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Yahoo chief executive officer Marissa Mayer has been under a microscope ever since she took over the company in 2012. But now, with the pricey firing of chief operating officer Henrique de Castro, the former Googler is under even more scrutiny. De Castro will walk away from Yahoo with up to $109 mil
Twitter has suspended the account of Hamas, the Palestinian group opposing Israel and its military forces in the region, according to a message posted by the group on its Al-Qassam website. Hamas’ @qassambrigade account, which was the second one created by the group, was suspended Thursday. Th
Bugatti might me the king of hypercars, but it has been in a bit of a holding pattern recently. However, the head of the company, Dr. Wolfgang Schreiber, knows exactly where to go next, and it doesn’t involve either the rumored SuperVeyron or the four-door Galibier. Bugatti will build neither a ‘Sup
Vimeo plans to offer a video-on-demand deal to filmmakers using Indiegogo and Kickstarter to promote and fund their movies. Like a number of video sites, Vimeo has been taking bigger and bigger steps to create original content and to help filmmakers who use its services to make money from their crea
Students at Nordahl Grieg high school in Norway are playing Telltale’s The Walking Dead in class in order to better learn about ethics. Norwegian news outlet NRK.no aired a short piece about the class, which has since been posted to YouTube and subtitled. In the video, instructor Tobias Staaby
In 2012, YouTube comedy group The Bilderbergers released a popular animated sketch called “Amazon Yesterday Shipping,” an extended joke about Amazon.com delivering the things you want before you even order them. And while Amazon still hasn’t perfected time travel, the company now owns a patent for “
The Supreme Court has today decided to rule on whether or not the warrantless search of cellphones is legal under the constitution. It’s eventual decision will outline how law enforcement can and cannot make use of seized phones as evidence, a digital rights issue that neither states nor circu
The security breach that impacted 70 million Target customers last month may have been caused by malware created by a 17-year-old Russian hacker. While the suspected teenager wasn’t actually responsible for perpetrating the attacks, he did reportedly write the software, known as BlackPOS, that
Hollywood’s digital-only future is quickly approaching. Though the studio hasn’t made an official announcement, the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Paramount Pictures has become the first major Hollywood studio to phase out 35-millimeter film for its big theatrical releases in the US
Downloadable mobile apps are being used in DDoS attacks against enterprises, according to the latest quarterly report from DDoS protection provider Prolexic Technologies. In Q4 of 2013, PLXsert discovered via digital forensics and attack signature analysis that mobile devices participated in a DDoS
Cute as they may look in a text message or photo comment, emojis can be downright terrifying under the right circumstances. Freelance journalist Fletcher Blabb learned this lesson first hand recently when someone threatened his life on Instagram with two emoji characters, a tiny gun, and a dead smil
Surely by disconnecting your PC from the Internet and bashing your cable modem with a hammer you’ll be safe from the prying eyes of the National Security Agency, right? Wrong. Like a bad sci-fi movie that keeps unveiling unlikely technologies, it’s now being reported that the NSA has been using radi
