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  • MoviePass Is Jacking Up Its Prices as It Tries to Survive

    Image: Moviepass, Pexels If you’ve been keeping tabs on MoviePass, get out your notebook because the service is changing once again. Following a series of outages, an embarrassing lack of funds, and restrictions on this past weekend’s biggest film, MoviePass is finally explaining what’s going on, sort of. In a press release on Tuesday, the movie…

  • Google Lays Down the Law on Notches

    Added support for notches should also make it easier to hide those cutout too. Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) While Google hasn’t made a phone with a notch (at least not yet), the folks over in Mountain View have been working on adding support for sensor cutouts into the next version of Android. And in a…

  • Scientists Made a Weird System to Study the Mysteries of Photonic Crystals

    Graphic: Popular Science Monthly When you see light, you’re looking at photons spat out by an excited atom. But what if instead of light, an excited atom released a wave of matter? That’s what a team of physicists has done—they created an experiment that spits out atoms through the same process by which atoms normally…

  • Get Ready for Indoor Surveillance Drones

    Screenshot: Skysense Surveillance drones are headed indoors. Two technology companies say they are partnering to develop a fully automated drone security service designed to work inside. From takeoff to landing, the drone system, a joint venture between U.S. and Germany-based Skysense and Avansig, a Spanish technology company, will work automatically to detect “potential security threats…

  • DC Organizers Say Anti-Racist Rally Facebook Took Down Is Real, Not Foreign

    White supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other racist activists headed towards counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12th, 2017.Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) DC organizers are angry after Facebook took down what it said were 32 pages and accounts engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on Tuesday, as one of the events was a local-backed counter-rally to the…

  • Six Arrested at Amazon Store Amid Anti-ICE Protest in NYC

    Photo: Bryan Menegus (Gizmodo) Coinciding with a national “we won’t be complicit” day of action aimed against US Immigrations Customs and Enforcement (ICE) approximately 100 protesters gathered in Midtown to pressure tech companies, which in recently months have drawn criticism for providing infrastructural support to the agency. Beginning around 5:30 outside Microsoft’s offices across from…

  • Report: The SamSam Ransomware Has Extorted $5.9 Million, and One Person Might Be Behind It

    A screenshot of an attack on Farmington, New Mexico municipal computer systems obtained by BleepingComputer.Screenshot: Farmington City Council (BleepingComputer) A recent review by UK cybersecurity firm Sophos in partnership with cryptocurrency firm Neutrino has concluded that the crew—or possibly one extremely proficient black hat hacker—behind the SamSam ransomware attacks have rolled in at least $5.9…

  • Named smartphones, which are most likely to surrender in exchange for new

    The company SmartPrice named the most popular smartphones, which often pass on the trade-in program. The top five includes three models of Samsung, after the launch of the official exchange program in March 2018. This files most often pass in exchange for a new iPhone 5s color Space Gray, it accounts for 4%. On the…

  • Named the exact release date of the new NVIDIA

    NVIDIA announced the date of their next big announcement. It will be held next month at a gaming Expo Gamescom in 2018, which will be held from 21 to 25 August in Cologne. The event is scheduled for August 20, the day before the exhibition opening to the public. As expected, NVIDIA will present the…

  • Apple hinted at an iPhone with two SIM-cards

    In yesterday released the fifth beta version of iOS 12 developers found a mention of the support of two SIM cards in future iPhone. In the code of the firmware is referred to the status of second SIM card and tray for the second SIM. Note that this is not the first mention of that…