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It’s lights, camera, action for the  2019 Ford Edge ST . This sportier new version of Ford’s midsize  crossover  was remade into a Hollywood camera car by specialist firm  Pursuit Systems . Designed to film car chases and other action footage, discussions are underway to use the Edge ST in the production of upcoming feature films, according to Ford.

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As technology and the web become more advanced, the main concern we all have is privacy. We use the internet for everything now, and we have access to it across a ton of devices: our phones, computer, televisions, game consoles, and even the security systems for our homes. On those devices we have pictures, videos, login information and passwords for the most personal and crucial accounts for things like banking and health. Nearly every service we sign up for, whether it’s for entertainment or business, requires us to do so using our email address and some of those services allow third parties to access that information. Even though a website has that little padlock symbol in the address bar and a company tells us that our passwords are encrypted, is our data really safe? Big companies like  Facebook  and  Google  have both admitted to privacy breaches this year, and many people closing down their accounts. Helm is looking to put users’ minds at e...

Apple had long denied that it had purchased compromised servers manufactured in China that would have made it a victim to government surveillance after  Bloomberg Businessweek  broke the story, and now CEO Tim Cook is demanding the publication to retract its report. The publication alleged that the compromised  servers , discovered as early as 2015, would have given China a backdoor into the private networks of U.S. corporations and government agencies and that Apple had severed its relationship with San Jose, California-based Super Micro as a result of this breach of trust. “I feel they should retract their story,”  Cook told Buzzfeed  about the Bloomberg story. “There is no truth in their story about Apple. They need to do that right thing.” Cook also took issue at lack of evidence in Bloomberg’s report. Cook said that Bloomberg reporters did not provide his company with specific details about the chips that were alleged to have been discovered and remove...

The lines between the real world and the virtual world become more blurred every day. Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have  revealed their design  for an “ultralight” pair of gloves that allow users to “feel” virtual objects. A video describing the gloves can be seen below: Basic prototypes of virtual tactile feedback technology have been developed in the past, but they were always bogged down by their massive bulky exoskeletons and power sources. The EFPL’s ultralight gloves are very light and flexible, weighing just 8 grams per finger. (That’s half as heavy as a CD.) The energy required to power the gloves is incredibly small, needing only a small few-milliWatt battery. The lightness of the glove highlights its form, as it’s designed to feel as natural and unintrusive as possible. In order to simulate grasping and feeling a virtual object, metal bars inside the fingers of the gloves connect and stop the fingers from m...

Cybercrime is on the rise. Experts predict it to be  a $1.5 trillion industry  in 2018. With big money at stake, the threat to your privacy has never been bigger. When it comes to the internet, crime really does pay Whether it’s  stealing your identity  or  hijacking your browser to mine cryptocurrencies , hackers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to track, steal, and exploit your data. Law enforcement agencies are struggling to keep up. Half the problem is prosecuting offenders – the web is an effective hiding place, and jurisdiction rules mean for every one that gets caught, thousands go free. The other challenge, of course, is you. Of the  2.6 billion data records stolen in 2017 , only 4% were secured accounts. Hackers choose their targets. Give them an opening – whether it’s a weakness in your operating system, internet connection, or browser – and they’ll use it to spy, blackmail, or steal. The first line of defence agains...

Face ID. Fingerprint scanners. Voice recognition. When it comes to biometrics, there a whole lot of means for checking a person’s identity in a way that’s far more personalized than a four-digit security code or password. Now a nonprofit group called the  IOTA Foundation  is working with biometrics company  Iampass to introduce a system that lets users verify their identity using the veins in their palm print. As it turns out, these vein patterns are just as unique as the other biometric markers that drive technologies like fingerprint or retina scanners. “More so than any other biometric technology, palm vein authentication is highly accurate, hygienic, and designed specifically to curb impersonation, counterfeiting, and other illegal actions that may be used to access important information and secure areas,” Dominik Schiener, co-founder and co-chair of the IOTA Foundation, told Digital Trends. “[That’s especially true] since the palm veins are unable to be seen b...

Court documents have claimed that Facebook was aware of inaccuracies in the way it measured how many people viewed video on its site for a year longer than it has previously admitted. Newly released papers that are part of a US legal action against the social network, claimed that it knew about the problems in 2015. Facebook described the case against it as "without merit". It said suggestions it had tried to hide the issue were "false". In September 2016, Facebook admitted that it had overestimated how much video people had watched for the previous two years. "We told our customers about the error when we discovered it - and updated our help centre to explain the issue," it said in a statement. The error affected a Facebook metric called "average duration of video viewed", which was supposed to tell publishers for how long, on average, people had watched a video. However, the metric did not include viewers who had watched for...

Apple’s September unveiling of their new line of products covered  three new iPhones : The XS, XS Max, and XR. While the new phones do boast some neat features and some definite improvements, the response was a little lukewarm. Many users are holding off to  buy the less expensive XR   while others found the XS Max to be  generally unwieldy . The phones are all expensive and while there  are  new features are there really enough to warrant dropping near  $1,000? Since there’s any number of reasons the average Joe might  not  want to purchase a new iPhone , it was the new and improved Apple Watch that really  stole the show . Unconvinced that the new watch is deserving of your attention? What makes the new Apple Watch so great anyway? After doing some research of our own, these look to be the  top 10 reasons  you need one in your life. Top 10 Apple Watch features 10. You can re-use watch bands Starting sma...