Big data leak hits European football clubs

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Unfortunately, nothing is safe from data leaks these days. Professional football (or soccer) is its latest victim. German publication Der Spiegel released a first of possibly a steady stream of stories and details related to corruption happening in different European professional clubs as well as the players involved in the sport. A group called “Football Leaks” got their hands on 1.9 terabytes of data, which covers 18.6 million documents that include secret agreements between clubs and players.

The first story Der Spiegel broke is about how football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Mesut Özil have been taking advantage of different tax laws to make a lot of money. It’s not news for the industry as Lionel Messi was recently convicted of tax fraud. But this just goes to show there are possibly more controversial stories coming out of the leak.

Source: Engadget

Microsoft to boost accessibility features in Windows 10 in upcoming update

Microsoft is hoping to give people with disabilities better access to its operating system with the upcoming Creators Update features. Some of the new things coming next year include support for braille and new voices for text-to-speech feature. Aside from that, Narrator will reduce volume of other apps only when it’s speaking, Cortana won’t transcribe what Narrator is speaking, and it also has better support for Edge browser—making it easier to fill out forms and navigate by heading level.

Even Office 365 will make it “easy to insert alternative text descriptions for images and meaningful display names for hyperlinks, as well as making the accessibility checker available in more Office applications." There are much more outlined in this post by Microsoft if you want to check out what else they have planned.

olloclip hosts #ImagesSpeakLouder Gallery & Pop-Up Shop in LA

This coming December 9 through 13, olloclip is celebrating all things mobile photography as it hosts #ImagesSpeakLouder gallery and pop-up shop at Seventh Letter Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibit will show images captured by mobile photographs using olloclip lenses will shot taken by everyday users as well as professionals like Jamie Thomas. There will even be free workshops and presentations on things like “Unlocking Creativity in Mobile Photography,” “3D Spatial Photography,” Skateboarding Quick Clips demo with pro skateboarder Joey Brezinski, and a one-on-one chat with olloclip Founder and Chief Design Officer Patrick O’Neill.

Aside from hosting the gallery and workshops, olloclip also has a pop-up store there that’ll showcase the latest accessories for the iPhone 7, 6, and SE. There are even lens options for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus that can add fields-of-view shots to the iPhone. You can find out more about the event in this link.

Microsoft Stores offering savings and discounts in their 12 Days of Deals promo

This might be a good time to look into getting an new PC or Surface device. Beginning Monday, December 5 at 12 a.m. ET through Friday, December 16 at 11:59 p.m. ET, microsoftstore.ca customers can take advantage of a series of incredible, one-day only savings on the technology at the top of everyone’s with list, with new deals available each day starting at 12 a.m. ET. And, don’t forget – when you shop at microsoftstore.ca you'll get free shipping and free returns on every item, every day. HIt jump for the details of the deals starting Monday.

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