Day: August 5, 2016

The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99 by Andromium Inc.: The Palm Foleo resurrected!

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The Kickstarter project allready has $1.5m of the $50k goal invested. At the time most people didn’t ‘get’ the Palm Foleo – this has always been a bit of a problem for Palm: they were always too far ahead of the curve, allowing companies like Apple to steal their brilliant ideas and polish them up Read more about The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99 by Andromium Inc.: The Palm Foleo resurrected![…]

No more rats: New Zealand to exterminate all introduced predators

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The New Zealand government has announced a “world-first” project to make the nation predator free by 2050. The prime minister, John Key, said on Monday it would undertake a radical pest extermination programme – which if successful would be a global first – aiming to wipe out the introduced species of rats, stoats and possums Read more about No more rats: New Zealand to exterminate all introduced predators[…]

3D print biz Shapeways hacked, home and email addresses swiped

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Shapeways. In a statement, it said that some email addresses, usernames, and shipping addresses were exposed, but that the hackers didn’t get a full run of their servers and no 3D printing plans were stolen. “The intruders did not access credit card information because Shapeways does not store such information on their systems,” said a Read more about 3D print biz Shapeways hacked, home and email addresses swiped[…]

‘Sister Clones’ Of Dolly The Sheep Are Alive And Kicking

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The sheep are just four of 13 clones that Sinclair shepherds, but they’re the most famous because of their relation to Dolly, the sheep that made headlines two decades ago as the first successfully cloned mammal. ” ‘Sister clones’ probably best describes them,” Sinclair says. “They actually come from the exactly the same batch of Read more about ‘Sister Clones’ Of Dolly The Sheep Are Alive And Kicking[…]

Hackers Steal $72 Million in Bitcoin From Hong Kong Exchange Bitfinex

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Hong Kong bitcoin exchange Bitfinex reported yesterday that hackers had stolen 119,756 bitcoin, which is worth as much as $72 million dollars (with some reports going even higher). News of the hack sent bitcoin tumbling 23 percent, with its current value hovering around $556. Bitfinex confirmed that no other digital currency except bitcoin was targeted Read more about Hackers Steal $72 Million in Bitcoin From Hong Kong Exchange Bitfinex[…]

Your battery status is being used to track you online

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A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after privacy researchers warned that it had the potential to do just that. The battery status API was introduced in HTML5, the fifth version of the code used Read more about Your battery status is being used to track you online[…]

Report: Operating Systems Should Actively Block Pirated Downloads – TorrentFreak

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While most of the media attention focused on the role of ISPs, there is an even more controversial proposal that has been largely overlooked. According to the report, pirated content should be banned on the operating system level. “Other players that possess the potential ability to limit piracy are the companies that own the major Read more about Report: Operating Systems Should Actively Block Pirated Downloads – TorrentFreak[…]

Simply not credible: The extraordinary verdict against ICANN – the body that hopes to run the internet

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In an extraordinary judgment, the organization that hopes to take over running the top level of the internet later this year has been slammed by an independent review as at best incompetent and at worst deliberately mendacious. The decision [PDF] by ICANN’s Independent Review Panel (IRP) over the organization’s decision to refuse “community” status for Read more about Simply not credible: The extraordinary verdict against ICANN – the body that hopes to run the internet[…]