A number of users are unable to access any Google sites or services right now. We’ll update when we know more, but for now, check out our guide on how to access Gmail when it’s down . Read more…
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A number of users are unable to access any Google sites or services right now.
The easiest joke to make about IKEA is that few of its products—from shelves to meatballs—are made from what they seem. But even particleboard still requires wood—and a lot of it, when you’re selling 100 million products every year. Read more…
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IKEA Uses a Staggering One Percent of the World’s Wood
alphadogg writes “The founder of an eavesdropping-resistant instant messaging application called Cryptocat has apologized over a now-fixed bug that made some types of messages more vulnerable to snooping. Cryptocat, which runs inside a web browser, is an open-source application intended to provide users with a high degree of security by using encryption to scramble messages. But Cryptocat warns that users should still be very cautious with communications and not to trust their life with the application. The vulnerability affected group chats and not private conversations. The encryption keys used to encode those conversations were too short, which in theory made it easier for an attacker to decrypt and read conversations.” The bug report/merge request, and an analysis of the bug (although, in light of the Cryptocat’s gracious response, overly acerbic and dismissive of the project). Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes
At what point does a building become a city? At 1.2 million square feet, the New Century Global Center certainly toes the line. Read more…
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The Largest Structure Ever Built Has Opened in China
Like it or not, the first thing a lot of us look at in the morning is our phone or tablet. To that end, a slew of different apps have popped up that seek to get your morning off on the right foot. Here are the best depending on what you’re looking for. Read more…
You’d have to be in serious denial not to know that Google Reader is officially dead as of this morning. But there has been a certain ambiguity about how long your data would be available after the rapture. No longer. July 15th is the end. Read more…
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Google Reader Data Will Be Permanently Deleted on July 15th
This is one of those times when you see the news and think to yourself, Wait, they just got that? Comixology—the biggest digital comics distribution platform and the service that powers the official apps of Marvel, DC, Image, and other publishers— finally has subscriptions . It also got the digital version of graphic novels, finally, for good measure. Read more…
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Digital Comics Finally Get Subscriptions and Discounted Collections
Buttercup the duck was born with his left foot turned backwards, making it nearly impossible and extremely painful to walk. But now he’s waddling again with a 3D-printed foot. Read more…
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A Lame Duck Is Walking Again Thanks to a 3D Printed Foot
We transmit almost a thousand petabytes of data over the ‘nets every month—an amount that’s growing exponentially, thanks to your narcissistic obsession with Snapchat. In fact, we’re quickly closing in on the limits of how much data optical fiber can transmit. Luckily, scientists at Boston University recently unveiled what could be the next generation of bandwidth tech. Read more…
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Corkscrew Lasers Are About to Revolutionize Internet Bandwidth
As if Star Trek didn’t already provide enough futuristic inspiration , scientists from the UK are working on an actual deflector shield that could protect astronauts from dangerous levels of radiation. And it would work in a way that’s very similar to how we’re protected right here on Earth. Read more…
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Proposed ‘deflector shield’ could protect astronauts from radiation