Day: October 23, 2018

This camping stove turns fire into electricity, and you can get it for $70 off – CNET

The BioLite CampStove 2 cooks your food, boils your water and charges your phone. …read more Source:: CNet


Silicon Valley’s Dirty Secret: Using a Shadow Workforce of Contract Employees To Drive Profits

An anonymous reader shares a report: As the gig economy grows, the ratio of contract workers to regular employees in corporate America is shifting. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber and other Silicon Valley tech titans now employ thousands of contract workers to do a host of functions — anything from sales and writing code to managing…


Motiv Ring’s new security features take the wearable beyond fitness tracking – CNET

The simple fitness tracker gets new life as a security key. …read more Source:: CNet


FireEye links Russian research lab to Triton ICS malware attacks

FireEye: Clues link Russia’s Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics research lab to Triton-related activity. …read more Source:: ZDNet


World’s Longest Sea Bridge Opens After 9 Years of Construction

Chinese President Xi Jinping inaugurated China’s latest mega-infrastructure project on Tuesday: The world’s longest sea crossing. From a report: The 34.2-mile bridge and tunnel that have been almost a decade in the making for the first time connect the semi-autonomous cities of Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai by road….


Sidney Darlington

In a field where components and systems are often known by sterile strings of characters that manufacturers assign or by cutesy names that are clearly products of the marketing department and their focus groups, having your name attached to an innovation is rare. Rarer still is the case where the mere mention of an otherwise…


Abode adds IFTTT-style automations to its home security app – CNET

Abode’s app update makes it possible to personalize your smart home devices to work with the security system. …read more Source:: CNet


iPhone XR vs. iPhone XS vs. iPhone 8 Plus vs. iPhone 7 Plus – CNET

The iPhone XR is the “cheap” 2018 iPhone, but when you see its specs side-by-side with iPhones from the last few years, it’s pretty impressive. …read more Source:: CNet


Jaguar Land Rover finally adds Apple CarPlay, Android Auto support – Roadshow

The bad news is that pre-2019 JLR vehicles are plumb out of luck, even if they have the newest infotainment system. …read more Source:: CNet


StrongPity APT Changes Tactics to Stay Stealthy

After being exposed, the APT made minor adjustments in their tactics to stay off the security radar. …read more Source:: Threatpost