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Intel Connected Cars will record your bad driving for posterity, take over if you’re really screwing up

Intel’s latest Research Day has sprung up a new vision for ” smart ” vehicles; a vision that frankly chills us to our very geeky core. Cameras and sensors attached to an Intel Connected Car will record data about your speed, steering and braking, and upon the event of an accident, forward those bits and bytes along to the police and your insurance company. Just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn’t it


Researchers say any USB peripheral could steal your data, even a coffee-cup warmer

So you’ve got a nice secure thumbdrive , but did you ever think to lock its port ?


Inexplicable rise in iPhone dev’s App Store sales connected to iTunes account hacks?

We’ve received a handful of tips this morning claiming something’s rotten in the state of the iTunes App Store , namely via the Book category. As of this writing, 42 of the top 50 books by revenue are from the seller Thuat Nguyen, whose company website (“mycompany”) leads to parked site www.home.com


Microsoft prepping Magic Mouse-like Arc Touch Mouse?

Microsoft isn’t saying anything about this one just yet, but there’s a growing amount of evidence that the company is set to take on Apple’s Magic Mouse with its own Arc Touch Mouse.


Google acquires ITA for $700m, dives headfirst into airline ticket search

Look out, Kayak / Bing Travel — you both are about to have your respective worlds rocked. While Google has managed to stay on top (or close to the top) when it comes to almost everything search related, the company has curiously allowed smaller niche brands to handle the travel side


OnStar users now sending Google Maps directions to their cars, definitely living in the future

July is upon us — do you know what that means?