Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

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Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition episodes

  • Russian hacker arrested in connection to massive LinkedIn attack
    Working in concert with local authorities, the FBI has arrested a Russian man who's suspected of hacking LinkedIn in 2012 and attempting to sell the personal details of users online. LinkedIn confirmed in an email to Mashable the suspect, who was arrested in the Czech Republic, is allegedly connected to a major breach of the service that affected at least 117 million users. The true extent of the hack of LinkedIn, which occurred in 2012, was made public in a blog post by the company in May.
    4 min
  • The Hover Camera is here, ready to shoot all your aerial selfies
    Zero Zero Robotics' Hover Camera is now called the Hover Camera Passport. I got a first look at the prototype of the paperback-sized "flying camera" (the company's still not calling it a drone) earlier this year. After securing over $25 million in investor funding, Zero Zero Robotics is finally launching the foldable quadcopter camera — the first in a lineup of planned flying cameras from the company.
    3 min
  • Self-driving cars won't prevent road rage, study says
    Every Tesla car may be self-driving by the end of next year, Elon Musk says — but that doesn't mean they're protected from road rage. A new study conducted by Goodyear and the London School of Economics suggests some rogue drivers might be excited about "bullying" even autonomous vehicles. In fact, according to the study, some participants feel self-driving cars will be easier to mess with. "People more open to [autonomous vehicles].
    3 min
  • Australia's new $5 bill is so high-tech it can play a vinyl record
    Australia's new A$5 bill is so high-tech vending machines can't handle it, but no problem — here's something else you can do with all that spare cash. In a video posted by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), NFSA education manager Cris Kennedy uses the new plastic note to play a record of "Brit's Blues" by Red Norvo and his orchestra, rather than a record player stylus.
    1 min
  • Trump slammed Clinton for email use, but he's running Windows 2003
    Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State has been one of the hot topics in the US presidential election, with Donald Trump threatening to prosecute (and jail her).  Now, in an interesting twist of irony, it's been revealed that a number of email servers linked to Donald Trump's hotel and other businesses are using outdated software with no security patches.
    3 min
  • 10 questions you'll have to answer if you want to be a big-shot engineer at Google
    Working for Google may sound fun, but the interview process sure doesn't. After applying for a director of engineering role at the company, Pierre Gauthier — a computer engineer who started his own tech company 18 years ago — was asked some pretty intimidating questions in a phone interview. After failing to give the Google recruiter the "right answers," he decided to create a Gwan.com blog post to share the challenging questions, his responses and candid thoughts with the public.
    3 min
  • Why Apple isn't so hot on building a car anymore
    Project Titan, the not-so-secret name of Apple's not-so-secret initiative to build a car (probably), is reportedly bleeding staff and shifting focus. Hundreds have left the team in recent months, according to an article published on Bloomberg.com Monday. The report also claims Apple may pivot from constructing an actual car and instead develop self-driving software. Such a move would allow the company to shop a new kind of operating system to existing car manufacturers.
    4 min
  • Nike Mag self-lacing sneakers fetch $104,000 at Hong Kong auction
    One of the most sought after sneakers ever also just become possibly the most expensive pair ever. A Hong Kong auction house has sold a pair of the new Back to the Future-inspired Nike Mag shoes for $104,000.  SEE ALSO: A pair of Nike's 'Back to the Future' self-lacing sneakers could only cost you $10 In addition to hyping the iconic shoe, the auction served to raise money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), an organization dedicated to supporting Parkinson's disease research.
    2 min
  • Indian police arrest 70 conmen who scammed thousands of Americans posing as IRS officials
    The Indian police have uncovered a chain of fake call centres in Mumbai and arrested 70 people who posed as officials of U.S. tax department and scammed thousands of Americans..  SEE ALSO: Hackers steal frequent-flyer miles worth Rs 1.6 million from Air India The fraudsters ran fake call centres and sent threatening voice mail messages telling the U.S. citizens that they owed tax and must respond.
    2 min
  • Despite early troubles, everyone is updating to iOS 10
    Apple's iOS 10 is now used more than any other version of the operating system.  More than half of iOS devices have already upgraded to the latest software, according to new numbers from Apple.  SEE ALSO: 12 hidden features in iOS 10 The update is now installed on 54% of devices, according to stats posted on Apple's developer site. Last year's iOS 9 accounts for 38% of devices while just 8% of devices are running iOS 8 or earlier.
    2 min

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Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, methods of organization, in order to solve a problem. A SpokenEdition transforms…