E52- Nintendo Goes Offline, Boeing Black, Blackphone, Google Glass Assault, British Spies | Red Headed Geek Show





A little gaming news for you to start! Nintendo Wii, DS and DSi games are officially ending their online play. This is all last generation gaming, and affected games include Mario Kart DS, Mario kart Wii and Pokemon Black and White.

Plants vs Zombies, Garden warfare is out. Popcap and EA teamed up for an online only shooting battle available on Xbox 360 and the Xbox One. Nope, don't expect it to be like your smartphone app. This one requires some skill in over-the-shoulder shooting

Two new security enhanced smartphones came out during this years Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Blackphone is Android operated, and built with the help of a co-founder of Silent Circle. Its security system is aimed to prevent hackers, governments, and criminals from your your web browsing, voice calls, video calls, voicemail, text, and file transfer, and apps.

The Boeing Black is taking serious privacy to the next level. Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within it. The phone will be sold primarily to government agencies and companies related to defense and homeland security

What The Tech: A woman wearing Google Glass this week is claiming to have been assaulted. She says the device was not turned on, nor was she recording anything. Footage showed up quickly on Youtube to prove otherwise. It all came down to this: the woman was considered "rude" by wearing Google Glass, aka the "Glasshole" effect.

British spies have allegedly been snooping on Yahoo Messenger and Xbox Kinect webcam videos and images. This is according to British surveillance agency GCHQ outing British spying program, Optic Nerve. Files, dating from 2008 to 2010, show Optic Nerve’s conquest, with millions of images being stored in databases. An article written by The Guardian states “these images were stored regardless of whether the users were being targeted by intelligence services”. Of the images, an estimated 3% to 11% contain “undesirable nudity”, with over 1.8 million captured from Yahoo users in a six-month period alone.

Real life Jurassic Park? Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening, all with great science and technology. Biologists at the Revive & Restore project are making plans to bring extinct species back to life. The extinct animal who has been assigned the most clear plan, though, is the passenger pigeon, which went extinct about a century ago. The Revive & Restore scientists hope to have reintroduced the birds into the wild by 2060.

 

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