Simon Weckert loaded a hand-cart with cellphones and pulled them slowly through Berlin. This fooled Google Maps into registering severe congestion, marking the streets bright red in the service, and rerouting traffic to avoid the area.
99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic.
Reminder: public disclosure of a zero-day vulnerability is rarely the first time it was exploited.
Over at The Startup on Medium, David Laws, semiconductor curator at the wonderful Computer History Museum, has prepared a fascinating guide to Silicon Valley’s “high-tech heritage trail exploring places that housed the early stirrings of the digital revolution.” Covering the “30-mile corridor from Stanford University to the former IBM disk-drive campus,” Laws visits dozens of […]
• Coronavirus, which WHO declared a global health emergency, threatens to disrupt Chinese manufacturing The deadly virus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China continues to spread and claim lives around the world. At this time, still, the vast majority of infected patients and deaths are in mainland China, Hubei province. The epidemic is also impacting […]
The next Samsung folding phone is expected to be announced this month, and what is purported to be a first hands-on video with the device to be released in February just appeared online.
For the owner of an anxious dog, coming home to a stray poop or a shredded pillow after a long day at work may be annoying, but that’s actually on the low end of potential problems. Some dogs get so upset by the boredom, loneliness and stress of being on their own that they end […]
We’ve all got our hands full. And we’re not talking about tight schedules, full task lists and other assorted day-to-day hassles of life here. No, we’re talking literally. With keys, papers, purses, and wallets, devices like smartphones, cameras, laptops and tablets, not to mention all that hyper-specific stuff each of us needs every day, our […]
As any true gamer will tell you, the only thing that can truly ruin an epic gaming session is having to sit in an uncomfortable chair or at a poorly positioned desk for hours on end. So before you kick back and launch into another marathon session against your computer or friends, check out our […]
