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Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback

Toyota andDEKA Research and Development last week announced an agreement that will revive development of the iBot, a wheelchair that can climb stairs ...

Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom

Eset on Wednesday announced that it has fashioned a free tool that victims of all variants of the TeslaCrypt ransomware can use to unlock affected files ...

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Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk

Wireless mice and keyboards are the perfect accessories for a world in which devices increasingly are shuffling off their connection coils, but those accessories -- especially untethered rodents -- also can create new threats for those who use them ...

BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks

BitTorrent on Tuesday announced at the Internet & Television Expo an application called "BitTorrent Live" that applies its distributed file-sharing technology to video streaming ...

Google to Dim Flash Player in Chrome Browser

Google last week announced that it would minimize use of Adobe's Flash Player in its Chrome Web browser by the end of the year by turning off its default status ...

Google Gives iOS Users 1st Crack at Gboard App

Google on Thursday introduced Gboard, an app that combines search with a new soft keyboard for mobile devices running iOS ...

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Data Breaches Chip Away at IT Pros’ Confidence in Security

The daily barrage of data breach news appears to be eroding confidence in security solutions ...

Reddit Tech Forum May Ban Sites That Circumvent Ad Blockers

A forum on Reddit, /r/ Technology, on Monday announced it was considering blocking links to websites that require visitors to turn off their ad blockers before viewing content on the site ...

iPhone 7 Rumors Blunt Anticipation

It appears there won't be a lot of design changes in the next iPhone, according to a schematic photo NowhereElse published online Monday ...

Futuristic Digital Assistant Viv Takes the Stage

Viv Labs CEO Dag Kittlaus on Monday demonstrated at Disrupt NY 2016 technology that was designed to make people-to-machine interactions as natural as people-to-people interactions ...

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ISIS Cyberthreat: Puny but Gaining Power

The Islamic State group's cyberwar capabilities are unsophisticated, but they won't be that way for long ...

India Rejects Apple’s iPhone Retread Plan

India's telecommunications ministry has rejected Apple's proposal to sell refurbished iPhones in the country, Bloomberg reported this week ...

Law Affords More Protection to PINs Than Prints

A federal magistrate in Los Angeles ordered the girlfriend of an alleged gang member to open her phone using her fingerprint so prosecutors could look at the data on it for a case they were working on, the Los Angeles Times reported last week ...

Apple Drops CareKit on GitHub

Apple on Thursday made its CareKit platform available through the GitHub open source community ...

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BlockIQ Escalates War on Ad Blockers

As consumers turn to ad blockers to avoid advertising on their mobile and computer screens, marketers and content providers who depend on pitches to pay the bills are searching frantically for ways to counter the pesky programs.BlockIQ offers them one ...

Tech, Auto Honchos Join Forces to Push Self-Driving Cars

Some major players in both the new and old economies on Tuesday announced an alliance to pave the way for self-driving cars in America ...

White Hat Finds Security Threats on Facebook’s Corporate Net

A white hat hacker last week announced the discovery of more than a half-dozen security flaws in some software Facebook used on its corporate network ...

With Latest Opera Browser, Everybody Gets Free VPN

Opera on Wednesday announced that it would add a free VPN service to the latest version of its browser ...

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Insurance Industry Buzzes Over Data Breach Ruling

If the rash of data breaches in recent months has done anything for businesses, it's raised their awareness of cyber liability insurance ...

EU Levels Antitrust Charges Against Abusive Android

The European Commission on Wednesday charged that Google breached EU antitrust rules by seeking to maintain and expand the dominance of its Android operating system ...

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