A motorized bike will help you survive the apocalypse

When the apocalypse arrives (zombie or otherwise), you’ll need to be prepared for anything. Part of said preparedness should certainly involve transportation, and thanks to the folks at Motopeds, there’s a legit option. The Survival Bike: Black Ops Edition hits the trail with a compound crossbow, fuel storage, shovel, tomahawk, harpoon, blade saw, climbing gear, lights and a smattering of tools and knives. To keep you on the correct (read: covert) path, there’s a handlebar mount for that trusty smartphone or GPS unit needed to navigate. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing, but the company’s regular chassis kit includes everything you’ll need minus the 4-stroke engine for $1,999.

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Via: Uncrate

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The Big Picture: SpaceX Falcon 9 departs from Cape Canaveral

Before most of us here in the States woke from last night’s slumber, Elon Musk’s outfit launched a rocket into space. The SpaceX Falcon 9 blazed across the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4AM ET, carrying an AsiaSat 8 satellite to deploy into orbit. Liftoff came just hours after the announcement that the company’s new facility and the world’s first commercial launchpad would be built in Brownsville, Texas.

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Via: Elon Musk (Twitter)

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Pebble’s smartwatch now comes in pink, blue and neon green

If you’d like a smartwatch that’ll match the glow sticks at your next rave, then we’ve got good news for you. Pebble has just announced a Limited Edition run of its original smartwatch in three eye-popping colors: Fly Blue, Fresh Green and Hot Pink. They’re decidedly more fun and hip than the classier Steel Pebble released earlier this year, but that’s intentional: We’re told that this Limited Edition run is specifically targeted at the younger back-to-school crowd. Like the original Pebble watches, all three colors are available for $150 each.

Myriam Joire, Pebble’s chief evangelist, tells us that the idea for the colors actually originated from a “#ColorMyPebble” campaign that ran a couple of years ago as part of the original Kickstarter. The winners were orange and gray, but the team always wanted to expand its color repertoire beyond that to include the runners-up, and now it has. Interestingly, getting the color of the silicone band to match that of the polycarbonate watch proved to be a challenge — Joire joked that the team spent some time deciding on just the right shade of pink.

Of course, as with the original Pebble, the watchbands on the Limited Edition versions can be swapped out to your heart’s content — any 22mm watchband will do. “Customizing is a big part of what we want our watches to be,” said Joire. Speaking of customization, Pebble also released a set of new text watch faces to match the new colors, which should be available on the Pebble appstore starting today. Also available is a new app from The Weather Channel. And last but not least, Pebble also announced that an animated Reading Rainbow watch face with an 8-bit LeVar Burton should be coming soon, to coincide with the release of the special Reading Rainbow Pebble watches later this year.

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The FBI uses malware to combat online anonymity

Online anonymity is a beautiful, terrible thing, so naturally governments and law enforcement types are eager to see what happens behind the web’s closed doors. Naturally, that includes the folks at the FBI: According to Wired, the FBI has been using “network investigative techniques” — like highly specific, purpose-built malware — to help peel back popular anonymizing service Tor’s layers of obscurity to catch criminals.

The bureau’s efforts began in earnest with an involved child pornography investigation dubbed Operation Torpedo back in 2012. They eventually lucked out by gaining access to a CP site called Pedoboard, arresting the operator, taking over the servers, and delivering malware to visitors who thought they were protected by Tor.

There’s no denying that some good has come from the bureau’s use of malware, as Wired’s Kevin Poulsen points out that more than 12 child porn aficionados are headed to trial as a result. The flip side of that coin is that the FBI’s success with Operation Torpedo led to another effort to bypass the anonymity that Tor provides… and possibly exposed some innocent people’s information to the FBI’s eager eyes. With a little Javascript, understanding of Firefox and Tor security issues and a “tiny” Windows program, users of some Tor-hidden services like Tormail (hosted by an outfit called Freedom Hosting, which itself was being investigated for “tolerating” child porn) essentially had their IP addresses unmasked.

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Source: Wired

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