Gerüchte wurden bestätigt: Die erfolgreiche TV-Serie von HBO, «Game of Thrones», soll im kommenden Jahr auch als Videospiel erscheinen.
Spione sollen während Jahren undercover in Spielwelten wie «Second Life» und «World of Warcraft» auf Informationssuche gegangen sein.
Die Fuji Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic stellt Fotos innerhalb einer Minute her. Die Fotos haben zwar einen netten Retrocharme, sind aber sehr klein.
Über eine Schweizer Firma mahnen Unternehmer Tausende deutsche Pornokonsumenten ab. Erstmals treffen Abmahnungen somit auch Streamkonsumenten und nicht nur Filesharer.
Smartphone-Dauernutzer können im Strassenverkehr schwere Unfälle verursachen - sogar, wenn sie nicht motorisiert sind. Eine japanische App soll nun Fussgänger sensibilisieren.
Via App werden während der Fahrt Daten zur Geschwindigkeit, den Umdrehungen und dem Aufenthaltsort dazu verwendet, im Auto zum Fahrstil passende Musik abzuspielen.
Was das Wissen über Risiken zum Umgang mit dem Internet betrifft, sind viele Eltern ratlos. Der Kurzfilm «Liebe Sex 2.0» soll aufklären.
Eine neue App erstellt automatisch eine Chronik aus persönlichen und intimen Momenten. Im Gegensatz zu sozialen Plattformen erhalten Drittpersonen keinen Einblick in die Alben.
Mit findigen Tricks zur guten Note: Dank Smartwatches wird Mogeln bei Prüfungen einfacher. Kontrollen seien schwierig, so ein Entwickler.
Nutzer von Internettauschbörsen sollen rechtlich belangt werden können. Dies schlägt die Arbeitsgruppe zur Modernisierung des Urheberrechts vor, die Bundesrätin Sommaruga gründete.
Unauffälliger soll sie sein und cooler aussehen: Google hat seine Datenbrille nochmals überarbeitet. Die Entwickler dürfen nun die neue Version testen.
Smartphones sollen zukünftig auch dreidimensionale Objekte scannen können. So die Vision von Forschern der ETH, die das Verfahren erstmals präsentiert haben.
Alles, was vor die Kamera kommt, wird in Zahlen, Buchstaben und Sonderzeichen abgebildet. Ein Designbüro hat den ASCII-Code zur Kunstform erhoben.
Aus Sicherheitsgründen darf der US-Präsident kein iPhone als Diensthandy verwenden. Trotzdem kann er nicht auf Apple-Gadgets verzichten: Privat surft Obama auch mit seinem iPad.
The carrier's data roaming plans will include LTE service, but only in Canada for now.
Expect to hear a lot about 4K television from Sony at January’s International CES show in Las Vegas. The company will make existing and new 4K products the central theme of its presentation at the event as it gears up for a major push of the technology in 2014, Phil Molyneux, president of Sony Electronics, told reporters in a briefing in San Francisco on Sunday. ”We’re the only company in the world that allows you to shoot 4K content, edit it on our computers, play it back on our 4K TVs via HDMI,” he said. “We’ve built that eco-system out together with Vegas Pro so that people can come to Sony and have that unique experience.” Sony is the only consumer electronics company to touch so many areas of the broadcast, movie and TV content chain. Through Sony Pictures it makes movies, its television arm produces several popular TV shows, it produces video hardware from professional through consumer for capturing content, and sells the televisions used to watch it.
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The luxury sedan, to be announced officially next week, will be able to stop, go, and maintain its lane automatically in slow traffic, as well as read traffic signs.
An intermediate certificate authority (CA) registered to the French Ministry of Finance issued rogue certificates for several Google domains without authorization. Google detected the use of the unauthorized certificates and launched an investigation Dec. 3, Adam Langley, a security engineer at Google, said Saturday in a . The intermediate CA that issued the rogue certificates linked back to the Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI), a French national agency that protects government systems against cyberattacks and also operates the French government’s public key infrastructure and root certificate authority called IGC/A. Web browsers use a chain of certificates to determine if a secure website is authentic. Fake SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates are used by hackers, but they also are sometimes used for internal surveillance purposes that do not have nefarious aims, such as the case with the French Ministry.
Qualcomm has made its Gimbal sensors or “proximity beacons” commercially available as part of the company’s context-aware platform, which lets, for example, retailers see when a customer has entered a store. A mobile app can be enabled to look for the beacon’s transmission. When it’s within physical proximity to the beacon and detects it, the app can notify the user of location-relevant content, promotions, and offers, according to Qualcomm. The beacons use Bluetooth Smart technology to communicate with smartphones and tablets at distances of up to 50 meters. To allow companies to integrate Gimbal with their apps, there is a dedicated SDK (software development kit). The beacons support iOS today with planned support for Android. The Gimbal package also includes a management platform. Qualcomm isn’t the only company that sees big potential for this kind of location-based marketing—Apple rolled out its iBeacon location services technology, which is also based on Bluetooth, to its 254 U.S. stores, it .
From Nelson Mandela to the Harlem Shake, Facebook recaps the year's most-discussed topics around the world.
Removing your private information from one site isn't particularly difficult, but it can be a hassle. You have to go to the site, search for your own name, and make sure you're there. Then you have to find the site's privacy policy page and read it carefully--a task that isn't always easy if you're not a lawyer. Then you have to follow the instructions. When you're done, it's time to go on to the next site.
If your tree isn't trimmed or egg fully nogged until it's accompanied by oceans of holiday music, we can help you find the stuff by the stockingful.
Every year, the world celebrates the holiday season by overeating, finding that perfect gift for grandma, and flying cross-country to visit family while stuffed into tiny economy seats on the cheapest airlines available. Air travel is more challenging than ever, what with soaring fees and flights crammed to capacity, but at least the airlines are investing more money in the in-flight entertainment, otherwise known as IFE. Indeed, TV shows and movies are emerging as the best medicine for easing the pain of midflight misery. Of course, IFE has been around for decades, but a multibillion dollar industry focused on the technology has emerged over the last ten years or so. Major firms such as are creating complex systems, delivering entertainment that wasn’t possible even a few years ago. While experienced air travelers might think of IFE as a modern concept—a trend that began with the proliferation of cheap touchscreens and digital video—the basic premise actually dates all the way back to the 1930s. Airships such as the Hindenburg offered lounges, bars, and even a dining room. While piano bars on massive airships may no longer be the mainstay of aviation (dig the “Mad Man” era image below), IFE eventually evolved into movies projected onto the bulkheads of aircraft.
Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo and Microsoft said Monday that they understand that governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety and security, but “strongly believe that current laws and practices need to be reformed.” Internet companies have been at the focus of , which suggested that the agency had real-time access to content on the servers of some Internet companies and was also tapping into the communications links between the data centers of Yahoo and Google. The companies deny complicity in the NSA’s dragnet surveillance, and some have asked permission from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to disclose aggregate information on security requests for user data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Everybody knows, or ought to know, about the risks of being hacked. But it’s easy to slip into a level of denial about an amorphous threat and get careless if you don’t think anybody is out specifically to get you. But what if a group of somebodies is out to get you, and you know they are and exactly who they are, because you arranged for them to try? That is what New York University Professor and PandoDaily editor Adam Penenberg did with Trustwave’s advanced research and ethical hacking team, SpiderLabs. He challenged them to conduct a personal “pen test” on him. Adam Penenberg And the answer, at least in his case, is that knowing that they were out to get him didn’t stop them. He got hacked. As he wrote, in , while conducting a class at NYU, “without warning, my computer freezes.
Distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial firms and other industries have been mounting, so last week the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced it is establishing the Anti-Bot Working Group to help fight this threat. The CSA, the organization formed to set standards for best practices and security in has set up the Anti-Bot Working Group because crippling DDoS attacks launched against business websites and networks often originate within hosting facilities that have been compromised. It happens when attackers remotely take over the hosting provider’s servers in order to direct streams of destructive traffic at a target. Shelbi Rombout Shelbi Rombout, senior vice president and partnership executive for cybersecurity at US Bank, is chairing the CSA’s Anti-Bot Working Group, and she describes it as an effort to raise awareness about the problem and push for ways to through cloud-based facilities.
Once upon a time some Carnegie Mellon University researchers came up with a scheme to use stories and pictures to help users live happily ever after by creating and remembering dozens of passwords and avoiding use of the exact same passwords for multiple sites. The trick, though, is that users need to repeat and practice those one-sentence stories a lot at the start so that the tales and related images stick in their heads. The photos serve as mnemonic devices to trigger memories of the stories and words that can be used to Jeremiah Blocki ”If you can memorize nine stories, our system can generate distinct passwords for 126 accounts,” says Jeremiah Blocki, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department, in a statement regarding these “naturally rehearsing passwords.”