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Report: Hackers ‘aligned’ with Vietnam government attacked international firms and media

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A hacker group “aligned with Vietnamese government interests” carried out attacks on corporate companies, journalists and overseas governments over the past three years, according to a report from cyber security firm FireEye. FireEye, which works with large companies [...]

Access codes for United cockpit doors accidentally posted online

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

United Continental Holdings alerted pilots that access codes to cockpit doors were accidentally posted on a public website by a flight attendant, reports the Wall Street Journal. The company, which owns United Airlines and United Express, asked pilots [...]

Microsoft’s response to widespread cyber attacks may make you WannaCry

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer Brad Smith took to the company’s website to give a post mortem on the lessons that need to be learned from the global hack that crippled businesses and government services around the [...]

Lyft and Waymo to team up on self-driving cars amid Uber controversy

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Lyft and Waymo are working together on self-driving car technology, with a new deal first reported by the New York Times on Sunday. The deal has been confirmed by both parties, and will see Google’s former self-driving car [...]

Lyft and Waymo to team up on self-driving cars

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Lyft and Waymo are working together on self-driving car technology, with a new deal first reported by the New York Times on Sunday. The deal has been confirmed by both parties, and will see Google’s former self-driving car [...]

Rocket Lab’s test launch window for its private orbital complex begins May 21

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Rocket Labs is targeting a big first in commercial spaceflight – the first launch of an orbital rocket from a privately-owned launch facility. Its Launch Complex 1 is located on New Zealand’s North Island, and it’s now finally [...]

Backed by Chinese gov, Silk Ventures is a new $500M fund to invest in European and U.S. ‘scale-ups’

May 14th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

European and U.S.-based tech ‘scale-ups’ with Asia ambitions, rejoice. Outing today is a new $500 million VC fund from Silk Ventures, and backed in part by the Chinese government. Read More on Tech Crunch

Lucid’s unique approach to cars is about more than just electric drivetrains

May 14th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Lucid Motors is a startup focused electric cars, and the company revealed the design of its first car, the Lucid Air, at the very end of last year. The luxury sedan looks like a natural competitor to Tesla’s [...]

UK National Cyber Security Center issues new statement on cyberattack

May 14th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The U.K. National Cyber Security Center is warning the nation to be on guard for another wave of cyberattacks after Friday’s massive WannaCry ransomware attack. The nation’s National Health Service was severely impacted in Friday’s attack, forcing the [...]