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USB Killer, $50, lets you easily fry almost every device

Last year we wrote about the “USB Killer”

Aggressive design caused Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery explosions

In September, the first reports of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 batteries exploding hit social media.

San Francisco Muni hacker gets hacked back

Revenge is sweet, but irony is sweeter. Apparently, the

Netflix Has Downloads

Gnu Teaches Robots to not Google and Drive - GeekSpeak for 2013-09-28

High School teacher and Ben’s father, Roger Jaffe, joins us for this fun episode of GeekSpeek.

Chip-and-PIN credit cards hacked easily, Black Hat conference proves — RT America

It only takes small modifications to equipment to bypass the chip-and-PIN protections and enable unauthorized payments, multiple researchers at the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas, Nevada demonstrated on Wednesday.

The new cards, which began rolling out in the US in October 2015, use technology

Travelling with TripIt - GeekSpeak for 2010-06-19

The Geeks interview Andy Denmark of TripIt and cover the Week in Geek News.

Netflix keeping bandwidth usage low by encoding its video with VP9 and H.264/AVC codecs

Last week Netflix debuted offline viewing mode, something that subscribers have been wanting for a long time. With the offline mode, users were allowed to download shows and movies directly to their device to watch on the go without having to stream using WiFi or data connections. Netflix has taken steps to ensure that the downloads are as small and as efficient as possible using VP9 content encoding for downloaded content.

Many CEOs believe technology will make people 'largely irrelevant'

Although artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other emerging technologies may reshape the world as we know it, a new global study has revealed that the majority of CEOs now value technology over people when it comes to the future of their businesses.

How much interns at tech companies like Facebook, Google, Snapchat and Uber get paid

Interns at tech companies make more money on an annualized basis than workers in the vast majority of occupations, according to a new online survey. A lot more.

China censors WeChat without users realizing by focusing on group chats, a Citizen Lab study finds

A new study from The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, reveals that censorship on WeChat occurs primarily in group chats rather than one-on-one chats between two people, and often in such a way where the sender of a text isn

Credit Card Numbers

The first few characters of the card number describe the type of card.


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