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An Imprisoned Hacker Invented An ATM Attachment That Stops Skimmers
Valentin Boanta has a lot of free time on his hands — five years worth, to be exact. That’s because Boanta is currently serving a prison sentence for, according to Reuters, “supplying gadgets to an organised crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers.” So with all that time to think about what he’s done, the apparently penitent prisoner spent six months developing an ATM add-on to prevent the exact crime that put him there in the first place.
A Tour Through The US Army’s Largest Simulated Battlefield
How does the US Army train soldiers for guerrilla combat in cities and villages they’ve never visited? By building replicas of those villages, training a force of fake “insurgents” and hiring actors to populate the scenes. Welcome to Fort Irwin, a 2590km² US Army base where many soldiers train before deploying overseas.
Earth’s Atmosphere Is Slowly Escaping Into Space
Take a deep breath. You’re lucky to be able to. Without a handy blanket of atmosphere gases to swaddle us all, we’d be no more than a twinkle in evolution’s eye. But that wonderful blanket of gas is slowly escaping, molecule by molecule, and there’s not much we can do about it.
Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For A Living)
Everyone’s now aware of 3D printing — they’ve read about it in the papers, on blogs or seen it on TV. The mentality now seems to be that, in the future, we’ll be able to download our products or make them ourselves with CAD programs, apps and 3D scanners, then just print them out, either at home, or in localised print shops. Which in turn will supposedly decentralise manufacturing, bringing it back to the West.























