Yahoo Mail Goes Password Free

So it looks like the next time you log in to your Yahoo Mail account from a smartphone, you might not need your password…

Instead, you might just need “Account Key.”

In the month that Yahoo Mail turns 18, users of Yahoo Mail can now check their email using nothing more than their user name and a smartphone. The new password free login allows users to verify any device they want to check their email on, by authenticating login details using their main smartphone.

While Yahoo are initially pushing the service primarily at its Apple and Android users, the desktop experience is also  available for U.S. users currently, and is set for a global release later this year.

Yahoo’s senior vice president of product management, Dylan Casey, said this in the blog post announcing Account Key: “Account Key streamlines the sign-in process with a secure, elegant and easy-to-use interface that makes access as easy as tapping a button,” 
 
Yahoo have made the move in an effort to improve security and help eliminate one of the big hassles that internet users face every day. The Account Key feature, comes as part of the biggest shakeup to happen to Yahoo Mail in years. Unveiling a raft of new features in the blog post, the company said Yahoo Mail’s redesign “will take user convenience and security to the next level.”

Time will tell if Account Key will actually solve the problems with passwords, including the fact that people have a tendency to use the same password to logon to several different systems and devices. Yahoo’s Casey said that “Passwords are usually simple to hack and easy to forget….Account Key uses push notifications to provide a fast and secure way for you to access your Yahoo accounts from your smartphone. It frees you from memorizing complicated passwords, making signing-in to your Yahoo Mail app easy as tapping a button.” 

The unveiling of Account Key is the latest new feature to be rolled out by Yahoo this year. While it is not currently certain, it appears that Account Key will replace Yahoo‘s On Demand SMS password system released in March. The SMS service allowed users to log into their Yahoo accounts using one time passwords.

Yahoo’s new look apps and increased security features is part of the larger plan to try and regain some of the ground it has lost to Google over the last five years or so.
In August 2013, both Google and Yahoo both had about 96 million U.S. email users each. In the two years that have followed, Google grew its user base by another 40% to over 135 million users, while Yahoo’s base dropped by over a quarter in the same time period.

This Brilliant Maniac Built His Own Homemade Railgun

 It's huge, dangerous, and completely awesome.

Dabbling amateur armsmakers mess around with potato guns. Serious amateur armsmakers 3D print their own portable railguns. This man is clearly one of the latter. 

Known as NSA_Listbot on Reddit, this guy clearly takes his projects seriously, and gets into all the nitty-gritty details of his inadvisable but super awesome weapon in a long post on Imgur. Unlike a coilgun or gauss rifle which use a series of electromagnets to pull a magnetic projectile down a tube at great speeds, a railgun operates on more complicated physics, but doesn't require its projectiles to be magnetic. What NSA_Listbot's got here is the same thing the Navy is building, but on a much smaller scale.

When all wired up, the railgun's 20 lbs of capacitors—3 pairs of 300J, 350V, 5500uF​ units—can electrify the gun's rails to fire tiny aluminum rounds like this: 

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Best way to protect iPhone 6? Use tempered glass

The iPhones are considered to be the most beautiful and well-designed phones on the planet. For many iPhone users, however, there is another side to it. This beauty comes at a price, especially with the new iPhone 6, which has a screen that subtly tapers from the sides. The iPhones, and in particularly the latest ones, are VERY fragile.

The iPhone 6, unlike many Android and Windows Phones, doesn't have a protective cover glass like Corning's Gorilla Glass. If reports are to be believed Apple wanted to have a sapphire glass layer on the iPhone, but that never happened. Instead, Apple ended up offering something it calls 'ion reinforced' glass.
Now, this may sound like a snazzy term, but for users it is not of much use. Time and again we have seen phones with Gorilla Glass survive a drop the iPhone 6 could not. As we found earlier, a little fall and you end up with an iPhone 6 that has a broken or cracked screen.
Solution? Use a tempered glass cover.

What is tempered glass cover? Instead of a standard plastic scratch guard, you get a thin layer of glass that is installed on your screen. This ensures if you drop the phone, then the tempered glass breaks before your screen, which costs a bomb. In fact, Apple doesn't replace the screen anymore. Instead, it charges in excess of Rs.20,000 to replace your damaged phone with the new one.

Also because the iPhone 6 has a tapered screen, a tempered glass doesn't protect its edges. For that you need a case which is slightly elevated from the display and is not flush with it.

If you install both these accessories, your iPhone will be pretty secure. No, it won't survive if you throw it under a bus or drop it from the 5th floor of your building. But if you accidentally bump it off your office table, most likely it will not have a broken screen.

Electric Smartscooter Arrives In Taiwan

Gogoro is preparing to launch its electric Smartscooter in Taiwan this summer, coming to Taipei City and Greater Taipei City first with an expansion to more cities in the near future.

 

 

The Smartscooter features a whole new system for charging. Customers subscribe to an electric battery supply dotted throughout the city, once the battery runs dry the driver replaces it with a new one and keeps on rolling.

This brings into question range anxiety but given Taiwan is a small region and it is only offering it in Taipei City, it is clear Gogoro doesn’t want drivers taking long trips on the Smartscooter.

It is also clear this is for urban drivers that spend a lot of time on the road and can easily find the allotted places where batteries are stored. Panasonic will be supplying two of the battery packs, which fit underneath the seat for easy accessibility.

Gogoro has already launched a beta program with 100 testers in Taipei City, to see if any changes need to be made to the Smartscooter or the placement of the battery stations.

The team working on the Smartscooter is a collection of ex-HTC employees and other faces from technology and car backgrounds. Gogoro has been hiring some battery talent to make its Smartscooter last longer, but has not given a firm range for the scooter.

Gogoro will be showing off the scooter in Taipei over the next few weeks before the summer launch. It will teach customers all of the small details in the scooter, in order to prepare them for a different sort of driving experience.

There’s no word on price, although Gogoro claims it will remain competitive with gasoline scooters.