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The Chaos Computing Club, a group of German hackers, claimed to have cracked Apple's new iPhone fingerprint scanner. The scanner is one of the distinguishing features of Apple's new iPhone 5S. It was not immediately clear whether CCC's claims were true, but two prominent iPhone security experts repo...
Allowing workers to use personal phones and tablets to do their jobs has created security risks in the workplace, but those risks can be minimized if they're managed. What should such a risk management program do? "The first step is you have to protect the device," said IBM Application, Data and Mob...
A couple of years ago, I wrote on the beginning of my long-term plan to eventually retire in Belize. My wife and I just came back from our latest update trip. Our house plans are nearly finished, and we should start building within 12 months. There have been a lot of impressive improvements since we...
RSA has advised its customers to make a configuration adjustment to its BSafe security software products. This follows an announcement issued by NIST not to use a security standard it designed and published: the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator. The Dual_EC_DRBG is believed to ...
Angry posts spread faster on social networks than those indicative of any other emotion, according to a recent study. Researchers at Beihang University set out to test whether homophily -- the tendency of people to bond with those who are similar -- occurs in social media interactions. The team anal...
Tencent Holdings' WeChat mobile messaging service, which is akin to WhatsApp, stands to gain more users as China makes it more and more risky to vent opinions online. Long a hotbed for censorship, China has been turning up the heat even further on netizens believed to be spreading "rumors." China's ...
The weather has a bigger impact on our daily lives than many of us would care to admit. Luckily, there's no shortage of Chrome apps to help you stay on top of things. Our favorites in this domain include Full Screen Weather, Rain Alarm, WeatherBug, Uber Weather and YoWindow Weather. Next step: Choos...
HP on Thursday announced the first computer with integrated 3D motion-control technology from Leap Motion: the HP Envy 17 Leap Motion Special Edition. Priced starting at $1,050, the 17.3-inch device will be available for preorder in the United States starting Oct. 16. It's "designed for people who a...
In a loud declaration of, "Because we can!" plans have been hatched to build a skyscraper in South Korea that will be able to turn invisible. The skyscraper's invisibility function will work by having cameras on the tower take pictures of the sky behind it. Those images will then be transmitted to t...
If you're noticing that your Windows laptop runs slower and crankier the older it gets -- I'm talking about your laptop here, not you or me -- it's probably because it needs a bit of maintenance. Some tender loving care will take care of most old-laptop lethargy in much the same way a routine servic...
Microsoft revealed Tuesday it was investigating a previously unknown security flaw affecting all versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser. Hackers have attempted to exploit the vulnerability in targeted attacks on users of versions 8 and 9 of the browser, the company reported in a security advi...
Bicycles have seen much in the way of technological advancement in the past 150 years, and that was widely apparent on the show floor at the annual Interbike trade show in Las Vegas this week. The modern face of cycling was clearly visible in the electric-assist motors that make bicycles an optimal ...
Nokia has tweeted that it's doing something having to do with innovation on Oct. 22, but it won't say what or where. However, there's heavy speculation that the company set that date to unveil its much-delayed Lumia 1520 phablet. The phablet is rumored to have a 6-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel HD screen. I...
Syrian rebels have taken to using an iPad app to help guide mortar fire. Rebels were photographed using an iPad reportedly equipped with the iHandy Level Free app, deployed as a method for ensuring that the mortar tube is level. Novel though this may be, reporter Paul Szoldra, who served in the U....
There's no denying the popularity of Apple's iPad and its Android-based kin, not just with adults but with kids as well. Now, for all those parents out there who wish their kids would play with something else once in a while -- simple drawing paper and pens, for instance -- a new Kickstarter funding...
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