Hollywood stars can now be digitally recreated so convincingly, that actors are reportedly specifying in their wills what they’ll permit their images to do — long after their death. “We can recreate dead actors,” Mike McGee, co-founder of the special effects company Framestore, told The Daily Telegraph. “Actors alive now are already selling their image …

WhatsApp has agreed to stop sharing data with Facebook following an ICO investigation. WhatsApp has agreed to not share user data with parent company Facebook before new data protection regulations come into force in May. The messaging service has signed an “undertaking” with data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), publicly committing to not …

Walmart has filed a patent for robotic bees that would pollinate crops just like the real insects. The patent outlines how tiny autonomous “pollination drones” would use sensors to locate crops, transport pollen, and verify which crops have been successfully pollinated. It would be a significantly more efficient way to pollinate crops than crop dusting, …

Your passwords are stored in secure systems by using some special algorithms known as “hashing.” Hackers try to access these passwords using different techniques, the most popular one is called a “Dictionary attack,” where the computer tries over and over again. For example, in July of 2017, hackers obtained 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO …

WhatsApp has rolled out a massive new update that affects the way its Delete For Everyone feature works. The new update will allow users to delete messages they publish to the app hours after they first get sent. The Facebook-owned messaging app first added the ability to delete sent messages from an individual conversation or …