“Look, there’s two ways we can do this,” the officer told Kit Harington after stopping him for speeding. “You can either follow me back to the police station now and I book you in, or you can tell me if you live in the next series of Game of Thrones.”
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An event taking place this week in San Francisco called the Stupid Hackathon is exactly what it sounds like. Programmers convene and try to outdo each other by coming up with the stupidest ideas possible and then hacking them together during the event. These hackathons always result in some pretty spectacular creations, but among what we’ve seen so far there is a clear and obvious winner.
Prepare yourself for “Picnic,” the brainchild of programmer Max Goodman.
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Shortly after introducing its innovative Autopilot software to the world, Tesla, as it’s prone to do, issued a software update for the Model S which included a new ‘Summon’ feature. As the name implies, the feature allows owners to summon their car even when they’re not inside it. When activated, a Tesla will autostart, open up a user’s garage door if need be, and slowly roll out to greet the driver.
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Although a public announcement has yet to be made, Sony sent out invitations for its E3 2016 press conference on Monday, confirming that the venue would be switching from the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena to the Shrine Auditorium.
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Once upon a time, companies preyed on homeowners’ fear to get them to cough up huge amounts of cash for overly complicated home security systems. Then, as icing on the cake, they also got them to pay even more money each and every month for home monitoring service that is essentially useless. Heaven forbid an intruder does gain access to your home, he or she will take off the moment your alarm starts blaring — no one’s waiting around for a phone call from your monitoring service or for the cops to show up.
It’s the age of the smart home, and you can secure your house, condo or apartment for a fraction of what you’d pay for an older alarm system. Check out the Korner Home Security 3 Sensor Package, an insanely simple home security system that costs less than $100 on Amazon.
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We’ve seen the “GPS directions gone awry” scenario play out on TV shows any number of times, but perhaps the most well-known example comes from an old episode of The Office where Michael and Dwight both ignore their common-sense instincts and instead blindly drive a car into a lake.
Recently, and rather unfortunately, a Canadian woman on the road had her own Michael Scott moment when, in the midst of a rainstorm and accompanying fog with low visibility, she followed her GPS’s driving directions — only to find herself in the middle of a freezing cold lake in Ontario.
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Do you have any room left in your phone after yesterday’s post on paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free? If not you had better make some because we have 10 freshly discounted iOS apps for you in today’s post. For Tuesday we have a killer word processor that’s normally $10, a cool app that turns the world around you into an RPG of sorts, and much more.
Of course if you have plenty of free storage on your phone and you missed yesterday’s list, be sure to hurry back and you’ll find several remaining freebies.
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Larger screened iPhones are great and all, but Apple, ever since the 2014 release of the iPhone 6, spent the last few years completely ignoring the 4-inch form factor. That being the case, the recent release of the iPhone SE — a compact device packed with Apple’s most advanced mobile technologies and hardware — has been a long time coming. And for many who have been eagerly and patiently awaiting a worthy successor to the iPhone 5s, the iPhone SE release was long overdue.
While it’s easy to ignore the iPhone SE as nothing more than a smaller version of the iPhone 6s, the iPhone SE is actually a standout device if you care about battery life. And truth be told, who doesn’t care about all-day battery life?
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Saving money is difficult. There’s no other way to put it. Even people who live well within their means can never seem to save as much money as they’d like, and that’s before unplanned expenses enter the picture and throw us for a loop. For all the things we’re taught beginning at a young age in school, there’s never enough emphasis put on managing one’s finances, and what seem like small mistakes made at a young age and impact people’s lives years or even decades down the road.
Whether you’re young or old and whether you make $10,000 a year or $1,000,000 a year, there are always things you can do to save more money.
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“this is about as bad as it can possibly get”
A security researcher has discovered a “bug” in Symantec antivirus software, which affects “the core Symantec Antivirus Engine used in most Symantec and Norton branded Antivirus products.” I say “bug” because it’s less bug, and more a gaping security flaw that makes it incredibly easy to hack any PC, Mac or Linux box running Symantec software.
The flaw (spotted by The Register) was found by Tavis Ormandy, a white-hat hacker whose previous work has involved hacking internet-connected scales. The Symantec bug is to do with how the antivirus engine scans code, in particular an old compression tool.
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