Lara Galinsky writes in Havard Business Review blogs that she starts every interview she makes with the same question: Tell me about your path leading up to today. Why is this role the right fit for you now? And she doesn’t expect that you just go back in time to the…
Now that Net Neutrality is dead in the United States, the agreements for preferential traffic will start to be signed. Netflix had signed a deal with Comcast last February to have a direct link with the ISP, with Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO saying at the time that preferential treatment violates their…
NASA released their catalog of software that they are willing to share with some people, and they did it in a very original way – a 127 pages long .pdf file, with the name, reference and a small description of each of those programs and libraries. Unfortunately most of the…
Tactus wants to bring the physical keyboards back, but this turn, only when you need them. Tactus solution is completely transparent and controlled by the applications. Any kind of buttons, when you need them, and a smooth surface when you don’t need them. The camera in the left is one…
SRI International’s senior researcher Annioe Wong-Foy demonstrated a group of small robots working together to make structures bigger than them. Each individual robot is very simple and have only one or two metallic arms that allow it to make a set of predefined operations, but using several of this microrobots it’s…
OnePlus is the new kid in the block. It’s based on the open source version of Android, CyanogenMod, and beats every others phones on the specs. Better camera, top screen (full HD), quadcore at 2.5GHz, 3GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, all the communication protocols, including LTE (top…
This week Trivik Verma from ETH Zurich and a few colleges published a study of the vulnerability of the world airlines network, and the conclusion they got is unexpected: the core of the network is really robust, but the periphery of the network is formed by a network of airports connected…
Another phone with fingerprint authentication, the same spoofed fingerprint to bypass it. After the Chaos Computer Club released their finding on how to bypass the fingerprint authentication of the iPhone 5S only 2 days after it was released, it was now the turn for Galaxy S5 to suffer similar faith only 4…
Don’t try this at home. The old advise not to play with fire still applies. But this guys built a two dimensional sound board with 2500 small holes that demonstrates what happens when you get sound into a flammable gas.
Edward Snowden, the guy who told the world about the NSA mass surveillance pratices is now living in Russia, and decided to ask Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, about the existence of similar pratices in Russia. Putin told that Russia doesn’t have similar practices, that the country doesn’t even the…
Barack Obama is said to have left a big loophole in a directive telling the american national security and law enforcement communities to disclosure vulnerabilities they find in software. This directive is supposed to open an exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need.” – that the NSA sees…
The Arcade Man, Luis Sobral, decide to spend some of his time to make a prototype of Light Cycle, from the movie Tron, and with the help of a couple of companies and friends made playing tron a completely new adventure. Overflow Interactive, a portuguese startup, made the game using…