Capital One Reveals 100 Million People Affected By Massive Data Breach

A hacker accessed sensitive information from credit card applications as well as the bank’s existing customers.

Fortnite ‘Overtime Challenges’ bug withholds reward, but don’t panic

Fortnite players have less than three days left to complete the game’s Overtime Challenges before they disappear. One of these challenges requires players to complete a Duos or Squads match in the battle royale game while playing with a friend, but players who complete this challenge aren’t being rewarded for it. Epic has acknowledged the issue and says it will … Continue reading

Kohler's Novita Electric Bidet Drops the Perfect Deuce Of Features and Value

A bidet is not a strange object to a native European. When you’re born and raised on the old continent, you are used to seeing those weird-looking white things in the bathroom, and when you’re young you don’t really know what they’re for until you eventually and inevitably find out.

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Tool, one of the last streaming holdouts, caves ahead of new album

If you’re like me, you probably came to terms a long time ago with the fact we might not ever hear that “new Tool album.” Welp, it looks like I was wrong. The band announced on Instagram today that its first album in 13 years, Fear Inoculum, will be…

Capital One data breach affected 100 million in the US

Just as Equifax announced a settlement for its massive data breach, Capital One has revealed that someone hacked into its systems earlier this year. According to the company, someone exploited a “configuration vulnerability” that allowed them to acce…

NASA’s TESS mission finds three nearby ‘oven-hot’ exoplanets

NASA has announced that its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, more commonly called TESS, has discovered three new Earth-like planets. All three exoplanets are orbiting a nearby star, according to the space agency, which reports that two of the celestial bodies are not the type of planet found in our own solar system. The third exoplanet is described as ‘slightly larger … Continue reading

Google Is Slowly Turning Waze Into a Rideshare-Meets-Hitchhiking App

Few hells are worse than getting stuck in traffic. To help, Waze started test-piloting its separate Carpool feature back in 2015 and in its latest update, you can now invite multiple strangers to hop in the car with you.

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Trump Intelligence Chief Nominee The ‘Least Qualified Individual Ever’

GOP Rep. John Ratcliffe gets a big thumbs down from Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

Bipartisan highway bill proposes $1 billion for EV charging corridors

Today, a group of bipartisan senators are introducing the largest highway legislation in history. The America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019 proposes investing $287 billion over five years in federal transportation projects. While it inc…

Tesla's Megapack is a battery built for the electrical grid

Tesla’s utility-sized energy storage has become a practical reality. The tech company has introduced the Megapack, a container-sized battery meant for “large-scale” storage that could help quickly deploy renewable energy and even replace conventiona…