Uber riders in India will soon have an added safeguard in case of emergency. In addition, Uber will provide what it calls a “safety net” feature. With it, riders will be able to “easily share their trip details and real-time location with up to 5 friends and family members,” according to the company. The additional safeguards come after a woman alleged that her Uber driver raped her back in December. Delhi officials subsequently
I'm flying home from DICE today but JetBlue kindly decided to delay my flight nearly three hours, so that means I've got plenty of time to assemble the week's most important gaming news for your convenience. This week: Lots of I'm shocked—
Here's a look at the new and updated Android apps and games you need to grab this week.
Google is once again bearing gifts, this time throwing $6 worth of Google Play credit your way if you own a Chromecast. To score this deal, you’ll need to follow a few steps. First, your computer needs to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your You’ll see a list of offers, one of which will be the current promotion. Don’t let the verbiage mislead you: even though Google says it’s to “enjoy a Valentine’s Day movie rental,” the currency is good for anything in the Google Play store: apps, games, books, and of course TV shows and movies.
Google Maps now puts its new Local Guides is a rebranding of the City Experts program, which is Google's effort to get more user reviews inside of Google Maps. It's part of Google's effort to compete with Yelp, which is currently synonymous with local reviews. By getting more of these impressions inside of Google Maps, the company hopes you'll spend more time there—and hopefully click on an ad or two, no doubt—instead of leaping over to Yelp.
Back in the nineties, when we first started to understand the promise of this whole “Internet” thing, satellite Internet access represented the promise of the future: High speeds, delivered anywhere, without waiting for your local phone company or cable provider to build out the infrastructure necessary for broadband access. The reality was less glamorous.
Cyber criminals are always looking for vulnerabilities, and in this case, it’s parental instinct. A new phishing scam is disguised as an alert to child sexual predators. The scam email looks like a warning for parents about a known predator who moved into their ZIP code area. In a blog post by IT security company KnowBe4, What was really interesting to me is that I received two emails back to back: One was from KnowBe4 PR contacting me about this story, and the one immediately afterward was one of the phishing emails Sjouwerman described.
Freewheel, Even though it’s Wi-Fi based, Freewheel still comes with a regular phone number to send and receive calls and texts. If you live in the New York City metropolitan area you can even port your current number over to Freewheel.
Like a decentralized Wayback Machine, a new tool called Amber is letting individual websites join the fight against link rot. With For instance, let's say a Microsoft employee
