This camera could help your bathroom mirror know when you’re hungover
By Andy Boxall —
Imagine everything in your house being connected to a camera, and
could asses your mood, what sort of music you may want to play, whether
you were angry or sad, or if you had a heavy drinking session the night
before. It would share all that data with apps on your smartphone, and
silently change your environment to suit your mood. That’s what
electrical products equipped with the Omron HVC-C could potentially do in the future.
Omron’s HVC-C – that’s Human Vision Components: Consumer Model – cameras use the firm’s own facial recognition technology, which goes way beyond knowing if you’re smiling or not. The camera module is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and designed to be integrated into almost any connected product in your home. Using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, it’ll sync up with apps on your phone, which could automatically adjust equipment according to the data received. Read more
Nexus 9 rumors: Google’s next Nexus may be a lot more expensive than we thought (Updated)
By Joshua Sherman —
Rumors are gathering about an HTC tablet which could end up being the Nexus 9. Using code names such as Volantis, Flounder, and T1, this would be a surprise return to the tablet market for HTC. We’re hoping it’ll be inspired to bring the cool style it uses on the One M8 smartphone to a much bigger device, so here’s what we’ve been hearing about the exciting next Nexus tablet. Read more
Poodle web security bug comes from 18-year old SSL standard.
Three Google researchers have uncovered a security bug in widely used
web encryption technology that they say could allow hackers to take
over accounts for email, banking and other services in what they have
dubbed a “Poodle” attack.
The discovery of “Poodle,” which stands for Padding Oracle On
Downloaded Legacy Encryption, prompted makers of web browsers and server
software to advise users on Tuesday to disable use of the source of the
security bug: an 18-year old encryption standard known as SSL 3.0.
It was the third time this year that researchers have uncovered a
vulnerability in widely used web technology, following April’s
“Heartbleed” bug in OpenSSL and last month’s “Shellshock” bug in a piece
of Unix software known as Bash. Read More
Intel Inside … everything? Here’s the glue that holds the Internet of Things together
By Jeremy Kaplan —
When the iPhone launched in 2007, it came with an iBook app that let you sift through The New York Times best-sellers list prior to picking your next beach read — much to the surprise of The Times.
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| Oren Michels |
How did that happen?
“Because of what we did,” Oren Michels explains.
Likewise, Apple’s iPad came with a news app from USA Today. Why?
“Because they had an API. That was huge.
That transformed the company.
Completely transformed the company,” he said.
Mashery
is all about connections like that. The company manages APIs that allow
company A to access data from company B. Before the company came along,
APIs (or application programming interfaces) were largely things for
geeks, a way for a software programmer to access a piece of hardware — a
video card or a hard drive or whatnot.
Before the iPhone came
out. Before the Facebook platform, Twitter, Apple’s App Store —
everything people currently associate with APIs and access to data —
Michels was working on the space. Then Intel came along. Read more
