The power outage in downtown Seattle on Wednesday wasn’t going to keep office workers from eating, and thanks to one bit of technology from the payment service...
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Hacking group “PLATINUM” used Windows’ own patching system against it
Microsoft's Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team works to track down and identify hacking groups that perpetrate attacks. The focus is on the groups that are most selective about their targets and that work hardest to...
WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet
WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption across all versions of its messaging and voice calling software, according to a Tuesday announcement on the company's website.
Given that WhatsApp is already in use by over 1 billion people worldwide, as users upgrade to the latest version, it will become the most widely used end-to-end crypto tool.
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Microsoft’s Minecraft to be used as artificial intelligence testing ground
Moment of truth: Feds must say if they used backdoored Juniper firewalls
Congressional oversight leaders are requiring most federal agencies to audit their networks to see if they use Juniper-manufactured firewalls that for four years contained an unauthorized backdoor for eavesdropping on encrypted communications.
Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform gave the agencies until February 4 to produce documents...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space altitudes today, and brought it back to a safe landing. The uncrewed flight at Bezos’ West Texas test...
How Picobrew used a vintage Citroën H Van to show off beer-making machines at CES
Walking past startup booth after startup booth on the show floor at CES can get a little repetitive — each company with employees talking about their products, maybe a few demos here and there, perhaps some business cards and pamphlets to take home....
This breakdown of how the Force is used in ‘Star Wars’ is simply mesmerizing
Star Wars seems to have been dissected in every discernible way, but this Bloomberg breakdown of how the Force is used in the first two trilogies is downright amazing. Bloomberg takes a look at how both the light and dark side...
Latest HoloLens hype video shows Microsoft’s futuristic headset being used by designers
Microsoft introduced another potential use for its HoloLens augmented reality headset on Monday, this time showing how engineers and industrial designers could use the technology to shape new devices. Designers have long used software to create digital 3D models of whatever they’re working on. But...
How Microsoft’s fitness tracker, cloud technology was used at the Squash World Championships
Sports and Microsoft’s technology met this weekend at the 2015 Men’s World Squash Championship in Bellevue, Wash. The world’s top 50 male squash players spent the past week competing against each other at the annual tournament, which was held in the U.S. for the first time ever and just a few minutes away from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond. Microsoft implemented some...