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Tool That Can Mass-Hijack Google Chromecast Was Uploaded to Github

The Crashcast hacking tool was published on Github as a warning to Chromecast owners that they should not leave the devices connected to the Internet.

By Laura Tucker – Jan 4, 2019

New Plans for USB-C Will Add Authentication System and Be More Secure

The USB Implementers Forum has come up with a plan to add an authenticatino system that it believes will make USB-C connections more secure.

By Laura Tucker – Jan 3, 2019

New Apple Patent Shows Company Is Looking to Expand into Smart Clothing

A new patent filing for “smart clothing” shows that Apple is looking to get back into the innovation game. They have also filed patents for a ride-sharing system and a multiplayer gaming system.

By Laura Tucker – Jan 2, 2019

Stick to Your New Year’s Resolution to Stay Fit with Google Fit 30-Day Challenge

If you want to make sure you stick to your New Year’s resolution for 2019 to get fit, you can join the Google Fit 30-Day Challenge and create healthy habits.

By Laura Tucker – Jan 1, 2019

Microsoft Reportedly Working on 4K Webcams for Windows and Xbox

Microsoft is rumoured to be releasing their own 4K webcam products soon. These will be specifically designed to help with Windows Hello logins.

By Simon Batt – Dec 31, 2018

New Malware Uses Twitter Memes as Command Center

A new malware was discovered that uses Twitter and meme as its command center. Here’s how it works and how to protect yourself.

By Simon Batt – Dec 24, 2018

Complaint Lodged with FTC Over Google Play Store Allowing “Inappropriate” Kids Apps

A group of consumer advocations filed a complaint with the FTC alleging parents were misled by “inappropriate” kids apps on the Google Play Store.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 19, 2018

22 Malware-Infected Android Apps with 2 Million Downloads Pulled from Play Store

One strain of malware was found on 22 apps with over 2 million downloads before it was taken off of the market. This has caused some concern over how Google vets their apps.

By Simon Batt – Dec 17, 2018

Apple News Could Launch Subscription Service Next Spring

Regardless of the lack of support fro news outlets and users, Apple is planning on launching the new Apple News subscription service next spring.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 13, 2018

Molotov Will Allow French TV Viewers to Join a VR Coffee Shop and Watch TV with Friends

Do you sometimes binge-watch your favorite show and wish you could watch it with a friend? You can with Molotov Together, a VR café.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 12, 2018

Ericsson Expired Certificate Took Smartphones Offline in 11 Countries

Ericsson admitting in a blog post that they were responsible for millions of phones in 11 countries going offline after they allowed a certificate to expire.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 10, 2018

Microsoft Wants Facial Recognition to Be Regulated to Prevent Bias

6 months ago Microsoft was fixing their facial recognition software to prevent bias, and now they want to have legislation passed to prevent it happening again.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 7, 2018

New Mobile App Will Detect Anemia with Just Your Fingernails

A new mobile app can detect anemia by just using the camera to examine the user’s fingernails, all without the normally required blood test.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 6, 2018

Google Denies DuckDuckGo’s Claim It’s Following You When Incognito Is On

DuckDuckGo suggests that Google tracks users to deliver personalized search results, even with Incognito turned on. Google disputes this claim.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 5, 2018

Quora Is Next Site to Have User Data Compromised

The website Quora published a blog entry on their site stating they were hacked and had their user data compromised but want to be transparent about the process.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 4, 2018

Some Online Help Agents Are Watching You Type in Chat

What are online help agents so quick to answer you? They know what you’re typing before you click “Send” because they are watching you type.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 3, 2018

Dell.com Hit with Cyber Attack, then Resets All Customer Passwords

Dell.com was hit by a cyber attack t his month when it discovered hackers trying to steal customer data. Five day slater they reset all customer passwords.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 29, 2018

YouTube Deleting Annotations on Videos in January

It’s been awhile since you’ve been able to add annotations to YouTube videos, and now YouTube annotations are going to be removed altogether.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 28, 2018

Amazon Making Same Machine-Learning Courses that Instruct Engineers Available for Free

Amazon announced on Cyber Monday they are making the same machine-learning courses they use to instruct their own engineers available for free.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 27, 2018

Google Discovered Malware Apps in Play Store That Were Downloaded More than 500,000 Times

Google removed 13 malware apps from the Play Store, but this was after it was discovered the Google malware apps were downloaded 500.000 times.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 26, 2018

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In 1969, László Bélády and two IBM colleagues published a paging-machine anomaly showing FIFO could make four memory frames suffer ten page faults after three frames suffered nine, leaving generations of operating-systems students staring at the moment more memory became the wrong answer

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In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago, evidence that Neanderthals had walked 336 metres into darkness with fire and built architecture deep underground long before modern humans reached Europe

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Otto von Bismarck was 74 when Germany adopted the world’s first national old-age social insurance program in 1889, setting the pension age at 70 after years of fighting socialists with bans, laws, and a promise few workers would live long enough to use

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When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.

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When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.

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