Facebook is now letting creators of Groups screen potential group members by issuing a three-question quiz, part of a larger effort by Facebook to dole out more tools to Group Admins and filter out potential abusers or trolls from private Groups. The new feature rollout for Group … | Continue reading
Multiple outlets are reporting a wave of ransomware attacks affecting the UK’s National Health Service as well as other firms throughout the world.Source | Continue reading
For those of you who don’t know to take good photos with the iPhone’s camera — and I’m one — Apple has made some videos to help you improve. In a series of tutorials posted on its site, Apple demonstrates how to take well-composed, beautiful pictures with the iPhone 7’s camera. t … | Continue reading
If you've been consistently losing in Clash Royale [Free], it might not be you but the cards you pick for your decks (although it might also be you). A recent blog post by Woody, one of the fixtures of the competitive community, talks about the most popular cards in competitive d … | Continue reading
My life is being destroyed by the real-time messaging app, Slack. When I was first introduced to Slack, I was told it would be a simple way to efficiently communicate with my co-workers during work hours. I was not, however, told that the addictive platform would soon creep into … | Continue reading
F-Secure Labs has been warning about the exponential growth of ransomware and the dangers of government surveillance tools unleashed into the wild. Cypto-ransomoware WannaCry — which exploded across the globe on Friday — seems to combine the worst of the dangers implied by both w … | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of people live in the city of Las Vegas. But the city’s information security team is made up of just three employees and one intern, so the chief information officer of Las Vegas relies on artificial intelligence to keep the city’s data and tech secure. “Th … | Continue reading
GUEST: Consumers are ready for chatbots. A recent study by DigitasLBi found that almost 40 percent of consumers would make a purchase from a chatbot. Even more impressive, nearly 60 percent of consumers would engage with a chatbot if it meant receiving coupons or special offers. … | Continue reading
Take a moment to consider all that has transpired in your life and the world since the last time you logged into eMusic. For me, it’s been roughly five years, I think, and among a few other slightly more consequential things, I (like much the rest of the world), have begun consu … | Continue reading
We want to see you in New York for Disrupt NY 2017, our annual celebration of all things startup. It’s a great time. You get to meet great founders and VCs and I’d love to meet you personally when I run through the alley with our video team. Hardware is my favorite thing in the … | Continue reading
Jinen Kamdar has spent more than seven years as Twitter, most recently serving as the director of product for Twitter’s media tools. Now he’s joining an actual media company — namely, BuzzFeed, where he’ll be the new vice president of product. He doesn’t start his new job until … | Continue reading
Rolling Pig Studio has an artsy puzzle game in the works called Our Ways that, besides being a tricky puzzle game, also wants to explore relationships and the work that goes into keeping them going in the face of various types of adversity. Yeah, pretty heavy stuff for such a vis … | Continue reading
Google's Play Store is getting a brand new look ... well, kind of.In a continuing effort refine the Play brand, Google has quietly rolled out a new logo for the Play Store, Android Police noticed. The new logo drops the shopping bag, just leaving the colorful triangle as the new … | Continue reading
When Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus sang of being 23 and still acting like a freshman in his band’s 1999 smash “What’s My Age Again?”, he crystalized perhaps the default concern of pop punk. Rage against age—and the underlying feeling that you’re not living according to expectations—has … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Please replace the release with the following corrected version of the Ray Espinoza/ProofPoint quote in the ADDENDUM section. The corrected release reads: REDLOCK LAUNCHES WITH COMPREHENSIVE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY... | Continue reading
The upcoming Surface Laptop is a big deal for Microsoft; it’s the company’s first-ever traditional notebook, and at first glance it looks great. But for such a relatively normal device — with a fixed hinge that opens and closes, regular old USB ports, and an outward design remini … | Continue reading
The White House is officially either unable, or unwilling, to deny that the President of the United States recorded conversations with ousted FBI director James Comey or is secretly recording people in the Oval Office.White House press secretary Sean Spicer refused to answer dire … | Continue reading
As many as 74 countries around the world have been hit bya massive ransomware campaign that is demanding a $300 ransom per organization | Continue reading
Zach Gage's Typeshift [Free] is a very clever take on word games, and I've quite enjoyed playing it. If you haven't played the game, you should first check out our review of it before reading the rest of this article. In a recent blog post, Gage talked about the game's design pro … | Continue reading
Since the end of April, a number of people in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo have become sick with an “undiagnosed illness,” and three people have died as a result. Yesterday, the country’s Ministry of Health told the World Health Organization that one of the deaths wa … | Continue reading
Let an illustrator loose in a museum with a popular mobile app and all hell breaks loose. Olly Gibbs, a freelance illustrator from London recently visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam armed with his trusty mobile phone and FaceApp, a popular application with technology similar to … | Continue reading
Continuing its massive spending spree in Europe, the global technology and media investment conglomerate, Naspers, has invested €387 million ($421.3 million) in the online food ordering and delivery business Delivery Hero. Read More | Continue reading
Google is once again trying to solve the problem of slow Android updates, and this time, the company says it has a solution that’ll make it “easier, faster, and less costly for manufacturers” to update their phones to new versions of Android.The answer is a feature inside of Andr … | Continue reading
As with all ransomware attacks, the only surefire ways to resolve the issue are to either pay the ransom or hope you have a backup.The post New Ransomware Attack Used Leaked NSA Exploits to Hit NHS appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading
Slate columnist Dahlia Lithwick brilliantly shut down Sen. Mike Lee of Utah for his “suggestion” that Democrats should back Judge Merrick Garland of the D.C. Circuit as James Comey’s replacement at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Lee however, should be careful what he wish … | Continue reading
Sometimes, being a researcher is repetitive and boring — all those lab tests and mice studies. And sometimes, being a researcher means shearing alpacas for science.If you’re not familiar with alpacas, they are camel-like animals native to South America, and they are known for the … | Continue reading
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Google is rolling out a server-side update to its Maps app for Android that integrates Street View images in turn-by-turn directions. | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Today, the NIO EP9 set a new lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, achieving a lap time of 6m 45.900s (six minutes, 45.900 seconds). This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/ … | Continue reading
Bitcoin's price took a dip today, falling more than $100 at points in what was one of its worst days in recent weeks.Source | Continue reading
Xiaomi is increasing its office retail presence in China as bids to gain ground stolen by rivals in its homeland, and now it is making that very same push in its second largest market, India. The Chinese company, which is valued at $45 billion, suffered a tough time last year as … | Continue reading
GUEST: In 2016, Facebook took the bot world by storm when it opened up its Messenger platform to developers. Then came Amazon’s voice-controlled Alexa, and the hype shifted towards all things voice. So noticeable was the shift that New York-based startup studio Betaworks rebrande … | Continue reading
Facebook is taking the headache out of screening new Group members by letting admins ask them specific questions when they request entry. According to TechCrunch, Group admins can now screen prospective members by setting three questions, which can be answered in up to 250 charac … | Continue reading
Just because we live in an age of many sensors doesn’t mean we always have the right one for the job. One in particular we’ve been lacking is a radar system that can detect obstacles and aircraft hundreds of meters out, yet fit comfortably on a small drone. The laws of physics, … | Continue reading
This month, as part of our ongoing series about how technology is transforming civic life, we asked readers to share their own thoughts on two important questions: Is technology hurting democracy? And can technology help save democracy?One reader, John, worries that passively exp … | Continue reading
A ransomware attack seemingly based on leaked NSA hacking tools is spreading like wildfire among unpatched Windows systems worldwide. Early reports suggested it was targeted at the UK’s National Health Service, but it’s clear now that the attack is a global one, with thousands o … | Continue reading
Aerones is a Latvian company that specializes in drones that can carry really heavy weights — up to 100 kilograms, according to the company’s website. If their name sounds familiar to you, it’s because they came up with the bright idea to tow a snowboarder with one of their drone … | Continue reading
When NASA’s next big rocket launches for the first time, chances are good it won’t have people on board.For the last two months, the space agency has been studying what it would take to fly a crew of two on the maiden flight of the Space Launch System, or SLS — the monster rocket … | Continue reading
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Nike announced new hard iPhone 7 cases this week that’ll appeal to all sneakerheads. The cases feature the same sole design as two of the company’s most popular sneakers: the Roshe and Air Force 1. The Roshe case is available in either a bright red or seafoam green while the Air … | Continue reading
Forcing people awaiting trial to pay bail in order to get out jail is, to say the least, a flawed way of pursuing justice. The accused or their family can be required to put down money in order to return home as they await a trial (which can take months, years, or never even happ … | Continue reading
Can you live without Facebook? Yes, you can. And life will go on just like the days before Facebook came into your life and sucked up all your attention.This week's MashTalk is hosted by Tech Editor Pete Pachal, with commentary from Senior Tech Correspondent Raymond Wong and Tech … | Continue reading
AI is the new bogeyman. That’s one of the observations we got from a fireside chat between venture capitalist Tim Chang and science fiction novelist Eliot Peper, who spoke about “Are we living in science fiction?” at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech c … | Continue reading
Amazon seems to have made a significant oversight in bringing voice calls and messaging to its Echo speakers: there’s no way to block communication that you might not want. So long as someone has your phone number and the Alexa mobile app (which requires an Amazon account), that … | Continue reading
While I’ve been to several national and state parks around the US, I’ve never visited a national marine sanctuary — protected areas off the US coasts and in the Great Lakes. I’ve never scuba dived or snorkeled, so these marine “parks” are not as accessible to me. But now I can ju … | Continue reading
A Russian fan of Pokémon Go was given a suspended sentence this week for playing the mobile game in a church, which the court claims was a crime. | Continue reading
If you’ve been meaning to pick up a copy of Alan Wake, you’d best do it soon. Remedy Entertainment announced that its popular 2010 psychological thriller game is getting removed from all digital storefronts on both Xbox and PC platforms on May 15th, when the developer’s rights t … | Continue reading
This week, Tesla launched pre-orders for its solar roof tiles, Snap Inc. stumbled through its first earnings report and Apple bought up a small sleep tracking startup. These are a few of the top stories from this week, plus some longer weekend reads. 1. Tesla’s highly anticipate … | Continue reading