Google-backed augmented reality startup Magic Leap, Inc. has signed a deal with the Walt Disney Company owned Lucasfilm Ltd. to bring Star Wars characters to Magic Leap’s yet to be launched augmented reality headset. The announcement, made at the Wired Business Conference in New York Thursday, will see both companies (through Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB) establishing a ...

Twitter, Inc., Google, Inc., and Facebook, Inc. are being sued by the father of a victim of the Paris Islamic terrorist attacks in November 2015 on the basis that the companies “provided material support” to the terrorist group The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, better known as ISIS. Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of ...

Online bank WB21 Group Holdings SA has announced that it has added Bitcoin as a method for its customers to transfer and deposit funds to their checking accounts, making them the first registered bank to do so. WB21, for those not familiar with the company, is a London-based digital bank with an office in Palo ...

Notorious spammer Sanford Wallace, better known by his self-proclaimed nickname of “spam king,” is going to jail after being found guilty of electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court. Wallace was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $310,628.55 in restitution according to local reports. Sanford stood accused of hacking into ...

Chinese ridesharing service and Uber, Inc. rival Didi Chuxing Technology Co. (formerly Didi Kuaidi) has raised $7 billion in new capital that included $4.5 billion in traditional fundraising and a debt facility of $2.5 billion. The $4.5 billion includes a previously disclosed $1 billion investment by Apple, Inc., and $600 million from China Life Insurance ...

Apple, Inc.’s latest web browser Safari 10, which will ship later this year with macOS Sierra, will disable common plug-ins and preference HTML 5 content in an effort to improve the web browsing experience. The new browser will disable Adobe Flash, Java, Silverlight, and even Apple’s QuickTime by default. Users who reach a page that ...

Remember dial-up modems and Yahoo Messenger? The first is a long gone memory, but the original Yahoo Messenger, launched in 1998, has somehow managed to keep going, that is until now with Yahoo, Inc. announcing that the original service, as opposed to its new version (which goes by the same name) will be closed August ...

A scammer has targeted people wishing to donate following the Islamic terrorist attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida June 12. A fake Twitter account under the name of @PulseOrlandoUSA (since suspended) pretending to represent the nightclub was for a time soliciting Bitcoin donations with claims to buy bottled water and Oreo cookies. The account included ...

Audio distribution platform provider SoundCloud Ltd. has raised around $100 million Series E in a round that was led by Twitter, Inc. with an investment of $70 million. According to Re/Code who broke the story, the round was raised on a $700 million valuation, the same price SoundCloud raised $70 Series D on in 2014. ...

A new form of ransomware that can attack Android-powered smart televisions has been discovered by security researchers at Trend Micro, Inc. Dubbed FLocker (short for the Frantic Locker), the malware has been in circulation since at least April 2015 and has previously concentrated on locking down smartphones running the latest builds of Android. However, a ...