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Submission + - Guilty by Watch (theguardian.com)

knaapie writes: Modern technology makes it so much harder to commit a crime of passion and get away with it.
A greek pilot claiming he and his wife were robbed, and his wife strangled by the assailants, has now admitted that he himself killed his wife. Police were already suspicious of him and found evidence from phones and the watch of the deceased that implicated him.

From the article:
"A pulse monitor on the watch showed she was dead at a time before he claimed the raid had taken place, while a fitness app on his phone proved he was moving around the house at the time he said he had been blindfolded and tied up.

In both cases, the findings conflicted with the timeline of events the professional pilot had previously given. A memory card removed at 1.20am from the security camera of the couple’s home, several hours before 4.30am when he claimed the thieves had broken in, provided further evidence."

Submission + - Smart thermostats in Texas being raised remotely (wfaa.com)

quonset writes: With the heat wave gripping Texas, and in an effort to prevent another collapse of the power grid as happened in February during cold weather, the governor of Texas is, for the third day in a row, asking residents to conserve electricity. Some people in the Houston area have come home to find the temperatures in their homes are still warm (in the high 70s to low 80s) despite their air conditioning running all day.

Residents who had smart thermostats installed in their homes could enroll in a program called "Smart Savers Texas". Now, a company called EnergyHub is remotely changing people's thermostats to help in this conservation effort.

The agreement states that in exchange for an entry into sweepstakes, electric customers allow them to control their thermostats during periods of high energy demand. EnergyHub’s list of its clients include TXU Energy, CenterPoint and ERCOT.

One resident, who didn't realize what they agreed to when they had their smart thermostat installed, immediately unenrolled from the program.

“If somebody else can manipulate this, I’m not for it,” he said.

Submission + - Chinese astronauts reach new space station for three-month mission (theguardian.com) 3

AmiMoJo writes: Astronauts on board China’s first crewed spacecraft in nearly five years have reached the new Tiangong space station after blasting off from the Gobi desert. A Long March-2F rocket launched the three astronauts in the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, which docked with Tianhe – the main section of the Tiangong station – just over seven hours later. Construction of Tiangong – meaning Heavenly Palace – began in April with the launch of its first module, Tianhe. The crew will live on the cylinder-shaped module measuring 16.6 metres by 4.2 metres while carrying out further construction work. The module has separate living spaces for each of them, a treadmill for exercise, and a communication centre for emails and video calls to ground control.

Submission + - SPAM: The Navy's Railgun Is Finally Dead 1

schwit1 writes: The U.S. Navy’s push to create a $500 million electromagnetic railgun weapon—capable of slinging projectiles at hypersonic speeds—appears to have come to an end. The service is ending funding for the railgun without having sent a single weapon to sea, while pushing technology derived from the program into existing weapons.

The weapon is a victim of a change in the Navy’s direction toward faster, longer-range weapons that are capable of striking ships and land targets in a major war

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Comment If newspapers were worth reading... (Score 1) 397

...then they wouldn't go down in circulation. After all, I go to the internet when I want to know, right now, what is happening in the world. However, I still like to read the newspaper when there is thoughtful and well written investigation of the facts of the world. As well, the newspaper is what I count on for local information and politics. The difficult part is that my hometown newpaper, The Journal Star can be read in about 5 minutes, and there is little to nothing of value in the paper about local events and information regarding the world close to me. Lots of ads, but little or nothing like what people remember newspapers to be. The trend here I think will continue; the information highway is broad and fast, but not very deep. I feel like information is pretty useless at times, if those who report it do not try to contexualize it to the world around us. This is what is missing from newspapers.

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