February 16, 2020 Puerto Rico, A Territory in Recession, Falls Prey to a More Than $4 Million Online Scam Authorities in Puerto Rico reported this week that hackers had targeted more than four million dollars in government funds in recent months. The attack…
February 16, 2020 Barbara Remington, Whose Lord of the Rings Illustrations Were Beloved By Everyone Except Tolkien, Has Died Before Peter Jackson’s movies, the visual identity of Lord of the Rings was the territory of artists and animators. And few created a vision…
February 16, 2020 Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip Sure Does Look Fragile in this Durability Test Samsung’s proclaimed that it has “done the impossible” with its Galaxy Z Flip, that the smartphone even “bends the laws of physics.” But now…
February 16, 2020 No, Pete Buttigieg’s Campaign Didn’t Make A Sockpuppet Twitter Account Claiming to Be Nigerian Is the vehemently pro-Buttigieg account @easychineduu actually a staffer for the Democratic candidate trying to curry favor with minority voters? Or is it just…
February 16, 2020 New York AG won’t keep fighting T-Mobile merger with Sprint Now that a federal judge has removed one of the few remaining obstacles to T-Mobile's merger with Sprint, resistance to the move appears to…
February 16, 2020 This Unsettlingly Accurate Deepfake Casts Tom Holland and Robert Downey, Jr. in Back to the Future Deepfake technology continues to weird me out. It seems just a matter of time until it changes how we experience visual media. These just…
February 16, 2020 Tesla ordered to halt early work on its German Gigafactory Tesla's Berlin area Gigafactory is running into trouble before the EV maker has even laid the foundations. The higher administrative court for Berlin-Brandenburg has…
February 16, 2020 ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ breaks record for a video game movie debut The Sonic the Hedgehog movie has come a long, long way from that horrifying initial trailer. Paramount's adaptation just broke the record for a…
February 16, 2020 You Can Watch Shows for Free on Redbox’s New Live TV Service If you’re looking for something to watch this holiday weekend, now you have one more place to look. Redbox, the company behind those DVD…
February 16, 2020 Hate Those Robocalls? This Service Lets You Sue Them for Up to $3,000 Per Annoying Call Until now, the majority of us might have simply hung up on robocallers. However, there’s now a way to get back at the companies…