The scam targets Netflix users and asks for payment information. …read more Source:: Threatpost

From fried chips to stuffed elections, a look back at the year that was The 2018 calendar year saw an interesting mix of both technical and strategic questions, as engineers were met with new problems and execs were forced to cope with stark new realities.… …read more Source:: Register

Huami released a couple Amazfit products in 2018 with this third one launching at a price between the other two. It has many of the same features as the Bip in a larger form factor, but isn’t as elegant as the Stratos. …read more Source:: ZDNet

After spending a couple of years putting the pieces in place and catching up to Alexa, 2018 was the year Google unveiled its lofty smart-home ambitions. …read more Source:: CNet

No matter how much you spend on your new 4K HDR TV, you don’t need expensive HDMI cables for it to work. …read more Source:: CNet

Technology has moved at such a furious pace that what would have been most secret military technology a few decades ago is now surplus on eBay. Case in point: [msylvain59] picked up a Soviet-era K-13 IR seeker used to guide air-to-air missiles to their targets. Inside is a mechanical gyroscope turning at over 4,000 RPM,…

In the Estonian capital of Tallinn, three-day-old Oskar Lunde sleeps soundly in his hospital cot, snuggled into a lime green blanket decorated with red butterflies. Across the room, his father turns on a laptop. “Now we will register our child,” Andrejs Lunde says with gravity as he inserts his ID card into the card reader….

The number of channel partnerships also had a noteworthy increase this year. …read more Source:: ZDNet

…And reveals rather too much to the staffer in the room On Call Everyone has had an embarrassing moment, when you wish the floor would just swallow you up. Perhaps yours was at the office Christmas party. But at On Call we like to go one better.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

And 2019 is on track to be even better. …read more Source:: CNet