Totem Acoustic KIN Mini speakers and KIN Sub, a sweet little three-piece system for music and movies. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: I loved the first game, but I have my doubts that the sequel can recapture the magic. …read more Source:: CNet

The Parker Solar Probe, set to launch Sunday, is designed to unlock the sun’s mysteries — and help protect us from its wrath. …read more Source:: CNet

There is a special breed of hardware hacker whose playground lies in the high voltage arena. Their bench sizzles with the ozone and plasma of Tesla coils, and perhaps it’s best not to approach it without a handy fluorescent light tube to sniff for unseen hazards. There are many amazing things that can come of…

An anonymous reader quotes InsideHPC: Today Julia Computing announced the Julia 1.0 programming language release, “the most important Julia milestone since Julia was introduced in February 2012.” As the first complete, reliable, stable and forward-compatible Julia release, version 1.0 is the fastest, simplest and most productive open-source programming language for scientific, numeric and mathematical computing….

HTTP is ubiquitous now with pretty much everything being powered by an API, a web application or some kind of cloud-based HTTP driven infrastructure. With that HTTP Security becomes paramount and to secure HTTP you have to understand it. HTTP is the protocol that powers the web and to penetrate via a web service it…

“Some x86 CPUs have hidden backdoors that let you seize root by sending a command to an undocumented RISC core that manages the main CPU,” Tom’s Hardware reports, citing a presentation by security researcher Christopher Domas at the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas. The command — “.byte 0x0f, 0x3f” in Linux — “isn’t…

Show Us Yours: Gene’s life long passions for audio and music adorn his cozy Greenwich Village pad. …read more Source:: CNet

Recently the Palm Beach Post noted that 20% of the academic credit awarded at Florida Atlantic University is for online courses. So how can they stop cheaters? Where once it was enough for a professor to roam the aisles of a classroom, checking for cheat sheets and keeping an eye out for students signaling one…

Queercon is a conference within a conference. Taking place within DEF CON, Queercon is a social network of LGBT hackers that gathers each year to host events, talks, and a kickin’ pool party. Since 2012 they have also been building electronic badges as part of the fun and I can vouch that they’re contenders for…