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The FBI thinks it has a way for companies to limit the damage from data breaches: lure thieves into taking the wrong data. Ars Technica has learned of an FBI program, IDLE (Illicit Data Loss Exploitation), that has compa...

Balloons in the stratosphere snap images of Earth with unprecedented resolutions. Cheese!

The FDA is warning that two popular medications commonly prescribed to treat nerve pain, epilepsy, and select other issues can cause ‘serious’ breathing problems in some of the patients who take them. This warning ra...

Boeing's Starliner fell short of the main goal for its inaugural test flight, but the company and NASA are hoping to end the mission on a better note. They've committed to a landing attempt for the (currently uncrewed) c...

Sophisticated web apps can make videos and other files available offline, but finding that media is tricky if the website doesn't give you an easy way to find it. Soon, though, that search might be trivial. Google has re...

In the old Star Wars expanded universe, lightsabers weren't the first laser-sword weapons wielded by Jedi and the Sith. No, that honor went to the protosaber, the hilariously clunky version of the lightsaber that, instea...

San Francisco is learning first-hand about the risks of blanket bans on facial recognition. City supervisors have voted to amend a ban on facial recognition in local government to allow the use of FaceID-equipped iPhones...

You've seen movies receive visual touch-ups in special edition re-releases, but Universal is trying something new: it's updating a movie while it's still in the middle of its initial theatrical run. The media giant has i...

No single film has been as emblematic of the fallout of the Disney/Fox deal as New Mutants, a semi-troubled X-Men spinoff production that went from "mostly finished" to "absolute development hell" as soon as Marvel Studi...

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Recently, we all lost our collective shit over the wild treatment Jonathan Hickman and a few collaborators gave to the X-Men side of Marvel comics with House of X and Powers of X. For anyone wondering what the author's n...

The inaugural Starliner test flight didn't go according to plan, but it still made a little bit of history. Boeing's spacecraft landed safely at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range at 7:58AM Eastern, making it the fir...

Another Fortnite bundle has leaked, this one themed after the winter season. Among other things, the new bundle contains ‘The Devourer,’ a skin version of the Polar Peak monster. The skin is very detailed, including ...

Cats, Tom Hooper's memetic hazard of a musical, is receiving unprecedented treatment from its distributors at Universal. As shared by the Hollywood Reporter, the company is sending theaters an updated version of the Ozym...

The United States Navy has declared Chinese company TikTok a cybersecurity threat and banned its use on government-issued smartphones. The ban was revealed on a Facebook page intended for US military members; in it, the ...

You can put your phone down when you have the Weatherproof EDC Kit by James Brand & AETHER. This everyday carry set includes all that you need on a daily basis. With a notebook, pen, and pocket knife, the EDC Kit has the...

Be ready to transfer data at any time with the SanDisk Ultra Loop Portable Flash Drive. This fast flash drive can actually transfer data at speeds of up to 130 MBps. That’s quite a bit faster than a USB 2.0 flash drive...

Make sure you’re always full of water with the Hydro Flask Wide Mouth Stainless Steel Bottles. Available in four capacities, these wide-mouth water bottles work in many situations. Choose the 20-, 32-, 40-, or 64-ounce...

Cyberattacks that result in the loss of vast amounts of data have become increasingly common. Hackers are targeting everything from corner stores to major hospitals and social media platforms, putting people at risk of i...

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It's a sad week if you've ever posted on a social network or an internet forum. Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of 74. He and Ward Christe...

See wider than your own peripheral can with the Garmin Dash Cam 66W Wide-Angle Dashcam. It’s important to know what’s going on around your vehicle, and this camera captures 180-degrees of it. So just in case you do e...