The German TV show NEO MAGAZIN Royale asked their viewers to send in old hardware. These old floppy drives, scanners, typewriters, hard drives, modems, and speakers would be turned into instruments. The German hip hop group, Fettes Brot performed Die da on these instruments. Fettes Brot feat. Geekchester – Jein | NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE mit →
For years, when it came to credit-card security, the United States was the last major holdout in the developed world, continuing to issue cards with magnetic stripes rather than the more-secure microchip EMV cards (EMV stands for the three companies that pioneered the chip: Europay, Mastercard, and Visa). http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/us-determined-to-have-the-least-secure-credit-cards-in-the-world/473199/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
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 →