Cryptocurrency scams and thefts siphon off $1.2B in early 2019

From CNET: The new technology of cryptocurrency isn't immune to the old problems of money, with theft, fraud and scams resulting in losses of $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2019.

That's the assessment of CipherTrace, a startup specializing in tracing cryptocurrency flows to detect things like...

Amazon expands in-car delivery service to Ford and Lincoln vehicles

From The Verge: Amazon wants to get inside your car. Last year, the e-commerce giant launched a new service that allowed customers to have packages delivered to the trunks of their vehicles. To start out, only General Motors and Volvo vehicles were eligible. Today, that service has been expanded to...

SpaceX Gains FCC Approval for Lower Orbit Internet Satellites

From PC Mag: Not content with developing reusable rockets, planning to take humans to Mars, and having a Roadster in space, Elon Musk also wants to improve the internet here on Earth using satellites. The FCC just approved SpaceX's revised plans to do just that.

SpaceX's plan is to develop a...

Spotify is first to 100 million paid subscribers

From The Verge: More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify Premium, the company has announced. Spotify reached the milestone by growing paid subscribers by 32-percent year-on-year. Including free subscribers, Spotify now has a total of 217 million monthly active users worldwide. That...

Report: Amazon Plans Hi-Res Music Streaming Service

From PC Mag: It looks as though Amazon's next move to better compete in the online music marketplace is a new, high-resolution streaming service.

As Music Business Worldwide reports, Amazon is thought to be in discussions with music rights holders regarding licensing deals for hi-res streaming of...

China pushes Britain to let Huawei be part of 5G rollout

From CNET: China wants Britain to let Huawei play a role in developing its 5G network, suggesting that it can't let fear get in the way of "win-win cooperation."

Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, wrote about his country's "good track record on security" in a Sunday Telegraph op-ed.

He...

Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe SSD 1TB Review (Page 1 of 11)

Can change bring unexpected consequences? Seven years ago, in the introduction of my NZXT Switch 810 review, I wrote about how the Wildrose Party was expected to unseat the 41-year Progressive Conservative reign here in Alberta, Canada. In a shocking turnaround, the Progressive Conservatives crushed the Wildrose Party in the election, which I talked about in my Thermaltake Toughpower XT Platinum 1275W review one week later. But the story did not...

Fractal Design Prisma AL-12 w/ Adjust R1 Review (Page 1 of 4)

There were not too many times in my life where I have been surprised. The last I remember was when I was in high school and we blew up a few capacitors when we connected it incorrectly. As we continue the hot potato saga, after finding the castle plush in her room, my friend Esther was less than impressed. For one, she had no idea who actually had access to her room to leave the pink and purple castle. In addition, she told me when her friends...

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