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Law enforcement might have difficulty accessing iPhones, but it can obtain a wealth of information when it does get in. German investigators have used data from iOS' built-in Health app as evidence in the investigation of a rape and murder case. Poli… Source: Engadget | Apple Health app data used as evidence in rape investigation
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelI'll admit I was skeptical at first. Can wearing two vibrating devices really reduce stress? That's what Touchpoints claims to do, and as I found out this week during a crazy day at CES, the company delivers on that promise. What's more, I have the b… Source: Engadget | A pair of vibrating wearables kept …
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelThe Daily Beast reports today that a number of users of revenge porn site Anon-IB appear to be connecting from government computers. Einar Otto Stangvik, a security analyst with Norway's VG newspaper, was able to pull IP addresses from the website an… Source: Engadget | US Senate and Navy computers tied to revenge porn site
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelWe all know by now that Uber has some shady practices when it comes to law enforcement. Today, Bloomberg reported that the ride-hailing startup has a program called Ripley, which is designed to thwart local police and government investigators that ra… Source: Engadget | Uber remotely locked PCs in foreign offices to thwart investigators
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelGoogle has published a list that includes every Chromebook model, which are vulnerable to Meltdown and the patch status of each one. You can check out the list here. The column you'll most want to pay attention to is the one titled "CVE-2017-5754 mit… Source: Engadget | Google shares which Chromebooks won’t get a Meltdown …
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelIn the future, autonomy won't just mean you can relax in the passenger seat on your drive home from work. Driverless vehicles of all kinds are set to revolutionize the cargo industry, too, from delivering a pizza or dropping off an Amazon package, to… Source: Engadget | Boeing's prototype cargo drone can haul 500-pound loads
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelFord always seems to be on the back foot when it comes to vehicle innovation — it only began working on a robotics team last year, for example. Now the brand is playing catch-up again, announcing plans to install automatic emergency brakes as standa… Source: Engadget | Ford will fit auto emergency brakes on two …
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelIt doesn't take hugely expensive space telescopes like the Hubble and future James Webb Space Telescope to hunt for habitable exoplanets. NASA and the University of Arizona will launch a small telescope the size of a cereal box called the Star-Planet… Source: Engadget | Mini-Hubble will scan dim stars to see if they can support …
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelSilicon Valley is about to return for a fifth season, and as the new trailer shows, things in Pied Piper's world of startup tech are not running smoothly. There's no Erlich Bachman, for a start (although T.J Miller, who played Bachman, has tweeted hi… Source: Engadget | HBO's 'Silicon Valley' returns for its fifth season …
January 11, 2018 | by RaheelTechnology and innovation are amazing. It's why we do what we do here at Engadget every day. But it's all for naught if the electricity goes. There was no reminder of this more timely or apt than a huge power failure at CES on Wednesday. Exhibitors g… Source: Engadget | Engadget Today | The darkness …
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