Fingers crossed!

Fingers crossed!

Originally shared by Alan Boyle

Is this the battery breakthrough we've been waiting for?
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/lithium-air-battery-comes-one-step-closer-to-electric-car-nirvana

I wonder how many cars will have their software surreptitiously updated at the dealer to fix things that shouldn't...

I wonder how many cars will have their software surreptitiously updated at the dealer to fix things that shouldn't be there in the year before this becomes law.

Originally shared by Abraham Williams
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/us-regulators-grant-dmca-exemption-legalizing-vehicle-software-tinkering/

If you need a number or "special symbol" just pick a phrase that includes a number and toss in a comma or a period.

If you need a number or "special symbol" just pick a phrase that includes a number and toss in a comma or a period. How about a password haiku?

"3 months, new password/Can't use the old one again/Insecurity"

(I hope you weren't using that one.)

Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette

Want an unbreakable password? Write it in iambic tetrameter: http://slate.me/1Wbak2t
http://slate.me/1Wbak2t

Well, there's a bit of perspective for ya!

Well, there's a bit of perspective for ya!

Originally shared by Amartya choudhury

Just imagine

Simple DIY Flame: Battery and Gum Wrapper.

Originally shared by Andres M. Trianon

Simple DIY Flame: Battery and Gum Wrapper.
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Evidence of widespread control of fire dates to approximately 125,000 years ago and earlier. Evidence for the controlled use of fire by Homo erectus beginning some 400,000 years ago has wide scholarly support, with claims regarding earlier evidence finding increasing scientific support

Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 0.2 to 1.7 million years ago and it is likely that large scale climatic and disease events caused the tribes with knowledge for controlling fire to be wiped out in different areas of the world , thus explaining the long periods of history without it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans

http://i.imgur.com/NjXqTB8.gifv

Too bad it doesn't apply to where the companies are located, too, not just the end-users.

Too bad it doesn't apply to where the companies are located, too, not just the end-users.

Originally shared by Daniel Suarez

Basic privacy protections finally reach the Internet...at least in California

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was just signed into law here in California -- and with huge bipartisan support. This law will require state and local law enforcement to obtain a search warrant -- detailing what they're looking for -- to gain access to web mail, texts, geolocation history, and more for a California resident. I'm just surprised it took so long to consider the content we generate online and through mobile devices (though held by third parties) to be equivalent to our proverbial 'persons, houses, papers, and effects.'

Sure, the companies that hold our web mail and private chat sessions still have access to the data, but at least they can't be compelled to cough up information to the police on a whim -- there must now be a warrant...again, only for California residents. However, we all know where the most prominent tech companies are headquartered and hopefully this state law will have a salutary effect on legislation elsewhere. That's important because with our current drought everyone moving to California is not an option...

"State senators Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Joel Anderson (R-Alpine) wrote the legislation earlier this year to give digital data the same kinds of protection that non-digital communications have."
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/california-now-nations-best-digital-privacy-law/

This seems important to know...

This seems important to know...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/whats-in-a-boarding-pass-barcode-a-lot/

Interesting! But I'm going to wait until it's under $200.

Interesting! But I'm going to wait until it's under $200.

Originally shared by Artem Russakovskii

This new L16 camera by Light looks wild. It has 16 cameras inside and says it's confident this is how cameras will be built in the future.

10 of these 16 cameras fire to create an image - which ones depends on various conditions. It's a very interesting concept, to say the least.

Shipping late summer 2016 (so they say).
https://light.co

Well, that was less weird than I thought it would be (not completely unweird, mind you).

Well, that was less weird than I thought it would be (not completely unweird, mind you).
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/05/roboho-tiny-robot-smartphone-only-in-japan/