Password-free logins have long been the stuff of dreams for security researchers and privacy advocates—not to mention regular people who fat-finger their account passwords into a browser every day. Industry efforts to end our reliance on the multi-character password have resulted in the proposal of […]
Day: April 19, 2018
For a destination called peace
Last year, we decided to celebrate Deepavali with an eight-day train journey across Germany, Switzerland and France. Veering off the package tour route, we bought a Eurail pass and picked places and activities of interest. We landed in Frankfurt, Germany and took the regional Deutsche […]
Facebook moves to shrink its legal liabilities under GDPR
Facebook has another change in the works to respond to the European Union’s beefed up data protection framework — and this one looks intended to shrink its legal liabilities under GDPR, and at scale. Late yesterday Reuters reported on a change incoming to Facebook’s T&Cs that […]
Mass-produced graphene: MIT may have cracked it
Graphene is the wonder compound that’s being hailed as the solution for battery life problems, the building block for paper-thin Wi-Fi receivers, brain-computer interfaces, and many other major technological breakthroughs. So why isn’t it everywhere? Well, long story short, it’s incredibly difficult and expensive to […]
Apple Watch can now unlock your August Smart Lock
You’ll also need to update your iOS app, because you might be prompted to log in to sync your locks. Once that’s done (and you’re a recognized owner), though, you’ll be able to view all the August locks you have on the Watch’s screen. If […]
Study: What If China Bans Apple To Retaliate For US Sanctions Against Huawei, ZTE? Massive …
During Apple's most recent financial earnings call in February, CEO Tim Cook said that the U.S. company had "an all-time record for revenue in mainland China" for its December quarter. A key part of that revenue was, of course, the iPhone, but Apple also grew […]
Welcome to the Wikipedia for Terms of Service Agreements
Most people spend very little time thinking about the terms of service that govern life online. The agreement appears in a flash, we affirm that “I agree to the terms of service,” and then it’s all quickly forgotten. Until, of course, something goes wrong. Last […]
Google Maps to drivers: Turn right at the Burger King
Picture this. You’re driving down the street and Google Maps tells you to turn right at the Burger King, instead of telling you to turn right on [insert street name you’ve never heard of]. Well, Google is starting to do this. I noticed this while […]
Motorola has namechecked the Moto G6 and G6 Plus
There’s no doubt that we’re going to see new Motorola phones today, as they’ve been heavily leaked and even teased by Motorola itself, but what the company hadn’t done until now is reveal the names. Now we can say with near certainty that among the […]
Simulano un cecità totale. Sequestrati 200 mila euro a 3 falsi ciechi nel Messinese VIDEO
A passeggio oppure sorpresi a “chattare” con lo smartphone: “beccati” 3 falsi ciechi. I carabinieri della Compagnia di Sant'Agata di Militello hanno eseguito un provvedimento di sequestro preventivo, messo dal GIP del Tribunale di Patti su richiesta … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews