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“WARNING: DO NOT Hammer on this mechanism” sounds like the start of a side quest. A quest is exactly what [CelGenStudios] started when he came upon a strange box with …read more Continue reading Target Lifting Mechanism Goes Wireless
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
Shelf Engine’s grocery order automation technology applies AI to food order volume so that grocery customers can reduce their food waste by as much as 32%. Continue reading Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine
We’ll state right up front that it’s a really, really bad idea to let a robotic archer shoot an apple off of your head. You absolutely should not repeat what …read more Continue reading Machine-Vision Archer Makes You the Target, If You Dare
Cyble announced that Rishi Mehta, former Senior Director – Technology – at Target, has taken over as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Cyble. In his new role as the CISO at Cyble, Rishi Mehta will be handling the Information Security p… Continue reading Rishi Mehta joins Cyble as CISO
Veracode’s Chris Eng discusses the cyber threats facing shoppers who are going online due to the pandemic and the imminent holiday season. Continue reading Holiday Shopping Craze, COVID-19 Spur Retail Security Storm
You might have recently heard that eBay is performing port scanning, while online shoppers are visiting their website. At first glance, it will probably sound a bit strange, as port scanning is an internal network action. As such, it is designed to det… Continue reading Why and How are Enterprise Companies, Like eBay, Actively Port-scanning End-users’ Computers From Their Websites
[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
Hundreds of years from now, the story of humanity’s inevitable spread across the solar system will be a collection of engineering problems solved, some probably in heroic fashion. We’ve already tackled a lot of these problems in our first furtive steps into the wider galaxy. Our engineering solutions have taken …read more
Continue reading X-Rays Are the Next Frontier in Space Communications
Massive-scale predictive analytics is a relatively new phenomenon, one that challenges both decades of law as well as consumer thinking about privacy. As a technology, it may well save thousands of lives in applications like predictive medicine, but if it isn’t used carefully, it may prevent thousands from getting loans, for instance, if an underwriting […] Continue reading Can predictive analytics be made safe for humans?