Got a new drone? You’re not alone. Some estimates say hundreds of thousands of the craft will be sold before the end of 2015. But drones aren’t like other gadgets that you can figure out without reading the instruction manual. You’ll get most out of your drone if you take it easy and conduct a few low test flights as you practice the possible controls and maneuvers. You should consider flying lessons and joining a local flying club, where you can learn more about flight and model aircraft. But you probably can’t wait to get it into the air, so remember there are a few important safety, privacy and legal guidelines you need to follow to keep you and your drone out of trouble.
Earlier this week Oracle Roughly 100 low-income families were hastily evicted this summer from an apartment complex on the land in order to make it available for the sale to Oracle, according to Though some of the former tenants of Lakeview Apartments had leases through the end of the year, they were reportedly forced by owner Cypress Real Estate Advisors to move out early. Some have said their security deposits were not returned, and they have had no assistance as they've struggled to find comparably priced housing.
Although Mozilla is Arguably the most interesting of these plans is the “Firefox Pi,” a keyboard with a
Microsoft’s It’s great that Microsoft wants to hear directly from its users, but the operating system's begging prompts pop-up far too often. Besides, if you’ve really got something to say, Windows 10 has the built-in Windows Feedback app you can fire up any time to contribute your opinion.
University researchers are claiming a bandwidth breakthrough with the first light-based microprocessor that communicates with conventional electronic circuitry. While
Hyatt Hotels has asked customers to review their payment card account statements closely, after it detected malware on the computers that run its payment-processing systems at locations it manages. The hotel chain did not provide more details on the breach, including the number of customers that might have been affected, but it appears from the alert to customers that hackers may have obtained critical credit card information. Hyatt is the latest in a number of companies in the hospitality industry, including
It’s a frightening moment to watch and a sober reminder of the danger of drones. On Tuesday evening at an Alpine Ski World Cup event in Italy, a large drone carrying a TV camera crashed into the snow a fraction of a second after Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher had passed the point of impact. Had it fallen on the skier or directly in front of him, he would almost certainly have sustained major injuries. The drone was
Assuming you have a smartphone, there’s a very good chance that your photos are in the cloud somewhere. But with an old-fashioned cell phone, the chances are pretty much nil. I assume you’ve already tried the obvious—using another phone to call yours, and listen for the ring. But that won’t help if the phone is really lost, so let’s concentrate on where, aside from your phone, those photos may be. If you’re trying to retrieve photos from a phone still in your possession, you may want to read
Google's wrist-based computing platform got a whole lot better over the last year.
Baby it’s cold outside. Let’s stay inside and watch some great films.
The presents are wrapped, the tree is up, and the stockings will soon be hung by the chimney with care. There’s only one thing left to do: track Santa’s annual voyage around the world from your PC, smartphone, or tablet. Santa officially began his annual trek around 10 a.m. UTC on December 24, which is 5 a.m. Eastern/2 a.m. Pacific, which means you can already track Ol’ Saint Nick across the Earth’s skies. Here’s how to keep tabs on Santa’s 2015 journey. It’s a special year for the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) Santa tracker and its partner since 2012, Microsoft. In 2015, NORAD celebrates 60 years since a misprinted telephone number in a newspaper ad led children in the Colorado Spring area to call NORAD predecessor CONAD looking for Santa.
If you work in finance or accounting and receive an email from your boss asking you to transfer some funds to an external account, you might want to think twice. That's because so-called "whaling" attacks—a refined kind of phishing in which hackers use spoofed or similar-sounding domain names to make it look like the emails they send are from your CFO or CEO -- are on the rise, according to security firm Mimecast. In fact, 55 percent of the 442 IT professionals Mimecast surveyed this month said their organizations have seen an increase in the volume of whaling attacks over the last three months, the firm reported on Wednesday. Those organizations spanned the U.S., U.K., South Africa and Australia.
Marshmallow, Marshmallow, Marshmallow. It’s what’s on almost every Android user’s mind these days, and if it’s not on your mind it’s probably because you’re still waiting for it to hit your device. Certain South Koreans wielding a Samsung Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 Edge are in luck, though. A Vietnamese Samsung fan site
A new Apple TV app called Littlstar is putting the remote’s touchpad to clever use with a set of interactive 360-degree videos. The free app lets users swipe around on the touchpad to look around in a variety of video settings. For instance, there’s a concert video of Robert Hill & the Muskogee Four in which you sit among the band, and a flyover tour of Iceland from the outside of a helicopter. As Gizmodo
Up until this morning I was going to award Okay, let me explain what the hell is going on here. One of the most pervasive legends of World War I is that in 1914 both sides called for
T-Mobiles’ Binge On program has gone too far by throttling all streaming video traffic regardless of data plan or network congestion, according to a group of tech industry heavyweights. The Internet Association—a group that counts Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Facebook among its members—claims that T-Mobile is Speaking
Cheap games, music, and movie rentals from Google Play are becoming as much of an annual holiday tradition as unwrapping presents or your aunt’s overcooked turkey. There are plenty of good deals to be had this year—Google Play is offering 75 percent off a single
By now, you’ve probably realized there’s little hope of finding a “The product schedule for Fiji Gemini had initially been aligned with consumer HMD [head-mounted display] availability, which had been scheduled for Q415,” AMD told AnandTech. “HMDs are now expected to be available to consumers by early Q216...we’re adjusting the Fiji Gemini launch schedule to better align with the market.”
Microsoft is still having trouble getting its Surface Hub out the door, announcing a second shipping delay and a $2,000 price hike for new orders. The
Santa isn’t the only thing that you can track traveling across the globe on Thursday. Legendary music makers Beginning Thursday, subscribers to Amazon Prime Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play Music, Microsoft Groove, Rhapsody/Napster, Slacker, Spotify, and Tidal can have a wonderful Christmas time with John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Pandora subscribers can already hear Beatles songs on their radio stations randomly since Pandora does not offer on-demand streaming as the other services do.
Some payment terminals can be hijacked to commit mass fraud against customers and merchants, researchers have found. The terminals, used predominantly in Germany but also elsewhere in Europe, were designed without following best security principles, leaving them vulnerable to a number of attacks. Researchers from Berlin-based Security Research Labs (SRLabs)