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Dubai, Hyperloop One to study potential for building Abu Dhabi line

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates –  The futuristic city-state of Dubai announced a deal on Tuesday with Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One to study the potential for building a line linking it to the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi.

The announcement of the deal took place atop the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, with the panorama view of the skyline of this futuristic city-state serving as both a backdrop and a sign of Dubai's desire to be the first to rush toward the future.

However, no financial terms were immediately discussed and the technology itself remains under testing.

A hyperloop has levitating pods powered by electricity and magnetism that hurtle through low-friction pipes at a top speed of 1,220 kph (760 mph). Tesla co-founder Elon Musk first proposed the idea in 2013.

Organizers suggest the Dubai-Abu Dhabi travel time by hyperloop would be only 12 minutes — significantly down from the hour-plus journey it now takes by car between the two cities.

In October, Dubai hosted a competition to design a hyperloop track. In that 48-hour project, designers presented ideas for a possible track between Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central, Dubai International Airport and Fujairah International Airport. Under their plans, the hyperloop trip of some 145 kilometers (90 miles) over a mountain range would be 10 minutes or less, compared to the current hour and 20 minutes by road.

The deal announced on Tuesday would be far simpler.

There would be several stations throughout Dubai connecting the hyperloop system to Abu Dhabi. The pods would then be able to carry passengers and cargo between the cities.

Already, government-backed port operator DP World has signed an agreement with Hyperloop One to explore the feasibility of the using the technology at Dubai's sprawling, man-made Jebel Ali Port.

British bank reports 40,000 suspicious transactions in a single weekend

Tesco Bank has frozen online transactions after being hit by a wave of fraudulent activity over the weekend. The British financial institution was prompted to take action after a total of 40,000 account holders were affected by suspicious transactions.

The bank announced early Monday that money had been taken from 20,000 accounts. The company is working with authorities to determine the source of the breach, and will help customers recoup any financial losses, according to an official statement posted on the Tesco Bank website.

"We apologize for the worry and inconvenience that this has caused for customers, and can only stress that we are taking every step to protect our customers' accounts," wrote Benny Higgins, the bank's chief executive. "That is why, as a precautionary measure, we have taken the decision today to temporarily stop online transactions from current accounts."

Customers will still be able to use their accounts to carry out cash withdrawals, chip and pin payments, direct debits, and pre-existing bill payments. For the time being, it's only online transactions that have been deactivated.

While tens of thousands of accounts being affected sounds like a large number, it's only a very small percentage of the Tesco Bank consumer base as a whole. The bank services some 8 million accounts in total, according to a report from Ars Technica.

For many of these customers, however, the way that Tesco Bank handled the situation has been less than satisfactory. On Monday morning, affected account holders took to social media to complain about not being able to access their funds via the internet.

A situation like this demonstrates just how important it is for banking institutions to shore up their online security. More and more consumers are performing financial transactions via the internet, and that is only going to make these services more attractive to criminals going forward.

Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut

In its ever-escalating war against connectivity ports, Apple’s latest computers do away with the SD card port, a full-size USB port, and the HDMI port.

Instead, you’ll need a dongle to convert those “legacy” connectors, as Apple put it on Friday, into the new, smaller USB-C port.

"We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition,” the company said in a statement, without acknowledging that Apple’s newest iPhone, released just last month, is one such “legacy” device - without a dongle (or a different cable, sold separately), you can’t connect Apple’s new smartphone to Apple’s new laptop.

“We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem."

That help will be a decent discount on the price of the dongles - it calls them adapters - until the end of this year.

The most popular one is likely to be the USB to USB-C adapter - which will be $9, down from $19. For connecting iPhones (both new and old), you’ll need a $19 Lightning to USB dongle - although you could use an old Lightning to USB cable if you bought the USB to USB-C adapter. Keeping up?

Dongle spaghetti

It’s an acknowledgement that Apple’s pro users aren’t exactly thrilled with the latest offering from the company considered to offer the gold standard in laptops.

The bigger issue here, and one that was expertly discussed in a Medium post by technology journalist Owen Williams, is what many see as a muddle at the heart of Apple’s newest products.

For a company that rightly prides itself on creating products that “just work”, it’s literally descended into something of a tangled mess.

Apple has, Mr Williams argued, created computers that lack a core selling point. For pro users, the types that use their Macs for graphic design and video editing, the new range only serves to take away functionality existing Macbooks provide.

If you’re not a pro user, that’s fine. But along with Apple’s announcement of new hardware came the news that the prices were going up. Dramatically so, if you’re living in Brexit Britain. (Though Apple certainly isn’t alone there. Marmite, anyone?)

Those factors combined mean the dongle issue, one Apple might have got away with in the past, has caused added frustration to the faithful who had been waiting for a serious Macbook upgrade for some time.

Dongles get lost, forgotten and broken. They’re an added source of vulnerability when it comes to things accidentally being pulled out when uploading some data, corrupting the lot.

The Macbook future, at least for a short while, is a rag-tag spaghetti junction of dongles strewn across a desk or stuffed into a bag. In offices around the world, inboxes will fill with passive aggressive requests for “whoever took my iPhone dongle” to “please put it back where you found it, no questions asked”.

And when something doesn’t work, you’ll now need to ascertain: is it the device that’s broken? Or the cable? Or the port? Or the dongle?

Competitors moving in

But hold up. Apple has form here, and history mostly proves them right. Where Apple goes, others normally follow.

Earlier Macbook models already did away with ethernet ports and the CD/DVD drive - a move which seemed absurd at the time, but I’d argue Apple was ultimately exonerated. When was the last time you put a CD into your computer?

So in time, the accessories we use every day will become USB-C as standard, no question about that, and the dongles will no longer be needed.

But in the short term, Apple is left with a product that that no longer caters to either end of the market. Data suggests schools, parents and bosses are looking to Google’s cheaper Chromebooks, which this year began outselling MacBooks.

And if we’re looking at MacBooks as being as part of the bigger Apple planet, we’re left with a company that appears to be behind in many areas. Its iPhone is still king, but sales have been in decline.

Apple doesn’t have any virtual reality hardware. It doesn’t have any augmented reality hardware. Or a car - autonomous, electric or otherwise. In artificial intelligence, Apple's Siri is considered to be the least smart of the mainstream smart assistants, and unlike Google and Amazon, it can’t yet be found in a family-friendly home device.

Tim Cook appears to be throwing money at the problem(s). Spending on research and development has ballooned in the past three years, though Mr Cook is staying typically mum about what exactly the company is working on - only to tell worried investors that his company has the "strongest pipeline that we've ever had and we're really confident about the things in it”.

Only an idiot would write off Apple and its future. I don’t intend to be that idiot. Apple wasn’t the first to market with the smartphone, not even close, but it went on to define the industry and produce the most profitable piece of technology ever made. It could do that again and again in these new areas.

As the world’s richest company, it has time and resources on its side. But with that in mind, couldn’t it afford to pop a dongle or two in the box to make its present-day customers a little happier?

PS5 UK release date rumours | PlayStation 5 design rumours | PS5 feature rumours: Looking forward to Sony's next console, the PlayStation 5

While Sony's latest announcement of a redesigned PlayStation 4 alongside the all-new PlayStation 4 Pro should keep gamers entertained for at least a few more years, we're interested in what the upcoming PlayStation 5 might offer. Here we speculate about whether there will actually be a PS5, along with a potential release date window, plus rumoured specs and design.

While Sony's latest announcement of a redesigned PlayStation 4 alongside the all-new PlayStation 4 Pro should keep gamers entertained for at least a few more years, we're interested in what the upcoming PlayStation 5 might offer. Here we speculate about whether there will actually be a PS5, along with a potential release date window, plus rumoured specs and design.

Sony PlayStation 5: Will there be a PS5?

With the release of PlayStation Now many have speculated that physical consoles are a thing of the past. PlayStation Now is a cloud-based gaming service that lets you play PS3 games on the PS4, PS Vita and Bravia TVs, while support for non-Sony and -PlayStation devices is slowly rolling out with the introduction of PS Now for Windows. 

Yet we still think there will be a PS5. Not only does the PS4 bring in a huge amount of profit, Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida has been quoted as saying the future of the PlayStation is up to developers. 

"If they still feel that we need more machine power - 'we want to realise this and that and that, but we cannot do it with the PS4' - there's a good reason to have the PS5 so developers can create their vision," said Yoshida.

The PS4 is immensely powerful but, unlike the thousands of gaming PCs with which it competes, Sony's console doesn't benefit from the possibility of regular processor and graphics updates. One day we will reach the stage where the PS4 is notably inferior to PCs, and then game developers will demand more power. Also see: PS4 vs Xbox One vs gaming PCs and Best gaming PCs 2016.

Plus, with PlayStation Now Sony will be able to keep customers happy by allowing them to continue using their PS4 games on a new PS5.

Sony PlayStation 5: Potential PS5 UK release date

It's been 20 years since the first PlayStation was released, and there were seven years between the launches of the PS3 and PS4. That was the longest stretch, with the PS2 appearing five years three months after the PS1, and the PS3 six years eight months after the PS2. It's fairly safe to say Sony doesn't follow a strict pattern with its console releases.

Games consoles are naturally long-lifecycle products, with customers investing considerable expense in both the platform and its proprietary titles. However, Sony is reportedly working on shorter timeframes between its PlayStation launches - at least that's the impression given by AMD, which manufactured the hardware powering the PS4.

CFO Devinder Kumar, speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology Conference, said AMD had made a real impact with the release of the PS4 in 2013. Around 2016, he added, AMD would again be a very different company. Although he may not have been referring specifically to a new console release from Sony, such devices are extremely profitable to AMD and it is always thinking about what's coming next.

"Three years before you introduce a product a decision is made to use a particular company. In this case it was AMD. Then you co-develop the product with funding dollars, mostly coming from our customers. When you introduce the product there are no R&D, sales and marketing expenses - however many dollars you generate fall to the bottom line, and that’s what excites us," said Kumar.

Earlier this year Sony's software product development head Scott Rhode told MTV: "Very soon we'll start thinking about what we'll do next. That's the culture at Sony. We always have to do something that's bigger and better than what's already been done."