Day: January 6, 2018

Think safety first, not cost, in corporate travel, security expert urges Hong Kong firms

These all have an “insignificant travel security risk”. They are followed by Australia, Sweden, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, which are labelled as “low travel risk”. At the other end of the spectrum, there is an extreme security risk in […]

Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Bright’ offers dumb fun with orcs and elves in modern LA

Netflix’s original film Bright has been decimated by critics, but Darrell Etherington and Anthony Ha, the hosts of TechCrunch’s Original Content podcast enjoyed it — kind of? Maybe? As Darrell put it: “I don’t regret watching it.” To be clear, it’s a very silly movie, […]

‘Internet drives the economy now’: Lincoln senator seeks to re-enact net neutrality rules in Nebraska via /r/technology

‘Internet drives the economy now’: Lincoln senator seeks to re-enact net neutrality rules in Nebraska http://ift.tt/2Ay3sbp Submitted January 06, 2018 at 04:28AM by links234 via reddit http://ift.tt/2CNP8Sl

Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans

Ancient DNA Reveals a Completely Unknown Population of Native Americans Published on January 06, 2018 at 08:00AM schwit1 shares the findings of a new study of 11,500-year-old bones: Sunrise girl-child (“Xach’itee’aanenh T’eede Gaay”) lived some 11,500 years ago in what is now called Alaska, and […]

Meltdown and Spectre are wakeup calls for the tech industry

While these are some of the most critical exploits the computing world has seen, their existence has made it clear that, in extreme cases like this, technology companies have to work together. That’s not exactly news to the collaboration-focused security research community, which initially discovered […]