Archive for July 4th, 2007
links for 2007-07-03
Posted by: amygdala on July 4, 2007
- A look at Microsoft's Project Catapult, a multi-year effort to design FPGA chips in-house to power cloud services including Bing, Azure, Office 365, more (Cade Metz/Wired)
- California enacts law, effective Jan. 1, 2017, requiring some entertainment sites with paid subscriptions like IMDb to remove actors' age info upon request (Hollywood Reporter)
- Samsung Gear IconX earbuds review: good sound, accurate heart rate and distance tracking, useful 4GB storage, but bad battery life, pricey, and requires Android (Mike Prospero/Tom's Guide)
- How Apple and IBM's partnership to develop hundreds of enterprise apps actually works: IBM does the app building, and Apple enforces design standards (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
- Reporter follows all of Facebook's prompts and suggestions for weeks, leading to extreme oversharing, polluted news feeds, and awkward encounters (Charlie Warzel/BuzzFeed)
- As insecure IoT devices make large-scale DDoS attacks more potent, the Internet community should work to adopt standards and tools to prevent these attacks (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- Sex cam site Megacams implements face search using Microsoft facial recognition API to let you "find a live sex doppelganger of someone you know" (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- Companies like ApolloShield and Battelle are developing hardware and software that can disable drones without destroying them (Steven Melendez/Fast Company)
- DARPA prevented hackers from taking control of an unmanned drone using "formal methods", a technique that can verify whether programs are error-free (Kevin Hartnett/Quanta Magazine)
- The potential opportunities and pitfalls of Snap's new Spectacles (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
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