During my time at the 2016 SMITE World Championship, I had the chance to sit down with co-founder and COO of Hi-Rez Studios, Todd Harris.
China’s government announced earlier this week that it had arrested 15,000 people for an assortment of cybercrimes, the result of a project announced in July titled “Cleaning the Internet.”
The recent hack of the Ashley Madison website, which connects married adults who wish to have affairs, has exposed 50 current and former California state government employees who allegedly used their official e-mail addresses on the site, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Popular social media service Snapchat lost more than $100 million during an 11-month period in 2014, according to leaked financial documents from the company.
The California legislature is examining two bills dealing with drone interference, one of which would allow public safety crews to shoot down a drone if it threatens personnel fighting fires.
A stunning 6,200 American subscribers per day became “cord-cutters,” and maybe even “cord-never,” as millennials canned their pay-TV cable and satellite subscriptions in the second quarter of 2015.
TechCrunch reports that Google is working in the Gaza Strip–a 6.8-mile-by-32-mile territory controlled by terrorists–to develop a local tech start-up culture in one of the world’s most challenging business environments.
The New York Times caused a stir in Silicon Valley with a viral article claiming that Amazon.com brutally exploits its white collar workers with unforgiving management practices. The investigation caused such an outcry that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos personally responded with an email to employees assuring them that “callous” management practices wouldn’t be tolerated.
Uber’s low-cost service, UberX, reduces drunk driving deaths all over California and may be responsible for a drop in DUIs on NYE.
The Hawaii state government has eliminated access to video streaming services featuring entertainment for its employees.
Silicon Valley often gets knocked for a lack of diversity, but historically excluded groups are making an impressive showing at the top spot of the most valuable companies. Just looking at the top ten companies based in Silicon Valley by NASDAQ market cap, 40% are run by someone who is a woman, an immigrant, or non-white. By individual demographics, 20% are women, and 30% are foreign-born.
Intel is about to drive a new wave of Moore’s Law, as personal computing converges with mobile technology due to the development of smaller processors, increased power efficiency, non-volatile memory, flexible/agnostic software, wireless peripherals and cloud access.
The X Train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas has scheduled its inaugural run for New Year’s Eve 2015-6. Tickets will go on sale on September, with 350 coach seats available on the retro-style Hiawatha Milwaukee Road locomotive for $99, and 150 more first-class and VIP seats for a higher price.
The new company will be called “Alphabet,” Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page announced Monday.
Pirated HD-quality pilots for a number of upcoming 2015-16 season TV shows began showing up on torrent sites Monday, in what is being called a coordinated action by Variety.
Thieves employing debit card “skimmers” at the pump find August–peak driving season nationwide–lucrative for fraud, ripping off distracted drivers. Skimmers have been around since about 2002. Sociopathic thieves are constantly improving the sophistication and effectiveness of their devices. Some of the
3D printing has been around for several decades, but expiring patents are driving costs down and major tech breakthroughs are driving up speed.
I. A New Ethical Dominion: Maximizing Health in the Information Age. In the wake of two Supreme Court decisions ratifying the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, there’s a new reality in American health, made possible by new technologies: It’s actually
(Ferenstein Wire) — Twitter still hasn’t solved its liberal bias problem; during a Republican presidential debate Thursday night, a self-declared European-style socialist scored the most popular tweet of any candidate. Democrat Bernie Sanders snagged a whopping 29,000 retweets (and counting) for slamming Republicans for “not one word about economic inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt.”
A core function of one of Apple’s leading products has been attacked by a ruling in the UK’s High Court, in what some reports suggest renders iTunes illegal in Britain. Torrent Freak reports that copying CDs that you already own into MP3
Scientists in Silicon Valley have designed a controversial device that could help manipulate the climate by “brightening” clouds in order to counter the effects of global warming in a process known as geoengineering. According to the local CBS News affiliate in San Francisco, the Marine Cloud Brightening
Carly Fiorina was the clear winner of the early Republican presidential debate–at least according to social media.
Apple’s new streaming service, Apple Music, has reportedly drawn 11 million trial subscribers one month after its launch.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL=$115) stock has plunged about $114 billion in market value since the company reported very good quarterly sales and earnings two weeks ago.
INTERPOL’s recent Dark Net training session in Singapore provides an interesting glimpse of just how widespread cyber crime has become, and how resourceful the new generation of criminals and terrorists are.
Japanese officials are concerned over the recent WikiLeaks exposure of American spying.
