That comes in addition to the 500 million user accounts that were stolen in 2014, a breach that was announced in September. At the time, that attack was regarded as the largest-ever single-source data hack in history.
Oftentimes Super Mario Run, the first smartphone game created by Nintendo, feels like a compromised version of the classic games. To work comfortably on a touchscreen held in one hand, Nintendo has had to change its proven formula.
BEIJING - The Chinese government appeared to confirm on Thursday that it had begun placing antiaircraft guns and other defenses on the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, despite earlier promises that it would not militarize the islands.
BRUSSELS - French President Francois Hollande accused Russia on Thursday of reneging on its pledges in Syria, as a local leader in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo appealed to Europe to send monitors to help ensure the safety of civilians being ...
Lin Fei-fan, a protest leader, in Taipei, Taiwan. He is excited by President-elect Donald J. Trump's apparent willingness to rethink the One China policy, but also anxious: “We are suspicious of his motivations.
MILWAUKEE - A former police officer for the Milwaukee Police Department has been charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of a black man over the summer.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A school bus that crashed last month, killing six Chattanooga elementary students just days before Thanksgiving, was going approximately 20 miles over the speed limit at the time, a police officer testified Thursday.
NEW YORK - Edging closer to completing his Cabinet, President-elect Donald Trump announced his choice of Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke as Interior secretary Thursday, picking a man who should fit smoothly into an administration favoring more energy ...
They've proposed a pair of bills that could hobble the incoming governor and curtail voting rights in the state. 12/15/2016 01:37 pm ET | Updated 25 minutes ago.
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As head of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson had license to work out deals with roguish foreign leaders. He was supposed to sniff out countries at risk of instability far into the future.
President-elect Donald Trump meets with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 14, 2016. From left are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and ...
The company launched its self-driving car fleet in San Francisco despite a warning from state regulators. Human Driving Autonomous Uber Car Caught Running Red Light.
What's better than a few geofilters? A billion algorithmically generated filters. That's Facebook Messenger's strategy to steal the visual communication crown from Snapchat, thanks to its new camera feature that rolls out today.
After slowly testing the waters with non-game related content, Twitch is officially opening its doors to vloggers. The company today is debuting a new content category on its site called “IRL,” which is where Twitch creators can broadcast anything ...
The rising chorus for “La La Land” is suddenly missing a very conspicuous note. The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild nominations, announced Wednesday in West Hollywood, California, included nominations for the leads of Damien Chazelle's acclaimed ...
As far as the Nevada State Athletic Commission is concerned, the cases of Nate Diaz, Jon Jones, and Brock Lesnar are now closed. The commission today approved settlement agreements with all three fighters at its meeting, though details as to what ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Green Bay Packers running back James Starks might not be available for Sunday's game against the Chicago Bears after he was involved in a car accident on Monday.
Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James, right, drives past Memphis Grizzlies' Toney Douglas in the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in Cleveland.
SAN FRANCISCO - Activism wasn't originally on the agenda for Stephen Mullens, a meteorologist at the University of Oklahoma. He'd come to the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union - the first major gathering of the world's earth and climate ...
A rocket fired from a jet plane Thursday (Dec. 15) to launch NASA's latest Earth-observing mission, an 8-satellite mission to study hurricanes like never before.
Researchers have completely sequenced the genome of a seahorse for the first time, providing a basis for understanding one of the world's strangest fish.
Impaired muscle repair in mice, left, compared with improved muscle regeneration seen after reprogramming. Credit The Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Behind the self-confident gait, the friendly greeting and the air of superb competence, as many as 13% of the nation's commercial airline pilots may be suffering from depression, and roughly 1 in 25 report they've had suicidal thoughts in the last two ...
A festival in Brownsville, Tex., in 2015. At least five cases of the Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes have been reported there in the last few weeks.
An off-duty firefighter saved the lives of many dinner party guests when he realized something was amiss during the gathering of friends in North Carolina.
Texas Abortion clinic protest In this July 12, 2013 file photo, anti-abortion rights supporter Katherine Aguilar holds a crucifix and prays while opponents and supporters of abortion rights gather in the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas.
