After Years Of Warnings, Internet Of Things Devices To Blame For Big Internet Attack and other top stories.

• After Years Of Warnings, Internet Of Things Devices To Blame For Big Internet Attack

  

  On Friday, a series of massive distributed denial of service attacks disrupted access to major internet services including GitHub, Twitter, Spotify, and Netflix. The attackers apparently used tens of thousands of hacked internet of things devices—household appliances such as digital video recorders, security cameras, and internet routers—to generate a massive amount of digital traffic. That digital noise was sent to Dyn, a domain name service provider used by major online companies, disrupting ..

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• Dunk test video shows the Google Pixel is more waterproof than you might think

  

  As a premium priced device, it’s a bit surprising that the brand new Google Pixel is severely lacking when it comes to its ability to withstand dust and water. In fact, the Google Pixel only sports an IP53 rating which means that it technically isn’t designed to even withstand splashes of water. DON’T MISS: Everything we know about Apple’s exciting next-gen MacBook Pro Per the Ingress Protection (IP) chart, here’s how the Google Pixel stands up. It has a level 5 rating against solids which me..

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• 2016 MacBook Pro: Release date, features and price details leaked ahead of Oct. 27 event; Where to watch it live

  

  MacBook Pro 2016 Specs, Release Date, Price Rumors and Leaked Details The all new 2016 MacBook Pro is speculated to be unveiled by Apple on Oct. 27 just after Microsoft launches its Surface Book 2 and Surface Pro 5. But, before the official launch, details of the new MacBook Pro have been leaked in a report. It was in the year 2015 that the last MacBook Pro was launched and since then rumors suggested that in October Apple would be hosting a special event for Macs. Well,..

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• Hillary Clinton will likely be as pro-innovation as President Obama

  

  Gregory Ferenstein Crunch Network Contributor Gregory Ferenstein is a San Francisco-based writer and teaches math for journalists through the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. He is the publisher of The Ferenstein Wire. More posts by this contributor: How to join the network Silicon Valley has not embraced Hillary Clinton in the same way it did Barack Obama. Donors from the Valley contributed just a third of what they gave in 2012 (roughly $3.3M vs. $8.8M by June of..

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• What a new map tells us about the Milky Way

  

  By charting the concentration of neutral hydrogen, the most abundant element in space, a team of international researchers have created a detailed survey of the Milky Way. Combining 10 billion individual data points and thousands of hours of telescope observations at the Parkes Observatory in Australia and Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany, the HI4PI map shows concentration of stars in the Milky Way as well as the surrounding dwarf galaxies. The research, which began in 2006, was publ..

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• Gotcha: Space Station Grabs Onto NASA's 5100-Pound Cargo Craft

  

  Enlarge this image The Cygnus resupply craft slowly approaches the International Space Station — and its waiting robotic arm, the Canadarm2 — Sunday morning. NASA TV hide caption toggle caption NASA TV The Cygnus resupply craft slowly approaches the International Space Station — and its waiting robotic arm, the Canadarm2 —..

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