Hackers Unveil Their Plan To Change Email Forever The creator of an ultra-secure email service once said to be used by Edward Snowden unveiled his next project at a major hacker conference Friday: He and others like him want to change the very nature of email forever. Ladar Levison, creator of the Lavabit encrypted email provider, was forced… Read More »
Hackers can tap USB devices in new attacks, researcher warns USB devices such as keyboards, thumb-drives and mice can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher has revealed. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs, noted that hackers could load… Read More »
Comcast Confessions: when every call is a sales call When AOL executive and Comcast customer Ryan Block recently tried to cancel his internet service, he ended up in a near-yelling match with a customer service representative who spent 18 minutes trying to talk him out of it. Rep: I’m just trying to figure out here what it is about Comcast… Read More »
Amazon Now Has a Create-Your-Own 3D-Printing Store Amazon has just opened a new 3D Printing Store, which allows customers to customize and then purchase “more than 200 unique print-on-demand products.” Customer can take their pick from a wide variety of products to tweak: from cufflinks to credit card holders, iPhone cases to… err, custom bobbleheads. The amount of customization available on each… Read More »
Plans leaked for Windows 9 Windows 8 wasn’t exactly a runaway success; however, Microsoft’s fortunes might be set to improve with the launch of Windows 9. Exact release details aren’t available just yet, but it is rumored that Windows 9 will be released sometime in 2015; probably April, while other sources state that it will be released in… Read More »
Shoes That Tell You Where to Go Many of us have become so dependent on digital map tools — relying on specific, real-time instructions from Google or Siri to direct us, step by step, from point A to point B — that there is nostalgia for physical maps floating around out there. But for those of you who believe there’s… Read More »