Cheaper, Faster, Lighter: 3D-Printed Car Parts are Now a Thing

Cheaper, Faster, Lighter: 3D-Printed Car Parts are Now a Thing

Last week we took a look at how Lamborghini is using forged composite carbon fiber in car production. But forged composites aren’t the only game in town when it comes to cutting edge materials. Divergent 3D has been working on additive manufacturing—3D printing to you and me—car parts. In recent weeks, the company signed a…

How the internet was Brought Down by Malware-Infected Webcams and Wi-Fi-Enabled Thermostats

How the internet was Brought Down by Malware-Infected Webcams and Wi-Fi-Enabled Thermostats

Friday saw many of the web’s largest website suffer outages, when a major internet infrastructure company was struck by a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack coming from unlikely sources. Millions of people, most notably those on the US’ eastern seaboard, were unable to access websites ranging from Twitter to the New York Times…

Twitter, Reddit, Spotify Were Collateral Damage In Major Internet Attack

Twitter, Reddit, Spotify Were Collateral Damage In Major Internet Attack

Twitter, Reddit, Github, Spotify, and many others were knocked offline intermittently on Friday morning as a result of a cyberattack on a large internet infrastructure provider. The popular websites became the collateral damage of a “global” Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attack on Dyn, a company that provides core internet services for those popular…

Your Body is No Longer Yours: Australia Becomes First Country to Begin Microchipping its Public

Your Body is No Longer Yours: Australia Becomes First Country to Begin Microchipping its Public

Australia may become the first country in the world to microchip its public. NBC news predicted that all Americans would be microchipped by 2017, but it seems Australia may have already beaten them to it. Back in 2010, CBS news reported that the Australian government had a potential RFID microchipping plan in the works related…