Now consider this story by the New York Post, which cries out in terror that a master key to the New York City utilities has leaked. The New York Post is crying out in terror that this master key is on the loose, and goes on to publish the full secret of the key, →
Intelligence project aims to reverse engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-government-launches-a-100-million-apollo-project-of-the-brain/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
The REAL reason Slack became a billion dollar company and why its business model is evilly brilliant, Twitter is going nowhere and how you can replicate that success for your product. Slack is a dream for every startup founder, investor and VC. It’s the fastest growing startup ever, which is amazing considering it’s a SaaS →
What’s like running water, only delivered directly to your hands? It’s the internet on your smartphone! This interconnection can seem magical, universal, global and instant. But it does so only until the moment something goes wrong. This free dingus can make the Internet faster, help you sort out your network and save remote communities article tells The →
Microsoft has today released the source code to an open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. The software is dubbed SONiC, aka Software for Open Networking in the Cloud. It’s a toolkit of code and kernel patches to bend switch hardware to your will. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/09/microsoft_sonic_debian/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
A new world ranking of countries and their literacy rates puts the United States at 7th. Who’s No. 1? Finland. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/08/most-literate-nation-in-the-world-not-the-u-s-new-ranking-says/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
Will the fancy new tech in the S7 be as cool as it’s cracked up to be? Only a teardown will tell. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S7+Teardown/56686 Posted from WordPress for Android →
BMW is celebrating its 100th anniversary by revealing the ‘Vision Next 100’, the brand’s very first autonomous vehicle. It anticipates the future of the brand, the last of the three German luxury automakers to introduce an autonomous car. http://interestingengineering.com/bmw-reveals-autonomous-car-on-their-100th-anniversary/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
We have biometrics, which replaces all that security with a unique aspect of your body, be it a fingerprint, iris scan, or now even the unique sound echo created by your ear. That last one has been developed by NEC Corp in collaboration with Nagaoka University of Technology. They realized that the shape of an →
Trust in self-driving cars remains a big stumbling block for U.S. drivers surveyed by the American Automobile Association. But the same AAA survey and other past studies suggest that drivers can quickly overcome those trust issues once they get a chance to experience a ride in a semi-autonomous or fully autonomous vehicle. “There’s going to be a →