Daily Archives: August 31, 2015

“KeyRaider” Malware Exposes Over 225,000 Jailbroken iPhones And Apple IDs

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Top security firm Palo Alto Networks announced over the weekend that a rare exploit is out in the wild for Apple iOS devices. A possibly China-originated malware aptly named “KeyRaider” has made its way to Jailbroken iOS devices and it has a nasty method of capturing, you guessed it, your Apple ID keys, thus giving criminals and hackers the proverbial keys to your digital kingdom.

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Apple Ad Blocking Should Be Good News For Publishers

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Apple’s latest iOS will allow users to block ads on their smartphones, thereby letting them join a consumer trend that has already turned nearly two hundred million personal computers into “no ad” zones. Some argue that it’ll be so popular that it’ll put content creators and publishers out of business.
How about it leading to improved ads, or replacing them with something better?
The argument for online advertising has never been convincing. 
At best, it sees ads as a tool for monetizing experience that is otherwise provided for free, and looks for proof to how well it worked for the proliferation and success of radio, and then TV.  
At worst, it’s a specious argument, because the Internet isn’t consumed via computers as another passive content channel. Mobile is experienced differently from that, as most use cases are related to different circumstances, many of them actionable, like shopping.
People tolerated ads on their TVs, never liked them on their computers, and really don’t like them on their smartphones.
Yet tech startups and established platforms have claimed that advertising is some magic pixie dust that should allow them to monetize content that was usually acquired and consistently offered for free. Few critics have challenged that assumption, choosing instead to reference its repeated failure to materialize as the result of a work in progress.
That work, and all of its someday benefits, are about to get a lot harder to believe. 

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World’s Most Powerful Camera Approved To Map Space

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The Department of Energy has given the go-ahead for construction to begin on the world’s largest and most powerful digital camera. Forming the digital ‘eye’ of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), to be built at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, the camera will take images at a resolution of 3.2 gigapixels, or 1,500 times the resolution of an HD television or approximately 400 times that of the iPhone 6 camera.

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An IBM supercomputer will take on China’s air pollution crisis

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An IBM supercomputer will take on China’s air pollution crisis
Before they enslave us, the machines are going to help us fight air pollution. The air quality in Beijing, China is so poor that breathing it for 24 hours is akin to smoking 36 cigarettes. IBM, famed for its unlikely computer projects to beat humans at chess and Jeopardy, is seeing what it can do to mitigate the problem with machine learning technology.

August 31, 2015 at 07:06PM
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Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch goes official with rotating bezel, Tizen OS

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After teasing it a couple of weeks ago, Samsung finally spilled the beans on the hotly anticipated Gear S2 smartwatch. The high-end Tizen OS wearable device with rotating bezel will be on display during IFA in Berlin in two different variants – Gear S2 and Gear S2 classic.

The sportier Samsung Gear S2 will be available with dark gray case with black silicon band, or silver case with white silicon band. The classic model on the other hand, will feature a black case and matching leather band.

Specs-wise, Samsung Gear S2 features 1GHz dual-core CPU, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of internal memory. The display of the smartwatch is a 1.2″ fully circular Super AMOLED unit with a resolution of 360 x 360 pixels and 302ppi.

Connectivity options for the smartwatch include Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, and NFC. A variant with 3G network connectivity and e-SIM will also be available.

Physical measures of Samsung Gear S2 are 42.3 × 49.8 × 11.4mm, while its weight tips the scale at 47 grams. The classic model is a tad more elegant with measures of 39.9 × 43.6 × 11.4mm and a weight of 42 grams. A 250mAh battery will power both devices – it is rated to last for 2-3 days of regular usage.

The 3G variant of the smartwatch will pack a larger 300mAh battery, which will last for two days of regular use. The measures of this particular variant are 44.0 x 51.8 x 13.4mm, while its weight comes in at 51 grams.

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