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An illustration of Uber's proposed flying taxi | Uber   TRANSPORT Uber Partners With NASA to Bring Flying Taxis to LA by 2020 Uber has partnered with NASA to research air-traffic management, and will conduct tests of new aerial vehicles in Los Angeles. BY  ELIZABETH HOWELL    NOVEMBER 8, 2017   4:16 PM EST Ride-sharing — or should we say fly-sharing — vehicles could zoom through the skies of Los Angeles as soon as 2020. Uber unveiled today an agreement with NASA that advances the company’s plan to bring flying vehicles to major US cities. The agreement with the space agency aims to develop traffic management systems for unmanned aerial vehicles. It was signed on Jan. 26 and allocates funds up to $100,162 over five years. Speaking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Uber chief product officer Jeff Holden said the vehicles could carry four passengers and fly at a top speed of 200 mph. “We are very much embracing ...

Call of Duty  is one of the biggest games franchises in the world and, on some levels, the funniest. The way that CoD: WWII was marketed suggests an interactive Saving Private Ryan. The reality is that my Axis coach shouts “zey haff ze ball” in multiplayer NFL-like Gridiron, as an opposition carrier runs towards our goal, before a period-appropriate hail of fire brings them down. “Gut, now drive forwardz!” If that gave you tonal whiplash, try playing the thing. CoD: WWII is three games in one. A single-player campaign that shows a unit of US soldiers winning the war; online competitive multiplayer with a dozen modes; and then Nazi Zombies. Call of Duty is a series with annual releases, with multiple development studios working on staggered schedules. As a result, it has crystallised into a certain structure. CoD: WWII covers all the bases that players expect. Facebook Twitter Pinterest  The protracted slow-motion sniper sections are among the game’s best. Photograph: ...

Remember the Hydra of ancient mythology? The many-headed serpent that grew two heads when one was chopped off? A similarly dangerous beast has appeared in the Android malware zoo. LokiBot as a banking Trojan How do ordinary banking Trojans behave? They present the user with a fake screen that simulates the mobile banking interface. Unsuspecting victims enter their login credentials, which the malware redirects to the attackers, giving them access to the accounts. How does LokiBot behave? Roughly the same way, but it simulates not only a banking app screen, but also WhatsApp, Skype, and Outlook client interfaces, displaying notifications purporting to come from these applications. This means that a person can receive a fake notification, supposedly from their bank, saying that funds have been transferred to their account, and seeing the good news. then log in to the mobile banking client for confirmation. LokiBot even makes the smartphone vibrate when it displays the...

Two days before real-life troll  Milo Yiannopoulos would descend on UC Berkeley’s campus in September, Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte were sizing up a railing partisan on Twitter from their college apartment. Lauren Sy Hovering over his laptop, Bhat explained why he suspected @PatriotJen was actually a bot, maybe even one controlled from Russia. He pointed to the kitschy patriotic header image ripe for a truck stop T-shirt: a bald eagle flying towards heavenly rays. The bio seemed a liberal’s cliche of a Trump supporter, “Deplorable mom, wife, & homeschooler,” complete with red-meat hashtags: @AmericaFirst #MAGA #LockHerUp #BuildTheWall. All her tweets were retweets: an anti-Hillary tweet from Julian Assange, sensational pro-life news, a gloating tweet (“BOOM!”) about federal immigration raids that will punish California for protecting undocumented immigrants. Moreover, @PatriotJen’s feed was filled with the toxically shrill tone replicated throughout Twitter—showing A...