The Department of Defense standards are for chumps. With the Molten Copper Overwrite™ even an incomplete destruction of the hard disk will result in an unusable metal puck with no clear way to access the scorched ones and zeros within. Best of all it works on HDDs, SSDs, CDs, magnetic tape, people, and portable drives—and it’s cross-platform. Try and read my One Piece slashfic now, NSA!
Most of your digital files are probably stored up in the cloud these days, but the humble USB stick
still comes in handy every now and then. It’s a simple way of getting data from one computer to another or just keeping a backup of important files. If you’re struggling to cram all your files onto one USB drive, here’s a quick trick that can free up several gigabytes of extra room.
Nvidia and Adobe teamed up to develop a 3D-painting app that is sure to become an essential tool for modern day art forgers. The software accurately simulates the 3D texture of oil paints, and how the bristles of a brush work to smear it across a canvas.
You can buy safes that look like all kinds of things: soda cans, shaving cream, etc. The idea is to hide your valuables in something that looks not so valuable. I guess that’s why this safe disguised as a Nike shoe box is weird. Some pairs of Nike shoes can be very valuable. If anything, this will draw the eye of thieves and encourage them to Just Do It! But what do I know?
You can’t buy the Mandem Safe just yet, but its creators do have prototypes made using five-millimeter thick folded steel on the inside, surrounded in an innocuous cardboard box. It even has pre-drilled holes on the bottom so you can secure it to a floor and prevent someone from running off with it. Your Nike box can’t do that.
Nothing yet on pricing or availability.
There’s some discouraging news concerning the fight against climate change today, as scientists with the World Meteorological Organization’s climate research arm are saying that the record high temperatures we’ve seen so far this year are coming as something of a surprise to them. Though they predicted to see increasing temperatures this year, it would appear that the highs we’ve been … Continue reading
This week the folks at HERE Maps have changed the name of their most prominent app, HERE Maps, into HERE WeGo. This new app is centered on “working out the best way to get to where [people] want to go.” This is for people who want to navigate their own city as much as it is for people that are … Continue reading
Superhero movies might be in, but the American public isn’t quite keen on seeing a real Captain America. Pew Center researchers asked people how they’d feel about genetically modifying babies to reduce the risk of serious illnesses. They also asked p…
As a kid, I marveled at the Cadillac owned by my parents’ friend. You could roll down the windows with the push of a button! My father would comment that it was just another thing that would break. A few years later, you couldn’t roll down two of the…
Reddit needs to earn money, and one that it’s planning to do that is by letting advertisers put their cash behind your posts. In an interview with AdAge, co-founder Steve Huffman explained how his website is going to attempt to be as big with brands…
Last year, Playboy Magazine announced that it would stop printing fully-nude pictures because, hey, the internet exists. But, one of the outfits that caused Playboy to abandon such imagery is now launching a competing publication in the real world. R…
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