Kevin CarrollIdentity Theft A Growing Threat to Your Finances: Cell-Phone Account Fraudconsumerreports.org - By Octavio Blanco Consumers have a fast-growing privacy threat to worry about. Known as cell-phone account fraud, it's when crooks open up a phony cell-phone account …
Kevin CarrollHubble Space Telescope 140,000 Visuals of Outer Space are Free to the Public in NASA’s Image Library | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Laura Staugaitis The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has created a library of 140,000 high definition files filled with photos, videos, and sound …
Kevin CarrollTechnology USB 3 and USB-C devices can cause problems with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections, but there's a solutionZDNet - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes USB 3 and USB-C devices are everywhere, and they offer a great speed boost for peripherals and storage devices. But there's a possible downside that …
Kevin CarrollMozilla Paid browsers are the future, and Firefox might offer a better deal than ChromeDigital Trends - Anita George The future of the internet may lie in premium web-browsing services, and it looks like Mozilla could be handling that shift better than Google. As we …
Kevin CarrollMoon Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moonnewatlas.com - David Szondy When Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, it was more than a triumph of the human spirit, it was also the story of a …
Kevin CarrollApps iOS 13 will show locations where apps have tracked youEngadget - Jon FingasApple will be big on privacy in iOS 13, and that includes the data collected after you've granted permission. Beta testers at 9to5Mac and elsewhere have discovered the upcoming release (and iPadOS) will
Kevin CarrollGeorge Orwell Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell ImaginedThe Atlantic - George PackerNo novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate
Kevin CarrollWomen's News A Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing ProblemWIRED - Erica Klarreich In the spring of 2017, Urmila Mahadev found herself in what most graduate students would consider a pretty sweet position. She had just solved a …
Kevin CarrollTechnology Ring Is Using Its Customers’ Doorbell Camera Video For Ads. It Says It's Allowed To.buzzfeednews.com - Davey Alba and Ryan Mac "You hereby grant Ring and its licensees an unlimited, irrevocable, fully paid and royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide rights to exploit Shared …
Kevin CarrollNational Security Agency (NSA) NSA Warns Microsoft Windows Users: Update Now Or Face 'Devastating Damage'Forbes - Davey WinderI can’t recall ever seeing the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) jumping in and warning users of Microsoft Windows to check if their systems are fully patched and, if not, to update now or risk a “devastating”
Kevin CarrollScience Decoding the Mathematical Secrets of Plants’ Stunning Leaf Patternssmithsonianmag.com - Maddie Burakoff To the untrained eye, plants may appear to grow rather impulsively, popping out leaves at random to create one big green jumble. Take a closer look, …
Kevin CarrollGitHub GitHub shocks top developer: Access to 5 years' work inexplicably blockedZDNet - Liam Tung Three incidents in the past week illustrate the sometimes unavoidable risks involved in relying on cloud providers. Microsoft's code-sharing site …
Kevin CarrollApple 7 iPhone privacy settings you should enable nowMashable - Jack MorseSorry eyes. Times have changed. These days, your iPhone (and all its accumulated data) is the window to your soul. Everything — that's your contacts, your location, your photos, your emails, your texts,
Kevin CarrollArbitration How to Opt Out of Chase's New 'Binding Arbitration' RuleLifehacker - Lisa Rowan Chase has started rolling out a new binding arbitration rule for its credit card users, Fast Company’s Cale Guthrie Weissman first reported last week. …
Kevin CarrollTechnology Use Wolfram Alpha to find out everything Google can't tell youPopular Science - By David NieldBut we admit "Wolfram Alpha-ing" isn't as easy to say as "googling." Google is synonymous with search, but it's not the only option for online queries. You probably know about Bing, and maybe you've heard
Kevin CarrollLiberal View Chase just tried to screw its credit card holders. Here’s how you can fight back.ThinkProgress - Ian Millhiser The Supreme Court gave Chase a license to break the law, but there's a way out. JPMorgan Chase, the banking behemoth that provides credit cards to …
Kevin CarrollTechnology US now requires social media info for visa applicationsEngadget - Jon FingasIf you want to stay in the US, you'll likely have to share your internet presence. As proposed in March 2018 (and to some extent in 2015), the country now requires virtually all visa applicants to provide
Kevin CarrollData Breaches Security Systems Of Major Hotel Chains Exposed By Huge Data BreachForbes - Davey WinderSelf-styled “hacktivist” researchers have this week revealed a truly huge data breach with implications for many major hotel chains around the globe. Rather than revealing financial or guest information,
Kevin CarrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWeb Servers I can see your local web serversjameshfisher.com How many web servers are running on your machine right now? Do all of those development web servers have a secure login, and restrictive CORS …
Kevin CarrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWriting How to do hard thingsdrmaciver.com - david This is a system I only somewhat tongue in cheek refer to as “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard Things”. It’s a useful conceptual …
Kevin CarrollScience What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?Quanta Magazine - David H. Freedman A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets. The blockbuster discovery last …
Kevin CarrollIKEA ESP8266 Upgrade Gives IKEA LEDs UDP Superpowershackaday.com - by: Tom Nardi It can be difficult to resist the impulse buy. You see something interesting, the price is right, and even though you know you should do your research …
Kevin CarrollAutos 1950s engine tech was as efficient as today’s. So why didn’t we use it?Digital Trends - Adam Kaslikowski The engine in your car right now is terrible at its job. Your motor only has to do one thing: convert gasoline into mechanical energy by burning it. …
Kevin CarrollPlayStation Vue Handling Errors inraymondcamden.com I’ve been spending the last year working with, writing about, and presenting on my favorite framework, Vue.js, and realized that I had yet to look …
Kevin CarrollHow-To's Quickly Summarize a Long Online Article Into a Few Sentences With This SiteLifehacker - Emily Price When an article is just a few hundred words like this one, you probably have a few minutes to read it. When you open up an article thinking it’s a …
Kevin CarrollGitHub Dependabot is Now Free and It’s Amazingnimbleindustries.io - Colin Bartlett GitHub acquired Dependabot and made it free so we tried it out. The results were better than expected. We have long been advocates for consistent …
Kevin CarrollWork-life Balance Scrap everything you know about creating strong passwords and do this insteadLadders - Jane Burnett The man behind how we commonly think of devising passwords says he “regrets” his advice. You know the drill: make a password with a hodgepodge of …
Kevin CarrollFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Release 2.10.0 / 2019-05-25 · prometheus/prometheus · GitHubgithub.com - prometheus May 25, 2019· 3 commits to master since this release [CHANGE/BUGFIX] API: Encode alert values as string to correctly represent Inf/NaN. #5582 • [FEATURE] …
Kevin CarrollPlay buttonComputer Hacking How To: Control Network Traffic with Evil Limiter to Throttle or Kick Off Deviceswonderhowto.com - Kody If you find yourself with a roommate hogging limited data bandwidth with video games or discover a neighbor has invited themselves into your Wi-Fi …
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