Eric Meiggs, 21, of Brockton, Massachusetts, and Declan Harrington, 20, of Rockport, Massachusetts, were charged in an 11-count indictment, facing allegations of one count of conspiracy, eight counts of wire fraud, one count of computer fraud and abuse, and one count of aggravated identity theft. Meiggs and Harrington allegedly targeted executives of cryptocurrency businesses and others who held significantly large amounts of cryptocurrency and those who had high-value social media account names, the indictment says....

Of course, the answer depends on what that ‘something’ is. A torn paper bag, a lost shoe, or a tumbleweed? You can drive right over it without a second thought, but you’ll definitely swerve around a pile of broken glass. You’ll probably stop for a dog standing in the road but move straight into a flock of pigeons, knowing that the birds will fly out of the way. You might plough right through a pile of snow, but veer around a carefully constructed snowman....

What we tend to miss is all the people who write the software that keeps the satellites orbiting and the rockets on track. Large numbers of people sift through data from satellite sensors or simulate rocket launches before they take place. They, too, are doing rocket science. But it’s less intuitive to think of them as such. Many images we see in the media show expert teams congratulating themselves or cool rovers and rockets cruising in outer space....

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) October 14, 2020 Among the new changes is the ability to use a third-party app — like Authy or Google Authenticator — to enable two-factor authentication on your PS4. Others include simplified parental controls and a host of new avatars. Perhaps the most important is the parental controls, which essentially allow parents control over which games their children use chat in. The child can request permission from their parents, and parents can allow their child to chat and view user-generated content in that particular game....

As Twitter user TmarTn noted, if you search for the Christmas Hits playlist on Spotify’s mobile app, you’ll see the Stories feature pop up on the company’s logo. As you can see in the clip below, currently, it’s a collection of video messages from different artists. S P O T I F Y This has got to stop pic.twitter.com/xsurbrJblx — TmarTn (@TmarTn) November 27, 2020 This is not the first time Spotify is experimenting with this format....

During an investor call, T-Mobile CEO Mike Seivert said the company will transition to a unified brand starting this summer. The process was originally expected to begin in early summer, but COVID-19 pushed it to mid-summer instead: Earlier reports had pegged the transition date as August 2. Whenever that happens, Sprint stores will be rebranded as T-Mobile stores, ending a brand that’s been around since the 80’s. While customers are losing one major carrier, DISH has recently been positioning itself as the next big wireless challenger, so competition in the mobile space continues....

For context, Steam recently held its annual summer sale, and, as always, simply offering most of its considerable inventory at a discount wasn’t enough for Valve. There’s always a gimmick to a Steam sale these days, some extra incentive to buy game or otherwise spend time on the platforms. This time it was an asinine “race” that was confusing as heck in implementation and paid out relatively subpar rewards (unless you were one of the few who got the free games)....

The map shows thousands of twinkling dots that look like stars, but are actually enormous black holes, each of which is located in a different, distant galaxy. The researchers pinpointed the celestial objects by analyzing radio emissions emitted by matter that was ejected when it got close to the black holes. These emissions were detected by LOFAR (Low Frequency Array), an enormous radio telescope network spread across 52 stations in nine European countries....

This report comes from Ars Technia, which claims to have an array of different sources backing up this hardware’s existence. So, what do we know about the “SteamPal?” Firstly, the name comes from a recent change in Steam’s code: It’s named “SteamPal” (NeptuneName) and it has a “SteamPal Games” (GameList_View_NeptuneGames) — Pavel Djundik (@thexpaw) May 25, 2021 Of course, “SteamPal” could just be a working title — there’s nothing to say this isn’t going to change before announcement....

Starting this month, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, which will be delivered to the North American market, will be the first cars to ditch radar entirely, and employ camera vision and neural net processing for the performance of “Autopilot, Full-Self Driving, and certain active safety features.” Naturally, one wonders why on earth would Tesla make such a change. And when Elon Musk twitted the launch of “pure vision Autopilot,” there were several comments expressing the same question....

Remember those days where you turn up to some event, put on a nametag, and talk to people sitting at tables about why you should work for their company? Well, Tesla did just this following a bunch of presentations. Elon Musk admitted last month on Twitter: “Convincing the best AI talent to join Tesla is the sole goal.” — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2021 An industry besieged by challenges The last year hasn’t been great for auto Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)....

This supercomputer right here: Dubbed the “Leonardo HPC System,” what you see above is the world’s fourth most powerful supercomputer and a potential quantum leap towards the creation of Europe’s first exascale computer. Leonardo is built on architecture designed and developed by French high performance computing company Atos. It’ll officially go online and start solving problems on the 24th of November. While folks in the US are enjoying their Thanksgiving turkeys, Leo will be inaugurated in Italy where it’ll go about the business of serving the scientific research community’s most taxing computational needs....

Ultraviolet radiation from flares — including powerful superflares — could result in periodic extinctions, wiping out any lifeforms which may have developed on those worlds. “Super flares are bursts of energy that are 10 to 1,000 times larger than the biggest flares from the Earth’s sun. These flares can bathe a planet in an amount of ultraviolet light huge enough to doom the chances of life surviving there,” the Evryscope team reports....

Over the past two weeks or so of testing, it has become my portable weed vape of choice. And, in this DaVinci IQC review, we’re going to find out exactly why that is. First though, let’s talk about DaVinci. Who is DaVinci? Nope, nothing to do with Leonardo — DaVinci is a company that makes some of the most popular marijuana vaporizers on the market. Are DaVinci’s weed vapes good?...

If you couple this with growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), and the tens of billions of devices expected to be connected to the internet in the next few years, then the strain on the world’s energy supply will be vast. Research has suggested that global internet usage could consume over 20% of the world’s energy by 2030. Any huge expansion in the reach of the internet only works, then, if we can find an almost energy-neutral way of running it....

UK startup Fering is a newcomer in the EV space, but sure comes with a heavy background, being the brainchild of ex-Ferrari and McLaren engineer, Ben Scott-Geddes. The company, which is focusing on low-emission off roaders and emergency vehicles, has unveiled the prototype of its first model, the Pioneer — and it’s a quirky beast. Surprisingly lightweight When it comes to electric performance, reduced weight plays a very important role....

To celebrate, BMW took a look back at the tech and teased a few changes that will come with the latest iteration of the system that will debut in the iX electric car, at this year’s CES. [Read: Meet the 4 scale-ups using data to save the planet] In the iX, BMW will follow the trend for massive dashboard screens, which is a welcome addition. Compared to cars like the Tesla Model S or Polestar 2, the screens in BMWs have started to seem a little small of late....

But then I had the chance to check out the Sonos Move. Despite its $399 price tag, it might’ve just reshaped my idea of what a portable Bluetooth speaker can be. Yes, that’s right a Sonos Bluetooth speaker. If you’re wondering why that’s a big deal, Sonos has famously held out on the common technology because it finds WiFi a superior medium. WiFi lets you group speakers and control them from a variety of devices, while Bluetooth does little more than transmit audio from a single device....

The Kremlin’s hacker army – like its conventional military – hasn’t lived up to its fearsome reputation. At least, not yet. Analysts have offered an array of explanations for Russia’s cyber limitations. They range from upgrades to Ukraine’s defenses to changes in the Kremlin’s tactics. The early signs were ominous. Ever since armed conflict in the Donbas erupted in 2014, Russia-linked hackers have bombarded Ukrainian IT systems. Their exploits have set several alarming milestones, from the first known power outage caused by a digital weapon to the costliest cyberattack in history....

Hola pandemic pals, The absolute hardest thing about writing a weekly coronavirus newsletter is coming up with the lede paragraph. I always spend more time than I should trying to come up with something emotional and honest that’s also hopeful and bright. But it never quite works out that way. Not only is polite small talk not in my wheel house, but I don’t feel hopeful and bright and none of the news I have to share can back up those tones....