IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 30/12/2015

Infrared video of huge Southern California methane leak makes plume visible
SoCal Gas hits milestone in plugging gas leak, but completion will take months more.

Common payment processing protocols found to be full of flaws
Stealing PINs and pillaging bank accounts are both trivial.

New videos prove crows can make complex tools that only humans have made before
Tiny cameras attached to the birds' tails give a clear view of corvid intelligence.

British health experts warn of unstoppable gonorrhea
Drug-resistant variety of STI may spread if doctors use wrong drug therapy.

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New Google Glass model hits the FCC website, images included
The new model has a larger Glass prism and can fold up!

With 14.4M downloads, Game of Thrones is the most-pirated TV show of 2015
Other top pirated shows: Walking Dead, Big Bang Theory, and Arrow.

Anti-vaccine Californians are rich, white, but not necessarily highly educated
Health campaigns focusing on scientific data may not help restore herd immunity.

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Save $25 bucks on the UPS or choose from a ton of other deals!

TSA may soon stop accepting drivers’ licenses from nine states
Citizens in nine non-compliant states may also be barred from federal facilities.

Better with age: The year’s best video game DLC
Four titles that got much better in 2015 thanks to downloadable updates.

Samsung will reportedly release the Galaxy S7 in two different sizes
Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are apparently going to grow in size a bit.

BMW thinks the future of car UI is gesture control
AirTouch will appear in an i8 convertible at CES next week.

Scott Kelly unable to science the @$!# out of space veggies
Latest crop of space-grown veggies not as verdant as earlier harvests.

2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt
But it's the hardware that has won people over, not the software.

Mysterious collector opens world’s largest private Apple exhibition in Prague
Apple Museum has some 472 exhibits, with raw vegan cafe to come.

Yandex worker stole search engine source code, tried selling for just $40K
Dmitry Korobov has received a suspended sentence of two years in jail.

The App-ocalypse: Can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?
Many big tech companies—absent Apple—are throwing weight behind a browser-based world.

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 30/12/2015

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