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Apple now has the dubious distinction of most-phished brand, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Work Group. For the first half of this year, 17.7 percent of all phishing attacks were aimed at Apple -- a first for the brand -- followed by PayPal (14.4 percent) and Chinese shopping site Taobao.com (13.2 percent), the APWG reported. Have phishers suddenly become more interested in stocking their music libraries from iTunes than siphoning money from PayPal? Not quite.

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Based on a scalable multiprojector system that adapts gaming content to the physical space, RoomAlive allows users to touch, shoot, stomp, dodge and steer projected content that becomes seamlessly integrated with their environment.

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Later this week at the Paris Auto Show, CEO of Tesla Elon Musk will“unveil the D.” Assuming this isn’t just a thinly veiled reference to a region of Musk’s anatomy, what might he be showing off on October 9? Does the “D” allude to a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid? Or perhaps it’s a version of the Model S with some semi-self-driving tweaks? Or is it as simple/boring as a dual-motor — all-wheel drive — version of the Model S?

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At one time, Epecuén was a booming resort city: a grand town on a beautiful lake, attracting vacationers from all over Argentina in the 1920s with its revitalizing salt waters. There were hotels, nightclubs, and restaurants. Today, it's a thicket of bleached white ruins, latticed with rusted steel and fallen power lines.

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As the more paranoid among us freak out and reach for the hazmat suits, America is fighting the Ebola threat the only way it knows how: hundreds of thousands of dollars of robots, natch.

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