The Department of Defense’s attraction to bug bounty programs continues with a contest to find security flaws in its travel booking system. The Pentagon is again pairing with HackerOne, a private company that has run similar programs for the Air Force, Army and the DoD at large, with hackers reporting hundreds of valid vulnerabilities and the Pentagon paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars. The […]

Olivia Cooke pulls double mysterious duty in Ready Player One, starring as the rebel Samantha and her avatar Art3mis in the virtual reality world of The OASIS. The 24-year-old British actress is breaking out onscreen in director Steven Spielberg nostalgic hit ($53.2 million and counting at the box office) while also appearing as troubled teen […]

Hauling nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shot into orbit Monday from Cape Canaveral, with a previously-flown Dragon cargo carrier riding a reused first stage booster to kick off a nearly two-day journey to the International Space Station. The commercial cargo delivery flight departed Cape Canaveral with a […]

Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia and the political hurdles President Trump faces at home are making it increasingly difficult for Trump to achieve his campaign goal of warmer relations between Washington and Moscow, according to political observers. Trump’s decision last week to expel 60 Russian diplomats accused of secretly operating as intelligence officers prompted Russian […]

As it does every year, TripAdvisor has announced the top ten destinations on the rise in 2018. To make the list, the travel site has pulled its list from a combination of travel reviews, online buzz and its own expertise. All in all, it’s a fairly diverse selection, with an understandable bias toward beautiful beaches. With […]

Is Tony Stark getting a Wakandan upgrade come Avengers: Infinity War? The armor-clad Avenger’s suit is a perennial work in progress, its genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist inventor doling out update after update to improve the design he originally conceived a decade ago (in a cave with a box of scraps). With Infinity War, Stark dons his most advanced and formidable suit yet: one […]

FirstEnergy had asked Trump administration for emergency order Electricity generators across U.S. pummeled by low power rates A power generator that pleaded for the Trump administration’s help in bailing out struggling coal and nuclear plants has filed for bankruptcy. FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., its subsidiaries and FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co.listed $550 million in cash to continue operations […]

PHOENIX – The technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrency could change lifestyles and livelihoods, leading to cheaper, more efficient ways to ship packages, buy homes, access medical records and even build a secure vault of personal information. The little-understood and often misunderstood system of virtual money, known as cryptocurrency, is based on something called blockchain, a vast […]

This week bitcoin prices bounced at the trendline forged approximately one half year ago at the same time as NVIDIA signaled support for crypto. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang spoke to Jim Cramer on Mad Money TV, suggesting that cryptocurrency was “here to stay” regardless of the fact that it’s not one of the company’s main drivers – […]

JERUSALEM — Days after the deadly flare-up along Israel’s border with Gaza, during which Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinians, a new war — of videos and strong statements — has erupted over what happened and why. The violence has waned in what was the bloodiest day in Gaza since the war of 2014, but both sides […]