The ride-hailing service rolls out Mode Switch to toggle between car, bike and scooter rides. …read more Source:: CNet

Cruel Kim’s alleged cyber-crew outed in rap sheet The US government has formally accused the North Korean government of being behind the Sony pictures hack, the WannaCry ransomware that crippled the UK’s National Health Service and other organizations, and a series of online bank heists including $81m stolen from Bangladesh’s national bank.… …read more Source::…

MAXOMENOS writes: EVE Online developer CCP Games has been acquired by Pearl Abyss, the South Korean studio behind the action-oriented MMORPG Black Desert Online. According to VentureBeat, the deal was worth $425 million and will close in early October. It’s a surprise announcement for CCP, which has long operated as an independent developer. Eve Online…

Voice chat is kind of key to winning Fortnite as a team. Good to hear Android players are getting it today! …read more Source:: CNet

The co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative says she wants to make the opportunities she had available to others. …read more Source:: CNet

Since the release of Chrome 69 earlier this week, countless of users have gone on social media and Google Product Forums to complain about “blurry” or “fuzzy” text inside Chrome. ZDNet: The blurred font issue isn’t only limited to text rendered inside a web page, users said, but also for the text suggestions displayed inside…

CNET and Plex have teamed up to give two winners a Premium Plex Pass offering live TV, DVR and more. This giveaway ends Sept. 20, 2018. …read more Source:: CNet

Some of the greatest electronic calculators of all time, including the venerable HP-16C, included functionality to convert numbers between different bases. 3735928559 might not mean much in base 10, but convert that to hex, and you’ll offend vegetarians. If the great calculators of yore had a way to convert between number bases, that means someone…

The Tor Browser has rolled out a new interface with the release of v8. From a report: The Tor Browser has always been based on the Firefox codebase, but it lagged behind a few releases. Mozilla rolled out a major overhaul of the Firefox codebase in November 2017, with the release of Firefox 57, the…

The man has allegedly been behind massive cyberattacks for the last four years. …read more Source:: CNet