The IRS doesn’t often raise the amount that you can contribute to your 401(k), so when they do, we tend to take notice. As of 2015, you’ll be able to contribute an additional $500 to both your regular 401(k) as well as another $500 to catch-up contributions if you’re over 50. Read more…
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You Can Increase Your 401(k) Contribution by $500 Next Year
It’s been a while since we heard anything new about Nest’s flagship product, the quiet elder brother to the attention-hogging Protect . But today the company is pushing a new software update to all existing devices this week, and it’s using a clever new bit of software to make them far more efficient. Read more…
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Nest Just Made Your Thermostat Smarter With a New Algorithm
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
Tinder is about to help you fix the biggest mistake you ever make on Tinder: Swiping left instead of swiping right. But if you want that magical power, you’re going to have to pay for it. Read more…
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Tinder Is Finally Getting an Undo Button (For a Price)
Anyone blessed with a Nexus or Google Play edition device will very soon be able to enjoy Android’s latest software masterpiece, Lollipop. An official blogpost announces that Lollipop will begin its public rollout today though it’s light on specifics. Read more…
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Android 5.0 Lollipop Is Here
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10 discontinued Soviet subs, everyone’s favorite little warmongering-dictatorship-that-could has finally rendered the outdated ballistic vessels seaworthy—and it only took them 21 years.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
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
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
Lasrick (2629253) writes The blossoming of online Internet-trading platforms has at least one downside: insufficient inspectors and product controls when it comes to goods relevant to nuclear proliferation. “On Alibaba (and other platforms), one can purchase many of the specialized items needed for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. A short list of items advertised for sale on the site include metals suitable for centrifuge manufacturing, gauges and pumps for centrifuge cascades for uranium enrichment, metallurgical casting equipment suitable for making nuclear weapon ‘pits, ‘ and high-speed cameras suitable for use in nuclear weapon diagnostic tests. A company on an Alibaba-owned Chinese Internet-trading platform even posted an ad for the sale of the rare metal gallium, which the seller trumpeted could be used to stabilize plutonium.” Although many companies have strict compliance procedures in place to help avoid proliferation, many do not. There are several procedures these platforms can put into place to minimize risk, and both national (and international) regulators have a role to play, as well as shareholders. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Buying Goods To Make Nuclear Weapons On eBay, Alibaba, and Other Platforms
New submitter RobertJ1729 writes The Rhode Island Comic Con (RICC) is in the middle of a complete meltdown as hundreds are turned away at the door or denied reentry due to the event organizers selling far more tickets than the venue can accomodate. The Providence Journal reports that “According to Providence Fire Chief David Soscia, too many people were being let in at a time and the organizers were not correctly counting them. That led to over-congested areas in the building which has a maximum capacity of 17, 000 people.” Meanwhile the Rhode Island Comic Con Facebook page is being flooded with comments from angry attendees describing chaos both inside and out of the convention center. RICC initially posted, “Hello RICC fans! WE ARE NOT OVERSOLD!, ” and promised to honor tomorrow tickets sold for today. That post generated several hundred angry comments before eventually being deleted (though it survives in part on RICC’s twitter feed). Commenters are alleging that RICC is deleting negative Facebook comments. Users are tweeting at #ricomicconfail2014 to vent their frustration. Read more of this story at Slashdot.