Yet another example of don’t believe anything that you read without some serious research of your own or corroboration.
Remember that study that told you to pull the plug on your kid’s gaming corner if you didn’t want him/her to have the attention span of a dog with its head stuck out a car window? Well, [...]
You’d think that as many drilling rigs as BP and others have that they would have planned for something like we are experiencing right now. It’s insane to put something like that out into the ocean and not have a plan for when, not if, something goes wrong. Not only does it do possibly irreparable [...]
If you’re in the market for a low-cost tablet, hang tight, because several affordable models are on the way, says VIA’s Richard Brown, vice president of marketing at VIA. In an interview with Bloomberg, Brown said he expects about five different models ranging in price from $100 to $150 to be available in the second [...]
Memory Weights – Concrete USB Memory Stick by Shu-Chun Hsiao » Yanko Design.
Using concrete for tech products is almost unheard of, so this Memory Weights USB Stick crafted from cement comes as a pleasant surprise. I really dig the way the capacity of the USB is branded into the block. Just to [...]
Not very long ago I went to a website that I had been too many times and was instantly under attack from rogue code that had been planted onto the site. Yep, it had been hacked.
In that situation, shut down your browser as soon as possible, then do a full virus and malware scan of [...]
Feds push for tracking cell phones | Politics and Law – CNET News
More and more privacy disappearing. Obama says we have no expectation of privacy when using our cell phones. I wonder if he feels the same about his expectation of privacy.
OhGizmo! » Archive » [CES 2010] RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity From WiFi Signals.
How cool is this? I, for one, will have one as soon as they come out.
This little box has, inside it, some kind of circuitry that harvests WiFi energy out of the air and converts it into electricity. This has been done [...]
Sprint Turns Over User GPS Data to Police 8 Million Times a Year | Maximum PC.
Are you worried about your rights being violated? You are in the minority apparently if you answered yes.
Sprint, it turns out, has been routinely handing over GPS information on its customers to law enforcement for some time. So commonplace is [...]
Climate Skeptics See ‘Smoking Gun’ in Researchers’ Leaked E-Mails
The Telegraph has posted some of the more scathing excerpts from these emails, which the newspaper suggests points to manipulation of evidence and private doubts about the reality of global warming, though the much of the scientific language in the e-mails is esoteric and hard to interpret.
Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet | Maximum PC.
Pretty Awesome if you ask me:
Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and [...]