by crissly | Mar 22, 2019 | Gear
Google’s Project Stream, first unveiled last October, gave gamers a taste of what it would be like to stream heavy games directly from the cloud—from a Chrome browser, even. That effort has now evolved into something much, much more ambitious. At the Game Developers...
by crissly | Mar 21, 2019 | Security
At this point, it’s difficult to summarize all of Facebook’s privacy, misuse, and security missteps in one neat description. And it just got even harder. On Thursday, following a report by Krebs on Security, Facebook acknowledged a bug in its password management...
by crissly | Mar 21, 2019 | Ideas
Our bed-and-breakfast looked like it was out of a goth comic book: a shadowy, midsized Victorian on top of a steep hill, in forced perspective. A blood-red “vacancy” sign glowed overbright in the parlor window. My son and I had taken Amtrak to upstate New York for a...
by crissly | Mar 21, 2019 | Ideas, Security
When school began in Lockport, New York, this past fall, the halls were lined not just with posters and lockers, but cameras. Over the summer, a brand new $4 million facial recognition system was installed by the school district in the town’s eight schools from...
by crissly | Mar 20, 2019 | Gear
Apple just revealed a new pair of wirefree AirPods, the first significant update to the product since its original introduction in late 2016. They include a new, Apple-designed chip made specifically for faster wireless connections that also promises 50 percent more...
