Allison interviews AISPEX CEO Paul Nie about their two mobile EV fast charger units which are currently working prototypes. Paul expects UL certification of both units in the next few months after which they will be available for sale in the U.S. Both units are standalone DC fast chargers designed to charge EVs on the […]
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CES 2024: VinFast Electric Vehicles
Allison discusses four of VinFast’s line of all-electric vehicles: the VF8, VF9, VF3, and VFWild. The VF8 is a five-passenger electric SUV and is currently being sold in the U.S. It’s available in two trims, the Eco and the fully-loaded Plus version, and has a range of 250 to 280 miles. The VF9 is a […]
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My View of CES 2024
Steve and I are back from a fun-filled week at CES in Las Vegas. I’m sure you’ve heard the huge announcements from the show like transparent television screens, but Steve and I will be bringing you the smaller and often much more practical and useful innovations we saw at CES. If you haven’t followed our […]
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CES 2024: Withings BeamO At-Home Health Checkup Device
Allison interviews Paul Buckley from Withings about their new BeamO handheld device that lets you quickly and easily check your health status. BeamO is portable, smaller than a smartphone, and you can use it on the go to take vital measurements for you and your family members. The device can be used by up to […]
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CES Unveiled in 5 Minutes with Tom Merritt
Steve and I attended the press event CES Unveiled and partway through the event Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News Show fame asked me to do a rapid fire through what I’d seen. Steve recorded it, Tom transferred it to his Mac via SD card, sent it to Dropbox, and Roger Change edited in the […]
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Update on PETLIBRO Automated Pet Feeder – Vastly Improved Software
Recap Last August I told you about an automated pet feeder from a company called PETLIBRO. My goal was to have my two cats, Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper, get regularly scheduled feedings when we’re away from home rather than having a near-infinite supply of food from a plain gravity feeder. Grace will regulate her […]
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I’m Allison, and I’m Not Very Smart
Hi, my name is Allison, and I’m not very smart. Over Christmas, all of our kids and grandkids came to visit. It was positively glorious. Kyle and Nikki and their 3 little darlings flew in early to spend a full week with us. They came early to miss the flight rush, and so they had […]
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Security Bits — 3 January 2024 (Bart & Jill from the North Woods)
Deep Dive — Operation Triangulation TL;DR — Kaspersky labs have discovered that they, and Russian government officials, were targeted by very advanced iOS malware that completely took over iOS devices for the last 4 years. Apple have patched all the exploited vulnerabilities, regular users were not targeted, and Kaspersky say there is not enough evidence […]
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Mirror iPhone and iPad to Mac with Bezel
The Problem to be Solved In my work creating screencasts for ScreenCastsONLINE, if I’m demonstrating an app on iOS or iPadOS, I have to have a way to record the screen of the iPhone or iPad. We use ScreenFlow to record the Mac screen and in more recent versions it’s been possible to record the […]
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We’ve mentioned dark patterns a few times on Security Bits over the years, they are commonly used design techniques engineered to be effective at tricking humans. They are the dark side of one of the areas of computer science enjoyed most when studying for my degree back at the turn of the century — HCI […]
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