[ad_1] In the fall of 2018, the hackers deployed a type of malware called Reign, which is linked to “Five Eyes,” an intelligence-sharing alliance comprised of the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It’s unclear which of those countries might be behind the breach, though. A Yandex spokesperson told Reuters that the hack was […]
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Lyft expands bike rentals to Washington DC
[ad_1] Lyft acquired Motivate, the company behind Citi Bike, Capital Bikeshare and Ford GoBike last year, and has aggressively pushed into the bike-sharing market. But there have been problems along the way, like unexpectedly strong brakes which required a recall of 1,000 electric bikes in April. In the DC area, the Capital Bikeshare service offers […]
Scientists trace a cosmic radio burst to a galaxy 3.6 billion light-years away
[ad_1] According to New Scientist, it was only by pure luck that all 36 Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) antennas were pointed in the same direction when it flashed. That gave the researchers involved a way to combine data from all of them and to figure out that the burst, called FRB 180924, came […]
House passes bill to protect election systems, but Senate passage is unlikely
[ad_1] The SAFE Act is the most recent attempt by Congress to respond to Russia’s hacking of US election systems outlined in the Mueller report. If passed, the bill would mandate the use of paper ballots and require all voting machines be made in the US. The bill would also authorize $600 million for states […]
NASA’s Dragonfly mission is sending an eight-rotor drone to Titan
[ad_1] BIG NEWS: The next @NASASolarSystem mission is… #Dragonfly – a rotorcraft lander mission to Saturn’s largest moon Titan. This ocean world is the only moon in our solar system with a dense atmosphere & we’re so excited to see what Dragonfly discovers: https://t.co/whePqbuGBq pic.twitter.com/BQdMhSZfgP — Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) June 27, 2019 Dragonfly is scheduled […]
Alphabet’s cybersecurity company Chronicle will join Google Cloud
[ad_1] Chronicle got its start as a project inside X, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” and it quickly spun into a standalone company. When Chronicle introduced Backstory this spring, the company compared it to Google Photos for cybersecurity. Users dump in data from various security products, and Backstory organizes the alerts and scans for legitimate threats. It’s […]
San Francisco’s grand plan to ban online e-cigarette sales
[ad_1] The board passed the legislation on Tuesday, and San Francisco Mayor London Breed has 10 days to sign it. She’s already said she will. When that happens, San Francisco will be the first US city to ban the sale of e-cigarettes. But, in a digital-first world, what does vaping prohibition actually look like? The […]
Apple Music now has 60 million paid subscribers
[ad_1] Apple Music now has 60 million paying subscribers. The company’s Eddy Cue, a senior vice president of services, confirmed the milestone with French business publication Numerama today. According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple also noted that Beats 1 has “tens of millions of listeners.” [ad_2] Source link
Google researchers trained AI with your Mannequin Challenge videos
[ad_1] While human depth perception isn’t duped by object motion, AI isn’t quite there yet. But generating enough clips to train AI would be difficult, and gathering enough people of different ages and genders creates an added challenge. That’s why the team turned to YouTube. If you participated in the Mannequin Challenge, there’s a chance […]
Axon won’t use facial recognition tech in its police body cameras
[ad_1] Axon has not yet deployed facial recognition technology in any of its body cameras, but it has been using the AI to help blur faces in videos before they are released to the public. In a press release, the company said it will continue developing the technology in an ethical manner and will work […]