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Many of us were taught that revenge is never the solution, but apparently nobody told US banks that. According to sources for Bloomberg, financial institutions in the United States are currently being investigated by the FBI to determine whether or not they conducted “revenge hacks” agai
Shortly after the hacker group launched successful cyberattacks against Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, Lizard Squad boasted that it was completely untraceable. Apparently they spoke too soon, as reports from the United Kingdom claim that local law enforcement officers have detained an alleged me
Xiaomi may be the most talked about Chinese smartphone manufacturer of 2014, but plenty of other companies in the country are worth noting as well. One of these companies is Huawei, which managed to sell more than 75 million smartphones this year and pulled in almost $12 billion in revenue. As impre
It almost goes without saying that the kind of people who’re good enough with technology to be able to fight cyberwars for the United States aren’t the kind of people who you’d expect to be capable of fighting in physical battles. That’s why the US Army is considering looseni
Crowdsourced mapping is can be very helpful in many places, but it has the most potential in areas that haven’t been professionally mapped in their entirety, such as the Amazon rainforest. That’s why OpenStreetMap has just launched Mapazonia, a community-driven project that it hopes will
This past month hasn’t been the best for Sony, not only was the company hit with a massive cyberattack that resulted in the theft of millions of private emails and digital property, but its PlayStation Network online multiplayer service has been experiencing repeated down times. While these tw
Elon Musk gets a lot of attention for potentially revolutionizing the automotive industry with Tesla Motors, but SpaceX is Musk’s truly revolutionary company. SpaceX was founded with the goal of making space travel more feasible, and one of the ways the company wants to do that is by creating
Next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be all about televisions for LG. The South Korean electronics giant not only announced its Quantum Dot TV ahead of rival Samsung, it also teased an entire lineup of 4K LED LCD TVs that will focus on a technology that LG has decided to br
ZTE has recently started to undergo a change in business strategy that the Chinese smartphone manufacture hopes will drive more innovation and grow its market potential. The first visible change to come this strategy is the company’s redesigned logo, which drops the blocky English lettering an
Oppo has managed to achieve moderate success in China, as well as a few other countries, thanks to its quirky and innovative designs. However, the company wants to take things to the next level in 2015, and hopes to join the top dogs of the smartphone market. Sources within the company claim that Op
Following hot on the heels of the announcement of it’s $1.1 billion funding round, Xiaomi president Lei Jun has confirmed that the Chinese company’s next flagship smartphone will be launching in January. This seems to support rumors that the successor to the Mi4 will be launching at the
Ben Silbermann, the CEO of Pinterest, laid out plans last year for how he intends to monetize the popular web service. As part of a beta program for this plan, a select few advertisers were allowed to put their promoted pins in search results and category feeds. A little more than a year later, Pint
