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]

Next up for 3D printing: a moonbase?

Next up for 3D printing: a moonbase?: The European Space Agency and others are looking into creating an inflatable moon dome that can house four people while protecting them from meteorites, gamma radiation, and more. [Read more]

Superomniphobic Material Vigorously Repels All Fluids

Superomniphobic Material Vigorously Repels All Fluids: You may have heard of oleophobic coatings (which reduce smudges on your touchscreen) or hydrophobic coatings (which repel water). Working with a team at the University of Michigan, Dr. Anish Tuteja has developed a new coating for material that will repel both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids of just about any kind.

Dozens interested in being Washington's pot consultant

Dozens interested in being Washington's pot consultant:

As officials figure out how to regulate the state's newly legal marijuana, they're hiring an adviser to fill in the gaps of the typical bureaucrat's education: how cannabis is best grown, dried, tested, labeled, packaged, regulated and cooked into brownies.

BlackBerry 10 OS Review - Watch CNET's Video Review - page 2

BlackBerry 10 OS Review - Watch CNET's Video Review - page 2: Another of RIM's longtime strong suits, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) sends peer-to-peer messages, photos, voice notes, contact information, and files between BlackBerry users for free. In BlackBerry 10, the app blossoms, adding voice chat, video chat, and screen sharing to its beloved emoticons and group messaging.

Here Are the Patterns the Feds Found for U.S. Mass Killings

Here Are the Patterns the Feds Found for U.S. Mass Killings: Mass killers are likely to prefer handguns; overwhelmingly likely to be male; and unlikely to have served in the military, according to a November study by a Department of Homeland Security fusion center.

Affordable Injection Molding Transforms Tinkerers Into Tycoons

Affordable Injection Molding Transforms Tinkerers Into Tycoons: While everyone is talking about the 3-D printing industrial revolution, Protomold is busy helping tinkerers become tycoons by making mass-production injection molding technology accessible for easily customized short-run batches ? and their recent expansion of advanced materials lets designers produce almost any creation they need.

The little-known Apple Lisa: Five quirks and oddities

The little-known Apple Lisa: Five quirks and oddities: The machine’s 30th anniversary is as good a time as any to take a look at a handful of both odd and useful features that truly made the Lisa something unique.

Researchers Find Serious Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play

Researchers Find Serious Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play: Researchers have uncovered three sets of serious security flaws in the protocol for Universal Plug and Play, a component embedded in nearly 7,000 different kinds of devices -- including routers, printers, media players and smart TVs -- that would make them vulnerable to remote hacking.

Apple TV 5.2 update adds Bluetooth keyboard support, AirPlay sending, and more

Apple TV 5.2 update adds Bluetooth keyboard support, AirPlay sending, and more: Though Apple TV has long been able to receive AirPlay audio and video, it now gains the ability to send AirPlay audio as well. You can send the audio from movies, TV shows, and other content you play back on Apple TV to AirPlay-enabled speakers and devices including the AirPort Express and other Apple TVs. You can insert your own Apple TV singularity or Inception joke here, as desired.

Roseburg students to entertain with comedy | Local & Regional News | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR

Roseburg students to entertain with comedy | Local & Regional News | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR: The Roseburg High School Drama Department’s Winter production, Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” will be taking the stage Thursday through Saturday.

Officials say the show is based on minor characters from Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet,'' who are, "plopped center stage and the whole production is turned around, with periodic entrances and exits from Hamlet, Ophelia, and other characters."

Apple TV software update adds Bluetooth keyboard support

Apple TV software update adds Bluetooth keyboard support: A new Apple TV software update adds a few new features, including support for Bluetooth keyboards and a way to see what's playing next. [Read more]