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Dropbox Passwords Were Optional For a Short Time on Sunday

Dropbox had a little problem this weekend. The service broke its own authentication system when it pushed out a code update on Sunday afternoon. The mistake let users login to Dropbox without a correct password and was live for four hours before it was detected. Dropbox fessed up to the faux-pas after TechCrunch ran with…

Privacy & Security Kelly

Call of Nature Leads to the Loss of 8 Million Gallons of Drinking Water

It’s the “yuck” factor that led the City of Portland Oregon to literally flush 8 million gallons of water out of a city drinking reservoir after a man mistakenly urinated in the body of water. It all began when 21-year old Josh Seater was caught on surveillance camera while relieving himself in the open reservoir.…

Tech News Kelly

Blinged-Out Bacteria Put to Work in Fuel Cells

The boffins at Carnegie Mellon have done it again! This time they’ve devised a biological fuel cell that harvests the metabolic energy of bacteria using gold plates. Professors Kelvin B. Gregory and Philip R. LeDuc say that the fuel cell is the size of a human hair. With electronics getting smaller and smaller and rare…

Tech News Michael Zhao

Microsoft Gives Their Dropbox-Like SkyDrive an HTML5 Overhaul

SkyDrive is Microsoft’s equivalent of Dropbox and they’ve given it a complete overhaul to make it HTML5-friendly. What does that mean for you? In a nutshell, it’s faster, prettier, easier to use. And you still get 25 gigs of free storage. [Skydrive via Microsoft]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Microwave Warhead Is Non-Lethal, Unless You’re a Robot

Incoming Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that the next Pearl Harbor could be a cyber-attack. Since our government is obviously inept when it comes to cybersecurity, we should probably stick to what we’re good at: launching missiles. https://gizmodo.com/panetta-is-wrong-the-next-pearl-harbor-will-not-be-a-c-5811504 The idea of a tactical EMP that can disable an enemy’s electronic systems without harming personnel…

Tech News Michael Zhao

I Already Hate Nokia’s Fantastic Looking New Phone

PocketNow has shots of what appears to be the Nokia N9, which kinda looks like an elongated and oversized iPod Nano. Beautiful (and probably well-constructed) as it may be, I don’t give a damn about it. Why? It runs Meego, not Mango. When Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership at the beginning of the year…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Social Media Background Checks Now Officially a Thing

The Federal Trade Commission now allows companies who run background checks and to compile seven years worth of publicly-available files and data from social networks and websites of the like. If you haven’t yet privatized the information on your online accounts, you should. According to Kashmir Hill over at Forbes, Social Intelligence is one of…

Social Media Adrian Covert

Scientists Create First Memory Expansion for Brain

Imagine you can insert a memory card in your brain and go all Keanu Wow, I know Jiu-Jitsu! Reeves. It’s actually not that far away: Scientists have created a chip that allows rats to instantly know things. It’s amazing. After studying the chemical interactions that allow short-term learning and memorization in rats, a group of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Discovr Apps for iPhone: A Lovely Web of App Recommendations

The App Store has something north of a bazillion apps lining its digital shelves, making it incredibly hard to find the good ones. Discovr Apps thinks it can help by drawing each app’s “family tree” of related apps. What’s it do? It’s an iOS app search tool that recommends apps to download. But unlike other…

Tech News Casey Chan

New York Street Paved Not Only In Dog Poop But Also Diamonds

Extremely dirty person Raffi Stepanian prowls the streets of New York on his hands and knees looking for gold and diamonds. Surprisingly, he finds them! At least $819 worth, in less than a week. The former “freelance diamond setter” has been collecting precious metals and gemstones from 47th Street since 1984. Or at least that’s…

Tech News Mat Honan

Discovr Apps Gallery

You can either search for an app or click on the app icons Discovr features The recommendations tree can grow quite humungous And it can be incredibly useful! Here’s how it works

Tech News Casey Chan

A Study and Your Mom Confirm That Whining Is the Worst Noise Ever

According to a recent study, whining that you don’t wanna go to school has proven to be the most distracting sound one can hear. In fact, it was found to be more irksome than a screeching table saw. Researchers Rosemarie Sokol Chang and Nicholas S. Thompson conducted their study looking into how attachment vocalizations affected…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Dishwashers Are Trying to Kill Us

Dishwashers are boss at cleaning dishes without getting your hands wet. They’re also a perfect home—because of their hot and moist temperature—for black yeast to grow. Black yeast, as you can probably imagine, is very not good. Black yeast is rarely found in nature but apparently thrives on the rubber lining of dishwashers. Though dishwashers…

Tech News Casey Chan

New Rocket Plane Promises New York to Tokyo Before Your Movie Finishes

Flying is an excruciating exercise in misery. But a plane unveiled at the Paris Air Show yesterday promises to speed things up to Mach 4.5, at least reducing our in-air agony. European aviation giant EADS, parent company of Airbus, is promoting a new concept plane called the ZEHST (for Zero Emission Hypersonic Transport). It’s powered…

Tech News Mat Honan

South Korean Man Operates Dropbox for Abandoned Baby Disposal

Seoul pastor Lee Jong-rak has an unusual operation going on in his house. Caring for disabled kids isn’t anything out abnormal for a religious charity—but having a literal baby dropbox attached to the side of your home, is. Lee created the box—an enclosed, mailbox-style bin with a blanket and a lightbulb—after the birth of his…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Verizon Unlimited Data Dies for Good July 7

Well we knew it was coming, but now we have a date: Verizon is moving to tiered data plans starting July 7th. The prices are $30/50/80 for 2GB/5GB/10GB plans, and bump up to $50/70/100 for 4GB/7GB/12GB for tethered plans. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-end-of-unlimited-data-plans-likely-coming-soon-5567119 The plans do not differentiate between 3G and 4G. Customers who currently have an unlimited…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Facebook Saved a Woman’s Life

Cindy Lincoln was folding laundry when she fell and broke her femur. Because she was in immense pain, Lincoln couldn’t reach a phone. Instead, she logged into Facebook and posted a help message that saved her life. The phone was in the kitchen, the laptop was in the room she was in. Her decision was…

Social Media Casey Chan

Let’s Go Back to Atari’s Golden Age

Pong revolutionized gaming and put a little gaming company named Atari on the map-and it was just the tip of the iceberg. Who knew that a relatively simple re-imagining of ping-pong would revolutionize gaming the world over? Let’s take a look back at some other legendary Atari games spawned by the little white “ball” and…

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You Can Cram a Bottle Opener into Almost Anything

It’s officially summer, brah. That means that, despite the fact that the economy’s flagging, unrest consumes the Middle East, and a meteor could very well be headed for Earth, it’s time to crack some brews. Behold: the best openers. The most annoying part about most bottle openers is bulk. You don’t want some aluminum doorknob…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Dropbox Passwords Were Optional For a Short Time on Sunday

Call of Nature Leads to the Loss of 8 Million Gallons of Drinking Water

Top Stories: Monday, June 20, 2011

Blinged-Out Bacteria Put to Work in Fuel Cells

Microsoft Gives Their Dropbox-Like SkyDrive an HTML5 Overhaul

Microwave Warhead Is Non-Lethal, Unless You’re a Robot

I Already Hate Nokia’s Fantastic Looking New Phone

Social Media Background Checks Now Officially a Thing

Scientists Create First Memory Expansion for Brain

Discovr Apps for iPhone: A Lovely Web of App Recommendations

New York Street Paved Not Only In Dog Poop But Also Diamonds

Discovr Apps Gallery

A Study and Your Mom Confirm That Whining Is the Worst Noise Ever

Dishwashers Are Trying to Kill Us

New Rocket Plane Promises New York to Tokyo Before Your Movie Finishes

South Korean Man Operates Dropbox for Abandoned Baby Disposal

Verizon Unlimited Data Dies for Good July 7

Facebook Saved a Woman’s Life

Let’s Go Back to Atari’s Golden Age

You Can Cram a Bottle Opener into Almost Anything

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