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We operate in a mobile economy, with an estimated 16M mobile devices infected by malware at any given time. There are more mobile devices connected to the Internet than human beings in the world. The question is: Are we prepared for that? [Learn More!] [All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston] From the apps-for-women department HughPickens.com writes: Scores of women have reported assaults by Uber drivers... Now Jenni Avins reports at Quartz that a ride-sharing service that only uses women as drivers, Chariot for Women, is set to launch April 19 in Boston, featuring more... [Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists] From the Tor-nado department Frosty Piss writes: Seattle police raided the home of two outspoken privacy activists early on March 30th. Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of... [Free Lightsaber Event Now Battling Lucasfilm's Lawyers] From the help-me-Obi-Wan-Kenobi department For eight years the arts collective Newmindspace had been staging free lightsaber battles, and in December they set a world record with 9,951 "combatants" simultaneously participating in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle. But then... [VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism] From the Super-Bowl-of-hype department More than $8 billion a year is spent on diversity training which a Harvard professor believes is largely ineffective. So later this year the NFL will also try using new VR scenarios from Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. "We want to be... [IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions] From the domo-arigato department bigwophh writes that IBM's Watson cognitive computing platform "is now more capable and human-like, especially when encapsulated in a robot body." An article from Hot Hardware reports that this week at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, "We saw... [Top US Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Skip Cybersecurity Classes] From the alarming-state-of-security-awareness department Kelly Jackson Higgins, reporting for Dark Reading: A new study reveals that none of the top 10 U.S. university computer science and engineering program degrees requires students take a cybersecurity course. There's the cybersecurity skills gap,... [G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites] From the ghost-of-Harry-Truman department An anonymous reader writes: Sunday leaders from the G-7 countries gathered in Hiroshima Sunday, a gesture which the Japanese government hopes will send a message of peace and nuclear nonproliferation. The seven world leaders will first honor the... [Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention] From the AIs-vs-attorneys department An anonymous reader writes: All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, thereby making the published concepts not patent-able. The concept is to democratize ideas and to preempt... [Jet Pack Company Executive Crashes During A Test Flight] From the unidentified-falling-objects department The Vice President of Jet Pack International was hospitalized Friday after crashing during a test flight in Denver, according to the Associated Press. Though he's successfully flown the company's hydrogen peroxide-fueled jet pack more than 400... [NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth] From the what's-happening? department Loren Grush, writing for The Verge: NASA engineers have declared a mission emergency for the agency's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has somehow switched into emergency mode. Now that a mission emergency has been declared, the Kepler team... [Childbirth Charity Hack Leaks 15,000 Expectant Parents Data] From the unborn-identity-theft department An anonymous reader writes: A data breach has been uncovered at the UK's National Childbirth Trust, with over 15,000 new and expectant parents' details compromised. The charity "has apologized to its users and has informed them that their email... [PlayStation Employee Designs Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy] From the warranty-not-included department An anonymous reader writes: A Sony employee created a custom PlayStation controller for a 21-year-old gamer with cerebral palsy. "I honestly got choked up reading the letter..." gamer Peter Byrne told 9News. "Mr Nawabi really cared about my... [New Bipedal Robot Demoed by Google X Company] From the where's-my-R2-D2 department SCHAFT, one of eight robotic companies in the Alphabet/Google X research facility, has unveiled a new armless bipedal robot which can climb stairs and carry up to 132 pounds, reports i-programmer.info. The one-meter tall robot "is essentially a... [Microsoft and HackerRank Add a Live Code Editor Into Bing] From the i-can-has-code-sample? department An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft's Bing search engine now includes a live code editor, allowing programmers to edit and execute snippets of example code and see the results in real-time. HackerRank announced the new educational tool on their... [3D Printers Create Sound-Wave Rings And A Wedding Dress] From the one-sound-to-rule-them-all department An anonymous reader writers: A Japanese company is using a 3D printer to generate unique rings shaped like the sound wave of each customer's voice. 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