You Can’t Be In Two Places At Once, But Your Hologram Can
Now you can be in two places at once—sort of. Holoportation allows people to virtually teleport from one place to another in real time, while interacting with people around [...]
Smart Devices
Congress To Security Experts: How Do We Deal With The Internet of Shit?
At the end of September, cybercriminals wielding a massive army of hacked internet-connected cameras and DVRs forced the website of a well-known and respected independent [...]
Android firmware sent sensitive user data to China
Adups data-gathering code installed on US devices. Security researchers have discovered code in Android smartphone firmware that collects users’ sensitive personal [...]
Apple said to be considering wearable glasses, augmented reality
When the idea of wearable computing was first proposed, analysts and industry executives jumped on the concept like rats off a sinking ship. Tablet sales were already [...]
Better than nothing?
‘Back in 2014, the New York Police Department announced an initiative to give all of its 36,000 officers a Windows Phone, as part of an effort to modernize the force. Fast [...]
Direction for the future of medicine
‘Chinese search engine giant Baidu is launching a medical chatbot designed to make diagnosing illnesses easier. The conversational bot is named Melody and comes built into [...]
Aussie banks targeted by Android GM Bot malware
Stay away from third-party app stores. Australian banking customers are being targeted by Android mobile malware that attempts to gain full control and access to their [...]
Not on my (Apple) Watch!
‘The UK’s Tory government cabinet ministers have reportedly been officially banned from wearing Apple Watches to crucial meetings in case they’re compromised by [...]
I(di)oTic standards
‘Over the last few weeks, unknown hackers have launched some of the largest cyberattacks the internet has ever seen. These attacks weren’t notable just by their [...]
Zombie things
“The hackers, whose identity is still unknown at this point, used not one, but two networks—commonly referred to as “botnets” in hacking lingo—made of around [...]
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