Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says

It may not be long before you’ll have to forget about walking down the street anonymously, says a New York Times report.

Some of the best of CES 2020

Just a collection of some of the best of CES 2020 videos….

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Mudra Mouse: Wearable Bracelet Gesture Mouse

This looks cool…. especially for CPT sufferers…

The Mudra wearable mouse and media remote can control your devices with a wave of the hand or pinch of the fingers. Unlike other wearable control devices that convert hand motion into cursor movement, the Mudra Mouse uses a relatively unused approach called SNC. SNC is like electrocardiography except that it measures the electrical impulses that travel between the wearer’s brain to their hand.

Nawa’s stylish e-motorbike uses an ultracapacitor to drastically boost range

A company called Nawa has unveiled an electric motorcycle with a racy hubless rear wheel and a lot more range than most other e-bikes. However, the one-off “Racer” prototype is actually designed to help the company show off what it really sells: ultracapacitors. Above the 9 kWh battery is a 0.1kWh ultracapacitor that can harvest 80 to 90 percent of the braking energy, much more than lithium-ion batteries alone can store. As such, it can go 300 km (186 miles), compared to 180 km (110 miles) for a bike with the same battery pack alone.

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The prototype won’t ever be sold, but Nawa wanted to demonstrate what its latest ultracapacitors can do. To best showcase the tech, it created a split “tank” design with the ultracapacitor unit in the top slot and the regular battery down below. Because they’re built of carbon, the ultracapacitors are relatively inexpensive and weigh just 10 kg, yet they boost range by up to 65 percent or so. To get that kind of range with a regular battery, it would drastically increase the weight and cost.

The technology is most effective in stop-and-go city driving. “It only stores a small amount of energy, but it’s being used very efficiently,” Nawa CEO Ulrik Grape told New Atlas. “We’re basically pumping that ultracapacitor in and out the whole time through acceleration and braking.”

The Nawa Racer is pretty fast too, able to go from 0-62 mph in “comfortably under three seconds,” according to Grape. The company will unveil the Racer at CES 2020 as a demonstration, and will start producing the supercapacitor at scale starting in 2020. “There is no reason why this cannot be applied to a larger motorbike, or car or other electric vehicle. And what is more, this technology could go into production in the very near future,” said Grape in a statement.

via Nawa’s stylish e-motorbike uses an ultracapacitor to drastically boost range | Engadget

How to: Add another computer (or tablet) as a second monitor using SpaceDesk

This is pretty cool but make sure you have a fast connection for your tablets…

I would like to mention that the software is still in beta. Any problems might still occur and feel free to report them to http://spacedesk.ph/contact/

Use your second computer or laptop as another monitor using Spacedesk
Use your 2nd computer as another computer monitor

Remove Your Personal Information from the Internet for Free

Remove your personal information from data brokers and online accounts for free using these two sites.

These two sites have links to most of the places to opt out of data brokers and several online services (banking, retail, credit cards, etc).
Several services will remove your personal information for a fee, which is a time saver, but you can do it yourself for free.

Mozilla removes Avast and AVG extensions from add-on portal over snooping claims

AVG aint been ish for a while but I expected better of Avast…. oops on me…

Mozilla removed today four Firefox extensions made by Avast and its subsidiary AVG after receiving credible reports that the extensions were harvesting user data and browsing histories.

Max Chinnah: Meet Nigerian inventor who invented smokeless stove

This is dope!!!

– Max Chinnah, a 26-year old Nigerian inventor, has created a smokeless stove that could cook and charge phones

Amazon Ring doorbells exposed home Wi-Fi passwords to hackers

One more reason I don’t fuck with them…

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Ring doorbells that exposed the passwords for the Wi-Fi networks to which they were connected.

VideoCleaner is an open source video enhancement tool for forensic purposes

New toys to play with… I can use this for some things hehehehe

VideoCleaner is a forensic video enhancement application that is used by law enformencement agencies and forensic experts.

Technically it is not an application on its own, but a script executed in a different software, but for the sake of understanding what it does, let’s call it a program.