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New research suggests it’s even easier for hackers to access your vehicle’s computer systems and cause havoc to your vehicle and its performance and safety systems. Computer hackers are able to gain access to key safety features – such as braking systems – in a very short amount of time. “We disengaged the brakes so [...] The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer [...] It seems like we’re not done with the “horses and bayonets” meme quite yet. Instead of a political dig though, diagnosis the “old-fashioned” battle equipment is showing up in another unlikely place: a video game. Although it’s not expected to be the most popular of video games depicting war, find which today usually involve computer-graphics [...] The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. ISP’s have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website. But tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their [...] The website YouHaveDownloaded.com will let you know if they have your current IP address in their Naughty List. The scary part is, that you could simply enter an IP address of another household and view the downloading habits of another. Anyone think this won’t be misused? [...] IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, search acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips “cognitive computers”, claiming that they are able to learn through experience, find patterns, generate ideas and understand the outcomes. In building this new [...] The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers. In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix “deficiencies that could hinder enforcement” of intellectual property laws. [...] Its time once again to celebrate the turning of the Unix system time. Usually we just celebrate the turning of some aesthetically pleasing number of seconds (like 1234567890), but far less often are we privileged to celebrate the number of epoch days turning a significant number. Epoch days being the number of days since January [...] It’s fall here in the Northern Hemisphere, and for a good many of us that means days in the woods looking over a rifle or down an arrow shaft at our local big game. Deer Hunter 3D, a new game on the Android Market from Glu Mobile brings the thrill of the hunt in a [...] The U.S. military has been making a strong push lately into building on top of existing systems like the Android OS in order to increase capabilities while keeping costs low. The Army recently wrapped up its “Apps for Army” competition in which Army soldiers and civilians were asked to create apps that were of use [...] |
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