Author: Zach_Wilson
How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy
Hasbro turned down the holy grail of lightsaber toys, and it won’t say why. The Star Wars toymaker spent two years secretly working on a kids lightsaber that can automatically extend and retract its blade — the very first of its kind. Hasbro acquired all rights to the idea from…
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IT admin charged with extorting employer by locking down hundreds of workstations
Ransomware threat actors don’t always have to come from outside the victim organization – take Daniel Rhyne, a 57-year-old man from Kansas City, Missouri, who is being charged with locking down, and trying to extort, his own employer. Allegedly, late last year, Rhyne was working at an industrial company in…
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New iPhone 16 Pro leak shows how the new gold titanium color might look
There’s just a week and a bit to go until Apple unveils the iPhone 16 series, and a newly leaked image gives us an idea of the gold titanium color that’s rumored to be coming to the Pro and Pro Max models this year. The image was shared by 9to5Mac…
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Your IT department may one day control whether you can view your laptop screen or not — remote display permission features could become reality for business, for better or worse
Working from an office can be complicated at the best of things, and things look set to get more so with a new tool aimed at protecting screens from unwanted eyeballs of all kinds. Laptop Switchable Privacy from Rain Technology is aimed at so-called Tier 1 manufacturers like Apple, Dell,…
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Should you buy a Bluetooth turntable? The advantages and disadvantages explained
Bluetooth turntables have been getting more and more common over the last few years, so you might be wondering if it’s a good idea to buy one. For a very long time, there have been two kinds of turntable. The first kind is the all-in-one, the record player that comes…
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ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from the Barbie flip phone to Black Ops 6 Beta
This week Apple finally set a date for its iPhone launch (September 9 if you wanted to know), and players got their first taste of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – and you could join them. To help you get caught up to speed on these and the other…
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