Wikipedia is down across the globe after a ‘malicious attack’ – with work underway to solve the problem. A major DDos attack – or denial of service – has been blamed for the outage, with pages currently available intermittently. A DDos attack is where multiple compromised systems – often infected with a Trojan virus – […]
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The government is circling the wagons around Big Tech as the scrutiny of its immense power intensifies. Two groups of state attorneys general are joining the fray with separate investigations into whether Google and Facebook have been unfairly leveraging their array of popular — and free — services to dominate the lucrative online advertising market.
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The fifth-generation mobile standard known as 5G will not only bring significant benefits like much faster data speeds and increased connectivity, it will also be the first all-inclusive cellular network able to accommodate three distinct types of use cases, ranging from very basic to the cutting edge. Many of these use cases operated historically
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Amy King was the first in her family to go to college, and she experienced firsthand the challenges of being a first-generation undergraduate. But when she got to graduate school, she found the adjustment even more difficult. King is now a licensed psychologist, but she still remembers how hard it was to explain to her
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The design of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 11 has been revealed in an “early replica” obtained by a smartphone case maker. The replica is not a real iPhone but a dummy unit, used by phone case manufacturers to mould their protective cases, ahead of the launch of a new device. However, it gives a good impression
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Amazon-owned doorbell camera company Ring is facing questions from a U.S. senator over its partnerships with police departments around the country. Sen. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, sent a letter Thursday to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos raising privacy and civil liberty concerns about Ring cameras that are capturing and storing footage of U.S. neighborhoods. Markey
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Live streaming is no stranger to fiasco and debacle. The world over, there exists no fan of football, wrestling, or Game of Thrones who hasn’t encountered the exasperating wheel-of-doom: the video is buffering, and the action—maddeningly—grinds unceremoniously to a halt. Indeed, as an audience, we’ve resigned ourselves to the inexorability of service interruption, and
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The warning message came to George White and his team from a college student’s mentor. The student might miss classes on account of a broken laptop. White and his team acted quickly, connecting the student with Lehigh University staffers to secure a loaner computer. “If we didn’t find that, a week or two weeks may
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Sony has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, which includes camera technology from its high-end digital camera line-up. The new Xperia 5 is a smaller version of the firm’s existing Xperia 1 device, complete with Sony’s eye-tracking Eye AF technology built into the triple rear camera system. The phone also sports a 6.1-inch full HD+ OLED
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Public health officials in Oregon said Wednesday that a person who recently died of a severe respiratory illness had used an electronic cigarette containing marijuana oil from a legal dispensary, the second death linked to vaping nationwide and the first tied to a vaping product bought at a pot shop. Officials have not determined what
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