Still trying to wrap your head around H.P. Lovecraft’s mysterious Elder Things and collection monsters who lived below the ice of the Antarctic? Well, now you can see exactly what these mysterious beasts looked like from the author’s point of view, thanks to a few pages of recently discovered doodles right out of Lovecraft’s notes. Read more…
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Lovecraft sketch shows the author’s vision for Mountains of Madness
Many people are claiming that these new Meganews Magazines autonomous newstands could save the print industry. That’s maybe a bit optimistic, but at the least they’ll help reduce the mountains of wasted paper from unsold magazines since the over-sized vending machine only prints publications when they’re ordered, in just two minutes. Read more…
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This Kiosk Prints Magazines and Newspapers As They’re Purchased
Chrome: When you let someone use your computer, you’d probably prefer they stick to the web browser. With kiosk mode, you can (sort of) enforce that. Read more…
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Chrome’s Kiosk Mode Limits Access to Your Computer
You know how papers can mysteriously go missing amongst the sea of documents strewn about your desk? The same thing could soon happen to your keyboard, thanks to the work of England-based research firm CSR. It’s developed a touch keyboard that measures less than half a millimeter thick, making it the perfect accessory for a similarly thin tablet—if you can find it. Read more…
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The World’s Thinnest Keyboard Is Just Half a Millimeter Thick
hypnosec writes “Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 3.11 as anticipated. Torvalds notes that the final version doesn’t bring in a lot more than what is already present in the rc7, but it does include fixes — most of them in networking, file systems, and audio.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Linux 3.11 Released
China’s building boom has created a ton of abandoned cities and massive ruins — most of which are brand new, and have never had people living in them. Here are the deserted Chinese cities, mostly built in the last 10 years, which could be sets for your next dystopian movie. Read more…
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China’s brand-new abandoned cities could be dystopian movie sets
Since at least 2007, DEA agents and local police detectives have had regular access to a gigantic database that contains detailed records of every American phone call that’s passed through an AT&T switch in the past 26 years. The program, named the Hemisphere Project, also pays AT&T employees to work alongside drug-enforcement officers stationed in three states. Read more…
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AT&T Partnered With DEA to Provide Access to 26 Years of Phone Records
dryriver writes “The new Facebook advertising policy: ‘Our goal is to deliver advertising and other commercial or sponsored content that is valuable to our users and advertisers. In order to help us do that, you agree to the following: You give us permission to use your name, profile picture, content, and information in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. This means, for example, that you permit a business or other entity to pay us to display your name and/or profile picture with your content or information, without any compensation to you. If you have selected a specific audience for your content or information, we will respect your choice when we use it.’ — Facebook also made it clear that the company can use photo recognition software to correctly identify people on the network. It said: ‘We are able to suggest that your friend tag you in a picture by scanning and comparing your friend’s pictures to information we’ve put together from your profile pictures and the other photos in which you’ve been tagged.’ — It [Facebook] said it was also clarifying that some of that information reveals details about the device itself such as an IP address, operating system or – surprisingly – a mobile phone number. The Register has asked Facebook to clarify this point as it’s not clear from the revised policy wording if a mobile number is scooped up without an individual’s knowledge or as a result of it being previously submitted by that person to access some of the company’s services. Importantly, Facebookers are not required to cough up their mobile phone number upon registering with the service. At time of writing, Facebook was yet to respond with comment.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Facebook To Overhaul Data Use Policy
There are plenty of solar-powered device chargers out there, but you can save a few bucks (and have some fun), but hacking together your own. Read more…
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Roll Your Own Solar Gadget Charger with Spare Parts
Em Adespoton writes “Before the VirnetX case, nearly all FaceTime calls were done through a system of direct communication. Essentially, Apple would verify that both parties had valid FaceTime accounts and then allow their two devices to speak directly to each other over the Internet, without any intermediary or ‘relay’ servers. However, a small number of calls—5 to 10 percent, according to an Apple engineer who testified at trial—were routed through ‘relay servers.’ At the August 15 hearing, a VirnetX lawyer stated that Apple had logged ‘over half a million calls’ complaining about the quality of FaceTime [since disabling direct connections].” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute