"Facebook's role in the debate also indicates that candidates think the social network is equally important as traditional broadcast networks, but in a different way..."
"Without a doubt, Cui's research is impressive—and terrifying. Because it doesn't rely on networks policed by firewalls, like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, detecting these transmission is very hard. After all, there's plenty of radio spectrum in which to hide. Cui quipped that with a simple AM radio, he defeated billions of dollars in firewall research."
"“Our goal is to show that it is possible for a local passive adversary to deanonymise users with hidden services actives without the need to perform end-to-end traffic analysis,” wrote MIT researchers..."
"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale." ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!
"Ecuadorean opposition activist Dr. Carlos Figueroa was being pursued by the state when his email and Facebook accounts were hacked. Several dozen of his colleagues have similarly had their digital lives violated. All blamed President Rafael Correa's government..."
"Google is apparently looking for ways to integrate Glass into existing wearables and clothing, instead of positioning it only as a standalone device worn by “Glassholes.”
"It works against a variety of market-leading chips, including the KeeLoq access control system from Microchip Technology Inc. and the High Security Rolling Code generator made by National Semiconductor. RollJam is capable of opening electronic locks on cars from Chrysler, Daewoo, Fiat, GM, Honda, Toyota, Volvo, Volkswagen Group, Clifford, Shurlok, and Jaguar. It also works against a variety of garage-door openers, including the rolling code garage door opener made by King Cobra."
"An early study found that newcomers to the semiconductor business had to buy licences from incumbents for as much as $200m. Patents should spur bursts of innovation; instead, they are used to lock in incumbents’ advantages."
yes, my dad does a lot of business with freight companies too. but, around the LA/Long Beach Ports for his import business --- --- and they are very old school
"In other words: Google’s ranking algorithm for search results could accidentally steal the presidency. “We estimate, based on win margins in national elections around the world,” says Robert Epstein, a psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and one of the study’s authors, “that Google could determine the outcome of upwards of 25 percent of all national elections."
"Facebook is joining a competitive market. Periscope is owned by Twitter and reported one million users in the first 10 days after its opening. Snapchat’s curated streams, known as Live Stories, receive an average of 10 to 20 million viewers, Shannon Kelly, a spokeswoman for Snapchat, wrote in an email."
"What do you get when you cross a presidential debate featuring Donald Trump with a sendoff for Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show”? A double header of political and satirical spectacle that offers a night of ideal scheduling for the social-media peanut gallery."
"But whilst they had much praise for the luxury vehicle, they were still able to compromise it, cracking open doors, altering the dashboards and even shutting the car off."
"Stanford University's ResearchKit-based health app is headed overseas as a part of an effort to help researchers learn more about heart disease on a global scale."
"The overall tech bubble will eventually burst, it might be next year, it might be two or three years down the line, and it might be external economic factors that bring it to an end..."
"Since the start of 2014, venture-capital firms have pumped over $1 billion into startup freight-forwarding companies, twice the amount invested in the five years before that..."
"A group which calls itself Cyber Caliphate, assumed to have ties to the terrorist group ISIS, may in fact be a creation of Russian hackers taking advantage of the havoc wrecked on social media and the Internet by ISIS propagandists."
"The duo talked about how design flaws in TrustZone, the ARM technology that comes embedded in modern day smartphones, will simply let a 'sensor spying attack' harvest a user fingerprints."
sad, but probably true to a degree. After a given innovation, there's usually a lag time for the government to respond with laws because prior to it, there'd be just abstractions to regulate.
"And because it's an event that brings in high-level government and corporate staff, there's also plenty of data and networks to entice the nefarious.It's one-stop shopping, a place were every major security executive is gathered..." ---- I wonder who's got hacked in the past
"Intelligience sources say a covert campaign to attack nuclear weapons programme was stymied by North Korea’s isolated communications system..." --- It seems like "process isolation" for an entire country.
I don't think that correlation is due to the cost of gas & Tesla's demographic of car buyers (the wealthy). They are are not as sensitive to changes in the oil price (ie. they at 3 vs. 4 @ the pump, a given wealthy person will consume the same).