February 2015 News Wire

These stories appeared online since publication of the last issue of this magazine, in December 2014. They might interest you, especially if you missed them.

3D printing created this drone, complete with circuitry

http://mashable.com/2015/01/15/3d-printing-circuitry/

5 DIY 3D Scanners to Watch

http://makezine.com/2015/01/15/5-diy-3d-scanners-to-watch/

2015 Detroit Auto Show: You Might Be Able To Buy 3-D–Printed Cars In A Year

http://www.popsci.com/2015-detroit-auto-show-you-might-be-able-buy-3-d-printed-cars-in-2016

Choctopus Chocolate Printer

http://hackaday.com/2015/01/14/choctopus-chocolate-printer-x8/

Imogen Heap’s sci-fi gloves make anyone a musician

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/12/technology/imogen-heap-mimu-music-gloves-blk/

Zombie cookie: The tracking cookie that you can’t kill

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/zombie-cookie-the-tracking-cookie-that-you-cant-kill/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/browsing-in-privacy-mode-super-cookies-can-track-you-anyway/

Like-Fueled Algorithm Knows Facebook Users Better Than Their Family

http://www.popsci.com/fueled-algorithm-knows-users-better-family

What Happens To Uber Drivers And Other Sharing Economy Workers Injured On The Job?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/01/06/workers-compensation-uber-drivers-sharing-economy/

North Korea’s OS X clone is now available to the public

http://www.cultofmac.com/308536/north-koreas-os-x-clone-operating-system-now-available-public/

3-D Printed Prosthetics That Look Fit for a Sci-Fi Warrior

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/3-d-printed-prosthetics-look-fit-sci-fi-warrior/

A Hacker Reveals How Your Fingerprint Could Be Easier To Hack Than A Traditional Password

http://www.businessinsider.com/biometric-fingerprint-password-hacking-2015-1

The most interesting 3D printers introduced (so far) at CES 2015

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/06/the-most-interesting-3d-printers-introduced-so-far-at-ces-2015/

Leap second: French time lords add one second to 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11327571/Leap-second-French-time-lords-add-one-second-to-2015.html

Top Three Results From a 115-Year-Old Citizen Science Project

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-three-results-learned-115-years-citizen-science-audubon-christmas-bird-count-180953677/

Drone maps out Italian city buried in 1688 quake

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2015/01/drone-maps-out-italian-city-buried-in.html

NASA Emailed a Wrench to the Space Station for 3D Printing

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/3Dratchet_wrench/
http://3dprint.com/33556/3d-print-your-own-nasa-wrench/
http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-emails-a-wrench-into-space-using-3d-printing-2014-12

Why People Are Moving to the Town Without Wi-Fi

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/?src=longreads

The CPU from the original PlayStation is guiding a probe to Pluto

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7551365/playstation-cpu-powers-new-horizons-pluto-probe

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