Mirai botnet creators praised for helping FBI, won’t serve prison time

Enlarge / Fiber optic cables, center, and copper Ethernet cables feed into switches inside a communications room at an office in London, U.K., on Monday, May 21, 2018. (credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Over nine months ago, three men pleaded guilty to creating and operating the Mirai and Clickfraud botnets. However, on Tuesday, after […]

Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai’ Will Get a U.S. Release This November

While the world has been scrambling to name any promising anime director as the next Hayao Miyazaki (while the man himself diligently ignores all the hoopla with another un-retirement), Mamoru Hosoda has quietly proved to be a visionary filmmaker in his own right. With a career spanning wildly inventive films like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer […]

Not Giving Up: Toyota Wants Mass-produced Mirai FCVs, Longer Range

Despite it being the most abundant element in the world — but one of the hardest fuels to source — automakers aren’t giving up on hydrogen. That group includes Toyota, which launched the world’s best-selling hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai, in 2015. Early this year, the 3,000th U.S. Mirai found its way to the driveway of […]

La La Land: Honda Clarity and Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Cars Compared!

– This is a fantasy comparison test, but not our usual kind. There is no exotic sheetmetal on display here, no towering horsepower or physics-defying handling. Certainly nobody daydreams about driving 300 miles without leaving Los Angeles. But that’s exactly what we did to evaluate the Honda Clarity and Toyota Mirai, tracing a path between each […]