Five of the best… new films in the UK

1: Son Of Saul (15)

(László Nemes, 2015, Hun) 107 mins

This year’s foreign language Oscar-winner, and a film almost too devastating for casual consumption. The subject is the Holocaust, as experienced by a Jewish prisoner assisting the Nazis in the extermination of his fellow inmates – a job as grim and conflicting as it sounds. By keeping tightly focused on his subject (a magnetically stricken Géza Röhrig), Nemes succeeds in communicating a horror too great to capture in its entirety.

2: Captain America: Civil War (12A)

(Anthony & Joe Russo, 2016, US) 147 mins

Plenty of superhero bang for your buck as Marvel orchestrates its own internal bust-up by putting Chris Evans’s Captain and Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man on opposing sides of the UN’s wing-clipping superhero charter, and recruiting a Top Trumps of comic-book characters to fight alongside them.

3: Heaven Knows What (18)

(Ben & Joshua Safdie, 2014, US) 97 mins

From an entirely different rail network to Trainspotting comes a visceral junkie drama centred on a damaged, homeless New York woman (played with conviction by Arielle Holmes, whose biography serves as inspiration for the story) who is addicted to love as much as heroin. It’s a tale told with almost reckless intensity – intimate and unflinching, but artfully made, too.

4: The Jungle Book (PG)

(Jon Favreau, 2016, US) 106 mins

Disney polishes up another of its jewels for a new generation, with uncannily realistic CGI animals and a fresh cast of voice actors to bring them to life (Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley, Lupita Nyong’o). The story is a different take on Kipling’s source writings – less the carefree, swinging Mowgli tale of old; more a heartfelt man-cub adventure with an up-to-date eco-conscience.

5: Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One (15)

(Miguel Gomes, 2015, Por/Fra/Ger/Swi) 132 mins

Part two of Gomes’s epic trilogy, stringing together a series of fantastical fables grounded in Portugal’s current economic plight. This section includes a farcical court case in which everybody is guilty, including a genie and a talking cow. At times playfully absurd, at others it’s poignantly down-to-earth.

R. Tiglao Exposed LTO Records Showing Aquino Never Bought or Sold a Porsche

Veteran columnist Rigoberto Tiglao exposed the Land Transportation Office (LTO) records of former President Benigno Aquino III showing that he never bought or sold an expensive Porsche car. The LTO records proved that the former President did not sold his Porsche 911 Carrera car which he claimed he bought for P5 million. The controversial Porsche car of the former President made headlines just months into his presidency but he explained that he bought the luxury car with the proceeds he got when he sold his BMW. Because of the furor from such display of opulence, Pres. Aquino claimed to have sold it six months later for exactly the same price. According to Tiglao during that time he asked through his column the LTO to release the car's deed of sale and registration to prove that it was not a gift from a Chinese-Filipino tycoon as rumored by some individuals critical to the President. The only possible way to discover whether the Porsche luxury was indeed sold was through ...

You can pay at a restaurant by smiling at a camera

© Provided by Engadget As easy as it is to make purchases in the era of tap-to-pay services , it's about to get easier still. Alipay (which handles purchases for Chinese shopping giant Alibaba) has launched what it says is the first payment system that uses facial recognition to complete the sale. If you visit one of KFC's KPRO restaurants in Hangzhou, China, you can pay for your panini or salad by smiling at a camera-equipped kiosk -- you need to verify the purchase on your phone, but you don't have to punch in digits or bring your phone up to an NFC reader. The system (Smile to Pay) is purportedly resistant to spoofing with photos and other tricks. It relies on both depth-sensing cameras and a "likeness detection algorithm" to make sure it's really you. Reportedly, the technology is good enough that it can accurately identify people even when they're disguising themselves through makeup or wigs. You shouldn't have to worry about someone buying ...

Tesla cloud account hacked to mine cryptocurrency

© Provided by The Hill An unidentified outside hacker infiltrated Tesla's Amazon cloud account and used its systems to quietly mine for cryptocurrencies, a cybersecurity firm announced Tuesday. The hack also potentially exposed the electric car company's data. Researchers for RedLock found that Tesla's credentials on an IT administrative console were not password protected. They made the discovery while trying to track down which organizations had left their Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials openly exposed on the internet last month. The hackers quietly hijacked the console and began running scripts to generate virtual currency like bitcoin, the latest in a series of "cryptojacking" attacks. The researchers also found the hackers used "sophisticated evasion measures" to go undetected. A spokesperson for Tesla said the company learned about the breach in a company-sanctioned bug bounty program that pays outside hackers to discover vulnerabilitie...

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