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 →
On the face of it the small Finnish town of Nokia looks wholly unremarkable. There’s little sign that this quiet backwater once gave its name to the company that revolutionised the mobile phone industry in the late 1990s and helped turn Finland’s economy into one of the most prosperous in the world. At its peak →
Hey Look, It’s Every Bootstrap Website Ever http://adventurega.me/bootstrap/ Take a look around at the same fucking bootstrap page you’ve seen ten million times before! Featuring all the same things as those pages! →
It’s been nearly a year since the first portable DNA sequencers were shipped to giddy researchers waiting to be untethered from the refrigerator-sized machines in their labs. Now a desktop version by the same maker, Oxford Nanopore, is heading their way. The company’s grand, long-term vision is to build an “internet of living things.” The →
Invented by Tim Berners Lee, the first website went live at research lab CERN in 1990 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/12061803/The-worlds-first-website-went-online-25-years-ago-today.html Posted from WordPress for Android →
Security researchers have successfully exploited the Android-based Stagefright bug and remotely hacked a phone, which may leave millions devices vulnerable to attack. Israeli software research company NorthBit claimed it had “properly” exploited the Android bug that was originally described as the “worst ever discovered”. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-03/16/stagefright-android-real-world-hack The exploitation, called Metaphor, is detailed in a research paper →
Famously, “Software is eating the world”, and I would add: at a fast pace! In my opinion, there are two key reasons for that: a) Software development reached an unprecedented speed. b) Online marketing enables fast and scalable distribution of software. The increase in development speed is driven by the innovation of re-using existing blocks. →