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Rogue One trailer shows Star Wars prequels can work after all

To be completely honest, we’ve not been as excited on the build up to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as much as we were ahead of Force Awakens. After all, the track history of Star Wars prequels hasn’t been great.

But this new trailer changes everything.

Director Gareth Edwards seems to have not only grasped the concept of a Star Wars movie, he adds his own rapidly improving flair. For example, the scene where the tie-fighter rises to directly face Rebel spy Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is glorious. And the brief glimpse of Darth Vader? Consider our spines thoroughly shivered.

Check out the trailer for yourself below. It’s more than two minutes of Star Wars goodness for sure.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits UK and US cinemas on 16 December, although some nations, including France and the Netherlands, get it a couple of days earlier, the lucky beggers.

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It will set the stall for the next chapter in the new trilogy, planned for Christmas 2017, with talk that even though it leads up to the events of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Rogue One contains information that could be important to the sequel movies too.

We’ll see you in the queue outside.

Weed spit test can detect if you’re driving high in 3 minutes

A new speedy spit test could be the breathalyzer’s counterpart when it comes to roadside testing for marijuana. The technology, developed by Shan Xiang Wang from Stanford University, can detect the presence of THC (the main chemical in weed that makes you high) in saliva within three minutes. Cops don’t even need to bring samples to the lab — the sensor that can detect THC is portable and delivers results to phones via Bluetooth.

Professor Wang told Digital Trends:

“Detection of marijuana from blood or urine in a reference lab is not difficult, but it is difficult or impractical at the roadside. Most law enforcement officers are not authorized to take blood samples, while taking a urine sample on spot is extremely inconvenient. Detection of marijuana from saliva would bypass the trappings with either blood or urine samples.”

The professor’s technology works by using nanoparticles that fit THC (or reagent molecules) perfectly. When the results come back, the tester can see how many nanograms of THC there are for every milliliter of saliva. At the moment, Wang’s technique is merely a proof of concept, though his lab plans to begin making the actual handheld device law enforcement can use.

Lawmakers are still trying to iron out marijuana-related driving rules in the US, since it’s pretty tough to say if one is too high to drive. A recent study commissioned by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, for instance, determined that THC in the blood might not be a useful indicator for how intoxicated a person is. Our body absorbs the chemical in a different way than it does alcohol. And since THC dissolves in fat rather than water, it can remain in fatty tissues such as the brain for a very long time. An NHTSA expert told New Scientist that devices like this still need to be tested more thoroughly in order to establish what THC measurements typically lead to bad driving.

Via: New Scientist, Digital Trends

Source: Stanford University

Local Canadian police station admits it owns a Stingray

The Edmonton Police Service has fessed up to Motherboard that it owns a Stingray and that it “used the [surveillance] device in the past during investigations.” After Vancouver cops admitted to using the phone tracker to investigate an abduction in 2007, the publication called up other local police stations in Canada to ask if they had also previously used one. As you can imagine, the other stations kept mum. In the US, Stingrays are a regular part of government and law enforcement agencies’ surveillance arsenal. But Vancouver’s and Edmonton’s police services are the first law enforcement offices in Canada to confirm that they’ve used the device.

The main difference between the two is that the Vancouver cops said they borrowed their device from Canada’s equivalent to the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Edmonton’s police service, however, actually owns a Stingray, which could cost anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit.

As Micheal Vonn, the policy director of BC Civil Liberties Association, told Motherboard: “We have to assume, having made this investment, that they’ve used it more than once.” Vonn’s non-profit org thought only the RCMP owns Stingrays in the country, which they then loan to local law enforcement. That’s clearly not the case.

Stingrays mimic cell towers to force all phones in an area to connect to it. The device can then obtain identifying information from phones and SIM cards, as well as people’s locations and carriers. Newer models can even intercept and record voice calls and texts. Stingray has many critics, because you can’t program it to target only persons of interest or suspects — it gathers info from everyone in an area, even those who have nothing to do with the case under investigation.

Source: Motherboard

New ‘Rogue One’ trailer has some familiar ‘Star Wars’ touches

Disney and Lucasfilm just premiered a new trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and you don’t even have to wade through NBC’s Rio 2016 Olympics coverage to see it. As we’d heard, this prequel to Star Wars: A New Hope will focus on heroes trying to steal the plans for a still-under-construction Death Star, and the new trailer gives us a good idea of what we’ll see. Beyond a look at stars like Felicity Jones and Diego Luna, you’ll also get a peek at a new droid character, familiar AT-ATs, and, yup, Darth Vader. The latest addition to the Star Wars universe premieres December 16th.

Source: Star Wars (YouTube)

Experts believe DNC hackers are behind a larger plot

Although it’s not the hack Donald Trump called for, security experts believe the same Russian hacking group allegedly responsible for leaking 20,000 Democratic party emails to WikiLeaks is also behind another attack that hints at an even larger Russian plot to influence American politics. In the weeks before WikiLeaks posted those materials, another cache of emails was posted on a site called DCLeaks.com targeting a top NATO general, former high-ranking intelligence officials and billionaire George Soros’ progressive philanthropy called the Open Society Foundation.

The DCLeaks site touted itself as the work of American hackers and the The Intercept covered the leak at the time, specifically highlighting emails that showed former US NATO General Philip Breedlove working against the Obama administration on its Russia policy. According to a new report from Bloomberg, however, the DCLeaks hack can be linked to “a larger Russian information operation.”

Per Bloomberg’s cyberintelligence sources, the group behind the DNC hack has ties to Russia’s GRU military intelligence service and a Russian civilian intelligence agency called the FSB. Although Moscow has denied any involvement in the DNC hack, US officials have reason to believe the Russian government may have set the whole thing up. Perhaps most tellingly, the materials posted on DCLeaks seem to have a suspicious focus on matters involving America’s policies towards Russia. They were also disseminated on social media in an apparent attempt to appeal to the American media’s love of leaks.

Finally, as Bloomberg points out, the DCLeaks hack also provides some insight into how the hacking group gained access in the first place — by targeting personal emails and mining them for sensitive information.

Source: Bloomberg, The Intercept