Popular blogging platform Tumblr is back online after an outage that lasted over a day. Rumors flew that the site had been the victim of a DDoS(Dedicated Denial of Service) attack spearheaded by infamous hacking group 4chan, but the company’s blog blamed the outage on database issues. The company says their infrastructure was simply unprepared more »

It looks like we have a little mystery on our hands. A new device has recently made an appearance in the Verizon inventory database. Sounds exciting, but all we have is a model number. That number, ADR6325VW, and the fact that it is an HTC branded handset. Otherwise it is all a guessing game. Could more »

Everybody hates being caught by speed cameras: it is annoying, humiliating and also expensive, and that is why Novus have come up with the “Mini Coyote” which allows drivers to alert others of speed cameras in as little as three seconds. The little gadget will sit on your dashboard, and when you spot a speed camera that isn’t already in the database you press the handy button and before you know it everyone with that gadget knows of it.

“Brilliant!” I hear you cry, finally a way to beat those money grabbing machines, which it does quite effectively. Although this idea isn’t new, the super speed at which it does it allows the community of users to quickly build up a good idea of where all the speed traps are due to the fact that it only takes 3 seconds. The little gadget will then tell you if you are approaching any speed cameras, your speed, and will tell you to slow down if you are going too fast thus avoiding a fine.

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