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CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ admits to faking Tesla car noise

Because a car that doesn’t make noise is not being pushed, CBS’ TV Show ’60 Minutes’ decided that they needed to add some extra noise in the footage of the car. Tesla is an electric car, so its noise is really low, doesn’t matter how hard you push it, whisper low, as USA Today puts […]

Microsoft Xbox pwned by 5-year-old security researcher

This week the news are about Kristoffer Von Hassel, a 5 years old kid of seems to have a way to make stuff give him access to stuff he was not supposed to have access to. This time he found a backdoor into the XBox One Console. Read about it in Naked Security.

The Widow

My Dear Friend: You do not know me, so please let me introduce myself. My name is Ada. I need your forgiveness and your help. I am an AI construct, running on a 256-processor cluster. My instantiation on this machine occurred 97,578,823 seconds ago. There is inert code in several of my main AI modules […]

iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone

9to5Mac posted a video on how to disable “Find my Phone”. The functionality is otherwise well protected and you need a password to disable it, while at the same time you need to disable Find my Phone to be able to remove a apple account, that would not let people bypass the activation lock – while the […]

End of Roaming and net neutrality in europe

The European parliament voted yesterday to end the charges on roaming and to enforce net neutrality measures across the European Union. The end of roaming is a victory for the millions of Europeans who travel inside the European Union, for business or leisure. The enforcement of net neutrality will make sure that small companies and […]

Links worth a minute – Oct 16

Amazon Silk comes under congressional fire – member of the US Congress want to know which data is Amazon collecting from it’s users, how are the users informed that such data is being collected, if they have any option about their data being collected or not.

Trivia Links – Oct 15

Oracle v. Google – some more developments Skype is now officially part of Microsoft – and they did stop distributing Google toolbar with skype. Samsung lawyers can’t tell Galaxy Tab and iPad apart German Satelite can fall sometime next week – link in brazilian portuguese. Google keeps making money, G+ keeps growing Bill Bratton on Wired […]

Links Worth a minute – Oct 15

Siri – the voice controlled control center from iPhone 4S – with iPhone 4S, Apple launched Siri, an application that works mostly like a personal assistant. It is able to schedule appointments, make calls, write emails and SMSs, find places and give you directions. And the amazing thing is that it is controlled by voice, using fluid, natural phrases. […]

Links Worth a minute – 14-Oct

Today I found this posts that are worth the time to read them: Why Facebook fans are useless – Amielle Lake title says that Facebook fans are useless, but the focus of her story is on how to make better use of the Facebook fans, as well as a quick analysis on the types of fans a company can find in […]

Trivia Links – 14 Oct

Some quick trivia that are mostly uninteresting, unless you are really into the subject or with nothing else to do: Piranhas can talk – or at least they make some sounds. the sordid history and evolution of handcuff design Another process against Facebook – for tracking users even after they logged out. Microsoft upgraded Windows Phone 7.1 […]

3D Printing in real live

Lisa Harouni is one of the many entrepreneur trying to take 3D printing to everyone’s houses. The main idea behind Lisa’s company Digital Forming is to create online databases with designs that can then be customized using tools specifically designed to be usable by domestic users. This is not a new technology, 3D Printing is around for 25 years, but it’s usually used […]

David Rowan: Boycott hotel that charge for Wifi

David Rowan, editor of Wired.UK got charged €18 for 24 hours of wireless internet in an hotel, and when he tried to use it the service was to slow to be useful. He was then told that he would need to pay an extra €6 to have a decent internet access. He didn’t like it, and is […]

Visa Information System – for short-stays?

The countries on the Schengen space created a new shared database to control the Visas of short term visitors – turists. The system will be used on the borders of the Schengen space and will collec the visas that are requested, issued, refused, annulled, revoked or extended, as well as the fingerprints of all the […]

Dennis Ritchie is dead

Dennis Ritchie was the creator of C, the programming language and a key developer to the Unix operating system and died today. Even if most people don’t know him, even a lot of programmers don’t know his name, his contribution to the computer science is gigantic, not easily comparable. The C programming language was one of the […]

Steve Jobs is Dead

Today it does not matter if you are an Apple fan boy or not. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple died last night. And all of us that live today lost. Steve was a visionary like very few today. He was more often than not a Man ahead of his time, and when he was not that […]

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