If spotting a pride of lions on Africa’s endless plains has been a lifelong dream, then Tanzania, one of the best wildlife-viewing spots in the world, is the destination for you. While a visit to the Serengeti during the annual Great Migration is an unforgettable experience, this East African country has so much more to offer beyond game drives: undeveloped beaches, the fascinating Maasai tribe, and the world’s tallest freestanding
There’s much more to the world’s great art museums than just the Louvre and the Prado. In fact, you can skip the jaunt across the Atlantic altogether and set your sights on some world-class art collections right here in the U.S. Even if you’re not planning a trip entirely around art, chances are that if you’re traveling to a major U.S. city (especially New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington,
When Apple announced HomeKit at WWDC 2014, we didn’t think we’d still be waiting for the first products by the time WWDC 2015 rolled around – but there’s only a week to go before this year’s event starts on 8 June. It seems there’s now light at the end of the tunnel: sources speaking to 9to5Mac, which has a good reputation for getting insider information, say that the first HomeKit-compatible
Age: 62 Company: Nintendo Best known for: Creating some of the biggest, most influential games of all time. Quote: “I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.” Nobody knows the meaning of the word “fun” quite like Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto. He joined Nintendo in 1977, just as the company was starting to transition
Qualcomm has announced it’s helping Google stuff its Project Tango tech into a smaller form factor – specifically a smartphone set to be released in the third quarter of 2015. Project Tango is focused on augmented reality (digital graphics placed on top of the real world) and virtual reality (entirely digital worlds). Up until now, it’s only been available through an Nvidia tablet. Like the tablet, the smartphone will be
Just a couple of weeks to go until E3 2015, where the news will flow like water and games journalists will huddle under the news-waterfall like that bit in Mad Max, holding up their word-buckets and hoping to get a taste of a sweet, sweet scoop. If you haven’t seen Mad Max yet, that reference will be a bit lost on you. Also, what the hell is wrong with you?
Networking and gleaning vital insights from dedicated IT security professionals is a surefire way to make sure your IT personnel are ahead of the game and the company doesn’t fall victim to a widespread cyber attack. The hard part is choosing the right conference for your company. To that end we’ve hand picked the 10 best cyber security events on the planet to help guide your firm in its quest
By Warren Strobel and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At 3:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday, the National Security Agency and telecommunications companies will begin mothballing a once-secret system that collected Americans’ bulk telephone records, shutting down computers and sealing off warehouses of digital data. If the U.S. Congress fails to act, key provisions of the USA Patriot Act will lapse in a watershed moment in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era.
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States will extend its cyber defense umbrella over Japan, helping its Asian ally cope with the growing threat of online attacks against military bases and infrastructure such as power grids, the two nations said in a joint statement on Saturday. “We note a growing level of sophistication among malicious cyber actors, including non-state and state-sponsored actors,” they said in a statement released
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the Silk Road underground website was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin. Ross Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan after a federal jury in February found him guilty of charges including distributing