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There’s a new program, the result of work by some researchers in Israel that can apparently alter an image of a face to make it appear more attractive.

In a recent entry, “Where Is IPV6?“, I wondered about the fact that with all the noise about IPV4 address space running out it struck me as a little disturbing that the continent of Africa was making the transition to IPV6 a heck of a lot faster than the rest of the world.

Aftrica is leading the world in the adoption of IPV6 addressing. I realize that African ISPs and networks aren’t exactly a dime a dozen, so they’ve got less to adapt and change. Plus the fact that because they’ve so much less established stuff there, they can adopt the new IPV6 ready equipment and software right from the start.

No, this isn’t going to be a Bob Hope tribute. I was just struck recently by the state of technology now compared to when I was a kid. You see, we recently got a digital camcorder and along with it we got a 4 gigabyte SDHC memory card.

Do you trust electronic voting machines? If so, there is some good reason why you should reconsider. The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released video that demonstrates a very probable method of tampering with these things.

A tech company called Verayo has announced a new flavor of RFID chip, one that they say cannot be cloned. It uses a Challenge / Response technology called “Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)”.

Concerned about “Identity theft”? Maybe you should be if you’ve got one of those new credit cards that has an RFID chip in it. If so, here’s a video you should watch.

There’s actually a small but growing group of people, amateur scientists, that are working on building fusion reactors. Quite a few of them have actually built working fusion reactors in their basements and attic labs.

I remember back when the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth (ok, maybe it wasn’t *quite* that long ago) when the Dymo label maker first showed up in stores. Looking at their website you can see that it’s come a long way since those first days of the sometimes cantankerous early models of the now infamous label makers.

That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.