Category: gear

Judge rules FBI, NSA broke the law or court orders with data collection

[ad_1] That last query was the result of a flawed system, an FBI official said in a briefing. Info appeared in a “preview pane” in such a way that workers were searching without realizing they were sifting through data they weren’t supposed to see. The FBI took steps to prevent that from happening again, the […]

Recommended Reading: Behind the wheel of the Polestar 2

[ad_1] Driving the Polestar 2, the first electric car with a brain by GoogleAndrew J. Hawkins, The VergeThe Verge offers some first impressions of the first EV that runs Android Automotive: Google’s tech that controls things like air conditioning, navigatio… [ad_2] Source link

Epic Games asks a court to make Apple put ‘Fortnite’ back in the App Store

[ad_1] Termination of Epic’s developer account also removed its other games from the App Store, including some Apple had previously used to show off its development platforms. The judge already ruled that Apple can’t kick Unreal Engine as a whole off of its platform, for now, and now Epic is pushing to get back the […]

Telmate data breach leaked personal info for millions of prisoners

[ad_1] Telmate, a widely used prison phone service, left millions of inmates’ and their contacts’ data exposed online, according to Comparitech. The company is behind an app called GettingOut, which gives prisoners a way to make monitored voice/video calls and to send texts to their loved ones. Due to the nature of the service, the […]

How TikTok got caught in the middle of a trade war with China

[ad_1] After weeks of threats, the president delivered an ultimatum to TikTok and its owner ByteDance: sell the app’s US operations to an American company or it would be banned. He gave the company little more than a month — until Sept. 15 — to find a buyer and figure out how to disentangle itself […]

White House issues ‘SPD-5’ cybersecurity policy for space

[ad_1] The Trump administration’s latest Space Policy Directive, SPD-5, details policies the government believes the country’s public and private space agencies should adopt to protect their systems from hacking threats. Some of the best practices the document recommends include that operators encrypt data they receive from their craft. They should also install physical measures to […]

NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless

[ad_1] The most popular GPU among Steam users today, NVIDIA’s venerable GTX 1060, is capable of performing 4.4 teraflops, the soon-to-be-usurped 2080 Ti can handle around 13.5 and the upcoming Xbox Series X can manage 12. These numbers are calculated by taking the number of shader cores in a chip, multiplying that by the peak […]

Teenage Engineering’s next product is probably a Bluetooth speaker

[ad_1] When Teenage Engineering started teasing it was working on a “magic apparatus,” people got understandably excited. After all, this is the company that has released some of the most offbeat but capable synths (and IKEA products) in the last couple of years, and it said it had been working on this device for the past […]

Harvard created a wool-like 3D-printable material that can shape shift

[ad_1] It’s made using keratin extracted from recycled wool. Keratin is a fibrous protein that’s found in hair, which, of course, has a habit of returning to its natural form. The researchers shaped a single chain of keratin into a spring-like structure. They twisted two of those together and used many such “coiled coils” to […]