A team of security researchers has discovered a security flaw in Google’s mobile OS which affects handsets running versions up to and including 4.4—leaving a potential 82 percent of Android users at risk. Read more…
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A ‘Fake ID’ Flaw in Android Leaves Millions of Phones Vulnerable
Wiretapping used to be straightforward. Potential drug lord? Bug his phone! But the proliferation of online chat options is making it hard for law enforcement officials and intelligence agents to carry out court-ordered wiretaps. Read more…
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Fed Wiretappers Can’t Keep Up With All These New Chat Apps
Virtually all of your gadgets tote lithium ion batteries—but while they’re the best you can hope for at the moment, new engineering means that pure lithium batteries are now a possibility , and they could double the life of your phone. Read more…
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A New Pure Lithium Battery Could Double Your Phone’s Life
Do smartphone-wielding citizens of the world need an excuse to snap more selfies? Absolutely not! And yet, against all odds, there is something undeniably charming about Imoji , an app that allows you to turn your face—or anything you’ve got a photo of—into a little textable you-moji. Read more…
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Turn Your Dumb Selfie Into a Textable Emoji, Annoy and Delight Your Pals
Here’s an insanely scary roller coaster for those who need to feel like they’re close to dying in order to feel like they’re living: the Sky Tower in Tivoli Friheden in Denmark. The ride isn’t a ride at all but actually a fall. That is, the safety rope you’re connected to cuts off and you free fall from a 100 foot tower at 55 mph down to the ground. For fun. Read more…
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Roller coaster cuts the safety rope and makes people plummet 100 feet
Chuck Palahniuk is writing the second part of Fight Club. It won’t be a new film (yet?)— Dark Horse is publishing this new story in a 10-issue maxiseries illustrated by Cameron Stewart, starting in 2015. Read more…
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Fight Club 2 is coming in 2015
Apple just released the latest build of OS X Yosemite, including a brand new iTunes. It’s only a little bit anti-climactic. Version 12.0 does indeed look a lot like Version 11.3, the version that’s probably on your computer. But it’s got some neat little treats nevertheless. Read more…
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Everything That’s Changed in the New iTunes 12.0
Following rumors earlier this week , Amazon has just announced its new Kindle Unlimited subscription service . Pay $10 a month, and you can read as much as you want (from a pool of 600, 000 books, at least). Read more…
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Kindle Unlimited Is Here: Read As Much As You Like For $10 a Month
In the extreme world of bacteria, stunts such as living in hot springs or without oxygen are, like, totally unimpressive. But then there are bacteria that live off electricity, feeding directly on naked electrons. Even more surprisingly, scientists are finding that these bacteria are not even that rare . Read more…
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Electricity-Eating Bacteria Are Real and More Common Than We Thought
When you’re trying to build the fastest car in human history, like the guys making the Bloodhound SSC, you have to make wheels that basically re-invent the wheel. To reach 1000mph and go supersonic, the wheels they’re using weigh over 230 pounds, nearly 3 feet wide and spin four times faster than a F1 car. Read more…
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Here’s how the wheels of the supersonic car are made