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e-waste

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Reuters recently took a look at what the town of Guiyu in China, which is commonly known, as one of the world's largest electronic waste dump sites. A particularly polluted place as you might imagine, Guiyu exists to salvage bits of valuable metals such as gold, copper and aluminum mostly from hard drives, mobile phones, computer screens and computers from around the world though sources have changed: China now produces 6.1 million metric tons of e-waste... Читать дальше...

A security researcher used a homemade $60 system to outsmart self-driving car lidar sensors that cost thousands; he was able to trick an autonomous vehicle into slowing down and even launched a denial of service attack on a self-driving car's tracking system so that it came to a complete stop.

Kaspersky Lab has released an emergency patch for some of its antivirus products after a security researcher found a critical vulnerability that could allow hackers to compromise computers.

13 cool Chrome extensions for Gmail

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We scoured the hundreds of Chrome extensions designed for Gmail — whether they modify the UI of the webmail service, or add new features to it — and picked the best ones. Emphasis was placed on extensions that are free, and not tied to another site, web app, or other online service.

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As if Chinese factories weren't already producing enough of our gadgets, chip designer ARM Holdings wants to help Chinese startups produce more wearable devices, robots and smart home products. 

The cloud is where the action is in enterprise storage.

Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while the market for traditional external storage systems is shrinking, according to research company IDC. 

Internet giants and service providers typically don't use specialized storage platforms in their sprawling data centers. Instead, they buy vast amounts of capacity in the form of generic hardware that's controlled by software. Читать дальше...

Fiat Chrysler said Friday it is voluntarily recalling 7,810 SUVs due to a software glitch that could make the vehicles vulnerable to remote control.

Unless you’re using really expensive gear with professional booms or completely stable mounts to shoot action video, you’re going to wind up with footage that wobbles and jiggles often to the point of unwatchability (even with the professional gear, unwanted effects aren’t completely avoidable). You see a lot of this type of subpar content from sports videos where a camera is attached to a runner or a mountain biker while video from drones often suffers from “jello” from unbalanced propellers.

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The clock is ticking to squeeze out rumors about Apple’s next iPhones before its scheduled Sept. 9 news event, and sure enough a few have beaten the deadline.