In Compton last year, police began quietly testing a system that allowed them to do something incredible: Watch every car and person in real time as they ebbed and flowed around the city. Every assault, every purse snatched, every car speeding away was on record—all thanks to an Ohio company that monitors cities from the air. Read more…
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Police Are Testing a "Live Google Earth" To Watch Crime As It Happens
When you want a frosty cold one, you usually don’t have the time to wait for your pint glass to actually get frosty sitting in a fridge. So you probably settle for a less satisfying can or bottle—a compromise you’ll never have to make again with this countertop glass frosting contraption. Read more…
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Forget the Freezer, This Device Frosts a Beer Glass In Just 10 Seconds
Windows Phone 8.1 is here , and with it comes not only with a notification center(!) but a brand new Halo-flavored voice assistant. But how does Cortana shape up against her competitors, who have a year or two of experience on her? Surprisingly well. Read more…
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Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: The Ultimate Voice Control Showdown
A new report from Twopcharts has found that 44% of the world’s Twitter accounts have yet to send a Tweet . With approximately 974 million Twitter accounts, that’s an awful lot of dead air. As the Wall Street Journal points out, however, this could mean that people, scammers, or bots simply signed up for an account and never came back—or that there are hordes of shy people out there waiting for the moment to strike. Do you have a Twitter account you have never used? If not, why not? [ Wall Street Journal ] Read more…
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44% Of All Twitter Accounts Have Yet To Send A Tweet
Security breaches happen so often nowadays, you’re probably sick of hearing about them and all the ways you should beef up your accounts. Even if you think you’ve heard it all already, though, today’s password-cracking tools are more advanced and cut through the clever password tricks many of us use. Here’s what’s changed and what you should do about it. Read more…
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Your Clever Password Tricks Aren’t Protecting You from Today’s Hackers
NFC, or Near-Field Communication , is useful for all sorts of things , but you can also use it to lock or unlock your PC when you sit down to work. The Electrodog Show , over at Instructables, shows us how do set it up. Read more…
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Use NFC Tags to Unlock Your Computer
Over the next three years, the U.S. Army will be filling its brand new cyber warfare institute at West Point with the best and brightest hackers it can find. Not just hackers, however: the institute will bring together psychologists, lawyers, mathematicians—anyone who can help the country win the inevitable cyber war and save America. Read more…
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U.S. Army Compares New Hacker School To "The Birth Of The Air Force"
If you’re a PC gamer, you know that upgrading your computer’s video card will give you the best gaming performance boost . PCWorld argues, however, that a discrete graphics card belongs in most people’s desktop PCs—not just gamers. Read more…
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The Performance Benefits of Discrete Video Cards (Even for Non-Gamers)
itwbennett (1594911) writes “When Jose Vildoza’s father became the victim of ransomware, he launched his own investigation. Diving into CryptoDefense’s code, he found its developers had made a crucial mistake: CryptoDefense used Microsoft’s Data Protection API (application programming interface), a tool in the Windows operating system to encrypt a user’s data, which stored a copy of the encryption keys on the affected computer. Vildoza and researcher, Fabian Wosar of the Austrian security company Emsisoft, collaborated on a utility called the Emsisoft Decrypter that could recover the encrypted keys. In mid-March Vildoza had launched a blog chronicling his investigation, purposely not revealing the mistake CryptoDefense’s authors had made. But Symantec then published a blog post on March 31 detailing the error.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Stung By File-Encrypting Malware, Researchers Fight Back
By now you’ve probably heard about the massive Heartbleed security bug that may have compromised the majority of the world’s web sites. Everyone should change their passwords on the affected sites—but only after those sites have patched the issue. Mashable is maintaining and updating a list of the most popular sites you should change your passwords for ASAP. Read more…
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This List Reveals the Heartbleed-Affected Passwords to Change Now