SpaceX broadband testing to ramp up with launch of dozens of satellites
Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the hangar after a flight in April 2017.
SpaceX will launch dozens of demonstration broadband satellites next week as …
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Drones used missiles with knife warhead to take out single terrorist targets
Enlarge / A see-through model of the original Hellfire missile. Imagine the center replaced with a set of pop-out blades, and you’ve got the “Flying Ginsu.”
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Drone strikes …
Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal
Enlarge / An infographic from Advanced Intelligence showing the hacking group Fxmsp’s breach-selling business model.
In a report published Thursday, researchers at the threat-research company Advanced …
Unless you want your payment card data skimmed, avoid these commerce sites
More than 100 e-commerce sites around the world are infected with malicious code designed to surreptitiously skim payment card data from visitors after they make purchases, researchers reported on Wednesday. …
“RobbinHood” ransomware takes down Baltimore City government networks
Enlarge / Most of Baltimore City’s networks were shut down as a ransomware attack took down mail servers and other systems at a number of city departments on May 7.
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VW’s record-breaking electric car takes on world’s scariest racetrack, Nürburgring
Enlarge / Romain Dumas at the wheel of the VW ID R electric car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. (credit: Volkswagen Motorsport)
Although we make every effort to cover our own travel costs, in this case Volkswagen flew me to Germany
Porsche, Fiat face multimillion-dollar payouts in separate diesel scandals
Enlarge / The Porsche logo is seen during the New York International Auto Show on April 18, 2019 in New York, United States. (credit: Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
On Tuesday, Germany’s Stuttgart Public Prosecutors’s Office issued a fine notice
Waymo expands Phoenix self-driving service by putting 10 cars on Lyft
Alphabet’s Waymo announced on Tuesday that it was expanding its commercial self-driving car service by adding 10 vehicles to Lyft’s network in the Phoenix area “over the next few months.” The small scale of the expansion
Charter squeezes more money out of Internet users with new cancellation policy
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Charter is making it more expensive to cancel its Spectrum Internet service, as it will begin charging customers for the full month after they cancel …
After a few misfires, Army’s newest pistol program is slow on the draw
After a nearly decade-long effort to pick a new pistol for the US military, the Army’s Program Executive Office‑Soldier awarded its Modular Handgun System (MHS) contract to …