Imagine a future where you walk into an airport or government building and you don’t have to wait in long lines to be scanned for bombs and other heavy-duty weaponry. Instead, intelligent vegetation is genetically trained to react to the presence of explosives. [...]
When looking to buy expensive items online, buyers should beware that they are not being sold something overpriced or defective. And, while businesses aren’t immune to rip-offs, the worst cases seem to come from purchases between individuals; especially big-ticket items like furniture and automobiles. [...]
Facebook is just now releasing a security feature that will make hacking into user’s account(s), or at the very least the act of hijacking a user’s active connection, much harder. If you value your Facebook privacy, we urge you to activate this feature as soon as possible. [...]
Criminals are always looking for new ways to break the law, and smugglers are always looking for new ways to traffic drugs without alerting the police. Lately, they have been turning to history for inspiration, recycling methods that have been used in the past. First it was using carrier pigeons to smuggle drugs into prisons, and now it’s using mobile catapults (actually trebuchets, but who’s keeping score) to launch drug shipments across borders. [...]
The Pentagon’s research branch, DARPA, is great at turning wacky and cool ideas into real inventions and tools. Their next target is to take heat-vision technology and shrink it to such a small size that it would fit in the palm of a soldier’s hand. And not only that, but they hope to get it small enough to become part of a smartphone or a rifle scope to allow soldiers to clearly see in the dark without carrying any extra equipment. [...]
With so much cybercrime and identity fraud going on thanks to Internet malware and maliciousness, the U.S. government is eyeing a way to create unified online identities available for all web users. But don’t panic just yet, the purpose of this verified identity isn’t to track users’ surfing habits, but to cut down on identity theft and fraudulent online purchases. [...]
Out of all the 500 million-plus Facebook users, it’s expected that every once in awhile an account is going to be hijacked. What’s unexpected, however, is the account hacked is that of the company’s CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg. [...]
Most people come to rely on GPS technology for a huge part of their lives: navigation, tracking people, pets and packages, or just checking in on Foursquare. But from January 20th to February 22nd, the people of the Southeastern United States might just have to try coping without it. [...]
Have you ever noticed that when you log into your web account on a different computer that you still get the same advertisements? That’s no coincidence. What’s really happening is that advertisers are tracking the activity of all the web identities you use, and then link that browsing history to wherever you log in with those accounts; basically tracking your actions on whatever computer you use. [...]
Cameras are everywhere from stores and homes to war zones and unmanned drones. But for all the video footage that’s collected there aren’t enough people to actually sit there and watch it, which inevitably leads to important images being overlooked or missed completely. Well that is all about to change thanks to an Israeli firm that created a new way watch surveillance footage. [...]
Apps have been designed to entertain, educate, and, thanks to Trapster, evade police. The multi-platform application is designed to work with a smartphone’s GPS to warn users when they are approaching police speed traps, and to upload trap locations whenever they’re encountered. [...]
Shoveling snow—ncreating and settingobody likes to do it, but it’s a task that must be done. One man got creative and found a way to clear snow from his property while simultaneously being able to relax and skip all the hard work. The only drawback is that his creative way of “shoveling” was also highly dangerous, illegal, and got him arrested in the end. [...]
With the ever-increasing use of smartphones as our all-encompassing information epicenters, it’s no surprise hackers have been looking for new and improved ways to breach their security. Until recently, it was a pretty complicated process of hacking a smartphone, especially without having physical access to it. [...]
It is a common teen movie trope to have kids positively altering their grades with impunity. This constant plot device has to have some impact on impressionable youths. A group of students at a Kansas high school, in particular, managed to change their grades in the school’s network, but didn’t do so well on the whole impunity thing. [...]
