In troubling news, a paper from researchers at Newcastle University in the UK claims that Visa's credit-card payment system can be compromised online in "as little as six seconds." The security flaw was possibly the point of entry for the cyber-attack on the UK's Tesco Bank that … | Continue reading
LONDON — Uber has introduced a new feature that allows the app to gather users' location data for up to 5 minutes after a ride has ended. SEE ALSO: UberEats has surge pricing nowPrior to this latest update, Uber only collected location information during a passenger's trip and o … | Continue reading
Chicago point guard Rajon Rondo was suspended for Monday's game against Portland for conduct detrimental to the team, the Bulls announced. | Continue reading
CBS chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves today hinted that DirecTV Now will eventually add his company’s programming to its channel lineup. “I’m assuming we’ll be able to make a deal with them,” he said when the subject of AT&T’s new internet TV service came up. “As they said in The G … | Continue reading
The Sony Xperia XA Ultra is available for $229.99 for today only. The offer expires in just over 10 hours, so hurry up if you want to buy the device! | Continue reading
Apple today started rolling out the sixth public beta and developer beta of iOS 10.2, the next update to Apple’s iOS 10 mobile operating system. It’s arriving just three days after the fifth public beta. This update appears to be very similar to public beta 5. The SOS feature is … | Continue reading
How could Dr Michael Lynch raise a $1 billion venture capital fund while being sued for $5 billion over alleged fraud in the $11 billion sale of his company Autonomy to HP? “The reality is, that doesn’t take much time” since he has a team of lawyers on the case, Lynch said on sta … | Continue reading
The US Federal Reserve has released a new working paper on blockchain and distributed ledger tech.Source | Continue reading
It is not everyday Chinese cuisine yield Bitcoin rewards. Dragons.tl, the popular MMORPG casino platform known for its creative games and ambience, offers yet another unique game to win big Bitcoin rewards. The Eight Treasures of Chinese Cuisine is a game offered by the aforement … | Continue reading
Standing Rock Sioux chairman David Archambault II discusses the Obama administration's decision to deny a permit needed to complete the last leg of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Right on schedule, Google has posted Android 7.1.1 Nougat factory images for all current Pixel and Nexus devices. | Continue reading
A rooted Android device is more powerful, but it's also more risky. That's nothing to worry about if you can't even root your phone, an increasingly common occurrence. The post Why you should (or shouldn’t) root your Android device appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
If you were an iOS-only gamer following Capcom's Ace Attorney series, things probably got a little confusing with Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies [$0.99]. Why did it seem like Phoenix Wright was coming back to his job from a long time off? Who is this Apollo guy that takes up a thir … | Continue reading
This episode of Members Only features data analyst Loryn Thompson. She discusses how to set up Google Analytics for your membership site. | Continue reading
Former JP Morgan financial advisor Randy Fernando got the idea for his fintech startup Vault — selected as audience choice for the startup battlefield here at Disrupt London — after his mum asked him whether there were any retirement plan benefits she could offer staff as a hirin … | Continue reading
After a federal judge ordered Michigan officials to recount presidential election votes, Jill Stein on Monday detailed her campaign’s motivations for the recounts outside Trump Tower in Manhattan. Photo: AP. | Continue reading
Four years ago, Melbourne resident Matt Willis crashed his bike. He didn’t know that the next two months in hospital would transform his life. During his time off work, the design consultant discovered the Vine app and began producing stop motion videos, bringing to life ordina … | Continue reading
Cloud computing has made collaboration across coworkers easier than ever, but that doesn’t mean that workers are as productive as possible when they’re on the go. Open As App aims to change all that. Launching today in the Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt London, Open As App off … | Continue reading
Dedicated dataminers have discovered unused content from Kojima Productions' lovely promotional horror game P.T.As uncovered by Xentax forums user luxox18 (via NeoGAF), this marks the first time folks have managed to unearth the hidden contents of a PS4-exclusive title. It's uncl … | Continue reading
Meet Oxehealth, a startup that plans to turn any regular security camera into a health monitor. The British company wants to make it easier to monitor patients in a hospital, police station, psychiatric hospital or an assisted living residence. It’s a non-intrusive way to make su … | Continue reading
Developer Super Evil Megacorp announced today that the South Korean team Phoenix Armada has won the first world championship for Vainglory, its mobile MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) strategy game. The tournament featured a prize pool of $120,000, with most of it going to … | Continue reading
While the IPO window might be quite a little more narrow these days and there’s plenty of uncertainty, it doesn’t necessary mean the end of the venture capital world — at least, not yet. Instead, it would seem that a lot of the VC world is in a holding pattern while they wait for … | Continue reading
You’re probably still reeling from last night’s Westworld finale. (Unless you haven’t watched the episode, in which case: spoilers ahead!) We saw robot uprisings! The death of Ford! Mysterious programmers controlling Maeve’s every move! Samurai World! But one of the most anticipa … | Continue reading
Months after Microsoft’s disastrous Tay bot launch on Twitter, the company is giving chatbots another go. This time, it’s testing a bot on Kik. The bot, which was first spotted by Twitter user Tom Hounsell and later written up by MSPoweruser, is called Zo and is essentially an En … | Continue reading
What is Boston Dynamics? The easy answer for that: a company that makes crazy advanced robots that can walk — be it on two feet or four — better than just about any other robot in the world. We’ve seen this in countless YouTube videos of the company’s robots stomping its way acro … | Continue reading
Section 32, the new healthcare-focused venture fund reportedly being launched by Bill Maris, was apparently named in homage to Section 31, an intelligence agency from the Star Trek universe. If that’s not a bit of pre-emptive nerd cred, I don’t know what is.According to a report … | Continue reading
Volkswagen announced this morning the launch of a spinoff company focused on “new mobility solutions” such as ride-hailing and on-demand autonomous vehicles. The German car giant says it hopes to generate “a significant share” of its sale revenue from these new services by 2025. … | Continue reading
Station F (formerly known as la Halle Freyssinet) is quite an ambitious project and is bound to change the face of the tech ecosystem in Paris. Financed by Xavier Niel and directed by Roxanne Varza, Station F is going be the world’s biggest startup campus with companies like Face … | Continue reading
Malta’s stock exchange is in the early stages of experimenting with blockchain-based trading.Source | Continue reading
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We have discovered the purpose of the mysterious "dummy finger" in the Resident Evil 7 demo.Unearthed by Eurogamer after the recent Resident Evil 7 demo update, there's a multitude of cryptic steps one must initiate before the dummy finger arrives at its destiny. For the full pla … | Continue reading
It still feels strange to contemplate, but The Last Guardian is actually a real, finished thing - the reviews have gone live and everything. What felt stran… | Continue reading
AMC’s The Walking Dead has an uncanny knack for manipulating its audience, but this year’s hyper-violent season premiere went too far. So far that we canceled our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club, and co-author Bryan Bishop swore off the show entirely. Now, Nick Sta … | Continue reading
When companies are looking to secure the information they have in their databases, it’s a pretty big challenge no matter how you slice it. Unless you have a large security budget that can manage permissions and figure out who is doing what, you are probably cobbling together what … | Continue reading
Environmental technology company Earth Networks has spent two decades building sensors to monitor weather, lightning, and greenhouse gases. In order to amass more data (perhaps like SETI) while also helping consumers be better global stewards, the company has launched a home ener … | Continue reading
Hello everyone and welcome to another Touchstone Tavern, our weekly roundup of everything that happened in the world of Hearthstone [Free]. This past week, the topic that dominated was - of course - the new expansion, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. The expansion, which arrived with a … | Continue reading
It looks like the Google Pixel and Pixel XL on Verizon may be receiving December's Android security patch today. | Continue reading
If you’ve played games designed by Fumito Ueda before, then you’ll feel right at home in The Last Guardian, the new release published by Sony for PS4, and developed by genDESIGN and SIE Japan Studio. The world feels like a natural extension of the worlds created for both 2001’s I … | Continue reading
Imagine trying to climb a mountain without using your hands. That's what it's been like using an Oculus Rift since the category-defining virtual reality headset landed in March. The Touch controllers, available Dec. 6, change all of that.SEE ALSO: Here’s how a VR kitchen could tr … | Continue reading
Let’s say you want to know where one of your digital marketing campaigns is getting the most traction: Twitter or Facebook. You might need to check several dashboards across your social accounts and Google analytics to compile the data — and even if you conclude that one platform … | Continue reading
Auf sehr zeitgemäße Art und Weise konnte die Polizei in Seattle einen Autodieb überführen. Die Geschichte im Kurzen: Ein Besitzer eines BMW 550i leiht am Tag nach seiner Hochzeit sein Auto einem Kumpel. Der ist offenbar nicht so... | Continue reading
Amazon has announced Amazon Go, a new grocery store in which customers can pay for goods without visiting the checkout. Instead, they simply walk out the door. | Continue reading
Panasonic announced last week that it has developed a new kind of IPS LCD display with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, making it competitive with far most expensive OLED technologies. As HDGuru reports, the new technology offers a massive improvement over most of today's LCD displa … | Continue reading
Photo-editing app Infltr is best known for giving Instagram a run for its money with an app that lets you choose from an infinite number of photo filters – well, technically, it’s just over 7 million. The idea is that you can use color combinations to give your photo a unique loo … | Continue reading
The Indian cryptocurrency and fintech ecosystem has garnered a lot of interest since the “Demonetization” drive was set in motion. The increased demand for Bitcoin in the country is now complemented by the launch of a Blockchain incubator. According to reports on Indian news medi … | Continue reading
Twitter polls, which debuted last year, have yet to become a widespread marketing and PR tactic. Businesses may be missing its potential benefits. Twitter Polls can be a valuable way to gain feedback and increase exposure. Like other types of online surveys to produce publicity, … | Continue reading
This hypnotizing chandelier design by 'Harvey & John' was inspired by the murmuration of starlings. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Birds, Starling, Sculpture, and Home Decor | Continue reading