Andrew Miller works at a law library by day, but moonlights as one of the most feared bounty hunters in the “Star Wars” universe…….

The Audiophiliac spends some quality time with FiiO’s little X3, an awesome 192kHz/24-bit music player/headphone amplifier; it also sounds sweet with MP3s…….

Do you worry that the widespread use of plate-scanning cameras might be used in ways that violate your privacy ? Now you can ratchet your worry level up a bit: Ars Technica reports that “This week, the California State Senate approved a bill that would create the nation’s first electronic license plate. Having already passed…

Sam Burnett on why his Saab convertible is brilliant…….

cortex writes “University of Utah bioengineers discovered our understanding of language may depend more heavily on vision than previously thought: under the right conditions, what you see can override what you hear. In an article published in PLOS One, ‘Seeing Is Believing: Neural Representations of Visual Stimuli in Human Auditory Cortex Correlate with Illusory Auditory…

Frosty Piss writes “Congressman Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, has proposed legislation that would prohibit the agency from installing ‘back doors’ into encryption, the electronic scrambling that protects e-mail, online transactions and other communications. Representative Holt, a physicist, said Friday that he believed the NSA was overreaching and could hurt American interests, including…

Apple’s engineers have had enough time to figure out how to eliminate the unwanted trade-offs in having a larger screen, and there is plenty of market demand to go bigger…….

People have gotten used to how the social network works. And that’s a problem when the company releases new products…….

v3rgEz writes “Cambridge Consultants has rigged together about a hundred motion-triggered cameras around Kenyan watering holes to help catch and dissuade elephant poachers. ‘The challenge was to create a remote monitoring system that was robust enough to withstand extreme weather conditions and animal attacks and could be easily hidden in any surroundings – all within…

v3rgEz writes “Cambridge Consultants has rigged together about a hundred motion-triggered cameras around Kenyan watering holes to help catch and dissuade elephant poachers. ‘The challenge was to create a remote monitoring system that was robust enough to withstand extreme weather conditions and animal attacks and could be easily hidden in any surroundings – all within…