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Speaking from experience, it’s always fun to build something with the specific intention of destroying it. Childhood sessions spending hours building boats from scrap wood only to take them to …read more Continue reading Cheap Camera Gives Clay-Pigeon’s-Eye View of Trap Shooting
Despite the content moderator’s best efforts, the shooter’s manifesto and video of the attacks are still proliferating across social media. Continue reading Facebook Struggles to Keep Buffalo Shooting Video Offline
Despite the content moderator’s best efforts, the shooter’s manifesto and video of the attacks are still proliferating across social media. Continue reading Facebook Struggles to Keep Buffalo Shooting Video Offline
[Dirk] shared a fascinating project of his that consists of several different parts coming together in a satisfying whole. It’s all about wanting to do target practice, indoors, using a simple red laser dot instead of any sort of projectile. While it’s possible to practice by flashing a red laser …read more
Continue reading Human-Powered Laser Gun Makes Battery-Free Target Practice
Legal battle pitting Feds against the tech giant over data privacy and device security in criminal cases seems inevitable. Continue reading Trump Slams Apple for Refusing to Unlock Suspected Shooter’s iPhones
Refusal to unlock the phones of a Florida shooter could set up another legal battle between Apple and the Feds over data privacy in the case of criminal investigations. Continue reading Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone—Again
It’s unclear yet whether the Cupertino giant will assist, given past history of court battles over such incidents. Continue reading FBI Taps Apple to Unlock Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone
People unfamiliar with shooting sports sometimes fail to realize the physicality of getting a bullet to go where you want it to. In the brief but finite amount of time that the bullet is accelerating down the barrel, the tiniest movement of the gun can produce enormous changes in its trajectory, and the farther away your target is, the bigger the potential error introduced by anticipating recoil or jerking the trigger.
Like many problems this one is much easier to fix with what you can quantify, which is where this DIY rifle accelerometer can come in handy. There are commercial …read more
Continue reading Rifle-Mounted Sensor Shows What Happens During Shot
Uber driver avoids paying the ultimate price, gets charged $1,000 instead. Continue reading Uber Driver’s Car Shot Up After He Becomes an Unwilling Getaway Driver
In less than an hour after he tweeted from a barricaded room, Vadim Lavrusik’s account was hijacked. Continue reading YouTube employee’s Twitter account hijacked during shooting