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What is different on common view and Finnish view of personal space? http://scaniasyndrome.tumblr.com/post/99738485347/personal-space Posted from WordPress for Android →

Wired is writing about The Chinese firm accelerating hardware, not software at   http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2016/04/features/hax-hardware-accelerator-china In four years, HAX has invested in 100 companies after vetting what general partner Benjamin Joffe says are 1,000 startups a year. “It’s an investment company that functions as a hardware accelerator,” explains Joffe. “We help them manufacture at scale. Then →

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/117460/why-arent-stingrays-rendered-ineffective-by-standard-mitm-defenses There’s been a lot of reporting in the past few years about law enforcement agencies using IMSI catchers (also known as Stingrays after a popular brand of them) to intercept cellular communications. Stingrays and other IMSI-catchers violate the cell tower agreements by producing an illegal signal, pretending to be a cell tower.They control the →

Jeremy Reimer’s long-running History of the Amiga series is back to tackle the killer app: video effects. The world of video in 1985 was very different from what we know today. Not only was there no YouTube, there was no World Wide Web to view video on. Video content was completely analog and stored on magnetic →

Jeremy Reimer’s long-running History of the Amiga series is interesting reading for those who remember Commodore Amiga from their childhood. When it first arrived, the Amiga was a dream machine… http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://m.9gag.com/gag/adjxvqV How reality and movies are different… →

Ever since the first hominids left Africa, human beings have been on the move. The canoe was invented in 8,000 B.C. Fast forward to today’s self-driving car prototype. http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/397865/animated-history-transportation/?utm_source=SFFB Posted from WordPress for Android →

Who Has Your Back? 2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests report https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 We live digital lives—from the videos shared on social networks, to location-aware apps on mobile phones, to log-in data for connecting to our email, to our stored documents, to our search history. The personal, the profound, and even the absurd are all →

For the iPhone, if you take a look inside you’ll find a number of Samsung parts, and if you use iCloud, well that data is likely being stored on servers run by Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS), and most recently Google. It has been revealed this week that Apple just signed a deal with Google to →

In the spirit of waste not, want not, cars will no longer simply sit idle when their owners jet off to other cities or spend all day in office buildings. Engineers want to use your Internet-connected car as a cloud computing resource. Cars’ powerful on-board computers, ample storage, reliable wireless Internet connectivity, will be put →