Malware uses Facebook and LinkedIn images to hijack your PC

Malware doesn't always have to attack your computer through browser- or OS-based exploits. Sometimes, it's the social networks themselves that can be the problem. Researchers at Check Point have discovered that a variant of known ransomwa…

CDBurnerXP 4.5.7 build 6452

Er is een update voor versie 4.5.7 van CDBurnerXP uitgekomen. Met dit programma kunnen cd's, dvd's, hd-dvd's en blu-ray-schijfjes worden beschreven. Daarnaast kunnen iso-bestanden worden gemaakt en gebrand. De software is gratis voor zowel privé- al…

Review: Master & Dynamic MW60 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones

Master & Dynamic's top-of-the-line Bluetooth headphones deliver on style, build, and sound quality, but are almost certainly overkill -- especially if you intend to take them outside.

Mars hides a gigantic ice sheet that may help astronauts

As a rule, the truly large deposits of ice on Mars are at the poles... right? No. Researchers using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's ground-penetrating radar have discovered that the planet's Utopia Planitia basin is hiding a thick (260 …

How Does Kenny G Tweet?

On the day after Black Friday—known to those in the industry as the slowest blogging day of the year—Kenny G did a legendary tweet. It depicts the famous saxophonist gazing directly into your soul, resting on his bicycle with confident masculinity, …

First 'Titanfall 2' DLC includes a no-nonsense skins store

Respawn made it a point with Titanfall 2 to ditch some of the more annoying business models of modern games (such as charging for important add-ons), and you're about to find out how well that works in practice. The studio has revealed that…

Ravenous Bacteria Eats Poop and Produces Power

Researchers at Ghent University have hit on a method of harvesting energy from raw sewage that treats the wastewater without using external electricity. It’s all thanks to starving bacteria. Although this method is still in its lab testing stage, in…

190,000 Ducks Slaughtered Thanks to Bird Flu

On Saturday, the Netherlands annihilated 190,000 ducks in response to an avian flu outbreak, an epidemic that’s broken out throughout much of Northern Europe. Since mid-November, the particularly pathogenic H5N8 strain of the virus has found its way…

Anne Rice is Working on Vampire Chronicles TV Show

True Queen of the Damned Anne Rice has announced she’s acquired the rights to produce her Vampire Chronicles novel series for the small screen, and she wants to make it a Game of Thrones-style epic...with more Lestat.Read more...

Comic Turns 'Another Fucking Stan Lee Cameo' Into a Living Horror

If there’s any one constant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (other than the, literally, dozens of constants within the several-year narrative), it’s that we’re guaranteed to get a Stan Lee cameo. However, as one webcomic-turned-comic book points ou…

'Deus Ex Go' is now ready for your puzzle creations

If you've ever wanted to create puzzles for mobile games rather than playing whatever the developer gives you, you're about to have a field day. Square Enix has released a promised Puzzle Maker update for Deus Ex Go that lets you craft your…

The Difference Between a Button-Up and Button-Down Shirt

You may not have known there was a difference between button-up and a button-down shirts—and while it’s largely semantic, this video describes both types well, so you know what you’re looking at the next time you shop.Read more...

TFW You're F*cking P*ssed Online But Afraid to Curse

One summer when I was 14, my friends and I walked to the distant corner of Long Island and screamed in an attempt to get rid of our pent up frustrations, you know, Garden State-style. Now thanks to social media, I get to do that every day online. Th…

Get iCloud Calendar Spam Invites? How to Stop Them

Nobody likes spam, but if you have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, there’s a good chance you’ve found a new avenue of spam on your Apple device lately: iCloud Calendar spam invites! These spam Calendar invites get forced onto your iPhone or computer as not…

CERN introduces Large Hadron Collider's robotic inspectors

Since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) needs to be in tip-top shape to discover new particles, it has two inspectors making sure everything's in working order. The two of them are called TIM, short not for Timothy, but for Train Inspection M…

This week’s top stories: Wireless charging for ‘all-glass’ iPhone 8, Trump vs Tim Cook, MacBook Pro diary, Black Friday deals, more

In this week’s top stories: More hands-on time with the MacBook Pro, we show you Apple’s special tool to recover data from the device’s soldered down SSD, reports of wireless charging for iPhone 8, the best Black Friday deals, and much more. more……

Turn Your MacBook Pro Into Kitt From Knight Rider, Compute Like David Hasselhoff 

Ever since Apple dropped its latest MacBook Pro with a cool but mostly unnecessary Touch Bar, programmers have been jumping at the chance to make cool but mostly unnecessary apps to run on it. This new one does not break from that tradition but it d…

Mobile shopping reaches an all-time high on Black Friday

Did you get some of your holiday gift shopping done on your phone, instead of your PC? You're far from alone. Adobe has determined that mobile shopping (both phone and tablet) was responsible for $1.2 billion in US online sales on Black Fri…

Best Apple Watch

The aluminum Apple Watch Series 2 is Apple's best smartwatch: It's not only a great fitness tracker and portable communicator, but improved battery life, a faster processor, and GPS may appeal to upgraders. Serenity Caldwell has been writing…

Firefly star Ron Glass has died

Top 10 Ways to Make Sure that Black Friday or Cyber Monday Bargain Is Actually a Deal

Black Friday may be over, but the holiday shopping season has just begun, and Cyber Monday is looming. But before you spend your money—or even if you have already—here are some great ways to make sure what you’re looking at is actually a deal, or ju…