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CYBERSECURITY FIRM: BOOTING HACKERS A COMPLEX CHORE

Efforts to assess the impact of a more than seven-month-old cyberespionage campaign blamed on Russia — and boot the intruders — remain in their early stages, says the cybersecurity firm that discovered the attack.

‘LOCKED DOWN' MIRRORS OUR QUARANTINE EXPERIENCES

Doug Liman’s “Locked Down,” one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is, like our own quarantine experiences, erratic, a little absurd and sporadically delightful.

BEHIND THOSE DANCING ROBOTS, SCIENTISTS HAD TO BUST A MOVE

The man who designed some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots was on a daunting mission: programming his creations to dance to the beat with a mix of fluid, explosive and expressive motions that are almost human.

Amazon Offers Assist With Us COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Amazon is offering its colossal operations network and advanced technologies to assist President Joe Biden in his vow to get 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations to Americans in his first 100 days in office.

STUCK IN THE MUD

DIRT 5 ventures down a well-travelled track.

MIND READING

Brain-computer interfaces could revolutionize the way we live

SECOND EXTINCTION

For anyone who thought Muldoon was the hero of Jurassic Park

PRESSING X TO COMFORT MY UNBORN CHILD IN AMNESIA: REBIRTH

We’ve come a long way from pressing F to pay respects.

FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS

Mods to remaster the Mojave in 2021.

FAR OUT

How THE SIMS shaped the career of Far Cry director Alex Hutchinson

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH

It’s time to play triceratops trumps

DRAGON QUEST

YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON doubles down on the series’ RPG elements with a brave new turn-based battle system.

RIP: MARS DIGGER BITES THE DUST AFTER 2 YEARS ON RED PLANET

NASA declared the Mars digger dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature.

TEENS TUTOR PEERS ONLINE TO FILL NEED DURING PANDEMIC

When her suburban Dallas high school was forced to move online last spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, Charvi Goyal realized that the schoolmates she’d been informally tutoring between classes would still need extra help but wouldn’t necessarily be able to get it. So she took her tutoring online, as well.

HIGH-TECH INDOOR FARMER APPHARVEST STARTS SHIPPING TOMATOES

AppHarvest — an indoor farming company backed by Martha Stewart — thinks the agriculture sector is ripe for disruption. And now, its tomatoes are ripe for eating.

US BLACKLISTS XIAOMI, CNOOC, SKYRIZON, RAISING HEAT ON CHINA

The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing in President Donald Trump’s last week in office.

TALK SAFER: APPS TAKE PRIVACY FIGHT TO FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE

As messaging giant WhatsApp prepares to hand over more data to Facebook, users are flocking to rival services in protest, with Signal jumping from 250,000 downloads on the App Store a week to almost 10 million.

JACK'S BACK: CHINESE E-TYCOON ENDS SILENCE WITH ONLINE VIDEO

China’s highest-profile entrepreneur, Jack Ma, appeared this week in an online video, ending a 2 1/2-month absence from public view that prompted speculation about the future of the e-commerce billionaire and his Alibaba Group.

GOOGLE MUSCLES UP WITH FITBIT DEAL AMID ANTITRUST CONCERNS

Google has completed its $2.1 billion acquisition of fitness-gadget maker Fitbit, a deal that could help the internet company grow even stronger while U.S. government regulators pursue an antitrust case aimed at undermining its power.

GM TEAMS UP WITH MICROSOFT ON DRIVERLESS CARS

General Motors is teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric, self-driving cars.

EU FINES VIDEO GAME FIRMS FOR BLOCKING CROSS-BORDER SALES

The European Union has issued fines to a U.S. video game platform and five game makers after they blocked players from buying cheaper copies of the games in other countries in the bloc.

CANADA OKS RETURN OF BOEING 737 MAX AIRCRAFT

The Boeing 737 Max can return to Canadian airspace beginning this week, officials said, concluding nearly two years of government review after the aircraft was involved in two deadly crashes that saw the planes grounded worldwide.

Meet the New Boss

VPL-VW885ES, a 4K LCOS projector with a laser light engine

JVC Projector Theater Optimizer Function

JVC announced a firmware update for its native 4K D-ILA projectors that delivered true frame adaptive HDR tone mapping to the lineup.

Ditching DLNA

HIGH END- PROJECTORS

iOS system maintenance

Use iMazing’s tools to keep your iOS device spick and span

Nanoleaf Shapes Hexagon

Colorful, configurable panels that’ll light up your home

iPhone 12 Pro Max

Capture stunning stills and richly detailed HDR clips with this top–of–the–range device

Luminar AI photo editor

A great way for novices and experts to enhance images

Plugable Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station

The TBT3–UD1–85W provides compact connectivity