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Show Notes – September 9th, 2015
Happy!
John Reid of the Something reports back in on how the Kickstarter campaign went (it went well!).
Rose Regina joins us and we discuss the mobile vs desktop vs laptop usage.
We also discuss luxury product support online.
Lena shares her a recent example of the lovesac furniture company, and shares the exciting tale of her cats peeing on her favorite piece of furniture, and how online chat with the company saved it.
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Show Notes – August 31st, 2015
Amazon Needs More Staff – And Pay Up To $19 An Hour!
http://amazon.staffhiringtoday.pw/amazon/amazon-needs-80000-more-staff-and-pay-19-an-hour/
but
You probably don’t want to work for Amazon
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/15/9159309/you-probably-dont-want-to-work-for-amazon
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An interview between Martin and Kumi Rauf of I Love Being Black –
In the News!
Russian government backs down on Wikipedia censorship “Because the Wikimedia Foundation uses HTTPS-encrypted connections for all of its sites,” reports Parker Higgins, “the government was left with only the option of ordering the entire site blocked, or leaving the offending page accessible.” Read the rest
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Open source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code The days of coders being shackled to Monaco or Courier New ends now. At SourceFoundry.org this week, programmer Chris Simpkins debuted the 2.0 version of Hack, an open source typeface designed specifically for use in source code. Hack is characterized by a large x-height, wide aperture, and low contrast design in order to be “highly legible” at common coding text sizes. Its “sweet
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Magnet-Steered Nano-Fish Could Deliver Drugs and Sweep Body Toxins dkatana writes: David Warner writes on InformationWeek how “nanoengineers” from UC San Diego have created microscopic fish powered by hydrogen peroxide that use magnets to steer themselves. “The “fish” are powerful enough to swim through your bloodstream, removing toxins or bringing medicine directly to crucial parts of your body, as cells in your blood stream do. Given en
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Pixar in a Box Teaches the Basics of How Pixar Gets Things Done Khan Academy and Pixar have launched Pixar in a Box, a new course meant to teach kids the practical uses for all the stuff they’re learning in school and the basics of working on creative projects. Pixar in a Box isn’t a straight-up class like we usually think of them. While there are classes on everything from character modeling to animation, Pixar in a Box is more aimed at showing how basic conc
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Op-Ed: Lexmark’s war against a man who recycles toner cartridges The intellectual property interests are at it again, trying to leverage their rights to take away yours. No one knows this better than 44-year-old Eric Smith of Charleston, West Virginia. Smith has devoted his life to the office supply company founded by his father—a company that’s now under legal attack by printing behemoth Lexmark International, Inc. Although Smith trying to fend off Lexmark i
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That’s Novel! How to Find New Books to Read With Reddit Fiction is a double-edged sword. Books can be adventurous and emotional and even life-changing, but as soon as you read those dreaded closing lines, you’re left wondering if you’ll ever find another book that can make you feel that way again. Despite the handful of book recommending services available on the web, none of them are perfect. Goodreads is the most well-known, and we have some advanced
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Deadspin More Than 100 ESPN Employees Signed Up For Ashley Madison From Work | Gizmodo These Former Deadspin More Than 100 ESPN Employees Signed Up For Ashley Madison From Work | Gizmodo These Former “Students” Say Trump University Was a Scam | io9 The Summer Movies Of 2015: What Worked and What Didn’t | Jezebel I Went Undercover to Find Out What It Takes to Be an Underpaid NBA Cheerleader | Kinja Popular Posts
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Learn Eight Helpful Microsoft Excel Tricks with This Handy Cheat Sheet If you’re new to using Microsoft Excel, or an experienced user looking for a good visual reference, this handy cheat sheet covers eight helpful tricks for becoming a spreadsheet pro.While spreadsheet software is essential for jobs like accounting, it can be useful for any kind of data management. This infographic, from the Sure Payroll Blog, explains how to use absolute and relative references, ho
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TSA inadvertently shows the dangers of master baggage keys Security researchers have long warned of the dangers of using master-keyed locks — if thieves get their hands on just one key, they compromise all of the compatible locks at the same time. And unfortunately, the US’ Transportation Security Administration is learning this lesson the hard way. It briefly let the Washington Post show a photo (we’ve blurred the details) of the master baggage keys it
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Android lock patterns as predictable as common passwords Know how a lot of people tend to use passwords such as “123456” or, well, “password?” Well, turns out Android lock patterns (ALPs) are just as predictable. Norwegian University of Science and Technology graduate Marte Løge analyzed 4,000 patterns for her master’s thesis and found that 77 percent of the participants started from one of the four corners, and 44 percent started t
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Life with the Dash button: good design for Amazon, bad for everyone else On a sunny Saturday morning, seven Amazon Dash buttons arrived to my apartment. Dash is a decidedly Jetsonian future come to life. A Wi-Fi connected button for my every need! Push one in my toddler’s bedroom, and Huggies diapers would appear at my doorstep. Push another by my bathroom sink, and Gillette razors arrive to shave my beard away. With this $35 shipment, I’d be able to stick a Dash butt
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Hardcore Pirates Are Reportedly Banning Windows 10 There’s casual Pirate Bay piracy, and then there’s private torrent trackers: members-only clubs that share the best movie and TV rips among themselves. As you’d expect, they tend to be pretty hardcore about privacy, enough so that some groups are banning members from using Windows 10. As TorrentFreak reports, groups like iTS and FSC have been freaking out about the new Terms of Use for Windows 10
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Twitter bots are trying to silence Mexican protesters Many activists thrive on Twitter, both to get their messages heard and to coordinate their on-the-ground action. However, it looks like there’s a growing, sophisticated effort to dismantle Mexican anti-corruption and anti-violence protests through the same social network. Journalists have noticed that Twitter robots are trying to drown out Mexican activists’ posts, issue death threats and promote
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Pokemon players arrested after bringing guns to World Championships In a bizarre turn of events, police have taken two men into custody for threatening the Pokémon World Championships in Boston. Investigators from the Boston Police Department (BPD) were tipped off after James Stumbo and Kevin North, 27 and 18 respectively, posted an image of an AR-15 and shotgun on Facebook, saying “(we) are ready for worlds Boston here we come!!!.” Police searched thei
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You might be one of the unlucky many who’ve been issued a faulty iPhone. You might be one of the unlucky many who’ve been issued a faulty iPhone. A small component in some iPhone 6 Plus phones, sold between September 2014 and January 2015, is causing the iSight camera to fail. If your phone falls in a certain serial number, you’re due for a new one. Check with Apple if you qualify.
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Twitter Is Shutting Down Even More Government Transparency Accounts Twitter has blocked 31 transparency-seeking accounts from accessing its developer API. These accounts all archived and made public the deleted tweets of powerful people like politicians. Twitter’s actually been doing this for a while now.Back in June, Twitter revoked API access from the popular Politwoops account that was run by the Sunlight Foundation. This latest round of pseudo-censorship targe
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Tell Us Your Memories of Windows 95, the Most Charming OS Microsoft Ever Made Want to feel old? The iPhone turns 20 today. Just KIDDING. Windows 95 is celebrating its 20th birthday though. Microsoft’s once-ubiquitous operating system launched in 1995 with an expensive (and wildly successful) marketing campaign. It looks laughably outdated now, but at the time, Windows 95 was a hit, selling 7 million copies in the first five weeks it was available. “Windows 95 is to computin
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John McAfee: Ashley Madison “Was An Inside Job” John McAfee is not known for his reasonableness. McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus software company, is very well known for being a security expert, however. Wearing both hats, McAfee now says that “Ashley Madison hack was not hacked.” He claims, “It was an inside job.” And it was a woman!?The International Business Times, which shares a parent company with Newsweek, just published a miso
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Cortana officially arrives on Android via public beta Following a leak last month, Microsoft’s virtual assistant officially arrived on Android. Thanks to a public beta, Redmond keeps its promise to bring Cortana to the Google faithful. As we’ve already seen, you can use Cortana to help with things like answering random questions, setting reminders, tracking flights and a number of other tasks. What you still can’t do, however, is use the “Hey C
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Queens Man Cited by FCC for Interfering with Sprint’s Network The FCC has filed a citation against a Queens, New York, man for operating equipment in the 1900MHz band that is interfering with Sprint’s network. Sprint filed a complaint about interference issues on March 10. The FCC investigated and determined the interference is being caused by an unknown device or devices on property owned in Queens by Jian Chang. “The device at this location is injecti
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Ashley Madison offers $376,000 bounty to help find hackers The Impact Life hackers might not release any more data they stole from adultery-enabling site Ashley Madison, but the legal investigation into who exactly is responsible for the security breach is just getting started. As reported by The Independent, Ashely Madison’s parent company Avid Life Media (ALM) is offering a $500,000 (in Canadian dollars, about $376,000 US as of this writing) reward for
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Courts Will Let the FTC Punish Companies for Bad Cybersecurity Last week, hackers released a ton of data stolen from Ashley Madison, and scared the shit out of internet users everywhere. Now, with an uncanny sense of timing, an appeals court says the Federal Trade Commission has the power to regulate companies’ cyber security. That’s good news for you!A United States appeals court just unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that will let the FTC pursue a law
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Comcast Says It’ll Offer Gigabit Internet Nationwide Within Two Years Comcast can’t stop talking about all the upgrades it has planned for its internet service. An executive recently told the press that it plans to upgrade its entire network to the
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Show Notes – August 24th, 2015
http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Cryptoparty-Network/events/224780896/
All about
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TSA inadvertently shows the dangers of master baggage keys Security researchers have long warned of the dangers of using master-keyed locks — if thieves get their hands on just one key, they compromise all of the compatible locks at the same time. And unfortunately, the US’ Transportation Security Administration is learning this lesson the hard way. It briefly let the Washington Post show a photo (we’ve blurred the details) of the master baggage keys it
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Android lock patterns as predictable as common passwords Know how a lot of people tend to use passwords such as “123456” or, well, “password?” Well, turns out Android lock patterns (ALPs) are just as predictable. Norwegian University of Science and Technology graduate Marte Løge analyzed 4,000 patterns for her master’s thesis and found that 77 percent of the participants started from one of the four corners, and 44 percent started t
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Life with the Dash button: good design for Amazon, bad for everyone else On a sunny Saturday morning, seven Amazon Dash buttons arrived to my apartment. Dash is a decidedly Jetsonian future come to life. A Wi-Fi connected button for my every need! Push one in my toddler’s bedroom, and Huggies diapers would appear at my doorstep. Push another by my bathroom sink, and Gillette razors arrive to shave my beard away. With this $35 shipment, I’d be able to stick a Dash butt
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Hardcore Pirates Are Reportedly Banning Windows 10 There’s casual Pirate Bay piracy, and then there’s private torrent trackers: members-only clubs that share the best movie and TV rips among themselves. As you’d expect, they tend to be pretty hardcore about privacy, enough so that some groups are banning members from using Windows 10. As TorrentFreak reports, groups like iTS and FSC have been freaking out about the new Terms of Use for Windows 10
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Twitter bots are trying to silence Mexican protesters Many activists thrive on Twitter, both to get their messages heard and to coordinate their on-the-ground action. However, it looks like there’s a growing, sophisticated effort to dismantle Mexican anti-corruption and anti-violence protests through the same social network. Journalists have noticed that Twitter robots are trying to drown out Mexican activists’ posts, issue death threats and promote
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Pokemon players arrested after bringing guns to World Championships In a bizarre turn of events, police have taken two men into custody for threatening the Pokémon World Championships in Boston. Investigators from the Boston Police Department (BPD) were tipped off after James Stumbo and Kevin North, 27 and 18 respectively, posted an image of an AR-15 and shotgun on Facebook, saying “(we) are ready for worlds Boston here we come!!!.” Police searched thei
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You might be one of the unlucky many who’ve been issued a faulty iPhone. You might be one of the unlucky many who’ve been issued a faulty iPhone. A small component in some iPhone 6 Plus phones, sold between September 2014 and January 2015, is causing the iSight camera to fail. If your phone falls in a certain serial number, you’re due for a new one. Check with Apple if you qualify.
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Twitter Is Shutting Down Even More Government Transparency Accounts Twitter has blocked 31 transparency-seeking accounts from accessing its developer API. These accounts all archived and made public the deleted tweets of powerful people like politicians. Twitter’s actually been doing this for a while now.Back in June, Twitter revoked API access from the popular Politwoops account that was run by the Sunlight Foundation. This latest round of pseudo-censorship targe
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Tell Us Your Memories of Windows 95, the Most Charming OS Microsoft Ever Made Want to feel old? The iPhone turns 20 today. Just KIDDING. Windows 95 is celebrating its 20th birthday though. Microsoft’s once-ubiquitous operating system launched in 1995 with an expensive (and wildly successful) marketing campaign. It looks laughably outdated now, but at the time, Windows 95 was a hit, selling 7 million copies in the first five weeks it was available. “Windows 95 is to computin
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John McAfee: Ashley Madison “Was An Inside Job” John McAfee is not known for his reasonableness. McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus software company, is very well known for being a security expert, however. Wearing both hats, McAfee now says that “Ashley Madison hack was not hacked.” He claims, “It was an inside job.” And it was a woman!?The International Business Times, which shares a parent company with Newsweek, just published a miso
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Cortana officially arrives on Android via public beta Following a leak last month, Microsoft’s virtual assistant officially arrived on Android. Thanks to a public beta, Redmond keeps its promise to bring Cortana to the Google faithful. As we’ve already seen, you can use Cortana to help with things like answering random questions, setting reminders, tracking flights and a number of other tasks. What you still can’t do, however, is use the “Hey C
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Queens Man Cited by FCC for Interfering with Sprint’s Network The FCC has filed a citation against a Queens, New York, man for operating equipment in the 1900MHz band that is interfering with Sprint’s network. Sprint filed a complaint about interference issues on March 10. The FCC investigated and determined the interference is being caused by an unknown device or devices on property owned in Queens by Jian Chang. “The device at this location is injecti
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Ashley Madison offers $500,000 bounty to help find hackers The Impact Life hackers might not release any more data they stole from adultery-enabling site Ashley Madison, but the legal investigation into who exactly is responsible for the security breach is just getting started. As reported by The Independent, Ashely Madison’s parent company Avid Life Media (ALM) is offering a $500,000 reward for any information leading to “identification, arrest and
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Courts Will Let the FTC Punish Companies for Bad Cybersecurity Last week, hackers released a ton of data stolen from Ashley Madison, and scared the shit out of internet users everywhere. Now, with an uncanny sense of timing, an appeals court says the Federal Trade Commission has the power to regulate companies’ cyber security. That’s good news for you!A United States appeals court just unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that will let the FTC pursue a law
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Comcast Says It’ll Offer Gigabit Internet Nationwide Within Two Years Comcast can’t stop talking about all the upgrades it has planned for its internet service. An executive recently told the press that it plans to upgrade its entire network to the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, a move that would enable gigabit speeds for all Comcast customers. Testing is underway now, and it should be done in two years.Or at least that’s what Comcast is saying. “We want to get it across the
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Top 10 Ways to Improve the Battery Life on Your Phone and Laptop Batteries don’t last forever. All too soon, you’ll notice your laptop and/or smartphone don’t last as long as they used to. To maximize that (sometimes non-user-replaceable) battery’s lifespan and also get more juice out of it during the day, follow these top ten tips.10. Use Your Laptop Manufacturer’s Battery Care ToolsLaptop makers such as Lenovo and Sony sometimes offer battery maintenance tool
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Nostalgic for Crappy Video of Yore? Download VHSCam — Design News Pin it Sure, your phone shoots flawless HD video, but does it have soul? If you miss the wavy, wobbly memories of the ’80s and ’90s, now you can download VHSCam and recreate those home movies of your childhood. READ MORE »
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Google Announces New OnHub Multi-Protocol Wireless Router On Tuesday, Google unveiled its answer to the Smart Home market in the form of a Smart Home hub called OnHub. Interestingly, OnHub serves a dual purpose. It’s a standard wireless router capable of the latest 802.11 standards, but also capable of supporting both modern in-home wireless protocols like Bluetooth 4.0 and some of the most popular smart home network protocols. Whether this new router me
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The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us When Der Spiegel and Jacob Appelbaum published leaked pages of the National Security Agency’s ANT Catalog—the collection of tools and software created for NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division—it triggered shock, awe, and a range of other emotions around the world. Among some hardware hackers and security researchers, it triggered something else, too—a desire to replicate the capabilit
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Objects That Couldn’t Be Made Before 3D Printers Existed 3D printing isn’t just for making unique stuffed animals or weird fake meat. It allows us to fabricate objects we never could with traditional manufacturing. Here are some of the incredible things we can print now, which were nearly impossible to make before.Personalized Car Parts3D printing can make car parts that are custom-built for the driver’s body and comfort: an ergonomic steering wheel, fo
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India, Home of the Kama Sutra, Just Blocked Porn Online India is considered to be the world’s largest democracy, but its leaders believe citizens don’t have the right to watch pornography. On July 31, the government of India sent a letter to all Internet service providers (ISPs) that contained a list of 857 websites, which were to be made inaccessible immediately. Effectively, the government blocked Internet pornography. The full list of websites was l
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How Your Android Device Can Help You Remember Everything Is your memory slipping? For better or worse, one of the advantages of carrying a smartphone around is that you don’t have to leave it to your brain to remember everything. And you don’t necessarily have to download a fancy app, either. There are any number of ways to have your pocket computer jog your memory. 1) Take a Picture This is one of my favorite methods to remember things, largely because
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Find Out How Many Times Your Personal Info Might Have Been Stolen With all of the hacking attacks in the last few years, there’s a good chance some of your sensitive personal data has been exposed to hackers. This quiz from the New York Times highlights the most recent major attacks and what kind of information may have been exposed.You don’t have to enter any personal information on the quiz, but rather just click on the things that apply to you. As you do, the
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Why Are URLs Full of So Many Garbage Characters? #?&%! Why do some URLs look like cuss words in comic books?
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Show Notes – July 27th, 2015
https://medium.com/thelist/
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/ben-schlappig-airlines-fly-free-20150720
discussion list of Wassenar: https://lists.alchemistowl.org/mailman/listinfo/regs
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pwd.sh Is a Command-Line Only, GPG-Encrypted Password Manager If you work keeps you at the command line, or you just prefer terminal windows to heavier apps, pwd.sh gives you a way to manage your passwords in a secure, encrypted local container. Of course, it’s only accessible via the command line.The GIF above kind of shows you how it works, but pwd.sh is super simple. The tool itself is just a script that generates, opens, edits, and saves password strings
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Google Is Finally Divorcing from Google+ Accounts The oft-mocked Google+ is getting stripped of features that’ll be incorporated elsewhere into the Googleverse. Google has decided to “move some features that aren’t essential to an interest-based social experience out of Google+,” according to a post on its official blog today. That includes Google+ Photos elements being phased into the Photos app, and location sharing will be moved to Hangouts. W
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Georgia sues man for posting annotated state laws online You might think that legislation should be freely accessible as a matter of course, but the state of Georgia begs to differ. It’s suing Public.Resource.Org owner Carl Malamud for allegedly violating copyright by publishing the annotated versions of G…
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Why the Hell Is Windows 10 Sharing My Wifi Passwords? Look, Microsoft. Just because I am Facebook friends with someone, doesn’t mean I want to share my wifi passwords with them. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens by default in Windows 10. Anyone who I’m Outlook.com contacts with (spammers), Skype friends with (webcam strippers), or Facebook friends with (high school buddies turned webcam strippers) can connect to wifi networks that I have the
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How the Experts Protect Themselves Online (Compared to Everyone Else) If you ask the average person what the best ways to protect themselves online are, they’ll give some true answers—but they’ll likely be different than the answers you’d get from a security researcher. Here’s the difference.Google, in a paper they’re presenting at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security this weekend, asked two groups—experts and nonexperts—what they do to stay safe online. Whi
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PSA: Do Not Pay for Spotify and Rdio Subscriptions Through iTunes Spotify and Rdio are great streaming services, and unless you’ve become a diehard fan of the clunky Apple Music, you’re probably still using them. However, if you pay for your subscription for Spotify and Rdio through iTunes, you’re paying $3 too much.http://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-se…Apple charges 30 percent for all payments made through iTunes. That means subscribing to the Premium plans in
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Windows 10, Day One Last night, as promised, I installed Windows 10 on my own personal laptop. I left everything to chance. I didn’t back up my data. Hell, I set my Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on the floor of a pizza parlor in San Francisco—dongle and all—and let it install totally unattended.Then, I woke my precious laptop to discover the most painless software upgrade I’ve ever performed. At least, that’s what it feels li
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Don’t Ask Google Maps ‘Are We There Yet?’ The Google Maps lady might sound all friendly and helpful, but like any mom, she gets real sassy if you keep asking her if you’re there yet. As spotted by Android Police, the latest version of Google Maps for Android is hiding a neat Easter Egg. In turn-by-turn navigation mode, there’s a microphone button so you can ask questions whilst driving. And if you ask it ‘are we there yet?’, she gets incr
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See A Car Crash From the Perspective of Google’s Self Driving Car One of Google’s self-driving cars was recently involved in an accident, and the company has released a video showing what the crash looked like from the car’s perspective. It’s clear that Google’s car was not at fault — in fact, this accident demonstrates pretty clearly the danger of letting distracted humans drive. On July 1, one of Google’s Lexus driverless cars was driving autonomously toward a
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Google introduces 360-degree YouTube ads Google’s already rolled out 360-degree videos on YouTube, like Bjork’s latest musical venture, and now the company has announced that it’s doing the same with advertisements. The new feature debuted on Wednesday for both Chrome and the mobile YouTube…
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Fly Through a World of Software Like It’s the Universe This might look like a journey through space, but in fact it’s a shot from an interactive visualization that allows you to explore software package managers like they’re galaxies. It’s… more fun than it should be.Created by Andrei Kashcha, you can explore the software universe using keyboard keys to fly through the whole space. Kashcha explains what you can see:Every dot here is a package. Posit
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Skype Translator Likes to Swear in Chinese Skype Translator is an amazing feat of engineering, even if it isn’t perfect. But reports suggest that, in Chinese at least, it has somewhat of a potty mouth.Tom Carter writes for Global Times that he’s been using Skype Translator whilst on a shoot in China to make a cross-lingual TV commercial. But some of the results haven’t exactly been what he expected. He explains:A glitch in the beta softwar
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Shell’s UK petrol stations let you PayPal at the pump Although Apple Pay is currently enjoying the limelight, companies all over Britain are working to get their own mobile payment strategies in order. Once such company is Shell, which after months of testing has begun rolling out its new PayPal-powered…
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How Prolific STDs Are Across the U.S. Ever wondered how… successful your city was at sharing STDs? Well, this map hows how prolific syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia are across the country. Brace yourself.The map here uses data taken from the CDC for 2013, which combines reports of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. The data’s then normalized to show the number of STD cases per 100,000 people. Deep red is high, light yellow low.The
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[Federico Musto] of Arduino SRL Discusses Arduino Legal Situation Recently we had the opportunity to sit down and interview Arduino SRL’s CEO, [Federico Musto], over a nice dinner. His company is one half of the Arduino vs Arduino debacle which has pitted Arduino.cc against Arduino.org in a battle over the trademark on “Arduino”. Given the tremendous amount of press coverage of [Massimo Banzi] and the Arduino LLC side of the story (Arduino.cc), we were very inte
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Snack Subscriptions, Compared: How to Choose the Food Box for You It seems that there’s a subscription box for everything, even food. For one low (or not so low) monthly payment, you can get snacks, spices, and “artisanal” sausages mailed to your door each month, but choosing which box is worth your money is the hardest part.People, like subscription boxes, are case by case situations. There are whole meal kits (such as Blue Apron or Plated, which we won’t be ta
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“Drones” Endanger Airborne Wildfire Fighting There is no denying that personal drones are in the public eye these days. Unfortunately they tend to receive more negative press than positive. This past weekend, there were news reports of a wildfire in California. Efforts to fight the fire were hampered when no less than five drones were spotted flying in the area. Some reports even stated that two of the drones followed the firefighting aircra
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A book to help everyone make a living with Creative Commons Let’s show the world how sharing can be good for business. Read the rest
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Hackers Have the Power to Remotely Hijack Half a Million Chrysler Cars An ongoing investigation into the security of Chrysler vehicles bears some pretty startling conclusions. In a couple of weeks, security researchers will reveal the details of a zero-day exploit that affects some 471,000 cars. Put bluntly: Hackers can take complete control of the cars from thousands of miles away.Longtime car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek recently demonstrated the danger
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Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files An anonymous reader writes: ERNW security analyst Florian Grunow
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Show Notes – July 20th, 2015
(- where codeacademy.com does the heavy lifting)
800 Hours of Practice:
800 Hours of Real World Work Experience:
- 100-hour Nonprofit Project
- 200-hour Nonprofit Project #1
- 200-hour Nonprofit Project #2
- 300-hour Nonprofit Project
http://sol.gfxile.net/galaxql.html
learn SQL searching – by destroying a galaxy
http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2015/08/07/detail/how-cats-took-over-the-internet/
–> wapo basically says that we need magic encryption that allows the good guys to get full access because this is a rule of law society. kind of crap, but this is going to continue to be what everyone is asking for until (ahahahaha) people start to understand that is not how encryption works.
–> really good article about how the web is closing up, but overly nostalgic
–> article by jessamyn west about the roll of the librarian of congress and the potential role that the next one can have regarding bringing the loc into the current century.
–> great non-AC suggestions for sleeping in the heat, though most work from evaporative cooling, so are of limited utility in nyc, but some can be used in conjunction with AC for when that isn’t quite enough.
–> internetish flea market happening september with an open call for vendors. free to attend. I want to do and already sent you a gcal invite for it
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Online food delivery ordering is through the roof, and it’s not all pizza and tacos Getting food delivered is easier and faster than ever these days, and it’s not even necessary to utter a word. Phone orders long dominated delivery, but the cultural preference has switched to ordering online, with internet orders on pace to outnumber phone orders soon.
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Five Awesome Features of the Google Play Store You Might Not Be Using The Google Play Store is a handy way to get new apps for your phone, but there are some great features that you might not have noticed if you haven’t explored the service much. Here are some of the best things the Play Store has to offer besides the basics.Get Cutting Edge Apps with Beta CommunitiesWe’ve briefly touched on the idea of app betas in the Google Play Store before, but they’re easily t
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Smithsonian crowdfunds preservation of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit If you’ve ever wanted to lend a hand preserving a piece of US history, now’s your chance. The Smithsonian launched a Kickstarter campaign to gain support for restoring Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit for display at the Air and Space Museum in Wa…
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Spotify’s New “Discover Weekly” Playlist Knows You So Well It’s Creepy Spotify’s got a new feature called “Discover Weekly,” an automatically generated playlist of music that’s tailored specifically for you. For something made by a computer this playlist is pretty damn good!The new playlists updates every Monday, and it’s generated using the music you’ve been listening to as a foundation. It also takes into account the taste of people who listen to music similar to w
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Pebble Time smartwatch arrives at Best Buy and Target stores If you passed on Pebble Time’s crowdfunding campaign because you wanted to wait for reviews (or just wanted the safety net of a retail purchase), you now have an easy way to pick one up. The color smartwatch is now available at Best Buy and Target st…
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You can now buy the new Pebble Time smartwatch at Best Buy and Pebble.com. You can now buy the new Pebble Time smartwatch at Best Buy and Pebble.com. It still feels like a work in progress… but in some ways, it’s the best smartwatch out there. Just know that the Pebble Time Steel is also on the way. [Pebble Blog] http://gizmodo.com/pebble-time-pr…
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Instagram Adds Search to Web Site Instagram today made it possible to search the desktop version of its web site. People can search for usernames, hashtags, and keywords when using Instagram.com. The web site is still not as full-featured as the Android and iOS mobile apps. Moreover, users need to be signed in in order for the search tool to appear. Instagram is free to use.
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A Simple Magnetic Adapter Gives Your Charging Cables MagSafe Powers A magnetic power connector didn’t seem that revolutionary when first revealed, but over the years the Apple MacBook’s MagSafe connector has proven itself to be an invaluable feature. And as the Znaps magnetic adapter shows, it would be just as useful for your mobile devices too.Using a pair of simple adapters—one that plugs into the Lightning or microUSB port on the bottom of your mobile device, a
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The 10 Highest Rated Reddit Posts Of All Time Hundreds of posts make it onto the front page of Reddit every day, but few will ever rise high enough to sit amongst Reddit’s all-time highest-rated posts. Only the best of the best of /r/all can have that honor. In light of Reddit’s recent community outrage, these all-time highest-rated posts give us insight into what the community as a whole actually cherishes, reminding us that all this drama i
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Affair Site Ashley Madison Hacked, Info Stolen For 37 Million Accounts You won’t find Ashley Madison on any collections of Lifehacker recommendations. However, the site aimed at helping people in existing relationships have an affair has been hacked, with 37 million users’ data stolen. Worse yet, that data’s currently being held for ransom.According to security site Krebs on Security (who previously reported the Home Depot hack), Ashley Madison’s parent company Avid
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Are Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Both Offering a Next-to-Impossible Dream? Image from Flickr by Jonathan Rolande. Back in December 1998, I spent my 14th birthday money on Nigel Watt’s book Writing a Novel and Getting Published. And for quite a few years, my dream was to be a full-time fiction author. Not everyone has the same writing dream, of course. But perhaps the most common, generic, one looks like this I make a good living writing what I want to write. In many
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8Tracks Suggests Mixes Based On Your Listening, Unveils a New Interface 8Tracks has always been a great place to build and listen to playlists built by DJs and music fans like you, based on genre, mood, or anything else you could tag. Now the service has a new design, with more focus on suggesting playlists to you based on what you like and highlighting the site’s wealth of talent.Long time 8Tracks users will find a lot to love about the new design. The changes aren’t
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What’s The Best Smart Thermostat? We’ve talked about some of the benefits of smart thermostats, and how they can save you money, learn your habits, and keep you comfortable. This week, we want to know which models you think are the best. http://lifehacker.com/what-can-a-sma…Of course, not every smart thermostat needs to be a fancy, internet-connected, Wi-Fi enabled version…although that certainly helps if it’s available. Some
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What’s Bing Rewards, How It Works, And What’s New? Bing has come a long way since its debut in 2009. Multiple interface lifts and backend improvements have turned what was once the butt of many jokes into a competent and capable competitor to Google. I’ve been using Bing as my main search engine for 15 months (as of writing this) and the experience has been surprisingly pleasant. It has come to point where I actually dislike Google’s search engine
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Udacity Now Refunds Half Your Tuition When You Graduate Any Nanodegree Recently, online learning site Udacity offered a brief deal where you could get an Android development education from Google and get a refund for half your tuition when you graduate. Now, the company is making that offer permanent for all of their Nanodegree programs.If you haven’t heard of Udacity’s Nanodegree programs, they’re pretty great: tech companies like Google and Facebook work with Udaci
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UK man accused of hacking spree on US government is arrested (again) A UK man accused of breaking into computer systems operated by the US government has been rearrested on a recently filed extradition request, it has been widely reported. Lauri Love, now 30, was arrested in October 2013 on charges he and associates hacked into networks operated by the US Army, the US Missile Defense Agency, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other US government agenc
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Uber Now Offers Assistance for Elderly and Disabled People If you’ve ever used Uber, you know how convenient it is. Their newly released uberASSIST function aims to ensure their service is just as convenient for passengers with disabilities.Uber announced:uberASSIST is designed to provide additional assistance to members of the senior and people with disabilities. Driver-partners are specifically trained by Open Doors Organization to assist riders into ve
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Roll Your Own Home Security System For $55 It’s not quite as seamless as plugging in a Nest Cam, but this Foscam home security camera can broadcast live to your smartphone, alert you via email when it detects motion, upload images to any FTP server, and store files directly to a hard drive or SD card with no monthly fee. Not bad for $55. [Foscam C1 Indoor HD 720P Wireless Plug and Play IP Camera with Night Vision Up to 26ft, $55 with code
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Firefighters Can’t Save People In Burning Cars Because of a Stupid Drone A giant wildfire currently spreading through Southern California’s Cajon Pass is burning cars on the freeway in what the San Bernardino County Fire Department is calling a “multi-casualty incident.” But the firefighters also issued a report that due to a drone seen flying in the area, they couldn’t get their helicopters to the scene right away.Update: Officials told NBC LA that five drones were in
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Android M finally brings in native visual voicemail At long last Android will have native support for visual voicemail. Android M, the next major release of Google’s mobile OS, will be the first version to offer built-in visual voicemail, according to Android Police. The feature conveniently lists your voicemails in an app so you can listen to or…
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Reddit says it will hide but not ban hate communities Reddit Co-Founder and new CEO Steve Huffman has just laid out a host of changes to the websites content policy. He cites the company’s earlier banning of non-consensual porn (ie revenge porn) as a restriction that improved the community as a whole –…
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Watch this incredible recorder/beatbox performance My War “Freestyle” by Medhat Mamdouh. Amazing. (YouTube)
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You can now prevent viewers from copying, printing files in Google Drive Google has unveiled a new feature in Google Drive for sharing documents, while still maintaining control of the information. Drive’s new Information Rights Management (IRM) gives document owners the ability to prevent people they share with from being able to download, copy or print the information.
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You Now Have No Excuse Not to Email Your Member of Congress When you have to go to three whole separate websites to find the names and email addresses of your representatives, it’s easy to pass on contacting them. But thanks to a new tool made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that job now requires about five clicks (and just a little moral stamina).The EFF’s new website is called Democracy.io, and it’s pretty damn simple: plug in your address, choose
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Italian Court Throws Out TripAdvisor Fine Over Bad Reviews jfruh writes: TripAdvisor had been fined half a million euros in Italy for publishing “misleading” information in its reviews. But now an Italian court has thrown out that punishment, saying that the site clearly states that the reviews are user-submitted and that TripAdvisor can’t confirm all details. In a statement the company said the court’s decision, “confirmed what we always k
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Google Just Banned This Privacy Tool: How to Use Disconnect Google just banned the privacy app Disconnect from the Play Store, again. Disconnect can shield users against invisible tracking tools, while increasing consumer awareness on surreptitious data-collection methods. It also functions to some extent as an anti-malware tool. The Tor Browser’s developers thought enough of Disconnect to make it their default search engine. It’s as secure and private as
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Create Your Own Artificial Fever Dreams with Google’s “DeepDream” If you’ve been on the geeky parts of the Internet lately, you may have noticed some very strange images popping up, connected somehow to Google. They look a little like someone took a lighter to the film stock of time and space. Or like playing “Where’s Waldo” on acid. Or maybe like someone turned John Carpenter’s The Thing loose in a pet store. Regardless, they’re pretty trippy. http://www.makeus
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4 Malicious Browser Extensions That Help Hackers Target Their Victims You might think that browser extensions are all about helping you, the end-user. You’d be wrong. Although certain extensions such as bookmarking tools, ad blockers, and translation add-ons undoubtedly provide a litany of benefits to the user, many seemingly innocent extensions have a much darker side – with the recent scandal around Hola VPN being a case in point. Whether these are extensions that
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“Try” Lets You Try On Clothes Before Buying Them Online Chrome: Shopping for clothes online is convenient, but one drawback is you’re not sure how the item will look until you buy it and it’s delivered. Try.com is a free service that aims to fix that inconvenience.The website works with a number of online clothing retailers (J.Crew, Zara, and Urban Outfitters, to name a few). You sign up via their site, then download the Chrome extension. Once you do,
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Why Are Those Subscription Boxes So Popular? How Did We Get Here? It’s no secret: people seem to really enjoy getting a box of stuff sent to them every month. From seemingly out of nowhere, the monthly subscription box craze has exploded. But why do people like these things so much? What is it that makes us willing to spend money on a box of stuff even if, in some cases, we don’t know exactly what we are going to get? All of these questions and more are answered
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8 Things to Do in an Hour to Wrestle Back Privacy from Facebook We all know that Facebook guzzles as much of your information as it can. But how can you get control of your privacy again? Yes, you could just quit Facebook – but even then, they can track you. If you think getting rid of your profile is still the way to go, make sure you fully delete it, and not just deactivate it for a while. Okay, so how can you tackle seemingly-endless invasions of privacy, n
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PlayStation Now is a tech miracle, but it’s no Netflix for games Sony wants you to want PS Now, its Netflix-like game-streaming service. The problem is, the company doesn’t seem to know how to build that desire. Though the recent app relaunch has seen the service’s user interface improve considerably, the same can…
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Someone Finally Resurrected the Commodore Brand for Something Useful Various entrepreneurs have tried to bring back the legendary Commodore computer brand for years, all of them inevitably ending up bankrupt. Now a couple of Italian designers think they’ve got the silver bullet solution to tapping into 80s nostalgia: a smartphone. It’s too bad they decided to make it look so boring.The soon-to-be-released Commodore PET smartphone looks like a lot of other smartphon
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MS kills critical IE 11 bug after exploit was shopped to Hacking Team Microsoft has killed at least two security bugs linked to the compromised malware developer Hacking Team, including a critical remote-code execution hole that worked against people using the latest version of Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and 8 machines. The IE vulnerability was discovered in an e-mail a security researcher sent to Hacking Team executives, according to a blog post published Tue
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Coal No Longer US’s Most Popular Electricity Source For First Time Ever For the first time ever, coal has been unseated as America’s largest source of fuel to generate electricity. As of April 2015, natural gas is now number 1.A report from SNL Energy shows that 31 percent of America’s electricity was now coming from natural gas. That’s up from just 22 percent in 2010. But even though natural gas has taken the lead, coal is still a formidable force, fulfilling 30 perc
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Reddit loses third female executive in less than a month as chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits The executive turmoil continues at Reddit as vice president of engineering Bethanye Blount has called it quits. The former Facebook staffer was with the company for just two months according to her LinkedIn profile.
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Google Accidentally Reveals Data On ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Requests Colin Castro points out an article from The Guardian, who noticed that Google’s recent transparency report contained more data than intended. When perusing the source code, they found data about who was making requests for Google to take down links under the “right to be forgotten” law. The data they found covers 75% of all requests made so far. Less than 5% of nearly 220,000 individual
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Star Of Viral Catcalling Video Is Reportedly Suing For Compensation Shoshana Roberts, the woman who appeared in a viral video that showed her being subjected to incessant catcalls over the course of 10 hours walking around New York City, is reportedly suing both anti-street-harassment groupHollaback! and video director Rob Bliss, on the grounds that both parties used her likeness to “promote their agenda.” [ more › ]
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Television Academy replaces DVDs with Chromecasts for Emmy voting Emmy voters won’t have to worry about keeping up with the remote for their DVD players for much longer. The Television Academy is teaming up with Google to replace the truckload of physical media sent out each year by giving each eligible member a Ch…
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Connected cattle: how health trackers could change the beef industry If you’ve ever road tripped across the United States, you’ve probably seen one: a feedlot, populated by hundreds (if not thousands) of cows. These animals are the lifeblood of the American beef industry, but caring for them is no small chores. Careta…
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Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline Hallie Siegel writes: We often read about the economic impact of robots on employment, usually accompanied with the assertion that “robots steal jobs”. But to date there has precious little economic analysis of the actual effects that robots are already having on employment and productivity. Georg Graetz (Professor of Economics at Uppsala University) and Guy Michaels (Professor of Econom
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Google Photos continues to backup pictures long after app has been deleted What happens on Google Photos apparently stays on Google Photos, even if you’ve deleted the app from your device. An interesting, and potentially scary, aspect of Google’s Photos app has been discovered that anybody who has ever used the application should be aware of.
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Downloading Apps on Android: Everything You Need to Know So you’re new to Android, and you’re trying to find where you go to download apps? We understand that it can be confusing at first, so we’d like to step you through all your options. Don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s everything you need to know about downloading apps on an Android phone or tablet. This Is Google Play Google Play is the name of the default digital store that likel
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This Locked-Down Prison Tablet Makes iOS Seem Open The nation’s overcrowded prison system is in a sad state, and
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It’s Somehow Completely Legal to 3D Print This Poison Dart Gun In an attempt to circumvent proposed regulations that would make it illegal to share or distribute blueprints for any kind of home made gun, Peter Alaric DeSimone has designed a completely legal 3D-printed alternative that shoots .40-caliber blowgun darts instead.Because the term ‘firearm’ only covers weapons that fire a projectile through the use of an explosive charge, airguns, like DeSimone’s c
This Graphic Shows the Effects Texting Has on Your Body Texting too often can take a toll on your body. While it might seem like it’s not a big deal, the physical posture you take on when you’re staring at a tiny device in your hands can have serious negative health effects. This graphic shows what can happen.We’ve known for a while that spending too much time assuming the texting position can cause health problems. While your mileage may vary, and thi
6 Free Android Math Apps to Help You Survive Math Class Do you want to be an astronaut? You’ll need strong math skills. How about a scientist? An engineer? An accountant? A meteorologist? All of these careers — and a lot more — will require you to have an excellent mathematical ability. Jobs that are in some way linked to math typically pay more, are better for your brain, and have fewer potential applicants. There’s just one problem: for the vast majo
Are Beats Headphones Really Designed To Trick You? Last month, Beats by Dre headphones went in for a thorough slagging across the internet, and on this here blog, on the basis of a teardown of the flashy cans. The exercise, conducted by a venture capital outfit called Bolt that focuses on hardware startups, seemed to prove that the headphones were a sham. It turns out that the teardown itself was based on a sham: The headphones were counterfeit. B
Google Maps Can Now Send Directions From Your Desktop to Android Android: A while back, Google added the ability to type “send directions” into Google to automatically forward directions to your phone. Then it added the much more useful ability to send directions from Google Maps to your iPhone. Now, the latter feature finally works for Android phones as well.As long as you have the latest version of Google Maps installed on your Android device, when you look u
Learn to Code for Free While Building Apps for Nonprofits Learn a highly valuable tech skill and build a portfolio of apps while helping a nonprofit? There’s a lot to like about Free Code Camp.The online camp offers free, self-paced coding challenges online that will help you learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript (and jQuery), Node.js, database usage, and more—hundreds of hours of practice and learning projects that by the end should have you not only ready for a
This Software Designs Furniture That Fits Together Like a Puzzle — Design News Pin it Ever get the wrong bag of screws and bolts in a flat pack furniture box? A team of researchers have created software that designs furniture so that it fits together like a puzzle, without hardware. READ MORE »
LA Residents Try to Hide Hollywood Sign From Tourists, Except on Airbnb Last year, a group of homeowners who live in the Hollywood Hills had directions to the Hollywood Sign changed on Google Maps to keep tourists away from their streets. All the tourists, that is, except for the ones who rent their properties on Airbnb. They want those tourists to know exactly where the Hollywood Sign is.When I last checked in with the great disappearing/reappearing Hollywood Sign, r
Microsoft Thanked For Its “Significant Financial Donation” To OpenBSD Foundation McGruber writes: Microsoft has donated a considerable amount of money to the OpenBSD Foundation, becoming its first-ever Gold level contributor in the process. From the OpenBSD Journal: “The OpenBSD Foundation is happy to announce that Microsoft has made a significant financial donation to the Foundation. This donation is in recognition of the role of the Foundation in supporting the OpenSSH
New York is getting a crowdfunded, sunlit underground park New York City has its share of famous parks, but they don’t pepper the landscape like they do in other big cities. The non-profit group Lowline may have a technical solution to that lack of greenery, however. It just crowdfunded preliminary work on a…
Fired Reddit Administrator Victoria Taylor Finally Breaks Her Silence After Reddit effectively consumed itself this weekend over the firing of beloved AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor, redditors have been clawing at themselves for a chance to hear Taylor’s side of things. And now, at long last, the ex-employee has made her first public statement since the real chaos began. http://gawker.com/reddit-in-chao…Posting on the subreddit /r/self, Taylor wrote:All of which
Hacking Team’s Lame Excuse for Selling Digital Weapons to Sudan Hacking Team, the company now equally known for selling intrusive spyware to governments and getting royally hacked, has words for people who disagree with its habit of peddling powerful cyberweapons to regimes with terrible human rights records: What’s a “repressive” regime, anyway? I asked Hacking Team if someone would speak directly to its reputation for selling its remote access spyware—which
Gmail’s “Undo Send” Button Graduates from the Experimental Labs Undo send, one of Gmail’s best experimental features, is officially available to all after being a Gmail Labs feature for many years. Just head to Settings > General and scroll down to “Undo Send” to turn it on. [via Gizmodo]
Okay, So Maybe You Won’t Get Windows 10 on July 29th Are you entitled to a free copy of Windows 10? There’s a flowchart for that. However, there’s no flowchart to tell you when you might actually get Microsoft’s new operating system. Officially, Windows 10 is coming July 29th, but not everyone will get it that day—now, says Microsoft, it will roll out in waves.The official Windows Blog explains:Starting on July 29, we will start rolling out Windows
5 Ways to Stop Your Chromebook Slowing Down Has your Chromebook crawled to a halt? Is it slow to load pages? Is it slowing down generally? Time to speed up Chrome again. I’m an avid Chromebook user myself, and despite advocating their usage as cheap, reliable laptops, I found my own Chromebook was slowing down enormously. Until I finally sorted things out, my pages were loading incredibly slowly and I had no idea why. I went as far as delet
Russia fights ‘death by selfie’ Russian police are warning the public of a new danger: Death by selfie.
The Latest Google Algorithm Creates Video Based On a Few Still Images Google’s engineers can do some pretty incredible things with the consumer technology it has developed—from “dreaming” neural networks based on computer vision to an algorithm that can create video from Street View images.For example, this month we watched as the company’s “dream robot,” also known as its super-advanced artificial neural network, ran wild across the internet. These networks are bei
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Laughs at the AI Apocalypse Over the past several months, many of the world’s most famous scientists and engineers — including Stephen Hawking — have said that one of the biggest threats to humanity is an artificial superintelligence. But Linus Torvalds, the irascible creator of open source operating system Linux, says their fears are idiotic.He also raised some good points, explaining that what we’re likely to see isn’t som
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This Free Font Automatically Redacts NSA Surveillance Trigger Words Some might see downloading this free font called Seen as the digital equivalent of donning a tin foil hat. Except that we know that security agencies like the NSA are intercepting emails and other communications, scanning for specific trigger words that this font automatically crosses out.But Emil Kozole’s Seen font isn’t necessarily designed to let you slip messages under the NSA’s radar. It’s mo
New Oreo Thin is perfect for people who don’t like Oreos that much “I don’t like Oreos very much.” Try a new Oreo Thin, with a lot less Oreo to dislike! And since they’re for adults, Oreo says they weren’t designed to be twisted open or dunked. Read the rest
Reddit CEO Says Sorry For Screwing Up For So Many Years In a post made on-site after a shitstorm of a weekend, reddit CEO Ellen Pao acknowledged that the company has “screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years,” and vowed a change of course. After 180,000+ signed a petition calling for her resignation, the gesture is unsurprising. But it’s mostly a gesture. The reddit rebellion, which raged over the weekend in response to the
Robotic dog pants, dribbles warm saliva, and tries to bite you Here’s some fun: “Place hand in dog’s cage and hold it there for as long as you dare. Dog pants, dribbles warm saliva and other disgusting things.” It’s a coin-operated amusement built by Tim Hunkin, and you can see a customer trying it out in this video. Read the rest
Google-owned Waze launches “RideWith” carpooling app on Android RideWith, seen here looking very, very Waze-y. 5 more images in gallery Waze, the traffic-mapping app that Google acquired in 2013 for upwards of $1 billion, launched its first spin-off app on Monday. The new app, RideWith, sees Waze and Google entering the carpooling business. The app is now live in the Google Play store for Android devices, but it currently only works in Waze’s hom
Eric Holder Says Edward Snowden Could Possibly Work Out a Plea Deal Former US Attorney General Eric Holder—the guy who filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden for three felony violations of the Espionage Act—is now hinting that Snowden could strike a plea deal if he came back to the US. In an interview with Yahoo News, Holder acknowledged that Snowden’s whistleblowing started a “necessary debate” about privacy. Asked if that meant the Justice Department
Court orders pirate site owner to pay Hollywood $17.2 million in damages It’s more bad news for Dimitri Mader, owner of a poplar “warez” forum, as a court has ordered him to pay $12.8 million in damages to a collective of Hollywood studios. That’s on top of the $4.4 million award that’ll be split between two music groups and Microsoft. …
Hack Exposes What an Utter Piece of Shit This Spyware Company Is Spyware maker Hacking Team just asked its customers to stop using its software in the wake of a large data breach. Good! Because Hacking Team is a corrupt trashcan company that provides weapons to criminals. The information exposed by hackers this week makes it clear that the Italian company doesn’t give a shit if groups with horrible human rights track records use its software. Of course, Hacking
Nearly 5,000 new Android malware strains are discovered everyday New data from analytics firm G DATA is painting a disturbing picture. Its Q1 2015 Mobile Malware report suggests that nearly a half a million new malware strains were discovered in the first 3 months of this year. That’s a new case of Android malware every 18 seconds, or around…
Gene-modded mosquitoes will fight Dengue Fever in Brazil The Brazilian city of Piracicaba has a potent new weapon in the ongoing fight against Dengue Fever, which infects more than a million people annually: genetically modified mosquito lotharios Created by Oxitec of Abingdon, UK and bred locally within B…
Amazon Celebrates 20 Years with Prime Day — Design News Pin it Amazon is 20 years old, and on July 15, the online
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Netflix Card is your pay-as-you-go gateway to binge watching In the UK, if you want to sign up for Netflix, your options are basically PayPal or your bank card. With the Netflix Card, however, the company has just introduced a new pay-as-you-go option, allowing you to continue sampling the service beyond the f…
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Amazon’s Treasure Truck is like an ice cream truck for deals You can’t really accuse Amazon of being afraid to try something new. While we await drone-powered deliveries, Amazon is launching a new service called “Treasure Truck” that’s basically the equivalent of a neighborhood ice cream truck for killer deals…
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Lego Wants to Stop Producing Oil-Based Bricks Since 1963, Lego toys off all shapes and sizes have been moulded from ABS plastic, a material with a long list of pros; but thanks to the reliance on petroleum to make ABS, sustainability isn’t one of them. That’s why Lego is spending hundreds of millions of dollars finding an alternative. The company will spend $150 million on research and development of sustainable alternatives to the ABS plasti
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The Key to Longer-Lasting Smartwatches Might Be Stupidly Simple Smartwatches are not endowed with the greatest battery life, thanks to the limited space available. But for the increasingly large number of circular smartwatches on the market, there’s one simple change that could yield a quarter more power: stop trying to fit rectangular batteries into round bodies.LG Chem, the battery-making division of Korean manufacturer LG, is releasing a hexagonal battery a
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PayPal explains when it will hit you with robocalls When PayPal updated its user agreement with language suggesting that it had broad powers to make automated calls (aka robocalls) and texts, customers were understandably nervous. Was the company going to spam you until you bought more stuff using its…
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The ‘father of SMS,’ Matti Makkonen, dies at 63 It’s a sad day in the cellphone world. Matti Makkonen, widely considered the “father of SMS,” has died from illness at the age of 63. The Finnish creator pitched the concept of text messaging over cellular networks in 1984 and helped get the ball rol…
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Sprint Found In Violation of Prism Patents Sprint was found culpable of infringing on two patents held by Prism Technologies. The patents in question pertain to accessing protected computer resources and were used by Sprint in its “Simply Everything” and “Everything Data” plans, according to Prism. Sprint was ordered to pay a fine of $30 million. Sprint rejects the decision and said it will appeal. “We believe the
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The Campaign to Crowdfund Greece’s Bailout Has Crashed Indiegogo Yesterday we told you about a silly crowdfunding campaign to bail out Greece. Apparently there’s been so much interest that Indiegogo’s servers have been overloaded. The campaign is currently down. No joke. [Update: It’s back up and going strong.]We’re experiencing connectivity issues due to overwhelming worldwide interest in the @GreekBailout campaign. Thanks for your patience.June 30, 2015Now, i
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Is This Time Capsule Filled With $1 Million and a Ghost or Nah? Does this mason jar contain a treasure map? Or maybe a million dollars? Or maybe even the ghost of a pirate that spent decades stalking the coast of Florida? No one knows for sure. All we do know is that a Florida woman recently found this old mason jar in a decaying tree trunk and now she’s selling it on eBay.Donna Handforth of Oceanway, Florida discovered the mason jar after her dogs started dig
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UK police seize thousands of Android streamers modded for piracy Set-top boxes help deliver streaming services like Netflix and Now TV into our homes, but they’re also giving rise to less-than legal methods of watching films, TV shows and sport. As manufacturers have embraced the open nature of Android, enterprisi…
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The New Steve Jobs Trailer Is All About Seth Rogen’s Woz Today there’s a new trailer for the other other other Steve Jobs movie, the one starring Michael Fassbender. But this trailer gives us the first real look at Seth Rogen as Woz… and damned if I’m not going to see this movie just to watch him.Don’t get me wrong, Fassbender as Jobs is an inspired choice—even though he looks nothing like him, he feels a lot more like him than other Jobs we’ve seen b
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Feds hunt for suspects in California internet backbone attack A string of attacks in California on one of the core portions of the internet has the FBI searching for suspects. The latest disruption occurred yesterday morning when three fiber-optic cables were cut in Alameda county in the Bay Area. The interrupt…
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You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond Lasers With each passing year, engineers are getting closer to recreating the 3D interface technology that pop culture has rendered so clearly for decades. Just last fall, a Japanese company called Burton Inc. unveiled a system that used lasers to create 3D displays in mid-air which, Burton said, could be used to notify people of emergencies. Now we’re seeing the evolution of that technology—but it’s def
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Uber pushes for rule changes by using drivers as mail couriers Uber is no stranger to using grassroots campaigns to push for pro-ridesharing regulation, but it just took things one step further: it’s turning its app into a political activism tool. If you live in St. Louis, you now have an UberLetters option that…
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How Google is Trying to Free You From Your Cell Phone Plan In April, Google unveiled Project Fi — a new wireless service the company claims will deliver faster speeds and better coverage with a unique, economical approach to pricing. Today, we’re going to take a look at what Google wants to do, and how they plan to pull it off. What Is Project Fi? Project Fi is Google’s effort to ensure that everyone has access to a high speed wireless network all the tim
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Redefining the purity ring “I know that we can’t change people’s behavior,” says Irina Rymshina, “but in later life they may want children and they certainly don’t want cancer. I think that we can help them.” She’s talking about Hoope, a wearable device that, it’s hoped, will …
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Apple to pay $450 million in e-book price-fixing suit Apple conspired with publishers to artificially raise the price of e-books, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today, upholding a verdict from 2013. Now that the company has lost its appeal, Apple is expected to pay $450 millio…
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Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor If you tried to visit r/IAmA (one of Reddit’s biggest subs) recently, you were probably greeted by the image above. And if you’ve been absolutely anywhere else on the site at all in the past few hours, you probably noticed that everyone is flipping their collective shit over speculation that Victoria Taylor, the high-profile coordinator that kept IAmA afloat, was suddenly and mysteriously fired. A
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Major Government Spying Service Supplier Hacked, 400GB of Data Stolen An Italian company called Hacking Team, which supplies intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, has been hacked. The intruders have made off with 400GB of data which is now being leaked online.The tranche of document reveals details about the company’s clients, along with passwords and details about the use of its products. So far, points out CSO, the list of c
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Uber hires guards to protect drivers from protests in South Africa Uber has been forced to recruit private security guards to preserve the safety of its drivers in Johannesburg, South Africa. The move was prompted by protests at the city’s Gautrain Station and Sandton City that threatened to break out into violence….
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San Francisco is serious about Airbnb regulation Since San Francisco is all about startups, it’s no surprise that the city changed its laws to accommodate one of its most successful: Airbnb. Last year, officials passed the so-called “Airbnb law,” legalising short-term rentals of private property wi…
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BP agrees to historic settlement over oil spill British energy company says it will pay up to $19bn for damage caused by Gulf of Mexico oil spill five years ago.
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Heads-up displays in cars can hinder driver safety Heads-up displays (HUDs) in cars were once a rare thing. More and more, new cars now come with HUDs as standard, and you can even buy aftermarket HUDs. HUDs project useful information like the car’s current speed and navigation directions into the driver’s field of view, saving them from having to look down at an instrument panel or display, the idea being to reduce distractions and keep a drive
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5 Ways to Stay Safe From Bad Tor Exit Nodes Tor is one of the most powerful tools for protecting your privacy on the Internet. But, as one recent experiment proved, its power comes with serious limitations. Today, we’re going to talk a little about how Tor works, what it does and does not do, and how to stay safe while using it. Tor in a Nutshell Tor works like this: when you send a message through Tor, it’s sent on a randomly-generated cou
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BBC cuts 1,000 jobs to combat licence fee shortfall For a long time, the BBC has operated knowing that licence fee funding may be taken away. With all eyes on how it spends public money, the broadcaster tightened its belt and committed to saving £1.5 billion by 2017. The problem with this, and cost-cu…
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TracFone Finally Agrees To Allow Phone Unlocking jfruh writes: While most Slashdot readers probably enjoy the latest and greatest smartphones and heavy-use data plans, millions of Americans use low-cost, prepaid featurephones, and many of those are sold under various brand names owned by TracFone. Today, after much pressure from the FCC, TracFone admitted that its customers also have the right to an unlocked phone that they can port to a differe
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Why You Think Some Things Are Common on Social Media When They’re Not Have you ever found yourself staring at Facebook, blinking in disbelief because you can’t quite fathom why something is so popular? Well you might just be victim of a network quirk that makes it appear as though something is common—when in fact it’s actually rare.A new piece of research from the University of Southern California reveals a new kind of naturally occurring illusion that means you may
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Plex Hacked, Change Your Password Now If you use the Plex media server for your movie and TV library and have ever used the Plex forums, you’ll need to change your password this morning. The company announced its forum servers were hacked, leaving email addresses, forum messages, and hashed passwords vulnerable.The company says that only users who have used the Plex forums should be affected. That being said, it may still be worth res
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GCHQ did spy on Amnesty International, secret tribunal admits The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which provides oversight for UK intelligence services, admitted yesterday that its judgement made on 22 June wrongly failed to declare that Amnesty International had been subject to unlawful surveillance by GCHQ. The IPT revealed this in an email sent to the ten NGO claimants involved in the earlier legal challenge to UK government surveillance. As Amnest
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Man killed by a factory robot in Germany On Wednesday, Volkswagen said that a 22-year-old external contractor for the company had been killed by a robot at a production factory in Baunatal, Germany. Heiko Hillwig, a VW spokesperson speaking to the AP about the incident, said that the robot grabbed the worker and crushed him against a metal plate. The worker died later at a nearby hospital due to complications from his injuries. Hillwig
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Chicago’s new ‘cloud tax’ raises some questions about the future of streaming services A new “cloud tax” takes effect today in Chicago and streaming services as well as online databases sit in the crosshairs. The tax is a combination of two recent rulings from the Department of Finance: the first covers “electonically delivered amusements” such Netflix and Spotify, and the second covers “nonpossessory…
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NSA’s hacking tool is apparently as easy to use as a Google search It’s been a couple of years since Edward Snowden and The Guardian introduced us to the NSA’s spying tool called XKeyscore. Now, The Intercept has published new details about it from 48 documents Snowden provided, revealing that it’s a lot more powerf…
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Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber lpress writes: Two Cuban universities have fiber links and fiber connections will be available to all Cuban universities in January 2016. One of the currently connected universities is in the west, near Havana (satellite ground station) and one in the east, near the undersea cable landing. Cuba will use Chinese equipment for DSL to the home and Wifi access points. Read more of this story at Sla
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This Video Shows Hand Exercises for Gamers and Heavy Computer Users If you spend long hours attached to your keyboard and mouse—whether for gaming or work—try these stretching exercises. They’ll not only make your hands and wrists feel better, you might get faster and more efficient when gaming.Dr. Levi Harrison offers several tips and simple exercises in the video above, including whole hand exercises and special thumb exercises.(By the way, if you’re concerned a
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AMC’s ‘Humans’ is an android story that’s really about us Early on in AMC’s newest sci-fi show, Humans, a teenager
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Show Notes – June 29th, 2015
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/06/my-dream-machine-lenovo-may-build-a-new-classic-thinkpad/
the running of the news interns after scotus ruling
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium starting tomorrow in Philadelphia: https://petsymposium.org
and along with it today: Surveillance and Technology Symposium: https://satsymposium.org
Your Dumb Smoke Detector Gets a Smart Battery — Design News Pin it If you’ve been waiting to transition to smart smoke detectors, but aren’t really looking forward to swapping out every. single. one. in your home, now you can just change the battery. Roost is a smart battery that gives your old detectors an upgrade. READ MORE »
New Map Reveals How Airbnb Has Transformed Your Neighborhood Bed-Stuy-based photographer Murray Cox has used his coding skills to collect all of the public information associated with every single Airbnb listing in New York City, and arranged it on a searchable bird’s eye map. “There are 1,500 listings in my neighborhood,” he told us. “I decided to present this data on a map so that people can start to relate to it.” [ more › ]
Meh, cisgender, jeggings, and other new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary Also: Photobomb, crowdfund, totes, sext, and nearly 500 more. Read the rest
The Reason Your City Can’t Have Fast Internet Access Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to ease the way for cities to become Internet service providers. So-called municipal broadband is already a reality in a few towns, often providing Internet access and faster service to rural communities that cable companies don’t serve.The cable and telecommunications industry have long lobbied against city-run broadband, arguing that
8 Things You Should Know About the Office of Personnel Management Breach – Huffington Post Computerworld8 Things You Should Know About the Office of Personnel Management BreachHuffington PostFor almost a month, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has been engaged in damage control after publicly disclosing that it was the victim of a massive data breach of government employee data. When first announced in early June, it was believed …Oversight Republicans urge Obama to fire…The
All-in-one camera ball scouts dangerous locationsImagine how much easier it would be if first responders could search inside collapsed buildings, or if police could scope out a suspect’s room for danger before breaking in. That’s the driving force behind the Explorer, a tactical ball equipped with …
Why Is Google Opening a New Data Center In a Former Coal-Fired Power Plant? HughPickens.com writes: Quentin Hardy reports at the NY Times that Google has announced it is opening its 14th data center inside a former coal-fired power plant in Stevenson, Alabama. While there is considerable irony in taking over a coal-burning plant and promoting alternative power, there are pragmatic reasons Google would want to put a $600 million data center in such a facility. These power
You Can Marathon Every Episode Of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show For The Next 42 Days We’ve only got a little over a month left of Jon Stewart’s legendary Daily Show show run, with his final episode set to air on August 6th. It’s hard to imagine a world without Jon Stewart around to critique it, but before we begin panning ensuing host Trevor Noah, Comedy Central has given us a little gift—they’ll be streaming every single one of Stewart’s Daily Show episodes until he vacates his
At Last We Have a Scientific Explanation for Cat Pictures And, as neuroscientist Bethany Brookshire put it, “obvious study is obvious.” People appear to be looking at cat pictures on the internet in order to “regulate mood,” or make themselves happier. But sometimes those pictures make us feel bad, too.Though its conclusions may seem like common sense, Brookshire points out that these kinds of studies shed light on many aspects of the way behave online.
Women, LGBT least safe on Facebook, despite ‘real name’ policy Despite Facebook’s insistence that its “real names” policy keeps its users safe, a new report reveals that Facebook is the least safe place for women online. And things are turning more explosive, as stories emerge that Facebook has been changing its…
T-Mobile iPhone users are getting the blue screen of death T-Mobile users beware, the evil blue screen of death is out to get you. A large number of the provider’s user base have been complaining about random issues including, but not limited to, intermittent freezes, frequent restarts and yes, the blue screen of death. Reports seem to be coming in…
You’re About to Start Finding Amazon’s Echo AI In Unexpected Places Could Amazon actually win the race to build the most widely-used AI voice platform? As unlikely as it sounds, Amazon is pushing far harder than Microsoft or Apple to get its technology into the hands of other companies.Today, Amazon said it would make Alexa—the voice-controlled assistant that sits inside its Echo hardware—free to any developers who want to use the software in their third-party dev
Google Asks Android Developers To Show Sensitivity To Disasters and AtrocityMark Wilson writes: Today Google revealed an updated version of its Google Play Developer Program Policies. There aren’t actually all that many changes or additions, but those that are present are quite interesting. Google is clamping down on the problem of impersonation, making it clearer that it is not permissible to mislead users by imitating other apps, making false claims, or suggesting endor
Controversial legislation to block ‘pirate’ sites approved by Australian senate A controversial bill allowing overseas piracy websites to be blocked at the ISP level has successfully made its way through the Australian senate with a vote of 37 in favor versus 13 against.
The Final Hurdle Is Cleared – Apps Will Replace Websites Search engines can’t yet crawl and discover content within an app, but Google’s quiet acquisition of an app-streaming platform shows the industry is headed in that direction.
Beats Headphones Cost $20 to Make, Australia Blocks Pirates, & More… [Tech News Digest]Cheap headphones beat Beats, Australia
How AI Sex Dolls Will Change Dating in Just Three Years [NSFW] Dating has always been difficult, for men and women alike.
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Show Notes – June 15th, 2015
Today Martin and Lena talk tech.
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LastPass Hacked, Change Your Master Password Now Bad news first, folks. LastPass, our favorite password manager (and yours) has been hacked. It’s time to change your master password. The good news is, the passwords you have saved for other sites should be safe.LastPass has announced on their company blog that they detected an intrusion to their servers. While encrypted user data (read: your stored passwords for other sites) was not stolen, the i
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Netflix is Getting Its First Big Web Interface Update in Four Years Netflix has experimented with its interface a lot over the years, but there’s always been a bit of a disconnect between how the service looks in your browser and your various apps. Now, the company is updating its web site with a huge UI change to make it more app-like.The new design is meant to be a more dynamic interface, rather than a series of standalone pages. You can now get more information
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Should You Dump Your Loyalty Cards After the Starbucks Hack? Last month news broke about Starbucks’ loyalty cards having a security flaw. The flaw was discovered and exploited by Egor Homakov, a hacker who works for penetration testing, source code auditing, and vulnerability assessment firm Sakurity. The loophole allowed Egor to duplicate funds on a Starbucks gift card, which then he managed to spend in a shop without being questioned nor alerting the comp
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Kodi (Formerly XBMC) Now Available on Android, No Beta Signup Required We’ve been a fan of Kodi since it was still called XBMC. The Android version of the media center app has been in an open beta for a while, but now that period is over. You can now download and install it on your phone, tablet, or Android TV without joining a Google+ community.The Play Store listing is still being designated by the company as a “beta”, though it no longer uses Google’s complex syst
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Marriott Signs Deal with Netflix to Bring Service to All US Hotels — Design News Pin it Now you can continue your binge watching while traveling: Marriott launched a partnership with Netflix that allows guests to stream the service on the hotel’s Internet-connected TVs. READ MORE »
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Investment bank ‘confirms’ Razer quietly bought OUYA One of the problems with keeping the news of a recent engagement a secret is that, sometimes, an investment banker runs off and tells your parents before you can. That’s the sticky situation that has met Razer and Ouya, since their recent union has b…
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Learn the History of Infographics the Best Way Possible… With an Infographic Infographics, as we know them now, are a relatively new way of providing information or getting a point across. They’ve quickly risen to be one of the nicer-looking ways of teaching people about something. They offer bite-sized chunks of information with a great deal of visual style. How did the humble infographic become so popular? Where did they get started? Is there a better way to get a quick,
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5 Must-See Documentaries About Hacking and Hackers Hacking is one of those subjects that everybody knows about yet few people truly understand. Is hacking inherently malicious? Is there a difference between a hacker and a cracker? What about white hat vs. black hat vs. gray hat hackers? And where do terms like “life hacking” fit into everything? First, let’s cut the colloquialisms. Hacking your life has no relation to actual hacking. Device tamper
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Google’s New Smart Lock Is the Password Manager for the Rest of Us Amidst all the big Google I/O news, the company quietly made a major overhaul to Chrome’s password manager. It’s now a part of the revamped Smart Lock service, and if you still haven’t started using a secure app to store your passwords, this one’s for you.What’s Actually New?Google—or, more specifically, Chrome—has had a makeshift password manager for a while now. You’ve probably seen it before: a
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IdentityTheft.gov Shows You How to Recover From a Stolen Identity Identity theft has the potential to ruin lives, but it can also make you feel helpless if you’re a victim. The Federal Trade Comission (FTC) just took the wraps off of IdentityTheft.gov, a new resource designed to offer that much-needed help if your identity has been stolen.The site is set up in a simple step-by-step format, so you can click each step on the process to begin the recovery process a
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Why You Should Protect Even Your Most Unimportant Data When it comes to protecting our data, many of us only place a high priority on certain important data like financial information or location. However, even seemingly mundane data can be used to paint a picture if you’re not careful to protect it.As business blog Entrepreneur points out, the data that we don’t think is important is often easier to gain access to. However, those who mean to use your
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Inbox by Gmail Is Now Available Without an Invite, Adds New Features Today, Google finally stripped Inbox of its invitation requirement. If you’ve wanted to get in on the email-as-a-to-do-list action, you can now sign up for Inbox directly. Not only are invites no longer required, Inbox has also added some sweet new features, including Trip bundles. Much like how the Purchases bundle puts all your purchase-related emails together, Trip bundles will collect all the
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Free Speech vs. Harassment: Why Did Reddit Ban Five Subreddits? Reddit officially announced the decision to ban five subreddits, due to ongoing harassment problems. This is a change in policy for the website, which has previously refused to ban even the most hateful subreddits because of their belief in free speech. In 2012, then-CEO Yishan Wong said, “We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal co
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12 Ways Your Phone Can Help You Be Healthier and More Productive Take a quick break from Instagram—we promise that it’s worth it.
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Give Kids a List of Things They Have to Do Before Earning Screen Time If your kids are anything like mine, the first thing they want to do when they get home from school or wake up in the morning is turn on something with a screen. Usually the computer with Minecraft on it. Keep them productive and also limit screen time with a must-do list.Ann Kirby-Payne writes on her Narrowback Slacker blog how she stopped arguing with her kids about screen time and chores and ta
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Home automation with ATTiny and mobile phone In our cottage in the woods we don’t have a reliable internet connection. In the winter it is really cold when we enter and it takes a couple of hours before the house warms up when turning on the floor heating after we come in.I wanted to be able to turn the heating on before we arrive, and enter a…By: MaxJanssenContinue Reading »
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The Virtual Reality Headset of 2018 Ah, yes. Nothing screams ‘escapism’ like strapping on a seven-inch screen from forehead to upper lip. While the virtual reality headsets available today are impressively immersive, they are not without their aesthetic downsides—but that’s simply because we’re still toying with the tech’s first generations. In 2018, the Oculus Rift could look more like a pair of Ray-Bans than a face computer. The
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This Chart Teaches You How to Prepare Unusual Vegetables Whether you’re trying to get more vegetables into your diet or just try new foods,, this chart from Lucky Peach shows you several interesting ways to prepare common and uncommon vegetables The chart includes suggestions for each vegetable, including how to, stir fry, grill, bake, or pickle each one.. When you make your next meal plan, you can quickly refer to this chart to create tasty side dishes
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Mischief Managed: The Facebook Privacy Nightmare Caused By One Chrome Extension I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. That about sums things up. For a short while, a Chrome extension called the Marauder’s Map was letting Facebook users track their friends’ exact locations. Here’s what you need to know about this Facebook privacy breach. The Marauder’s Map The name comes from Harry Potter, where the Marauder’s Map shows the exact locations of everyone in Hogwarts. In reali
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These 5 SMS Services Offer You the Internet Without a Data Plan Use the Internet on the go without a data plan. If this sounds impossible, you’ve forgotten about SMS. Today Cool Websites and Apps outlines services that take advantage of SMS to give you access to web services without actually connecting to the Internet. Call it the offline web. Whether you’re hoping to make your dumb phone smart or just save money on your phone bill by ditching mobile data enti
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Google Maps Updated to Send Directions from Desktop to Your iPhone iOS: If you tend to look for locations on your desktop more often than your phone, Google’s rolled out a handy feature for iOS that lets you send location searches from the desktop version of Google Maps to your iPhone in a click.Once enabled, you can instantly send any location from your desktop computer to your iOS device as long as they’re signed into the same account by clicking on the “Send t
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Why Fraud Is a Real Threat to Crowdfunding I’m reading the comments of a highly successful Kickstarter Campaign. “a half year later I still want my money back” says one. Another says “Taylor is a crook. I have requested several times for refund. He won’t even knowledge my emails.”. Simply called “Learn iPhone App Development“, the campaign blew past its initial modest goal of $2,000, earning an eye-watering $54,626 from 656 backers, 437 of
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OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million Patrick O’Neill writes: After the fall of Silk Road, Amir Taaki built DarkMarket in an effort to offer a decentralized and “untouchable” market alternative. That’s grown into OpenBazaar, a “censorship-resistant” protocol that just raised $1 million from venture capital firms Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as angel investor William Mougayar through the co
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Reddit Removes “FatPeopleHate,” “CoonTown” Still Cool Though Reddit, a 10-year-old internet community with 3.3 million users, somehow just got around to announcing an anti-harassment policy last month. Now the site, which usually leaves moderation decisions up to the community, has taken its first stab at banning pernicious subreddits under the new rules. Five subreddits have been shuttered by reddit admins “based on their harassment of individuals,” the Re
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I strapped on a harness to fly in a virtual world I flew over snowcapped mountains with the wind in my face. Actually the mountains were virtual and the wind was just two fans blowing at my head. But, if you’ve ever wanted to be Superman, the folks at Mindride have you covered. That is if you’re fin…
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Serious iOS bug makes it easy to steal users’ iCloud passwords A security researcher has published attack code he said makes it easy to steal the iCloud passwords of people using the latest version of Apple iOS for iPhones and iPads. The proof-of-concept attack exploits a flaw in Mail.app, the default iOS e-mail program. Since the release of version 8.3 in early April, the app has failed to properly strip out potentially dangerous HTML code from incoming e-
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Radio Shack bankruptcy update: most customer data will be destroyed, not sold to pay creditors When electronics retailer Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, the chain proposed selling customers’ personal data to raise cash and repay creditors. That’s not gonna happen, and the news is seen as a win for the right to privacy. Read the rest
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You can now share Twitter block lists because people are horrible Anyone can use Twitter which makes it equal parts amazing and horrible for some users. To help squelch some of the more annoying voices on the social network, Twitter lets users block accounts they find disruptive or worse, threaten said user. Today,…
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Fix your STL files with Microsoft Model Repair Service (free!) This is a very simple and powerful service offered by Microsoft and powered by netfabb. Using a simple 3 step process, the tool will automatically fix many common problems with 3d models. The tool supports STL, OBJ, 3MF and VRML files. Point your browser of choice to the Model Repair Service websi…By: AlexH18Continue Reading »
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Twitter Just Made A Bulk Troll-Banishing Tool That’s Actually Useful Twitter has a troll problem that’s never going to go
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Show Notes – June 8th, 2015
A synopsis of discussion between Lena and her mac obsessed friend D about all things mac
worldwide developer conference
WWDC Keynote Address at the beginning of the conference
swift has been made open source and it seems like a nice step, but how practically useful will that be in the real world?
I’m excited about their improvements to the iOS keyboard – using it essentially as a trackpad to change your cursor location and select text but they only demo’d it for iPad, and I’m not sure if it’ll come to iphone
I’m excited to try out the overdue transit map features
I thought it was really interesting that their updates to HealthKit includes reproductive health – menstruation tracking
it was just a quick little throwaway mention, but it seemed significant given how much the tech industry ignores that sort of stuff
A bunch of people were hoping that Apple would explicitly mention putting effort into bug fixes – there’s been a lot of chatter about how buggy current versions are
here’s the background on the discoveryd bugs
people have been estimating that those networking bugs might be about 50% of the errors in the current iOS and Mac OS
with all the the Handoff features and such
in the latest developer beta of OS X they reverted back to the old method actually
mDNSresponder or somesuch I think it is called
I’m also curious to try out the new iOS 9 notes app
it looks like it might actually be powerful enough for me to want to use it?
it’s local apps that sync through icloud
notes started off super basic with out even syncing
but they’ve been gradually adding features to it
the iphone skype app used to be atrocious, but their update a few months back made it quite useable
the rumors were that new AppleTV was supposed to be announced today but the software and/or content deals weren’t ready in time so they had to cut it.
which might explain some of the rambling this time
in a few days as developers get into the new betas
In the past there have been references to new hardware features not yet released
and that would make a lot of sense for the rumored new apple tv SDK stuff to have references in mac and ios for streaming features
third party apps might make the apple tv something I actually feel like buying. maybe.
Also the naming of the new Mac OS is interesting
El Capitan is a part of Yosemite
(prev OS X was Yosemite, this one is El Capitan)
like the analog to Snow Leopard from Leopard, and Mountain Lion from Lion
as the tick-tock release schedule
Yosemite was lots of new features and UI overhauls
and if this follows that same pattern, presumably more under the hood improvements
which supports the bug fixes theory, even though it’s not explicitly stated in the keynote
they way that they did for snow leopard
a couple times they emphasized designing things like Siri queries being careful to protect user privacy
they have been talking abiout that a couple times lately
and clearly targeting google in some of their comments
“You’re in control of your data. Searches are not associated with your Apple ID and not shared with third parties.”
“News keeps your data private. And Apple never shares what you’re reading with third parties.”
“Unlike other news aggregation services, News was built in a way that respects and maintains your privacy.”
they’re also adding two factor authentication as an option on Apple ID accounts
Sent at 5:04 PM on Monday
Tim talked about that same stuff a week or two back also http://techcrun
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Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries MarkWhittington writes: The advent of commercially available self-driving cars is about five years away, but already some are thinking about how they will disrupt the economy and how society operates in general. One industry likely to suffer is that of auto insurance. Since the vast majority of auto accidents are caused by human error, having more autonomous vehicles on the road will almost assure
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Driver Sues City After Video Shows Cops Admitting They “Don’t Know Why” They Pulled Him Over A Bronx man who was arrested after a traffic stop in Aprilbut not before he managed to capture one of his arresting officers on cellphone video admitting “I don’t even know why we pulled him over”is filing a lawsuit against the city. [ more › ]
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Move over, Prius: Garbage trucks can be hybrids, too We’re obviously very interested in hybrid vehicles here at Ars Technica; our very first car review back in 2000 was on the then-new Honda Insight. But while we’ve covered the development of hybrid cars since then, we haven’t paid quite as much attention to other parts of the transportation sector. As it turns out, there’s plenty of interesting work going on trying to make large trucks more fuel
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Just one image to answer all your online dating woes : india Dear Gods, Please reincarnate me as a White – Male. At the very least not an Indian – Male. Fraaaanseeeeep?
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Here Are The Only Six Women Apple Has Ever Put On Stage [Updating] Diversity in tech is a widespread problem, and Apple is actually going to address it today. In an interview with Mashable, Tim Cook admitted that Apple needs more diversity—and hinted that today’s keynote at WWDC will feature at least one woman. Which would make this the seventh woman ever to be on the Apple stage. [Update: We’re up to 8!]In an interview yesterday with Mashable’s Christina Warren,
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Five Common Scams Directed at Seniors (and How to Avoid Them) Scammers and identity thieves prey on all types, but some of the most vulnerable—and often targeted—by those criminals are senior citizens. From convincing “reverse mortgage” ads to aggressive calls claiming to be from the government, here are some of the most common scams directed at seniors, and how to avoid them or help your relatives avoid them.We’ve talked about how to protect yourself from i
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Bicycle Steers You Right with Built-In Navigation System Cyclists in Portland, Oregon are abuzz thanks to a new innovation in bicycle navigation. It’s called the SOLID bike, and it combines rugged, forward-looking design with the latest in 3D printing and mobile communication technology to inspire everyday cycling. SOLID features a navigation system built into the bike that alerts the rider to upcoming turns with vibrations in the handlebars, leaving th
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Harlem Rents Are 90 Damn Percent Higher Than In 2002 Median rent costs in Central Harlem increased by a vertiginous 90% between 2002 and 2014, according to a report analyzing newly-released census data. Meanwhile, in Bed-Stuy, the median cost of rent rose 63% over the same time period, prompting the neighborhood to change its infamous slogan to Bed-Stuy: Do Or Die Trying To Come Up With $2,000 Every Month Are You Kidding Me? [ more › ]
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Get Windows 10 – It’s Not a Virus! When you see the Get Windows 10 icon in your system tray, you can now reserve your Windows 10 upgrade. It’s not a virus. It’s Microsoft’s official upgrade note prior to the official release of Windows 10 on July 29th, 2015. Can You Upgrade to Windows 10? For the free upgrade to Windows 10, you must be running Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1. Below are the Windows 10 hardware requirements: Processor:
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Roving Robotic Beds Are the Best Way To Commute While You Sleep We’ve all fantasized about sleeping comfortably on the way to work. And now, thanks to a new robot on exhibit in London, you can go anywhere without leaving your (robotic, moving) bed.Starting this week at London’s Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Belgian artist Carsten Höller offers you the chance to spend a night in the museum and crash out on his mechanical furniture. For those guests who pa
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Airbnb’s New Pricing Tool Makes It Easier for Owners to Set Prices Airbnb is a great way to find cheap lodging if you’re traveling or make some cash if you’re a property owner. If you fall into the latter category, the company just released a tool that makes it easier for you to earn more from your rental property.Read more…
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Soon, Google Will Count the Calories in Your Food Photos — Food News Pin it Ever wonder just how many calories are in that triple-dip ice cream cone you just documented on Instagram? Wonder no more — Google is working on technology to analyze photos to estimate the caloric value of the foods pictured. Sounds a little crazy, a little magic — and ultimately pretty awesome. READ MORE »
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Apple Pay To Support Loyalty Cards Apple today announced that Apple Pay in iOS 9 will support store loyalty/rewards cards, starting with Walgreens and Dunkin Donuts. Apple is also adding support for store-brand credit cards. Apple is also renaming the Passbook app to “Wallet”. Apple also announced that Square has new payment terminals that support Apple Pay. In the US, over 1 million locations will support Apple Pay by ne
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iOS 9 Improves Battery Life Apple’s iOS 9 will boost iPhone battery life in two ways. A new low-power mode can be switched on to extend battery life up to three hours, according to the company. Additional under-the-hood changes improve battery life one hour in typical usage scenarios, in all modes.
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NYC May Soon Require Restaurants To Compost Now that the city has further expanded its composting efforts, the Department of Sanitation is mulling whether to include commercial businesses in its plans to reduce organic waste in landfills. Noted composting enthusiast and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia will make a decision by July 1st on whether hotels, restaurants, grocery stores and other food-handling operations will be required t
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Apple Maps finally gets transit directions Apple’s Maps app has been lacking one of the more important turn-by-turn directions features since its launch. Today at WWDC, Maps finally got transit directions. The new feature will offer directions for buses, trains, subways and ferries. The app w…
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Apple brings side-by-side multitasking to the iPad in iOS 9 Frustrated that your iPad has all that screen real estate, but you still have to use one app at a time? That won’t be a problem when iOS 9 arrives — Apple has revealed that its new mobile software will bring side-by-side app multitasking to its tabl…
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Apple HomeKit now supports more sensors and security systems It’s been just over a year since Apple announced HomeKit, its plan to allow you to control your smart home with an iOS device. Compatible products have only just started trickling onto shelves, and there’s been some confusion about how exactly the co…
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Apple CarPlay will also control your vehicle’s apps Apple’s in-car operating system, CarPlay, is about to get a major boost. The company has announced at WWDC 2015 that it will soon let you control additional parts of your vehicle, directly from the iPhone-powered software. This means CarPlay can work…
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iOS 9 public beta available in July On stage at WWDC Apple announced that a public beta of iOS 9 would be available in July. The beta will include an enhanced Siri, a more proactive experience based on your location, time and recent apps, updated Apple Pay with support for loyalty card…
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You’ll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed Nerval’s Lobster writes: If you ever wanted a glimpse into what dooms startups, look no further than autopsy.io, a website that lists the reasons why many newborn tech firms imploded. The website offers entrepreneurs the ability to self-explain why their startup didn’t quite make it; in a bid to separate real-life stories from entertaining fictions, the application form asks for a link to a blog p
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Apple vs. Android: Buy the Ecosystem, Not the Gadget You love your Android phone. You want to buy a tablet. Everyone tells you the iPad is the best tablet— and really, it is the best. Still, it probably makes more sense for you to buy an Android tablet. Why? Read on… No, the reason isn’t emotional loyalty. Apple and Google have been battling to be your the mobile rock in your life, and this often leads to comment sections full of vitriol and hate. I
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Hackers Could Cause Fatal Overdoses By Hijacking Hospital Drug Pumps Not that anyone needed another reason to fear hospitals, but here’s a good one: Security researcher Billy Rios has discovered vulnerabilities in popular hospital drug pumps that allow hackers to remotely change drug dosages. Rios found a way to remotely change drug pump firmware that would give hackers control over the devices by accessing the hospital’s communications module to send a fake firmwa
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Remember Last.fm? A Fresh Look at the Redesigned Music Service Do you remember Last.fm? The service launched back in 2002 as an online music database, recommendation service, and music-focused social network. Along the way it amassed some 30 million users, before quietly slipping out of the public consciousness. It seemed likely that the next we’d hear about Last.fm would be when it was being acquired and then shuttered by Google, Apple, or Spotify. But no, L
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Internet-connected hospital drug pumps vulnerable to remote lethal-dose attacks Researcher Billy Rios (previously) has extended his work on vulnerabilities in hospital drug pumps, discovering a means by which their firmware can be remotely overwritten with new code that can result in lethal overdoses for patients. Read the rest
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Kickstarting Maker History: a time-travel curriculum for kids David Hunter (creator of the zombie currciulum units) has a new idea: teaching English, science, history and math through curriculum units that ask kids to pretend to be time-travellers. Read the rest
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Internet users care about their privacy but have given up on safeguarding it It’s not a fair trade, and everyone knows it. Read the rest
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Federal gov’t doesn’t trust TSA enough to inform it of airline employees with links to terrorism. According to a recently-released Government Accountability Office report, the “TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy.” The federal government doesn’t place enough trust in its own anti-terrorism administration to give it a list of pe
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Yep, Porn Time is Popcorn Time’s Very NSFW Cousin Popcorn Time, aka ‘Netflix for torrents’, has made illegally downloading movies far too easy. And, with pictures of naked ladies notoriously hard to come by on the internet, it was only a matter of time until someone adapted Popcorn Time for porn. The service, Porn Time, runs on Popcorn Time’s API, which the developers made available for public use. Functionally, it’s the same: “Porn Time works ex
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Quickly Cancel Sending a Message by Turning On Airplane Mode Ever type out a message, hit send, and immediately regret it? OS X Daily points out that if you’re quick enough, you can enable Airplane Mode to cancel that message from being sent.As long as the “Sending…” message is still displayed at the top of Messages, you can drop into Airplane Mode (pull up on the Control Center and tap the airplane icon) to cancel the message (this should work fine on An
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A Look at Some of the Worst Computer Viruses in History When you get a virus on your computer, the results can be devastating to you, personally. Some viruses, however, take the destruction and devastation far beyond a few people. Some computer viruses have caused million in damages the world over. Which computer viruses have been the most destructive throughout history? Check out the infographic below for an extremely detailed look and prepare to be s
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Big Daddy Is Watching – 6 Ways In Which You Are Monitored Everyday “You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror but it sees everything….”. Anyone who is a fan of the TV series Person of Interest will recognize that line as the beginning of the programme’s monologue. But is it just made-up television entertainment, or is it actually real? Are you rea
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Skype Is Now Available in Your Browser Skype has long been a desktop (and mobile) app, but today it’s available in your browser in the form of a new public beta.The beta is available in the US and UK. It’s pretty similar to the mobile app, you can search make calls, have text conversations, search through conversations, and everything’s synced up between your various devices. It’s a pretty simple layout without a lot to it, but it work
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Damn it, Microsoft! Here’s How to Export Your Wunderlist to Todoist, Trello, or Other Task Managers One of our favorite to-do list apps, Wunderlist, has been bought by Microsoft. It’s great news for the team at 6WunderKinder, which has worked hard for years to make the best to-do app. But if this is bad news for you and you want to switch out, there is an easy way to do that. Yes, Microsoft has stated that the app will remain free and will continue to support several platforms. But MS is notorio
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This App Is Life Changing For North Korean Defectors, Here’s Why You escape the tyrannical dictatorship you were born and raised under. You make it to a safe, democratic country where you are free to speak your mind. You’ve made it. But then you realize that you can’t understand everyone, and they have trouble understanding you. At school, you don’t understand half of what is written in the textbooks. You fall behind, and you’re stuck in a cycle of poverty in y
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Bing Adds Automated Rules to Streamline Campaign Management Bing’s new addition of automated rules helps advertisers avoid lots of manual work.
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Calm Down, Cord Cutters: Those Ads on Netflix Are Just Trailers Netflix has always been completely free of ads, and proudly so. In fact, during its China launch in April, CEO Reed Hastings said, “Our focus and our expertise is really in commercial free.” A month later, users in the United States started seeing ads before and after watching a video. Was Hastings lying? Is Netflix going to become just like any other TV network, where you have to sit through comm
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WikiLeaks releases secret TISA docs: The more evil sibling of TTIP and TPP WikiLeaks has released 17 secret documents from the negotiations of the global Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), which have been taking place behind closed doors, largely unnoticed, since 2013. The main participants are the United States, the European Union, and 23 other countries including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan and Israel, which together comprise two-thirds of gl
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These Dolls Get Sunburns To Teach Kids About Using Sunscreen There isn’t a child out there who likes being slathered in sunscreen before a day at the beach, but it’s the easiest way to ensure they don’t end up with a terrible sunburn. And to help make that a little easier for them to understand, this pair of dolls also gets a sunburn if not properly protected.Created by Nivea’s Brazilian ad agency, FCB São Paulo, the dolls were given away to kids on a beach
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Op-Ed: Two US Senators explain why Congress must unite around PATENT Act Last month, members of Congress from across the political spectrum found common ground on a piece of legislation to ensure that our patent system benefits true innovators rather than those who abuse it. Just a year after it first convened in April of 1790, the United States Congress passed legislation to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, giving American inventors the rights to
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All The Awesome Free Stuff You Get With Your Cable Subscription Cutting the cord is all the rage these days, but if you’re sticking with cable, you might as well use it to its full potential. That subscription also comes with a ton of apps, web services, and other perks you may not know about. Here are some of the best ones, and how you can access them.Maybe you’re hanging on to cable for live sports, or because there’s no over-the-air reception near you, or m
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Pommes Frites Has Found A New Home Rejoice french fry lovers—a.k.a. everyone ever. Beloved East Village fry shop Pommes Frites has found a new home after its original location was destroyed in the Second Avenue explosion. Co-owners Omer Shorshi and Suzanne Levinson told DNAinfo that they’ll be relocating to a slightly larger space at 128 MacDougal Street, even deeper into the heart of NYU territory. They’re looking to open in thei
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Microsoft’s New Phone Costs About As Much As a Drink at a Fancy Bar Cheap smartphones don’t have to suck, but Microsoft’s updated Nokia 105 is on a whole other level compared to some of the budget-friendly phones you might be considering. This feature phone is just $20.$20! Think of all the things you can buy for $20 that kind of suck. That can get you like…two tickets to a bad Michael Bay movie (if you’re lucky) or Troll 2 on Blu-Ray on eBay. Or you could buy a
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How to Create Social Media Posts That People Will Actually Read, Like, and Share It’s one thing to post. It’s another thing to post something share-worthy.
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Typing ‘http://:’ Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair An anonymous reader writes: A thread at the Skype community forums has brought to light a critical bug in Microsoft’s Skype clients for Windows, iOS and Android: typing the incorrect URL initiator http://: into a text message on Skype will crash the client so badly that it can only be repaired by installing an older version and awaiting a fix from Microsoft. The bug does not affect OS X or the ‘Me
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Unlock Chrome OS With Your Smartphone There are many limitations to Chrome OS, but seen from another angle its lack of bells and whistles is what makes it so appealing. It’s also a place where Google goes to test out some of its more forward-thinking ideas, including today’s topic: The ability to unlock a Chromebook with your Android smartphone. Here’s how it’s done.It’s called Smart Lock for Chrome and to use it you need a smartphone
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Watch robot shove heavy stuff around like a human University of Tokyo researchers demonstrated how a robot could do “whole-body pushing manipulation with contact posture planning.” In less technical terms, shoving. (IEEE Spectrum)
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Every 3 years you get to beg the government for the right to treat your property as if you owned it Section 1201 of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans jailbreaking devices, even for lawful purposes — meaning that you can’t jailbreak your tractor in order to take it to the service-center of your choosing or fix it yourself. Read the rest
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7 Free Tools That’ll Help Anyone Become a Better Writer Today You’ll wonder how you ever lived without them.
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6 Apps to Help You Transfer Money Between Friends Do you carry cash around with you? If you’re like me, probably not (or at least not much). I’d rather keep my money with my bank, so that if my wallet gets stolen, I can tell the bank and they’ll close my cards and refund me any unauthorized purchases. But the downside to keeping all of your money at the bank is that it’s not quite as easy if you want to pay your friends or family for something on
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How do the Design Philosophies of Apple, Microsoft, and Google Differ? In the tech landscape, one could argue that there are three companies who sit at the forefront of everything. Which companies are we talking about? Apple, Google, and Microsoft, of course. Microsoft and Apple are responsible for the most widely used PC operating systems, and Google practically runs the Internet. In the mobile space, Google and Apple are the dominate systems, but Microsoft is takin
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Here Are 5 Relaxing Corners of the Web The web can feel like a place where everyone wants something from you. There are emails about work and Facebook notifications – to-do lists and IMs. Are there any sites on the web that don’t want you to respond to everything? There are. We’ve gone over ways to relax and simple tools for meditation before, but today Cool Websites and Apps hopes to collect the most relaxing corners of the web. Let’s
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5 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake Fakes here! Fakes there! Fakes everywhere! Today we have five more photos you may have seen passing through the giant digestive tract known as the internet recently. But don’t be fooled. These are all fake.1. Is this a photo of empty store shelves in Venezuela?This photo went viral last week when some people claimed that those empty shelves were a product of Venezuela’s socialist policies. The emb
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Quickly Check App and Device Compatibility In Preparation for Windows 10 With Windows 10 coming on July 29th, you’ll
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