'Lizard Squad' Member Reveals His Face in a TV Interview
I would be a good bet that most crooks are nabbed not because of clever police work, personal carelessness or some other influence, but from good old self-inflicted hubris. One of the so-called Lizard Squad agreed to be interviewed and was also on camera during the entire interview. Now It's only a matter of time before face-recognition software has a positive lock on his identity and is apprehended by the police. Pride goes before the fall, but stupidity rules them all.
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Experts Claim SSD's to Out-Price HDD's in 2016 and Beyond
According to an article by David Floyer over at Wikibon, all of you SSD holdouts sticking with your soon-to-be old hat mechanical drives, can start saving up your nickels and dimes because the day of the low cost SSD is almost upon us. The article has the SSD poised to pass the HHD in lower cost sometime in 2016.
The short of this story is that by 2016, technology will have advanced far enough that you might start looking into flash-storage architecture for all of your data needs and leaving the old Western Digital Green drives on the shelf.
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Hobbit Sword Glows Blue When Near Unsecured WiFi
If you are a big fan of the Middle Earth trilogies and have some spare time to do a quick DIY project, you just have to gather together the components for the WarSting Hobbit Sword kit. Once completed, the WarSting will glow blue in the presence of unsecured wi-fi and even leave a message for the owner of the unsecured network.
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Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot Coming to a Garbage Truck Near You
A startup company based in Mountain View, California specializes in providing mobile Wi-Fi stations riding along in city vehicles like busses, cabs, and even garbage trucks. These mobile units will be taking a large load off of cellular traffic and giving the city better and wider Wi-Fi coverage. The first city to go live will be the company's hometown of Porto, Portugal, the second largest city in Portugal. The first American cities to try out this new spin on mobile hotspots will be San Francisco, NYC and Austin, Tx.
This meshing of hardware, software and cloud solutions gives Veniam "the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things."
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'Game of Thrones' Most Pirated TV-Show of 2014
The most dubious and least coveted title in all of TV land goes to HBO's Game of Thrones for being the most pirated of all shows on TV for the third consecutive year, leaving the other ranking shows in the dust. It will be interesting to follow the rankings next year after HBO's stand-alone subscription App goes live in 2015.
Online streaming and downloads for file-hosting services are not included since there are no public sources to draw data from. Total piracy numbers will therefore be significantly higher.
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French Postal Service Developing Drone for Rural Deliveries
Look out Amazon, it looks like the French Postal Service is stealing your drone delivery paradigm and running with it. Testing is in the final phase and the tests already have been declared a success, but still considered an exploratory option with no set date to implement drone delivery in hard to reach French rural areas.
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Walmart Will Take Your Unwanted Holiday Gift Cards
According to an article in the Boston Globe, Walmart is going to test out a new program to make it easy for to take your Christmas gift cards from about 200 companies and exchange them for Walmart credit. If the program proves successful, Walmart will make it a permanent fixture in its stores.
According to the consultancy CEB TowerGroup, about $1 billion worth of gift cards will go unused this year.
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NORK Resorts to Name Calling and Blaming US for Internet Outage
It looks like the only war we will get into with North Korea will be a war of words, involving mudslinging and name calling. In the latest round coming out of the NORKs National Defense Commission was to call President Obama a monkey and repeated the charge that the President was behind the Internet going dark in North Korea.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest."
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The Bitcoin Bowl Is a Real Thing
For all of the football bowl fans out there, there's was a new bowl game last night between the ACC's NC State and the AAC's Central Florida: Welcome to the Bitcoin Bowl. It's not a joke, but merely the first of many Bitcoin Bowls that will play as long as the value for Bitcoin remains high. The game was carried on ESPN, streamed on WatchESPN and broadcast over the team's individual sports networks.
The aim, presumably, is to introduce a mainstream audience to Bitcoin, but I like the idea that the reverse could be true, with at least handful of Bitcoin fans checking out college football for the first time.
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Samsung Smart TVs Will Play PS Games Next Year
A new partnership between Sony and Samsung will be bringing you a Samsung TV that will be able to play PlayStation Games without the need of a console. Sound like a pipe dream? It's for real and will be available sometime in the first half of 2015 according to a press release this week. It will be undoubtedly a work in progress for the foreseeable future, but at least Sony is willing to try new platforms for its gaming.
Now before you get carried away and start thinking you can buy a TV instead of a PS4, this is far from a full PlayStation experience: It's PlayStation Now, which is still in open beta, and to put it lightly, it's not a service many are recommending.
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The 30 Most Anticipated Games of 2015
Stuff.tv has compiled a list of what their editors consider to be the 30 most anticipated games of next year across all platforms. Considering 2014 left many in the gaming community with a bad taste, a lot will ride on having a banner year with the upcoming games.
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DirecTV Deal Brings Disney Content to Your Tablet
Dish Network and Direct TV are very similar in the services that they offer subscribers, but the way they handle their business arrangements vary greatly. If you remember last week, Dish was busy blacking out channels because of a contract dispute. While Dish battled it out in the trenches, Direct TV was busy negotiating with the Disney Corporation on adding new content.
The Disney-DirecTV agreement "allows both companies to evolve together into the future and gives DirecTV customers a wide range of in-home and out-of-home viewing options to enjoy the broad collection of ESPN, Disney and ABC content."
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Lizard Squad Hacking Gang Moves from PlayStation, Xbox Live to Tor
All good things must eventually come to an end I guess and whether the GOP grew tired of harassing Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks, or caved in to Kim Dotcom's bribery will probably never be known. What is known is the hacker group has now turned the Eye of Sauron's gaze upon the Tor Network.
On Friday, the squad turned its attention to Tor: it insinuated on Twitter that it had added at least 3,000 relays, which bounce connections around the world to hide users' public IP addresses, to the network.
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Amazon Signs 10K New Prime Members over Holidays
Amazon picked up some good pocket change over the holidays by signing up over 10K new Prime members for almost a cool million bucks. It's becoming apparent that raising the subscription rate to Prime had little affect on its membership signups.
Prime's two-day shipping was likely the big draw for customers -- particularly last-minute shoppers -- but Amazon is also touting other Kindle perks such as e-book and video rentals, and even its one-hour delivery service, Amazon Now, which debuted last week in Manhattan.
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U.S. Tech Firms Face Showdown with Russian Censors
The cold war is long gone and for a time, it looked like Russia was going the way of its democratic neighbors, but something changed all of that. Russia is now preparing to trade blows with three of the US's largest social media companies, all at the same time, over censorship and the right to freedom of speech.
Until now, companies have often complied with Russia's legal orders to remove content, rather than risk a government blackout. But the firms have become more wary as the government has given itself new powers to regulate the Internet. And the very public nature of this episode leaves the U.S. tech companies facing a dilemma.
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