For those who are looking for a special country retreat, have a big bag of money- and do not worry about a 'wrong' historical past, there is a great opportunity: the summer house of the former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco is for sale. Estate agency Mikeli Luxury Estate offers the property, for a sloppy 8 million euros.
Two frequently used chat apps are out of the blue. Signal does not work worldwide, Telegram is currently not available in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The cause is not clear.
Taxi app Uber has created a new service: Uber Health. This allows doctors to reserve rides for patients who do not have their own transport. According to Uber, there are more than 3.6 million Americans every year who do not show up at doctor's appointments because they can not travel there.
The GitHub site, which is widely used by software developers, has been the target of 'the biggest DDoS attack ever' this week. For five minutes the site was off the air and for four minutes the connection faltered. Then the attack stopped. Half an hour later there was a second bombing, but it was smaller.
The American John Perry Barlow, who played an important role in the development of the internet, has passed away. He died on Wednesday at the age of 70 in his sleep, reported the Electronic Frontier Foundation. That organization, founded by Barlow, is committed to freedom online. Occasionally Barlow also wrote song lyrics for the band of a childhood friend: The Grateful Dead.
In the run-up to the US presidential elections, more American Twitter users than thought they saw messages from Russian fake accounts. It now involves 1.4 million people. They retweeted or liked messages from Russian accounts, or responded to them, or followed the accounts. Previously, it involved more than 677,000 people.
The 113-year-old Francisco Núñez Olivera, who was the oldest man in the world, died on Monday night.
Due to a mistake by Tinder it is possible to sneak peek with users in action. For example, it is possible to see which profiles a person looks at and whether he or she swipes to the left (reject), to the right (interested) or to the top (very much interested). It is necessary to be on the same Wi-Fi network as the intended victim.
In Los Angeles, a Tesla rammed a fire engine from behind during a test. No injuries were surprisingly enough.
On 11 June 1962, three detainees escaped from Alcatraz, which was then one of the most secure prisons in the world. The prisoners lacked every trace, but this week a local television channel has seized new evidence: a letter that one of the escaped prisoners in 2013 would have written to the police.
Residents of parts of San Francisco must prepare for a possible evacuation due to a tsunami that may have been caused by the Alaska earthquake. That is what the San Francisco crisis management department reports on Twitter.
Hackers have copied frequently used apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Adobe Flash Player. The copies worked exactly like the real apps, so that the victims did not get suspicious. But secretly the apps could take photos with the camera of the affected smartphone, intercept text messages and apps, find passwords, see where someone is, listen to the microphone and read contact lists.
Facebook will undergo a number of changes. From now on the medium wants to put more emphasis on 'meaningful social interactions', instead of people just scrolling through the News Review, critics claim to be very addictive. Founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the news Thursday.
An American judge in San Francisco has stopped abolishing the so-called DACA program. The scheme was instituted under the previous President Barack Obama in 2012 and was intended to protect people who had illegally entered the US as a child with their parents in the past against expulsion.
Twitter accounts of world leaders have a special status with the social network. 'Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should see and discuss,' the organization said. Twitter reacted- without calling him- on calls to keep the US President Donald Trump from the network.
Billions of processors appear to have a big hole in security. As a result, malicious parties can gain access to sensitive information about the users. The chips are in many billions of computers and mobile phones worldwide.
Unfiltered water seems to be a new trend among health freaks in the United States. Fanciers are willing to pay almost 40 dollars for about 4 liters of 'raw' water. But according to experts, the hip drink is better not to be drunk.
At least seven people were injured after a small truck scooped passers-by in San Francisco. The truck also collided with parked cars, which also included people. The police state that it is not a terrorist attack but an accident.
The Court of Appeal of San Francisco ruled Friday that the last entry ban of President Donald Trump should not apply to people who have a strong relationship with the United States.
The FBI picked up a 26-year-old ex-marine from Modesto on Friday to prepare for an attack in San Francisco. On Christmas Day, the American wanted to attack Pier 39 in the name of Islamic State (IS).
Technology company Uber has spied worldwide rivals. This happened via a network of spies that would have been trained by the American intelligence service CIA. That is what a former employee of the company behind the taxi app says in a letter. The letter has been submitted as evidence in a lawsuit.
Donald Trump's Twitter account has been removed by a Turkish German. On November 2, he pressed the button on the last working day to ban the president. The man, in his twenties Bahtiyar Duysak, told his story for the first time against the news site TechCrunch.
A Canadian of Russian origin has admitted that he was involved in hacking thousands of e-mail accounts for the Russian secret service. Against payment he cracked the passwords of people in whom Russian spies were interested.
The late sixties of the last century were a time of love and peace and flowers for part of Western humanity. From this subculture of the colorful hippies also less peaceful types came about and the last Sunday died Charles Manson is the most famous exponent of this.
Uber is working with NASA's NASA aerospace organization to get grounded cars. Together they want to set up a kind of flight control. It must ensure that the cars are safe through cities.
Twitter is working on a problem with the search term 'bisexual', the technology company told Tuesday. The English word for bisexual does not currently deliver results on the search for photos, videos and news on Twitter.
Inside everything looks spiky and spanning, but the apartments in the San Francisco Millennium Tower quickly lose their value due to a construction failure. The tower has already sunk 43 centimeters and 35 centimeters sagged.
The US Air Force has failed to report to the civilian authorities that Devin Patrick Kelley was previously convicted. That should have prevented the shooter from killing 26 people on a Sunday in a church to buy a weapon.
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont believes that the Catalan population can not accept the measures taken by the Spanish government. He called the Madrid steps against Catalonia 'the worst attacks' since Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
