The data of as many as 383 million travelers could have been compromised ina breach of Marriott’s Starwood Preferred Guest(SPG)database. After originally sharing information about the breach in November, the companyreleased updated information on January 4, with fewer guests affected but some unencrypted passport numbers involved the breach. Marriott says an internal security tool recently alerted the company to the breach, but an investigation showed the unauthorized access began in 2014....

For a moment, it seemed like Christmas was going to arrive a month early for gaming fans when Microsoft’sXbox Series Xand Halo Infinite were announced for a Thanksgiving launch. It would have been an unprecedented move that potentially could have thrown Black Friday into chaos. However, it appears the announcement was an error. Microsoft’s Xbox Series X website briefly claimed a Thanksgiving 2020 release date, but quickly changed back to Holiday 2020....

What do Brad Pitt, chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and the late neurologist Oliver Sacks, author ofThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, have in common? Answer: All of them suffer, or have claimed to suffer, from prosopagnosia, a rare disease that affects around 2.5 percent of the population. Better known as face blindness, prosopagnosia is a neurological condition in which patients struggle to recognize people they have met — even when they might have known them for decades....

From Rubik’s Cubesso large and complex that they’re practically torture implementsto robots that areable to solve a standard cube in just 0.38 seconds, we’ve covered some pretty neat Rubik’s Cube-related projects here at Digital Trends. A new Kickstarter campaign also takes everyone’s favorite 3D combination puzzle as its jumping-off point — with the goal of updating the classic 1970s brainteaser for a new generation. Called GoCube, it’s a smart connected cube that promises to open up exciting new play experiences and features for all players....

Google just showed off some impressive advances that it’s bringing to Google Assistant in the near future. By shrinking down speech-recognition and language-understanding models, it has found a way to squeeze 100GB of models from the cloud down to less than half a gigabyte that can run locally on your phone. The demo at Google I/O showed off the Google Assistant running on a phone and performing tasks with almost no latency....

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has settled a lawsuit filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Though he admitted no wrong-doing, the billionaire agreed to pay a $20 million fine and step down as the company’s chairman for a three-year period for using his personal Twitter account to announce he had the funding secured to take Tesla private. The California-based automaker also agreed to make leadership reforms and pay a $20 million fine for not vetting the information Musk writes on Twitter....

A recent survey questioned 595 virtual and augmented reality professionalsabout their business growth in the consumer and enterprise markets. Conducted byVR Intelligence and SuperData, the survey shows that 24 percent of the respondents report strong sales in the enterprise market while only 18 percent show strong sales in the consumer market. According to the report, the two main barriers VR needs to overcome are headset prices and a lack of content....

Respawn rushes Apex Legends fix as dual-wielding bug runs rampant in Shockwave Apex Legendsdevelopers have quickly rushed out a new update for the Battle Royale after the latest season saw several performance bugs and dual-wielding issues crop up. Respawn’s battle royale has just entered into its new season.Apex Legends: Shockwavesees even more content being added to the title, including a new map,new dual-wielding Akimbo weapons, and further gameplay updates. However, the new season also brought a number of issues as well, with playersunable to find looton the new E-District map....

TheROG Phone 6 Prois marketed as one of the most powerful smartphones available, and is specifically designed for gaming on the go. However, despite its technical prowess, the phone performed exceptionally poorly in a durability test. While no phone is indestructible, the ROG Phone 6 Pro walked away from a standarddurability test done by YouTuber JerryRigEverythinglooking like it just barely survived an explosion. The test looked to see how well the ROG Phone 6 Pro stood up to things like scratches to its display and cameras, where it performed similarly to other flagship devices....

Summary Ryan GoslingandKeanu Reevesshare a dreamMarvel Cinematic Universerole, and the character has already been set up.The MCU has cast some major stars in recent years, including names such as Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher and Harrison Ford as the new Thunderbolt Ross. However, with theMCU’s slate of projectsincluding many major films and series — and even more projects yet to be announced — Marvel could be looking to cast important roles in the near future....

Connected car startup Smartcar tells Digital Trends a much larger competitor named Otonomo is illegally cloning its intellectual property — and the company published a series of screenshots on itsofficial blogto back up its assertion. There is no connection betweenSmartcarand the Daimler-owned automaker that has made pocket-sized,Smart-branded city carssince 1998. Instead, Smartcar makes tools developers use to create apps that put people on wheels. Software engineers use its API to build car-sharing apps, for example....

Tech-centricvan-style RVscan enhance road trips, tailgates, and weekend getaways. New technologies in theThor Motorcoach Sequence 20LClass B RV aid setup, monitor vehicle operations from a single control panel, and help you stay in touch with the outside world if you can’t totally cut yourself off. The nearly 21-foot long 2020 Sequence van is built on a RAM Promaster 3500 XT rear-wheel-drive window van powered by a 3.6-liter 280 horsepower V6 engine with a peak 360-pound-feet of torque....

Copilot Prois Microsoft’s AI subscription service that costs $20 per month for individuals and is integrated into the brand’s Microsoft 365 suite. The paid service offers unique features to Microsoft users, provides faster and more consistent AI performance with priority access to theGPT-4andGPT-4 Turbolarge language models (LLM) during peak times, and also brings the AI technology to the brand’s most popular PC applications — and that’s where things get really interesting....