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Your humble Wi-Fi router signal could be used to track your movements around a  room, bat style, a new report has claimed. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently published a report in which they detailed an experiment using ordinary off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers to detect people’s locations, as well as their poses, in a room.  The […]

Norwegian shipping classification society DNV has been hit by a ransomware attack which forced the company to shut down some of its servers. The attack affected roughly 1,000 ships using DNV's ShipManager software – a tool that its customers use to monitor different features of their shipping fleets.  DNV says some 300 companies use the […]

Nvidia announced this week that the latest version of its subscription service, GeForce Now Ultimate, has officially gone live for several cities in the US, rolling out to San Jose, Los Angeles, and Dallas, as well as Frankfurt, Germany. Areas surrounding these cities will also be able to connect to the new Ultimate tier servers. […]

Having only just released a new version of its Apple TV streaming box late last year, it looks like Apple is already laying out plans for a quick-fire successor to the best streaming device around. According to a report from serial Apple leaker Mark Gurman for Bloomberg, the company is readying an upgraded Apple TV box […]

Listen, I would go to more concerts if it wasn’t for the expense, crowds, and rigamarole involved with getting to the venue. Now, though, after an all-too-brief listening session with the new Apple HomePod 2, maybe I don’t need to go anywhere. The music experience is that good. For as much as Apple’s brand new […]

The US State Department has sent shockwaves throughout its workforce after ditching Times New Roman as the font of choice in official communications.  The evergreen staple has been used by the government body since 2004, but a leaked cable has revealed that this is about to change.  As reported in The Washington Post, the iconic […]

Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet-owned Google are the top corporate investors of wind and solar power in the US, new figures have claimed. A report from the American Clean Power Association (ACPA), a pressure group, which also revealed that, while the technology industry is (perhaps understandably) setting an example for others in buying 48% of all […]

The Linux Foundation has announced plans to build an open-source metaverse which it says could be “as impactful as the World Wide Web”, so long as companies, developers, and founders come together to meet shared goals. The aptly named Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) has been divided into a series of groups, that it calls Foundational […]

Get ready for blisteringly fast internet, folks. But don’t rush; you’ve got plenty of time to prepare for it. A team of researchers in Europe has developed a new way to transmit data at speeds that dwarf the fastest internet connections in the world – and they’ve done so using just a simple chip and […]

The Xbox Mini Fridge shouldn’t exist, but we’re thankful it does. It’s rare that a joke results in a genuine product idea in the video games industry, particularly when it’s made at a company’s expense. But that’s exactly what happened with the Xbox Mini Fridge, which is now available to buy. When the Xbox Series […]