Ben, Lindsey, Alex, and Miles discuss the Week in Geek and DefCon.
Someone did it! It’s a new record. Check out the history of computing Pi [here|http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/piCompute.html].
What is Tor? Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
Seriously, this is the future that China’s envisioning: huge friggin’ buses engulfing smaller cars on the road. Despite the silly picture and the eccentric “3D Express Coach” branding, this cunning project by Shenzhen Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment actually makes sense.
A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site
A high-speed adaptive optics system helped the Large Binocular Telescope (on Earth) to beat the accuracy of the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations.
3D is an ever-evolving process, which is why the effect can be such a hit-and-miss affair. But those who insist 3D glasses give them headaches are a little wide of the mark, according to the man who trains the filmmaking pros.
The page JailbreakMe.com exploits a vulnerability in Apple’s mobile Safari browser to jailbreak the iPhone (3G, 3GS and 4), iPod Touch (four generations) and iPad without the use of a PC. Jailbreaking gets around Apple’s restrictions on what applications can be installed on the Apple devices. Previously iPhone hacks were available from the same site and at the end of 2007, the site carried a similar trick for iOS 1.1.1.
About a fortnight ago Craig Heffner, a researcher with Maryland-based security consultancy Seismic, said that he will release a software tool that exploits the routers through DNS rebinding, at the Black Hat Conference, and he indeed did that? I don
A telescopic implant that fits directly into the eye to treat certain kinds of blindness has finally received FDA approval for use in the US after more than five years of waiting. The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) is used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
An international team of researchers led by Dr. Matti Mintz at the University of Tel Aviv is working on a biomimetic computer chip for brain stimulation that is programmable, responsive to neural activity, and capable of bridging broken connections in the brain.
Google pulled Wave last night, announcing they are no longer going to update it. So where the heck are you going to do your complex collaborative editing tasks now? Here have five alternatives for you.
