Audrey Hepburn shines again in new CGI ad

Audrey Hepburn shines again in new CGI ad: Twenty years after her death, screen legend Audrey Hepburn makes a virtual appearance in a TV commercial for a chocolate bar. [Read more]

Oregon's first pinot noir came from Roseburg

Oregon's first pinot noir came from Roseburg:

Pinot grapes have grown in HillCrest Winery's vineyards for more than 50 years.

Here's How AT&T Is Planning to Rob Americans of a Free Public Telco Network | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Here's How AT&T Is Planning to Rob Americans of a Free Public Telco Network | Wired Opinion | Wired.com: AT&T and other big telecom carriers want to replace the portions of their networks that still use circuit-switching technology with equipment that uses Internet Protocol (IP) to route voice and data traffic. But because the FCC previously decided that it has no direct authority over communications networks that use IP, this otherwise routine technological upgrade could lead to a state of total deregulation.

New stores: 'They're going to bring people back to the mall'

New stores: 'They're going to bring people back to the mall':

Officials say the Roseburg Valley Mall is going from "drab to fab" with the new stores coming in.

Drug abuse: 'They'll do almost anything to get that next fix'

Drug abuse: 'They'll do almost anything to get that next fix':

Officials say that with the almost complete elimination of local meth labs, addicts are turning to another, arguably more dangerous drug: heroin. KPIC News goes in-depth with authorities in a story set to air on at 5&6.

HomeSync Media Hub Is Samsung's Android Answer to Apple TV

HomeSync Media Hub Is Samsung's Android Answer to Apple TV: The growing set-top box space just got another entrant with Samsung's just-announced HomeSync Media Hub. Samsung's box focuses on providing ample storage for downloaded content, and offers multiple, separate profiles to differentiate family members' preferences and content.

Thomas Pynchon wading into Silicon Alley with new book

Thomas Pynchon wading into Silicon Alley with new book: Slated for release Sept. 17, "Bleeding Edge" is set in 2001 in New York City's Silicon Alley and deals with the time between the dot-com bubble bursting and September 11. [Read more]

Wouldn't You Like to Own a Hypnocoin? Plus More Crazy Comic Ads!

Wouldn't You Like to Own a Hypnocoin? Plus More Crazy Comic Ads!: CSBG's collection of the oddest comic book ads of all-time includes countless ways to trick your dad into buying you a BB gun and, of course, ads for the legendary hypnocoin!

I DID own a hypnocoin!

TextWrangler 4.5 - Free general purpose text editor. (Free)

TextWrangler 4.5 - Free general purpose text editor. (Free): TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator's tool. Oh, and also, like the best things in life, it's free. TextWrangler is the "little brother" to BBEdit, a leading professional HTML and text editor.

Investigating the growth and influence of professional Makers

Investigating the growth and influence of professional Makers: The growth of the Maker movement has been nothing if not amazing.

Higgs Boson calculations add up to new Armageddon scenario

Higgs Boson calculations add up to new Armageddon scenario: A Fermilab theoretical physicist suggests that qualities of the "God particle" show an "alternate" universe could easily "spread out and destroy us." [Read more]

Square unveils 'Business in a Box'

Square unveils 'Business in a Box': The online-payment company's Business in a Box bundle has everything needed to get up and running with Square Register. iPad not included. [Read more]

Beyond the Buzz, Where Are MOOCs <em>Really</em> Going?

Beyond the Buzz, Where Are MOOCs Really Going?: Everyone?s going MOOC-crazy these days. The question is not just whether MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are going to disrupt traditional education, but how. Is it really going to be a Napster-like moment with entrenched ?Teamsters in tweed? worried about the erosion of their research, publishing, and teaching? It's remarkably difficult for established market leaders to pioneer or even catch up with disruptions. Yet interestingly, the big, reputable universities are the ones leading the MOOC wave.

How Hash Oil Is Blowing Up Across the U.S. — Literally

How Hash Oil Is Blowing Up Across the U.S. — Literally: How the popularity of the cannabis derivative hash oil -- and the apartments of people who try to make it improperly -- are blowing up across the U.S.

Why every Mac owner should use Fast User Switching

Why every Mac owner should use Fast User Switching: You’re probably aware that OS X is powered by Unix at its core. This core brings a lot of geeky technologies, like memory management and multitasking, that help make the OS X experience so pleasant. But it also brings something else, something with tangible benefits to any Mac user: multiuser support, and the ability to quickly switch between those multiple users.

Source of High-Energy Cosmic Rays Found at Last | Wired Science | Wired.com

Source of High-Energy Cosmic Rays Found at Last | Wired Science | Wired.com: For the past century, physicists have puzzled over cosmic rays, particles (mostly protons) that hurtle through space at high speed and seem to come from all directions equally. What’s the source of these galactic projectiles? And how do they come to be traveling so fast? Today, an international team announced a major step toward answering those questions: conclusive evidence that at least some of the cosmic rays come from supernova remnants—expanding shells of matter from exploded stars—that are acting as natural particle accelerators.

Microsoft fine-tunes shift from Messenger to Skype

Microsoft fine-tunes shift from Messenger to Skype: The company is forging ahead in moving its Messenger user base to Skype. Here's the updated timeline for its aggressive plan. [Read more]

Skype breaks records, traffic grows by 44 percent

Skype breaks records, traffic grows by 44 percent: Microsoft's call app increased its traffic in 2012 by twice the amount of all international phone carriers combined -- it's calls are now equal to one third of all global phone traffic. [Read more]

'Roadway departures' cause 2/3 of Oregon traffic fatalities

'Roadway departures' cause 2/3 of Oregon traffic fatalities:

More than half the fatal traffic crashes in the United States involve a vehicle leaving the travel lane and crashing head-on into another car or colliding with the landscape along the road.

Flingo's Epic Suite of Apps Lands on TiVo

Flingo's Epic Suite of Apps Lands on TiVo: Flingo's epic suite of apps comes to TiVo Premiere boxes today, bringing you streaming content from A&E, History Channel, Showtime and others. Now you'll have 200-plus channels and 70 apps to choose from.

Bump turns your phone into your universal thumb drive

Bump turns your phone into your universal thumb drive: The latest version of the hit app makes it possible to quickly and easily move any kind of file between an iPhone or Android phone and any computer -- or vice versa. [Read more]

It's time to show some love for the CD format | The Audiophiliac - CNET News

It's time to show some love for the CD format | The Audiophiliac - CNET News: I don't think it's too much of a stretch to predict that the CD will be the last physical music format. The last one you'll ever hold in your hands. The last one that will have liner notes or artwork you can touch. I never feel like I've bought something I might cherish over the coming decades when I download a file. It's not real unless I can touch it.

Here's the 3D-printing institute in Obama's State of the Union

Here's the 3D-printing institute in Obama's State of the Union: The president wants you to know about the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio, and its plans to print the future. [Read more]

YouTube's Newest Superstars Reveal How to Build an Online Blockbuster

YouTube's Newest Superstars Reveal How to Build an Online Blockbuster: A teen drama mixed with first-person shooters may not appeal to everyone, but Video Game High School has undeniably set the bar for online production design. The series is widely held up by YouTube professionals as the new "design" gold standard.

Shapeways' 3-D Printing Factory Tour Reveals the Handmade Future

Shapeways' 3-D Printing Factory Tour Reveals the Handmade Future: When we talk about 3-D printing, we emphasize its seamlessness and ease of use. It's easy to overlook the number of steps between sending in a CAD file and getting the result delivered to your home. We'd like to show you how Shapeways makes ideas real.

DC Comics Turns the Occupy Movement Into a Superhero Title

DC Comics Turns the Occupy Movement Into a Superhero Title: Eighteen months after the phrase first entered the collective public consciousness, the plight of the 99 percent is coming to mainstream superhero comics ? via a new series from the second biggest publisher in the American comic industry, which just happens to be a subsidiary of a multi-national corporation that makes around $12 billion a year. Irony, anybody?

Equipment failure causes massive power outage in Roseburg

Equipment failure causes massive power outage in Roseburg:

What witnesses call an explosion left the east side of Roseburg powerless late this morning.

Sandboxr's Animation Interface Offers Completely Customizable 3-D Printed Figurines

Sandboxr's Animation Interface Offers Completely Customizable 3-D Printed Figurines: Animation fans, using Sandboxr's web-based software via laptop or tablet, can digitally pose character models, change their scale, give them accessories, create scenes, and then 3-D print their custom-built result for less than the cost of a movie ticket.

33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6 | Macworld

33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6 | Macworld: Perhaps you are already an iOS master. Or maybe you consider yourself more of a novice. Either way, we feel confident that at least some of the tips and tricks for iOS 6 that we present below will be new to you. What’s more, we hope you love them—and benefit from them—as much as we do.

Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Locks, Electricity, Elevators and More

Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Locks, Electricity, Elevators and More: A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control access systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, alarms and other critical building facilities, say two security researchers.

Pulp-O-Mizer: Build your own pulp magazine cover

Pulp-O-Mizer: Build your own pulp magazine cover: Aliens! Science gone wrong! Dive into the sensationalist depths of retro pulp by creating your own magazine with an online pulp magazine cover generator. [Read more]

Unused Office Space Is Like A Massive Untapped Natural Resource

Unused Office Space Is Like A Massive Untapped Natural Resource: Empty cubicles and unbooked conference rooms are costing companies pointless amounts of money. One startup wants to fix the problem by applying the cloud-software business model to office space.

Inception | Break & Enter

Inception | Break & Enter: Inception’s main mode works as follows: By presenting a Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) unit directory to the victim machine over the IEEE1394 FireWire interface, the victim operating system thinks that a SBP-2 device has connected to the FireWire port. Since SBP-2 devices utilize Direct Memory Access (DMA) for fast, large bulk data transfers (e.g., FireWire hard drives and digital camcorders), the victim lowers its shields and enables DMA for the device. The tool now has full read/write access to the lower 4GB of RAM on the victim. Once DMA is granted, the tool proceeds to search through available memory pages for signatures at certain offsets in the operating system’s password authentication modules. Once found, the tool short circuits the code that is triggered if an incorrect password is entered.

More Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture

More Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture: According to a new study, 54 countries helped the CIA outsource torture -- whether by providing foreign prisons for torturing detainees, prisoner transfers or logistics aid.

Study: People don't use or understand digital wallets

Study: People don't use or understand digital wallets: Digital wallets from Square, Visa, MasterCard, and others have a major perception problem, a study from ComScore finds. [Read more]