Image: Gizmodo Apple is gearing up for its annual product announcement in September where it will reportedly debut a more expensive iPhone and a new 4K Apple TV. Apple wants to be able to tell customers that they can get 4K movies for a slightly less-extortionate price than its competitors are offering, but movie studios…

Photo: AP The shield contains a raised platform for law enforcement or troops to stand behind, with slits for observation or—more ominously—firing projectiles on rioters or protesters from behind cover. The vehicle also boasts a water cannon. Frankly, this thing is terrifying and looks like nothing more than the infamous “scoop” riot-dispersal vehicles from 1973…

Photo: AP An unknown hacker has gathered up to 711 million email accounts stored on an “open and accessible” server in the Netherlands, ZDNet reported. The server contains passwords to both email addresses and servers which are apparently being used to send large amounts of spam through legitimate accounts, thereby bypassing filters. A Paris-based researcher…

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology Jessica Tisch. Photo: AP It’s been roughly two years since Microsoft released a new Windows Phone, and it looks like the company has basically decided its awful, single-digit market share warrants a reimagined approach which might not come for some time. So it’s…