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Travel booking service Orbitz has suffered a data breach. The company today revealed that an attacker broke into a "legacy Orbitz travel booking platform" and stole around 880,000 payment card details. The hacker also had access to users' full names, birthdates, phone...

5G Is Real At the end of 2017, the wireless industry came up with the first official 5G standard. AT&T plans to launch mobile 5G in the US this year, Verizon says it will launch 5G for homes, and both T-Mobile and Sprint say that they're launching 5G phones early...

Facebook is the ultimate toxic friend. You've probably had a friend like this in your life: a charming, charismatic, entirely non-self-aware pal who blithely leaves destruction in their wake but will always be forgiven, because they're fun to be around and to ditch...

If you were impressed when Samsung last month announced it managed to cram 30 terabytes into a 2.5-inch SSD, prepare to have your mind blown right now. A company called Nimbus Data just unveiled what it's calling the "world's largest solid state drive" – the ExaDrive...

Time to step it up, Amazon. Rival Walmart just announced a major expansion of its online grocery delivery service. Currently available in just six markets, the service, which lets people order groceries online and have them delivered the same day, is slated to reach...

The Bitcoin boom has some people forgetting the old adage "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," and scammers are cashing in on that naiveté for their own gain. The Federal Trade Commission on Friday announced it has shut down the operations of four...

One of the greatest technical blunders of our digital age took place when Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 went up in smoke, literally. Battery issues caused dozens of these smartphones to melt down and even catch fire. This resulted in a worldwide PR nightmare for Samsung,...

The idea that "the media is dying" is so cliché that a Twitter accountchronicling its alleged demise is now 10 years old. But this time is different, according to Aaron Shapiro, CEO and founder of Huge, a New York-based digital marketing and consulting firm. Machine...

The city of Plattsburgh, NY just took an unprecedented stand against cryptocurrency mining. As was first reported by Motherboard, the Plattsburgh city council on Thursday night "unanimously" passed a new local law, which imposes an 18-month moratorium on any new...