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Hackers find creative way to steal $7.7 million without being detected
Thieves obtain platform's private key, use it to destroy coins, then create new ones.
How Steve Jobs and Bill Gates defined a decade of tech—according to CNN’s The 2000s
In its new doc, the evolution of tech in the 2000s somewhat boils down to Steve vs. Bill.
Google Pixel 3 rumors: More pictures leak, hints of smart display dock surface
"Pixel Stand" sounds like it will turn the Pixel 3 into a Google Assistant display.
Click on this iOS phishing scam and you’ll be connected to “Apple Care”
Scam website launched phone call, connected victims to "Lance Roger at Apple Care."
Gran Turismo Sport, revisited: More tracks, more cars, more everything
Regular updates have fixed most of the complaints we had at the game's launch.
Pedestrians are a hard problem for self-driving cars—here’s one solution
Self-driving cars need to understand pedestrians. This startup wants to help.
Amazon: Cops should set confidence level on facial recognition to 99%
Amazon also calls government's input a "very reasonable idea."
Neural network implemented with light instead of electrons
Can do basic character, object recognition.
Garmin Fenix 5S Plus review: So capable, so enviable, so expensive
Garmin demonstrates just how much a fitness wearable can do—for the right price.
Review: Azul, board game of the year?
A modern "classic" is born.
Hollow Knight beats Metroid, Dark Souls at their own brutal game
Harsh restrictions, subtle lessons make this platformer an excellent teacher.
Intel says not to expect mainstream 10nm chips until 2H19
Intel is going to be building 14nm chips for a long time yet.
Re-testing the MacBook Pro: Apple’s firmware update led to a big improvement
The new MacBook Pro now behaves as expected, but there are still limitations.
Lando, Luke, and Leia (non-CGI) return for Star Wars: Episode IX
J.J. Abrams: "We were never going to recast, or use a CG character."
Daily Beast: Russian hackers targeted Democrat facing tough 2018 election
Senator Claire McCaskill was one of three candidates targeted in spear-phishing campaign.
Facebook’s “downvote” system begins rolling out wider in US—here’s how it works
Includes clear dictate to "demote" comments that are "uncivil or irrelevant."
NY orders Charter out of state, says it must sell Time Warner Cable system
After broadband failures, NY gives Charter 60 days to plan for exit from state.
Why do so many moms die and suffer in the US? Stupid negligence
It really is down to things like ignoring critical blood pressure levels—for hours.
Comcast installed Wi-Fi gear without approval—and this city is not happy
After Comcast broke a city's rules, cable lobby asked FCC to preempt them.
Dealmaster: A few good deals from Best Buy’s “Black Friday in July” sale
Best Buy's take on Prime Day is live today; we scoured the site for what's good.
Alex Jones slammed with 30-day ban from Facebook for hateful videos [Update]
But you'll probably see new content posted to Jones' and InfoWars' pages.
After 25 years, military told to move from “expendable” to “reusable” rockets
This is a big boon for SpaceX after more than a decade of fighting.
It’s too soon to tell if the Great Barrier Reef’s bleaching was a catastrophe
After widespread coral bleaching in 2016, progress depends on where you look.
Ebola mysteriously hid in a woman for more than a year before spreading
The study highlights the risk of Ebola “flare-ups” well after outbreaks declared over.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout review: Fall into Cruise’s best in years
Film's lens is aimed less at high tech, more at practical effects, amazing scenery.
How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
Latest Mueller indictment offers excruciating details to confirm known election pwnage.
Rocket Report: SpaceX doubles up, European resistance, condensed Kármán
Lots of rocket action around the world this week.
Amazon wrongly IDed 28 members of Congress, and they’re not happy about it
Sen. Markey and others ask Amazon to show how it tests Rekognition for "racial bias."
Nintendo’s next Labo kit coming in Sept, looks like next-gen Pilotwings
Drive, swim, fly with Nintendo's third crack at build-your-own cardboard-gaming toys.
Californian, Hawaiian homeowners charging ahead on residential batteries
Utility-based installations stalled, however.
HTC, amidst a major revenue decline, brags about its VR revenue
Post uses one quarter's revenue to tell a story—and only as percentages, no less.
New Spectre attack enables secrets to be leaked over a network
It's no longer necessary to run attacker code on the victim system.
Shipping company’s networks in the Americas crippled by ransomware attack
China's state-owned COSCO gives customers Yahoo addresses to use in the meantime.
Neanderthals used stone hand axes to strike a light
It turns out that Neanderthals knew how to light fires as well as any modern hiker.
Burglar wakes up couple to ask to use their Wi-Fi network
Burglar said he needed network access because he was "out of data."
Virgin’s Unity spaceship sets a new altitude record of 52 kilometers
"The views of Earth from the black sky were magnificent.”
Dealmaster: Get a Dell desktop PC with an 8th-gen Core i3 for $330
Plus deals on Sony's PlayStation VR, the Apple Watch, Xbox Live Gold, and more.
NY threatens to kick Charter out of the state after broadband failures
NY: Charter lied about failure to meet merger commitment, faces loss of license.
Tesla’s cash crunch, explained
Tesla has burned through billions. Can it survive without raising more cash?
Windows 10 will try not to reboot when you’re just grabbing a cup of coffee
New system will try not to reboot when you're expected to return to your computer soon.
Denis Villeneuve is remaking Dune, and that’s a good thing
Frank Herbert's sprawling sci-fi epic is being made into another movie.
Lenovo Smart Display review: The Google Assistant now has a face
The first smart display with the Google Assistant is here—is it worth $249?
YouTube comes down on Alex Jones for hate speech, child endangerment content
As Facebook figures out how to treat inflammatory content, YouTube cracks down harder.
British man unwittingly gave Russian nerve agent to his girlfriend as a gift
Authorities investigating likelihood of multiple, hidden stashes of the deadly poison.
Amazon’s Rekognition messes up, matches 28 lawmakers to mugshots
ACLU: "And running the entire test cost us $12.33—less than a large pizza."
Decade-old Bluetooth flaw lets hackers steal data passing between devices
Serious error in the wireless protocol also lets hackers tamper with data.
Facebook stock dives nearly 20% on warning of slow revenue growth
But, Facebook's quarterly profits were up quite a lot: 31% year over year.
Leaked benchmarks show Intel is dropping hyperthreading from i7 chips
i7 chips will have 8 cores and 8 threads, leaving the 8 core/16 thread combination for the i9.
The genetics of education: 1,271 genes account for 10% of the variation
But collectively, they're less important than your parents' education.
Snoopware installed by 11 million+ iOS, Android, Chrome, and Firefox users
All of the apps appear to have been recently acquired by a little-known company.
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