January 15, 2013 - TekDefender

11 Apps That Will Make You Wish You Had An Android Phone

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kevin Smith Kevin Smith/Business Insider Apple’s iPhone app selection. While Apple’s store is usually the first choice for developers to launch their apps, others know that Android is the platform to push hardware and software to the limit. Browsing through Android’s massive app library can be difficult as there are many apps that simply aren’t very useful. But if you look a little harder you can find apps like BetterBatteryStats, which…

Politics

Conspiracy Theorists Are Harassing A Man Who Sheltered Students After Newtown Shooting

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on Businessinsider.com by Abby Rogers AP Images Gene Rosen became emotional when describing the massacre. Conspiracy theories have flooded the Internet since Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first graders in Newtown, Conn. last month. The Sandy Hook elementary “truthers” have even begun harassing a man who was lauded as a hero after the shooting, Salon reported Tuesday. Gene Rosen found six children at the end of his driveway on Dec. 14 and sheltered them inside his home…

Automotive

The Stingray Is the First Corvette You’ll Actually Want

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC View as gallery The seventh generation of the Corvette has arrived, and Chevrolet is so damned proud of it they’ve brought an iconic name back from the past: Stingray. The Corvette has never been a refined machine. But that’s part of its blue-collar charm. It’s the working man’s supercar. A big, brutish middle finger to the Italians and Germans. This latest version doesn’t stray too far from that…

Entertainment Film Story

Video: Sam Raimi on the Wizard’s Origin Story in Oz: The Great and Powerful

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY ANNALIZA SAVAGE Best known for his work on horror films like Evil Dead and action blockbusters like the Spider-Man films, Sam Raimi may not be the first director who comes to mind for Disney’s new Wizard of Oz film. But Raimi says Oz: The Great and Powerful is like nothing he’s done before. Raimi calls the original Wizard of Oz ”one of my favorite movies of all time,” but instead of following Dorothy down the Yellow Brick Road, Oz: The Great…

Google

How Google and Facebook Will Make the Leap to Lightspeed

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Image: Flickr/HarshWCAM3. One early morning in 2011, somewhere behind the curtain at the world’s most popular social network, a Facebook engineer pressed a single button and brought down the entire operation. This unnamed engineer didn’t necessarily make a mistake. He just decided to run the kind of software task the social networking giant runs all the time. He ran a “Hadoop job,” a way of analyzing data. The…

Government Legal Story

Wiki Weapon Project takes aim at gun control proposals with 3D printed ‘high-capacity’ magazine

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson Defense Distributed, a group dedicated to making viable 3D printed firearms, has enjoyed increasing publicity during the recent debates over gun control. Now, it’s directly addressing efforts to ban one of the most frequently criticized components: rifle magazines holding over ten rounds, often referred to as “high-capacity” magazines, like those used at the attack in Newtown, CT. In a video posted yesterday, the groupdemonstrated shooting from a 30-round AR-15 magazine…

Story

Swartz suicide puts the focus on over-aggressive prosecutor

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop The family of Aaron Swartz pulled no punches in their comments after the 26-year-old’s suicide, blaming a “criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach.” Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Heymann is one of the individuals that’s been named in particular — and it turns out Swartz isn’t the first subject of a Heymann investigation that’s taken his own life. Buzzfeed reports that in 2008 Jonathan James also committed suicide two weeks…

Hacking Internet Story Tech

‘Red October’ malware has been stealing government and industrial secrets for 5 years

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon Kaspersky Labs reports that over the past five years, a co-ordinated malware campaign called “Rocra” (short for “Red October”) has been funneling classified information and geopolitical intelligence from diplomatic, governmental, and scientific research systems all over the world. It uses known exploits in Microsoft Word and Excel documents to gain access to users’ systems, relying on a targeted social engineering or “spear phishing” element in order to trick users…

Space Story

Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe

By admin | January 15, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Ben Kersey An international team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire in the UK has discovered “the largest known structure in the universe.” The team says that the recently observed large quasar group — comprised of dozens of highly energetic star-like objects — has a typical size of 500 Megaparsecs, but the size of the cluster is closer to 1200 Mpc at its widest point. To put…

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