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Hackers can remotely open the doors on Tesla’s Model S

Tesla has toughened the Model S' underbody to help prevent any more fires, but apparently it needs to add some reinforcement to its network features too. An enterprising hacker can't quite drive one...

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Top South Korean university accepts gamers as student athletes

Chung-Ang University ranks among the top 10 schools in South Korea, and you know what can get you in other than good grades and connections? Being really, really good at video games. Beginning next...

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Illegal movie streaming site Popcorn Time may not be dead yet

For a brief moment, watching movies via BitTorrent was just as easy as watching something on your Netflix queue. The app Popcorn Time came out of nowhere a week ago with a slick...

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NSA spread malware by impersonating Facebook

The NSA has reportedly used automated systems to infect user computers with malware since 2010, according to a Wednesday report. And at times the agency pretended to be Facebook to install...

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New Intel cable can move data at 800Gbps

Intel could soon bring to market a faster version of its Thunderbolt connector technology with a throughput of 50Gbps, but the company is biding its time until there is a...

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Social app that you need to be drunk to access turns out to be a hoax

Imagine a smartphone app that encourages heavy drinking. The more you drink, the more games and activities the app offers. You can drunk dial strangers who also have the app....

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Norman Foster tries to explain Apple’s new headquarters

One can be a fan of Apple and an admirer of Lord Foster, the designer of Apple's new Cupertino headquarters, and still believe that this building is a huge mistake...

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Karbonn to release smartphone that dual-boots Windows Phone and Android

Windows and Android are such good pals, they're quite literally inseparable on a number of dual-boot devices. Aside from some old community-driven projects, however, the relationship between Google's mobile OS and Windows...

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New gesture-recognition tech AllSee does gesture control without a camera

What if you could turn the music down on your phone by just waving your hand? That's the idea behind AllSee, a new gadget under development by computer scientists at the...

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Tor is working on a secure messaging service to combat NSA spying

Tor, a privacy tool-maker, plans to create a secure messaging service that encrypts all user communications by default. The service will be bundled with the default Tor package, which includes a variety...

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Neiman Marcus missed almost 60,000 security alerts about the recent hack

One month after Neiman Marcus was struck by a massive credit card hack, a new report published by Businessweek sheds more light into the breach. Among the revelations: The company apparently missed almost...

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Abandoned German amusement park goes up for sale on eBay

Ride a rickety roller coaster without standing in line. Stay on the Ferris wheel as long as you darn want. Woo someone special with a romantic row around a swamp. It...

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