Follow The Money

To Defeat ISIS, Follow The Money, All-Star Nobodies, Mining iPhones Or iCloud For Personal Data Is Terrifyingly Simple, Here's How Apple Will Convince You To Buy A Smartwatch, If You Live In Bangkok, Here's How Your Car Will Get Stolen, Japan Takes Aim At Source Of Megaquakes The Daily Digg Thursday, September 11, 2014 GOING FOR BROKE To Defeat ISIS, Follow The Money politico.com For all that ideology, religious belief and perhaps a lust for violence and power might motivate those who fight for the Islamic State, money is what keeps the group going. DIGG JOKES All-Star Nobodies digg.com This week, Digg Jokes features a short film loaded with comic talent, a fake back-to-school guide and a Simon Rich classic. USER-FRIENDLY CRIME Mining iPhones Or iCloud For Personal Data Is Terrifyingly Simple arstechnica.com High-end tools and simple hacks can still make iPhone data less private than we'd like. YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT Here's How Apple Will Convince You To Buy A Smartwatch nymag.com It will start with a friend. A friend who lives in San Francisco, maybe. Or who works as a venture capitalist. Or who recently had a birthday. MURRAY HEAD WARNED US If You Live In Bangkok, Here's How Your Car Will Get Stolen digg.com This tool seems to be a tubular lock pick, and apparently its use is gaining popularity (and notoriety) among car thieves in Bangkok. Friendly reminder not to leave your valuables in your vehicle. WITH A MEGABOAT Japan Takes Aim At Source Of Megaquakes phys.org The vessel also known as "Godzilla-Maru" towers nearly 30 stories tall. The Japanese government spent more than $500 million to build this monster of a ship with one goal in mind: to decipher the inner workings of a fault capable of unleashing a disaster far worse than the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Read more on Digg.com → FOOT-POWERED FOOTBALL Residents of the Morro da Mineira favela play in the newly installed soccer pitch powered by player's footsteps, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project, sponsored by British oil giant Shell, has around 200 energy-capturing tiles installed along the width and breadth of the field and covered by a layer of AstroTurf. Working in conjunction with solar panels also installed around the field, the player-powered tiles feed electricity to a system of floodlights overhead. Credit: AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014