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U.S. CMS says 75,000 individuals' files accessed in data breach
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Friday it was responding to a data breach that exposed the files of about 75,000 individuals.
Smart home makers hoard your data, but won’t say if the police come for it
A decade ago, it was almost inconceivable that nearly every household item could be hooked up to the internet. These days, it’s near impossible to avoid a non-smart home gadget, and they’re vacuuming up a ton of new data that we’d never normally thin...
Inside Niantic’s Seattle-area engineering office, the future of Pokémon Go is taking shape
Edward Wu, senior director of engineering at Niantic. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy)
When throngs of Pokémon Go fanatics during the height of the augmented reality game’s initial craze, just a few blocks away Edward Wu and his teams were hard at work ma...
Spider-Man’s New Game Plus Is Here
If you've already completed Insomniac's Spider-Man game, there's now a reason to swing back in.
Buggy software in popular connected storage drives can let hackers read private data
Security researchers have found flaws in four popular connected storage drives that they say could let hackers access a user’s private and sensitive data.
The researchers Paulos Yibelo and Daniel Eshetu said the software running on three of the devic...
A trip to space could make you younger | Watch This Space
Forget the face cream -- all you need to stay youthful is a trip to space! But while you might technically be younger, your bones, muscles and DNA will face issues ...
China consumer group raps Apple after ID thefts
A Chinese consumer body has criticised iPhone maker Apple Inc over a recent data security issue which impacted a number of consumers in China who said they had suffered financial losses after having their Apple IDs stolen.
A trip to space could actually make you younger | Watch This Space
Forget the face cream -- all you need to stay youthful is a trip to space! But while you might technically be younger, your bones, muscles and DNA will face issues ...
Researchers discover a new way to identify 3D printed guns
Researchers at the University at have found that 3D printers have fingerprints, essentially slight differences in design that can be used to identify prints. This means investigators can examine the layers of a 3D printed object and pinpoint exactly...
Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs
Facebook Inc has hired former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to lead its global affairs and communications team, as the social network deals with a number of scandals related to privacy, fake news and election meddling.