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A big UK mobile provider is about to kill of a whole list of old email domains. We look at what can go wrong when old email addresses die.

Police gathered evidence from Fitbit, home alarm, Facebook, phone and credit cards to piece together timeline of events leading up to woman’s death

Researchers warn that the TV’s lack of authentication means that a hacker could use it to access your Wi-Fi network

Using a new facial recognition surveillance system, British police will scan every fan’s face at the UEFA Champions League on June 3rd and compare them to a police database of some 500,000 “persons of interest.” “According to a government tender…

New submitter DuroSoft writes: For myself and the vast majority of people I have talked to, this is the case. Any attempts we make to estimate the amount of time software development tasks will take inevitably end in folly. Do…

adeelarshad82 writes from a report via The Week: The prospect of cities becoming sentient is “fast becoming the new reality,” according to one paper. Take Tel Aviv for example, where everyone over the age of 13 can receive personalized data,…

An anonymous reader writes: “A group calling itself XMR Squad has spent all last week launching DDoS attacks against German businesses and then contacting the same companies to inform them they had to pay $275 for ‘testing their DDoS protection…

An anonymous reader writes: In 1992, archaeologists working a highway construction site in San Diego County found the partial skeleton of a mastodon, an elephant-like animal now extinct. Mastodon skeletons aren’t so unusual, but there was other strange stuff with…