Story Corps Reflects on Discrimination During Roadtrip

Volvo develops an invisible and highly reflective spray paint, Snapchat also goes transparent, tell your story for the library of congress through the Story Corp App, how to learn to program in Spanish class and much more this week in Geek News.

Samsung Denies Paying People To Attend Galaxy S6 Launch Event In China

The Paper, a Shanghai-based news company, claimed that up to half of the 1,000 attendees were sourced by a recruiter

Snapchat Transparency Report

According to the report, Snapchat received just 375 information requests from US law enforcement agencies in the period from November 1, 2014 through February 28, 2015. By way of comparison, Facebook said it received more than 14,000 requests from US authorities between July and December 2014.

Volvo Life Paint

Swedish car company Volvo is helping nighttime cyclists defend themselves against cars with Life Paint, a spray-on reflective paint developed by Grey London in collaboration with reflective paint makers Albedo100 that uses special adhesives that are invisible in daylight but light up after dark in the glare of automobile headlights.

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Story Corp App

In a StoryCorps booth, an interview is conducted as a conversation between two participants who take turns asking each other questions. A trained staff member, however, helps things along. For example, if the conversation stalls, they will suggest new topics.
For people who don

SpaceX CRS-6 space station launch April 13 with soft landing attempt

The mission, dubbed SpaceX CRS-6 (Commercial Resupply Services-6) will also feature the next daring attempt by SpaceX to recover the Falcon 9 booster rocket through a precision guided soft landing onto an ocean-going barge.
SpaceX and NASA are now targeting blastoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for Monday, April 13, just over a week from now

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Cross Country Autonomous Road Trip

In the first trip across the United States ever made by an autonomous car, engineers from Delphi Automotive were surprised to learn that, in some cases, their vehicle behaved a lot like a human driver.

Woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers

In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing a nurse named Ellanora Baidoo to serve her elusive husband with divorce papers via a Facebook message.
Baidoo, 26,

Microsoft disabling do not track by default

Beginning with its next browser, currently code-named Spartan, Microsoft will have DNT disabled by default.
This news was announced by the software giant

Motion Sensing hardware already built into your computer

Using a Microsoft Reasearch Paper a Github user made a library to make your computer motion sense using the doppler effect with just a speaker and a mic!

Making Bitcoin addresses with outdated hardware

The power of Bitcoin is giving your dusty old TI-89 calculator a second chance of being useful.
Matt Whitlock, who helped make one of the world

This new camera sensor could turn your phone into a 3D scanner using LIDAR

Let’s say you want to 3D print a replica of an object in your home. The first step, of course, is capturing a detailed 3D scan