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12 September, 2014
the first printed car arrives. It will be built up from carbon-reinforced plastics, then driven out of Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center and onto the streets of the Windy City. The vehicle will be printed over 44 hours. Technicians will add in the unprintable — electric motor, battery, wiring, window glass — and the car, called Strati,
Labels:
3D,
Critical + Creative Thinking,
ICT Capability
11 September, 2014
A list of almost 5 million combinations of Gmail addresses and passwords was posted online on Tuesday. But the passwords seem to be old, and they don't appear to actually belong to Gmail accounts. Instead, it seems that many of the passwords were taken from websites where users used their Gmail addresses to register, according to some of the leak's victims as well as security experts.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Privacy
08 September, 2014
AFTER years of debate, and millions of dollars spent on fruitless court cases, it is clear that copyright legislation has not kept up with enormous changes brought by the internet. In describing us as “the worst pirates in the world” (another apocryphal claim), rights holders are conveniently ignoring the fact that Australians are willing to pay for quality content. It is rarely reported that Game of Thrones was Australia’s most popular, legally downloaded TV show or film in 2013, or that Australia is second only to the US on a per capita basis in digital consumer revenues.
While major retailers including Myer have said the ability of offshore internet retailers to sell tax-free is a major threat to local players, Mr Gladstone said there was a competitive advantage in being based in Australia. “Offshore competition is tough, but they have a disadvantage with the cost of shipping, and people always prefer to buy locally — so if we can offer a comparable price, fast delivery and good customer service with cheap returns it will always be preferable,” he said.
EPPB is a program that makes it possible for a user to download iCloud backups from Apple's iCloud servers onto a computer. Once there, the backups can be scoured for information including camera rolls, messages, email attachments and more. In essence, the app reverse-engineers Apple's "restore iOS backup" functionality, only instead of downloading the backed up data to a physical device, it downloads it to the cloud.
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