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AP (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd said on Thursday it has won the right to sell tools for encrypting phone calls and text messages to the U.S. federal government, garnering an endorsement from the National Security Agency for the products. The company said it received the endorsement from the NSA’s National Information Assurance Partnership, or NIAP, […]
Microsoft’s Paint 3D was introduced as part of the Windows 10 Creators update last October. The company wants to make 3D modeling as easy and accessible as using a 2D drawing program. The free Windows 10 app gives you the power to create, share and print anything you can think of in three dimensions. Now, […]
Enlarge (credit: RR Auction) For a quick break from the marvels of modern medicine, look no further than the gruesome tools used to hack people apart during the eighteenth century. Up for auction this week are two amputation kits used during the American Revolutionary War by Dr. John Warren, a Continental Army surgeon who co-founded […]
Enlarge (credit: Peter Linehan) A South Carolina inmate used wire cutters and other “tools” like mobile phones believed to be dropped from a drone to coordinate his escape from a maximum-security prison. The inmate wasn’t noticed missing for 18 hours, prison officials said Friday. Jimmy Causey. (credit: South Carolina Department of Corrections) Jimmy Causey was […]
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Enlarge / Damn computer hackers, always trying to steal all my stuff. (credit: Getty Images / C.J. Burton) This article was originally published on Scott Helme’s blog and is reprinted here with his permission. We have a little problem on the web right now and I can only see it becoming a larger concern as […]
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Apple and IKEA are creating an AR app that will let customers preview how an item will look in their home. Michael Valdsgaard, IKEA’s digital transformation manager, told Swedish website Digital.di, “This will be the first augmented reality app that allows you to make reliable buying decisions.” In the first version, customers will take photos […]
Enlarge / Physical serial ports (the blue ones) are fortunately a relic of a lost era and are nowadays quite rare to find on PCs. But their virtual counterparts are alive and well, and they can be used for some exciting things. (credit: Ericf) When you’re a bad guy breaking into a network, the first […]
Bad news if you’re a fan of the Nik Collection of free photo-editing apps: Google has announced it will stop supporting the software suite effective immediately. “We have no plans to update the Collection or add new features over time,” a banner atop the Nik Collection website and help center reads. Want in? Then download […]
