Roughly 98 percent of PCs hit by the ransomware attack were running Windows 7, says security firm Kaspersky Lab.
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People are taking photos and videos all over major cities, all the time, from every angle. Theoretically, with enough of them, you could map every street and building — wait, did I say theoretically? I meant in practice, as the VarCity project has demonstrated with Zurich, Switzerland. Read More
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Rubbin’ is racin’, goes the saying. The post Photo of the Week: A Gnarly Nascar Pile Up in Kansas Ends in Flames appeared first on WIRED.
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The Marvel movies of the ’10s are threatening to become like the Marvel comics of the ’80s: diluted by competing universes and crossover events. The post With Venom, Marvel’s Got Its Biggest Bad of All: Brand Dilution appeared first on WIRED.
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Go could help make Android bearable on the phone you give your kid, your overseas friends or throw in the car for emergencies.
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You can now check your Facebook, Messenger and Instagram notifications in a single go.
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A new type of ransomware called XData is spreading at an alarming rate. The post Another Ransomware Nightmare Could Be Brewing in Ukraine appeared first on WIRED.
Source: Wired
Deep Algo was one of the more fascinating companies on display in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt this week. The French team aims to make coding languages more accessible for the massive with SaaS (software as a service) offering that promises to do for languages like C++, C Sharp and Javascript what WYSIWYG does for HTML. It’s a pretty bold claim, but the company is confident that… Read More
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In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it’s almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of it. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top 10 tech stories from this week.
The post Weekly Rewind: ‘Roseanne’ returns, Apple’s pizza boxes, golden egg saunas appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Portland, Oregon, continued to keep it weird (and cute) this week when it rolled out Parking Kitty, a new app that lets you pay for metered parking. The app is based on Passport, one of the largest parking payment vendors in the United States. “We didn’t make a lot of changes,” said Malisa McCreedy, the parking division manager at the Portland Department of Transportation. Read More
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