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
Meeting those forecasts could be enough to lift the sector – among the cheapest in the market – putting the sting of product recalls and tepid recent growth in the rear view mirror. “This is going to be one of the best months ever,” said David Kudla, chief investment strategist of Mainstay Capital Management in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Weak auto results contributed to flat overall retail sales in April, but
Greece’s government is confident of reaching a deal with its creditors this week and is open to pushing back parts of its anti-austerity program to make that happen, the country’s interior minister said Saturday. Greece and its EU/IMF creditors have been locked in talks for months on a cash-for-reforms deal and pressure is growing for a deal, since Athens risks default without aid from a bailout program that expires on