cluster simply becomes too hot for cosmic gases to cool and condense into stars, rendering it useless as fuel.

“When you remove the fuel for star formation, you effectively kill the galaxy,” Brown writes, “turning it into a dead object in which no new stars are formed.”

READ MORE: Something is killing galaxies, and scientists are on the case [The Conversation]

We might soon be able to communicate telepathically

At least, that’s the gist of a new report about neural implant technology by the Royal Society, that was reviewed by The Independent. The document hypes some of the more exciting things brain-computer interfaces could make possible, but also warns that brains hooking to the computers ( watching too many SciFi movies!!) could also compromise individual privacy.

“Not only thoughts, but sensory experiences, could be communicated from brain to brain,” the report reads. “Someone on holiday could beam a ‘neural postcard’ of what they are seeing, hearing or tasting into the mind of a friend back home.” - Little bit of exaggeration.... Do you guys think that way? 

To make sure that these neural implants of the future are used to benefit people and society, the Royal Society is calling for a government probe into the tech, The Independent reports. Otherwise, companies like Facebook and Tweeter that are already working on their own systems will be able to dictate how the tech is used on their own terms.

“They could bring huge economic benefits to the UK and transform sectors like the NHS, public health and social care,”  report co-chair Christofer Toumazou from Imperial College of London told The Independent. “But if developments are dictated by a handful of companies then less commercial applications could be side-lined. That is why we are calling on the government to launch a national investigation”

READ MORE: Brain-Computer Interface Will Make People Telepathic, Scientists Say [The Independent]

Devil.... the old friend !

The Devil......

He had bright eyes,

But no hair.

Light skin

But dark in mind...

An........

Alluring voice,

Pleasing appeal,

Infectious laugh,

Esoteric brain,

But dark in heart.

He was

Cut from different cloth

The one everyone wanted.

Forever, subjugating 

Others life and is a swamp

To saw the seeds of trust.

He made us move away from others

Saying untold stories of lies 

Made-up untruth tales of my friends 

And when we ended I realised that

"I sat with the devil,

I laughed with the devil,

I sang with the devil,

I played with the devil......"

I warn you....

You will be his next prey

Believe me...

He is an evil Predator

The gift of the 'Devil'.

HOMINEM 19

ബ്രിട്ടനിലെ സ്വതന്ത്രചിന്ത കൂട്ടായമയായ esSENSE UK  യുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തിൽ, HOMINEM'19 second edition എന്ന പ്രഭാഷണപരമ്പര, സെപ്റ്റംബർ 14-ന് ലണ്ടൻ ഈസ്റ്റ് ഹാം ട്രിനിറ്റി സെന്ററിൽ വച്ച് നടത്തപ്പെടുന്നു. സെപ്റ്റംബർ 15 -ന് Newcastle Upon Tyne-ൽ വച്ചും ഇതെ പ്രഭാഷണ-പരമ്പര നടത്തപെടുന്നതായിരിക്കും.

മുഖ്യപ്രഭാഷകനായി എത്തുന്നത്, കേരളത്തിന്റെ സാമൂഹിക-സാംസ്കാരിക നവോഥാന മേഖലയിൽ ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ ഇടപെടലുകൾ നടത്തുകയും, ഫാസിസത്തിനും, ദേശീയതക്കുമെതിരെ പ്രതിരോധങ്ങൾ കെട്ടിപ്പെടുക്കാൻ ഓർമപ്പെടുത്തുകയും ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന Dr ശ്രീ. സുനിൽ പി ഇളയിടം ആണ്. 

കാലടി ശ്രീ ശങ്കരാചാര്യ സംസ്‌കൃത സർവകലാശാലയിലെ മലയാള വിഭാഗം പ്രൊഫസർ, സാഹിത്യ വിമർശകൻ, വിവിധമേഖലകളിലായി പതിനഞ്ചോളും പുസ്തകങ്ങളുടെ രചയിതാവ്, പ്രഭാക്ഷകൻ, എന്നീ നിലകളിൽ ശ്രീ സുനിൽ പി ഇളയിടം ആധുനിക കേരളത്തിന്റെ നവോഥാന ചിന്തകരിൽ മുൻനിരയിൽ നിൽക്കുന്ന ഒരു വ്യക്‌തിത്വമാണ്. സാഹിത്യവിമർശനത്തിനും, വൈജ്ഞാനികസാഹിത്യത്തിനുമുള്ള കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമിയുടെ അവാർഡുകൾ, കലാവിമർശന മേഖലയിലെ സമഗ്ര സംഭവനയ്ക്കുള്ള കേരള ലളിതകലാ അക്കാദമിയുടെ കേസരി ബാലകൃഷ്ണ പുരസ്കാരം, എം. എൻ. വിജയൻ സ്മാരക അവാർഡ്.....എന്നിങ്ങനെ നിരവധി അംഗീകാരങ്ങൾ നൽകി കേരളം ശ്രീ സുനിൽ പി ഇളയിടം എന്ന ബഹുമുഖ പ്രതിഭയെ ആദരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്.

കേരള ഉന്നതവിദ്യാഭ്യാസ കൗൺസിൽ അംഗം, സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി ജനറൽ കൗൺസിൽ അംഗം, മഹാത്മാഗാന്ധി-കൊഴിക്കോട്-കാലടി  സർവകലാശാലകളിൽ പി. ജി. ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് സ്‌റ്റഡീസ്‌ അംഗം, ആസൂത്രണവകുപ്പ് സാംസ്കാരികകാര്യ ഉപദേശകസമിതി അംഗം .....എന്നിങ്ങനെ കേരളത്തിന്റെ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ മുന്നേറ്റത്തിന്റെ പ്രയാണങ്ങളിൽ സ്വന്തം കൈയൊപ്പ്‌ പതിപ്പിച്ച ഒരു വ്യക്‌തിത്വം കൂടിയാണ് ശ്രീ ഇളയിടം.

May 6th-ന് 2019 -ൽ London Feltham, Springwest അക്കാഡമിയിൽ വച്ചുനടത്തപെട്ട HOMINEM '19 എന്ന പരിപാടിക്കുശേഷം, esSENSE UK-യുടെ 2019 -ലേ ഏറ്റവും പ്രധാനപെട്ട പരിപാടിയായിരുക്കും September-14-ന്  നടക്കുന്ന മേല്പറഞ്ഞ പ്രഭാഷണപരമ്പര. ബ്രിട്ടനിലെ മലയാളി സമൂഹത്തിൽ സ്വതന്ത്രചിന്തയെയും, യുക്തിയെയും, സയൻസിനെയും ഊന്നിപറഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട്, സാമൂഹിക ഉന്നമനത്തിനും, മാനവികതയ്ക്കുമായി നിലയുറപ്പിക്കുകയാണ് HOMINEM'19-ലൂടെ esSENSE UK മുന്നോട്ടുവയ്ക്കുന്ന ആശയം.

ബ്രിട്ടനിലെ മലയാളി സമൂഹത്തിലെ യുവതലമുറയുടെ മുന്നോട്ടുള്ള പ്രയാണത്തിന് ബൗദ്ധികഊർജം പകർന്നുകൊണ്ട് esSENSE UK യൂടെ Youth Wing, esSENSE -Y-യുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തിൽ, 5 യുവ പ്രതിഭകളുടെ പ്രഭാഷണങ്ങളും മേല്പറഞ്ഞ പരിപാടിയോടൊപ്പം നടക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും; Nicola Mathew, Elizabeth Mathew, Lexi Amphoma എന്നീ യുവ പ്രഭാഷകർ, ബ്രിട്ടനിലെ സ്കൂളുകളുമായിച്ചേർന്നു Rotary International സംഘടിപ്പിച്ച Speeking Compatition -ലേ Semi-finalist Team ആണ്. Manas Manumohan എന്ന യുവ എഴുത്തുകാരൻ 'Broken Manacles' എന്ന പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ രചയിതാവാണ്.   പന്ത്രണ്ടാം ക്ലാസ്സിൽ പഠിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഈ യുവപ്രതിഭ മലയാളി സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ അഭിമാനായി മാറുകയാണ്. Joel Biju എന്ന യുവ Mathamatician, മറ്റൊരു പ്രഭാഷകനായിരിക്കും; നമ്മുടെ നിത്യ ജീവിതത്തിൽ മാത്തമാറ്റിക്സിനുള്ള പ്രസക്തിയെപറ്റിയുള്ള ഒരു ഓർമപെടുത്തലായിരിക്കും Joel-ന്റെ സബ്ജക്ട്.

HOMINEM'19 second edition-ലൂടെ esSENSE UK . എന്ന സംഘടന ബ്രിട്ടനിലെ മലയാളി സമൂഹത്തിനോട് ഓർമപെടുത്തുകയാണ്: മാനവികതയുടെയും സ്വാതന്ത്രചിന്തയുടെയും വഴികൾ മുന്നിലുണ്ട്.                     

ഈ സമ്മേളനത്തിലേക്ക്‌  വിനയപൂർവം ഏവരെയും  സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്യുന്നു 

കൂടുതൽ വിവരങ്ങൾക്ക് ബന്ധപ്പെടുക 

Bijumon Chacko - Cardiff(07940190455)

Biju George - Chichester (07397877796), 

Madhu Shanmughan - Newcastle (07921712184), 

Manju Manumohan -London (07791169081), 

Moncy Mathew - Norfolk (07786991078), 

Praveen Kutty - Manchester (07904865697), 

Shiju Xavier - Wales  (07904661934)

Why should you use Apple Card?

The unique thing about the Apple Card itself is that it is titanium and only has your name imprinted on it. There is no signature, card number, expiration date nor security code. It retains a chip and a mag stripe.

It is intended to be mostly used via electronic Apple Pay. When using the physical card you sign digitally not on a paper receipt. The missing info on the card, lack of signature and no need to sign a receipt will likely confuse retailers until they get used to seeing it.

The cash back isn’t that great a deal but it does show up immediately in the Apple Pay Cash card in the digital wallet soon after a transaction.

The big thing is the lack of fees and extreme transparency about your transactions and your debt load and the way a minimum payment is discouraged. It actively trains the user to not carry a balance. Far superior customer experience in managing the card.

The shady way most credit card companies do business and profit at the expense of their customers via fees, delays in posting, as well as cash back or restricted flyer miles or digital cash that can only be spent at their curated store, etc., etc., etc. is why the Apple Card might become very popular. Mainstream credit card companies have been milking consumers for decades. Leaving it to consumers to figure out. So the transparency of the Apple Card experience will in my opinion make a huge difference.

You must have an iPhone to use an Apple Card. So it does add to the Apple walled garden but many of us are already locked in. It’s just that we don’t want to get out. It is a comfy garden.