Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman. But add a wireless connection to that computer-aided weapon, and you may find that your smart gun suddenly seems to have a mind of its own — and a very different idea of the target.
July 29, 2015 at 07:02PM
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How Should You Destroy A Phone With Incriminating Evidence On It? A Vice Sports Investigation
“I, personally, don’t commit crimes all that often, and so mostly don’t have a lot of reasons to destroy cell phones with notable evidence on them. I also don’t really even follow the NFL that closely. But I wanted to get inside the head of a great athlete, and experience the criminal thrill of destroying evidence.”
July 29, 2015 at 07:02PM
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Beam Me Up? Teleporting Is Real, Even If Trekkie Transport Isn’t
“I have a hard time saying this with a straight face but I will: You can teleport a single atom from one place to another,” says Chris Monroe, a biophysicist at the University of Maryland.
July 29, 2015 at 06:03PM
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Why can’t we stop playing games on our phones?
What happens when an organic form of existence, after evolving for millions of years, meets the last word in planned and designed addictiveness? Darwin goes searching for the gas pedal in this evolutionary phenomenon of his.
July 29, 2015 at 06:03PM
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The Windows Start menu saga, from 1993 to today
One of Windows 10’s biggest “new” features has a pedigree that spans two decades.
July 29, 2015 at 04:58PM
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The Early Reviews For Windows 10 Are In
Windows 10 dropped this morning — should you put it on (in?) your computer?
July 29, 2015 at 01:41PM
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Goodbye, Android
“Don’t get me wrong. In many ways, Android is great. I love its open source ethos and the ability one has to customize it. But I can’t take it anymore for one simple, but really fundamental, reason.”
July 29, 2015 at 01:22PM
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Google Translate Versus ‘La Bamba’
If you’re unfamiliar with “La Bamba,” it translates rougtly to… “The Bamba.”
July 29, 2015 at 11:25AM
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Inside the world’s quietest room
In a hole, on some bedrock a few miles outside central Zurich, there lived a spin-polarized scanning electron microscope. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole: it was a nanotech hole, and that means quiet. And electromagnetically shielded. And vibration-free. And cool.
July 29, 2015 at 10:40AM
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The story of Windows 10 from inside Microsoft
The company’s latest trick: listening to its users.
July 29, 2015 at 08:30AM
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