Citizens of the state of Ohio, get ready to get tech-y! John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, has just signed a new budget. This budget contains a provision that allows delivery robots to travel sidewalks, as well as crossroads, throughout the state. Putting it simply, delivery robots can now move freely across the state. Ohio is the fifth American state to permit it, the first four being Idaho, Florida, Wisconsin and Virginia. The statute was promoted by Starship Technologies, a UK-based startup robot manufacturer. In other words, it was mainly because of them that the provision has passed. ...

Bithumb, a South Korean-based, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies exchanges, has been recently hacked, resulting in compromising a large number of user accounts and loss of over one million dollars worth of electronic currency. Money was not the thieves’ only prize, as they have also stolen personnal information of nearly 32 thousand Bithumb users. Information stolen included names and both physical and e-mail addresses.According to Bithumb, attack on the company was possible due to two factors: first one was one of the company’s employee’s home PC being ...

Summer! Time to get out and grab some tan (or to get sweaty and angry in public communication. Eff my life). Heat can be detrimental to a human body, we all realize that, but do we all also know that high (and low) temperatures are bad for electronics? Our wee little smartphones are relatively delicate tools and extreme temperatures can easily harm them – especially if their users do not know how to treat them. That is why I have decided to put down a small list of things to (not) do with your mobile on summer.1. Don’t charge your battery to the brim, or, if you REALLY have to, ...

Well, okay, not today, but soon! Have you ever seen ”Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”? Eponymous factory was a massive complex that spanned many kilometers. Factory’s system of fast travel was the Wonkavators, special elevators that could move not only up and down but also in every other direction. That is the kind of device that the German metallurgy concern ThyssenKrupp (cool name) is working on. Their Wonkavators will be able to move up and down, left and right and even diagonally. How, you may ask? Well, ThyssenKrupp’s elevators will not be moved by a cable, an ...

Of course, a large number of these accounts are either fakes or no longer used (because, for example, their owner died), buuuut ”FB has two billion users, but some of them are fake, gone or dead” would not make a good title.Anyway, real or not, Facebook does not plan on letting such a milestone pass without acknowledging it. Social website prepares a few surprises for its users. One of them, perhaps the largest, is a personalized video. It supposedly shows the user’s contributions to Facebook, but it will probably end up showing your posts that earned the most likes and ...

Yesterday afternoon I had a (dis)pleasure of informing you about Petya, a new and dangerous virus. In summary, Petya is ransomware. Ransomware is a virus that blocks access to your device and only unlocks it after you pay a given sum of money to the hackers who created it, like a ransom. The virus is mostly after company networks, but there are cases of private computers being hacked as well.Sounds scary, does it not? One day you are coming back home and powering up your PC, only to find out you cannot access it because some jerk of a hacker said so. Thankfully, a way of protecting your ...

Pinterest, Amazon, The New York Times, Reddit, Wired, Business Insider, CNN and more – all of these websites are down and unavailable in many parts of the United States. East side of the country seems to be particulary hard struck by the issue. What is the problem? News’ title says it all. Many large US websites are down ever since today’s morning. A number of errors pop up when an attempt to enter the site is made.Problem seems to be connected to Fastly, a cloud hosting service service that supports the backends of all the affected websites. According to Fastly’s ...

Watch out! Unknown group of hackers (it is speculated that the group is based in Russia) has created an effective and difficult to beat computer virus that quickly spreads over Europe. Originally only a number of Russian and Ukrainian companies and facilities, like Russian Rosneft and Boryspil airfield in Ukraine were targeted, but the virus has soon made its way to Romania, Norway, Poland, Great Britain and other European countries. Petya is a highly advanced ransomware virus. It works by locking access to the user’s computer, returning it only after the hackers receive a steep ...

It sucks, but ever since 2014 our Google Mail messages have been scanned by Google. Scanning a mail does not mean that someone actually read it, of course, but it does mean that someone got the general gist of what you are usually writing about. Internet security is, as of late, one of the hottest topics world-wide, which may have prompted Google to stop doing this – at least officially (yeah, I do not really trust corporations).Diane Green, Senior Vice President of Google Cloud, announced that some time this year Gmail stop scanning user’s mails and will instead test a new ...

Phone with the model number A11 has just passed telecommunications regulator; its FCC identification number is 2ALBB-A11. That, unfortunately, is all that we know, as the documentation does not give away one bit of phone’s specification. This, then, may be a good occasion to recollect what we know about the device.Essential Phone is a startup project of Andy Rubin, ex-Senior Vice President of Android Mobile. It will be run by Android OS, but Mr. Rubin promises that it will be free (yeah, right) of Android’s vices like overgrown software and planned obsolences. What else? Well, ...