Want to see the insides of an FBI tracking device?

In conjunction withWired, iFixit got theirhands onan FBI tracking device. You know, the one that’s attached to your rear bumper right now with industrial strength magnets? Since it’s iFixit, you can imagine what they did next. Check out the innards of one of the FBI’s most valuable assets. Apparently this particular device was attached to the car of an animal rights activist that was being tracked by the FBI. She was being surveilled for months by actual human officers but when she confronted one of them, the tracking seemed to stop....

2 min · 342 words · Ashley Green

Want to sell your company to Microsoft, Vodafone or Amazon? This is your chance…

Companies sponsor conferences for a reason. They don’t just want you to see their logos and remember their names, no they want to meet you, do deals, learn new things and go home with a bunch of businesscards that might lead to more business down the road. In other words: these sponsors are all eager to talk to you and that is a huge opportunity for you as an entrepreneur. How often do you get a chance to talk to senior partners from Microsoft and Vodafone?...

2 min · 350 words · Marc Spears

Want to shoot amazing drone footage to wow the web? This training can help turn you into a drone master user

TLDR:The All-in-One Phantom DJI Drone and Mavic Filmschool Bundle teaches you how to fly your DJI Phantom drone, shoot amazing aerial footage, then edit it to truly world-class results. Did you see that recent amazing drone footageflying over an active volcano in Iceland? Or maybe that gorgeous aerial shotexpertly winding through the Dallas Cowboys’ training facilitythey used this season on Hard Knocks? It turns out drone photography isn’t just a novelty anymore....

3 min · 500 words · Christine Bailey

Want to trap antimatter? Blast it with lasers

Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. It’s the counterpart to matter: identical in every way – with protons, neutrons and electrons – but with an opposite electric charge. According to our best understanding of thelaws of physics, the universe of today should be equally populated by both matter and antimatter. Yet, as far as we can tell,it’s not. Antimatter is elusive, and one of the major conundrums in modern physics is how we can explain a “symmetrical” universe of equal parts matter and antimatter when, after decades of searching, the universe appears to be almost entirely void of antimatter....

6 min · 1069 words · Brandon Dawson

Want to try iOS 5’s secret Nuance speech-to-text Dictation function now? Here’s how.

Although iOS 5 has more new features than any version of iPhone and iPad software before it, we’re still waiting on a few that we expected to see demonstrated at WWDC. One of those is a Dictation feature that I have beenshown evidence ofin the iOS 5 beta.Update. This feature will allow you to tap a microphone button on your keyboard, any time it is accessible, and have your speech translated to text....

3 min · 635 words · Andrew Moore
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