There had to be more to Batman’s principles than just “not killing,” thought the would-be criminal, glancing up from a locked fourth-floor safe to scan for the telltale (and absent) light of the Bat Signal. Really, though, most of Gotham thought he shouldn’t worry. It had taken a few years, and a lot of broken bones, but Batman’s improbable non-lethality slowly drifted from sarcastic theory to accepted law.
LONDON (AP) — An Italian surveillance company known for selling malicious software used by police bodies and spy agencies appears to have succumbed to a damaging cyberattack which sent documents and invoices ricocheting across the Internet.
For most Americans, this past weekend was one long celebration of national pride, as the Independence Day fireworks gave way to the Women’s World Cup final victory. But the US wasn’t alone in having a patriotic party; the Greeks were dancing in the streets on Sunday as well. Greece’s reasons for jubilation are a little more complex than the American ones, but the end result has been a rather similar
Microsoft is in the final phase of preparation ahead of the July 29 launch date for the next big update to its marquee software.
Google-owned online mapping company Waze is launching a carpooling pilot program in Israel where commuters pay fellow drivers a small fee for a ride to and from work. The new application, called RideWith, will use Waze’s navigation system to learn the routes drivers most frequently take to work and match them up with people looking for a ride in the same direction. Google bought Israel-based Waze, which uses satellite signals
Ride-hailing service Uber said on Monday its drivers had faced intimidation in South Africa following a protest last week by members of metered taxi associations who say the online app competes unfairly for business. Drivers of metered taxis harassed Uber drivers at the Sandton Gautrain station and Sandton City mall in Johannesburg, Uber said in a statement on its website. In addition we have deployed security to these hotspots,” Uber
By Matthew Stock Doppel is a new breed of wearable device, one that its developers say can actually change the wearer’s mood by delivering a tactile beat to their wrist. The makers of ‘doppel’ call it the next generation of wearable technology – one that can actually change the mood of the user.
Introduction It’s the first law of movie-making: no matter how expensive your camera, or how skilled you are at using it, your raw footage will always be rubbish. And so, if you’re looking to add a little professional polish, then installing a video editor will be essential. Commercial video editors can be very expensive, of course, but you may not have to go that far. Whether you want to trim
Samsung knows a thing or two about solid state drives as it produces the components that go in there – and it sells quite a lot of them. The company just unveiled a 2TB model, the 850 Pro, which uses Samsung’s 3D V-NAND technology and opts for a bog standard SATA interface rather than PCI Express-based ones like M.2. It makes the new drive particularly enticing for desktop computers or
Introduction Performance or capacity. That’s been the dichotomy that’s dominated data storage since the first mainstream solid-state drives for PCs appeared nearly a decade ago. But now Samsung has launched the first 2TB SSDs aimed at consumers. Give it up for the Samsung 850 Pro 2TB (£750, around US$1,166, or AUS$ 1,554), tested here, and its 850 Evo (£637, around US$992, or AUS$1,320) sibling. At last, the speed of solid-state
