A single character sent by text message could allegedly compromise every iPhone released to date. Experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, while talking at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, say they’ve discovered a bug in the iPhone’s approach to SMS that exposes it completely to remote control through a subsequent hack, including [...]
The amount that a person needs decreases as we age. A newborn baby might sleep 20 hours a day. By age 4, the average is 12 hours a day. By age 10, the average falls to 10 hours a day. Senior citizens can often get by with 6 or 7 hours a day. And most [...]
If you are one of the many people that has stopped eating red meat because of health concerns — or because you saw what happens to those cows — you probably rejoiced when fast-food chains jumped on the chicken bandwagon (possibly because you haven’t seen what happens to those chickens). Grilled chicken sandwiches and salads [...]
Apple Inc. is no mere computer company, thank you. It’s a way of life. Think about it – are there people riding around with Microsoft logos on their cars? Do people propose marriage at the grand openings of stores that sell PCs? If you consider yourself a true “Apple person,” you better hope you get [...]
It’s decidedly counter intuitive, Frozen peaches or peas can actually be more nutritious than the fresh versions. It’s one of those rare areas where mass-production may be better for one’s health. But only because of the way the fresh-produce industry operates today. Fresh produce travels long distances to get to market, so it’s often picked [...]
AVG offers a free anti-virus suite that the company says serves more than 80 million Windows users. The company also sells a premium application. The software runs on Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. When I used windows I had it installed on all of our computers. It is on our computers at work [...]
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If you were in a restaurant and found a bug in your food, you would send it back. In the mass-produced-food industry, it’s sometimes cause for a purchase. We all know about the pink foods that draw you in with their pretty, appetizing, fruit like color? Lots of them, including Dannon strawberry yogurt and Ocean [...]
If you couldn’t tell by now, I am a big fan of science. Science can do some pretty cool stuff, and sometimes we take it for granted. Take for example the science that goes into mass-produced food. It is a lesson in human ingenuity. In the interest of saving a buck, food producers come up [...]