What’s the coolest thing you’ve made at home? Meet the 26 year-old hack who built a self-driving car in his garage!
George Hotz, the first person to hack the iPhone, says he built a self-driving car in a month. How did he do it? Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance went to Hotz’s home to find out… and took his retrofitted Acura for a test-drive. (Video by David Nicholson) -YouTube description
With the recent commuting of Rod Blagojevich’s sentence, Trump has already been freeing up several of his buddies. Now, he’s implicated in one particular opportunistic pardoning scheme. According to Julian Assange’s lawyer, the founder of the notorious whistle-blowing website Wikileaks was allegedly offered a pardon by former Republican California U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher supposedly…
Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) are leading the charge to shut down warrantless backdoor surveillance of U.S. citizens. They have introduced an amendment into the 2017 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, which “would prohibit warrantless backdoor searches of U.S. citizens’ online communications without first obtaining a warrant.” It would also prevent the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Facebook announced Tuesday that it will be “managing your identity” with facial recognition technology. The tools, which are optional for users, will help the social media giant identify and remove photos that people are not formally tagged in and in which the subject would rather not have the…
Oh you want to steal my phone? Sure! TAKE THIS! The Yellow Jacket is a smartphone case that also doubles as a taser. It’s capable of taking down a fully grown male attacker. You won’t kill someone with it, but it could save your life. Creators Seth Froom and Simon Simone pioneered the invention after Froom…
A series of attacks called “Chuckling Squad Hacks” appears to have gained access to people’s phones via AT&T SIM Card replacements.
By Andrew Follett Solar panels are 20 percent more expensive in recent months, according to data from the United Kingdom government. The cost of installing panels rose from a low of $2,291 in January to $2,759 per kilowatt of installed solar capacity, according to data publishedby Great Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change this week. This price increase occurred…
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