(Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday up to 320,000 customers may have had their email passwords stolen. The company said email and password details were likely gathered either through malware downloaded during phishing attacks or indirectly through data breaches of other companies…

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Photographs by Anna Maria Barry-Jester A s the new year begins, millions of people are vowing to shape up their eating habits. This usually involves dividing foods into moralistic categories: good/bad, healthy/unhealthy, nutritious/indulgent, slimming/fattening — but which foods belong where depends…

This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2016” collection. Discover more of our picks . In 1979, a secret memo from the tobacco industry was revealed to the public. Called the Smoking and Health Proposal, and written a decade earlier by the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, it revealed many…

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Microsoft has revealed details about the data it is tracking via its new operating system (OS), Windows 10. In a blog , the firm listed statistics on how many minutes had been spent by users in total in the Edge browser and the number of photographs which had been viewed in the Photo app. The firm…

The more money your family accumulates, the more complex it can become to decide how much to invest, what to buy, which strategies to apply, what to bequeath, and how to minimize transfer taxes. The number of beneficiaries for your family’s assets may also increase as your wealth grows. As a result,…

Terror group Islamic State is employing scientists and weapons experts to train jihadists to carry out sophisticated "spectacular" attacks in Europe, while also modifying weapons systems capable of targeting passenger jets and military aircraft. :: IS Killings Video: Voice Likely To Be Rumaysah From…

Credit: Shutterstock While 2015 was rife with news of hackers stealing data from governments , health insurers and adultery sites , it looks like targeting our energy infrastructure might be the next big thing in cyberattacks. Three regional power authorities in Ukraine were infected with malware…

For years, researchers have puzzled over why Viking descendents abandoned Greenland in the late 15th century. But archaeologists now believe that economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove them back to their ancestral homes. On Sept. 14, 1408, Thorstein Olafsson and…

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Binney is particularly critical of a GCHQ surveillance system disclosed by Edward Snowden called Black Hole, which helps list everyone who has ever visited a website.Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA The “snooper’s charter” legislation extending the mass surveillance powers of the intelligence agencies…

My new novel, FALL, OR DODGE IN HELL , goes on sale in June 2019 in the USA. Info on tour & signed copies to follow. In the meantime, here’s the…

A newcomer navigates the reception center in Rade. Photographer: Espen Rasmussen for Bloomberg Businessweek Hero Norway’s for-profit model offers lodging for asylum seekers. It’s a scene that could possibly warm even the two-sizes-too-small heart of the Grinch. Here in a little village in Norway, as…

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Coffee or watered-down soy sauce?Photograph: Photo by Beth Galton. Retouching by Daniel Hurlburt. Food styling by Charlotte Omnès. B ehind most professional food photos is a stylist who tricks the viewer. These deceits range from a touch of lipstick to redden a strawberry, to “milkshakes” made from…

HackerNews Discussion My name is Forrest Brazeal, and I work in a cubicle. Sometimes it feels like I’m in the minority, especially among my tech-sector colleagues. Modern collaboration tools like Google Hangouts, Slack and Atlassian’s HipChat make working from home easier than ever; text, audio and…

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Image Credit: Marcin Wichary/Flickr Google’s umbrella company, Alphabet, today disclosed that it paid $380.2 million to buy Bebop , the startup from VMware cofounder and former chief executive Diane Greene. Greene, who sits on Alphabet’s board of directors and is now in charge of Google’s cloud…

Casper Fabricius Jan 3, 2016 Update March 19, 2017: I’m still seeing a lot of traffic to this article, so I’ve updated the example code on Github with the newest versions of all dependencies. Having established why WebVR matters , it’s time to get our hands dirty and build a simple WebVR example…

Steam sales in 2015 Sergey Galyonkin Jan 4, 2016 The 2015 was the best year for Steam yet. It brought over 3000 new games (compared to 1900 in 2014), increased the number of concurrent users on Steam from 8M to 12M and helped over 350 million paid games find new owners. Important note: The following…

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Y ou're drifting in a rowboat on a quiet pond. Another boat bumps against your own and jolts you out of your self-forgetfulness.You stand up in a rage, and start berating the negligent rower in the other boat. Then you notice that it's empty. There's no one to blame (save circumstance or the current…

The creators and marketers of the Lumosity “brain training” program have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges alleging that they deceived consumers with unfounded claims that Lumosity games can help users perform better at work and in school, and reduce or delay cognitive impairment…

I’m no tinfoil-hat-wearing privacy zealot. However, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have fine-grained control over the data the device in my pocket is sharing about me. To this end, I wiped the stock operating system of my Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and installed CyanogenMod . This isn’t as good as…

More than 6 million people in Britain work more than 45 hours a week.Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images I worked 100-hour plus weeks as a hospital doctor in the early 1990s. Those dangerous rotas left me low and unable to string a sentence together, let alone give sick people what they needed.…

The Dutch government has formally opposed the introduction of backdoors in encryption products. A government position paper , published by the Ministry of Security and Justice on Monday and signed by the security and business ministers, concludes that "the government believes that it is currently…

When Oregon was granted statehood in 1859, it was the only state in the Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people from living, working, or owning property there. It was illegal for black people even to move to the state until 1926. Oregon’s founding is part of the forgotten…

revenant noun a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead. The Alejandro G. Iñárritu helmed The Revenant comes out on limited release on December 25th and everywhere else on January 8th. If you somehow haven’t caught wind of the hype surrounding the movie you can go check out the…

Silvercar, a startup rethinking the auto rental experience in airports, already seems pretty tied to Audi — after all, every vehicle that Silvercar rents out is a silver Audi . Now the companies are deepening that relationship with a $28 million Series C investment. Audi led the round, with the…

Developers struggled for years to make virtual reality realistic enough to be worth buying. Now, as a wave of new virtual-reality devices and content hit the market, some people wonder what will happen if the technology gets too realistic. At the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University,…

Despite being declared dead quite a few times, a new version of the Google Glass headset might be coming soon. Although Google might have stopped selling the $1,500 "Explorer" versions of the device nearly a year ago, it seems that the project overall remains alive and well. Despite being declared…

In 1982, Michael Jackson flew to England to record the song "Say, Say, Say" with former Beatle Paul McCartney at the famous Abbey Road studio. This was the second musical collaboration between Paul and Michael, the first being 1981's "The Girl is Mine," which was featured on Jackson's smash hit…

We've long cried out for laptops with lots of RAM so that they can handle workloads as varied as hosting development virtual machines or running Chrome, and with Skylake it looks as if they are arriving in abundance. The updated thin and light X1 range bumps RAM up to 16GB, and in the rest of the…