In case you were napping, Heartbleed struck web servers’ OpenSSL security last year, opening up the servers’ memory to intruders. There’s a new so-called zero-day vulnerability, only this time the researchers who discovered it say it’s much worse, im…
We like the idea of the smart home, but it seems like something that is reserved for business professionals living in cities that are as staggeringly large as their paychecks. It’s expensive to make a full conversion to an automated home that adjusts to your wants and needs, so it seems a bit out of reach to most. While there are some systems out there that can improve one aspect or another, there’s nothing that ties them all together easily.
Enter in the Oomi. This is a system that can be set up in five minutes, and will amp up your home security, make entertainment more immersive, manages your comfort, and can get your ambiance just right. There is a tablet that acts as your central remote which has both a touch screen and tactile buttons and the Oomi Cube, which is the brain of your smart home. While we’ve seen setups like this before, the brain aspect is usually pretty useless aside from its main function. The Oomi Cube has a glass break sensor, vibration sensor, motion detector, night vision, a UV sensor, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, and an ambient light sensor.
There are of course, accessories galore, such as the Oomi plug, bulb, multisensor, door and window sensor, streamer, and air which can help you do more of what it already does and of course, adds to the overall price. You can use your smartphone if you’d like, and it will provide you with video and audio feed, alerts, and notifications when things are askew. This is going to cost you $299-699 depending on how many accessories you want. If you already have some smart home products though, check to make sure they are compatible, as many of these products are already able to integrate into the system seamlessly.
Available for crowdfunding on Indiegogo
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The future of Top Gear hangs in the balance since host Jeremy Clarkson was sacked following a fracas with a producer a couple of months back. Fellow hosts James May and Richard Hammond left the BBC motoring show as they firmly believed it wouldn’t make sense to continue without Clarkson. There have been rumors ever since then that the trio could land on Netflix. A report out of the UK claims that they’re now negotiating with Netflix and the new motoring show could be called “House of Cars.”
Netflix users don’t have to look at the proposed title twice to see that it’s a subtle nod to its hugely popular political drama, the Kevin Spacey starring House of Cards, which itself is a remake of a popular BBC political drama of the same name.
The Mirror reports today that Clarkson, May and Hammond along with former Top Gear producer Andy Wilman are negotiating with Netflix to start a new motoring show that will be called House of Cars.
Even though the three presenters achieved global fame due to their association with Top Gear, they can’t use that name since it’s a BBC trademark, and the BBC already plans on relaunching the show with new presenters in place.
British online streaming service ITV and Netflix appear to be involved in a tug of war, both want the presenters to come over and start a new show, so it’s too soon to say right now where the trio will land next.
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Virtual reality games aren’t really a thing these days and Ubisoft wants to capitalize on that. The company has said that it plans on launching virtual reality games next year and more in the years to come. CEO Yves Guillemot told investors that Ubisoft is developing a “certain number” of virtual reality titles that will work with virtual reality headsets once the titles are launched in 2016.
Guillemot didn’t specify which titles will receive the VR treatment, only saying that the company is “very bullish about the potential.” Ubisoft believes that supporting virtual reality devices will allow for more immersive gameplay and this could entice more people to take up gaming.
Guillemot agrees that the biggest challenge here is to make games that work well with the virtual environment since it can be hard to play a game for a long time with a virtual reality headset strapped to your head. It can be quite uncomfortable.
The promise for VR titles comes following Ubisoft’s announcement that it will not be developing any major titles for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 aside from the Just Dance series.
So those who are excited about getting their hands on Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate once it arrives later this year, they’ll either have to get a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, or play it on a compatible PC.
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It was expected that Microsoft will rebrand Windows Phone once Windows 10 is released to consumers. The company didn’t confirm early on just what it would be called, some believed that it might go with Windows 10 for Phones, which is currently used widely to report about incoming preview builds. Microsoft today confirmed all of the different Windows 10 editions that will be released, and it confirmed the new moniker for Windows Phone in the process.
A total of seven different editions of Windows 10 will be released for consumers, students and businesses. All of these different editions cover various devices and use cases.
Following the launch of Windows 10 across PCs, tablets, smartphones and Xbox One, Windows Phone will no longer be known by its current name. Instead it will be called Windows 10 Mobile.
Windows 10 Mobile will include new versions of Office that are optimized for touchscreen devices and there will also be support for the Continuum for Phone feature. Windows 10 Mobile will support smartphones and tablets with displays under 8-inch.
A Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise edition will also be offered, it’s primarily meant for big corporations who want to deploy the OS across the company on employees’ small tablets and smartphones.
Windows 10’s consumer release is scheduled for this summer, no confirmed release date has been provided yet.
Windows Phone Will Become Windows 10 Mobile After New OS Is Launched , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use. 
In the same vein as “The Dad Bod.”
Listen, bros gotta party, right? That’s one of the requirements to be a bro — party your face off. But all those empty beer calories aren’t helping your physique, so it’s important to balance your wild side with some kind of exercise, like yoga for instance. No regular yoga will do though. You need a yoga program with your average bro in mind.
Perhaps … BROGA??
San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein wanted to capture the beautiful form that is Broga, highlighting moves and poses familiar to any legit bro. If it isn’t a thing already, you can bet it will be someday. The world’s just that scary.
Beer Pong Lunge
Shotgunasana
Chest Bump Moon
Kegstand
Shitfaceasana or Corpse Pose
Check out Rothstein’s site for more Broga poses and other projects she’s working on.
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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback recently signed into law a bill that would curtail what those who receive public assistance could purchase with their government-issued debit cards.
This exhaustive list includes, but not limited to:
Alcoholic beverages, gambling venues, tattoo, massage and body piercing parlors; spas and nail salons, lingerie shops, tobacco and vapor products, arcades and movie theaters; swimming pools, cruise ships (that’s right cruise ships), and tickets for entertainment events intended for the general public.
It cannot be quantified as to the amount of public assistance that is actually spent on the aforementioned banned items. But the Associated Press, citing a federal report last year, found that less than one percent of total aid was used at liquor stores, casinos or strips clubs.
The federal government already requires states to restrict welfare recipients from using their cards in liquor stores, gaming or gambling establishments or adult entertainment venues.
Kansas’ average monthly allotment is $400. The Kansas law allows a maximum daily withdrawal of $25. It requires 12 visits to the ATM to withdraw the total allotment, minus the $1 bank fee for every trip, reducing the payment to $384 monthly.
Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker proposed earlier this year to drug test some recipients of public assistance.
Beyond the data that indicates these examples are merely solutions in search of a problem, it reflects the acceptable public degradation one is free to use against low-income individuals.
Are those who seek public assistance also guilty of character flaws so egregious that human dignity is no longer applicable? Why are low-income individuals rendered to piñata status for public amusement?
There are certain items that one would not like to see purchased with public funds–like those already prohibited by the federal government. Nor purchasing illegal drugs with public funds. But law enacted in Kansas and that which is proposed in Wisconsin are a constant and punitive reminder of one’s economic plight.
The amount the federal government subsidizes corporations is nearly double that for public assistance, but it would seem nonsensical to enact similar draconian measures to guard against abuse even though we know some corporate misuse of public funds occur.
If the issue is how one uses public funding, why not demand that all members of Congress be drug tested? Although not a majority, there have been enough individuals in Congress who have been arrested for DUI’s and illegal drugs use to warrant testing using the rationale of the Wisconsin law.
If Kansas were so concerned with the potential abuse of public assistance, would it not serve the interests of all taxpayers in the Jayhawk state to take action against Wal-Mart?
According to Forbes Magazine, the nation’s largest employer, known for the low wages it pays many of its workers, cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing. Moreover how many of the employees on public assistance use their store discount and food stamps to purchase items at Wal-Mart?
Is this the American way? Apparently so!
While Wal-Mart business practices are known widely, it is those languishing in poverty that bears the brunt of public ire.
Policies such as those in Kansas and proposed in Wisconsin are divisive tactics of Novocain to numb the pain of increasing economic fears.
It is a ruse to protect unfettered markets, supported by Democrats and Republicans. The poor are expendable, and the term middle class becomes an amorphous designation designed to pacify those who are being squeezed by a contracting economy, taking slender satisfaction that they are not like their low-income brother or sister.
It is little wonder that the New York Times recently reported that the 2016 presidential candidates are scrambling for a focus-group tested phrase to replace “middle class.”
It seems as nondescript as middle class has become, it is in incongruent with the reality of many Americans.
It doesn’t matter if the catchphrase du jour is “ordinary Americans,” “hard-working taxpayers,” or some other appealing term, at some point only action will assuage the growing economic fears.
But there will soon come a day of reckoning when blaming the poor for political gain will be an insufficient practice.
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Keep your felonious fingers off our $5 footlongs!
Anyone who attempts to rob a Subway sandwich shop at one Knoxville, Tennessee, location will get something extra with their order — a sneaky splash of synthetic DNA right in the forehead.
On Monday, one of the city’s Subway franchises became the first American restaurant to install the Intruder Spray System, a security system releases a unique, traceable DNA spray on a suspected thief, WBIR.com reports.
Each store using the system gets DNA with its own unique code that allows investigators to trace a marked man or woman to the place that was robbed, according to WATE.com.
“If law enforcement apprehends him up to seven weeks following the incident, they can shine a light on him and they can see that he was marked,” Johan Larsen, the Senior Vice President of CSI Protect, the company that installed the DNA sprays, told the station.
The spray system is contained in a rectangular box placed over the doorway and is triggered by the existing security system. Employees who are also being robbed can press a button to mark a robber, according to a company spokeswoman.
Gary Holliday, the Knoxville Deputy Chief of Police, believes the spray system will be a welcome addition.
“This is a great tool because this actually shows they were there,” Holliday said, according to WVLT.com. “It’s something we can test, something we can show and it’ll be hard to deny that that mark is there.”
The technology has been used in other countries. In 2012, it was tested in McDonald’s restaurants in Australia.
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Introducing Naked News, a segment collaboration between Lauren Windsor of The Undercurrent and Brendan Fischer of the Center for Media and Democracy…
Brendan reports on the pushback from the GOP prosecutor investigating Scott Walker, who recently said that the John Doe probe is a partisan witch hunt. At the South Carolina Freedom Summit, Lauren followed up, asking Walker how he could call the investigation a partisan witch hunt when it’s being led by a Republican prosecutor who voted for him.
Watch the report and subsequent exchange with Walker below…
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Courage is a difficult characteristic to possess. The courage to be different, the courage to succeed and even the courage to try something new and risk failure are all forces that govern our daily activities. Undeniably, the desire for excellence and the refusal to accept anything less than perfection are especially present in women.
As a freshman in college, I have over the course of one year experienced several highs and several lows; I have formed friendships that only become stronger as time passes, I have pushed through a mountain of essays and lab reports and I have, as a result of my time as a student, grown as an individual.
But the struggle as a female in the STEM field has been the greatest of them all. While I am not easily intimidated — typically I am the intimidator — sitting in a male dominated class studying a subject I can barley comprehend has been nothing less than nerve wracking. The constant pressure to prove myself to my peers and professors causes me to question my career choice daily.
This pressure reached its boiling point when I failed the first engineering exam I ever took, and without the support of the Women in Science and Engineering Resident Program (WISE RP), of which I am a proud member, I would have definitely dropped out of engineering that very day.
Although, there is no denying that even in 2015, women in the STEM industry continue to experience challenges that male students are generally free from; women have a tendency to push themselves much harder and seek approval from others much more than the average man, and while men generally take risks all the time, women often play it safe.
This is not to say that women have less potential than men; if anything, my experiences at the University of Michigan have given me the opportunity to learn and interact with some of the brightest female minds in the country. Societal pressures have caused many women to value the opinions of others greedily, and our ego is always prone to damage.
It is because of this that there are only exceptionally talented and wonderful women in STEM. To succeed in a STEM field requires a perspective that deviates from the ordinary, and to succeed in STEM requires a special kind of innovation that I am proud to witness on a daily basis.
Despite the challenges that I faced as a freshman female engineering student, I did not drop out of the College of Engineering. Rather, I told myself it is okay to receive one poor grade. It is okay not to be the best in everything I do, because regardless of my exam scores or GPA, I know that I am a strong, independent and intelligent female in the one of the world’s top public engineering schools. I have the courage to try what others perceive to be an insurmountable challenge, and I refuse to give up now.
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