Oyster announced today that they have secured $3 million in funding for a new startup that will provide unlimited access to a library of books for a flat monthly price. The company is developing an application geared specifically for mobile use.
For many years, Iran has proposed a parallel, but private, Internet for its citizens. This private Internet is referred to as “halal”. Halal would provide Iranians a secure, and controlled Internet experience, one that promotes good Islamic moral values, while restricting access to the outside world. Collin Anderson, independent security analyst, has found evidence that…
RSA has announced that another wave of attacks on major banks is coming and rather than a DDoS style attack, this one is organized by a cyber-gang intent on pilfering money through a Trojan attack they have dubbed “Gozi Prinimalka”.
According to the L.A. times, Fox has announced that animation studio Blue Sky will be producing a full-length animated film based on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. The planned released date is November 25, 2015. From Schulz’s comments, the L.A. Times suspects that the movie will be CGI rather than traditional animation.
MIT chemists have printed carbon nanotubes on paper to create a sensor for detecting dangerous gases. The lines are printed on specially treated paper. When an electrical current is passed through the paper, the change in resistance indicates gas molecules that have bound to the printed nanotubes. The test sensor detected small traces of ammonia…
Nanex, the top tracker of high frequency trading activity on Wall Street, reported today that a single mysterious computer program made up 4% of all quote traffic on the stock market last week. It also accounted for 10% of the allowed trading for the day. The program placed orders in batches of 200, then 400,…
Psychological studies indicate that much can be gleaned from a person’s handshake, especially when it’s the first time you’ve met the person and are forming that oh-so-important first impression. Psychologists say a person forms their impression of you in the first 5-10 seconds after they meet you and that once formed in the person’s mind,…
In this video, Japanese astronaut, Dr. Takao Doi, throws a boomerang inside the International Space Station, in a zero-G environment. Before the experiment, they really were not sure what it would do, thinking it would probably spin up and away from the thrower, As it turns out, it acts pretty much the same as it…
Contre Jour, developed by Ukrainian developer Hyrniv Mokus and published by Chillingo, garnered a lot of praise when it was first released on the iOS platform. ABC news said, “the game is so well designed that it almost feels like you’re playing a piece of art.” Now Microsoft has ported the game to HTML5 in…
The folks at RSA have proposed a new method of securing user passwords obtained from database hacks – break the password into separate pieces and store them at separate locations. If the database were compromised and the password stolen, all the hacker would have would be half of the password hash which would make it…
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