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Not long ago, getting your hands on a decent automated home security system was an almost impossible task – at least for those who didn’t have a few thousand dollars to burn. Things are different now, and you can pick up a sophisticated home protection system for just a few hundred dollars. Take, for example, Ring’s 15-piece home security set, which is currently on sale on Amazon for $305. So, what do you get for your hard-earned cash? One base station One smoke and carbon monoxide detector One keypad (to deactivate the system from within the home Seven contact sensors…
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What is the biggest problem of every Silicon Valley startup founder? Finding developers. What is the average annual salary for a senior engineer in Silicon Valley? Well, it is over $100K, which is pretty expensive for any young, yet promising company. If you own a small startup and cannot compete with London, New York, or San Francisco in terms of salary, you might consider hiring globally. For many established businesses and startups alike, offsite development is the first thing that comes to their mind when getting a new business idea off the ground. Many go for offsite development due to…
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NASA spent much of the 20th century commissioning painters and illustrators to imagine the future of space exploration. When Jeff Norris, the head of Mission Operations Innovation at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), wanted a way to inspire a new generation of potential engineers, scientists, and astronauts, he turned to a modern alternative to those artists: a games developer. “They were looking for an artist’s take,” explains Jeff Lydell, an executive producer at the Vancouver-based game studio Blackbird Interactive. “The theme of it was re-creating the art that Chesley Bonestell had generated for Wernher von Braun when they were trying to publicize the Apollo missions.”…
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Hackers are glorified on television for the sake of entertainment value, making a spectacle out of coding activity and what it actually takes to break through a firewall. Sure, hackers on TV are pretty impressive (Hello, Mr. Robot) and they often depict real life circumstances in which femtocells and malwares are deployed with malicious intent. However, at the end of any Mr. Robot episode, it’s important to identify the series’ most useful takeaway; in real life, hackers pose serious threats to the details we digitally store on our personal devices. It’s not just about using the strongest passwords we can…
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