Earlier this year Home Depot confirmed that 56 million cards had been compromised in one of the biggest retail security breaches in history. Now we know that much like the Target hack— which was traced to a heating company —Home Depot was infiltrated by custom malware and passwords stolen from a third party vendor. Read more…
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Hackers Ravaged Home Depot With a Password Stolen from a Vendor
Everybody’s vying for fitness tracker dominance. Microsoft released its Band last week , and new models of the Fitbit and Basis smartwatches are on the way. Now, Jawbone wants create a fashionable fitness tracker that you wouldn’t mind wearing all day. Read more…
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Jawbone UP3: A Fitness Tracker With Some Fashion Sense
At the start of the year, Disney launched an app for iOS which allows you to stream all the Disney, Pixar, and Marvel movies you own. Now, it’s arrived on Android, too. Read more…
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You Can Now Stream All the Disney Movies You Own on Android
With thousands of TV shows and movies available to stream at home, it takes more than just celebrities in a film to get people into theaters. You need to show them something spectacular, and for Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Interstellar , that meant shooting almost an hour of the movie with a 70mm IMAX camera. Read more…
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Why Seeing Interstellar in 70mm Might Just Be Worth the Effort
Tinder is about to help you fix the biggest mistake you ever make on Tinder: Swiping left instead of swiping right. But if you want that magical power, you’re going to have to pay for it. Read more…
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Tinder Is Finally Getting an Undo Button (For a Price)
Anyone blessed with a Nexus or Google Play edition device will very soon be able to enjoy Android’s latest software masterpiece, Lollipop. An official blogpost announces that Lollipop will begin its public rollout today though it’s light on specifics. Read more…
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Android 5.0 Lollipop Is Here
Looks like North Korea’s engineers have been hard at work brushing up on their obsolete Soviet-era technology. Because after acquiring 10 discontinued Soviet subs, everyone’s favorite little warmongering-dictatorship-that-could has finally rendered the outdated ballistic vessels seaworthy—and it only took them 21 years. Read more…
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North Korea’s Brand New Ballistic Sub Discontinued by Soviets in 1990
When developers are looking for the next jaw-dropping gaming visual to show off their newest titles with, the responsibility usually falls on some shiny, photo-real car porn or a wavy mullet with individual strands blowing in the wind. But the sizzle reels of the future may turn their cameras ground-ward if Nvidia’s new grass-mimicking effect is anything to go by. Read more…
Two-factor authentication is generally seen as the safest bet for protecting your Gmail account. But a harrowing tale from indie developer Grant Blakeman , whose Instagram was hacked through Gmail, reveals how not even two-factor authentication can beat every security threat. Read more…
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How Hackers Reportedly Side-Stepped Google’s Two-Factor Authentication
The Spratly Islands are basically mounds of sand in the middle of the South China Sea, some of them barely tall enough to reach above the water. But China is hell-bent on making them inhabitable, even drawing up plans for floating energy and water plants. It has nothing to do with the islands themselves and everything to do with the water around it. Read more…
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How China Is Making Tiny Islands Inhabitable With Huge Floating Docks