Equifax has a long road ahead as it cleans up from a big data breach. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The data breach at Equifax just cost the company’s CEO his job. The board of the credit-monitoring company said Tuesday that Richard Smith is stepping down, effective immediately. The departure comes three […]
Daily Archives: September 26, 2017
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Have you heard of Tilt Brush, the VR app that let you paint with light, and create 3D paintings you can actually walk through? Apple’s ARKit is attracting several apps with a similar idea, and Paint Space AR is the furthest along. Just draw in the air, “annotate the real […]
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico — Inside the steamy San Juan airport, mothers sleep on the floor with their children. Travelers, many of whom have been there for days, fan themselves as they wait for a flight out. The lines are long and there is no air conditioning, but after Hurricane Maria, […]
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico — Inside the steamy San Juan airport, mothers sleep on the floor with their children. Travelers, many of whom have been there for days, fan themselves as they wait for a flight out. The lines are long and there is no air conditioning, but after Hurricane Maria, […]
Carles Puigdemont risks losing his leadership as the vote, set for Sunday, has been declared illegal by the Spanish courts. Enric Millo, the Spanish government’s representative in Barcelona, said he would “keep hoping until the last minute that the Catalan government has a change of heart and calls off the […]
Google is the latest tech company to provide money to help rebuild shorelines and communities in the US and Caribbean in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The company said Tuesday it will donate $1 million to Puerto Rico hurricane relief, which includes funds […]
Alexander Shevchenko, the Russian defence ministry’s tank-automation commander, said the tank support combat vehicle, dubbed the Terminator, had successfully passed all tests. He said the Terminator was “a vehicle of a brand-new class” that “has already attracted many countries, chiefly Israel and Syria”, according to Russian news agency TASS. The […]
Kim Jong-un’s regime sent a chilling warning shot to the US President telling him it is prepared to “annihilate the US imperialists, the ringleader of aggression, to the last man on this planet”. The secretive state said America will “never escape the fate of getting scorched by the fire of […]
Ladies, start your engines. Saudi Arabia’s king issued a decree on Tuesday allowing women to drive, which would end a longstanding ban on female motorists in the ultra-conservative country. The Saudi Ministry of the Interior said the decree means women will be allowed to drive in 10 months. Saudi Arabia […]
The US President was speaking in Washington during a joint press conference with the Spanish Prime Minster Mariano Rajoy. Mr Trump said: “Spain is a great, great country and it should remain united. “It’s actually been unfolding for centuries and I think that nobody knows if they are going to […]
Researchers have compared the performance of human subjects versus deep neural networks in visual searches.
More than 75,600 people have been evacuated in Bali, after dramatic increases in seismic activity sparked fears Mount Agung could erupt in a “matter of hours”. The Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM) has raised the volcano alert to 4, meaning an eruption can be expected at […]
The Russian arm of fast food chain Burger King reportedly wants to make sure it is pulled from cinemas in the country – because it could be free advertising for McDonald’s. The reason? They say Pennywise the Clown is a dead ringer for Ronald McDonald. In the complaint, reported by […]
Equifax is being hammered with criticism for its handling of a data breach affecting 143 million people — the worst in U.S. history. CEO Richard Smith abruptly retired on Tuesday, joining the company’s CIO and CSO, who also departed after the massive hack was made public. “There was a time […]
A traditional wedding photo shoot turned into a rescue mission when a heroic groom jumped into water to save a drowning boy, the photographer said. Canadian newlyweds Clayton and Brittany Cook were posing for wedding photos on an Ontario park bridge following their ceremony on Friday when the groom noticed […]
Senior public prosecutor of Catalonia José Maria Romero de Tejada has ordered the head of the Mossos d’Esquadra – the Catalan police – to have his officers close off the centres to be used as polling stations for the referendum before September 30 until after 9pm on October 1 – […]
James Martin/CNET Along with MacOS High Sierra comes Safari 11. The latest update to Apple‘s web browser addresses two of the bigger Internet annoyances: autoplay videos and ad trackers. Unless you like being greeted by mysterious sounds when you visit a site, which you then must track down to stop or silence, then […]
Costa leaves Chelsea after three controversial years at the club where he scored 59 goals in 120 appearances to help them win two Premier League titles and one League Cup. The 28-year-old’s time at Stamford Bridge was ended by Antonio Conte via text message in the summer and in an […]
Mr Tillerson will travel to Beijing on Thursday, September 28, for a three-day visit expected to be dominated by the nuclear threats issued against the US by China’s allies. The talks will also include discussions about trade, amid high tensions between the two countries following President Donald Trump’s repeated criticism […]
A post in late August took a convincing screen-grab that appeared to show the Hollywood A-lister’s posterior looking a little disproportionate. But now, on the promo trail for his new project American Made, Cruise has rubbished the cheeky chat. “I have no idea,” he told ScreenRant when asked about the […]