What kind of person racks up debts and doesn’t pay them? Your credit score is an attempt to answer this question. A report elaborates: These important three-digit numbers summarize our statistical risk for lenders. The allure of the credit score is its clarity: It cuts through appearances and converts our messy lives into an easily…

Some Black Friday deals haven ended, others are still available. Plus: A Cyber Monday sale preview. …read more Source:: CNet

The ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever created. It doesn’t come in rose gold, it comes in black. It doesn’t have a weird screen instead of an escape key. For less than half the price of a MacBook, you can have a capable laptop that will somehow fit three drives inside. It’s madness, but it’s…

The credentials could be used to glean a variety of intel on the victims. …read more Source:: Threatpost

hackingbear writes: According to Chinese media, Qing Tao Energy Development Co, a startup out of the technical Tsinghua University, has deployed a solid-state battery production line in Kunshan, East China. Reports claim the line has a capacity of 100MWh per year — which is planned to increase to 700MWh by 2020 — and that the…

After years of work by the brightest minds in the world, we’ll all get to experience the pinnacle of human achievement when InSight lands on Mars. …read more Source:: CNet

We catch a VR version of The Princess Bride, check up on the latest Facebook crisis, and drive the last Beetle through the streets of Puebla, Mexico. …read more Source:: CNet

A crowd-sourced app tells drivers where to go to pick up the most fares. …read more Source:: CNet

So you want to make your own beer, but don’t quite know where to start? Well, you’ll need some equipment. …read more Source:: ZDNet

If you have something rusty, you can get a wire brush and a lot of elbow grease. Or you can let electricity do the work for you in an electrolysis tank. [Miller’s Planet] shows you how to build such a tank, but even better, he explains why it works in a very detailed way. The…