Turkey reportedly blocks Tor network nationwide
Having a voice online is becoming increasingly difficult for Web users in Turkey, where President Erdogan is ramping up measures to curtail free speech and the media. [...]
Software
Apple, Google, and Uber join list of tech companies refusing to build Muslim registry
Apple, Google, and Uber have all broken their respective silences on whether they would participate in helping build a Muslim registry for the incoming Trump administration, [...]
This driverless bus is about to roll out in Singapore
The autonomous vehicle can hold 15 passengers, and will ferry them between the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus and the CleanTech eco-business park roughly 1.5 [...]
Data breach at LinkedIn’s Lynda.com affects 55,000 accounts
Microsoft is getting a little bit more than it bargained for now that its acquisition of LinkedIn is official. LinkedIn’s training site Lynda.com is notifying users of [...]
Yahoo’s billion-user database reportedly sold on the Dark Web for just $300,000
As if 2016 wasn’t shitty enough for Yahoo – which admitted to two separate breaches that saw 500 million users’ and then 1 billion users’ details stolen by hackers [...]
Gear VR gets social with Oculus Rooms and Parties
A few months ago at Oculus’ annual developer conference, the company announced a couple of social VR features known simply as Parties and Rooms. Parties is basically [...]
London fintech startup Curve brings mobile wallet and all-your-cards-in-one app to Android
After launching on iOS, all the way back in February, London fintech startup Curve has finally brought its wares to Android. The mobile wallet lets you sync your debit and [...]
Microsoft is creating talking bots that will call you on Skype
Microsoft has spent a large part of this year focusing on its bot efforts within Skype. While a number of new messaging bots like Expedia and UPS are starting to appear in [...]
Ramsay Health app gives doctors more hours in a day
In the world of healthcare, time is everything. It’s why CIO John Sutherland and his team at Ramsay Health are striving to give clinical staff the right tools to best [...]
Wannabe Hackers Are Willing to Pay To Learn How To Use the Mirai Botnet
Around two months ago, a hacker called Anna-senpai published the source code of a piece of malware designed to automatically scan the internet and infect easy-to-hack devices [...]
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