Newly published research has found that it may be possible to use kinetic energy — that is, the unique signature created by energy created by the body when a person is walking — for authentication instead. The research, published by The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia, found that it is possible to use ...

Blockchain development consortium R3 CEV LLC has raised $107 million as part of an initial two tranches of a Series A funding. The investors are a veritable Who’s Who of financial institutions, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Wells Fargo and Deutsche Bank, plus 30 others with Intel Corp. participating as well. The round was initially ...

While it’s said that art usually imitates life, sometimes life can imitate art. Fans of HBO’s hilarious “Silicon Valley” television series would know that this season has seen character Richard Hendrix attempting to build a decentralized Internet that doesn’t rely on centralized control, and now a company has announced that it is building just that with blockchain ...

Hackers have published details of a method to break the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 that involves the use of a number of basic, everyday items. Published by German whitehat hacking group Chaos Computer Club, the hack involves the use of a digital camera, a laser printer (with Samsung models apparently working best) and a contact ...

Hackers are using news coverage of the spread of the WannaCry ransomware to trick people into installing malware pretending to offer a patch to prevent infection. First detected in the United Kingdom, the phishing campaign pretends to be from BT Group plc. That’s the company formerly known as British Telecom, which is still the country’s ...

The United States Supreme Court has just dealt a big blow to “patent trolls” that buy up patents to license them or sue companies for infringing on them. The high court ruled on Monday that cases related to patents can only be filed in the jurisdiction where the company targeted is incorporated, appearing to deal ...

In a controversial move, Chinese drone maker DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co. Ltd.) has announced that customers who purchase their drones will be required to register the drone online with them otherwise the drones will not work as advertised. Coming only days after a court found that the Federal Aviation Administration’s drone registration ...

Pittsburgh can now be added to the list of people and places that don’t like ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. as multiple reports Monday claimed the city and the people who reside there are not very happy with the company’s local presence. According to the story, first written up by The New York Times but since ...

In a surprising step, as it were, wireless and semiconductor maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has filed for a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for what it describes as the “Internet of Shoes.” The patent describes a “connected shoe apparatus, comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; a radio; an antenna; and a ...

Bitcoin traders where screaming, “To the moon!” over the weekend as the price of the popular cryptocurrency surged through $2,000 for the first time, up nearly 50 percent from its price of $1,400 reached only three weeks ago. The price rise was once again driven by increased demand from the Far East, with bitcoin exchanges ...