If you think you’re having a rough morning after your New Year’s festivities, an Apple Store in Paris’ opera district is still trying to determine just how much hardware was stolen after four or five armed thieves robbed the store three hours after it had closed. More »
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Last Night Armed Robbers Stole Over $1 Million Worth Of Gear From a Paris Apple Store
Hackulous, the iOS piracy community behind the jailbreak app Installous, has suddenly shut down . Along with the community site, the Hackulous repository for the jailbreak store Cydia has also disappeared, rendering all of the community’s piracy tools dead. More »
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Pirated App Community Hackulous Suddenly Shuts Its Doors
It was inevitable. Drones are in ever-wider use by the military, and some day they might deliver you food, but it looks like they’ll also be the private, flying-camera spies for private companies too. That’s what Japanese security company Secom is banking on with its new private security quadrotor. More »
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Oh God, Here Come the Private Security Drones
If you’re one of those folks that like to bridge the divide — rocking an Android handset, but rely on a Mac for heavy lifting — we’ve got some good news. Bluestacks , the emulator that lets you run Android apps on your desktop has hit beta on OS X. The tool launched in beta form on Windows in March and an alpha version for Mac landed in June. Now there should be a little more parity between the major desktop ecosystems when it comes to getting your Flipboard and Bad Piggies on. To download it for yourself hit up the source link. Filed under: Software , Apple , Google Comments Via: Android Central Source: Bluestacks
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Bluestacks for Mac hits beta, injects a little Google in your Apple
An anonymous reader writes with a story about the possibility of genetically engineered salmon showing up on your table. “A controversial genetically engineered salmon has moved a step closer to the consumer’s dining table after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday the fish didn’t appear likely to pose a threat to the environment or to humans who eat it. AquAdvantage salmon eggs would produce fish with the potential to grow to market size in half the time of conventional salmon. If it gets a final go-ahead, it would be the first food from a transgenic animal – one whose genome has been altered – to be approved by the FDA.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon
theodp writes “Silly rabbit, parallel processing is not just for Big Data! Building on techniques outlined by Andy Baio back in 2008, Wired writer and 20% Doctrine evangelist Ryan Tate has released Ruby-based software called Typingpool to make audio transcriptions easier and cheaper. ‘Typingpool chops your audio into small bits and routes them to the labor marketplace Mechanical Turk,’ Tate explains to his reporter pals, ‘where workers transcribe the bits in parallel. This produces transcripts much faster than any lone transcriber for as little one-eighth what you pay a transcription service. Better still, workers keep 91 percent of the money you spend.’ Remember to Use the Force for Good, Tate adds.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Typingpool: Human Audio Transcription Parallelism
Want to loan your tablet to a child or friend but don’t want to provide access to all your data? Windows, Android, and even Amazon tablets make it easy. Apple’s iPad has some catching up to do. [Read more]
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iPad is left behind as rival tablets get multiuser support
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
If you find that you cannot access your OS X administrator account, there is a relatively quick way to get it back. [Read more]
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How to quickly restore a missing admin account in OS X
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