Just after dark on September 10 last year, Justin Wynn and Gary DeMercurio carefully slunk along a dimly lit hallway inside the Polk County courthouse, an ostentatious Beaux-Arts building in the center of downtown Des Moines, Iowa. For the second time in three nights, the two intruders had picked the lock on a basement-level emergency…
Now more than ever in the US, your money defines you. If you’re rich, you’ve splurged on enough canned food and TP to ride out several pandemics, let alone Covid-19. As the start of the school year approaches, perhaps you’ve hired tutors for your kids. Maybe you’ve decamped to your country compound to hunker down…
In May 2018, as the European Union’s landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation, went into effect, the main Dutch public broadcaster set in motion a grand experiment. The leadership at Nederlandse Publieke Omroep—essentially the BBC of the Netherlands—interpreted the law strictly, deciding that visitors to any of its websites would now be prompted…
Like elementary-school field day or neighborhood capture-the-flag, the new multiplayer knock-out game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a lip-biting mixture of fun and mayhem. Everybody gets a participation trophy, but the real winners, sucking on popsicles, feel like low-stakes gods.Out today on Steam and PlayStation 4, Fall Guys eliminates players out of a pool of…
By now you’re hopefully familiar with the usual advice to avoid phishing attacks: Don’t be too quick to download attachments, don’t enter passwords or send money somewhere out of the blue, and of course, don’t click links unless you know for sure where they actually lead. You may even scrutinize each sender’s email address to…
As policymakers, school administrators, and public health officials in the US fiercely debate whether it’s safe to reopen schools at the end of the summer, one of the biggest stumbling blocks has been a lack of reliable information about how easily children and young people can spread the virus that causes Covid-19. But that data…
On a Friday morning in the fall of 2016, the Mirai botnet wrecked havoc on internet infrastructure, causing major website outages across the United States. It was a wake-up call, revealing the true damage that zombie armies of malware-infected gadgets could cause. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are thinking even farther afield…
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Sony shares are sitting at their highest level since June 2001, despite a dip on Wednesday. Analysts say there could be further upside in the next year as Sony prepares to launch the flagship PlayStation 5 games console.The Japanese electronics giant posted better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday for the April to June quarter and provided an…
Logitech is announcing its first new racing wheel in five years: the G923 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox, and PC. The G923 succeeds the G29 and G920 and will be available in August for $399.99. Though the G923 looks very similar to the G29 and G920, it features an all-new force feedback system the company…
