Day: August 16, 2019

Overstock’s share price has plummeted. Is it Trump’s trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers…

Just what is Patrick Byrne’s role in the Deep State? He’s here to tell you Comment How much of a company’s value is tied up in its leadership?… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Customs Computer Systems Down Nationwide, Causing Massive Delays At Airports

A computer issue is preventing U.S. immigration officials from processing arriving passengers at several airports across the country. “It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the problem at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, but the agency said it was investigating,” reports CNBC. Agents will be processing people manually until the systems are resolved. One Twitter user…


Fake News and Influence: Information Warfare in the Digital Age

It’s been around forever, but in a modern digital era marked by influence campaigns and deep fakes, information warfare has become much easier to carry out. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Pocketalk translator hands-on: 74 languages at the touch of a button

The Pocketalk translator will give you the confidence you need when travelling and you do not speak the local language. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it

Alerted to exposed credentials, users do something about it roughly a quarter of the time Between February and March this year, after Google released a Chrome extension called Password Checkup to check whether people’s username and password combinations had been stolen and leaked from website databases, computer scientists at the biz and Stanford University gathered…


Quickly learn a new language with AI-powered Lingvist

I become addicted to learning a new language with the Lingvist language software within a day of using it. …read more Source:: ZDNet


NASA Made a Rare Flight Right Through a Thundercloud Formed by a Wildfire

For years, Naval Research Laboratory meteorologist David Peterson has been obsessed with one of Earth’s rarest atmospheric spectacles: thunderclouds formed by raging wildfires. Last week, he became one of the only people on Earth to fly straight through one. From a report: Peterson is the lead forecaster for Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments…


Lamborghini Aventador SVJ 63 Roadster ups the exclusivity factor – Roadshow

The firm also showed off another special-edition car: the Huracan EVO GT Celebration. …read more Source:: CNet


James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 sells for $6.4M, working Q gadgets included – Roadshow

Diamonds are forever, but Bond cars seem to be the next best investment. …read more Source:: CNet


Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Write once, run anywhere? You must be joking Dropbox has abandoned a longstanding technical strategy of sharing C++ code between its applications for iOS and Android, saying the overhead of writing code twice is less than the cost of making code-sharing work.… …read more Source:: TheRegister