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Wired

Juul Pledges Big Changes, but the Impact May Be Small

The e-cigarette maker says it will discontinue some flavors at retail outlets and shut down social media accounts ahead of an expected FDA crackdown.

2 hours ago

Wired

Juul Pledges Big Changes, but the Impact May Be Small

Wired

Facing UK Regulation, Big Tech Sends a Lobbyist to London

The Internet Association is taking its case to Whitehall, where members like Facebook, Twitter, and Google face increasing scrutiny.

4 hours ago

Wired

Facing UK Regulation, Big Tech Sends a Lobbyist to London

Wired

Hacking in Movies: That 'Hackers' Scene May Not Be So Dumb After All

As Samy Kamkar points out in this episode of 'Technique Critique,' it's certainly not the worst depiction of hacking we've seen in pop culture.

7 hours ago

Wired

Hacking in Movies: That 'Hackers' Scene May Not Be So Dumb After All

Wired

Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide

The world is getting warmer, the weather is getting worse. Here's everything you need to know about what humans can do to stop wrecking the planet.

8 hours ago

Wired

Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide

Wired

Amazon's HQ2 Hunger Games Are Over, and Jeff Bezos Won

After 238 cities vied to be home to Amazon's new "headquarters," the company chose the obvious: New York City and Arlington, Virginia.

11 hours ago

Wired

Amazon's HQ2 Hunger Games Are Over, and Jeff Bezos Won

Wired

Why Google Internet Traffic Rerouted Through China and Russia

For two hours Monday, Google internet traffic rerouted through China, Russia, and elsewhere. Here's why.

12 hours ago

Wired

Why Google Internet Traffic Rerouted Through China and Russia

Techcrunch

Biotech holding company Roivant Sciences raised $200M in funding at a whopping $7B valuation

Roivant Sciences has had a bumpy couple of years, but that isn’t stopping investors from pouring more money into the four-year-old company, which aims to one day be a giant parent company for dozens of independent biopharmaceutical spinoffs — and is fulfilling that vision by creating one ...

3 hours ago

Techcrunch

Biotech holding company Roivant Sciences raised $200M in funding at a whopping $7B valuation

Techcrunch

Prolific swatter and bomb hoaxer who broke up FCC's net neutrality vote pleads guilty

It was a dramatic moment during the FCC's net neutrality proceedings last December when the Commission's public meeting was abruptly evacuated and bomb squads moved in – all while thousands watched on the live stream. The person who called in that threat has just entered a guilty plea to that and numerous ...

4 hours ago

Techcrunch

Prolific swatter and bomb hoaxer who broke up FCC's net neutrality vote pleads guilty

Techcrunch

Skincare startup Heyday raises $8M

Heyday, a startup aiming to make facials more affordable and personalized, announced today that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. I first wrote about the company a year ago, when it raised its $3 million seed round. At the time, co-founder and CEO Adam Ross said his goal was to offer something ...

4 hours ago

Techcrunch

Skincare startup Heyday raises $8M

Techcrunch

Meet the Magecart hackers, a persistent credit card skimmer group of groups you've never heard of

There have been few hacker groups that have been responsible for as many headlines this year as Magecart. You might not know the name, but you probably haven’t missed their work – highly targeted credit card skimming attacks, hitting Ticketmaster and British Airways, as well as consumer electronics ...

5 hours ago

Techcrunch

Meet the Magecart hackers, a persistent credit card skimmer group of groups you've never heard of

Techcrunch

This $199 PS4 and "Spider-Man" Black Friday bundle has my bargain-sense tingling

I'm calling it – this is the best deal of this year's Black Friday season. It's bonkers. Sony is selling a PlayStation 4 Slim with the new "Spider-Man" game for $199. That's way too little money.

6 hours ago

Techcrunch

This $199 PS4 and "Spider-Man" Black Friday bundle has my bargain-sense tingling

Techcrunch

Blue Apron lays off 4 percent of employees as it seeks profitability next year

Meal kit company Blue Apron announced small layoffs today as part of its Q3 2018 financial results. The layoffs, which affected four percent of Blue Apron’s workforce, are part of Blue Apron’s path to profitability. “We are taking decisive actions to prioritize our highest-impact opportunities ...

6 hours ago

Techcrunch

Blue Apron lays off 4 percent of employees as it seeks profitability next year

Readwrite

Femtech Is Becoming More Influential. But Is the Market Healthy?

Women are being heard like never before, and it is absolutely incredible. The #MeToo movement has created a domino effect of sorts, as company policies that address women's needs and long-shuttered opportunities for women are increasingly flooding into the mainstream. That includes the tech world, where ...

9 hours ago

Readwrite

Femtech Is Becoming More Influential. But Is the Market Healthy?

Readwrite

Crypto Feels Like the Wild West – But Really, Big Tech Holds the Puppet Strings

rtFor evidence of big tech’s evolution from AV club geeks to big guys on campus, look no further than the influence of companies like Amazon and Google. They’ve crept into every corner of contemporary life; they possess outsized amounts of power and exercise imperial control over the digital ...

11 hours ago

Readwrite

Crypto Feels Like the Wild West – But Really, Big Tech Holds the Puppet Strings

Readwrite

Blockchain Scalability: Even If Most Transactions Are in Layer II We Still Need a Layer I

Space is filling up at Master Workshop: Layer I, where 20+ of the world’s foremost experts on blockchain will present and lead discussions around solutions to the technology's scalability problem. Don’t forget to register today for free! The most pressing obstacle to blockchain's march to ...

12 hours ago

Readwrite

Blockchain Scalability: Even If Most Transactions Are in Layer II We Still Need a Layer I

Readwrite

How to File an International Trademark When You’re Ready to Take Your Business Global

Congratulations on eyeing the international market for your business growth. We are living in an age of globalization and more and more companies are recognizing the profitability of taking their products and service offerings globally at a relatively small incremental cost. It is an easy calculus to ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

How to File an International Trademark When You’re Ready to Take Your Business Global

Readwrite

How to Improve Cybersecurity in a Smart City

The smart city began as a science fiction dream, but it's very quickly becoming a reality. Municipal infrastructure, integrated with smart technology, will transform the aesthetics, utility, and sustainability of urban landscapes from here on out. To see a smart city in action, just look to Washington, ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

How to Improve Cybersecurity in a Smart City

Readwrite

3 Steps to Stop Unauthorized PHI Access by Terminated Team Members

In February 2017, the Transformations Autism Treatment Center learned that one of its former behavioral analysts had breached its security. According to his indictment, Jeffrey Luke illegally accessed a TACT Google Drive account and stole protected health information from more than 300 current and former ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

3 Steps to Stop Unauthorized PHI Access by Terminated Team Members

Fast Company

Here are the most infuriating details of Amazon’s HQ2 deals

When the biggest retailer in the world announces the location of its massively-anticipated new headquarters, the news is bound to cause tremors. And so it was this morning with Amazon’s decision to set up massive new operations in New York City and in Crystal City, Virginia (as well as a slightly ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

Here are the most infuriating details of Amazon’s HQ2 deals

Fast Company

An ad agency made Alexa apologize to all the losing Amazon HQ2 cities

When Amazon announced that it would be splitting its long-awaited HQ2 between Long Island City in Queens, New York, and Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, it left 17 other “finalists”–who weren’t within throwing distance of Manhattan and Washington, D.C.–joining ...

10 hours ago

Fast Company

An ad agency made Alexa apologize to all the losing Amazon HQ2 cities

Fast Company

The fight to stop Amazon’s huge new New York office starts now

Amazon’s months of bread crumbing the reveal of its second headquarters came to an end on November 13: The mega-company officially named Long Island City, Queens, and Arlington, Virginia, as the joint recipients of HQ2. There’s a lot to unpack in this conversation. After the long bidding ...

11 hours ago

Fast Company

The fight to stop Amazon’s huge new New York office starts now

Fast Company

Report: Thousands of veterans left without GI Bill payments after technical glitch

More than 82,000 U.S. veterans receiving educational benefits under the GI Bill have yet to receive housing stipends for the current semester, leaving them struggling to pay bills, NBC News reports. When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) tried to implement legal changes in how housing benefits ...

12 hours ago

Fast Company

Report: Thousands of veterans left without GI Bill payments after technical glitch

Fast Company

From Zero to sixty: How an electric motorcycle startup is winning over police departments

Richard Ashcraft grew up strapped to the back of his dad’s off-road motorcycle, sometimes literally lashed to his father in case he nodded off. A 20-year veteran of the Clovis Police Department in California’s Central Valley, Cpl. Ashcraft got his motorcycle license before his driver’s ...

12 hours ago

Fast Company

From Zero to sixty: How an electric motorcycle startup is winning over police departments

Fast Company

The $185 million quest to make people love the ocean enough to protect it

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument consists of nearly 5,000 square miles of federally protected Atlantic Ocean habitat. Created during the Obama administration, it’s located roughly 130 miles off the coast of Massachusetts near the continental shelf. The preserve is home to ...

13 hours ago

Fast Company

The $185 million quest to make people love the ocean enough to protect it

Engadget

Action-packed "Alita: Battle Angel" trailer shows off some combat

The appearance of Christmas decorations usually means shifting consumer viewing habits from summer action blockbusters to feel-gooderies like A Charlie Brown Christmas. Luckily, the drop of a new trailer for Alita: Battle Angel, reminds us that the h...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Action-packed "Alita: Battle Angel" trailer shows off some combat

Engadget

Netflix's Oscar hopeful 'Roma' gets personal in first trailer

Roma has been racking up praise from critics on the film festival circuit for months. Now that Netflix released a trailer for the film as it is gearing up for a limited theatrical run, it's easy to see what people have been raving about. The film fro...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Netflix's Oscar hopeful 'Roma' gets personal in first trailer

Engadget

Underwater adventure game 'Abzû' is coming to the Nintendo Switch

Abzû, the award-winning underground aventure game from Giant Squid Studios, is making its way to the Nintendo Switch. The game will be available on the platform starting November 29th. It will sell for $19.99, but you can save 10 percent off by...

3 hours ago

Engadget

Underwater adventure game 'Abzû' is coming to the Nintendo Switch

Engadget

Swatter behind deadly 'Call of Duty' hoax pleads guilty to 51 charges

Tyler Barriss is poised to face a stiff punishment for the game-related swatting call that ultimately killed Wichita resident Andrew Finch, not to mention a host of other crimes. Barriss has pleaded guilty to 51 charges as part of a deal, including...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Swatter behind deadly 'Call of Duty' hoax pleads guilty to 51 charges

Engadget

NASA and Autodesk are testing new ways to design interplanetary landers

Autodesk, the software company behind AutoCAD, has teamed up with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to look at news ways to create an interplanetary lander that could potentially touch down on the moons of Saturn or Jupiter. When Mark Davis, the...

5 hours ago

Engadget

NASA and Autodesk are testing new ways to design interplanetary landers

Engadget

Essential will restore your headphone jack for $149

Did you say you would pay anything to put a headphone jack on a phone where it was painfully absent? Essential wants you to prove it. The startup has released its long-discussed magnetic headphone jack adapter (now called the Audio Adapter HD) for...

6 hours ago

Engadget

Essential will restore your headphone jack for $149

Venturebeat

Samsung's 8-nanometer Exynos 9820 is 20% faster in single-core tasks

Samsung claims the Exynos 9820 is up to 20 percent faster than its predecessor in single-core tasks, and 40 percent more power-efficient.

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

Samsung's 8-nanometer Exynos 9820 is 20% faster in single-core tasks

Venturebeat

Battlefield V is getting ray tracing after Nvidia RTX driver update

Nvidia updated its graphics card drivers to support ray tracing in Battlefield V. That means we can finally check out the new feature in a real game soon.

5 hours ago

Venturebeat

Battlefield V is getting ray tracing after Nvidia RTX driver update

Venturebeat

Nigerian telecom fesses up to routing traffic through China

A Nigerian telecom took responsibility for a glitch that temporarily caused Google traffic to be misrouted through China.

7 hours ago

Venturebeat

Nigerian telecom fesses up to routing traffic through China

Venturebeat

How smart companies use voice and bots to get and keep more customers

AI voice assistants are more capable than ever of helping consumers shop smart, and marketers will have to shift priorities to keep up.

7 hours ago

Venturebeat

How smart companies use voice and bots to get and keep more customers

Venturebeat

Overwatch's latest hero Ashe is live for those who love to shoot

Ashe is live in Overwatch.

8 hours ago

Venturebeat

Overwatch's latest hero Ashe is live for those who love to shoot

Venturebeat

Amazon's bait-and-switch won't stop cities from screwing their citizens over for jobs

The end of Amazon's search for its new second headquarters makes it look bleak for cities to be able to land corporate investment without subsidies.

8 hours ago

Venturebeat

Amazon's bait-and-switch won't stop cities from screwing their citizens over for jobs

Ars Technica

Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks

Systematic analysis reveals a range of new issues and a need for new mitigations.

2 hours ago

Ars Technica

Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks

Ars Technica

Man pleads guilty to swatting attack that led to death of Kansas man

Prosecutor: Tyler Barriss' "disregard for the safety of other people was staggering."

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

Man pleads guilty to swatting attack that led to death of Kansas man

Ars Technica

What is going on with California's horrific fires?

The last two years should be understood within the context of climate change.

6 hours ago

Ars Technica

What is going on with California's horrific fires?

Ars Technica

Dealmaster: Take 22% off an Nvidia Shield TV 4K media streamer

Plus $100 off a DJI Mavic Air drone, a 500GB Samsung SSD for $80, and more.

9 hours ago

Ars Technica

Dealmaster: Take 22% off an Nvidia Shield TV 4K media streamer

Ars Technica

We unbox the $200 'power armor' Fallout '76 version so you don't have to

Find out exactly what Bethesda is charging $200 for?and how it fits on our heads.

9 hours ago

Ars Technica

We unbox the $200 'power armor' Fallout '76 version so you don't have to

Ars Technica

Thermal power plants use a lot of water, but that's slowly changing

Renewable energy and combined cycle gas turbines have helped.

10 hours ago

Ars Technica

Thermal power plants use a lot of water, but that's slowly changing