Someone At DEF CON Made a Drone That Hacks Computers
A company called Aerial Assault has turned a quadcopter into a flying hacker which scans the world below for hackable devices and vulnerable Wi-Fi ports, a type of relatively harmless computer attack called penetration testing.
August 11, 2015 at 02:02PM
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MIT Built A Robot With Human Reflexes
Researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have designed an interface that takes advantage of a human’s split-second reflexes allowing a humanoid to maintain its balance and complete tasks.
August 11, 2015 at 01:53PM
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Using iPhones As Brake Pads Is A Bad Way To Stop A Porsche, Good Way To Destroy A Bunch Of iPhones
There are a lot of legitimate uses an iPhone: making calls, Snapchat, acting like you’re texting someone at a party. A bad way to use an iPhone is to replace a Porsche 911’s brake pads with iPhones.
August 11, 2015 at 01:53PM
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Pushbullet has announced that it’s starting to support end-to-end encryption for the main features of its apps. End-to-end encryption will work for notification mirroring, universal copy & paste, and SMS.
All of this information has been transmitted over https even before today, so it couldn’t have been peeked at by malicious individuals. But the data was still readable by Pushbullet.
Not anymore. With end-to-end encryption, the data is encrypted before it leaves your device, and is only decrypted after it’s received by another of your devices. So Pushbullet servers do nothing but forward encrypted data.
To set this up, you have to choose a password, which is used to derive a key that will encrypt your data, and manually enter this password on all of your devices. The functionality is now limited to the company’s apps for Android and Windows, and its Chrome extension. That said, iOS support is promised to come soon alongside Mac, Opera, Safari, and…
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Nuestro titular puede sonar muy apocalíptico pero es justamente lo que aseguran muchos científicos. Estudiosos de este campo han señalado desde hace tiempo que nuestro universo estaba muriendo muy lentamente y que llegaría un momento en que las estre…
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All hail the Alphabet. Will Google’s new overlord company usher in a new era of innovation, or was this branding effort just to appease bored investors?
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Winning???Silicon Valley-style???involves a very rare blend of audacity bordering on arrogance, fearlessness bordering on ignorance and genius that borrows from the nearly 200-year old ?go west, young (wo)man? mentality you can still feel here.
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Amid protests by local citizens and anti-nuclear groups, Japan restarted the first of its shuttered nuclear reactors today, four years after the Fukushima disaster closed all of that country?s nuclear plants. There were no problems during the restart. As more nuclear restarts occur Japan can begin ratcheting down its fossil fuel imports, ratcheting up its economy, and getting back to being the economic powerhouse like we all remember.
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There are few things more aggravating then finding a new line on a bill. It’s become increasingly common for Internet providers to charge customers a monthly fee for the privilege of renting their modems. It may be just a few dollars a month, but that adds up, and unless you plan on ditching the Internet and going off the grid in the near future, it’s always cheaper to buy your own modem.
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