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Show Notes – January 4th, 2016
Tmobile’s binge on comes with 1.5mpbs throttling on all html5 video streams. EFF’s test results are interesting and show throttling where it maybe shouldn’t be happening as well.
HD Fury: fair use or infringement tool? we’ll see! but chances are that the courts will come down on the side of warner brothers. basically, this is a device that strips HDCP to allow consumers to watch it on devices that don’t support HDCP.
new, scary map of how much greenhouse gasses are raising temps over the world
this is really important and a little hard to summarize since it’s kind of synopsis of all this important, stuff about how the internet runs and why we’re still using ipv4 a bunch (most) of the time.
the flip side of end of the year predictions. kind of fun to check out.
Ian murdoch, founder of debian, coiner of GNU/Linux, dead at 42
http://thevarguy.com/open-
http://venturebeat.com/2015/
neat organization: outreachy
https://www.gnome.org/
internships for people who are underrepped in tech (women, transfolk, gq ppl,Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander). deadline for submitting internships is feb 9, and then for applying is march 22.
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Show Notes – December 28th, 2015
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DK2 is no longer listed on the Oculus website DK2 is no longer listed on the Oculus website. https://www.oculus.com/ Sounds like they’re getting things ready for launch. Could DK2’s spot in the navigation bar be replaced by a dedicated page for Oculus Touch? submitted by Heaney555 [link] [12 comments]
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Holiday Hoverboard Bursts Into Flames While Charging In NJ Hoverboards: If they’re not violently throwing riders into the hardwood floors of their suburban homes, they’re spontaneously combusting while charging. What a great gift! [ more › ]
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American police uses specially trained ‘porn dogs’ to find hidden HDDs, USB sticks and SD cards Since a while the American police is working with specially trained ‘porn dogs’. These dogs are able to trace hidden HDDs, USB sticks and SD cards. They are mainly used to find storage mediums with child pornography, according to Jon Dumas of the Montgomery County Crime Stoppers against the American TV channel KHOU. Dumas his organization contributed $17,000 to initially fund the canine detective
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Unsecured, unclaimed database leaves 191 million US voter registration records open to all A well-known security researcher has discovered an unsecured database containing 191 million US voter registration records. The data includes names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, party affiliations and even logs of whether or not voters had participated in primary or general elections.
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Report: Pirated downloads at work big source of malware Research conducted by security company Bitsight amongst its 30,700 customers found that in almost 25% of those companies people download pirated content. Of the downloaded software 39% of the games and 43% of the applications contained malware. The research doesn’t separate between employees that knowingly download and those that are unwillingly part of a botnet. The industries where most files a
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NYC’s First Free Wi-Fi Kiosk Now Exists In The East Village New York City’s first free public Wi-Fi hub was installed this morning, but as is the case with any internet installation, anywhere in the United States, there is a catch: it doesn’t work yet. [ more › ]
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Fixing JavaScript’s Broken Random Number Generator szczys writes: It is surprising to learn how broken the JavaScript Random Number Generator has been for the past six years. The problem is compounded by the fact that Node.js uses the same broken Math.random() module. Learning about why this is broken is interesting, but perhaps even more interesting is how the bad code got there in the first place. It seems that a forum thread from way back in 19
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VR hits all time record in Google Search submitted by WebcamVR [link] [5 comments]
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This guy completed ‘Fallout 4’ with zero kills The Fallout series is known for accommodating multiple playing styles, most of which involve varying degrees of strategy. Given the vast array of gamers around the world, it’s inevitable that some like to approach titles from a completely different angle – thinking outside the box, if you will.
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Verizon will you give you up to $650 to switch carriers If you’ve been pondering switching to Verizon, now would be a good time to make the jump. The company is offering up to $650 to AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint customers to switch teams and join its network. That’s a impressive chunk of change and available for each line you convert. A family with four lines could receive up to $2,600. It’s not just money the carrier is throwing at new customers, it
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People really do still watch black and white televisions Forget 8-bit videogames, the vinyl revival, and the resurgence of cassette tapes. Hundreds of households in Scotland are watching black and white television. The data comes from the organization that handles the mandatory licenses required to operate a television set. The annual fee is £145.50 to watch or record on a color set and £49.00 for black and white. “It’s astounding that more than
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With 14.4M downloads, Game of Thrones is the most-pirated TV show of 2015 (credit: HBO) Game of Thrones was illegally downloaded more than 14 million times in 2015, according to TorrentFreak’s annual compilation of the most-pirated television shows. It’s the fourth year in a row that the HBO show has sat atop the most-pirated chart. TorrentFreak estimates that episodes of the show were downloaded 14.4 million times during the year, more than twice as many as the num
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Planned Parenthood Unmasked – National Catholic Register CBS NewsPlanned Parenthood UnmaskedNational Catholic RegisterWASHINGTON — Above the chatter and clatter of a Los Angeles eatery, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services explained how she produced an abundant harvest of fetal body parts from a routine abortion. “We’ve been very good at getting …Planned Parenthood exec, fetal body parts subject of controversial videoCNNletter – Se
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Asian-American band “The Slants” overturns USPTO rule on “disparaging” trademarks Portrait of Asian-American band The Slants (L-R: Tyler Chen, Ken Shima, Simon “Young” Tam, Joe X Jiang) in Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon, USA on 21st August 2015. (Photo by: Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns) (credit: Courtesy The Slants) An Asian-American rock band called The Slants has taken a legal fight over its name all the way to an appeals court, resulting in a major decision ov
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If Your YouTube Quality Sucks On T-Mobile, Disable Binge On T-Mobile’s newest plan to subvert data caps, Binge On,
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Show Notes – December 21st, 2015
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The first website went online 25 years ago today If the web were a person, it wouldn’t have trouble renting a car from now on: the world’s first website, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, went online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn’t truly public when it went live at CERN on December 20th, 1990 (that wouldn’t happen until August 1991), and it wasn’t much more than an explanation of how the hypertext-based project worked. However, it’
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Court says ridesharing for flights is illegal If you had hopes that the FAA’s ban on ridesharing flights would be reversed… well, you’re in for a disappointment. A Washington, DC court has ruled that pilots need commercial licenses for these services to work. You’re a carrier in that case, not just splitting expenses like the plaintiff (Flytenow) claimed — and that means you need the “experience and credentials” to ferry passenge
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Web status code tells you when sites are censored With a few exceptions, web status codes are meant to indicate errors. A 404 page shows up when you tried to reach content that wasn’t found, for example. However, there’s now a code for those times when that absence is all too intentional. The newly published 451 code (a nod to Fahrenheit 451, naturally) lets site hosts and network providers warn you when censorship and similar “legal obstacl
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Sky to turn porn filters on for all new broadband customers Soon, Sky’s home broadband will come with its adult content blocker switched on by default. From the moment a new package is “activated,” subscribers will find that the company’s Broadband Shield is enabled with child-friendly settings. That means only sites suitable for 13-year-olds or younger will be accessible before 9pm, followed by anything compatible with its 18-rating thereafter.
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London’s entire Boris bike fleet will soon have laser lights Boris bikes have never been London’s trendiest form of public transportation, although they picked up some much-needed style points earlier this year thanks to a laser-projected light system. At the time it was limited to 250 two-wheelers, but today Transport for London (TfL) has announced the trial will be expanded to all 11,500 Santander bicycles in early 2016. The Blaze Laserlight projects a gr
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Snap a Photo in Your Home to Tell LG’s New Robovac Where to Clean Robovacs make at least one household chore a little easier, but with limited intelligence you can’t just tell them what rooms need cleaning. So LG’s HOM-BOT Turbo+ introduces a new feature which allows users snap a photo of their home and simply tap where the robovac needs to make another pass.The new Home-Joy feature is available through the HOM-BOT Turbo+’s free accompanying app, and the augment
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Here’s the Reason The FAA’s Drone Registration System Doesn’t Make Sense Last week, the US Department of Transportation and FAA released their rules governing drones, model aircraft, unmanned aerial systems, and quadcopters – a rose by any other name will be regulated as such. Now that the online registration system is up and running. The requirements for registering yourself under the FAA’s UAS registration system are simple: if you fly a model aircraft, drone, contro
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Senator Accuses Tim Cook of Omitting Facts About Encryption by Omitting Facts About Encryption Apple CEO and modestly-sized slice of multigrain toast Tim Cook went on 60 Minutes last night. His appearance lacked big, buzzy announcements, but Cook received a strong reaction from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who claims Apple will soon be a go-to company for child pornographers if it doesn’t change its encryption. “Apple is a distinctive company that has improved the lives of millions of American
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Thimble wants to ship you tinkering kits every month A Kickstarter project aims to be the perfect solution for the DIY crowd. Thimble, which has already beat its pledged goal of $25,000, says it wants to deliver different electronic kits to tinkerers every month, with the first of the series being a WiFi robot. Those of you who are interested can use these do-it-yourself care packages to learn to code, build and hack, helped by guided tutorials and
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Sad Man Sues Game Company After Losing Wife and Job to Fallout 4 Addiction It sounds like a viral marketing project. A Russian man is suing Bethesda Game Studios after he went on a three-week-long Fallout 4 binge, a confusing decision that led to his boss firing him and his wife leaving him. Heck, it might be a viral marketing project.And yet, there is paperwork. “If I knew that this game could have become so addictive, I would have become a lot more wary of it. I would
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Lawsuit demands the right to resell Steam games One of the biggest gripes about downloadable games (unless you’re a developer) is that you can’t typically resell them — that title is yours forever, even if you’ll never play it again. French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir is doing something about it, though. It’s suing Valve to demand resales for Steam games. Its policy violates the European Union’s right to resell legally purchased software, a
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Database error publishes info of 3 million Hello Kitty fans Online researcher Chris Vickery uncovered a database this weekend containing the personal information of 3.3 million accounts associated with Hello Kitty Online and official Hello Kitty websites, including SanrioTown.com, HelloKitty.com and MyMelody.com. The information included users’ first and last names, birthdays, genders, countries of origin, email addresses, password hashes, password hint qu
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Go Register Your Drone Right Now (Credit Card Number Required) Today’s the day, folks. Today, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will let you register your drone on a brand new and surprisingly sharp-looking website. Well, saying the government will “let you register your drone” is putting it lightly. The FAA is forcing you to.New drone rules mean that any aircraft weighing more than 250 grams needs to be registered. The owner’s name and address will b
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Suck It, Hippies: Study Shows Material Things Can Bring Happiness Over the past several years, a number of surveys have come out extolling the benefit of experiential goods versus material goods. But those studies may have missed something crucial, according to a new study by Canadian psychologists.Supposedly, experiential gifts provide people with more happiness than material gifts. A picnic is better than a food processor. Guitar lessons are better than a CD.
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The kid who unlocked the iPhone just built a self-driving car in his garage https://youtu.be/KTrgRYa2wbI In 2007, 17-year-old George Hotz became the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone. Two years later, he was the first person to break the security on the Sony Playstation. This year, Hotz unveiled a self-driving car that he built in his garage. In this video, Hotz demos it to Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance.
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Hillary Clinton’s private server had two ‘top secret’ emails Those concerns that Hillary Clinton’s private email server had classified intel? They’re apparently well-founded. Sources for Fox News and Politico maintain that two of the messages sent to Clinton were labeled as “top secret” when fresh. One of them was eventually reduced to “secret,” but critics say that’s beside the point: they’re worried that the email wasn’t subject to tou
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Got a drone? It’s registration time, says the FAA (credit: Microdrones Gmbh) The US Department of Transportation has launched a “streamlined and user-friendly” online registration process for aerial drones, starting today. New regulations announced in October require all drone owners to register. In the view of the Federal Aviation Administration, drones or “unmanned aircraft systems” (UAS) qualify as aircraft, even if ope
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Build a Super Cheap Gaming PC with Old Server Parts You can build a pretty decent computer with a small budget. But if
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Show Notes – December 14th, 2015
We’re starting our show by talking about Twitch today.
My friend Jen is calling in to tell us what Twitch is.
You can find her at
www.twitch.tv/nijishoujo
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nyers can go report on thier internet speed to the AG and help with an onging investigation into if ISPs are lying about connection speed:
AG also on fleet re draftkings and fandual
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/
this is an article about swating that is specifically about a women who was big of twitch (making it double relevant for today’s show), but I thought it was a well written peice about issues with internet harassment and far more related to real life cyber crime issues
bit coin create gossip updates, interesting initial bit on the weirdness of the original key
brilliant peice with longer term perspective on the development on the web and control of experience
interview with one of the pirate bay founders talking about the fate of the internet as a place for freedom (it’s not looking bright)
art project decides to swipe right or left on tinder based on galvanic skin response, debuting here: http://itp.nyu.edu/
ITP 2015 Winter Show
A two day exhibition of recent creative interactive projects by the graduate students of ITP
Sunday, Dec 20 – 2~6 PM
Monday, Dec 21 – 4~8 PM
ITP
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor South
Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP
ITP 2015 Winter Show
A two day exhibition of recent creative interactive projects by the graduate students of ITP
Sunday, Dec 20 – 2~6 PM
Monday, Dec 21 – 4~8 PM
ITP
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor South
Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP
more updates on OPEM hack that toiok place may 2014. turns out a bunch of journalists wereincluided and more than 1mil people who were affected have yet to be notified.
research journalism on the harrassment of security researchers. probably not right for our audience, but really interesting
darpa is really intersted in the security of the electrical grid (because it’s really bad)– goal is grid recovery within 7 days by 2020.
small town near where I used to live offering super cheap super fast internet. towns coming together as “http://wiredwest.net/” group to make it happen
hacking computers through malicious no click ads– yet another reason to use adn live ad blockers
uber drivers may be able to unionize in seattle soon: http://www.wired.com/
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Show Notes – November 30th, 2015
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The Horrifying Vtech Hack Let Someone Download Thousands of Photos of Children The latest details about a recent security breach at a kids’ toy company are in, and they are disturbing. A couple weeks ago, hackers successfully broke into the servers of connected toy maker Vtech and stole the personal information of nearly 5 million parents and over 200,000 kids. What we didn’t know until now: The hackers stole pictures of kids, too.This is very bad. The hacker’s identity is s
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7 Installations Protesting Climate Change In Paris, Even If Actual Protesters Can’t The entire world is watching as politicians pour into Paris today to decide the future of the Earth. But you might have missed what’s going on outside the summit, where dozens of activists and artists have transformed the city with installations about climate change.Many of the protests and marches that would normally go on during the COP21 summit have been cancelled by the French government after
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No, SoundCloud didn’t remove a silent track for violating copyright On November 22nd, artist collective DJ Detweiler posted a screenshot of a message from SoundCloud that said its track, “John Cage – 4’33 (DJ DETWEILER REMIX),” had been removed because it appeared to contain copyrighted content. The joke here is that the original “4’33″” is completely silent and a remix would supposedly be just as soundless. DJ Detweiler shared the image
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Surprise! The NSA Is Still Spying On You At midnight on Saturday, the National Security Agency ended one of its most notorious spying programs. This is only a tiny victory. The NSA’s sprawling, inefficient surveillance apparatus is still a privacy threat. The bulk phone records collection program was banned in the USA Freedom Act, a law that curbed some domestic spying. This program allowed the NSA to collect metadata from American citiz
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3 Software-Related Legal Issues You Might Face One Day Are you breaking the law by the way you use software? There’s no simple answer. In fact, with the way that laws and contracts are today, it’s almost impossible to know. Still, ignorance is not a valid defense in law. What’s the worst that could happen? It depends where you live, what you did, and how well you can defend yourself. You could be fined, sued, or even do a lengthy prison sentence — or
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Visualizing Donations in Virtual Reality on Giving Tuesday Now that we can leave the shopping chaos of Black Friday behind us, we can look forward to #GivingTuesday, a national day of giving that marks the beginning of the holiday season. When it comes to charitable giving, it can often be difficult for donors to see the real-life impact of their contribution. That is why this year on #GivingTuesday, one crowdfunding platform for good is allowing donors t
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Online Streams Are Destroying Cable TV and These 3 Stats Prove It Cord-cutting isn’t just a hypothetical dream anymore. It’s happening all over the country and the numbers are accelerating at speeds no one could have foreseen or predicted. The new age of online streaming is already here and it’s here to stay. Need some hard proof? Keep reading. 1. Netflix is still growing — significantly. In Q1 of 2015, Netflix’s membership grew by 4.9 million subscribers. In th
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The 8 Best Free MMOs You Don’t Have to Download Most of the big-name MMOs, like World of Warcraft, EVE Online, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, take up a lot of space on your hard drive; Final Fantasy XIV takes up 30 GB! If you’re on an old computer, or just don’t have very much space on your drive, this could be a problem. To join in the MMO fun without a huge download, check out these eight MMOs that you can play for free, right from your bro
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The 20-Year-Old Features Hidden In Your Mac Apple has been making computers and software for a long time, but El Capitan is totally modern —right? There’s no way it includes any elements from the 90s. Wrong. Believe it or not, there are a few bits and pieces from the days of classic Mac OS still remaining in OS X El Capitan, though they’re a little hard to find. Inspired by my collegue Joe Keeley, who found traces of Windows XP inside Windo
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Samsung Gear VR review (2015): A no-brainer if you own a Samsung phone When Samsung and Oculus debuted their Gear VR headset almost a year ago, the companies made it clear the device wasn’t yet ready for the masses. Billed as “Innovator Edition” models, the original Gear VRs were intended mainly for early adopters. They only fitted a limited number of phones — the original was designed just for the Note 4; the second for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge — and we
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Sock of the Month Club by Sock Club — Maxwell’s Daily Find 11.23.15 Pin it Sock Club • $12 A Month This is not the first time socks have found their way to the Daily Find. There’s something so charming about brightly colored, comfortable socks and when you add in the element of a new surprise every month, I’m completely sold. If you’re a sock enthusiast, or know someone who could use a little flair on their feet, I highly recommend checking out Sock Club.
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Living With Your Parents? How To Turn Your Room Into a Mini Apartment Evan’s Modern & Cozy Manhattan Studio Pin it According to Pew Research Center, a record number of millennial women are living with their parents (and I have to imagine millennial men aren’t too far off). If you’re one of them, don’t think your boomerang kid status has to be a death sentence for your style. READ MORE »
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FAA recommends mandatory registration for drones weighing more than half a pound The Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation last month announced the creation of a task force to come up with recommendations on how the agency should go about implementing a registration process for drone owners. In an impressively quick turnaround, the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Registration Task Force…
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Snapchat’s new feature lets users dive deep into ‘Stories’ Following on a series of recent upgrades and UI improvements, Snapchat began rolling out a new feature for its users on Monday, called Story Explorer. With it, users will be able to more fully examine and interact with the events that they’re most interested in, similar to Twitter Moments. Simply swipe up from the bottom of any curated Story and the app will load up more Snaps relating to it. The
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5 Myths About RFID Chips and Why You Shouldn’t Worry Technology that makes our lives simpler typically comes with a trade-off. With Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), that trade-off is often associated with personal tracking and the loss of privacy. As of now, that’s mostly nonsense. I certainly can’t predict the future, but I can tell you that RFID — when used correctly — has minimal security concerns and many practical benefits. From improved
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Get Free Admission to State Parks in California, Minnesota, and Missouri on Black Friday Forget standing in line for hours. Black Friday is dying, so spend your day doing something more fun: like visiting a state park for free.http://twocents.lifehacker.com/black-friday-i…This year, state parks in California and Minnesota are offering free admission, and state parks in Missouri are waiving camping fees the evening of the 27th. If you have guests visiting this Thanksgiving, or are vi
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Black People in New York Suffer from Depression More Than Any Other Group in the City While sitcoms are full of New Yorkers gabbing about therapy, the reality is that many people in the city suffer from mental health issues that go untreated. Health data gathered by city mental health workers shows that one group is overwhelmingly neglected: black New Yorkers.Every year since 2002, New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has conducted the Community Health Survey. Researc
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YouTube promises to defend content creators from overreaching copyright threats YouTube has pledged its support to
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Show Notes – November 16th, 2015
WHCR’s 30 for 30 membership drive
In January 2016 WHCR will be 30 years old. And to
celebrate our 30th anniversary, I’m asking 30 of you
to send in $30 in support of technocolor show.
For $30 you will receive a WHCR-90.3FM
membership card for your keychain. This card will
allow you to get $5 off any WHCR event we will
have in 2016 and we are planning a big anniversary
You can send your donation as a check or money
order to:
WHCR/CCNY – Technocolor
160 Convent Ave, NAC 1/513
New York, NY 10031
Or you can go to our website www.whcr.org and
click on the donation tab at the top of the page and
make a donation using your credit or debit card.
If you would like to call and make a pledge, please
call me at 212-650-8606. Let me know if it is ok for
me to thank you on-air. That’s 212-650-8606.
Hank William – RIP you are missed
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/
https://twitter.com/hankwilliams
http://www.platform.org/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/15/tech-entrepreneur-diversity-advocate-hank-williams-dies-50/75841942/
Uptime Funk, an uptown funk parody –
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Anne Frank foundation moves to keep famous diary copyrighted for 35 more years Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) writes at her desk in Amsterdam prior to her and her family going into hiding during World War II. (credit: Anne Frank Fonds via Getty Images) The diary of Anne Frank is just six weeks away from entering the public domain in most of Europe—but it might not happen. The Basel-based Anne Frank Fonds, which owns the copyright, has a plan to keep retain ownership until 2050
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6 Reasons You Need to Be Using a Custom ROM Stock Android has come a long way over the years, and the Nexus program has replaced custom ROMs as the fastest way to experience the latest version. Other manufacturers may still make various tweaks to the software, but the experience isn’t as bogged down as it used to be. Why, then, would you still want to find and install a custom ROM? (And what exactly is a custom ROM?) 1) Increase Privacy Sma
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PSA: Yes, You Can Still Hack Your Wi-Fi Router Legally, Says FCC A few months ago, the FCC announced rules that seemed like it might start restricting consumer Wi-Fi hacking. If that had you worried, rest easy. The FCC has altered its plan and you can modify your router firmware with no legal barriers whatsoever.While Wi-Fi hacking was never technically illegal, there was a concern recently when the FCC proposed new rules included phrases implying routers would
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The Windows 10 Apps That Are Actually Worth Using Microsoft has made a big deal about its new Universal Apps for Windows 10. While some developers are slow to jump on the bandwagon, a few have developed new versions of their apps just for Windows 10, and they’re worth taking a look at.The new Universal style apps you can find in the Windows Store are still pretty new, and not all of them are as powerful as their traditional counterparts. However,
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Watch Out for Fake Restaurants on Seamless and GrubHub If you like to try new restaurants through food delivery services like Seamless and GrubHub, you might want to make sure the restaurant is actually real before you order.A recent report from NBC New York found that slightly more than 10% of the top 100 New York City restaurants on Seamless and GrubHub are actually “ghosts,” meaning their names and addresses didn’t match up with listings in the cit
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Noodler Puts Three Million Noodle Soup Recipes and Tips on Your iPhone iOS: If you love noodle soup, you’ll love Noodler, “the noodle soup oracle.” This app ensures you’ll never run out of ideas for your next bowl of ramen or other noodle soups.Consult the oracle and you’ll get a random bowl to make. You can refresh for another suggestion or tap through for the step-by-step instructions. The app also offers essential noodle soup-making tips and covers a wide area of
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Search Any Book With Google – It’s Finally Legal! Google has always had a mission to make information free and accessible to all – and their quest hasn’t always been easy. For over 10 years, a major part of that mission wasn’t even considered legal, but this October, book lovers of the world can rejoice: the Google Books Library Project has finally won the legal right to continue their work. Here’s what that means for you. What is the Google Book
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[][][][][][][][] (Part 4) The new character is Cocoa! 😀 I modeled their art studio after what my own dream art studio would look like, part greenhouse and filled with weird and quirky things :p What could be in those shredded paper? How are they going to piece them all together? Find out next time! In other news, I am looking into getting a Patreon account in the near future to help fund this comic. I’m very busy with lot
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5 Sites and Apps for Quickly Learning Markdown Writing for the web with Microsoft Word is like commuting to work in an 18-wheeler. It wasn’t designed for the job at hand, and is probably going to get in your way more than help. Merging onto the freeway in a massive truck is going to cause you problems, and so is copying text formatted for the printed page into a web-based form. Things just get messy. Which is why sites from Reddit to Github no
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Real Talk Offers In-Depth Career Advice from People in Interesting Fields Android/iOS: If you’ve ever wanted to hear what it’s like to be a veterinary tech, industrial designer, urban planner, or even hair stylist to a superstar, Real Talk puts those experiences—and more—right in the palm of your hand. Hear from people actually doing the job, see their backgrounds, and read how much they make.The team behind Real Talk has interviews and in-depth career advice and inform
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FCC: Yes, you’re allowed to hack your WiFi router A few months ago, the FCC proposed regulations that theoretically banned the use of open source firmware on your WiFi router. Needless to say, that rubbed a lot of enthusiasts the wrong way — how were you supposed to improve features or security on your own terms, especially on routers that were designed to be hacked? Well, you needn’t fear any longer. On top of reassurances from October, the FC
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‘Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday theodp writes: It’s almost time for America’s answer to the Running of the Bulls (YouTube), kids. So, if you’re dreaming of a cheap tech Christmas, it’s time to peruse the 2015 Black Friday ads and make your game plan. Get lucky at Best Buy this year, and you could score a $299.99 Dell 15.6″ touchscreen laptop (i3, 8GB memory, 1 TB HD), a $399.99 Microsoft 10.8″ Surface 3 (Atom x7, 2GB m
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Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware An anonymous reader writes: The old Conficker worm was found on new police body cameras that were taken out of the box by security researchers from iPower Technologies. The worm is detected by almost all security vendors, but it seems that it is still being used because modern day IoT devices can’t yet run security products. This allows the worm to spread, and propagate to computers when connected
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Facebook won’t remove photo of children tricked into posing for neo-fascist group The mother a 13-year-old girl has been unable to get Facebook to remove a photo that her daughter and a 12-year-old friend were tricked into having taken, which is being used to promote the violent neo-fascist group Britain First. (more…)
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When a robot car makes a mistake, a human always gets the ticket – The Guardian The GuardianWhen a robot car makes a mistake, a human always gets the ticketThe GuardianA Google self-driving car is pulled over by a police officer in California this week. Photograph: Google. Mark Harris · @meharris. Saturday 14 November 2015 07.00 EST Last modified on Saturday 14 November 2015 07.02 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on …Self-driving car pulled over for going too slowlyThe Denver
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Microsoft building data centers in Germany that US government can’t touch (credit: Carlarocaoporto) Microsoft has launched a new kind of cloud service in Germany where user data is controlled by a “data trustee” operating under German law. Microsoft is unable to access user data without the permission of the data trustee or the customer, even if it is instructed to do so by the US government. If permission is granted by the data trustee, Microsoft will sti
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This Giant Vending Machine Can Dispense Your Next Car If buying a car all seems a little too complex, relax: you can now walk straight up to a five-storey vending machine to choose your new set of wheels, as if it were a gigantic candy bar.You’re looking at a new kind of car dealership that’s been built by Carvana. Featuring a series of robots, a stack of 20 cars and three separate delivery bays, it’s claimed you can be driving away in your new ride
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Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users An anonymous reader writes: Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other criminal suspects on the dark web? Tor Project Director Roger Dingledine believes so, and says that they were told by sources in the information security community that the FBI paid at least $1 million fo
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Successor to Microsoft phone scam pops up in the United Kingdom The phone scam where criminals call people at home telling them is a computer problem has a new variant. Previously the scammers pretended to be from Microsoft, in the new variant they pretend to be a support employee from the internet provider. The scammers try to convince users that there are issues with their internet connection and that they e.g. can make the connection faster. Whatever inter
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Nintendo Explains Microtransactions In The Most Nintendo Way Possible Nintendo’s “free” crane game for the 3DS requires a dollar for every five tries with the crane. Some companies would just tell you to pay and leave it at that. Not Nintendo. They’ve got a cartoon rabbit ready to explain to you why Nintendo needs to do this. All screenshots here are from the game/app/3DS-decorating program Nintendo Badge Arcade, which was released in Japan last year and made it to
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Jezebel We Are All This Woman Refusing to Put Down Her Book at a Trump Rally | Gawker Rumors and Thr Jezebel We Are All This Woman Refusing to Put Down Her Book at a Trump Rally | Gawker Rumors and Threats Alarm University of Missouri Campus | Gizmodo Scientific Study: Victoria’s Secret Perfume Is Actually Mosquito Repellent | Deadspin The iTunes Terms And Conditions Makes A Great Graphic Novel
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Who Is The Biggest Security Threat? Turns Out, It’s You The Internet is literally filled with security risks.
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Show Notes – October 26th, 2015
Lena played a ted talk
Martin joined the conversation
Epic slide deck from former Yahoo board member lays out the future of tech and media
http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-wolf-predicts-what-will-happen-in-the-tech-industry-in-2016-2015-10
F3Expo, November 12-15, Georgia Dome and World Congress Center overview.
— F3Expo is the first of its kind expo focusing on the recreational, sport, lifestyle and education around Drones, UAVs and First Person View technology.
— We’re bringing together some of the best FPV pilots in the world for FREESTYLE flight exhibitions and competitive racing in the Georgia Dome for a never seen before event spectacle.
— In the Georgia World Congress Center venue, will be panels discussing DIY/Maker aspects of the hobby, legalities and legislation with members of the FAA, law enforcement, etc. aerial video / photo galleries and competition, discussions on the ‘art’ of flying and creative expression using the technology, and much more.
– We have a special Field Day Friday program for school groups to get hands on, close up presentations and workshops with our FPV pilots, educators, and industry leaders.
– F3Expo intends to be a force of change in the cultural and technological landscape; helping bring together the convergence of many people from differing backgrounds to network, share ideas, and lead new pathways of opportunity.
– Tickets and registration online now at www.f3expo.com .
Weekend tech reading: Worst tech mergers, more TPP analysis, Fairphone 2 modular phone review Corporate mergers — like marriages — can result in the two parts being stronger than the whole, or they can end in utter disaster. Just this month, Western Digital and SanDisk announced plans to tie the knot in the largest storage consolidation..
The Late Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour as Holograms Late legendary comics Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx are following in the footsteps of Tupac and Whitney Houston after death. They’ll be going on tour next …Read More
What Happens When Social Networks Know Your Genetic Information? Consider some of the most information-powerful companies on the planet: social networks. What if they had your DNA? Read the full article: What Happens When Social
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Show Notes – October 19th, 2015
Can the Internet exist without Linux?
<http://www.zdnet.com/article/
Connected kettles boil over, spill Wi-Fi passwords over London
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/
X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack
<http://www.wired.com/2015/10/
Clinical Trial Will Test if Google Glass Can Help Kids with Autism
<http://www.wired.com/2015/10/
Should You Be Capitalizing the Word ‘Internet’?
<http://www.wired.com/2015/10/
Online advertisers admit they “messed up,” promise lighter ads
<http://arstechnica.com/
Got a drone? You’ll have to register it with the US government
<http://arstechnica.com/tech-
Incredibly loud and always watching: Canary’s security camera reviewed
<http://arstechnica.com/
Secret source code pronounces you guilty as charged [Updated]
<http://arstechnica.com/tech-
Let’s talk about that NSA Diffie-Hellman crack
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/19/nsa_crypto_breaking_theory/?mt=1445292841006
I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find There’s Cryptanalysis Going On Here (Your plaintext, sir.).
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog//2015-10/2015-10-15.html
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Show Notes – October 5th, 2015
Martin calls in to join Rose Regina and Lena on the show
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Rose Regina & Lena talk about the good old days of Google Reader
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California city mayor relinquishes electronics and passwords to agents at SFO [Updated]
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GoogleGIFs Extension Animates GIFs on Google Image Searches Chrome: Google Image Search is a pretty great way to find the right GIF when you need it, but the results don’t actually animate unless you select each GIF at once. The GoogleGIFs Chrome extensions fixes this.The extension automatically loads all the GIFs on Google image results pages. This can help identify which images are animated, or preview what a GIF looks like without any extra effort.Googl
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How to Set a Looping Video as Your Facebook Profile Picture on iOS Facebook is starting to roll out some interesting new changes to mobile user profiles, starting with those of you on iOS. Here’s how to change your profile picture to a looping video clip on the Facebook iOS app.The profile changes were announced earlier this week, but they’ve just started to roll out to users the last couple days. Facebook mobile profiles on iOS now have the user’s picture focuse
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Streaming Stick Showdown: Chromecast vs. Roku vs. Fire TV After Google introduced the first Chromecast two years ago, HDMI dongles quickly became one of the best cheap ways to stream the internet to your TV. Now, the competition is hotter than ever. We compared the Roku stick, Fire TV stick, and the latest version of the Chromecast to find out which one belongs in your living room.The ContendersStreaming dongles are appealing because they’re cheap, take
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Buy Products That Don’t Normally Ship to Your Country With Parcl Retailers don’t always ship anywhere in the world. If there’s a product you want to buy that doesn’t normally ship to your country, you can get around this with a service called Parcl.The online service lets you order items and send them to your address, even if the retailer doesn’t ship to your country. To make this happen, Parcl uses “forwarders.” A forwarder is either an individual or a company
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How to Run Windows 1.0.1 in Your Browser Through emulation, all things are possible, such as running Android on Windows or playing retro video games. This emulator is no different. It’s easy, and a lot of fun. It’s crazy to think that Windows 1.0.1 dropped on the world in 1985. I was three years old, so I can’t say I ever used it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have an interest in all things retro tech and a desire to take a walk down mem
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Why Are Tweets Only 140 Characters Long? The good news is that Twitter is planning to lift its 140-character limit for tweets. But that just raises a different question: why did that limit exist in the first place? It’s because Twitter started out via SMS. At the time, SMS carriers had a cap of 160 characters on each message, but Twitter reserved 20 characters for usernames. That’s why tweets were limited to 140 characters. But hold on.
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5 Devices You Do NOT Want to Connect to the Internet of Things We recently wrote about why the Internet of Things (IoT) may not be all the glitter and champagne it’s cracked up to be. To expand on that idea, it’s well worth looking at a number of smart devices that you may not want to connect to the web after all. At least not yet, anyway. It’s no surprise that the IoT is loudly ringing alarm bells. The “matured” security of the 25-year-old Internet is a long
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LinkedIn Probably Owes You Money for Being Annoying People join LinkedIn to help advance their careers (or at least feel like they’re trying). People do not join LinkedIn to receive an endless torrent of emails with this infamous line: “Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” A judge agrees, and now LinkedIn must pay.After a class action lawsuit, LinkedIn just agreed to pay $13 million to users annoyed by the company’s over
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The Bizarre History of Webdings If you scroll through the available fonts in Microsoft Word, you’ll eventually come to one that doesn’t include the letters and numbers you’re used to. Instead, you’ll see things like school buses, nautical stars, airplanes, check marks, and fruits. Welcome to the wild world of Webdings. It seems to be the 1990s pre-emoji language that never took off… or an anomaly that exists for no reason at all
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Can I upgrade to Windows 10? Windows 10 has been out for 2 months. Is it time to upgrade? Maybe not…. The post Can I upgrade to Windows 10? appeared first on Ask Leo! – Making Technology Work For Everyone. ID:d21d65ebb929112ba127ac2282625339
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Windows 10 has been installed on 100 million devices Just two months after the release of Windows 10 and the operating system has already been installed on more than 100 million devices. This isn’t actually that surprising considering how not only were most Windows 7 and Windows 8 users given the ability to upgrade to Windows 10 for free, Microsoft went to annoyingly great lengths to convince people to get the update when they became eligible. It al
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Should I Upgrade to Mac OS X El Capitan? Dear Lifehacker, OS X El Capitan is out today. It looks good, but it’s still an upgrade, and any upgrade has a chance of going bad. You guys have been using it; what do you think? Is it ready for prime time, or should I wait for the next patch to fix the bugs people will inevitably find?Sincerely,El Capitan My CapitanDear Capitan, One thing is clear at this point: Apple is pretty happy with how OS
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Study: Racially charged hate crimes go up as broadband expands (credit: FBI) Does online hate speech ripple into the real world in the form of offline hate crimes? A study scheduled to publish in the next issue of MIS Quarterly sought to answer this question. Its authors say that their results show a strong correlation between increased rates of racially motivated hate crimes and areas that saw significant increases in broadband access. The study, conduct
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Volkswagen says it has a plan to fix vehicles embroiled in emissions scandal (credit: James Workman) Late Monday, Volkswagen Group’s new CEO, Matthias Müller, told a group of about 1,000 managers at Volkswagen headquarters that the company had a plan to refit vehicles involved in the company’s recent emissions scandal. According to The Wall Street Journal, Müller said that a special team spent the weekend coming up with a “comprehensive action plan” to deal with the fa
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden signs up for Twitter NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden recently talked with Neil deGrasse Tyson about the possibility of signing up for Twitter and joining the social internet, and he just made good on his word. Follow @Snowden and you’ll get insights from the famed/notorious leaker himself, rather than through second-hand podcasts and presentations. He hasn’t said much yet, but he’s already teasing “secret proje
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Doc Brown Reemerges From The Past for “Back to the Future” Short To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the first Back to the Future film, Universal Pictures will release a limited edition box set of the entire trilogy on (you guessed it) October 21st, 2015, coinciding with the date that Marty and Emmett “Doc” Brown time-travel to at the original film’s conclusion. …Read More
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The After Math: Google Nexus 2015 press event Google held a press conference in San Francisco this morning to announce a slew of new and updated devices. We saw two powerful new mobile phones, the Nexus 5x and 6P, as well as a new iteration of the Chromecast (and its new audio-only cousin). Google also unveiled its take on the Microsoft Surface with its Pixel C convertablet. Here’s how all these new products stack up, by the numbers. Slidesh
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The Chinese Government Has A New Linux Distro: Is It Any Good? The People’s Republic of China is what you’d call a technological powerhouse. Most of our electronics and gadgets are built in the sprawling factories of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, with their thousands of workers diligently working around the clock to brings us new toys to buy. But while China’s well known for its manufacturing dominance, it’s less well regarded when it comes to the conceptualization
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Snowden Joins Twitter, Follows NSA wiredmikey writes: Edward Snowden joined Twitter Tuesday, picking up more than a quarter of a million followers on the social network in just over two hours. Snowden followed a single Twitter account: the U.S. National Security Agency, from which he stole electronic documents revealing the agency’s secret surveillance programs. “Can you hear me now?” he asked in his first tweet, which wa
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Tim Cook: Apple won’t merge iOS and OS X Now that Apple is blurring the lines between its mobile tablets and PCs with the iPad Pro, it’s tempting to imagine iOS and OS X merging into a single operating system (Windows 10-style) that works on virtually every device the company makes. You’ll want to put any such ideas on hold, though. In a chat with Box’s Aaron Levie, Apple chief Tim Cook dismissed the prospects of unifying iOS and OS X.
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Chromecast and Chromecast Audio Hands-On: Damn, These Seem Promising As predicted, today Google unleashed not one but two Chromecast devices. They’re both impressive, and they’re both still just $35. I just spent a little time with both of them and here are my impressions.The new Chromecast is a funny little puck with a built-in HDMI cable. This is a good thing, as it makes connecting it even easier than it originally was–though you may want to use some double-side
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Show Notes – September 21st, 2015
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Attention Idiots: Not Everything With Wires Is A Bomb I can’t believe this is something that actually has to be said, but there’s another situation where an innocent kid is paying dearly for the ignorance of others, and on behalf of all tinkerers and lovers of machines, I want to re-iterate: there are things that use electronics that are not bombs, morons.http://gizmodo.com/this-teenager-…Of course, the situation that happened in the Dallas-Fort Wo
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Why You Should Build a Clock for Social Good this Week We’ve seen a wide range of emotional responses regarding [Ahmed Mohamed]’s arrest this week for bringing a clock he built to school. No matter where you fall on the political scale, we can all agree that mistaking a hobby engineering project for a bomb is a problem for education. People just don’t understand that mere mortals can, and do, build electronics. We can change that, but we need your hel
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#IStandwithAhmed supports teen arrested for making his own clock Last night, the Dallas Morning News reported an odd story. A teenager in Irving, TX brought a homemade electronics project to school, and while his engineering teacher called it “really nice,” after another teacher saw it the police got involved. He was arrested, handcuffed and potentially faced charges of making a hoax bomb, even though according to an Irving PD spokesman, he never tol
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Mandatory South Korean parental control app is a security nightmare Back in April, South Korea required that wireless carriers install parental control apps on kids’ phones to prevent young ones from seeing naughty content. It sounded wise to officials at the time, but it now looks like that cure is worse than the disease. Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have discovered 26 security holes in Smart Sheriff, the most popular of these mandatory
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Thank An Aging Population For Facebook’s Proposed ‘Dislike’ Button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the company is finally working on a much-desired feature: a “dislike” button. According to Zuckerberg, this feature has long been one of those most-requested by the Facebook audience. Although his comments suggest that the new button more likely will express sympathy or empathy, rather than simple dislike, Facebook users have nevertheless greete
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Radar turns your smartphone into a baseball speed detector Want to know if your baseball team’s pitching skills are up to snuff without carrying a dedicated (and frequently not-so-smart) speed detector? Scoutee might have something up your alley. It’s crowdfunding a baseball radar peripheral that turns Android phones and iPhones into pitch speed detectors. Plunk the device in the right place (including on the back if your phone, if you like) and it’ll te
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The Closing of the Hungarian Border, As Seen by Drones This drone video captures what’s happening right now on the border between Hungary and Croatia. All you can see for kilometers on the road are busses and checkpoints. It’s yet another instant mega-fence for Central Europe, where countries are pouring resources into preventing Syrian refugees from crossing over borders as they flee to the west.This footage was taken by Drone Media Studio, who write
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Edward Snowden: Advanced Encryption May Stop Us Communicating With Aliens On Friday, Neil deGrasse Tyson welcomed Edward Snowden to his StarTalk podcast. Along with the usual conversations about privacy and government, Snowden had another important warning to provide: encryption may hurt our abilities to see, or be seen by, extraterrestrials.Speaking to deGrasse Tyson from Russia, Snowden explained that the current need for data encryption may not be doing us many favor
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Kickstarter is legally obliged to give back to society Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is reincorporating as a “public benefit corporation” (PBC). What does that mean? Well, it’s a confusing term, and one that’s defined differently depending on which state you’re in. Loosely speaking, it’s supposed to mean that a company operates both for profit and for the betterment of society. As part of the change, the company will be registered in De
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The ‘Monument Valley’ team has created a dream of a VR game It’s a tough act to follow, selling over 2 million copies of a game in a single year. That’s the task that Ustwo, the British developer behind the award-winning Monument Valley, was facing as it started work on its latest effort Land’s End, a virtual reality adventure game created exclusively for Samsung’s Gear VR headset. Going from building a game for mobile to one that will only run on a speci
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Fast in-flight WiFi is coming to Europe While in-flight WiFi is now pretty common in the US, connectivity in Europe is a little harder to come by. But that could soon change if a new joint-venture between UK satellite company Inmarsat and operator Deutsche Telekom gets off the ground. The two companies today announced the launch of the European Aviation Network, a new framework that combines LTE and satellite networks to deliver high-s
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Old-school game cartridges are coming to your smartphone There have been many attempts at bringing classic gaming to smartphones, but they all lack the most visceral part of the experience: the satisfying ka-chunk of plugging a cartridge into your console. You might get that vibe back if Japanese startup Beatrobo has its way. It’s launching the Pico Cassette, a game cartridge that you plug into your phone’s headphone jack. Unlike the vintage carts of y
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iOS 9 is already running on more than half of Apple mobile devices Apple may have taken a long while to get users upgrading to iOS 8, but it isn’t having any such trouble with iOS 9. The iPhone maker has revealed that more than half of all iOS devices are already running the new software less than a week after it launched. That’s the fastest adoption rate yet for the platform, if you ask the folks in Cupertino. That’s certainly better than on Android, where just
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Jaunt gets a ton of real money to build cinematic VR With all the buzz around VR hardware from folks like Oculus and HTC, we still need immersive content to make those gadgets worthwhile. That’s precisely what Jaunt is focused on with its “cinematic VR” platform, which consists of a 360-degree camera and tools for editing and creating VR experiences. Now, Jaunt is getting a vote of confidence from Disney and other investors to the tune of
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Dropbox Teams will offer a host of business features to free users Dropbox for Business is an increasingly important part of the company’s revenue stream — there are more than 130,000 businesses using the service — but there are many more people out there using the company’s more consumer-focused free service and its $9.99 monthly subscription plan. Millions of those users are in fact using their personal Dropbox accounts to get work done, as well — so now Dr
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4chan sells to the founder of the site that inspired it If you know your internet message board history, you know that Chris Poole’s legendary 4chan was inspired by 2channel, a board dedicated to anime and other aspects of Japanese culture. Well, things are about to come full circle: Poole (aka Moot) just sold 4chan to Hiroyuki Nishimura, 2channel’s founder and the current editor in chief for Variety Japan. The terms of the deal aren’t public, but Poo
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Apple releases watchOS 2 to put apps directly on your wrist It’s arriving a few days later than originally anticipated, but the first big Apple Watch software upgrade is here. watchOS 2 lets third-party developers create apps that run directly on the device itself, without relying on a connected phone. That means the apps have access to sensors embedded within the Watch itself, and they should run faster and be easier to interact with. Some have compared
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Company Offers $1 Million for iOS Hack, Will Probably Sell It to the NSA A cleverly-named security company has a clever idea. Zerodium will pay you $1 million if you find a zero-day exploit in iOS 9. Then, if history is any indicator, it will turn around and sell that intelligence to a despotic regime like the NSA. Chaouki Bekrar, the founder of Zerodium, is infamous for founding the French hacking firm Vupen–which specializes in buying up zero-day exploits and selling
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Skype Is Still Working To Restore Service To Some Skype has been working to get its service back up and running for many users since about 4 AM Eastern Time. Most of those impacted by the network issue are having difficulty logging in on mobile and desktop apps. At 11AM, the company said that it had identified the problem and is working on a fix, noting that Skype for Business users were not affected. So how does this affect normal users? After l
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France Says Google Must Honor the “Right to Be Forgotten” Around the World Europe’s “right to be forgotten” rules have been around for a while, but they pretty much just applied to Europeans who wanted to hide embarrassing or incorrect content about them. Now a French court says that Google needs to go a step further and apply the rules to all of its domains.In the past, the “right to be forgotten” only applied to specific country’s domains. So you could get a link remov
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Samsung’s bringing back the TV ‘set’ with the Serif TV The humble television wasn’t always the ultra-thin, wall-mounted “appliance” we know today — it used to be a piece of furniture, wrapped in an elegant case of wood, plastics and metal. Now, Samsung is bringing the idea of a stylized ‘TV Set’ back, introducing a an expensive, font-inspired television called the Serif TV. The name is a wildly overt nod to the television’s shape — a thic
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Over 4 billion people will go without internet access this year The tech industry likes to talk a lot about a connected world, but just how many people are online, really? Most of them aren’t, unfortunately. The United Nations’ Broadband Commission has released a 2015 report which estimates that 57 percent of the human population (about 4.2 billion people) won’t have regular internet access by the end of 2015. Not surprisingly, the likelihood that you’ll have
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How Much Digital Media Can Fit on History’s Storage Devices Storage space is something we all kind of take for granted. We have phones with upwards of 128GB that we just carry around in our pocket like it’s nothing. But it wasn’t that long away that we were using floppy disks capable of holding just a few text documents. It wasn’t long ago that 1MB was considered a large amount of memory. Times sure have changed in that regard! It’s with that in mind that
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Valve hits a Linux landmark—1,500 games available on Steam A few months after Valve officially launched Steam for
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