Silk Road 2.o, the illegal drug marketplace that cropped up to replace the original has been shutdown by the FBI and its alleged operator has been charged in Manhattan Federal Court. Read more…
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Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down By the FBI, Operator Charged In Federal Court
Everybody’s vying for fitness tracker dominance. Microsoft released its Band last week , and new models of the Fitbit and Basis smartwatches are on the way. Now, Jawbone wants create a fashionable fitness tracker that you wouldn’t mind wearing all day. Read more…
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Jawbone UP3: A Fitness Tracker With Some Fashion Sense
With thousands of TV shows and movies available to stream at home, it takes more than just celebrities in a film to get people into theaters. You need to show them something spectacular, and for Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Interstellar , that meant shooting almost an hour of the movie with a 70mm IMAX camera. Read more…
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Why Seeing Interstellar in 70mm Might Just Be Worth the Effort
Looks like North Korea’s engineers have been hard at work brushing up on their obsolete Soviet-era technology. Because after acquiring 10 discontinued Soviet subs, everyone’s favorite little warmongering-dictatorship-that-could has finally rendered the outdated ballistic vessels seaworthy—and it only took them 21 years. Read more…
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North Korea’s Brand New Ballistic Sub Discontinued by Soviets in 1990
PayPal’s latest service, Pay After Delivery , gives people up to 14 days to pay for the stuff they buy . Read more…
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PayPal Will Give You a Two-Week Interest Free Loan
Welcome to another installment of Reading List where we take a look at some of the the great tech and science reads from around the web. This week we enter the weird world of sweeping, gaze through the lens of ghost cams still haunting the internet, look at why technological limits made Abbey Road Studios so influential, and wonder at how counterfeiter Frank Bourassa was able to make his illegal millions. Take a quick Sunday break, grab all that left over Halloween candy, and read some of the best stories on the internet. Read more…
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How the Most Prolific Counterfeiter in America Made His Millions
When developers are looking for the next jaw-dropping gaming visual to show off their newest titles with, the responsibility usually falls on some shiny, photo-real car porn or a wavy mullet with individual strands blowing in the wind. But the sizzle reels of the future may turn their cameras ground-ward if Nvidia’s new grass-mimicking effect is anything to go by. Read more…
In addition to satellites and computers smaller than a giant room, Arthur C. Clarke also predicted mobile touchscreen devices that could be crumpled up like a handkerchief and stuffed in a pocket. Thanks to researchers at Japan’s Semiconductor Energy Laboratory company , we’re almost there. Read more…
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Tri-Fold Touchscreen OLED Could Give You Way More Smartphone Real Estate
Two-factor authentication is generally seen as the safest bet for protecting your Gmail account. But a harrowing tale from indie developer Grant Blakeman , whose Instagram was hacked through Gmail, reveals how not even two-factor authentication can beat every security threat. Read more…
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How Hackers Reportedly Side-Stepped Google’s Two-Factor Authentication
Having already proven its value defending the skies over Tel Aviv—shooting down 85 percent (735 rockets) of incoming fire during the recent Gaza War—Rafael’s Iron Dome missile defense shield is taking its talents to the high seas. Read more…
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Israel’s Iron Dome Now Protects Maritime Airspace Too