As Bitcoin's popularity grows, so does talk about its standing as legal tender, but there are lingering issues that need to be sorted out before people start using Bitcoin to buy everyday things, experts said on Monday. Bitcoin has been ...
A security researcher has released software and technical instructions for modifying a drone so that it can identify and hijack other drones. Security researcher Samy Kamkar created the hacker drone, which uses the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 ...
Researchers have demonstrated that microphones and speakers built into laptops can be used to covertly transmit and receive data through inaudible audio signals. Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz, two researchers from the Fraunhofer ...
Tags: Network Air Gaps, microphones, speakers
BlackBerry 10 users will be able to run Android apps directly on their smartphones when the company rolls out new features in the mobile operating system early next year. The feature will enable developers to easily re-purpose Android ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Android, app, upgrade
Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been selected by online Indian ethnic wear store Cbazaar to host and support its online sales backbone using the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud. “As an online retailer, it’s imperative ...
Pre-Google, who ever imagined that Motorola would be one of the world's most forward-thinking mobile manufacturers? The company recently signed a deal with 3D Systems to develop a futuristic 3D-printing production platform for?Project ...
A biomedical engineer is developing a clinical-grade open-source 12-lead ECG. The device includes support for Android devices and is designed to meet all relevant medical device manufacturing standards, like ISO 60601-1. According to early ...
The vast majority (82 per cent) of NHS Trust heads are expecting additional funding from the government in order to become paperless, and over half (60 per cent) expect Whitehall to foot the entire bill. The Secretary of State for Health, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
That's a question we all should start to ponder. In this day and age, when a large and established company such as Adobe can get hacked, are any of our passwords safe? If Adobe had been storing their customers' banking and shopping ...
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The world's largest aerospace company and aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, has used open-source application development software firm WSO2's service-oriented architecture (SOA) to build a cloud-based digital aviation platform. The ...
Tags: Boeing, Digital Aviation Platform
Printing an object in three-dimensional form, called 3-D printing, has been around since the 1980s. But it has received more attention lately because of the materials now used for printing, along with a concurrent price drop for 3-D ...
Tags: 3D Printing, Packaging, Printing, 3-D printers
Conventional third party controls are no longer sufficient to cover the ever-expanding attack surface presented by web and mobile applications developed by service vendors and/or commercial software providers. The current third party ...
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Doug Miner will lose his job as a Patch editor next week, but he's not giving up on hyperlocal journalism. Instead, he's preparing to launch an independent website in his corner of St. Louis. Although Miner's site will be a one-man ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
A GP has voiced her concerns about the NHS's controversial new system for collecting and analysing data, Care.data, questioning why the health service needs to obtain so much data from the UK's citizens. Dr. Jane Lothian, GP and medical ...
iStockPhoto When it comes to their content management systems, local media companies can agree on just about one thing: The days of a simple relationship with their CMSs are over and done forever. With their online audiences growing and ...
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