The leaked component that’s being touted as the front screen of the upcoming iPhone 6 got a good workout in a video test by Youtube regular MKBHD (Marques Brownlee) when it first broke cover, and now Brownlee is back with a new video that takes the durability tests even further. This second round involves exposing the supposedly super-strong sapphire-based material to a true test of… Read More
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Supposed iPhone 6 Display Cover Faces The Sandpaper Test
Handoff is a great new feature of Apple’s forthcoming operating system, Yosemite. Not all Macs will support it, though. Here’s how to check if yours will. Read more…
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Find Out if Your Mac Will Support Handoff in OS X Yosemite
jfruh writes: Point-of-sale systems aren’t cheap, so it’s not unusual for smaller merchants to buy used terminals second-hand. An HP security researcher bought one such unit on eBay to see what a used POS system will get you, and what he found was disturbing: default passwords, a security flaw, and names, addresses, and social security numbers of employees of the terminal’s previous owner. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Point-of-Sale System Bought On eBay Yields Treasure Trove of Private Data
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service is now available , offering access to 600, 000 book titles and 8, 000 audiobook titles for $10 a month. You can start a free trial today, but if you’d like to know immediately whether this is the digital borrowing service for you, we’ve got the answer: Read more…
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multicsfan writes Researchers have found that an injection of protein FGF1 stops weight induced diabetes in mice, with no apparent side effects. However, the cure only lasts 2 days at a time. Future research and human trials are needed to better understand and create a working drug. From the story: “The team found that sustained treatment with the protein doesn’t merely keep blood sugar under control, but also reverses insulin insensitivity, the underlying physiological cause of diabetes. Equally exciting, the newly developed treatment doesn’t result in side effects common to most current diabetes treatments.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes
In the extreme world of bacteria, stunts such as living in hot springs or without oxygen are, like, totally unimpressive. But then there are bacteria that live off electricity, feeding directly on naked electrons. Even more surprisingly, scientists are finding that these bacteria are not even that rare . Read more…
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Electricity-Eating Bacteria Are Real and More Common Than We Thought
Interfax , CNN, and other news agencies are reporting that a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed on the eastern border of Ukraine, near the border with Russia. The Ukrainian interior minister says the plane was “shot down, ” but does not say by whom. Read the rest
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Malaysia Airlines passenger jet reported shot down in Ukraine near Russian border
He was allegedly drunk, and had at least two victims before SFO’s crackerjack private aviation security outfit, Covenant, noticed (they’re the same ones who smashed my brand new camera some years ago and refused to take responsibility for it). Read the rest
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Fake TSA screener infiltrates SFO checkpoints, gropes women
Zothecula writes In a recent demonstration carried out during RIMPAC 2014, the US Marines displayed and tested a fully-functional, half-scale prototype of its new amphibious transport vehicle. The proposed full-size version of the Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connecter (UHAC) is designed to power across the water with a payload of nearly 200 tons at up to 20 knots and be capable of driving up on to the shore and over the top of obstructions up to 10ft high. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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US Marines Demonstrate Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector Prototype
Did you know Yosemite Valley used to have an identical twin? It was dammed in the early 1900s to provide San Francisco with water it relies on to this day, but recently, conservationists have been calling for its restoration. http://gizmodo.com/how-san-franci… Read more…
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How San Francisco’s Clean Drinking Water Destroyed The 2nd Yellowstone