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Submission + - Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% (vrtalk.com)

Submitted by Bob768
Bob768 writes: Over the last 20 months, with the rise of virtual reality technology, the number of Google searches for the phrase 'VR Porn' have soared nearly 10,000%. The leading country for these searches is Norway.

Submission + - FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi (fcc.gov)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: FCC's Enforcement Bureau today announced a $750,000 settlement with Smart City Holdings, LLC for blocking consumers' Wi-Fi at various convention centers around the United States. Smart City, an Internet and telecommunications provider for conventions, meeting centers, and hotels, had been blocking personal mobile "hotspots" that were being used by convention visitors and exhibitors who used their own data plans rather than paying Smart City substantial fees to use the company's Wi-Fi service.

Submission + - Patch management for offline customer systems?

Submitted by Nillerz
Nillerz writes: Hello, /.!

What, in your experience, is generally the best way to distribute patches in a way so customers can download them, considering that the machines are offline? Are there any software packages (open source preferred) that pretty much allow engineers to upload a patch with a description to a web server, and allow customers with credentials that are registered in LDAP to browse and download them quickly?

Thanks.

Submission + - 3D Printed Fruit Has Arrived (3dprint.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Cambridge England company called Dovetailed has created the world's first 3D printed 'fruit'. They use a process of sperification to create little balls of fruit puree, which they then print to form the shape of the given fruit. Check out the images here http://3dprint.com/4314/3d-pri... where you can see a 3D printed raspberry. The company showed off the new technology in Cambridge earlier today at an event sponsored by Microsodt.

Submission + - $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed by $50 3D Printed Hand (3dprint.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A man named Jose Delgado was so used to using a $42,000 myoelectric prosthetic hand for the last year that he didn't realize that there were other options out there. Although Delgado, born without a left hand, was able to obtain the hand via his insurance, he found that a 3D printed "Cyborg Beast," open source hand ,which costs just $50 to print, actually was more comfortable and performed better than the device which costs 840 times as much money.

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