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The mobile, also as an ally against cancer They create a smartphone ready to detect cancers of the lung, prostate and breast with simplicityThey create a smartphone ready to detect cancers of the lung, prostate and breast with simplicity Researchers from the Washington State University (United States) have developed a smart phone that aims to detect cancer through the analysis of samples. The 'smartphone' produces results with laboratory quality, according to its developers. The research team has created an eight-channel spectrometer compatible with an iPhone 5 and capable of detecting interleukin-6, a biomarker that alerts to the presence of prostate, lung, liver, breast or epithelial cancers. The device is capable of analyzing the types of chemicals and the amount of the sample by measuring the light spectrum. It is a type of device that already exists for 'smartphones' but, for the time being, those on the market are only able to process one sample at a time ...

Alphabet slows its fiber optic expansion plans Its Fiber division will adjust its staff by 9% due to the stoppage of the service    Alphabet, the parent of Google, has stopped short of plans to develop its fiber optic business and has announced the dismissal of 9% of the workforce, after the main telecommunications in the United States have been up in arms. The plan of action, renewed a year ago, leaves frozen the expansion of the fiber project in eight cities that contemplated the construction of different distribution networks by different North American towns. The Fiber division of the search giant deployed its first network in Kansas City five years ago. With this project, Google hoped to offer its customers broadband services.    However, the high cost and problems with works in cities have slowed the progress and progress of the implementation of fiber optics by American households. The restructuring of the division raises doubts about the future of the...

European authorities ask Whatsapp to stop exchanging data with Facebook The instant messaging network modified its terms of use in August and since then it can share user data so that other applications in the group can propose certain advertisements    The European data protection authorities have asked WhatsApp to suspend the exchange of information about users that began last summer with other companies in the group, especially with Facebook, until they complete the investigation they have underway on their new confidentiality policy, It tries to determine if the company's performance meets the minimum legal requirements and guarantees the rights of the users. The claim is included in a letter sent to the company in which they make it clear that their behavior has caused great concern in public bodies that ensure the privacy and privacy rights of EU citizens. The so-called G-29, which brings together the different independent authorities of continental countries, has expres...

'Hackers' linked to Russia have attacked a Windows vulnerability Microsoft has ensured that these cyber-pirates have exploited the ruling to attack US political institutions    The US group Microsoft warned on Tuesday that a vulnerability of its Windows program, recently exposed by rival Google, was being exploited by cyber-pirates suspected of carrying out attacks against US political institutions.    The group of pirates, which Microsoft calls 'Strontium', launched a campaign of attacks against specific targets, mainly government agencies or diplomatic and military institutions, wrote Terry Myerson, Microsoft vice president in charge of Windows, on the group's blog. Microsoft said that Strontium has the characteristics of groups of hackers that have the support of a state, without specifying which. This group, which also received other names, is generally described by experts in cybersecurity as a sophisticated piracy operation that has ties with Russia. He is sus...

The visits to web in mobile already surpass those made in computer   The uses of the internet are changing and mobile devices have become the kings of the Net for the first time in history. The month of October has been a new technological milestone after the visits through mobile devices have exceeded those made through computer, according to a report by StatCounter. These figures, however, do not necessarily point to more people using mobile devices than computers. What he points out is that the StatCounter average deciphers that there are more people browsing webs from mobile than in the desktop version. Fall of sales Gartner, a consulting and information technology research firm, expects that by the end of 2016, the PC market will continue to experience difficulties and will hit bottom. The forecasts for 2017 are not positive either, since sales will remain flat. For its part, the smartphone market will continue to grow, according to Gartner, although it will do so at a slower ...

Transport apps have a problem of 'racism' African-American users suffer greater waits and cancellations according to an MIT study    About 1,500 cases and a difference of just 5 seconds to accept the trip between a user with white and a black one. These are the most important data of a study conducted by MIT, Stanford University and Washington on the different transport apps. After studying the routes established in Seattle and Boston, the researchers found that Uber drivers with African-American names were canceled 10.1% of the time, compared to only 4.9% of the time for those with names that seem whites.    Meanwhile in Seattle, the researchers appreciated that people with African-American names had to wait 29 seconds to find a driver in Uber and 23 seconds for Lyft. In comparison with only 21 and 19 seconds, respectively, for people with a Caucasian name, apparently. The report is based on "an adequate and rigorous methodology" that "shows a worrying bottom li...

More than half of the world's Internet users have Facebook Mobile users increase thanks to the expansion of smartphones    Last July, the compiler of US statistics Internet Live Stats encrypted the total number of Internet users in 3.425 million users who surf the network of networks usually. This week, Facebook has rendered accounts to its investors on Wall Street and has left large numbers in the number of users who have profile in the most famous social network today. A total of 1,790 million users access the Mark Zuckeberg platform monthly, 16% more than in the third quarter of 2015. A simple rule of three mathematics approves the theories of experts who since the beginning of the year indicated that more than half of Internet users access at least once a month to Facebook. With the official results, 52.3% of the world's Internet users have registered in the social network. In the last decade, the number of Internet users has gone from touching the 2,000 million Internet u...