An alleged teen hacker claims to have gained deep access to the company’s systems, but the full picture of the breach is still coming into focus. https://media.wired.com/photos/6324bd9ac4d3ebc9237bc60e/master/pass/Uber-Hack-Security-GettyImages-1238322525.jpg
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Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself
By studying how electric organs arose in different lineages of fish, scientists gain new insights into a long-standing question of evolutionary biology. https://media.wired.com/photos/631262ebf89e2120665181fc/master/pass/Electric-Eel-Evolution-Quanta-Science.jpg
Did ABC’s Rebel Make a Strong Case for Itself? Grade the Premiere
RELATED STORIES Annie Flynn Ray Bello aka Rebel is mad as hell and she’s not gonna take it anymore. The ABC drama from Krista Vernoff (and loosely based on activist/exec producer Erin Brockovich) kicks off with the title character (played by Sons of Anarchy‘s Katey Sagal) crashing a corporate party to interrogate Mr. Duncan, a […]
EastEnders spoilers: Stacey Slater ‘murders’ Martin in exit plot as history repeats itself
Express.co.uk has contacted a representative of the show for comment on the reports. If Stacey does disappear from the drama once more, it could come after she takes revenge on her husband for falling in love with her best friend. The beloved character couldn’t be angry with her spouse for betraying her as he only […]
Google Play malware used phones’ motion sensors to conceal itself
Enlarge (credit: Andri Koolme / Flickr) Malicious apps hosted in the Google Play market are trying a clever trick to avoid detection—they monitor the motion-sensor input of an infected device before installing a powerful banking trojan to make sure it doesn’t load on emulators researchers use to detect attacks. The thinking behind the monitoring is […]
At a New York Privacy Pop-Up, Facebook Sells Itself
The one-day pop-up kiosk is meant to show that Facebook takes users’ privacy concerns seriously. It also was an opportunity to gather more data. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c12d0dee1431d5ffc3f79fa/master/pass/facebook_consumer_privacy-02.jpg
More solar power hurts nuclear energy. But it also hurts itself
It is not a good time to be producing power round the clock
In What Kind of Market Will the Baby Ram Find Itself?
We’ve known since June that Fiat-Chrysler plans to re-enter a segment it abandoned at the dawn of the decade — in the U.S., anyway. A midsize pickup bearing the Ram logo will appear in 2020, a report claimed earlier today, joining what will by then be a stable made up of six brands. Ford makes a […]
MIT machine vision system figures out what it’s looking at by itself
Robotic vision is already pretty good, assuming that it’s being used within the narrow bounds of the application for which it’s been designed. That’s fine for machines that perform a specific movement over and over, such as picking an object off of an assembly line and placing it into a bin. However for robots to […]
More solar power hurts nuclear energy. But it also hurts itself
SOME call it a zero-carbon schism, others a heresy. The researchers, policymakers and environmentalists united over the need to stop global warming are divided on how to go about it. Many believe that renewable energy, especially wind and solar, has by far the biggest role to play. A dogged few, however, cling to nuclear energy, […]