After the hoverboard, there are few sci-fi inventions more worked-on than Star Trek’s tricorder. Portable, simple diagnostic machines have been promised for years — there’s even a $7 million prize for building one — but most designs are still years away from reality. Read more…
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A Smartphone Dongle That Will Tell You If You’ve Got STDs
According to a story from the UK edition of Vice (a story which, I hasten to add, relies on a source named ‘K2’ and should therefore be taken with the requisite gallon of salt), drug dealers in the fair city of Birmingham have turned to dumphones in an attempt to evade the police. Read more…
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Drug Dealers Are Using Nokia Dumbphones To Stay Ahead Of "The Feds"
On the heels of a research paper published about a global Iranian hacking operation , Operation Cleaver, the FBI is now warning critical US businesses that they might be targets of Iran’s team of hackers. Read more…
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Report: The FBI Is Warning US Businesses About Iranian Hackers
Last year, we discovered that Iranian hackers had breached Navy computer systems , which sent an understandable wave of panic through the administration. But it looks like that might’ve just been the tip of a much bigger, more sophisticated and more deadly iceberg. Read more…
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Report: Iran Has Been Hacking Major Infrastructure For Last Two Years
HP has just announced a new business laptop. But judging on looks alone, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s just a Macbook Air with a sticker over the Apple logo. Thankfully, there’s a few tricks inside to differentiate things. Read more…
The 8.2 version of iOS is still in beta and unavailable to non-developers, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese-based outfit TaiG from breaking it free from Apple’s shackles (and also jailbreaking 8.1.1, the current release, in the process). Read more…
We’ve been promising airless, puncture-proof tires for – bloody-ever by this point. But pump-haters, your time is arriving: starting next week, a factory in Piedmont, SC is going to start pumping them out. Read more…
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Michelin’s Airless Tire Might Actually Start Existing
In-flight WiFi is great (because Snapchat on planes!) but also terrible (because paying $12 for two hours of dial-up era internet), something that AT&T was planning to change by offering its own in-flight WiFi. Sadly, AT&T just announced that it’s nuking that idea. Read more…
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AT&T’s Killing Its In-Flight WiFi Plans
Thanks to a settlement in a long-running class-action lawsuit, Intel is now offering fifteen shiny dollars to anyone who bought a Pentium 4-powered PC almost fifteen years ago. One dollar per year of lying and misery that you’ve had to suffer. Read more…
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Disgruntled Pentium 4 Owners Can Get a $15 Settlement From Intel
Maglev trains have been promised as the future of public transport since about forever, but high-speed magnetic levitation systems are rapidly gaining a serious reputation — something Japan’s public demonstration of its high-speed maglev system is only going to help. Read more…
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Japan Tests Its New 500kmph Maglev Train