The Director of Star Wars: Episode VIII Talks Luke's Plans and Rey's Potential

Now that Rogue One is in theaters and the calendar has officially flipped to 2017, Star Wars fans can safely start their mass consumption of all information on Star Wars: Episode VIII. Writer-director Rian Johnson has just given us more clues about …

Hubble Shows What’s in Store for the Incredible Voyager Probes

Launched in 1977, the Voyager space probes are further from Earth than any human-made object ever built. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have charted a roadmap for the probes, revealing surprising details about their ongoing journey th…

Neodriven is a rearview mirror replacement that can make your car semi-autonomous

Corrupt NHS official jailed for £80k bribe over tech contract

And the dodgy IT contractor? He got 14 months bird time to think about life Corrupt NHS official jailed for £80k IT contract bribe…

Some Genius Crammed the Japanese NES Classic Edition Into an Old Game Boy

After the release of the NES Classic Edition, there’s been quite a bit of speculation about what console Nintendo plans to miniaturize next. The SNES? The N64? The geniuses at Kei Studio clearly want a Game Boy Classic Edition, but instead of waitin…

Pharma hate figure Martin Shkreli suspended from Twitter

Attention seeker gains yet more oxygen of publicity One-time pharmaceutical exec and distasteful windup merchant Martin Shkreli has had his Twitter account suspended after a Twitter spokesman alleged he had harassed a female journalist on the site.…

FTC sues D-Link for ‘insecure’ routers and IP cameras

Regulator launches crackdown on insecure devices that allow snoopers to spy on you and your family

Mac: Looking at the bright side

Happily recuperating from three weeks in France, and with my own MacBook telling me it has more than 8 hours of battery charge left...

UKCloud: We ARE cheaper than Microsoft or AWS online storage

Claim customers need a degree in Amazon pricing to understand it British-based infrastructure services-slinger UKCloud says it is “fighting back” against the giants of industry by slashing the price of online storage.…

News: Russia orders Apple to pull LinkedIn app

Apple has pulled the LinkedIn app from its App Store in Russia, The New York Times reports. The move came after Russia blocked the social networking site for not complying with local laws requiring…

TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 9 January 2017

Notable software releases this week include OmniFocus 2.8 and Default Folder X 5.1.2. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and …

Ming-Chi Quo: drie nieuwe iPad modellen dit jaar

Ming-Chi Quo, de analist van KGI securities met zulke korte lijntjes binnen de keten van Apple dat hij soms een orakel lijkt, heeft weer eens zijn voorspellingen naar buiten gebracht. Dit keer gaat het over de nieuwe iPad modellen die Apple dit jaa…

Nieuwe iPhone 7 commercial legt nadruk op portretmodus

Eerder dit jaar bracht Apple al twee commercials met het thema 'practically magic', waarmee het bedrijf wil laten zien wat er met een iPhone 7 met iOS 10 inmiddels allemaal mogelijk is. De eerste uit die serie was "Balloons", die in september van h…

Is Apple building ‘The Device?’ [revisited]

While the Handspring Treo's top model offers a color screen, cell phone, Palm OS PDA and more, it also lacks the ability to...

Plasterk: Https bij overheidswebsites alleen nodig bij gevoelige gegevens

Minister Plasterk van Binnenlandse Zaken vindt dat de berichtgeving over het gebrek aan https-gebruik van overheidswebsites 'enige nuance verdient'. Hij stelt dat het gebruik van een beveiligde verbinding afhangt van het versturen van gevoelige info…

Apple Allegedly Partnering With Carl Zeiss for Augmented Reality Glasses

Apple and German company Carl Zeiss AG are working together on a pair of augmented reality smart glasses that could be announced as soon as this year, claims well-known blogger Robert Scoble in a Facebook post. According to Scoble, a Zeiss employ…

Phil Schiller on iPhone’s launch, how it changed Apple, and why it will keep going for 50 years

Apple is notorious for not looking back....

Bouwers Eindhovense zonne-gezinswagen overwegen commerciële auto uit te brengen

Een aantal ex-leden van het Solar Team van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven overweegt om een commerciële auto uit te brengen. Als onderdeel van het team waren zij verantwoordelijk voor de Stella- en Stella-Lux-voertuigen, die ruimte bieden aan m…

Verizon Raises Smartphone Upgrade Fee to $30

Less than a year after introducing a fee for customers upgrading their smartphones, Verizon has raised the the price of said fee from $20 to $30, reports The Verge. The fee change was quietly implemented last week alongside the discontinuation of…

Best weather apps for iPhone

Get the weather the way you want it! There are hundreds of weather apps in the App Store. It's a very popular category. Sure, Apple's built-in weather app is a great option with nice graphics and animations and useful hourly forecasting. But, eac…

The Stylophone Gen X-1 toy synth is an updated version of a classic

The annual winter installment of the NAMM pro audio show doesn't start until next week, but we typically see companies tease announcements in advance. British synth outfit Dubreq has done just that, pulling the wraps off of a new version of…