First time accepted submitter MConnolly writes “I participate in an annual career fair for High School Sophomores. I have groups of 10 — 20 students for 40 minutes a piece. In previous years, we’ve brought a bunch of retired PCs and challenged the groups to disassemble (down to the motherboard) and reassemble them in working…
Python regurgitates Dropbox secrets to boffins
Researchers pick over the entrails to spot vulns……
Twitter ‘report abuse’ button now live on all platforms
The social network makes reporting abusive tweets far easier after a UK activist was harassed and threatened with rape by angry users…….
Boffins build brain-to-brain interface for REMOTE CONTROL HUMANS!
Mind meld completed……
No iPads at Sept. 10 iPhone event, say observers
New iPads will come later in the year after the expected September 10 iPhone 5S and 5C event, according to Apple experts and observers…….
T-Mobile employee blackout hints at Sept. 20 iPhone launch
One of Apple’s most recent carrier partners T-Mobile may have just let the iPhone’s launch date out of the bag with a reported employee vacation ban next month…….
Scientists Create ‘Fastest Man-Made Spinning Object’
dryriver sends this news from the BBC: “A team of researchers claims to have created the world’s fastest spinning man-made object. They were able to levitate and spin a microscopic sphere at speeds of up to 600 million revolutions per minute. This spin speed is half a million times faster than a domestic washing machine…
When video game design goes weird
Crave’s Christopher MacManus takes a trot down memory lane with a tour of some of the oddest-looking gaming devices to come out this century…….
Couchbase database pelted in $25M of filthy Valley lucre
Frothy funding market means VCs chucked money at NoSQL database……
Some of our favorite Nintendo 2DS jabs so far
Oh, snap! And we’re not just talking about the lack of a hinge here. Nintendo’s new budget-friendly non-foldable handheld gaming device gets the jokes flowing…….
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