The Lost Treasures of Infocom collection is now available for iPad and iPhone, boasting 27 classic adventure games and more than 350 hours of gameplay for a mere $10. More »
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Twenty-Seven Classic Infocom Text Adventures All At Once, All For iOS
Today Facebook is adding a couple of new settings for messages to make sure you see the ones you need to see. And it’s also testing a system where you pay a buck to ensure someone you aren’t friends with reads a note you sent. Ugh, hopefully that test fails. More »
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Facebook Might Make You Pay To Send Messages To Strangers
You may recall that Amazon was implicated as the weak link in the Mat Honan iCloud hack , wherein a gadget blogger had his entire online identity nuked from orbit because Amazon gave up the secondary identifying information necessary to issue a password reset over at Apple. (The last four of your credit card, incidentally.) I’m sad to say that Amazon has clearly not improved their authentication protocols in any meaningful way, but this time it’s hurting them directly. More »
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Amazon Has Another Huge Security Hole
Feel the need for more computer speed? Even if you’re already rocking a fast SSD ( one of the best upgrades you can make), you can still improve your computer’s performance by adding more memory and turning it into a RAM disk, which can be as much as 70 times faster than a regular hard drive or 20 times faster than an SSD. More »
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Add a RAM Disk to Your Computer for Faster-than-SSD Performance
sciencehabit writes “Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system whose temperature and luminosity nearly match the sun’s. If the planets are there, one of them is about the right distance from the star to sport mild temperatures, oceans of liquid water, and even life (paper).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away
Bookmark and Read Later apps like Pocket, Instapaper, and Readability are awesome ways to store and catch up on the interesting articles you find online, but if you use Google Reader, saving those articles is a multi-step process. Here’s an IFTTT recipe that will send articles to your favorite service in one keystroke. More »
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Automatically Send Starred Google Reader Articles to Pocket or Instapaper
Lucas123 writes “After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year. The better deals for SSDs are now around 80- to 90-cents-per-gigabyte of capacity, though some sale prices have been even lower, according IHS and other research firms. For some models, the prices have dropped 300% over the past three years. At the same time, hard disk drive prices have remained “inflated” — about 47% higher than they were prior to the 2011 Thai floods, according to DRAMeXchange.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge
This is truly extraordinary: Jan Scheuermann, a 52-year-old quadriplegic woman, has gained full control of a robotic arm. Not just simple commands, but truly complete control with “skill and speed almost similar to that of an able-bodied person.” More »
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Woman Gains Full Mind Control Of Robotic Arm, Just Like in Star Wars
hugheseyau writes “A new pacemaker has been built inside a heart by converting beating muscle into cells which can organise the organ’s rhythm, U.S. researchers report. Scientists injected a genetically-modified virus into guinea pigs to turn part of their heart into a new, working pacemaker.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Virus Rebuilds Heart’s Own Pacemaker In Animal Tests
An anonymous reader writes “A huge security hole has been discovered in recent Samsung devices including phones like the Galaxy S2 and S3. It is possible for every user to obtain root due to a custom faulty memory device created by Samsung.” The problem affects phones with the Exynos System-on-Chip. Read more of this story at Slashdot.