Police in San Francisco decide on a new tactic to stop iPhone theft. Undercover officers are walking down streets offering to sell iPhones they claim are stolen. The idea is to kill the market for stolen phones. [Read more]
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Undercover cops’ devious new method to stop iPhone theft
Though Google Glass runs Android, it’s not exactly as wide open as your typical Android phone. And given its spot as the most futuristic tech available right now, you know hackers want to tinker with Google’s specs. Legendary hacker Jay Freeman, famously known as Saurik who created the Cydia app store for iOS jailbreak phones, did just that. He’s already gained root access to Google Glass. More »
Reader Patrick In Chicago is one of a few readers to write with this unpleasant news: “Computer-based testing provider Pearson Vue is now in day 5 of a global outage, preventing test-takers worldwide from sitting for exams. I was personally turned away from a Cisco exam on Wednesday morning because Pearson was unable to deliver. Countless people have posted to Pearson Vue’s Facebook page detailing various states of panic. There are people who have certifications expiring. Others are unable to sit their medical board exams. Still others are unable to sit exams that they are required to pass in order to work — Pearson Vue’s incompetence has actually prevented people from going out and making a paycheck.” This reminds me of a friend of mine who had to wait half a year to re-take his bar exam, because of a software glitch on the part of ExamSoft’s software. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage
Another day, another Johnny Cash-accompanied test of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Grasshopper rocket—which is not to say this isn’t exciting, because consistency is the name of the game for a commercial reusable rocket. Especially the Grasshopper, which can take off and land vertically. In this most recent test, the Grasshopper takes off, hovers at about 820 feet, and lands neatly back on its launch pad. For those who haven’t been keeping track, that’s about triple the height of the last test , and six times higher than the test before that ! [ Elon Musk ] More »
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Watch SpaceX’s Grasshopper Break Its Record For Taking Off and Landing Vertically
Teotihuacan, an ancient, abandoned city about an hour north of Mexico City, was once one of the largest cities in the world. It collapsed in the centuries ago (thanks either to an internal uprising or foreign invaders, depending on who you ask), but it’s never been completely deserted, since the ruins have always been a magnet for squatters, archeologists, and hordes of tourists. More »
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Archaeologists Are Unlocking a 1900-Year-Old Burial Chamber’s Secrets—With Drones
MojoKid writes “The concept of gaming accessories may have just been taken to a whole new level. A company called Virtuix is developing the Omni, which is essentially a multidirectional treadmill that its creators call ‘a natural motion interface for virtual reality applications.’ The company posted a video showing someone playing Team Fortress 2 and using the Omni along with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. You can see in the video how much running and movement this fellow performs. With something like the Omni in your living room, you’d likely get into pretty good shape in no time. Instead of Doritos and Mountain Dew, folks might have to start slamming back Power Bars and Gatorade for all night gaming sessions.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device?
The second suspect in the brutal Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended , after five days of uncertainty and fear. And while all credit for Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s capture goes to the men and women of the many, many agencies that spent the last week tracking him down, technology played as prominent a role as it ever has in a time of national crisis. More »
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The Tech That Helped Take Down Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev
When Google announced it was rolling out a fiber network in Provo, Utah, it wasn’t clear how or why it had chosen the city. Turns out, Google has managed to secure a deal to buy its entire municipal fiber network—which cost $39 million to build—for just a single dollar. More »
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Google’s Buying Provo’s Entire Fiber Network, Worth $39m, For $1
CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or ” the worst privacy disaster our country has ever faced ” has just passed through the House of Representatives with an astounding majority of 288 to 127. More »
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House Passes CISPA By Huge Margin
cylonlover writes “It hasn’t even been released yet but the Leap Motion could already be considered something of a success – at least with PC manufacturers. Following in the footsteps of Asus, who announced in January that it would bundle the 3D motion controller with some of its PCs, the world’s biggest PC manufacturer has joined the gesture control party. But HP has gone one step further, promising to build the Leap Motion technology into some future HP devices.” (See this video for scenes of users scrabbling with their hands in empty air, and get ready for more of it.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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HP To Package Leap Motion Sensor Into — Not Just With — Some Devices