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It turns out that Uber was hacked in 2016

It turns out that Uber was hacked in 2016

Hackers managed to steal personal data from 50 million passengers and 7 million Uber drivers. The incident occurred in 2016, but it has only recently become known. The attackers demanded $100,000 from Uber....
Google spied on Android users, but says that there won't be any more

Google spied on Android users, but says that there won't be any more

Reporters at Quartz conducted an investigation and found out that Google was collecting data about the location of Android users even if the location setting was disabled. Since the beginning of this year,...
The new transport revolution

The new transport revolution

The first transport by electric power appeared in the middle of the 19th century - before cars with an internal combustion engine (ICE). But despite this, the competitive market for electric vehicles has only...

New from Tesla: Electric “Semi Truck” and supercar “Roadster”

Tesla engineers seem to work like steelmakers at a blast furnace: new products of the company appear constantly and everyone of them becomes a new word in their area. Semi Truck A presentation of an electric...

YouTube helps musicians sell tickets

YouTube has announced the beginning of cooperation with the ticketing service Ticketmaster. Now you can find information about upcoming concerts and links to purchase tickets below the video clips of your...

Firefox Quantum: the browser war continues

Over the last few years Google Chrome has been the absolute market leader for web browsers. According to statcounter.com throughout 2017 it consistintly held about 60% and Firefox held about 13-14%. The rest...

Tesla’s autopilot is no worse than a live driver

The problem of autopilots is that they are expected to show impeccable properties in relation to driving safety. And if the electronic will not work, even in a very difficult case, the credibility of the...

Ferromagnetic fabric will replace RFID tags

We use RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology almost every day. So-called RFID tags or transponders are used to access your office or to pay for purchases by card. Many people simply do not pay...

Kaspersky Lab vs NSA

The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post wrote about the participation of Kaspersky Laboratory in stealing data of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and transmitting it to Russian secret services....

Scotland has launched a floating wind farm

Scotland put into operation the first floating wind power station, Hywind, located in the sea off the coast of Aberdeenshire. The station produces 30 megawatts of power. The Norwegian company Statoil and the...

Large companies are ready to help Puerto Rico cope with the consequences of "Maria"

On September 20th hurricane Maria became the most devastating hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in the last 80 years. Several dozen people died and a significant part of the country's infrastructure was destroyed....

Electric vehicle from Volvo

Green types of energy are becoming increasingly popular and it seems that prospective start-ups are already coming to the real market. Manufacturers of cars are trying to secure a future for themselves by...

KRACK: All Wi-Fi devices are vulnerable

A serious vulnerability has been found in the WPA2 encryption protocol which is used by most secure Wi-Fi networks. A group of security researchers developed an attack that allows you to listen to traffic...

Your search history revealed: Everyone knows whom you are looking for

Well, it’s too much! We made it through to that day when the idea of having the most intimate secrets will become a past. Do you remember how it was in “Bad Internet” movie - “Your Search History Revealed”....

Hotel-tunnel: you go and relax

You work a whole year long, and finally you go on vacation: you get your suitcase packed, get on the plane and finally you land on the beach. This is the way most of us take. But soon everything will change....