Regardless of whether you saw them as a menace , the first 3D-printed guns were an objectively far, boxy cry from the weapons we’re used to seeing. But just from looking at Solid Concept’s newest firearm offering, you’d have no idea that it, too, started out as a mere 3D CAD file before being printed to life. Read more…
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The World Just Got Its First Entirely 3D-Printed Metal Gun—and It Works
Bloomberg Businessweek has an in-depth report out today, alleging that electronics supplier Flextronics used recruiters who charged exorbitant fees to place factory workers in plants throughout Malaysia, confiscating their passports and trapping them in employee housing without food when the plants were idled. Read more…
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Report: Apple Supplier Flextronics Used Indentured Employees
Nicholas Carlson, at Business Insider , on the day AOL’s CEO briefly interrupted a motivational post-layoffs session with staff to fire one of them on-the-spot —and the business pressures that led to it. The impulsive firing on the heels of this statement made Armstrong sound unhinged — “schizophrenic in his thinking” is how a source close to him later described it. Several days later, Armstrong apologized privately to Abel Lenz and then publicly to AOL employees. But, by then, mainstream outlets including Yahoo and the Daily Mail had picked up the news. Some people viewed the public firing as a bad-ass CEO move, the kind of thing that a famously demanding executive like Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison might have done. But most people across the country and world saw it as gratuitous and humiliating: What’s wrong with Tim Armstrong, people wondered? What kind of CEO fires some poor guy in front of all his colleagues? What did this say about what was going on at AOL?
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Why AOL’s chief fired a man in front of 1,000 colleagues
Internet Explorer has already been available on Windows 7 as an optional Release Preview , but now it’s making its way to the aging OS in a more complete form. Starting today, you can download the final build, which for all intents and purposes is identical to the version that recently shipped on Windows 8.1 . In fact, Rob Mauceri, Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer, tells us the company “began with a plan to align releases, ” and that the Windows 7 and 8.1 versions were developed at the same time. (That also explains why Win 7 users have lately been getting these updates soon after the Windows 8 crowd.) In case you need a recap, Internet Explorer brings some security and performance improvements, along with features like Pre-fetch and Pre-render for faster load times. Also, Microsoft improved on the ” Flip Ahead ” feature introduced in IE10 so that now, when you move forward to the next page in a story, IE will keep the previous page around in case you want to click back to it. If you like, you can download Internet Explorer 11 now, or if you’re the estimated 90 percent of users who allow Windows to install updates without asking, then you don’t need to do a thing.%Gallery-slideshow102817% Filed under: Software , Microsoft Comments Source: Microsoft
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Internet Explorer 11 comes to Windows 7 in its final form, brings speed improvements
Check it out, guys. It’s a creepy revelation about the government spying on your phone calls that didn’t come from Edward Snowden’s NSA leak. Nope, just your standard sketchy CIA arrangements with a telecommunications company—AT&T to be exact. Read more…
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Report: The CIA Pays AT&T Over $10 Million a Year to Spy on Phone Calls
Earlier this year, Nvidia dropped a bomb on the world of graphics processing with the Titan, a real luducrious powerhouse what cost a whopping $1, 000 . Now, the monsterous Titan is getting (another) “affordable” twin in the form of the Gefore GTX 780Ti, which Nvidia’s calling the best gaming GPU on the planet. Read more…
If you’re still not sure if your details were thieved in that massive Adobe hack , you can use this tool to see if your email featured in the smash’n’grab. Read more…
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Rick Prelinger writes, “Early this morning a fire whose origin is still unknown destroyed the book, film and microfilm scanning center located next door to Internet Archive’s office in San Francisco’s Richmond District. Thankfully, no one was hurt. While power interruptions caused some sporadic outages on archive.org, no data has been lost. Eight workers who staffed the scanning center will temporarily relocate to our Physical Archive facility across the Bay. The current estimated value of scanning equipment lost in the fire is $600,000. Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder, has posted more detail about the fire on the Archive’s blog. A call is out for donations to help rebuild the scanning facility, and for new digitization work to keep employees affected by the fire busy at our alternate location. ( Thanks, Rick ! )
Microsoft promised earlier this year that it would soon be updating its Office Web Apps so that multiple people could edit documents at the same time (yes, just like in Google Drive). Now, five months later, the company’s finally ready to show us the finished product. Starting today, you can work on a Microsoft Word document, PowerPoint presentation or Excel spreadsheet, even if someone else is already in there editing. And if you happen to be offline, you can make your changes in the regular desktop suite and they’ll sync up with the web version once you re-establish an internet connection. As with Google Docs, an unlimited number of people can edit at once — at least in Word and Excel (PowerPoint has a hard limit of 20 simultaneous editors). Also like Google, Microsoft gives you not one, but two indicators as to where someone is inside the document. These include a list in the upper-right corner, with helpful specifics like “Dana Wollman editing slide 12.” Then, once you scroll through the document, you’ll also see pinpoints indicating what people are working on. And in case none of that was intuitive enough, each person will also be marked with a distinct color (yep, also like Google Docs). As you’d expect, all of this will roll out for both SkyDrive and Office 365, though Microsoft warns it could take until the end of week before these co-editing features are available to everybody.%Gallery-slideshow103657% Filed under: Software , Microsoft Comments
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Microsoft Office Web Apps get real-time co-editing, similar to Google Drive
Once these stores and factories sold the stuff of children’s dreams, but now that they lie abandoned—filled with decaying displays and disembodied doll heads—they are more likely to inspire nightmares. Read more…
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These Abandoned Toy Factories and Shops Will Haunt Your Nightmares