The company that powers most smartphones has been bought for more than $30 billion. The new owners of ARM Holdings plan to harness its capabilities to boost the Internet of Things. ARM, based in Cambridge in the United Kingdom, is best known for having designed the ARM processor and related software architecture. The approach meant […]
AT&T plans to use drones to improve wireless coverage at events with large crowds. It’s the next step in a program that’s started with the drones inspecting cellphone towers. The company says it has a national drone program and will try to use the unmanned vehicles in as many different ways as possible to boost […]
Tourism staff on a remote island chain have recruited sheep to help map the island. It’s part of a campaign to get Google to add the Faroe Islands to its Street View service, Google has so far passed up the opportunity to send its vehicle-mounted cameras to the Islands, largely because they are 200 miles […]
Researcher say its possible to hide garbled commands among other noise and surreptitiously trigger voice control on a phone. But it seems highly unlikely the method could be used for a genuine attack in its current form. A group of eight researchers from Georgetown University and University of California, Berkely investigated the proposition that its […]
A site that republished deleted tweets from public figures has stopped its service after a cease and desist demand from Twitter. PostGhost was told it fundamentally violated the terms and conditions of the Twitter API. The service was designed to highlight tweets that politicians and other celebrities had made and then removed. The theory was […]
A Microsoft email inviting interns to an after-party has attracted mockery from people amused by its attempts to appeal to the youth market. The cringeworthy message begins “HEY BAE INTERN! <3” which is somewhat overfamiliar to say the least. The message, which includes a variety of underlining, block capitals and colored text goes on to […]
Australian police have (politely) warned Pokemon players not to enter a police station during their search for virtual pokemon. It’s an unintended result of a mobile augmented reality game. Pokemon Go involves hunting down pokemon and related items in real world locations. When found, the character appears as an overlaid graphic on the real image […]
Comcast says its next generation of cable boxes will include a Netflix streaming app. The deal appears to end a bitter dispute between the two companies over net neutrality issues. The streaming will be available through the X1 platform, which will include a unified search tool (covering Live TV, DVR recordings and On Demand content) […]
Minecraft lets you build anything from walls to temples. Oh, and a Game Boy Advance with a playable copy of Pokemon Fire Red. A user with the screenname Reqaug has taken advantage of the way the building blocks in Minecraft aren’t simply structural but can also be functional. While some people take advantage of that […]
An Overwatch player has spotted a tribute to a fan who died just a day before the game was released. Wu Hongyu was killed while attempting to foil a motorcycle theft. Wu, a 20-year-old student in China, saw a friend’s motorcycle stolen from campus. He chased after the thief on his own bike but suffered […]