Star Wars gets the theme park treatment with Galaxy’s Edge
On Saturday, Disney executives revealed Galaxy’s Edge as the official name of their two Star Wars theme park expansions coming to Florida’s Walt Disney...
Kaspersky Labs launches free antivirus globally
On Tuesday, Eugene Kaspersky announced the launch of Kaspersky Free, a free version of its antivirus software. The suite has the “bare essentials” of...
Adobe will kill Flash in 2020
On Tuesday, Adobe Systems announced it will be ending development and distribution of Flash by the year 2020, effectively killing off the popular plugin....
Microsoft’s HPU 2.0 to power next-gen HoloLens devices
On Sunday, the Microsoft Research team announced they were developing a Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) along with an AI coprocessor to deal with Deep...
The near future of human upgrading
Prof. Hugh Herr of MIT’s Biomechatronics Group told the BBC over the weekend that “we’re at a key transition in human history.” The scientist...
Elon Musk talks Gigafactories, AI, and more to U.S. governors
On Saturday, Elon Musk hosted the Ahead of the Curve panel at the Summer Meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Rhode Island....
Microsoft retires Paint with the Fall Creators Update
On Monday, Microsoft announced through a post on its Support page that Paint would no longer receive any updates and might even be removed...
U.S. and Europe take down AlphaBay and Hansa dark net markets
On Thursday, American and European authorities announced they had taken down AlphaBay and Hansa, two of the leading dark net markets currently operating. Officials...
MySpace haunts old users with new security flaw
On Monday, the independent cyber security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway reported that she discovered a critical security flaw in MySpace’s platform that allowed anyone with...
Google Glass returns with Enterprise Edition for workers
On Tuesday, Alphabet’s X division announced Google Glass Enterprise Edition as a new version of the infamous augmented reality glasses by Google. This time,...