Protecting pacemakers; orange juice futures soar; investing in flying cars
Hacking a pacemaker?
About 465,000 people in the U.S. are being warned by the Food and Drug Administration that they should update the firmware for their pacemakers or they will be putting themselves at risk of potentially fatal hacks. Ars Technica reported that updating the Abbott Laboratories devices requires patients to go to a clinic, then doctors will get the pacemakers in backup mode long enough for the firmware to be patched.
Number of the day
6.2%
That’s how much orange juice futures jumped Tuesday on fears that Hurricane Irma could blast key orange-producing areas of Florida, MarketWatch reported.