The International Monetary Fund(IMF) appears to have fallen victim to a sophisticated hacking attempt, although it’s unclear if any data was exposed. The New York Timesreports that the organisation, which oversees the global financial system, suffered a “large and sophisticated cyberattack” at some point in the past few months. While staff at the IMF were reportedly informed of the incident this week, the Fund has not publicly released any details of the hack....

For the past several years, we’ve seen advertisements on billboards increasingly integrated with audio and video elements as if creative agencies were playing catchup with the broadcast TV age. Digital billboards and out-of-home (OOH) advertising is a 3.5 billion dollar a year industry. By 2016, this type of advertising spending is expected to reach $6 billion a year. Digital signage is 1/3 of the industry’s advertising spending. And at its current growth rate of 20% per year, within the next 5 years, it will represent over half of the budget....

Has this ever happened to you? You’re cavorting through deep space at near the speed of light without a care of the world when, suddenly, you realize you forgot to replace the toner cartridge in your office printer back on Earth before you left. Rather than face your disappointed co-workers after such an unforgivable oversight, you decide it would be best if you just stopped time and waited for them all to die before you return to work....

All of us have been praying and wanting to see Apple adopt USB-C for iPhones, instead of the current lightning port. While we don’t know when we’ll see such an official model, a robotics engineer has modded an iPhone X with a USB-C port. Ken Pillone’s YouTube Shorts video, first spotted by Apple Insider, shows a working iPhone X model with the new charging port. The video shows the phone charging with a USB-C-based Mac charging brick....

The iPad has stimulated a whole new way of looking at media. Magazines and newspapers have had to think hard about how they reproduce their content on tablet screens, but advertisers have also had to think carefully about new ways of engaging audiences. NowCoolirisandInMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, have announcednew technologythat promises to bring immersive 3D advertising to the market. These new ad units have a couple of interesting features....