GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	Hackers Can Take Advantage of Smart Refrigerators Now
	Can refrigerators come alive and attack you? Obviously, that doesn't sound very plausible in the first place, but in the era of smart fridges, you may want to revisit that possibility. According to a new study by security company Proofprint, over 10...
	Google Tracks the History of Popular Music as We Listen to it Today
	Here's the latest fun visualization from Google, called Music Timeline. It attempts to chart the rise and fall of different musical genres in terms of their popularity. It is all the music you're listening to! The chart starts in 1950 and reflects...
	Google's Smart Contact Lenses Will Monitor Your Health
	Google is going to start making smart contact lenses. Unfortunately, it's not the contact lens version of Google Glass. Instead, it will be for monitoring health. People with diabetes have to monitor their blood-glucose levels or they risk major pr...
	Add Up 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... Until Infinity and You'll Somehow Get -1/12
	Math is a weird thing. We don't quite fully understand it all. And if you think adding up all natural numbers from one to infinity, you'd get this ridiculous number that's super long, you're wrong. You'll get -1/12. What trickery is this?The idea th...
	Boy Scientist Invents a Sandbag to Protect Against Salt Water Floods [VIDEO]
	Peyton Roberton is a boy scientist. He's made use of his knowledge to make the world a better place. In October last year, he won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge for his ingenious sand-less ‘sandbags’ invention that will be able to protect land fr...
	Imagine if You Could Genetically Test Your Unborn Child's IQ. One Company in China is Doing This.
	We know around 65% of the genes that determine IQ are inherited. We just don't know which make the difference. But if we did, we could predict intelligence in an embryo. Chinese company BGI is working on that. The company is also cloning pigs on an ...
	Japan Will Try to Scoop Up All That Space Junk with a Giant Net
	The scenario in Gravity quite freakishly shows off the Kessler syndrome. In 2013, a Russian satellite was destroyed by a fragment of a Chinese satellite that had blown up six years earlier. The year before that, the ISS changed its orbit to keep out...
	This Super-Thin Battery is Packing a Whallop of Power
	Remember how Vorson managed to squeeze a 2,500 mAh battery into its Bookmark power pack measuring 4.7 millimeters? That's nothing compared to EnerPlex's Jumpr Slate. It packs 10,000 mAh battery in a super blade thin package!At 6.7 millimeters the Ju...
	NSA Bugs Can Spy on Computers, Even if They Are Offline [VIDEO]
	Here's a shocking discovery: The NSA has planted spy software and hardware into 100,000 computers worldwide. The bugs will allow the agency to conduct surveillance on a computer and it doesn't even have to be online. The implants are tiny radio tra...
	HP Announces Two Huge Smartphones Today - Slate 6 and Slate 7
	Hewlett-Packard has two extra-large smartphones coming out today, Re/code reports. It will be called Slate 6 and Slate 7 and have 6 and 7 inch screens respectively. The phablets will run on Android 4.2.2 and have a quad-core processor, 16GB of stora...

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