Google is being sued by a family after its patriarch drove off a bridge and drowned while following Google Maps. It was dark and raining at the time, making it hard to see the bridge was collapsed.
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Opera GX will now fake your browser history after 14 days of consecutive non-use. The company hopes to save you a bit of post-death embarrassment if anyone uses your browser and looks at the history.
Medical ID allows first responders to quickly receive your medical information should they come to your aid. They can also get access to your emergency contact list should they need to be contacted.
Despite Microsoft's best efforts, Internet Explorer refuses to die. The ancient browser can be launched pretty easily in Windows 11 even though the OS is not even supposed to have it bundled.
Samsung's Chairman, Lee Kun-hee, has passed away at the age of 78. He had spent the last six years in hospital after suffering a heart attack. Lee had a mixed reputation over his work at Samsung.
The creator of the cut, copy, and paste functions, Larry Tesler, died on Monday at the age of 74 according to one of his previous employers, Xerox. He also worked at Apple, Amazon and Yahoo!.
Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist and owner of the Seattle Seahawks, Paul Allen, passed away earlier today. He had been diagnosed with cancer, and was being treated for the past month.
Researchers at MIT have created the "world's first psychopath AI", which is obsessed with death and murder. The disturbingly morbid AI was trained using data from the "darkest corners of Reddit".
In what is the first VR-related death, a 44-year old man from Moscow was found dead this week as he crashed into a glass table and suffered fatal wounds while donning a virtual reality headset.
Popular Twitch streamer Brian Vigneault died at home of unknown causes during a 24-hour World of Tanks marathon. Vigneault was streaming to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Autonomous vehicles, after millions of miles on the road, have had their first fatality. The driver of a Tesla Model S whose Autopilot mode was engaged died after the car crashed into another vehicle.
Yesterday, a body was found in a conference room at Apple's Cupertino headquarters. Today, Apple issued a statement to respond to yesterday's events, saying: 'We are heartbroken'.
Reports say that a person has been found dead in the conference room at Apple's Cupertino headquarters. Details are currently unknown, such as who the deceased may be, or cause of death.
If you wondered what happened to your Facebook account after your death, thankfully Facebook now has the answer for you, it will allow your personally chosen heir to manage the account.
Some have claimed that the upcoming Android Silver program will mean the end of Nexus, but Google says that is "totally wrong", adding that "it wouldn't make sense" to stop making Nexus devices.
With Microsoft terminating support for Windows XP today, we take a look at some of the options available for those still running PCs with the ageing OS - from upgrades to entirely new devices.
Over twelve years after its launch, Microsoft has finally consigned Windows XP to the great Recycle Bin in the sky, terminating its support for the ageing operating system for users across the globe.
A 28 year old Thai man was found dead clutching his iPhone 4S that was still plugged in. A 3rd-party charger has been blamed for the most recent death, which is sadly not uncommon in the region.
An iPhone 4 has allegedly electrocuted a young woman in China, after she was found dead holding the still-charging smartphone with burns on her hands and feet. Apple will fully investigate the issue
iSuppli is predicting that netbook shipments will completely die off by 2015, while shipments this year will fall 72% to just 3.97m. The rise in popularity of tablets is understandably to blame.
The launch of Darksiders II is almost upon us, but in the meantime you can check out the latest pre-release gameplay trailer where Death explains his motives for his quest in the game
Security was tight at Stanford University in California on Sunday as Apple held a private memorial service for its late founder Steve Jobs. A number of well known tech and media celebrities attended.
Software engineer Steve Lacey died in a car crash yesterday in Kirkland, WA. The Seattle-based website of television channel KING 5 reports that Lacey's death came as part of a road rage incident in which...
Paul Buchheit, the creator of Google AdSense technology and the lead developer of Gmail, claims that Chrome OS will not still be here 12 months next year. This comes as quite a shock since Google...
Friends and families of deceased users on Facebook will soon be given the option to turn their profiles into memorials. The new feature will be introduced as a result of several complaints regarding status updates...
Blizzard faces a lawsuit from Chinese parents, who say World of Warcraft caused the death of their son. November 18, 2005 In the latest saga over online gaming addiction in China, the parents...
Last week we reported on the hidden files that some Sony CDs install on Windows machines, quoting Sys Internals concerns that the software and files could not be easily removed. Facing unrest from the masses...
According to Namco's official arcade website, Death by Degrees for the PlayStation 2 has been pushed back until February of 2005. The game was originally slated for release in fall of this year, with the...
The first PlayStation Portable software to be demonstrated in public, Backbone Entertainment's Death Jr., is set to become a comic book and possibly a Hollywood movie, with the publisher keen to see the IP exploited...
DeviceLogics releases what could well be the final version of DR-DOS to hit the market. DeviceLogics, keeper of the DR-DOS code base, released this week what might be the final upgrade to...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicted the demise of the traditional password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure. Gates, speaking at the RSA Security conference here on Tuesday,...
Microsoft will pull the plugs on MSDN downloads of a range of products, including Windows 98, Office 2000, SQL Server 7 and NT Workstation, next Monday. These contain the polluted Java which, according to the...
Microsoft's 'Windows for iPods' operating system appears to be taking longer to ship than the company previously forecast. The software giant yesterday said it was working on system software for handheld media players. Now called...
Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death will be a first-person shooter seen through the eyes of Judge Dredd as he patrols the mean streets of the stunningly realised future metropolis, Mega-City One. Dredd will find himself...
It looks like AMD is about to phase out Duron. Once again...Just weeks after the re-load of AMD Duron microprocessors at 1.40, 1.60 and 1.80GHz and AMD senior executive said that the company will finally...
A lawsuit intended to bring justice to Netscape has ended with a deal that sounds the death knell for the browser. Microsoft today agreed to settle a private antitrust suit brought by AOL Time Warner,...
An item which may be of interest to Siemens mobile owners in Europe: The SMS, among the 1 billion sent each day on the continent, can freeze or completely disable two cell...
Some reports are appearing which seem to suggest that that some users who downloaded the SP3 patch for Windows 2000 have experienced problems. (shock horror, news at 11! Ed.) In the...
Usenet posts by Telewest blueyonder Internet service subscribers are been blocked by other news providers because of complaints over spam. In a notice to users yesterday, Telewest explains that a Usenet Death...
Thanks Jason for this one. Here we go again... Shawn Woolley loved an online computer game so much that he played it just minutes before his suicide. The 21-year-old...
