Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Chinese Regime Blocks Access to Google Services
November 10th, 2012Via: International Business Times: According to a website dedicated to tracking which sites have been blocked or censored by the Chinese government, Google.com along with a host of other Google services are no longer accessible from mainland China. The Chinese web monitoring website, GreatFire.org, first reported the issue at 1pm (GMT) today, Friday, 9 November […]
Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
November 9th, 2012Via: Wired: It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America’s many undeclared wars. But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store — and therefore, from iPhones everywhere. The Cupertino company says the content is […]
Microsoft’s Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising
November 9th, 2012Via: Hot Hardware: Despite the fact that I’ve been using Windows 8 for the past three weeks, I somehow managed to overlook a rather stark feature in the OS: ads. No, we’re not talking about ads cluttering up the desktop or login screen (thankfully), but rather ads that can be found inside of some Modern […]
How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud
November 9th, 2012It’s not easy, but the description of the attack is pretty interesting. Via: MIT Technology Review: The new attack undermines one of the basic assumptions underpinning cloud computing: that a customer’s data is kept completely separate from data belonging to any other customer. This separation is supposedly provided by virtualization technology—software that mimics an instance […]
Cisco VP to Memo leaker: Finding You Is Now ‘My Hobby’
November 9th, 2012In case the leaker happens to be reading: Be aware of canary traps. They might use the technique to try to identify you. Via: Network World: Cisco vice president of services Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, believes that whoever recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated […]
New Mastercard has LCD Screen and Keyboard
November 9th, 2012Via: BBC: A credit card with an LCD display and built-in keyboard has been launched in Singapore by Mastercard. The card has touch-sensitive buttons and the ability to create a “one-time password” – doing away with the need for a separate device sometimes needed to log in to online banking. Future versions of the card […]
A Holographic Microscope for Just $250
November 8th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: Traditional microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging small objects, such as cells. However, anybody who has used one will know its limitations: a tiny field of view and a shallow depth of field. That makes it hard to get a sense of the three dimensional shape of objects like cells. […]
Have You Heard the One About the Stealth Fighter That Gets Stealthier with Age?
November 7th, 2012Via: Wired: In the latest issue of Air Force magazine, O’Bryan insisted the single-engine JSF, which is projected to cost $1 trillion to develop, buy and maintain, is fundamentally different than its predecessors. “The surface material smooths out over time, slightly reducing the F-35’s original radar signature, according to the Lockheed Martin official,” John Tirpak […]
The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm
November 7th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: In 2007, Jakubowski began working on a minimum set of machines necessary to sustain a modern civilization. It comprises bread ovens, aluminum smelters, tractors, brick presses, and 46 others. Factor e Farm has already built 15 of these devices, including a computer-controlled torch table that can cut intricate patterns on metal with a […]
7 Technologies That Will Make It Easier for the Next President to Hunt and Kill You
November 6th, 2012Via: Wired: Robotic assassination campaigns directed from the Oval Office. Cyber espionage programs launched at the president’s behest. Surveillance on an industrial scale. The White House already has an incredible amount of power to monitor and take out individuals around the globe. But a new wave of technologies, just coming online, could give those powers […]
