Good video card for Bitcoin mining
Also, the electric skate board concept that is so simple, it's amazing it hasn't already been made.
Welcome to the Friday Tech Roundup! Contained herein is your weekly dose of some of the best tech news from across the Internet, rounded up for your edification and entertainment. Read on for all the details of pirated copies of Watch Dogs packaged with bitcoin miners, human ‘suspended animation’ trials, and the world’s first 4K monitor with G-Sync support.
Watch Dogs Torrent Turns Pirates’ PCs into Bitcoin Mining Slaves
Slashgear is reporting that a popularly seeded torrent of Ubisoft’s newly-released Watch Dogs comes with an added surprise in the form of a Bitcoin miner. According to the report, the affected torrent includes a file called “Winlogin.exe, ” which will execute when the game has been run and remain in active memory until it is found and killed.
ts. There is something poetic about pirates getting “hacked” given the subject matter of Watch Dogs, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s kind of a dick-move, and quite illegal to covertly install processes on others’ computers.
Science-fiction becomes science-fact: Human ‘suspended animation’ trials to begin this month
Researchers at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are reluctant to call it “suspended animation” due to obvious science-fiction implications, though it may be the most convenient way to explain it. The world’s first human trials of “emergency preservation and resuscitation” are slated to begin soon, on 10 patients whose injuries would otherwise be fatal to operate on. The process involves replacing the patient’s blood with a chilled saline solution, which uses the body’s natural circulation to cool the body, rather than keep it warm. This slows bodily functions, and delays death from blood loss for up to four hours. Successful tests have been performed on pigs in 2000, by inducing fatal cuts and using the procedure to rapidly cool the pigs to around 10 degrees Celsius, keeping them alive long enough to repair the wound and restore their natural bloodflow.
