YouTube ditching the 30 second unskippable ads starting in 2018
We’ve all been tricked by it. That one YouTube ad you think you can click “Skip Ad” on to get to the actual content...
Xagent malware linked to Russian hacking group steals Mac passwords
A Russian hacking group that has previously been linked to attacks on the Dutch ministry, NATO, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have also been linked...
This is what makes for a more attractive dance, according to science
Want to know if your dance moves look sexy to the opposite sex? One team of researchers at Northumbria University conducted a study that...
Silicon Valley goes to court over US travel ban
Over 100 companies have now filed a legal brief condemning President Donald Trump’s recent travel ban on seven majority Muslim countries. Most of the...
Kansas City’s Smart City provides a glimpse of a future with IoT
In December of 2015 the U.S Department of Transportation issued the Smart City Challenge to any mid size city in America. The challenge was for...
Federal workers using encryption to talk Trump
It’s hard to believe we’re only three weeks into the Trump presidency but here we are. Yet for all the frenzy surrounding the new...
Facebook adds hardware support for Two Factor Authentication
A post Snowden era has put the spotlight on how vulnerable online services can be. Many companies including Google and the New York Times have already...
Recapping a historic week for growing animal hybrids
No longer just a drawing in old mythology books, chimeras just became real in the research lab. Last week, researchers made the historic announcement...
The Mirai botnet author may have just been outed
Renowned security blogger Brian Krebs just gave us all a rare glimpse at the mess lurking under the rug in the world of cyber...
Global coalition wants to create vaccines before the next pandemic comes
The world wasn’t ready for the Ebola epidemic of 2014. Global reaction times were slow and a vaccine didn’t begin human trials until after...