SEAL Team Recap: Unfit to Operate — Was It Hard to Watch a Bungling Bravo?

RELATED STORIES Whoo-boy, Bravo Team is a mess. And things only got messier in the final seconds of this Wednesday’s SEAL Team. Picking up two months after the events of the seismic season premiere, this is what everyone  was up to: JASON is no longer operating but working in Ops — but while he technically […]

ChargePoint hopes to operate 2.5 million EV chargers by 2025

ChargePoint currently operates around 54,000 EV charging points — sure, it’s but a fraction of the number of gas pumps in the world, but it’s relatively plenty. Even Tesla’s growing Supercharger network only has 11,013 chargers at this point in time. Someday, however, those 54,000 chargers won’t be enough, so the company has decided to […]

Uber Will Fight to Keep Its License to Operate in London on Monday

Uber Will Fight to Keep Its License to Operate in London on Monday Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). […]

Here’s why the US let dozens of Russian spies operate in the US for decades

The US and its allies ordered the largest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats. Senior US officials say that more than 100 Russian spies are in the US masquerading as diplomats. But the US is allowing some to stay because it’s reportedly an accepted international practice that even includes the US. In ordering the largest mass […]

Cryptocurrency botnets are rendering some companies unable to operate

We’re imagining botnets in 2018 aren’t greatly impacting vintage OS systems, but many modern computers aren’t performing their best post-Smominru. (credit: Apple) A massive cryptocurrency mining botnet has generated as much as $ 3.6 million dollars’ worth of the digital coin known as Monero since last May, a researcher said Wednesday. The windfall isn’t the […]

Where to Sit on the Aircraft That Will Soon Operate the World’s Longest Flight

Where to Sit on the Soon-To-Be World’s Longest Flight Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]

As of today, no US airlines operate the mighty Boeing 747

Mike Kane/Bloomberg/Getty Images On Wednesday, Delta Airlines flight 9771 flew from Atlanta to Pinal Airpark in Arizona. It wasn’t a full flight—just 48 people on board. But it was a milestone—and not just for the two people who got married mid-flight—for it marked the very last flight of a Boeing 747 being operated by a […]

A third UK city just refused to renew Uber’s license to operate

Thomson Reuters York has refused to renew Uber’s license to operate — the third UK city to do so. The ride-hailing firm is under fire after a chain of scandals, and the revelation it covered up a data breach affecting 57 million users. Uber just lost its license in a third UK city — the […]

Velodyne LiDAR helps self-driving cars operate at highway speeds

Have you noticed that many self-driving car tests avoid the highway? There’s a good reason for it: the LiDAR (laser pulse-based radar) cars use to navigate frequently can’t handle high-detail images at the speeds and distances needed for timely reactions. Velodyne might fix that with its newly unveiled VLS-128 LiDAR system. It has 10 times […]

Tencent gets exclusive rights to operate PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China

It’s just like everyone always says in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: China No. 1. Internet megacorp Tencent has revealed that it will have the exclusive rights to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in its home market of China. It will run the servers, and it will focus on complying with (or bypassing) tough regulations. Tencent is also promising to deal […]