How Many Burritos to Automate a VCR?

Good bye to the VCR, burrito currency, more car automation, For the Love of Spock doc, drone delivery slurpee, Echo dev, comic reader, and more geek news of the week.

Auto Industry Publishes Its First Set Of Cybersecurity Best Practices

The past 18 months have brought a see change in the automotive industry

Star Trek: For the Love of Spock

Last year, just before Thanksgiving, I approached my dad, Leonard Nimoy, about the possibility of working together on a film about Mr. Spock. I had skimmed through some of the books on the making of Star Trek and felt there was so much more to explore about the creation and development of Mr. Spock. And the timing seemed right, as the 50th anniversary of Star Trek the original series was not that far away. Dad agreed that now was the right time, and that he was 100% committed to collaborating with me on this project. He also reminded me that we were (then) just days away from the 50th anniversary of the start of production on

Slurpee Flies Home in First FAA-Approved Drone Delivery

Flirtey partnered with 7-Eleven, in honor of the convenience store

The geeks discuss some cool tech gadgets they got

Ben discuss his new Amazon Echo and Miles discusses his new Raspberry Pi 3.

Yahoo snapped up by Verizon in $4.8 billion deal

Verizon has confirmed earlier reports that it will buy ailing Internet pioneer Yahoo in an all-cash deal with a price tag of nearly

Verizon will kick customers off unlimited data if they use over 100GB per month

Verizon Wireless will soon begin forcing grandfathered unlimited data customers to switch over to a tiered plan if they use over 100GB in a single month. And if those customers are unwilling to move to a newer plan by August 31st, they’ll be disconnected from the network completely.

How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President

Evidence suggests that a Russian intelligence group was the source of the most recent Wikileaks intel dump, which was aimed to influence the U.S. election.

Google makes smartphone comic book reading easier with machine learning

Google is tackling this problem the way it seems to be tackling every problem lately: with machine learning. Google has


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