Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. He’s traveling with the good guys, allegedly. Lyft/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Uber has made a rather painful mess of its brand image. What of its rival Lyft? It seems to have sat quietly, perhaps […]
Daily Archives: September 12, 2017
Juventus and Barcelona face-off tonight (7.45pm) at the Nou Camp in one of the highly match-ups of the opening round of Champions League matches. The Italian club beat Barcelona at the quarter-final stage of last year’s tournament with Dybala scoring twice in the first leg. And the Argentina international was […]
A Virginia man is suing a Florida sheriff over his tough-on-crime approach to Hurricane Irma, claiming in a lawsuit filed Sunday that forcing shelter-seekers to undergo background checks was unconstitutional. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd in October 2013. Calvin Knight / The Ledger via AP file In the suit, filed […]
The draft treaty was first presented in 2008 and will be updated for the second time in the upcoming UN General Assembly. The treaty is favoured by the majority of UN members, but the US has been opposing it arguing it relies too heavily on space and could be vulnerable […]
A new-found vulnerability could let hackers spoof Equifax’s credit-monitoring site and siphon off personal information. Getty Images Equifax’s hack headache appears to be getting worse. A site Equifax set up to help worried consumers create alerts and freeze accounts after the credit-monitoring firm revealed a massive data breach is also […]
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea in a watered-down resolution that eliminated a ban on all oil imports and an international asset freeze on the government and leader Kim Jong Un that the Trump administration wanted. The resolution does ban […]
CNET Editor’s note, September 11: We recommend that anyone with a credit history assume they were affected by the hack, as Equifax’s hack-checker tool proved unreliable in our tests. In addition, Equifax’s credit-freeze website was also shown to be hackable, a ZDNET report showed. Credit rating company Equifax revealed Thursday that […]
The Google Drive app will stop working March 18, 2018. Its replacement, Backup and Sync, is available now. Stephen Shankland/CNET For fans of Google Drive, the headlines last week seemed alarming: “Google Drive shutting down in March!” “Google Drive is dead!” Um, no. Although Google does plan to make a […]