Heathrow flights disrupted by yet another drone
Enlarge / Now that every US carrier has retired its 747s, if you want to fly one, your best bet is with British Airways, which still operates 36 of them, many on routes to the US. Here are 11, seen
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Verizon’s 5G promise: It won’t falsely claim 4G phones are really 5G
While AT&T pretends to kick off the 5G mobile era early by slapping a 5G network indicator on 4G phones, Verizon Wireless says it won’t be doing the same.…
Canadian plans to transport oil as solid briquettes move forward
A Canada National Railway Co. train in Alberta. (credit: CN )
The Canada National Railway Company (CN) has spent years developing a product called CanaPux, in which thick bitumen crude oil from Canada’s oil sands is mixed with a polymer
Microsoft, Kroger team up to fight Amazon with high-tech grocery stores
Microsoft/Kroger
Big grocery stores are adapting to the changing times and the ever-increasing threat from Amazon. Kroger is the latest grocery giant to team up with a tech company—Microsoft—in order …
Almost $500,000 in Ethereum Classic coin stolen by forking its blockchain
Attackers have stolen almost $500,000 worth of the Ethereum Classic digital currency by carrying out a compute-intensive hack that rewrote its blockchain, officials with Coinbase, one of the leading crypto …
Zeroday exploit prices are higher than ever, especially for iOS and messaging apps
Enlarge / iPhones are seen at an Apple Store in Tianjin, China.
The prices for James Bond-style hacks keep growing, especially for those that hijack iPhones and secure messaging apps. …
Envious of 5G hype, cable cos. unveil potentially confusing “10G” trademark
The cable industry has begun a marketing campaign for 10Gbps broadband services, even though cable companies haven’t finished rolling out 1Gbps connections. The first 10Gbps cable broadband connections will be …
Frontier letting its phone network fall apart, state investigation finds
Enlarge / A Frontier Communications service van.
Frontier Communications has failed to properly maintain its telecom network in Minnesota, leading to “frequent and lengthy” phone and Internet outages, an investigation …
Please don’t repeat these things WikiLeaks says you can’t say about Assange
Enlarge / You absolutely cannot say these 140 things about Julian Assange, according to bastion of the free press WikiLeaks.
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A representative of WikiLeaks …
They’re dead to us: The Ars Technica 2019 Deathwatch
Enlarge / No one wants to celebrate a company going away, though these organizations certainly seem to be on a tenuous track.
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