Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com: The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.

Though the software is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, revealing that the software secretly chronicles a user’s phone experience — ostensibly so carriers and phone manufacturers can do quality control.

But now he’s released a video actually showing the logging of text messages, encrypted web searches and, well, you name it.

Nov. 29, 1972: <cite>Pong</cite>, a Game Any Drunk Can Play

Nov. 29, 1972: Pong, a Game Any Drunk Can Play: If fire was the beginning of civilization, was the appearance of Pong the beginning of the videogame age? A case can be made.

Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations | Wired Science | Wired.com

Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations | Wired Science | Wired.com:

Four short links: 24 November 2011

Four short links: 24 November 2011: Green Array Chips -- 144 cores on a single chip, $20 per chip in batches of 10. From the creator of Forth, Chuck Moore. (via Hacker News)

Inside Occupy Wall Street?s Growing Student Protests

Inside Occupy Wall Street's Growing Student Protests: Occupy Wall Street may have been evicted from Zuccotti park, but New York students are now taking the protest back to their schools.

How to manage multiple Macs at home

How to manage multiple Macs at home: While it’s easier to manage a single Mac, it’s possible to have control over multiple Macs within your home. Here's how you can remotely configure parental controls on another computer, monitor what your kids do with their Macs, share media between the computers within your home, and more.

Google launches redesigned Google Search app for iPad (with video) – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

Google launches redesigned Google Search app for iPad (with video) – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home: “Today, we’re very pleased to be launching a significant redesign for the Google Search app for iPad,” Daniel Fish, Software Engineer, Google Search app, reports via The Official Google Mobile Blog.

Google Search app for iPad gets gesture-driven remake | Electronista

Google Search app for iPad gets gesture-driven remake | Electronista: Google chose Monday to unveil a heavily remade Google Search app for iPads (App Store). The new version folds in Google Instant, but its highlight is a much more gesture-driven interface. Results slide in as panes that can be slid back to reveal the search results, and both image browsing and history get special thumbnail browsers to pick them out visually rather than by text.
Inside, the app has in-page searching, a +1 button to share results, and a dedicated apps menu to bring up Google services like Gmail or Reader in their web versions. Instant Previews have made their own appearance in the iPad app.

Any iPad running iOS 4 or later can load the app, which should be available worldwide.

How to share one Mac with your family

How to share one Mac with your family: If you're like most households, you have a central "family" Mac for every family member to use. These step-by-step instructions and tips—from creating separate user accounts to customizing parental controls—will make sharing that one Mac among multiple users more enjoyable.

‘Afghanistan’ and Other Books About Rebuilding — Book Review - NYTimes.com

‘Afghanistan’ and Other Books About Rebuilding — Book Review - NYTimes.com: When Coburn analyzed how power was exercised in Istalif, he found that no one was truly in charge. Local power brokers might possess wealth, honor, a reputation for piety, abundant weaponry or powerful allies, but they lacked the means or the will to convert those gifts into decisive authority. The maliks, or elders, made a big show of representing their communities’ interests in meetings with outsiders and serving their followers generous meals; each year they presided over festive villagewide “snow picnics,” where the children of Istalif playfully competed to wreck one another’s snow-and-ice dams on the terraced hills above the town. But for all their public visibility, the maliks were only as strong as their communities allowed them to be; they were not secure hereditary chieftains but anxious agents of the professions or neighborhoods or clans they served. (Coburn speculates that when villagers obeyed a curious edict permitting music at weddings only if it issued from a single boombox, they did so largely because they feared that louder music would draw too many guests needing to be fed.) The mullahs, for their part, had little ability to intervene outside the mosque, and the village’s wealthy merchants had little sway since they lived primarily in Kabul and often came from the low-status weaver class. Aging commanders of the anti-Soviet jihad supplied money and guns to young men, who struck a menacing pose by wearing the “pakul” hat of the great Tajik fighter Ahmed Shah Massoud, rather than the “karakul” hat favored by Hamid Karzai. While the commanders successfully extorted rent from local merchants who ran shops on public lands, they were unpopular and preferred to remain in the shadows, strenuously avoiding one another as well as any direct conflict with the state.

How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein?

How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein?: Results from a second experiment uphold the observation that neutrinos are moving faster than the speed of light. The OPERA collaboration, which reported superluminal neutrinos back in September, have rerun their experiment and detected 20 new neutrinos breaking Einstein's limit.

Steve Jobs wanted Apple to reinvent TVs, textbooks & photography

Steve Jobs wanted Apple to reinvent TVs, textbooks & photography: A new interview with the biographer of Steve Jobs reveals that before he died, the Apple co-founder had three things he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography.

<cite>Batman</cite> Bows Out With Brave, Bold, Metafictional Finale

Batman Bows Out With Brave, Bold, Metafictional Finale: For three excellent seasons, Batman: The Brave and the Bold has skewered The Dark Knight's seriousness. On Friday, it bids television adieu with a multilevel satire on Batman's mythos, cartoons and fandom. Check out an exclusive preview clip and more images from the fantastic finale.

Reclocked CERN neutrinos still break the speed limit

Reclocked CERN neutrinos still break the speed limit: A first round of error checking has shown subatomic particles still travel faster than the speed of light, but physicists want more confirmation before drawing any conclusions.

Hypersonic bomb: One-hour delivery?

Hypersonic bomb: One-hour delivery?: The U.S. Army's Advanced Hypersonic Weapon can travel about five times the speed of sound and strike anywhere on Earth in less than an hour.

Breakthrough material barely denser than air - CBS News

Breakthrough material barely denser than air - CBS News: Researchers at HRL Laboratories and the Composites Center at the University of Southern California have created what they say is the lowest-density material, a lattice of hollow tubes of the metal nickel.

Its volume is 99.99 percent air, and its density is 0.9 milligram per cubic centimeter--not including the air in or between its tubes. That density is less than one-thousandth that of water.

Same-size lithium ion battery, 10 times the storage | Cutting Edge - CNET News

Same-size lithium ion battery, 10 times the storage | Cutting Edge - CNET News: With a better anode, a cell phone could be charged in 15 minutes and have 10 times the energy storage capacity of current lithium ion batteries, according to Northwestern University researchers, who predict the technology could be available in three to five years.

Argonne's battery researchers, meanwhile, say that replacing the traditional graphite anode with titanium oxide could lead to cell phones that can get half their full charge in less than 30 seconds.

AOL reworks AIM: message sync, in-line media, easy groups

AOL reworks AIM: message sync, in-line media, easy groups: AOL on Wednesday launched a redesigned AIM for both desktops and mobile devices to compete with modern alternatives like Facebook Messenger or Google+. The service now syncs message histories and makes sure users can follow what was missed, even if they were signed out.

VIDEO: Neil Gaiman Visits "The Simpsons"

VIDEO: Neil Gaiman Visits "The Simpsons": You may know Neil Gaiman from such works as "Sandman" and "Coraline," but the acclaimed writer is also set to guest star on this Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons." ROBOT 6 has details and a video clip.

Vet to Feds: Enough Stonewalling, Give Us Pot for PTSD

Vet to Feds: Enough Stonewalling, Give Us Pot for PTSD: Marine Corps veteran Ryan Begin once took over 100 pills a day for his post-traumatic stress. Now he smokes a few joints. He's launched an online petition asking the federal government to reverse their ban on a study to determine marijuana's effectiveness in treating PTSD -- and scored 12,000 signatures in a mere two days.