Technology

ATM Hacking And Mobile Call Interception- Live On Stage In November

Black Hat Abu Dhabi, running from the November 8th- 11th at Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, will discuss some of the major security concerns faced by the IT world- and even demonstrate them live.  ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2010 - 2:19pm

Black Market Satellite Electronics?

Just an anecdote for today.  With luck, my French connection will have 'the goods' for me shortly.  I will slip him payment, and 20 beauties will be mine. Back when I fabricated my PCBs, I thought the next step was to buy the electronics.  What c ...

Article - Project Calliope - Nov 3 2010 - 10:54am

Not just science fiction- 3-D moving holograms get closer

Remember the "Star Wars" scene where robotic scamp R2-D2 projects a three-dimensional image of Princess Leia trying to ask for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi?    New  3D holographic imaging technology developed at the University of Arizona College of O ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 3 2010 - 2:45pm

This Robot Runs On Coffee And Balloons

Many robot designs are understandably human-looking- they infrequently have legs, since a realistic gait that passes for human is difficult (though see RunBot- Mountaineering Robot and The Science Of A Bionic Woman for the latest) but a torso, a head and a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2010 - 1:02pm

Predicting The Internet, A How-to

The best way to discover whether someone is full of crap or not is to look at their past predictions.  If you're digital media expert Jim Griffin and you put your rep publically on the line predicting internet video in 2002, you're probably on th ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Nov 12 2010 - 10:48pm

A Semantic Web Way To Analyze Raw Government Data

Want to kill about 8,000 hours of your life?   Go to data.gov and start looking around.  In the interest of transparency (well, sometimes- see Recovery Accountability and Transparency meeting not open to the public), the Obama Administration has posted ov ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2010 - 6:25pm

Humanity + @ Caltech: Speaker/Organizer Contact Info

The Humanity + @ Caltech conference kicked off this morning in Pasadena with a dynamic group of speakers, discussing how humanity is being defined by technology, media, and by us, the active participants. People were inquiring about Twitter handles and web ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Dec 5 2010 - 6:12pm

Choose Your Own Adventure- But For Movies, In Real Time

When I was a lad, a fellow named Edward Packard came up with the Choose Your Own Adventure series, books where you read until an action point and you had to make a decision- your decision determined the plot of the book from there on out by sending you to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 13 2010 - 7:07pm

Security of auto ignition systems

New Scientist tells us that the encryption between electronic key fobs and car ignition systems has been cracked in many cases. The reason is that most car manufacturers are using weak and/or home-grown encryption: A device fitted within the key fob of a ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Dec 15 2010 - 4:00am

Security of auto control systems

While we’re on the joint subject of cars and security, I should dredge up this item that I’ve had hanging about for a few months. It’s from Ars Technica, and reports that researchers have hacked into the control systems of cars because those systems are o ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Dec 17 2010 - 5:30am