Monthly Archives: December 2016

Dolly Parton is helping fire victims.Image: Quasar/Star Max/IPx On top of Dolly Parton’s pledge to donate $1,000 a month to families who lost their homes in a destructive wildfire near the Great Smoky Mountains last week, the country singer is now hosting a telethon. The event is set for Dec. 13 in Nashville, Dollywood spokesman […]

Image: vicky leta/mashable The Samsung Galaxy Note7 was hands-down one of the biggest disappointments of the year. Samsung finally built the Voltron of phones, only for the Note7 to literally burn up and be permanently discontinued. If you owned a Note7 and had to give it up, we feel your pain. It sucked to lose […]

Police were left embarrassed following a one-sided siege.Image: Fox Some days you just can’t win. Police officers in Melbourne, Australia were left red faced Monday after engaging in a standoff with absolutely no one. The officers attended the residence in Melton South at 9:30 a.m. following a tip-off, a Victoria Police spokesperson told Mashable via […]

A companys logo is an important part of its identity, but the process behind defining, registering and protecting these trademarks is a convoluted and rather archaic one. A startup called TrademarkVision aims to simplify it by replacing that laborious and arcane process with what amounts to a machine-learning-powered reverse image search. This isnt in some […]

A farm in New Zealand with an active fault line running through it has become a mecca for geologists seeking to unlock secrets deep underground When dairy farmers Gray and Vicki Eatwell purchased a block of farming land just outside the tiny west coast village of Whataroa in New Zealand, the real-estate agent gestured vaguely […]

(CNN)Satellite images could prove that villages in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State were deliberately burned to the ground, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization claims that the timing of the various incidents and their “spacial trends” offer evidence of a pattern that is “consistent with military operations and not random village acts of self-immolation.” The […]

Lamar Odom reportedly entered rehab in San Diego, California, almost one year after his near-fatal incident in a Nevada brothel. TMZ was the first to report the news.  “It was his own decision. He wanted to work on his mental and physical health for the next chapter of his life,” a source told E! News. “He has […]

The spokesman said the report remains under the consideration of the procurator fiscal. Police Scotland confirmed it had submitted a report to the fiscal in “in relation to an investigation into alleged mortgage fraud”. Denied wrongdoing It is understood one of the men named in the report is solicitor Christopher Hales, who was struck off […]

More stakeholders within the critical infrastructure community are beginning to understand the significant risks at hand. But while our growing dependence on technology is largely to blame for the new cyber threats we now face, further technological advancements will also help mitigate these persistent and ominous threats. Advanced technology and strategic use of algorithms allow […]

Danny Rogers is CEO and co-founder of Terbium Labs, a dark web data intelligence company. How to join the network Think about your most prized possession. Imagine it in your minds eye. Maybe its a family heirloom, or something a close friend gave you, or something you worked hard to afford. Now imagine it gets […]