Collaborate Disseminate
It’s always embarrassing to be told your fly is down. Even moreso when you realize it’s been that way since you returned from the bathroom an hour ago. [Guy Dupont] …read more Continue reading Smart Pants Sound Alarm When Your Fly Is Undone
In April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. That individual recently gave his first interview since finishing his jail time here in the states, and he’s shared some select (if often abrasive and coarse) details on how he got into cybercrime and why. Below are a few translated excerpts. Continue reading Interview With the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession
According to reports, a turbine-powered flying board buzzed around Bastille Day celebrations carrying its inventor [Franky Zapata] toting a rifle to promote the military applications of the Flyboard Air. You can see the video record, below.
We’ve heard the board costs a cool $250,000 so you may want to start …read more
If your favorite movie is Ratatouille, now would be a good time to read a different article. Rats on the Galápagos Islands are an invasive species and eradication is underway. This is not a first for the islands, and they are fiercely protected since they are the exclusive home to some species including the distinctive tortoise from which the island derives its name and of course finches. Charles Darwin studied the finches while writing On the Origin of Species. So yeah, we want to keep this island from becoming unbalanced and not disturb the native wildlife while doing …read more
Continue reading Drones Rain Down Rat Poison on the Galapagos
Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke designed the sweet device. Continue reading This Drone Has Claws, Lands on a Vertical Walls
No word on when we’ll see the movie, but the plot points keep coming. Continue reading Thugs who sent Brian Krebs heroin and a SWAT team sentenced
Mapping a fruit fly’s neuronal network for the first time was an incredibly labor intensive task, but the result was a major step forward for neuroscience. Continue reading It Took 1700 Hours to Map a Fly’s Brain