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A whole new world comes into perspective for fish with their own personal above-the-surface glass viewing towers.

A new report from the Ponemon Institute, IBM, and Arxan claims that just 20% of IoT apps and 29% of mobile apps are actually tested for vulnerabilities, raising security concerns.

ImageMagick exploit earns chap US$40k bug bounty Facebook has paid US$40,000 to vulnerability hunter Andrew Leonov for disclosing how the hacker gained remote code execution on its servers through the widely-reported Ima...

"We're seeking to make the most sensitive instrument in the history of mankind," said Andrew Szentgyorgyi, associate director of the solar, stellar, and planetary sciences division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for A...

Low-cost phones with software updates directly from Google. Google launched the Android One platform in India in 2014, tying up with third-party vendors to offer $100 phones with clean Android and the promise of quick up...

On Tuesday, the Japan Restroom Industry Association announced that it had developed a new set of control panel illustrations for multifunctional "super toilets," standardizing the symbols for the benefit of foreign visit...

Net scum lowers bar. Ransomware scum have hit a new low by infecting a not-for-profit cancer services organisation....

If you thought Obama might give Edward Snowden a similar reprieve to Chelsea Manning this week, think again. While the formed NSA-contractor turned whistleblower has explained why the president should grant him clemency,...

Using Windows 7? Microsoft has dire warnings for you...

Lately more than ever we’ve been seeing weird bugs pop up that can cause iOS devices to crash. These oddities include things such as text strings, date changes, and bizarre links. The latest one, shown by YouTuber Ever...

The physics of what happens when a volcano creates a sonic boom.

The concept of being able to predict the sex of a baby during early pregnancy or even influence it by eating or doing certain things when trying to conceive has been the subject of public fascination and debate for many ...

A University of Iowa physicist is at the forefront of the search for a missing particle that could prove whether the Higgs boson--believed to give mass to all matter--exists.

Verizon may have been late to take measures against its customers who still use the recalled Galaxy Note 7, but the carrier is ready to significantly step up its game and force every single Galaxy Note 7 user out there t...

The controversial whistleblower can stay in Russia for another three years and continue to avoid charges in the US of espionage and theft of government property.

Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn is planning to build a new facility next to the iPhone maker's upcoming research and development center in Shenzhen, China, according to Nikkei Asian Review. The report cites an unname...

TechCrunch is pleased to offer Microsoft Accelerator’s Tel Aviv Demo Day today at 6:30 p.m. local time, 8:30 a.m. PST. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneur...

Drug discovery is like the worst imaginable, old-style software development process, guaranteed to take forever, cost endless amounts of money, and far under-achieve its potential. There are methods that the most advance...

Apple Pay is now available from over a dozen more banks and credit unions around the United States as part of the latest expansion wave. Apple's mobile payment service launched just over two years ago with hundreds of ad...

Social Cues: Also trending on Facebook and Twitter are Donald Trump's slogan for his 2020 campaign, and a hospitalized George H.W. Bush.

Computer scientists in Singapore and Germany have collaborated to create a resistive RAM chip that not only stores data but can act as a computer processor. The breakthrough uses state-of-the-art memory chips known as Re...

How do you know if one piece of technology is "better" than its competitors? For the well-read consumer, it usually comes down to sheer power numbers. Run down the list and it's all about resolution, frame rate, battery ...