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Data breaches at retailers aren't going away but there are ways consumers can protect themselves from future heists of their payment card information. Home Depot said Thursday that malicious software lurking in its check-out terminals between April and September affected 56 million debit and credit cards that customers swiped at its stores. Target, Michaels and Neiman Marcus have also been attacked by hackers in the past year. More breaches are likely. The Department of Homeland Security Department warned last month that more than 1,000 retailers could have malware in their cash-register computers. Here are five ways to protect yourself: 1. CONSIDER ANOTHER WAY TO PAY Try newer ways to pay, such as PayPal or Apple Pay. 'Any technology that avoids you having your credit card in your hand in a…

Apple's new and bigger !Phone 6 and !Phone 6 Plus are more durable than last year's model and a leading Android phone, a study says. Apple's !Phone 6, whose screen measures 4.7 inches, did the best across a variety of tests that measures how prone smartphones are to break due to everyday accidents, according to SquareTrade, a company that provides extended protection plans. The !Phone Plus 6, whose screen measures 5.5 inches, wasn't far behind but lost points because it could slip out of a person's hand since some users may have a hard time gripping its large but slim form, SquareTrade says. The !Phone 5s, which measures 4 inches and came out last year, fared better than Samsung's Galaxy S5, which measures 5.1 inches. The Samsung phone got poor…

Apple got a lot of attention last week when it released a new privacy policy along with a declaration that police can't get to your password-protected data. Essentially, your photos, messages and other documents are automatically encrypted when you set up a passcode, with or without a fingerprint ID to unlock the phone. Apple says it cannot bypass that passcode, even if law enforcement asks. Google says it will also encrypt data by default in an upcoming Android update. The option has been there, but many people don't know about it or bother to turn it on. Apple, Google and other tech companies have been trying to depict themselves as trustworthy stewards of personal information following revelations that the National Security Agency has been snooping on emails and other communications…

Godzilla Few monsters are more widely recognized than Godzilla, so what better time than now to say hello again to an old favorite? This Gareth Edwards-directed gritty sci-fi epic features an all-star international cast, and sees the eponymous beast pitted against malevolent creatures that threaten humanity's very existence. FIVE FACTS: 1. Godzilla is the second Godzilla movie to be fully filmed and produced by an American studio, following the 1998 film of the same name. 2. Members of the cast include Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston. 3. The film grossed $524,976,069 worldwide. 4. Director Gareth Edwards has described the late Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer H. R. Giger as one of his biggest influences. 5. Edwards also said…

Apple says it sold more than 10 million !Phone 6 and 6 Plus models, a record for a new model, in the three days after the phones went on sale. A year ago, Apple Inc. said it had sold 9 million of the then-new !Phone 5C and 5S models The !Phone is available in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. It will go on sale in 20 more countries on Sept. 26 and others by the end of the year. CEO Tim Cook said Monday that demand for the phones has exceeded the company's expectations. Besides larger screens, the new phones offer faster performance and a wireless chip for making credit card payments. The phones start at $199 with a two-year…

Longtime technology guru Ray Ozzie wants to bring back the emotions of the human voice to phones His mission began more than two years ago as Ozzie noticed people were increasingly communicating through texts, emails and social media posts instead of calling each other. "When you see nothing but words and numbers, it becomes very mechanical and very transactional," Ozzie said in an interview. "But when you hear the sound of someone's voice, it really brings it much closer to home." Ozzie, 58, Microsoft's former chief software architect, hopes to orchestrate voice's comeback through Talko, a mobile application being released Tuesday for the !Phone. A version for Android phones is expected in a few months. Talko sends the equivalent of text messages in the form of a spoken word. Talko…

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba began trading its shares Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. Here are ten things to know about Alibaba, and why its initial public offering made history: THE BIGGEST: Alibaba raised $21.8 billion in its debut, making it the biggest U.S.-listed IPO in history after the IPO of credit card processing company Visa in 2008. If Alibaba's investment banks were to exercise their option to sell an additional 48 million shares, it could make Alibaba's IPO the biggest in the world, beating out the $22 billion IPO of Agricultural Bank of China in 2010. DON'T FORGET YAHOO: It may have been a big day for Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma, but Yahoo's investors are feeling pretty good after Alibaba's IPO. Yahoo was an early investor…

THE CELEBRATION OF A TRUE ITALIAN ICON Show business is notorious for chewing up and spitting out all manner of even the very greatest talents. So many have come and gone, which makes it all the more remarkable that one particular cinema icon is celebrating her 80th birthday. That's right: it's none other than Italy's very own movie jewel, timeless beauty and eternal diva Sophia Loren, who marked 'many happy returns' on 20th September. As you'd expect of such an internationally enduring symbol of beauty and talent, Loren didn't mark the milestone any old way: she did so with a book of memoirs reflecting on her astonishing rags-to-riches story. It's easy to forget, after all, that Loren was born in poverty in 1934, the daughter of a frustrated actress exasperated…

iOS #01 – Facebook Messenger By Facebook, Inc. Category: Social Networking Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Spider-Man Unlimited By Gameloft Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Yik Yak By Yik Yak, LLC Category: Social Networking Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – Amazing Thief By Ketchapp Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 –…

RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG. KING & COUNTRY RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG, is only the second album of For King & Country, stylized for KING & COUNTRY, following 2012's Crave, which reached number four on the Top Christian Albums chart.The Christian pop duo will doubtless hope for more of the same success with this latest release. FIVE FACTS: 1. for KING & COUNTRY consists of Australian-American brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone. 2. The band was formerly known as Joel & Luke. 3. The brothers hail from Nashville, Tennessee. 5. Joel has said that through the writing of their songs, the group "hope that people will be moved, encouraged and stirred to live a life for Someone greater than themselves." Sundown Heaven Town (Deluxe Edition) Tim McGraw The…

Yahoo may be losing some appeal on Wall Street now that U.S. investors can buy directly into Alibaba. Yahoo's stock fell Monday as investors grappled with uncertainty about CEO Marissa Mayer's efforts to turn around the struggling Silicon Valley company. The sell-off came even though Yahoo reaped more than $9 billion last week from selling some of its stake in Alibaba, as the Chinese e-commerce company held a record-setting initial public offering of stock. Yahoo has promised to return at least half of the after-tax proceeds to shareholders - likely through stock buybacks. But some investors aren't waiting, now that they're able to buy Alibaba shares directly, according to Brian Wieser, an Internet stocks analyst at Pivotal Research. Before the Alibaba IPO, Yahoo was one of the few ways U.S.…

Apple's largest !Phone is selling for $100 more than its other new model, but an outside research firm estimated Tuesday that it costs Apple only $15.50 more to make the more expensive version Apple said it sold more than 10 million of the new !Phone 6 and !Phone 6 Plus models in their first three days on sale. Both have larger screens than earlier !Phone models, and analysts say consumers like the new, bigger sizes. The Plus has a 5.5-inch screen, as measured diagonally, while the regular !Phone 6 is at 4.7 inches The new !Phones went on sale Friday and address a key advantage rival Android phones have long had: size. The !Phone has been Apple's main source of profits and is expected to remain so for at least…

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE LONG AWAITED CUPERTINO WEARABLE You knew full well that it wasn't going to be 'just' a new !Phone, didn't you? We're talking about that keynote, which if you're like so many Apple fans, you probably watched live, perhaps from the feed on Apple's website. Sure, the !Phone 6 and !Phone 6 Plus formally broke cover first, and all very impressive they were, too. However... for once, the latest iteration of the Cupertino giant's long-iconic handset actually wasn't the big story. When current CEO Tim Cook finally uttered the words that Steve Jobs had long made his own at Apple keynotes, "One more thing...", you knew that it wasn't going to be confirmation of a minor !OS feature that followed. It was going to be something…

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is joining a video game company's legal fight against disgraced Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who is suing Activision over his inclusion in one of its popular "Call of Duty" games. Activision Blizzard Inc. announced Monday that Giuliani and his firm will ask a Los Angeles judge to dismiss Noriega's lawsuit, which claims his likeness was used without permission in 2012's"Call of Duty: Black Ops II." Giuiliani told The Associated Press he took the case because he doesn't want the imprisoned Noriega to profit from his crimes, which include convictions for murder, drug trafficking and money laundering. Also, Giuiliani said that if the lawsuit is upheld, it could give historical figures and their heirs veto power over their depiction in books, television, movies and…

iOS #01 – Five Nights at Freddy’s By Scott Cawthon Category: Games / Price: $2.99 Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Minecraft – Pocket Edition By Mojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Goblin Sword By Eleftherios Christodoulatos Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – Sleep Cycle alarm clock By Northcube AB Category: Health & Fitness / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for…

Apple's newest !Phones ran into some glitches Wednesday after users complained that a new software update blocked their calls, and a video circulated to suggest that the larger of the two new models is vulnerable to bending. Apple said it would stop providing the software update, which it began distributing Wednesday morning to fix several issues in last week's !OS 8 operating system for !Phones and !Pads. The decision to pull the update came after some people complained on Twitter and in Apple user chatrooms that the update, dubbed !OS 8.0.1, rendered their phones unable to make calls and caused problems with a feature that lets people unlock their phones with their fingerprint. By midday Wednesday, Apple announced that it was investigating the reports and would issue advice to users…

The government's own watchdogs tried to hack into HealthCare.gov earlier this year and found what they termed a critical vulnerability - but also came away with respect for some of the health insurance site's security features. Those are among the conclusions of a report being released Tuesday by the Health and Human Services Department inspector general, who focuses on health care fraud. The report amounts to a mixed review for the federal website that serves as the portal to taxpayer-subsidized health plans for millions of Americans. Open enrollment season starts Nov. 15. So-called "white hat" or ethical hackers from the inspector general's office found a weakness, but when they attempted to exploit it like a malicious hacker would, they were blocked by the system's defenses. It's the second independent security…