Internet-enabled dongles could give hackers access to a car’s brakes.
Security researchers have discovered a way to cut the brakes of a car by hacking into it through an Internet-enabled dongle. A team from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) gained access to the onboard computer of a 2013 Corvette by sending text messages to a plugged-in gadget that measures a car’s location and speed for insurance companies.
One of America’s largest drugstore chains is reversing its decision regarding Apple Pay starting this week.
Rite Aid, which incurred considerable customer wrath last year when it nixed support for Apple Pay at checkout, has backpedaled. The drugstore announced that, as of next Saturday, it will again accept Apple Pay and Google Wallet. Rite Aid’s decision is bad news for CurrentC, a clunky retailer-backed rival to Apple Pay and Google Wallet that has yet to launch.
Want to get in the mood for your trip? Sample the weather at your destination inside these weather-simulating chambers at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport.
International airports aren’t known for their atmosphere, but in Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, you can experience the climates of far-away places just by walking into a room.
Nebia bets you’ll pay $400 for a new showering experience. And Tim Cook agrees.
Showers are wasteful—warm, comforting, refreshing waste. Nebia, a new shower head launching on Kickstarter today, aims to wash away a little of the guilt that comes with daily showering with a design that it claims is not only less wasteful, but a better showering experience than traditional sprayers.
If we give PeaceTech a chance, can it work?
In 2013, a 26-year-old Syrian called Dishad Othman built a system to warn his countrymen when a Scud missile launched by the regime was headed their way. The system, called Aymta, received reports from local activists of missile launches, calculated the trajectory and likely arrival time, and sent mobile alerts to registered civilians inside the strike zone. Most Scud casualties were caused by collapsing buildings, and the alerts gave people a little more than 10 minutes warning, enough time get out on the street or to a bomb shelter.
The Chinese firewall blocked the site less than 24 hours after Alphabet was unveiled.
Well, that was fast: Less than a day after Google revealed its newly created parent company, Alphabet, its website has been barred in China.
People may live in very different neighborhoods, but the feelings our streetscapes inspire are often universal.
It sounds like a mundane question: What’s the view from your window? But in a new photo series, looking at the view from someone’s apartment in Lahore or Singapore or Brisbane, it’s possible to glimpse something about life on the other side of the planet that a typical spread in a travel magazine might miss.
Giving and receiving criticism is an uncomfortable but necessary part of career growth. Here are six ways to do it without being mean.
Even when your intentions are good, it can be tough to give constructive criticism. It’s an awkward conversation for the giver, and it can spark a negative reaction in the receiver.
Once you get your head around it, Google’s mind-bender of an announcement makes perfect sense.
When a coworker shared the news that Google was creating a new holding company called Alphabet and splitting off all its non-core activities from the Google brand, I reacted in the only rational way: I wondered for a nanosecond if it was a wonderfully wacky hoax. Then I checked the URL on Larry Page’s blog post, in which he explained the rationale and announced that longtime Googler Sundar Pichai would become Google’s CEO. It seemed to be legit.
Warning: this video is extremely cathartic.
Synergy. Circle back. Value add. We created a bracket of some of the worst and most offensive business jargon phrases of all time. And the winner of the worst business jargon of all time is: “opening the kimono.” So we took this phrase and put it on a piñata. And gave a few disgruntled employees a bat. Watch what happens and enjoy. Just remember: whatever you do out there, please never open that kimono again.
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