porkchop_d_clown (39923) writes “When Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died in 2005, she was the oldest woman in the world. [New Scientist reported Wednesday] that, at the end of her life, most of her white blood cells had been produced by just two stem cells — implying the rest of her blood stem cells had already died, and hinting at a possible limit to the human life span.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The TSA Pre program lets you quickly go through security at participating airports—no need to take off your shoes and belt. Until recently, the program was only for select individuals , but as of December 2013, it’s open to everyone—and seems like a pretty good deal. Read more…
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Apple’s computers come with all kinds of warranty options. From basic tech support to AppleCare, it’s easy to lose track of when your warranty expires. Thankfully, The Sweet Setup reminds us that it’s actually really easy to track your warranty info right on Apple’s site. Read more…
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How to Find Out If Your Apple Device is Still Covered by a Warranty
Fan favorite Mara Jade is now consigned to the Star Wars Legends non-canonical label. Derek Herring / Sony A post on Starwars.com officially confirms what fans have been hearing for the past three months: the complex and detailed future history of the Star Wars universe that has been slowly accreting since the 1990s will be completely ignored by the new trilogy of films. Per the post, ” Star Wars Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post- Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe.” The confirmation is being met with a mixed reaction from fans over on Star Wars uber-site TheForce.net . “Thank you for wasting 20 years of my life,” said one poster . “I honestly may be done with Star Wars at this point.” “The simple truth is that canon is whatever the license holder says it is. Fans need to wrap their heads around that,” responded another . Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Lucasfilm makes it official: New Star Wars films ignore Expanded Universe
General Mills has plans to make K-Cups for oatmeal and Campbells’s Soup has similar plans. However, you can skip those pre-packaged solutions and use your Keurig (or other K-Cup brewer) as an instant hot water dispenser— just like a coffee pot . Read more…
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Make Instant Meals in a Keurig K-Cup Brewer
MojoKid (1002251) writes “A new website sponsored by Ubisoft as part of its advertising campaign for the upcoming hacking-themed game Watch Dogs isn’t just a plug for the title — it’s a chilling example of exactly how easy it is for companies to mine your data. While most folks are normally averse to giving any application or service access to their Facebook account, the app can come back with some interesting results if you dare. Facebook’s claims that it can identify you with 98.3% accuracy based on images.The Datashadow app also offers the ability to compare various character traits and gives a great deal of information about total number of posts, post times and inferred values about income, location, and lifestyle. Is Ubisoft actually performing some kind of data analysis? Almost certainly not. This is far from an exhaustive, comprehensive examination of someone’s personality or FB posting habits. The companies that actually perform that kind of data analysis are anything but cheap. The point Ubisoft is making, however, is that your FB profile contains enormous amounts of information in a single place that can be mined in any number of ways. All of this information absolutely is combined and collated to create detailed digital profiles of all of us, and the more we engage with various online services (from Facebook to Google Plus), the larger the data pool becomes.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Facebook Data Miner Will Shock You
OffTheLip (636691) writes “According to a Customer Advisory released by HP and reported on by the Channel Register website , a recently released firmware update for the ubiquitous HP Proliant server line could disable the network capability of affected systems. Broadcom NICs in G2-G7 servers are identified as potentially vulnerable. The release date for the firmware was April 18 so expect the number of systems affected to go up. HP has not released the number of systems vulnerable to the update.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose
If there are kids in your future, so is one of those mugs with a picture of your children on it. But wouldn’t it be great if that image could be updated as they grow up? That’s exactly what the Muki mug from Paulig promises, thanks to an e-Ink display powered by your piping hot coffee. Read more…
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This Mug’s Customizable e-Ink Display Is Powered By Hot Coffee
There are plenty of ways to deal with chemical waste: You could ship it across the ocean . Or pump in into Ohio . Or, you could use plasma gasification—a Back to the Future -style process that “recreates the conditions inside a volcano” to incinerate waste. One byproduct of the process? A glassy synthetic obsidian. Read more…
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This Obsidian Mirror Was Once Toxic Chemical Waste
Lookout Researchers scouring the official Google Play market have unearthed more Android apps that surreptitiously abuse end-user devices to carry out the computationally intensive process of mining Bitcoins. The malware, dubbed “BadLepricon” by its creators, was stowed away inside six separate wallpaper apps that had from 100 to 500 downloads each, according to a blog post published Thursday by researchers from Lookout, an anti-malware provider for smartphones. Google employees promptly removed the offending apps once Lookout reported them. It’s at least the second time in a month that third-party researchers have discovered cryptocurrency-mining apps available for download on Google servers. Four weeks ago, researchers from Trend Micro reported they found two apps downloaded from one million to five million times that mined the Litecoin and Dogecoin cryptocurrencies without explicitly informing end users. “These apps did fulfill their advertised purpose in that they provided live wallpaper apps, which vary in theme from anime girls to ‘epic smoke’ to attractive men,” Meghan Kelly, a Lookout security communications manager, wrote in Thursday’s blog post. “However, without alerting you in the terms of service, BadLepricon enters into an infinite loop where—every five seconds—it checks the battery level, connectivity, and whether the phone’s display was on.” Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Covert Bitcoin miner found stashed in malicious Google Play apps