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
Amazon Echo is a speaker that has a voice assistant built in. If you ask it a question its got an answer. If you tell it to do stuff, it complies. Well, this is different. Read more…
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Amazon Echo: An Intelligent Speaker That Listens to Your Commands
According to the official Star Wars twitter, J.J. Abrams seventh installment in the massively popular space opera will be called “The Force Awakens.” Read more…
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Star Wars Episode VII Is Called "The Force Awakens"
Earlier this year Home Depot confirmed that 56 million cards had been compromised in one of the biggest retail security breaches in history. Now we know that much like the Target hack— which was traced to a heating company —Home Depot was infiltrated by custom malware and passwords stolen from a third party vendor. Read more…
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Hackers Ravaged Home Depot With a Password Stolen from a Vendor
kdataman writes U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ben Eberle, who lost an arm and both legs in Afghanistan, had his Ipod Touch stolen on Friday. This particular Ipod Touch has an app on it that controls his $75, 000 prosthetic arm. The robbery bricked his prosthesis: “That is because Eberle’s prosthetic hand is programmed to only work with the stolen iPod, and vice versa. Now that the iPod is gone, he said he has to get a new hand and get it reprogrammed with his prosthesis.” I see three possibilities: 1) The article is wrong, possibly to guilt the thief into returning the Ipod. 2) This is an incredibly bad design by Touch Bionics. Why would you make a $70, 000 piece of equipment permanently dependent on a specific Ipod Touch? Ipods do fail or go missing. 3) This is an intentionally bad design to generate revenue. Maybe GM should do this with car keys? “Oops, lost the keys to the corvette. Better buy a new one.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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$75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen
Priceline is buying restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion. That’s some delicious added value for the travel-booking site. Read more…
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Priceline is buying restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion.
The idea of truly flexible displays never gets boring, and now Plastic Logic is taking us one step closer. Its latest flexible OLED is the world’s first to be made using fully organic transistors—and it’s surprisingly pleasing display could wrap around your entire wrist. Read more…
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World’s First Fully Organic Flexible OLED Will Wrap Round Your Wrist
Ever wanted a copy of Windows you can take with you wherever you go, to use on any computer you want? It’s possible: here’s how to install a portable version of Windows 8 on a USB hard drive that you can take anywhere. Read more…
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Since at least 2007, DEA agents and local police detectives have had regular access to a gigantic database that contains detailed records of every American phone call that’s passed through an AT&T switch in the past 26 years. The program, named the Hemisphere Project, also pays AT&T employees to work alongside drug-enforcement officers stationed in three states. Read more…
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AT&T Partnered With DEA to Provide Access to 26 Years of Phone Records
When you run a command with sudo in Linux, the terminal prompts you to type in your password—and doesn’t give you any visual feedback. Here’s a quick tweak that’ll bring back those familiar asterisks (*) when you type in your password. Read more…
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Make Password Asterisks Visible in Your Linux Terminal