A little more power and a lot more battery for the BMW i8’s mid-life refresh
Battery capacity is now up to 11.2kWh, and the electric motor makes an extra 12hp.
View ArticleDNA from an escaped slave who ended up in Iceland ID’d in his descendants
The genetic jigsaw puzzle of an ex-slave in Iceland.
View ArticleEpic admits that Fortnite’s success may seal another F2P game’s fate
Major updates to the “action MOBArdquo; Paragon may never come thanks to Fortnite.
View ArticleWhat’s new in AWS Lambda: Go and .Net Core support
Amazon Web Services has added Google’s Go language (Golang) to the roster of supported language on its AWS Lamdba serverless computing platform.Also added is support for Microsoft’s .Net Core 2.0 when...
View ArticleThe Windows 10 control panel modernization continues: Fonts get some love
A few more decades-old bits of Windows are getting removed.
View ArticleHospital injects $60,000 into crims’ coffers to cure malware infection
Medics say they couldn't wait for backups to be pulled as ransomware ransacked kit A US hospital paid extortionists roughly $60,000 to end a ransomware outbreak that forced staff to use...
View ArticleBrandPost: The Complex State of Hybrid IT: How to Make It Simple
By Chris Purcell, Analyst Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Usually in January, the President of the United States delivers the annual State of the Union address – a speech mandated by the...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome extensions with 500,000 downloads found to be malicious
Google removes four extensions that used infected computers in click fraud scheme.
View ArticleBIND comes apart thanks to ancient denial-of-service vuln
No active exploits, but crashes are happening in the wild Back in 2000, a bug crept into the Internet Systems Corporation's BIND server, and it lay unnoticed until now.…
View ArticleFormer Santander bank manager pleads guilty to computer misuse crimes
Customer details spilled to boyfriend A former Santander bank manager has pleaded guilty to £15,000 worth of computer misuse crimes after her boyfriend talked her into giving him illicitly obtained...
View ArticleCryptocurrency bloodbath continues as bitcoin falls below $10,000
For second day in a row every major cryptocurrency suffers double-digit losses.
View ArticleMini-thermometers may help guide future tumor-killing
Gold nanorods do it all: Imaging, treatment, and monitoring of tumor-killing.
View ArticleMeteor lights up southern Michigan
A relatively slow-moving rock flames out with a bang.
View ArticleThe 2019 Audi A7 is a sleek-looking sportback with some pretty cool tech
Very clever lights and driverless techmdash;but both subject to regulatory approval.
View Article“Free TV” box lawyer says video industry is “digging its own grave”
A win for “Dragon Boxrdquo; would be bad legal precedent for industry, lawyer says.
View ArticleHTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to...
This language is wired for sound Usenix Enigma HTML5 is a boon for unscrupulous web advertising networks, which can use the markup language's features to build up detailed fingerprints of individual...
View ArticleWho’s using 2FA? Sweet FA. Less than 1 in 10 Gmail users enable two-factor...
Your daily dose of digital depression Usenix Enigma It has been nearly seven years since Google introduced two-factor authentication for Gmail accounts, but virtually no one is using it.…
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Production system troubleshooting 101: it’s not...
One of the biggest misconceptions about troubleshooting systems is that it requires deep, specific technical knowledge to locate and solve production issues.This assumption can often result in...
View ArticleWith HomePod around the corner, Siri’s “give me the news” feature exits beta
The new feature is likely groundwork for the upcoming launch of HomePods.
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