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Every "free" service from Google has the end goal of serving you personalized ads. That's their business.

Honestly I think it still is to the majority of the public. Sure another engineer who is at all concerned with privacy knows about these devices, but I doubt a kid who is robbing a…

He would spend so much time in the UIUC ACM office working on that thing. Pretty impressive for an undergrad ;)

Many uninformed people honestly do believe that, yes.

A ride on Virgin Galactic is $250,000 a ride to the ISS on a soyuz is $70,000,000.

That's why you build a Mars-dreaming company AND an electric vehicle company :)

I think he's talking about the Selective Service System aka the draft. If you're male and haven't signed the document saying you will die for your country at the whim of a random n…

From reading the front page and only blog post, I gathered it is paired with bluetooth to your phone, and you set a timeout before self-destruct. So if you set an hour, if your car…

What tool do you use to change configurations? I know my 2007 Lexus has those programmable options like beep durations and such, but I have only found two solutions - paying the de…

As a millennial in SoCal, I think it's safe to say we need cars. But we don't buy new cars because they have iPhone docks, we buy used cars because we can afford them. Not sure how…

I can confirm it can be abused really easily. Back in middle school (2006? 2007 maybe?) me and my friends used a firefox macro addon and a free anonymous text website to send a few…