[NSFW audio] Amazon Alexa gets saucy, much to the consternation of a toddler's parents.
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9:25 am Tue
Jan 3, 2017
Amazon Alexa gone wild
Hackers say they breached Russian contractor, got details on IoT hacking project for Russia spy agency
• ‘Fronton’ is the FSB’s IoT botnet project
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New app helps you identify IoT devices around you, tells you what data they collect
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have come up with this new IoT Assistant app (available for both iOS and Android) that will supposedly inform you about what Internet-connected smart devices are around you at any point in time, and what kind of information they might be collecting. “Because of new laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) […]
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MIT's "Smart Diaper" alerts caregiver when it's wet
MIT researchers outfitted a baby diaper with an RFID tag that emits a wireless signal when the surrounding material gets wet. The wetness “sensor” is actually a type of hydrogel that’s commonly found in diapers to absorb liquid. As the hydrogel gets wet, it swells and its conductivity increases, triggering the RFID tag. The RFID […]
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Brush up on the physics lessons you learned in high school with this $10 training class
Physics may have been that class you sleepwalked your way through in high school. But while it might have just slipped under your radar throughout your academic career, you probably shouldn’t have given it such shallow attention. Sure, we could focus on the immediate pluses of a career as a physicist, like the more than […]
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Resoume Resumé Creator makes sure you put your best foot forward in the job market
If you’re out of work…well, first, you have our sympathies. Right now, about 31 million Americans are drawing some form of unemployment benefits, which makes competition for virtually any job savagely fierce. But since nobody wants to wallow in the miseries of unemployment, the only legitimate course left open is to scrap like crazy to […]
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Work out your jaws with Jawzrsize
If you want swole arms cut like tree trunks, you start savaging the curl bars. If you want to sculpt a tight, firm core, you have lots of planking and bridges in your future. So what do you do if you want to knock out that double chin? Or put a little added definition into […]
