Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Idiocracy: “Forget to Flush? There’s an App for That”
June 12th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Come home to a hot iron and smoldering clothes this afternoon? Soon, it may not be a sign of forgetfulness, but rather evidence that you’ve been hacked. In coming years, your smartphone will be able to lock your house, turn on the air conditioning, check whether the milk is out of date, or […]
Ars Tests Internet Surveillance—By Spying on an NPR Reporter
June 11th, 2014If you are a non technical computer user, this article does a good job of explaining how much of your online life is like an open book for any man-in-the-middle observer. This observer could be your ISP, an intelligence organization, the police, anyone who has access to the network infrastructure between you and the Internet. […]
HP Labs Attempting to Build Revolutionary Computer Architecture
June 11th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: That’s what they’re calling it at HP Labs: “the Machine.” It’s basically a brand-new type of computer architecture that HP’s engineers say will serve as a replacement for today’s designs, with a new operating system, a different type of memory, and superfast data transfer. The company says it will bring the Machine to […]
Google to Buy Satellite Company Skybox Imaging for $500 Million
June 11th, 2014Via: Reuters: Google Inc said on Tuesday it is acquiring satellite company Skybox Imaging for $500 million in cash, the Internet company’s second high-profile acquisition of an aerospace company this year. Google said that Skybox’s satellites will provide images for Google’s online mapping service. Google, the world’s No.1 Internet search engine, said that Skybox’s technology […]
FAA for the First Time OKs Commercial Drone Flights Over Land
June 11th, 2014Via: Los Angeles Times: Marking a milestone for the industry, Monrovia drone maker AeroVironment Inc. has announced a contract to use an unmanned aircraft to perform routine commercial services over land in compliance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations. The company’s small drone, called Puma AE, is now scouring BP Exploration Inc.’s Prudhoe Bay oil field […]
Feds Snatch Mobile Phone Tracking Records Away from ACLU
June 10th, 2014Via: Naked Security: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a run-of-the-mill public records request about cell phone surveillance with a local police department in Florida. The US Marshals Service last week reacted by swooping in and snatching those records out from under the ACLU’s nose just hours before they were supposed to review them. […]
Watch This Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry Evaporate Overnight
June 9th, 2014Via: Linkedin: Imagine an industry where a few companies make billions of dollars by exerting strict control over valuable information — while paying the people who produce that information nothing at all. That’s the state of academic, scientific publishing today. And it’s about to be blown wide open by much more open, Internet-based publishers. This […]
How FBI Informant Sabu Helped Anonymous Hack Brazil
June 9th, 2014Via: Vice: In early 2012, members of the hacking collective Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on government and corporate websites in Brazil. They did so under the direction of a hacker who, unbeknownst to them, was wearing another hat: helping the Federal Bureau of Investigation carry out one of its biggest cybercrime […]
Chatbot Passes Turing Test for First Time
June 9th, 2014Via: ZDNet: A computer program that pretends to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy called Eugene Goostman passed a Turing test at the Royal Society in London yesterday (Saturday 6 June) by convincing 33 percent of the judges that it was human during a five-minute typed conversation. The test was suggested by computer scientist Alan Turing […]
SJR (Super Joule Ringer) Looper LED Flashlight Circuit V3
June 8th, 2014Via: LaserHacker:
