3D printing isn’t just for making unique stuffed animals or weird fake meat . It allows us to fabricate objects we never could with traditional manufacturing. Here are some of the incredible things we can print now, which were nearly impossible to make before. Read more…
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Objects That Couldn’t Be Made Before 3D Printers Existed
If you look at the picture above, you probably think of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, costumed heroes who have been kicking their way across TV in different incarnations for nearly 20 years—but you’d be wrong. These are actually the Zyurangers, the stars of a Japanese TV series that inadvertently spawned a global sensation. Read more…
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Secret Origins Of The Japanese Superhero Show That Became Power Rangers
The day is coming when the U.S. Navy will be able to use its electromagnetic launch system to hurtle all manner of aircraft into the skies, but for now we’re content to watch this rather impressive demonstration of its awesome power. Read more…
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Watch The Navy’s Railgun Catapult A 4-Ton Sled Off An Aircraft Carrier
WheezyJoe writes: The NY Times brings us a story on the Disney Corporation laying off U.S. tech workers and replacing them with immigrants visiting the country under H1-B visas. The twist is that the immigrant workers are not your nice local visiting foreign guy from the university who wants to stick around ’cause he likes the people here… they are employees of foreign-based consulting companies in the business of collecting H1-B visas and “import[ing] workers for large contracts to take over entire in-house technology units.” The other twist? The U.S. tech workers are required to train their replacements before vacating their jobs, or risk losing severance benefits (excerpts of the Disney’s layoff notice are included in the article). Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements
Humans have been putting technology on their wrists for a long time—and not just to tell the time. The Apple Watch is just the latest in a long line of wrist-borne devices, so here’s a brief history of watches that were smart for their time, too. Read more…
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The Fantastic Vintage Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch
jones_supa writes: Another day, another corporate network intrusion. NVIDIA has reportedly been breached in the first week of December, with the attack compromising personal information of the employees. There is no indication that other data has been compromised. This is according to an email sent out by the company’s privacy office and Nvidia’s SVP and CIO Bob Worwall on December 17th. It took NVIDIA a couple of weeks to pick up all the pieces and assess the incident. It appears that the issue was pinned down by an employee or several employees getting their personal data compromised outside of the company network. After that, the information was used to gain unauthorized access to the internal corporate network. NVIDIA’s IT team has taken extensive measures since then to enhance the security of the network against similar attacks in the future. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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NVIDIA Breached
HughPickens.com writes The NYT reports that Peruvian authorities say Greenpeace activists have damaged the fragile, and restricted, landscape near the Nazca lines, ancient man-made designs etched in the Peruvian desert when they placed a large sign that promoted renewable energy near a set of lines that form the shape of a giant hummingbird. The sign was meant to draw the attention of world leaders, reporters and others who were in Lima, the Peruvian capital, for a United Nations summit meeting aimed at reaching an agreement to address climate change. Greenpeace issued a statement apologizing for the stunt at the archaeological site and its international executive director, Kumi Naidoo, flew to Lima to apologize for scarring one of Peru’s most treasured national symbols. “We are not ready to accept apologies from anybody, ” says Luis Jaime Castillo, the vice minister for cultural heritage. “Let them apologize after they repair the damage.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site
We now live in an age where radical technology can help the blind to see , an impressive enough accomplishment in its own right that gets even more mind-bending when you consider what’s it means for the future. UV vision? Eyeballs that zoom in and out like a camera lens? It’s coming! Read more…
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Bionic Eyes Can Already Restore Vision, Soon They’ll Make It Superhuman
If your children made in-app purchases before Google Play introduced parental controls, you may be eligible for a refund. Google just settled with the FTC to refund parents whose kids made game purchases between March 2011 and November 2014. Read more…
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Get a Refund for Your Kids’ Unauthorized In-App Google Play Purchases
Rambo Tribble writes A new report claims that almost a quarter of the “clicks” registered by digital advertisements are, in fact, from robots created by cyber crime networks to siphon off advertising dollars. The scale and sophistication of the attacks which were discovered caught the investigators by surprise. As one said, “What no one was anticipating is that the bots are extremely effective of looking like a high value consumer.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion