The Star Wars Theme Played on Floppy Drives is Glorious In 2011, a university student in Poland named Paweł Zadrożniak hooked up two floppy disk drives and started making music. Five years later, he’s assembled a full symphony. In a video posted to his blog on Wednesday, Zadrożniak shows off what he calls the “Floppotron,”…
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New Leaked iPhone 7 Picture
We’re less than two months away from the iPhone 7’s public unveiling, and yet another image has surfaced online that purports to showcase Apple’s next-gen smartphone in all its (relatively unchanged) glory. Check it out below. The new 4.7-inch handset will look relatively similar to the iPhone 6 and 6s, but with a few modifications…
Apollo 11’s Source Code Is Available On Github RIGHTNOW
When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent it. They came up with a new way to store computer programs, called “rope memory,” and created a special version of the…
Someone Used a Drone to Catch Pokémon
Pokemon GO is a game that relies on its players going on long walks, meaning that some will eventually find any way to get around that system. Tumblr user Perchbird is one of those people. He posted a photo set that showed his phone running the app while mounted on a drone. The caption just…
Hackers Hacked An Offline Laptop In Another Room Easily
In recent times, hackers are aggressively targeting the air-gapped machines, which are considered super-secure. These systems are disconnected from the internet so that a hacker is unable to deploy any attack remotely via internet or any network. researchers from Tel Aviv University and Technion have showcased a way (PDF) to squeeze data from such “safe” air-gapped machines….
The war between Tesla and Fortune
A real-life drama unfolded in Silicon Valley on Wednesday night and the aftermath continues to spill out across the media on Thursday morning. In a war of words that could have far-reaching implications, Tesla and business news publication Fortune Magazine are at odds over a series of events that took place earlier this year. Fortune made…
New Dangerous Mac malware affects OS X
Apple’s Mac systems have been exposed to a dangerous new piece of malware that allows attackers to take full control of OS X. The new malware, dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor by security researchers, provides attackers with a backdoor into OS X systems by embedding a script into a fake file converter application that’s found on many reputable…
Elon Musk may consolidate SpaceX for a while
Yesterday, Elon Musk surprised a lot of people when he announced that Tesla (TSLA) has made an offer to acquire SolarCity (SCTY). The entrepreneur is the largest individual shareholder of both companies – he owns about 21% of Tesla and 22% of SolarCity. Some Tesla shareholders are already calling the deal a “bailout” of SolarCity, especially…
Why Would Aliens Kill Us?
In the new movie “Independence Day: Resurgence,” opening in theaters today (June 24), Earth will once again gear up for an epic fight with a hostile alien race. The premise will set up some awesome action sequences, but how realistic is the idea that if aliens were to visit Earth, their one goal would be…
The Black Market for iPhone Vulnerabilities
Apple has never acknowledged the black market that exists where hackers are able to use zero-day security vulnerabilities to bypass the iOS protection system. Now, Ivan Krstić, head of security engineering and architecture for Apple revealed during his talk at Apple’s annual conference last week what he thinks about such vulnerabilities. Krstić says that since it is…
Symantec antivirus flaws are very bad says Google
Products from Symantec that are supposed to protect users have made them much more open to attack, according to Google. Researcher Tavis Ormandy has spotted numerous vulnerabilities in 25 Norton and Symantec products that are “as bad as it gets,” he says. “Just emailing a file to a victim or sending them a link to…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nikola Tesla
Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla! Born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan (now Croatia), Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and physicist. Tesla is most famously known for his contributions to thedesign of the modern alternating current electricity system. Though he died poor in 1943, his reputation and inventions have caused a recent popular culture resurgence,…
