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 »
Snowden: The NSA Has Seen You Naked Over the course of a seven-hour interview conducted with The Guardian in Moscow, Edward Snowden offered a glimpse into his life in Russia and said he’s game for being chained up in military prison if that’s what the future holds for him. The most interesting revelation Snowden disclosed, however, was about… Read More »
The Password Is Finally Dying. Here’s Mine by John Kuczala WSJ The password to my Twitter TWTR +1.29% account, which has been mine since 2007 and through which I have published more than 51,000 tweets, is “christophermims.” Knowing that won’t help you hack it, however. In fact, I’m publishing my password to make a point: The password is finally dying, if we… Read More »
Ordinary people ‘caught in NSA net’ Ninety percent of people identified in a tranche of communications intercepted by the NSA were ordinary internet users, not foreign surveillance targets, analysis by a US paper says. Much highly personal information was retained by the NSA, the paper says Ninety percent of people identified in a tranche of communications intercepted by… Read More »