8:03 PM
A smart toilet sold in Japan for $4,200 is vulnerable to cyber-attacks due to a hard-coded Bluetooth PIN vulnerability. Anyone within range of the toilet can control it, possibly to a great shock to the person using it!
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422755,00.asp
China will spend $275 bil over the next 5 years improving air quality, which is about the entire GDP of Hong Kong. China will spend twice as much to improve their air quality as they spend on their entire military! This doesn't even count the money China is spending to clean up water pollution. China's pollution problem is killing over 1 million of their people each year and is seriously hurting their economy (eating up nearly 6% of their economy):
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/chinas-pollution-fighting-budget-will.html
An Arkansas school district is going to let teachers and staff to carry guns on school grounds, even though the state attorney general advised them against arming their staff:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/07/arkansas-school-district-will-arm-teachers-ag-opinion-be-damned/
Google has been using their internet-supplying balloons in New Zealand and California:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_23744567/balloons-could-bring-internet-access-hard-connect-places
The leaks from Snowden have made Federal agencies such as the NSA to lose their hacker cred--for the first time federal agents were asked not to attend Def Con:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4600682/after-snowden-leaks-feds-lose-their-hacker-cred-at-def-con
Apple lost market share while Android and Windows Phone gained market share over the past quarter. Android went from 69.1% market share in Q2 2012 to 79.3% in Q2 2013, while Windows Phone went from 3.1% to 3.7%. Apple went from 16.6% in 2012 to 13.2% in 2013 while Blackberry dropped from 4.9% in 2012 to just 2.9% in 2013:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130807005280/en/Apple-Cedes-Market-Share-Smartphone-Operating-System
Motorola's LTE modem will allow public safety members to roam from the First Responders Network to Verizon's network. This way, when the public safety network gets overloaded when a natural disaster happens, they can also use Verizon's network:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/motorola-lte-modem-will-roam-across-verizon-firstnet-networks/2013-08-07
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422755,00.asp
China will spend $275 bil over the next 5 years improving air quality, which is about the entire GDP of Hong Kong. China will spend twice as much to improve their air quality as they spend on their entire military! This doesn't even count the money China is spending to clean up water pollution. China's pollution problem is killing over 1 million of their people each year and is seriously hurting their economy (eating up nearly 6% of their economy):
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/chinas-pollution-fighting-budget-will.html
An Arkansas school district is going to let teachers and staff to carry guns on school grounds, even though the state attorney general advised them against arming their staff:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/07/arkansas-school-district-will-arm-teachers-ag-opinion-be-damned/
Google has been using their internet-supplying balloons in New Zealand and California:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_23744567/balloons-could-bring-internet-access-hard-connect-places
The leaks from Snowden have made Federal agencies such as the NSA to lose their hacker cred--for the first time federal agents were asked not to attend Def Con:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4600682/after-snowden-leaks-feds-lose-their-hacker-cred-at-def-con
Apple lost market share while Android and Windows Phone gained market share over the past quarter. Android went from 69.1% market share in Q2 2012 to 79.3% in Q2 2013, while Windows Phone went from 3.1% to 3.7%. Apple went from 16.6% in 2012 to 13.2% in 2013 while Blackberry dropped from 4.9% in 2012 to just 2.9% in 2013:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130807005280/en/Apple-Cedes-Market-Share-Smartphone-Operating-System
Motorola's LTE modem will allow public safety members to roam from the First Responders Network to Verizon's network. This way, when the public safety network gets overloaded when a natural disaster happens, they can also use Verizon's network:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/motorola-lte-modem-will-roam-across-verizon-firstnet-networks/2013-08-07