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Adultery-themed website Ashley Madison hacked
Beelink i68 Decodes H.265 Videos with No Issues
3D Printed Robotic DJ Pumps Up the Jam

Adultery-themed website Ashley Madison hacked

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 02:54 PM PDT

This week the popular adultery themed website Ashley Madison got hacked setting a dangerous precedent for users around the web.

The 37 million users at clandestine dating website Ashley Madison are facing a complicated situation. A hacker group by the name of Impact Team claims to have compromised the databases of the company, and are threatening with releasing “all customer data, including profiles with fantasies” if the entire website and its sister sites do not go down.

Recollecting user data is an unavoidable practice in social networks, and even though it’s just routine most times, just so the algorithm can work its magic, in Ashley Madison’s case, it could have heavy repercussions – even though it might sound like poetic justice at first. Ashley Madison offers a service to delete all data from their database for $19 USD, and this alone nets them some $1.7 millions per year, as users come and go. Despite this, according to Impact Team, this is also a lie and all information remains on their database, albeit hidden. At the same time, they don’t show compassion for the users as they said “too bad for those men. They’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion“. The same text refers to Ashley Madison’s sister site Established Men as “a prostitution / human trafficking website for rich men to pay for sex” and that it would be a “a very bad day for many rich and powerful people” in the US and Canada if this information came to light.

As of now, Ashley Madison are working in countermeasures, but they said this is just "only the latest among many companies to have been attacked, despite investing in the latest privacy and security technologies". Even then, CEO Biderman suggest this data has not come from a hack, but from an inside source from the company gone rogue. Starting today, the website claims to have deleted all related posts, and to have taken all security measures necessary to protect their userbase.

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Beelink i68 Decodes H.265 Videos with No Issues

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 01:57 PM PDT

While most people thought that creating larger and larger data storage formats was the perfect solution for adjusting to ever-increasing bitrates, it turns out that increasing the compression rate works equally fine, as long as the hardware is capable of decoding it.

Beelink i68 is a TV box that can successfully handle the High Efficiency Video Coding compression format, mostly because of its very capable chipset. Not so long ago, video playback couldn’t have possibly been a demanding task, but better compression and increased resolutions are taking their toll on CPUs and GPUs. With that in mind, this particular TV box can play 2K and even 4K videos smoothly, while computers from less than a decade ago would be brought down to their knees.

Under the hood, the Beelink i68 sports a Rockchip RK3368 that integrates an octa-core 64-bit CPU, along with a PowerVR G6110 GPU. Brought together, these two can play any popular media format you might throw at them, without any glitches. The TV box comes with either 1 or 2GB of RAM and 8GB of ROM, which surely doesn’t sound like much, if you also take into consideration how much Android 5.1 takes up. However, the product features a microSD card slot that can be used for expanding the storage by up to 64GB. In addition to that, there are 3 USB ports (4, if you’re also counting the OTG one), as well as Ethernet and dual-band Wi-Fi, in case you’re planning to stream your videos over the network.

It wouldn’t be wrong of you to think of the Beelink i68 as a mini PC. After all, you can use Bluetooth 4.0 to connect a keyboard and a mice wirelessly to it, and along with a TV or monitor (to which it connects via HDMI 2.0), it would make a compact replacement for desktop computers. The audio part wasn’t neglected, and if you decided not to carry the sound over HDMI, you can use the SPDIF port for optical output. The KODI home theater software (formerly known as XBMC) provides a convenient interface for the playback of video and audio files.

GearBest currently sells the 1GB RAM version of Beelink i68 for $66.35 ($65.18 with coupon code USPC), while the 2GB RAM one has a price tag of $81.68 (or $80.91 with the coupon TVBOX).

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3D Printed Robotic DJ Pumps Up the Jam

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 01:07 PM PDT

Several students from the Texas A&M University who probably wanted to party all night long concluded that human DJs get tired at some point, so a robotic DJ would perform a far better job. With that in mind, they proceeded to 3D printing one that brings up the beat like no other.

Rico Balakit, a computer engineering student with access to Texas A&M’s Mechanical Engineering Department 3D printing studio, developed a robotic DJ that can operate in two different modes: “Instant Gratification Scratching” and “player piano.” While the first mode links buttons to pre-programmed scratches, the second one implies playing back loops.

“I was taking a Materials Science midterm early and after completing it, I had a discussion with my professor Tanil Ozkan and his student Yasushi Mizuno, who are setting up an Open 3D Printing Studio for students to use,” explained Balakit. “They liked the idea and decided to help me out with my project by printing the parts for me; It’s fantastic being able to design a part and send it off in the evening and receive it right before my next class.”

The Turntablist Robot is a dream come true for Balakit, who has taken an interest in robotics at a very early age. “I’ve had a few people asking why I didn’t go with a purely software solution – such as emulating turntablist maneuvers via MIDI input – which indeed would be more reliable and easier to do," he says. “I just find the mechanical mechanisms very fun to design, and it’s extremely rewarding to not just hear a perfect output, but see the action behind it physically happening in front of me. That, and robots are just really cool.”

Balakit has dedicated a page of his website to the Turntablist Robot, and has made all the documentation public, in case others are interested in 3D printing such a contraption. This is definitely not the first time music and robotics are brought together, but you would have thought that a DJ’s job is pretty safe. Turns out that with some proper programming and with someone creative enough to design the hardware, future DJs might actually be made of plastic and metal, instead of flesh and bones. Well, as long as this type of music is your cup of tea, I’d say that there won’t be much of a difference.