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The ’59 Corvette Stingray gets a fitting 60th anniversary fan-made tribute
Marking the 60th anniversary of his favorite car, the ’59 Corvette Stingray, Dejan Hristov’s put together a conceptual tribute to the 1959 vehicle designed by Pete Brock, Bill Mitchell, and Larry Shinoda, retaining elements of all previous Corvettes in an eclectic way, in order to fully preserve the DNA of the brand, while adding Hristov’s personal signature touch.
The 2019 Corvette Stingray concept comes with a much more defined and sinewy design language than its predecessor, with curved lines, highly elevated and sharp wheel hoods, and a sculpted hood that makes way for air-ducts to cool the car’s innards. Hristov sacrifices the rear windshield as a creative decision, but also proposes a rear-camera that beams footage to a screen on the car’s dashboard. On the inside, the Stingray Concept has an 8-cylinder engine, and is combined with a modern hybrid drive.
As a part of Hristov’s conceptual series, the Stingray concept comes in two variants, a Coupé and a Convertible (shown at the bottom), and retains the car’s frontal-engine setup, a detail that Chevrolet plans to deviate from with their own Stingray announcement a month from now.
Designer: Dejan Hristov
Security flaws in 4G and 5G allow snooping on phone users
Security researchers are already poking holes in 5G mere months into its existence. They've discovered three flaws in 4G and 5G that could be used to intercept phone calls and track someone's location. The first and most important, Torpedo, relies...
Senator asks FCC if Stingrays can interfere with 911 calls
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wants to know if cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays, have the potential to interfere with mobile communications, and he's asked the FCC to share any research it has done into the matter. In a letter sent to Chairma...
Supreme Court ruling requires search warrant for phone location data
The Supreme Court has ruled (PDF) that to perform cellphone tower searches, police will now need a search warrant, as spotted by NPR. Meaning, that now for law enforcement to track where you've been, via historical cellphone location data, will requi...
FCC shrugs at fake cell towers around the White House
Turns out, Ajit Pai was serious last year when he told lawmakers that the FCC didn't want anything to do with cybersecurity.
This past April the Associated Press reported "For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existen...
US Congressmen ask FCC to combat unauthorized Stingray use
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had detected activity in Washington DC that was consistent with the use of cell-site simulators, or Stingrays. The findings were a result of a short-term trial that to...
DHS may have found unauthorized Stingray devices in Washington DC
The Associated Press reports today that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that it found what appear to be unauthorized cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays, in Washington DC last year. The agency told Senator Ron Wyden...
Judge rules NYPD needed a warrant before using cell-site simulator
A Brooklyn judge has ruled that because the New York Police Department (NYPD) used a cell-site simulator, also known by the brand name Stingray, to track down a murder suspect without a warrant, some evidence against the suspect will be thrown out. A...