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Quantum key distribution in superposition of "insecure" and "unneeded"
<!--body--> It's apparent that the physics lexicon has been dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th century with a recent paper published in Nature Photonics titled "Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination." I never thought I would live to see the word "hacking" used in its proper...
Read more »September 5, 2010, 12:00 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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Found Footage: WNBC anchor shows Earl via iPad
<!--CONTENT START--> Nobody ever claimed that the iPad was weatherproof, but that didn't stop news anchor Chuck Scarborough from taking his tablet out to the seashore. Reader Michael Neumann saw the veteran NYC broadcaster using his iPad to show weather radar during Hurricane Earl's race up the US east coast....
Read more »September 5, 2010, 9:45 am| Read full article | More articles from tuaw.com
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Wikipedia Founder Says Apps, Not Paywalls, Could Save the News
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday that paid apps like those found on the iPhone, Android and iPad could help financially troubled news organizations, but he didn’t have anything positive to say about charging for content on the web.On the other hand, he’s...
Read more »September 4, 2010, 8:11 pm| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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The iWatch Is Real: It’s the New iPod Nano [PIC]
Apple makes computers, tablets, phones, portable media players, TV set-top-boxes, displays and a dozen other things, but to date, it hasn’t made a wristwatch. Oh, wait, actually, it has! It’s called “the new iPod nano.”Sure, battery life will be a problem when you leave that screen on the whole time,...
Read more »September 4, 2010, 7:21 pm| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Popular “Angry Birds” iPhone Game Debuts on Android
Angry Birds is the epitome of an Apple App Store success story and it has been the #1 paid iPhone game for ages. Now it’s also available on most Android smartphones.The version currently available in the Android Market is actually Angry Birds Lite (a free trial with several of the...
Read more »September 4, 2010, 4:40 pm| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Craigslist unexpectedly pulls adult services listings
<!--body--> After months of pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist pulled its adult services listings offline over the Labor Day weekend. Visitors to the site were greeted with a black bar with the word "censored" in white text (as seen to the right) where the link to the adult services...
Read more »September 4, 2010, 3:30 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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AP: Yeah, we'd better cite pajama-wearing bloggers, too
<!--body--> The Associated Press didn't need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play "reporter," thank you very much. Now it knows better. At the AP's 2009 annual meeting, Chairman Dean Singleton reminded his audience (read the...
Read more »September 4, 2010, 1:17 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com
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Craigslist’s Adult Services Replaced With “Censored” Bar
Craigslist’s “Adult Services” section — a digital red light district that has been the subject of many controversies — has been removed in all U.S. markets. The front page link to Adult Services has been replaced with a black bar that reads “censored,” an implication that the site’s hand was...
Read more »September 4, 2010, 1:11 pm| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Week in Apple: Apple TV, iTunes 10, Delicious Library, oh my!
<!--body--> An Apple event means lots of new announcements. Almost the entire iPod line got updated, Apple TV got a serious makeover, and iTunes 10 got... something. But we also covered a patent suit, some lessons learned from Delicious Library 2, and a rumor about an iPhone revision. Read on...
Read more »September 4, 2010, 12:00 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

