Day: September 14, 2013

Magnepan’s ultraskinny speakers make big, fat sound

The Magnepan Super MMG system features a pair of 4-foot-tall, 1.25-inch-thick panels, and a separate but equally svelte woofer!……


Dogs Love Robots, Prefer Humans

Daniel_Stuckey writes “Researchers recently spent some time forcing dogs and robots to hang out together, in order to better understand the social qualities of interactive robots. The scientists had two objectives: to find out whether canines would interact with a robot and also to see whether they would ascribe social qualities to a non-living, non-human-like…


Student Arrested For Using Phone App To ‘Shoot’ Classmates.

New submitter Lord_Breetai sends word that a Louisiana high school student has been arrested for using a mobile app to simulate shooting his classmates. The app overlays an FPS-style gun and UI over a real background seen through the device’s camera. The student tried it out and then unwisely posted a video of it on…


Microsoft fixes bad patch detection

Several of the security updates released by Microsoft this past Tuesday repeatedly offered themselves even after installation. This has been fixed. If you have hidden the update, unhide it and install…….


Why iTunes Radio Could Take Down Pandora

cagraham writes “Pandora has been the standard for internet radio since it launched in 2000, and just announced the appointment of new CEO Brian McAndrews. They claim they’re not worried about Apple, but iTunes’ massive user base (575 million), content deals, and cheaper pricing options should give them legitimate reason for concern. Can Pandora survive…


ZAGGkeys Folio Keyboard for Galaxy Note 8.0 (review)

A major accessory maker for the iPad has released a keyboard/case for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 that turns that tablet into a little laptop…….


Speedy AT&T vs. reliable Verizon: The gap narrows

While Verizon Wireless remains the most reliable network, according to testing firm RootMetrics, AT&T offers a better overall mix of reliability and speed…….


Intel Shows 14nm Broadwell Consuming 30% Less Power Than 22nm Haswell

MojoKid writes “Kirk Skaugen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the PC Client Group at Intel, while on stage, at IDF this week snuck in some additional information about Broadwell, the 14nm follow up to Haswell that was mentioned during Brian Krzanich’s opening day keynote. In a quick demo, Kirk showed a couple of…


IPIX Solutions Shell Upload

Sites powered by IPIX Solutions suffer from a remote shell upload vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information…….


WordPress Simple Dropbox 1.8.8 Shell Upload

WordPress Simple Dropbox Upload plugin version 1.8.8 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information…….