On Monday, Portland sued Uber ; now, L.A. and San Francisco are joining in, too. The cites have sued the ride-hailing company on the grounds that it misleads consumers about their safety as well as overcharging them. Read more…
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L.A. and San Francisco Are Suing Uber, Too
Amazon’s streaming video service just got an upgrade . Starting today, Prime Instant Video offers 4K Ultra High Definition streaming at no extra charge, so people with compatible TVs will have the option to watch Transparent and a limited selection of movies and television in 4K HD. Read more…
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Amazon Instant Just Got 4K Streaming
According to Bloomberg , the source of the huge Sony Pictures leak has been traced to a five-star hotel in Thailand’s capital . Leaching off of the St. Regis hotel’s high-speed wi-fi, the hackers, currently believed the work of the North Korea-linked group DarkSeoul, carried out their devastating and embarrassing attack, leaking 47, 000 SSNs and other sensitive information. Read more…
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Report: Sony Leak Traced to a Bangkok Hotel
On Friday Digital Einstein went live, bringing with it a treasure trove of Einstein letters, correspondences, postcards, and notes detailing the life of one of the world’s greatest thinkers. As The New York Times reports , these are The Dead Sea Scrolls of physics and you can read them today for free. Read more…
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Tons of Albert Einstein Documents Are Now Online for Free
What most often gives away a CG character as fake is their dead, lifeless eyes. It’s a common contributing factor to the uncanny valley effect, but now researchers at Disney have developed a system to perfectly capture a performer’s eyes that promises to make CG characters finally appear more lifelike and convincing. Read more…
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Disney’s Super-Realistic CG Eyeballs Are an Uncanny Valley Airlift
The Centers for Disease Control has some dubious competition in the mishandling deadly pathogens business. A investigation by the Guardian reveals dozens of serious safety lapses in UK labs. In one case, a government lab shipped out live anthrax because someone had grabbed the wrong tubes. Read more…
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A UK Government Lab Accidentally Mailed Out Live Anthrax
During a court hearing in Oakland, California, it’s come to light that, between 2007 and 2009, Apple deleted tracks downloaded from rival music services off of iPods. Read more…
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Apple Deleted Competitors’ Songs From Your iPod
It’s been a rough week for Sony execs ( million-dollar salaries notwithstanding ). And things are only going to get worse . Which would almost be enough to make you feel bad for the poor schmucks in IT—that is, until you realize that they hid their most sensitive password data under the label “Passwords.” Go ahead and slam your head against something hard. We’ll wait. Read more…
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Sony Kept Thousands of Passwords in a Folder Named "Password"
Gangnam Style fell out of the public eye a while ago (thank god) but people haven’t stopped watching it. It’s been seen so many times that it actually broke YouTube’s view counter, in the nerdiest possible way by busting the code behind the scenes. Read more…
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Gangnam Style Broke YouTube’s View Counter
Last year, we discovered that Iranian hackers had breached Navy computer systems , which sent an understandable wave of panic through the administration. But it looks like that might’ve just been the tip of a much bigger, more sophisticated and more deadly iceberg. Read more…
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Report: Iran Has Been Hacking Major Infrastructure For Last Two Years