John Gruber believes that iOS 7.1 should ship any day now—because the app required to stream Apple’s SXSW iTunes Festival, which starts in a week, requires the new OS. Let’s see! Read more…
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John Gruber believes that iOS 7.1 should ship any day now–because the app required to stream Apple’
Quantum computing is being hailed as the future of data processing, with promises of performing calculations thousands of times faster than modern supercomputers while consuming magnitudes less electricity. And in the span of just two years the only commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave One , has already doubled its computational power. Kiss your law goodbye, Mr. Moore. Read more…
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The Quantum D-Wave 2 Is 3,600 Times Faster than a Super Computer
Don’t panic! Your Twitter account hasn’t been hacked, the password has just been accidentally reset . Read more…
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Twitter Accidentally Reset Its Users’ Passwords
It’s not just IDF forces and Israeli settlements that come under rocket fire; militant groups have been known to take pot shots at commercial airlines as well—such as when a pair of SAMs narrowly missed an Israeli charter shortly after it took off from a Mombasa, Kenya airfield, in 2002. To protect vulnerable aircraft from future attacks, Israel has developed this belly-mounted laser shield for commercial jets. Read more…
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Israel Is Putting Frickin’ Lasers on Its Commercial Airliners
Dropbox is easily the internet’s favorite cloud storage provider—at the very least it’s our favorite . There are plenty of clever things you can do with it right out of the box (get it?). However, there’s also no shortage of apps and extensions you can get to make using Dropbox itself even easier. Read more…
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Seven Downloads and Extensions to Make Dropbox Even More Awesome
An anonymous reader writes in with news about a new anonymous instant messenger client on the way from Tor. “Forget the $16 billion romance between Facebook and WhatsApp. There’s a new messaging tool worth watching. Tor, the team behind the world’s leading online anonymity service, is developing a new anonymous instant messenger client, according to documents produced at the Tor 2014 Winter Developers Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
angry tapir writes “As the number of top-level domains undergoes explosive growth, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying ways to reduce the risk of traffic intended for internal network destinations ending up on the Internet via the Domain Name System. Proposals in a report produced on behalf of ICANN include preventing .mail, .home and .corp ever being Internet TLDs; allowing the forcible de-delegation of some second-level domains in emergencies; and returning 127.0.53.53 as an IP address in the hopes that sysadmins will flag and Google it.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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ICANN Considers Using ‘127.0.53.53’ To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions
Qatar’s overtly yonic World Cup facility has also been the cause of a staggering number of construction deaths : More than 500 Indian migrant workers have died at the site since January 2012. This week, the stadium’s architect Zaha Hadid said, well, it’s not her problem. Read more…
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Architect Zaha Hadid Says 500 Worker Deaths Are Not Her Problem
The design and fabrication of artificial ice-climbing structures is an incredibly creative yet widely overlooked form of experimental architecture. The resulting constructions are often astonishing: ice-covered loops, ledges, branches, and towers reminiscent of the playful 1960s experiments of Archigram , yet serving as some of the most spatially interesting athletic venues in all of today’s professional sports. Read more…
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Ice-Climbing Structures Are Mind-Blowing Experimental Architecture
The US military has poured millions upon millions of dollars into squad-based tactical UAVs—the kind deployed by troops for close-range ASAP reconnaissance—over the past few years, developing the likes of the Puma AE and Black Hornet . But ST Kinetics has just unveiled a clever surveillance system that uses modified 40 mm rounds—and it could do the job of those micro-UAVs at a fraction of the cost. Read more…
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Who Needs UAVs When You’ve Got Surveillance Munitions?