Month: January 2020
Iran’s “Revenge” Over Qassem Soleimani Is Likely To Include Cyberattacks
LONDON — The retaliation that Iran promised in the aftermath of a US airstrike that killed the country’s most powerful military leader could take the form of massive cyberattacks. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in an airstrike ordered by US President Donald Trump. Soleimani was behind Iran’s Middle East operations…
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While Americans Worry About The AI Uprising, People In Japan Are Learning To Love Their Robots — And Be Loved Back
TOKYO — It was before 10 a.m. on a gray summer Sunday, but already a small crowd had gathered outside Penguin Café at the end of a block in residential Tokyo. A woman named Kyoko, dressed in a white T-shirt and apron, unlocked the doors and motioned for everyone to…
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How The 2010s Killed The Celebrity Gossip Machine
Grosescu Alberto Mihai / Shutterstock Charley Gallay / Getty Images Back in the winter of 2011, I was sitting in my tiny apartment in Austin, Texas, finishing my dissertation on the history of celebrity gossip. Starting all the way back at the beginning of what we now know as Hollywood,…
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16 Product Fails That Defined The Decade
Emojipedia/Apple This decade saw the rise of subscription services, Kickstarter-backed gadgets, and radical new ideas that aimed to disrupt every industry on the planet. Risky ventures were commonplace: Building a product from scratch, designing a new business model, and raising money based on faith in some prospective growth or feature…
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A Dad Is Suing Amazon’s Ring Because He Says A Hacker Terrified His Kids
Home surveillance company Ring and its parent company Amazon were hit with a lawsuit on Dec. 26 following a string of high-profile hacks that compromised its camera systems. The complaint, which was first reported by TMZ, alleges that the companies were negligent by not ensuring that the Wi-Fi-enabled cameras were…
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The US Army Has Banned Soldiers From Using TikTok
The US Army has banned service members from using the Chinese-owned short-form video app TikTok on government-issued phones. The decision, first reported by Military.com, comes only weeks after the Navy announced a similar ban. “It is considered a cyber threat,” Lt. Col. Robin Ochoa, an Army spokesperson, told Military.com. “We…
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