| Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected | 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison  Platform Panic: What Is Your Development Strategy? Today, cloud and mobile platforms offer new targets and methods for delivering the code critical to business success. Take our quick four-question Pulse poll to let us know your needs in the rapidly evolving development landscape. Learn More! Mobile payments are becoming a huge part of every kind of commerce from consumer to enterprise. Check out our live chat this week with industry payment leader Braintree to get answers you need to start building payments in today. Learn More! From the advertisers-driving-culture department gollum123 writes: Back in the day, computer science was as legitimate a career path for women as medicine, law, or science. But in 1984, the number of women majoring in computing-related subjects began to fall, and the percentage of women is now...  From the short-term-memory department countach44 writes that (in the words of the below-linked article) "Chicagoans are costing the city tens of millions of dollars — through good behavior." The City of Chicago recently installed speed cameras near parks and schools as part of... From the only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-fear-itself-and-liquefied-organs department Lasrick writes: David Ropeik explores risk-perception psychology and Ebola in the U.S. "[O]fficials are up against the inherently emotional and instinctive nature of risk-perception psychology. Pioneering research on this subject by Paul Slovic,... From the forgot-to-read-the-fine-3d-print department jfruh writes: Japan has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the world, and the authorities there aim to make sure new technologies don't open any loopholes. 28-year-old engineer Yoshitomo Imura has been sentenced to two years in jail after... From the do-that-with-linkedin-like-everyone-else department HughPickens.com writes: CNNMoney reports that Facebook has sent a letter to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration demanding that agents stop impersonating users on the social network. "The DEA's deceptive actions... threaten the integrity of... From the they-just-want-to-be-able-to-throttle-netflix department Jason Koebler writes: More than two dozen cities in 19 states announced today that they're sick of big telecom skipping them over for internet infrastructure upgrades and would like to build gigabit fiber networks themselves and help other cities... From the saved-by-a-nose department New submitter tiberus sends word of a breakthrough medical treatment that has restored the ability to walk to a man who was paralyzed from the chest down after his spinal cord was severed in a knife attack. A research team from the UK, led by... From the it-goes-ding-when-there's-stuff department DCFC writes: The BBC is releasing a game to help 8- to 11-year-old kids get into coding. Based on Doctor Who, it alternates between a standard platform game and programming puzzles that introduce the ideas of sequence, loops, if..then, variables... From the not-many-years-from-dominance department jones_supa writes The last emblems of Nokia are being removed from Microsoft products. "Microsoft Lumia" is the new brand name that takes their place. The name change follows a slow transition from Nokia.com over to Microsoft's new mobile site,... From the give-it-to-the-healthcare.gov-folks department darylb writes "The NHTSA's Safercar website appears to be suffering under the load of recent vehicle recalls, including the latest recall of some 4.7 million vehicles using airbags made by Takata. Searching recalls by VIN is non-responsive at... From the explodes-if-you-watch-minority-report department itwbennett (1594911) writes A partnership between TV measurement company Nielsen and analytics provider Adobe, announced today, will let broadcasters see (in aggregate and anonymized) how people interact with digital video between devices —... From the something-you-have department An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from VentureBeat: Google today announced it is beefing up its two-step verification feature with Security Key, a physical USB second factor that only works after verifying the login site is truly a... From the because-that-always-ends-well department An anonymous reader writes: An RFID-based access control system called IClass is used across the globe to provide physical access controls. This system relies on cryptography to secure communications between a tag and a reader. Since 2010, several... From the best-case-never-touch-a-phone department An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found a way to deliver a malicious app to Android users by hiding it into what seems to be an encrypted image file, which is then delivered via a legitimate, seemingly innocuous wrapper app. Fortinet... From the post-postal-world department New submitter Kkloe writes: Wired is running a profile of a gadget called Signet, which is trying to bring postage stamps into the age of high technology. Quoting: "At its core, it is a digital stamp and an app. If you want to send a parcel, you'd...  |
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