Oct 29th 2016
The New Screen Savers 77
Election Security: Could It Be 'Rigged?'
Voting vulnerabilities, Lionfish killing robot, VR that makes you scream!
Can elections be "rigged?" Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk with the president of VertifiedVoting.org about the technology behind elections and the security of our votes. Lionfish are an invasive species taking over reefs all over the world. The folks at RISE (Robots in Service of the Environment) are building a robot to shock and trap these fish for food. Megan takes us to Pepcom's Holiday Spectacular with some new tech gadgets for the holidays. We scared the pants off of our staff with a scary Sony PlayStation VR game "Here They Lie".
- Both Pamela Smith, the President of VerifiedVoting.org and David Dill, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Founder of VerifiedVoting.org talk to us about the vulnerability of voting machines and what should voters know.
- The company behind iRobot wants to create an army of underwater robots that shock and harvest Lionfish for food.
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Links
- The 7 biggest announcements from Apple's MacBook event
- The 7 biggest announcements from Microsoft’s October event
- Why Vine died
- verifiedvoting.org
- David Dill: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
- Could the U.S. election be hacked?
- Commentary: Why voting systems must be as secure as the U.S. power grid
- Deep-Diving Robots Zap, Kill Invasive Lionfish
- RISE Lionfish Project
- EasyFind
- How to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive
- Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac
- Cozmo, a gifted little guy with a mind of his own.
- Evo — the smart and social robot
- adafruit
- littleBits - a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks
- Piper is both a computer and an invention kit.