The Audiophiliac checks out the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest convention in Denver…….

The year is 1948. A new off-road utility vehicle is rolling off assembly lines. It’s geared at World War II veterans and its design is reminiscent of the massive boxes driven during wartime a few years before. Sound familiar?……

An anonymous reader writes “Richard Schiffman writes in The Guardian that the Republican-led shutdown of the U.S. government caused significant damage to many scientific programs. For example: shortly before the shutdown started, over a hundred scientists had gathered to perform critical equipment tests on the James Webb Space Telescope — Hubble’s successor — and that…

Here are the top stories from ZDNet Mobile News this week gathered in one convenient spot. The tablet reigned supreme so if you missed something you can check it out here…….

New submitter Enokcc writes “In a series of research articles it was claimed that a famous system of nonlinear differential equations originally used to model atmospheric convection can also be used to model changes in human emotions over time. It took an amateur in psychology with a computer science background to notice how extraordinary these…

An anonymous reader writes “The NY Times has a story about the imminent release of Battlefield 4 on 29 October, as it’s one of the most highly-anticipated video games of the year. The most interesting part of the article is where it highlights what a mammoth undertaking such ‘AAA’ games have become. There are hundreds…

FantaGhost is a perl script that assists with penetration testing by scanning for hidden directories and pages…….

Carriers like AT&T lost control in the smartphone wars. But smart homes could provide a path back to control before OS vendors jump in…….

WordPress dhtmlxspreadsheet plugin suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information…….

An anonymous reader writes “All Power Labs in Berkeley, California has produced and sold over 500 machines that take in dense biomass and put out energy. What makes the machines special is that instead of releasing carbon back into the atmosphere, it’s concentrated into a lump charcoal that makes excellent fertilizer. The energy is produced…