Geekly Update - 29 Jun 2017

The AskBobRankin Geekly Update

Nate Wilson was fishing in the Tennessee River, but he didn't expect to reel in an algae-covered digital camera. The memory card was still intact, so Wilson posted the photos on Facebook and within hours, located the owner of the camera who had lost it five years ago.

Stoopid Criminals Part 19: Ryan Coupens was attacked and mugged by six men in downtown Denver. Fortunately for him, the group posted celebratory videos on Snapchat. Colorado police are now using the video footage to identify and apprehend the attackers.

Maybe you can take it with you. Arthur Werner of Steel City, PA, loved his 1990 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail motorcycle. So much so, that he plans to be buried in his motorcycle's sidecar after his funeral on June 30th.

Colorado is considering the first ban on sales of cellphones to children under age 13. The Denver Post reports the ban “would require retailers to ask customers the age of the primary user of the smartphone and submit monthly adherence reports to the Colorado Department of Revenue.”

The personal data of 198 million voters from the 2008 and 2012 elections was left exposed on an unsecured Amazon Web Services server. The trove contains name, address, date of birth, phone number, and voter registration details. Whoops.

Virgin Mobile is going all-iPhone, and offering one year of “unlimited” voice, text, and data for just one dollar. Fine print applies, of course.

The Girl Scouts and security firm Palo Alto Networks are teaming up to teach cyber-security skills to girls as young as 5. The goal is to increase the participation of women in the security profession.

A $120 million fine is proposed for Adrian Abramovich, the kingpin of a robocalling operation that illegally dialed hundreds of millions of phones.

Google is going to stop scanning your Google Mail to better target ads within Gmail. But Google will still use your browsing history, YouTube habits, and other Chrome activity as long as you are signed into your Google account.

A tiny bug got stuck inside Kirk Hamilton’s monitor. His efforts to liberate it, and the fatal mistake he made, make amusing reading.

An algorithm that designs ideal folding patterns to create any 3D object from a sheet of paper means Ultimate Origami is not far off.

Australia may be the last continent to see driverless cars. Engineers are trying to figure out how a computer can process a hopping kangaroo.

This $400 smart tea maker is probably not going to appeal to smart people.