Day: January 9, 2019

Heathrow Flights Disrupted By Yet Another Drone

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Telcos Caught Selling People’s Location Data Again

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Jeep Hacking Lawsuit Shifts Into Gear

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Zerodium Will Now Pay $2 Million For Apple iOS Remote Jailbreaks

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Google Home Gets Real-Time Interpretations For 27 languages

Google Assistant has announced the introduction of real-time translations with Google Home speakers and third-party smart displays like those from JBL, Sony, and Lenovo. Interpretations will initially be available in 27 languages. From a report: Plans are to later bring real-time interpretations to mobile devices, but no date has been set, a company spokesperson told…


Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can’t Delete Facebook

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Nick Winke, a photographer in the Pacific northwest, was perusing internet forums when he came across a complaint that alarmed him: On certain Samsung Electronics Co. smartphones, users aren’t allowed to delete the Facebook app. Winke bought his Samsung Galaxy S8, an Android-based device that comes with…


Thought Macbooks were expensive? Dell UK unveils the 7 meeeellion pound laptop

Includes a £3m discount. Excludes VAT and delivery Apple’s pricing woes do not seem to have worried PC giant Dell, as the flinger of Windows – and occasionally Linux-powered silicon – appears to have unleashed another multimillion-pound laptop on the world.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Apple reportedly cuts iPhone production by 10 percent for first quarter – CNET

The Nikkei report comes hot on the heels of CEO Tim Cook’s sales warning. …read more Source:: CNet


Amazon exec tells UK peers: No, we don’t want to be dominant. Also, we don’t fancy being taxed on revenues

Of course! It’s the public’s fault it doesn’t look like Amazon coughs up enough – we need to better understand corporation tax Things would be lot simpler for Amazon if people had a better understanding of corporation tax and didn’t think online tracking was so sinister, according to the UK director of public policy for…


New Game, Old Ways: Cramming an NES Game into 40 kB

Why would anyone bother to create new content for a console system that’s staring down its 40th birthday? Perhaps just for the challenge of fitting a game into 40 kilobytes of storage. That at least seems to be the motivation behind [Morphcat Games] pending release of Micro Mages, a new game for the Nintendo Entertainment…