Three Essential Steps to Make Yourself More Hack-Proof
Look, there’s no hiding from being hacked. Everything is vulnerable, and if you haven’t been personally affected by a data breach yet, you will. But while you can’t ever protect yourself 100 percent from malicious data theft, you can at least put a better lock on your door than the one your neighbor has.
September 6, 2014 at 3:24PM
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The Simple Technology That Accidentally Destroyed Baseball
Stuck in a home-run drought, the sport has become more boring than ever. Don’t just blame steroids. Blame the new strike zone — and the cameras enforcing it.
September 6, 2014 at 1:27PM
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How Fujifilm Came to the Ebola Fight
Last Tuesday, Fujifilm announced the release of the X30, the latest in a line of high-end digital cameras. The product release immediately followed another announcement, this one by the Japanese government, regarding an anti-influenza drug developed by Toyama Chemical, an obscure pharmaceutical company that Fujifilm had quietly acquired five years ago.
September 6, 2014 at 1:27PM
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The Man Who Will Build Google’s Quantum Computer
John Martinis is one of the world’s foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using strange physics of very tiny particles such as electrons and photons. And now, after years as a physics professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, he’s headed for Google.
September 6, 2014 at 10:06AM
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For iPhone 6 Defects, Apple Has Failure Analysis Team Ready
As customers line up to buy the device around the world, Apple employees will show up at work to learn how they screwed up — and fix it.
September 6, 2014 at 9:09AM
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AirBnb Ruined Our Lives and Turned Us Into Entitled City Dwellers
AirBnb has recently won a significant legal battle by proving its own legality. It was ruled that AirBnb hosts who live in the apartment or house they are renting out are within the boundaries of the law. Well, that’s us. We’re legal. And yet, if I’m honest with myself, AirBnb has basically ruined my life. And it can ruin yours, too.
September 6, 2014 at 8:06AM
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Tim Cook Says Apple to Add Security Alerts for iCloud Users
In his first interview since the iCloud leak, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company plans to add additional steps to keep hackers out of user accounts, but denied that a lax attitude toward security had allowed intruders to post nude photos of celebrities on the Internet.
September 5, 2014 at 3:19PM
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How To Properly Game Tinder
Step 1: Buy a second phone specifically for Tinder
September 5, 2014 at 2:40PM
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Some NYPD Officers Will Wear Taser, Vievu Body-Mounted Cameras
New York Police Department officers will begin testing two types of officer body cameras within the next several months in an effort make interactions between police and citizens more transparent, Commissioner William Bratton said Thursday.
September 5, 2014 at 2:21PM
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Did Anyone Ask For A Skateboard That’s Also A Backpack? We Didn’t Think So
A motorized skateboard is kind of cool. A backpack is useful. Making them inseparable from one another makes them both worse.
September 5, 2014 at 12:28PM
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