Earlier this month, Leoni AG, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wires and electrical cables, informed investors that the German company lost almost 40 million euros (or about $44.6 million) to online scammers. Today, we finally know how: According to investigators, the thieves simply spoofed emails to look like official payment requests, a tactic known as “ CEO fraud .” Read more…
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An Email Scam Cost One of Europe’s Biggest Companies $40 Million
At IFA in Berlin Lenovo announced a nice array of refreshed laptops and tablets, updating great devices like the Lenovo Yoga 900 series (now the Lenovo 910) with 7th generation Intel processors, but one device stood out among the rest. It’s the tiniest laptop Lenovo has on display, so tiny the company is classifying it as a tablet. The Lenovo Book is just 0.38-inches thick, which makes it the thinnest laptop currently available, and makes ultra slims like the half-inch thick Samsung Notebook 9 and Apple Macbook look positively chunky. Read more…
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The Thinnest Laptop in the World Needs a Touchscreen Keyboard
Your standard inkjet printer can mostly handle paper, occasionally transparencies, and maybe even blank DVDs while they were still a thing. But Xerox just revealed a towering machine it calls the Direct to Object Inkjet Printer because that’s exactly what it does—it prints on almost any 3D object. Read more…
If you grew up in the 90s, you probably saw one of the legendary ITT Technical Institute commercials in the wee hours of the morning. Now, you’ll probably never see one again. Read more…
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Rest In Peace ITT Tech, You Bastards
Kaby Lake, Intel’s latest processor family, wasn’t supposed to exist . Earlier this year Intel announced the end of its well-known tick-tock release schedule, whereby it trots out a new processor every September. The tick is the shrinking and improvements of the current microarchitecture, while the tock is a whole new architecture. Instead last year’s “tock, ” Skylake , was going to hang around a while, with no new “tick” in sight. Read more…
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Intel’s New Kaby Lake Processors: What You Need to Know
Today, Facebook announced that human curators will no longer write short descriptions that accompany trending topics on the site. Instead, the company will rely on an algorithmic process to “pull excerpts directly from stories.” The company also said it will stop using human curators to sort through the news. Read more…
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Facebook Removes Human Curators From Trending Module
Yesterday, a massive 6.1 magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy . It was followed by nearly 200 aftershocks, devastating whole towns and burying residents under rubble. Over 4, 000 rescuers have been dispatched and the death toll has jumped to 247, the BBC reports . Read more…
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Drone Footage Shows the Earthquake in Italy Was Far Worse Than Anyone Thought
A group of retirees-turned-shipwreck hunters have discovered the remains of the Washington , an 18th century trading vessel that sank to the bottom of Lake Ontario in 1803. The 53-foot sloop is the second largest shipwreck to ever be found in the Great Lakes. Read more…
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Shipwreck Hunters Bag an Amazing Discovery At the Bottom of Lake Ontario
We already knew that a recent hack that targeted Democratic officials was going to be more than just access to possibly incriminating emails, but we didn’t realize it would be this soon. Read more…
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Personal Information of Nearly 200 Democrats Leaked in Latest Hack
In 2012 the Macbook Pro Retina wasn’t so much the next stage of laptops as it was a fun oddity by Apple. It was a workstation, designed to handle grueling video and photo editing tasks with aplomb, but it was missing some workstation musts, like a DVD drive or Ethernet port. Instead it was thinner and lighter than a traditional Macbook Pro, had a gorgeous 1800p display, and was outfitted with a solid state drive. Read more…
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Apple’s Best Laptop Is Four Years Old