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This will cut a lot of jobs but create new ones in new industries

The numbers are staggering. The study released in late 2014 found that 43% of companies experienced a data breach in the past year. Over the last two years, 91% of healthcare organizations have experienced at least one data breach, with 40% having had more than five breaches. 

The DEKA Arm System - affectionately dubbed 'Luke' (as in Luke Skywalker) - was first showcased back in February, when a US army vet used the battery-powered prosthetic to scale a rock-climbing wall, using nothing but his brain power.   Now the team behind the technology has demonstrated how the battery-powered device can impart the feeling of touch on top of grip, movement, and object manipulation. They did this by placing electrode arrays onto a paralysed volunteer’s sensory cortex - a region in the brain that’s responsible for identifying and processing the sense of touch, which is defined by the amount of pressure that something asserts - which connected up to the prosthetic device.   Arrays were also placed on the volunteer’s motor cortex, which is responsible for facilitating body movements. "The wires from the motor cortex allow the wearer to control the motion of the robot arm, and pressure sensors in the arm that connect back into the sensory cortex give the wearer the sensation that they are touching something," Mike Murphy explains at Quartz.  Loaded with highly sensitive torque sensors, the device could detect changes in pressure as they are applied to the fingers, and this was converted into electrical signals that were fed into the volunteer’s brain.   When testing the arm in the lab, the researchers gently touched each of the fingers while the volunteer was blindfolded, and he reported with almost 100 percent accuracy which one was being touch, saying that it felt just like his own hand was being touched.  "At one point, instead of pressing one finger, the team decided to press two without telling him," said Sanchez. "He responded in jest asking whether somebody was trying to play a trick on him. That is when we knew that the feelings he was perceiving through the robotic hand were near-natural." The experiment was described at the Wait, What? A Future Technology Forum, hosted by DARPA in the US last week. The team is remaining fairly tight-lipped on the finer details of the technology right now, as they're working on getting everything peer reviewed and accepted for publication in a scientific journal.

This is a good way for energy. It collects solar energy. It also collects water. It is really easy to move. Its really good cause it has a good way to gather energy. I would invest money into this item.

Woah I didn't know that tents could fold. The fact the these are basically a foldable house for refugees. It's weather proof and allow sunlight to heat water to get a the bacteria out of it.

With these tents, you could do a lot. You could build them in foreign countries in need, and what not. It gives them power, water, and if they want to take it anywhere. It could help a lot of people worldwide, who are in need of shelter, water, and electricity.

Problems created by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) are negatively impacting our environment. We must seek alternate sources of energy beyond solar and wind.