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New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production

An anonymous reader writes “Star Trek veterans such as Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and others are busy in pre-production of a professionally produced pilot episode for a suggested new online Star Trek series named Star Trek: Renegades, which will be faithful to the original Star Trek canon. The events of the series are placed a decade after Voyager’s return from Delta Quadrant. When the pilot is complete, they’ll present it to CBS in the hopes that it’ll be picked up. They have also opened an Indiegogo campaign, seeking more funds from Star Trek fans to help make the production even more professional. They’ve already reached their primary funding goal.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Scientists Just Figured Out How to Make Lightning-Fast Graphene CPUs

Graphene has the power to change computing forever by making the fastest transistors ever. In theory. We just haven’t figured out how yet. Sound familiar ? Fortunately, scientists have just taken a big step closer to making graphene transistors work for real . Read more…

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Florida Town Stores License Plate Camera Images For Ten Years

An anonymous reader writes “Yet another privacy concern story, this time from Florida. The Longboat Key police have their new license plate camera up and running, but according to the police chief, this one stores all images as ‘evidence’ for up to ten years. When questioned about the possibility for abuses of this camera’s historical record, the chief said, ‘There are regulations, policies and laws in place that prohibit that kind of abuse. And if abuse is discovered, it’s punished.’ What could possibly go wrong?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The World’s First CPU Liquid Cooler Using Nanofluids

An anonymous reader writes “CPU water cooling may be more expensive than air cooling, but it is quieter and moves the bulk away from your CPU. It’s also improving, as Zalman has just demonstrated with the announcement of the Reserator 3. Zalman is claiming that the Reserator 3 is the world’s first liquid cooler to use nanofluids. What’s that then? It involves adding refrigerant nanoparticles to the fluid that gets pumped around inside the cooler transporting the heat produced by a CPU to the radiator and fan where it is expelled. By using the so-called nanofluid, Zalman believes it can offer better cooling, and rates the Reserator 3 as offering up to 400W of cooling while remaining very quiet. The fluid and pump is supplemented by a dual copper radiator design and “quadro cooling path, ” which consists of two copper pipes sitting behind the fan and surrounded by the radiators. The heatsink sitting on top of the CPU is a micro-fin copper base allowing very quick transfer of heat to the nanofluid above.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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iPhone 5c Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know

With Apple’s next big iPhone event right around the corner , the rumor mill is churning at full speed. On September 10th, we’ll know if Cupertino’s nextcbig thing really is the long-fabled “budget iPhone.” For the moment, it’s still anyone’s guess, but here’s everything we think we know about the elusive iPhone 5c. Read more…

The NSA Monitors 1.6% of the World’s Internet Traffic

To be slightly more transparent and/or spew numbers to confuse the common citizen, the Obama administration released two documents to show the scope of the NSA’s data collection program. Those documents reveal that the NSA monitors 1.6% of the world’s Internet traffic and reviews .00004% of all traffic. Read more…

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Backdoor Found In OpenX Ad Platform

mask.of.sanity writes “A backdoor has existed for at least seven months in a platform sold by OpenX, the self-described global leader of digital advertising which counts the New York Post, Coca Cola, Bloomberg and EA among its customers. The backdoor was contained within the official OpenX package and recently removed. Security researchers say it meant those who downloaded the compromised software could have provided attackers full access to their web sites.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor

An anonymous reader writes “Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 23 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Improvements include the addition of a share button, mixed content blocker, and network monitor on the desktop side (release notes). The new desktop version was available on the organization’s FTP servers last night, but that was just the initial release of the installers. Firefox 23 has now officially been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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This Electric Motorcycle Changes Everything

The Mission RS isn’t notable because it’s electric or because it’s designed and made in America. Or even because it’s really, really fast. Why you’re going to sit down and read every single word of this world-first review is simply because it’s a superior performance motorcycle to any yet made. Period. Read more…

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Moscow Subway To Use Special Devices To Read Data On Passengers’ Phones

dryriver writes “‘The head of police for Moscow’s subway system has said stations will soon be equipped with devices that can read the data on the mobile telephones of passengers. In the July 29 edition of Izvestia, Moscow Metro police chief Andrei Mokhov said the device would be used to help locate stolen mobile phones. Mokhov said the devices have a range of about 5 meters and can read the SIM card. If the card is on the list of stolen phones, the system automatically sends information to the police. The time and place of the alert can be matched to closed-circuit TV in stations. Izvestia reported that ‘according to experts, the devices can be used more widely to follow all passengers without exception.’ Mokhov said it was illegal to track a person without permission from the authorities, but that there was no law against tracking the property of a company, such as a SIM card.’ What is this all about? Is it really about detecting stolen phones/SIM cards, or is that a convenient ‘cover story’ for eavesdropping on people’s private smartphone data while they wait to ride the subway? Also — if this scheme goes ahead, how long will it be before the U.S., Europe and other territories employ devices that do this, too?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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