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Submission + - All-Women Ridesharing App to Debut in Boston

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Scores of women have reported rapes and assaults by Uber drivers and BuzzFeed obtained internal information from Uber's customer support platform documenting thousands of complaints of sexual assault and rape over a period spanning December 2012 to August 2015. Now Jenni Avins reports at Quartz that a ride-sharing service that only uses women as drivers, Chariot for Women, is set to launch April 19 in Boston which will feature more stringent background checks and additional steps to ensure riders correctly match with their drivers. Like most ride-sharing apps, users can submit a request for a ride and will then be matched with a driver. However, unlike other services, Chariot for Women features a patent-pending technology that will provide both users and drivers with a code after a request is made that will need to be verified upon starting the ride. But “whether it’s legal or not is a different question,” says Joseph L. Sulman. According to civil rights lawyers, Chariots for Women’s female-only policies could put it squarely in the crosshairs of gender discrimination lawsuits, which would be difficult to win. Founder Michael Pelletz says he welcomes the legal challenge. "We want to show there’s inequality in safety in our industry,” says Pelletz. “We hope to go to the US Supreme Court to say that if there’s safety involved, there’s nothing wrong with providing a service for women.”

Submission + - Listen to a Hawking lecture on Black Holes! (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC has now put the second of Stephen Hawking's Reith Lectures up on their web site, with accompanying illustrations. It's not 'All you ever wanted to know about Black Holes', but it's an easy introduction to some of the latest thinking on them...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie... refers...

Submission + - Even with Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks to Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) 1

Submitted by Motherfucking Shit
Motherfucking Shit writes: Curious about the various telemetry and personal information being collected by Windows 10, one user installed Windows 10 Enterprise and disabled all of the telemetry and reporting options. Then he configured his router to log all the connections that happened anyway. Even after opting out wherever possible, his firewall captured Windows making around 4,000 connection attempts to 93 different IP addresses during an 8 hour period, with most of those IPs controlled by Microsoft. Even the enterprise version of Windows 10 is checking in with Redmond when you tell it not to — and it's doing so frequently.

Submission + - Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Reactor Produces its First Flash of Hydrogen Plasma (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Experimentation with Germany's newest fusion reactor is beginning to heat up, to temperatures of around 80 million degrees Celsius, to be precise. Having fired up the Wendelstein 7-X to produce helium plasma late last year, researchers have built on their early success to generate its first hydrogen plasma, an event they say begins the true scientific operation of the world's largest fusion stellarator.

Submission + - Online Museum Displays Decades Of Malware (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: archive,org has launched a Museum of Malware, which devotes itself to a historical look at DOS-based viruses of the 1980s and 1990s, and gives viewers the opportunity to run the viruses in a DOS game emulator, and to download 'neutered' versions of the code. With an estimated 50,000 DOS-based viruses in existence by the year 2000, the Malware Museum's 65 examples should be seen as representative of an annoying, but more innocent era of digital vandalism.

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