Have we reached "peak RGB"? In an age where we have RGB RAM and RGB PSUs, you might think we have put RGB LEDs on just about anything we could possibly imagine already. This was not until I walked into my church one Sunday morning and realized the wooden cross we had for the last twenty years or so has been replaced by none other than -- you guessed it -- an RGB LED cross. I kid you not, this is a high end RGB model where the LED lighting can be...
From TechCrunch: A security lapse at Canada’s fourth largest cell network Freedom Mobile exposed customer data.
Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found an Elasticsearch server leaking five million logs containing customer data. The server wasn’t protected with a password, allowing...
From The Verge: Starting this week, Facebook will begin a test to fact-check Instagram posts. Poynter reports that potentially false photos and memes shared on Instagram will be sent to the same dashboard that Facebook’s fact-checking partners — specialists like Factcheck.org as well as traditional...
From PC Mag: The US has budgeted $600 million to build its second "exascale" supercomputer, which is slated to go online in 2021.
The Frontier supercomputer will be capable of completing more than 1.5 quintillion calculations per second, according to the US Department of Energy, which announced...
From CNET: Consumers in the US are willing to pay much more for 5G than for current 4G service -- and by 2025, 20% of us could be using 10 times as much data as we currently do.
Those are some findings from a consumer survey about 5G that was conducted by Ericsson. The networking gear giant polled...
From The Verge: The EU is preparing to launch a formal antitrust investigation against Apple following Spotify’s official complaint, reports the Financial Times. Spotify claims that Apple uses its App Store to stifle innovation and limit consumer choice in favor of its own Apple Music service...
From PC Mag: A hacker has been breaking into GitHub accounts, purportedly wiping the code repositories and then demanding a ransom in exchange to restore the information.
The attack, which was initially noticed by ZDNet, has hit at least 392 different GitHub repos and defaced them with a ransom...
From CNET: Mozilla on Sunday began distributing new Firefox updates to fix a problem that broke extensions for many browser users on Friday.
Mozilla had released an update Saturday, but Sunday's fix should help more people who were still affected. "There are some issues we're still working on, but...
"I would love to buy a house in Brentwood," I told my friend Derek as we were taking the light rail transit home one evening. "I am just missing six zeros in my bank account balance." What is so desirable about the neighborhood of Brentwood here in Calgary? It really comes down to a few major factors: It is close to the University of Calgary, it is in an excellent public school district, and it has a C-train station that takes only fifteen...
When I was still in university, I vowed I would take at least one psychology course during my time there. Especially since I found the topic to be quite interesting, I took an intro course in my first year spring semester. One thing I really enjoyed was learning about some past experiments. Some of them were definitely a bit creepier than others. One of the more lighthearted ones was the Stanford marshmallow experiment. The experimenter put...
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