Blizzard finds its 'Overwatch' World Cup teams

Overwatch may only be four months old, but Blizzard's multiplayer shooter has already amassed 15 million players and is gaining a lot interest from eSports fans. Many of the top eSports teams are quickly adding players to their roster as th…

Obituary: Victor Scheinman, inventor of the 'Stanford Arm' factory robot

The man who gave us our first Robotic Overlords ROTM  Victor Scheinman, whose 1960s work in robotics created the “robot factory” we see today, has died in California aged 73.…

Microsoft deletes Windows 10 nagware from Windows 7 and 8

Windows Update silently did the deed, added a few security fixes for .Net Framework too Microsoft has quietly excised Windows 10 free upgrade offers from Windows 7 and 8, aka the GWX.exe .…

IBM says: ‘Swift is now ready for the enterprise’

“Apple is smartly creating great digital experiences and I think they know that great digital experiences mean unleashing tons of innovation from the community overall,” Mike Gilfix, IBM’s VP of MobileFirst and Smarter Process told me, discussing…

Hydrogen fuel cell train offers pollution-free rail trips

Hydrogen fuel cells aren't gaining a huge amount of traction in cars, where there's a steady move toward electric. But what about regional railways, where long ranges and a lack of powered rails makes electric trains impractical? Alstom t…

Intel taps baton, tells the IoT orchestra to tune up

Chipzilla updates dev environment for Thing connectivity Intel has quietly released Version 2.0 of its IoT Services Orchestration Layer toolkit on the world.…

Fumble: The Galaxy Note fails to blow up the iPhone 7

The Macalope is sure there’s a football analogy for the Galaxy Note 7 situation here somewhere. Maybe something about trying an onside kick, fumbling the snap (which you shouldn’t have been doing in the first place because it’s an onside kick), …

6 Photos features that are worth the upgrade to macOS Sierra

When people ask me for the single best reason to upgrade to macOS Sierra, the answer I give them doesn’t involve Siri or Auto Unlock or iCloud Drive. It’s version 2.0 of Photos, the biggest update to Apple’s photo-management utility app since it…

Pre-roll ads on Amazon and Netflix are a poor solution to a genuine problem

Amazon Video's unskippable pre-roll teaser ads annoy as much as they inform.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review: Brilliant OLED color and performance to spare

The OLED version of the X1 Yoga is a fantastic blend of incredible display and great hardware.

Infographic iPhone Data Loss and Recovery

Have you lost your important data from your iPhone? No matter, that happens more often than you’d think. If you’re worried about the valuable data you’ve just lost and you’re wondering if you can still recover them easily. You may […]

Simulation Becomes Reality in the First Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Teasers

During Wednesday night’s broadcast of the Mr. Robot season finale, viewers got their first peek at the upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell movie with five new teaser trailers.Read more...

Why Watch Snowden When You Can Hear Its Plot Sung by Former Genesis Frontman Peter Gabriel?

Last weekend, Oliver Stone’s hump-filled reenactment of the life of NSA leaker Edward Snowden opened in theaters across the country. You might not know it, though, as audiences overwhelmingly opted to watch Tom Hanks plow through some geese instea…

EyePhones packing Iris-scanning authentication to go mainstream

Analyst says Galaxy Note 7 will fire up the mobile biometrics market ABI Research analyst Marina Lu has picked iris scanning as "one of the safest" means to secure user identities on smartphones.…

EyePhones packing Iris-scanning authentication to go mainstream

Analyst says Galaxy Note 7 will fire up the mobile biometrics market ABI Research analyst Marina Lu has picked iris scanning as "one of the safest" means to secure user identities on smartphones.…

CAIDA adds geo-tags to its Internet AS dataset

310,000 network links: that's how big your Interwebs grew. Mapping them is very useful We know what you're thinking, “when did a label on a diagram rate a news story?” but bear with us: the 'net-boffins at CAIDA have added labels to the vast dataset…

Lockheed Martin's bioenergy plant turns waste into clean power

When it's not taking forever to deliver the F–35 or creating new blimp inspection drones, Lockheed Martin is hard at work finding ways to turn actual trash into useable clean energy. At its Owego, New York facility, where the company …

Google Reneges on Allo Privacy Feature

New Gnome emerges blinking into the sunlight

The *nix desktop quit being awful in March, and reckons it's on the road to 'good' Gnome's developers have let version 3.22 “GUADEC” (the name of its primary European conference) loose on the world.…

Google automates Apps OAuth token revocation

Tells devs: 'errors are a feature, not a bug'. Google has refined the security controls available to enterprise Gmail users by automatically killing OAuth 2.0 tokens for Apps when users change passwords.…

Twitter reports increase in info and removal requests for 2016

Twitter has published its transparency report for January to June 2016, and one thing's clear: requests for user info and content removal keep on piling up. The microblogging website received two percent more government requests for account…