Couple Accused Of Pulling “Shoulder Surfing” Scam To Cash $400K In Counterfeit Checks At Walmart Posted on August 18, 2015 by John Buck “The couple accused of stealing more than $400,000 from Walmart used a “shoulder surfing” method to glean SSNs from folks: they’d wait in stores...
Why Don’t Huge Privacy Flaws Result In Recalled Smartphones? Posted on August 18, 2015 by John Buck “The TL;DR version of the answer is, as with many things, “because bureaucracy.” The longer answer is that no government agency really has software...
Turn your Word doc into a PDF with a live table of contents Posted on August 18, 2015 by John Buck by Lincoln Spector | Contributing Editor, PCWorld “A long report needs to be broken up into sections. Readers will want shortcuts to the chapters...
Protein Folding — Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer. Posted on August 18, 2015 by John Buck “The problems we are trying to solve require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to crunch some of...
Indian Mars Orbiter Shoots Spectacular New Images of Sheer Canyon and Curiosity’s Crater Posted on August 17, 2015 by John Buck “India’s space agency has released a spectacular new batch of images taken by everyone’s favorite MOM – the Mars Orbiter Mission – the nation’s...