Daily Archives: July 27, 2015

Samsung’s New Gaming Monitor Has A Cool Feature For Your Phone

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Cords, wires, and cables are well-established enemies of all that is clean and technological and convenient. To have an excess of cords is to be living in some kind of mid-century nightmare, tangled in a nest of electric snakes and forever forgetting which one goes with which thing. To that end, Samsung is incorporating a wireless charging station into its new SE370 gaming monitor, letting you slap your phone down and keep it charged while you play League of Legends. The monitor will support both PC and Mac.

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Five Lessons On The ‘Security Of Things’ From The Jeep Cherokee Hack

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Last week, Wired published an account describing how two security researchers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, were able to wirelessly hack into a Jeep Cherokee, first taking control of the entertainment system and windshield wipers, and then disabling the accelerator. Andy Greenberg, the Wired writer who was at the wheel as the self-described “digital crash test dummy” explained what happened next:

Immediately my accelerator stopped working. As I frantically pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The experiment had ceased to be fun.

Miller and Valasek also wirelessly disabled the Jeep Cherokee’s brakes, leaving Greenberg “frantically pumping the pedal as the 2-ton SUV slid uncontrollably into a ditch.” In response, on July 24 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced a recall impacting about 1.4 million vehicles, stating, somewhat incongruously, that “no defect has been found.”

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Samsung’s latest monitor comes with a built-in wireless charger

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Qi wireless charging support is almost certainly not at the top of anyone’s list of priorities when buying a new monitor. But Samsung is hoping to change that with the SE370, the “world’s first wireless mobile charging monitor.”

The Samsung SE370 is a 1080p PLS monitor that comes with either a 23.6 or 27-inch display. Other features include a 4ms response time as well as energy efficiency and eye-strain reducing modes, but that’s not what makes the SE370 unique. In the base of the monitor, Samsung has embedded a Qi wireless charger for charging all compatible smartphones.

Samsung is selling the wireless charging feature as convenient — which it is. And as an organizational tool, helping to keep cords off your desk — which it does. So if your prioritize those two features in a monitor or home office setup, be sure to keep the SE370 in mind. Complete release details on the SE370 have yet to be released, but we’ll be sure to update you once they have.

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Google+ and YouTube are finally splitting up

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Google+ and YouTube are finally splitting up
Google is officially divorcing Google+ profiles from its other, more popular services. Today the company published a blog post announcing that over the next few months, “a Google Account will be all you’ll need to share content, communicate with contacts, create a YouTube channel and more, all across Google.”

July 27, 2015 at 12:34PM
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Benioff Says Yes to Equal Pay: How Do You Measure That?

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The New York Times’ David Gelles reported this week Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has, for several years, been reaching for gender diversity and equality. “The goal was to achieve 100 percent equality for men and women in pay and promotion, and to make sure that at least a third of all participants at any meeting were women.”

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