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Travis Kalanick to take time out following bereavement and release of a damning report. Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick has announced that he is to take an indefinite leave of absence, to grieve for his recently deceased mother and, to take time away from the company following the release of... Read more
Search giant says move is part of its efforts to ‘maintain a sustainable web for everyone’. Google’s ‘Funding Choices’, which launches in multiple markets and countries in the coming weeks, will let users decide: turn off your ad blocker or make a small payment to the site. If you’ve... Read more
Homero Joshua Garza is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, following fraud allegation. GAW Miners and ZenMiner’s founder Homero Joshua Garza is being sued by the SEC, following a civil complaint alleging that the Bitcoin mining companies run by Garza and his brother, Carlos Garza, committed $19 million worth... Read more
New console the most powerful – and most expensive – in the world. Microsoft has unveiled its latest games console, imaginatively titled, the Xbox One X, ahead of this year’s E3 2017 event. Previously known under the name “Project Scorpio,” news of the Xbox One X was first confirmed... Read more
Welcome To The US, Show Us Your Facebook
NewsSocial Media June 12, 2017
New regulations allow border agents to view your social media accounts to decide entry. In a highly criticized move based on paranoia and vote-pandering, new regulations in the US can allow border agents to view your social media accounts prior to allowing you entry. While the “questionnaire,” as it’s so... Read more
Incident said to relate to Uber driver in India. In early December 2014, an Uber driver took a woman to an isolated area and raped her, a Delhi court found. Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber driver, was convicted in October 2015 for rape and kidnapping, and was sentenced to... Read more
Russian Hackers Hide Malware Links In Britney Spears’ Instagram Page
AntivirusNewsSocial Media June 9, 2017
Links were hidden in comments on the photo-sharing site. As Instagram marches relentlessly forward to achieving 1 billion users later this year, Russian hackers have found to have been using the comments section of Britney Spears’ Instagram account to communicate and co-ordinate malware attacks. Research by Security firm Eset found... Read more
HomePod combines Apple Music and natural voice interaction with Siri. As consumers, we can argue that a lot of the “new” technology launched in competitive retail isn’t really all that new. Certainly some eye-opening innovations come along every few years – many of us still remember the first time we held... Read more
Number of Judy malware victims hits staggering total. Google Play customers, beware: more than 30 million Android devices are believed to have been infected with Judy Malware, a seemingly benign virus as far as bad guys go. A new report found that a lone company has 41 apps up on... Read more
Save 13 percent on Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
News June 7, 2017
Enjoy 13% off Acrobat Pro Document Cloud with Adobe and FileHippo! We’ve teamed up with Adobe to bring you this this fantastic offer – which is available NOW and is open to new subscribers. Promising to ‘change the way you work with important business documents forever’, Adobe Acrobat Pro Document Cloud... Read more
Claim centres on its anti-virus being disabled by Windows 10 upgrade. The Russian security software maker Kaspersky Labs, has filed antitrust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission, the German federal cartel office, and the Russian anti-monopoly office. Kaspersky claims that Microsoft is exploiting its dominant market share with... Read more
AI bows-out after comprehensively defeating the world’s greatest human Go players. The AlphaGo Artificial Intelligence developed by Alphabet (Google) owned DeepMind, beat Chinese grand-master Ke Jie 3 games to 0 at the Future of Go Summit in the Wuhzen province of China earlier this month. Ke Jie was merely the... Read more
Added to list of US states where autonomous self driving cars could soon be navigating the streets. Current Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has announced that the New York Department of Motor Vehicles is now taking applications from companies that wish to test self-driving tech on the state’s public... Read more
Chief executive of StoreDot, Doron Myersdorf, says you will. Thr technology required to fully charge your mobile phone in just 300 seconds could be on the market and in the smartphone in your hand by 2018. That is at least, according to the boss of Israeli firm behind the technology,... Read more
Beware The Global Domination Of Virtual Assistants
News June 5, 2017
Virtual assistants will surpass human population by 2021. Okay, we promise… no Will Smith I, Robot references. Well, maybe just a couple. A new report has brought us to the precipice of the dystopian sci-fi future in which fragile humans are easily bested – and vastly outnumbered – by... Read more
Three every-day items hold key to smartphone hack. Just when you think researchers have finally come up with a foolproof security scan method (and what could possibly be more secure than the eyes in your skull?) some fancy hackers have to go and prove it can be beaten. Even... Read more
German Court Rejects Parents Appeal To Access Dead Daughter’s Facebook Account
NewsSocial Media June 3, 2017
Berlin judge denies insight into 15-year-old’s social media activity. The parents of a dead 15-year-old who asked Facebook to allow them access to her account to see if she was being bullied before she died, and whether that may have played some role or not in her tragic death, have lost their claim... Read more
Convincing emails contained Word doc attachment that installed malicious software upon opening. When digital signature platform DocuSign suffered a data breach last month, the information that the hackers gained was pretty meaningless. While no data theft is without consequence, this one was minor when you compare it to hacking... Read more