A weird thing happened in St. Petersburg last week. The Russian press reports that local officials intercepted a shipment from China that contained home appliances with “spy” microchips capable of spreading malware to wi-fi enabled devices within 200 meters. Tea kettles were apparently the chief culprit. Read more…
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Russian Authorities Seize Goods from China Implanted with "Spy" Chips
It’s joked that duct tape can be used to fix almost anything. But a new product called FiberFix might very well be the only tool you’ll ever need for emergency repairs. And the secret is its special resin adhesive that hardens stronger than steel as it cures. Read more…
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New Instant-Fix Fabric Is 100x Stronger Than Duct Tape
Hackers managed to infiltrate and shut down an enormous tunnel system in Israel last month, causing massive traffic jams for eight hours, according to the AP. Though their sources indicate that the attack didn’t come from a state actor, this first strike opens up a whole new world of cyber warfare. Read more…
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A Cyber Attack Against Israel Shut Down An Entire Road Last Month
The cheapest Mac Pro you can buy, Apple informed us last week , will cost you $3, 000. That’s a pretty penny, sure, but not outrageous for a workstation these days. What if, though, you spec it out as far as you can go? That’s when we hit new car territory. Read more…
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A Fully Loaded Mac Pro Could Cost You $14,000
An anonymous reader writes “Email service FastMail.fm has an blog post about an interesting bug they’re dealing with related to the new Mail.app in Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. After finding a user who had 71 messages in his Junk Mail folder that were somehow responsible for over a million entries in the index file, they decided to investigate. ‘This morning I checked again, there were nearly a million messages again, so I enabled telemetry on the account … [Mail.app] copying all the email from the Junk Folder back into the Junk Folder again!. This is legal IMAP, so our server proceeds to create a new copy of each message in the folder. It then expunges the old copies of the messages, but it’s happening so often that the current UID on that folder is up to over 3 million. It was just over 2 million a few days ago when I first emailed the user to alert them to the situation, so it’s grown by another million since. The only way I can think this escaped QA was that they used a server which (like gmail) automatically suppresses duplicates for all their testing, because this is a massively bad problem.’ The actual emails added up to about 2MB of actual disk usage, but the bug generated an additional 2GB of data on top of that.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mac OS 10.9’s Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam
The questions of who we are and where we came from can often be answered, not by looking inward, but by looking backward. While nature and nurture certainly play the primary roles in our development as individuals, it’s only through the study of one’s ancestry that we develop a more complete view of ourselves as how we fit into the larger scope of human history. Luckily, tracing one’s roots is easier than ever thanks to the Internet. Read more…
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Climb Your Family Tree With These Online Genealogy Tools
In recent years, we’ve watched with wonder as boring old yellow halogen car headlights have been replaced with futuristic, Tron -like LEDs . Now, that transition is about to take place on the city scale, as New York City prepares to replace its street lamps—all 250, 000 of them—with LEDs. Read more…
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NYC Is Replacing Its 250,000 Street Lights with LEDs
You have to crawl before you can walk—be you a baby or an asteroid-blasting space cannon. Now, after a successful test-fire here on Earth, Japan’s specially made cannon for its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is ready to take its first, real steps in outer space. Read more…
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Japan Just Successfully Tested Its Asteroid-Shattering Space Cannon
iOS 7 has its fair share of annoyances , but one that a lot of people have grown to dislike is the blurry background in Notification Center, Spotlight, Control Center, and anywhere else in Apple’s app it appears. Thankfully, if you’re not a fan of that effect, or it’s just slowing down your older phone, Guiding Tech shows off how to turn it off. Read more…
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Disable Blur Effects in iOS 7 for Easier Reading, Better Performance
Music scholars are recreating ancient Greek songs that haven’t been heard for thousands of years. The results aren’t very inspiring, but we’re finally getting a sense of what the ancients were listening to. Read more…
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Listen to 2,500-year-old music brought back to life