CBS and Paramount, the two studios that own the rights to Star Trek, announced a list of 10 guidelines for fan film creators this week. The studios are saying that they “will not object to, or take legal action against” filmmakers that follow the new rules (although the studios added that “CBS and Paramount Pictures reserve the right to revise, revoke and/or withdraw these...
Unswayed by Axanar, CBS and Paramount offer 10 rules for fan film makers
What does Clash of Clans maker’s $10-billion sale say about the future of gaming?
Congratluations, guys... you and the rest of the Clash of Clans crew now anchor a $ 10 billion mobile gaming powerhouse.
We've been hearing for years how mobile gaming has been growing at nearly inconceivable rates and will soon become the dominant force in the gaming business. Today's $ 10-billion purchase of Clash of...
Chewbacca Mom’s Facebook fame continues as she visits Hasbro, makers of the mask
Brazen no more, makers of account-draining bank trojan get 24 years
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Two men who built and sold a banking trojan that infected more than 50 million computers around the world and caused almost $ 1 billion in losses have been sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison.
Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, the chief developer and distributor of SpyEye, received a sentence of nine years...
Antitrust chief: Google’s restrictions on Android device makers breach EU law
Google faces more competition charges in the European Union, after the 28-member-state bloc's antitrust commissioner concluded in a preliminary decision that the company had abused its dominant position by imposing restriction on Android device makers.
A Statement of Objections—which outlines Brussels' charges—has been sent to Google this morning, competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said during a press conference on...
Car makers ask US to slow down on allowing self-driving cars
A Google self-driving car. (credit: Google)
As US regulators consider issuing guidance allowing the sale of self-driving cars, an industry group representing automakers has urged the government to take things slow.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in January that within six months it intended to "develop guidance on the safe deployment and operation of autonomous vehicles." The...
Autonomous car makers hand over data on glitches and failures to California DMV
Delphi's autonomous vehicle. (credit: Delphi)
If you want to build a self-driving car and test it on public roads in California, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles says that every year you have to submit a disengagement report—basically a list of every time the human driver had to take over for the car. This year, Bosch,...