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Uber has gone ahead and exposed the personal data of hundreds of its own drivers, putting out social security numbers, pictures of drivers licenses, vehicle registration numbers, along with other pertinent information. The leak was accidental and was first noticed on Tuesday by drivers registered with the company. Reports quickly …

There are tons of companies out there that have attempted to jump in to the smartphone market, we've had Amazon try it, we've had Facebook try it and now Pepsi is making its own line of Android smartphones. Yes its own line… as in more than one. The Pepsi-made smartphone …

Apple is once again attempting to reinvent connectors for its devices. The company has a long history with proprietary connectors, we have seen the 30-pin dock connector on older iPhones and iPods, we have seen the Lightning connector and now, Apple is trying its hand at reinventing the headphone jack. …

When you fill in a form on a website, you expect that information to go straight to the company who owns the site (and the NSA), not its entire mailing list of customers. But that's exactly what happened recently with WHSmith's site, which had a misconfigured “contact us” form on …

Google's next set of Nexus smartphones are just a couple of months away. At the moment we are expecting a Nexus 5 from LG, which we have already seen one image of, along with a new Nexus 6 from Huawei, which we may also have got a glimpse of today. …

It is no secret that Apple has been working on a fairly large 12-inch iPad Pro for some time now and it is currently expected to launch later this year to breathe new life in to the product line. However, it looks like Samsung might be looking to upstage Apple… …

Google is all set to reveal two new Nexus devices in October, one from LG, bringing back the much loved Nexus 5, and one from Huawei, which will be creating a new Nexus 6. Today, we have our first look at LG's new Nexus 5, updating the phone for 2015 …

Samsung is set to announce two new smartphones this week at an Unpacked event in New York. We are already expecting the Galaxy Note 5, which has already had its specs leak. However, we will also be seeing a Galaxy S6 Edge+ this week, which has also had its specifications …

The Carphone Warehouse is the latest company to be targeted by cyber criminals as a “sophisticated” hack took place on the 5th of August, putting personal details of up to 2.4 million customers at risk. In addition to that, around 90,000 Carphone Warehouse customers may have had their credit card …

Just before next week's Qualcomm event, at which the company is expected to reveal its new flagship mobile chip, the Snapdragon 820, we have had a leak, apparently showing off the specs of the new SoC and giving us a rough idea of performance ahead of time. The announcement event …

Samsung is holding an event on the 13th of August, at which we are expecting to see the reveal of both the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+, ahead of Apple's own iPhone 6S and 6S+ reveal in September. As we know by now, pretty much everything leaks …

The One Plus Two isn't due to be officially announced until the 27th at a livestreamed event but thanks to the Chinese wireless regulator, Tenaa, we already have our first good look at the upcoming smartphone. OnePlus has been teasing its next phone for a while now and thanks to …

We've already heard that LG is supposedly teaming up with Google again this year to bring back the Nexus 5 in a new 2015 edition. However, up until now internal specifications and performance numbers have remained a mystery. Fortunately though, leaked AnTuTu benchmark results show how the new Nexus 5 …

In the past, Samsung's phone internals have been fairly easy to predict. We would usually expect a flagship Galaxy S or Galaxy Note device to come equipped with whatever the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon chip was, more RAM and a higher resolution display. However, this year Samsung made quite the switch, …

It is hard for companies to keep secrets these days, something that Warner Bros learned the hard way during Comic Con last week when the trailer for Suicide Squad was posted to the internet and spread around like wild fire in all of its blurry, pixelated glory. This has caused …

Over the last few years, most smartphone manufacturers have fallen in to a predictable release schedule. With Apple, we know to expect a new iPhone every September, HTC tends to launch a new smartphone around March/April time and Samsung falls in to a similar schedule with its Galaxy S flagships, …

The OnePlus 2 is due to be announced at the end of this month with a live streamed conference set to be broadcast in virtual reality for those who have a Google Cardboard headset. We were already expecting a Snapdragon 810 processor and USB Type-C support but now a new …

Apple has a habit of making its iPhones thinner and thinner each year, rather than fitting in the larger battery that users have been requesting for years. Last year's iPhone 6 was the most obvious example, with the phone becoming so thin that the camera protruded out of the back …

When Edward Snowden fled the US to China and ultimately Russia in 2013, after releasing documents to publications like The Guardian and The Intercept, it seemed likely that he would never be able to return home. Branded as a traitor by the Obama administration and various international intelligence agencies, his …

When we first learned about the NSA's XKEYSCORE software back in the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations, it was clear that it was (and is) a pretty versatile piece of software, able to parse huge swatches of recorded information in order to store the most juicy bits of data on every …

EA is holding a closed alpha test for Star Wars Battlefront this month and while many of us got rejected, some people managed to claw their way in to the test phase and have since leaked the game's client, which is now floating around the web if you know where …

The follow up to the OnePlus One, currently unofficially known as the OnePlus Two, is set to be revealed In just less than a month at an event on the 27th of July (which will be viewable in virtual reality should you have a Google Cardboard headset). However, as with …

Last week, we got wind of rumours suggesting that in an effort to become competitive in the market again, BlackBerry may jump ship from its own operating system to Android with a future smartphone. Now, it looks like we have some leaked specifications, letting us know what BlackBerry is apparently …

Right now, smartphone makers seem to be stuck in some never ending resolution war. Each manufacturer is constantly trying to cram more pixels in to 5.5 inches or less and it doesn't look like the trend is dying down soon as it looks like the very first 4K smartphone is …

This week, members of the Oculus subreddit unearthed some images, supposedly showing off the final consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, giving us a good look around the upcoming device and even a controller for it. These images were found buried in the CSS of the official …

Bungie has been working on expansions for Destiny ever since the base game released. So far, we've seen two, The Dark Below and House of Wolves, however, the third expansion is due to be the largest and judging by a previously leaked roadmap, the most exciting. Now it looks like …

A few days back we learned that EA was working on a Need for Speed reboot, set on taking the franchise back to its roots. Obviously at the time, no release date had been officially announced but it looks like we may now have an idea of when to expect …

Cloud Imperium Games, the studio behind the highly anticipated space sim, Star Citizen, has ended up with a sizeable leak on its hands, with 48GB worth of game assets ending up on the drives of those who don't work for the studio. One of the game's community managers was unfortunate enough …

It turns out that Microsoft not only has the power to ban you from Xbox Live permanently, but it can also turn your Xbox One console in to a useless brick, as the beta testers behind the Gears of War Remastered leak have found out. This week, videos showing off …

E3 is coming up and Bethesda is hosting its own press conference for the first time. That alone was enough to get people excited for the possibility of Fallout 4 but it seems that it might actually happen as someone out there has broken NDA by confirming the existence of …