ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Your next commuter car could have two seats, three wheels and get 84 miles to the gallon. Elio Motors wants to revolutionize U.S. roads with its tiny car, which is the same length as a Honda Fit but half the weight. With a starting price
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Update, August 4, 2014 – The winning bicycle is Denny. Congratulations to the winning team TEAGUE x SIZEMORE BICYCLE. For more info: http://oregonmanifest.com/and-the-winner-isdenny/. Five teams of designers and fabricators from five cities revealed their entries at the Oregon Manifest – Bike Design Project. Now the votes are coming in and
Using extremely low-band frequencies, goTenna’s little baton can connect your iPhone or Android smartphone into any other goTenna-enabled smartphone even where there’s no cellular network for miles. via No signal? GoTenna has a messaging gadget that will work in the middle of nowhere — Tech News and Analysis.
Microsoft has been one of many technology companies standing up to the U.S. government in response to unwarranted, rampant data collection. CNET reports that Microsoft’s top lawyer, Brad Smith, spoke on Tuesday morning at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. to reiterate his stance that the unchecked data collection should
May 1, 2014 update: Microsoft has begun deploying the fix via a software update today. If you have automatic updates turned on, you’ll automatically get the update – even if you are using windows XP. If you don’t have it turned on, you’ll need to force the update manually.
(CNN) — Still concerned about some faceless government bureaucrat peeking at your e-mails and other online communications? Well, you’ve got a new champion: Microsoft. The computing giant has announced a set of new privacy features, in a post that specifically calls out “government snooping” as the reason. via Microsoft fights
Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data. The researchers, Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson, found that the number generator
Ustream has begun interrupting live streams with commercials…8-10 of them every hour. I can’t justify paying several hundred dollars a year to use it the few times I do through the season to stop the ads and improve server connection. That appears to be their goal: make it unusable for
The update to Java 7, fixing the security issue, has been released by Oracle. Version 7.11 can be downloaded at: http://www.java.com. Suggestion: uninstall all previous versions of Java before you download. Once downloaded, you’ll need to enable Java again. The instructions for enabling java can be found at http://www.java.com/en/download/help/enable_panel.xml.
Update: Oracle is working on a fix. I’d still disable Java until they do. I had to update my computer to Java 7.10 first, then disable it from the Java Console. Update: To disable Java, here’s the instructions from Oracle. http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml. Here’s the Homeland Security Alert updated on Friday. Alert