At the start of October, Adobe quietly explained that hackers had acquired data from 3 million of its customers’ accounts. Now, it’s admitted that that the number is actually in excess of 38 million . Read more…
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Hackers Have Seized 38 Million Adobe Customer Records
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
sciencehabit writes “A software company called Vicarious claims to have created a computer algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA with greater than 90% accuracy. If true, the advance would represent a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. It would also mean that the internet will have to start looking for a new security system. The problem, however, is that Vicarious has provided little evidence for its claims, though some well-known scientists are behind the work.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System
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
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
Piracy is a dangerous game. You never know if the hosts are out to get money , or maybe just out to get you . Turns out the guy who ran a pirate haven called Uploader Talk was the latter. Now, after a year of stealing uploader’s info from deep cover, the jig is up . Read more…
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Magnificent Asshole Reveals Popular Piracy Site Was a Trap All Along
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
“Through the Force, things you will see. The future, the past, old friends long gone.” Someone has apparently just found a laser-disc full of behind the scenes, never before seen footage from Return of the Jedi . Two clips were uploaded to a Facebook page yesterday: a silent 59 seconds of R2D2 repairing Luke’s X-Wing on Dagobah, and a minute of Frank Oz getting fed lines and doing Yoda like only he can (which, in the end, sounds like quite a strain on the ol’ vocal cords). Read more…
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Long Lost LaserDisc Found, Features Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Footage
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