Wednesday 15 August 2018

The Morning After: SpaceX Dragon tour and 5G phones

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Morning there! Welcome to the Morning After. Today, we’ll take you on a tour of SpaceX, it’s the beginning of the end for Telltale’s Walking Dead and there’s a new actor playing Spock

It'll be the return of crewed space flight from the United States.

SpaceX readies its spacecraft and astronauts for crewed missions

The United States' last crewed space mission (it was also the final shuttle flight STS-135) launched from Kennedy Space Center in 2011. Since then, US astronauts have hitched rides on Russian rockets. Meanwhile, SpaceX, Boeing and NASA are reviving US spaceflight with the Commercial Crew Program. A boring name for something that's exciting not only for NASA but also the four gentlemen testing (and will eventually be aboard) the Dragon spaceship when it launches. We took the tour of SpaceX’s latest craft.

Clementine's journey comes full circle.

Raising a child in the final season of Telltale's 'Walking Dead'

In The Walking Dead's final season, the Telltale series comes back to Clementine, who is now a teenager with a young charge of her own. It's her job to keep him alive -- but also, to make sure he grows up properly. Welcome to parenthood in the zombie apocalypse.

Who needs details?

Sprint and LG are trying to launch the first 5G phone next year

Sprint already plans to launch a 5G network in six cities this year, with three more planned for 2019, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix and Washington, DC. Now, in combination with LG, the company will try to beat other carriers with the first 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019. That’s all we know.

Do your research.

How to better secure your smart home

The security of your smart home relies entirely on how much research and care you take before setting up too many devices. From your smart speaker to router security, we have some advice for staying safe with connected devices.

Just talk.

Soon you won’t need a wake word to talk to your car

Starting next year, BMWs outfitted with the latest version of Nuance's voice assistant will be able to tell the difference between the driver talking to passengers and the driver talking to the car. In other words, no more wake word.

Not banned yet.

Alex Jones gets a week suspension from Twitter

More than a week after other services pulled the plug on Alex Jones and InfoWars, CNN reports that Twitter has given the personality a one-week suspension. It came after he told viewers on a live video stream “now is time to act on the enemy.” While his Twitter fingers take a break, the account itself is still preserved, and @InfoWars remains fully active.

If you terminated your subscription, be careful when you open the app.

MoviePass has been resurrecting recently cancelled accounts

While MoviePass runs out of cash, limits services and raises prices, there's a new issue for subscribers to contend with: People who cancelled their MoviePass subscriptions are finding their accounts have been reactivated, seemingly without their consent.

It's part of the Defense Authorization Act the president has just signed into law.

US bans government personnel from using Huawei and ZTE devices

US government employees, contractors and agencies won’t be testing out the P20 Pro’s killer camera any time soon. The president has signed the Defense Authorization Act into law, and part of it is a ban on devices and equipment used to route or view user data made by the two companies and some other Chinese manufacturers.

But wait, there's more...

1. Verizon looks to Apple and Google for live TV over 5G

2. Intel discloses another set of processor vulnerabilities

3. Lawmakers ask Ajit Pai about false DDoS claims

4. Tinder co-founders sue parent company for $2 billion over deception

5. Hundreds of Instagram users report similarly hacked accounts

6. Netflix's 'Next Gen' trailer features John Krasinski as your robot buddy

7. 'Star Trek: Discovery' has its Spock

8. 'Monster Hunter: World' is pulled from China after only a few days

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Tuesday 14 August 2018

Editor's Pick: Farsight Security COO Alexa Raad: 'Be Your Own Champion'

Farsight Security COO Alexa Raad: 'Be Your Own Champion'

Vivian Wagner
Aug 14, 2018 9:20 AM PT

"If you think about Internet threats like phishing and botnets and malware -- all of those start with a DNS -- a domain name system. And so every kind of nefarious act leaves footprints and fingerprints in the DNS. That's something that cannot be faked," said Farsight Security COO Alexa Raad. For example, "a lot of the new domain names that are registered are typically registered with bad intent." [More...]

More Picks:

Def Con Voting Machine Hacks Ruffle Feathers
Hackers cracked into a wide array of voting equipment Def Con's Voting Village, an event held Friday at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Last year, conference goers hacked five machines and an e-poll book of registered voters. This year, in addition to voting machines, tabulators and smart card readers were available for hacking. Websites weren't off limits, either. [More...]

The Weird Mistakes Killing Tesla
Tesla is trending to fail spectacularly. It has been burning cash at an unsustainable rate, and it keeps making avoidable mistakes that weaken it. Here's what is weird: You'd think the firm's biggest problem would be that every large car maker was working behind the scenes to kill it. However, the car companies for the most part appear to have worked harder to emulate Tesla than to destroy it. [More...]

New LibreOffice Version Offers Fresh Take
The Document Foundation has announced the availability of its second major release this year, LibreOffice Fresh 6.1, with enhanced editing on Desktop, Cloud and Mobile platforms. One of its most significant new features is Notebookbar, an experimental UI option that resembles the ribbon interface popular with Microsoft Office users. The Fresh release targets both early adopters and power users. [More...]

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E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- August 14, 2018

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Def Con Voting Machine Hacks Ruffle Feathers
What Can Chrome 68 Teach Us About Election Security?
The Internet's Truth vs. Fake News Showdown
The Wiggly Line Between Journalism and PR
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Today's Story Highlights

Def Con Voting Machine Hacks Ruffle Feathers

Hackers cracked into a wide array of voting equipment Def Con's Voting
Village, an event held Friday at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Last year, conference goers hacked five machines and an e-poll book of
registered voters. This year, in addition to voting machines, tabulators
and smart card readers were available for hacking. Websites weren't off
limits, either.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85505.html

What Can Chrome 68 Teach Us About Election Security?

If you're a technologist, you've probably noticed a few new things
associated with Chrome 68's release last month. One of the more notable
changes is that it now uses a "not secure" indicator for any site not
using HTTPS. So instead of providing a notification when a site is
HTTPS, it now provides the user with a warning when it isn't. One of
those groups is users of government websites.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85503.html

The Internet's Truth vs. Fake News Showdown

Facebook earlier this week pulled the plug on the official page for Alex
Jones, host of Infowars and noted conspiracy theorist. YouTube quickly
followed, removing Infowars and Jones' videos. Facebook's move followed
Apple's decision to pull five of Infowars' six podcasts -- including the
"Alex Jones Show" and "War Room" -- from the iTunes and Podcasts apps.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85499.html

The Wiggly Line Between Journalism and PR

The line between journalism and public relations can be fuzzy, and news
organizations have wrestled with that problem for some time. However,
that line recently has become more blurred than ever, with some
publications enlisting armies of nonprofessional scribes to satisfy an
insatiable appetite for content. It's easy to understand why the problem
has mushroomed.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85496.html

AI-Driven Marketing Offers High Hopes to B2B Firms

Versium has announced a partnership with LiveRamp to launch artificial
intelligence-powered B2B audience segments,as part of a new business-to-
business data management platform. The partnership will let companies
perform online targeting of offline business professional data that
often is housed within their own CRM systems. LiveRamp customers will
get access to Versium's modeling engine.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85493.html

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