With one eye on a future where brain-monitoring devices are more commonplace, scientists have carried out a study to find out whether these things can be hacked and the brainwaves interpreted to decipher a password, with the findings suggesting that it is in fact entirely possible.
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As Tuesday’s ransomware attack continues to spread, several security analysts are saying that this virus may not be ransomware after all, but is actually a cyberattack in disguise.
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A new ransomware outbreak is causing mayhem around the world, compromising banks, airports, energy suppliers, and even shutting down automated radiation sensors at Chernobyl. Initial reports claim this new virus is more sophisticated and potentially harder to stop that the recent WannaCry virus.
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Looking for a way to offer smart TV functionality without having to buy into a closed system, InnSpire has developed an Android-powered set-top box that's crammed into an Ethernet cable, which means that hotels can turn standard room TVs into smart TVs just by plugging them into the wall socket.
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In the past, “mind reading” systems have been able to guess a number, but deeper thoughts have been beyond the technology’s reach. Now, a team from Carnegie Mellon University has developed a way to accurately read more complex concepts from a brain scan, and even piece together entire sentences.
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An extremely rare German four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine used by the German U-boat forces in the Second World War has set a new world auction record at a Christie's sale at Rockefeller Center in New York. The property of an American collector, it sold for US$547,500.
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Microsoft has unveiled a nifty new keyboard with a clever little security measure built into it. One of its keys is not like the others, instead housing a fingerprint scanner that can be used to unlock a computer. The Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID also packs in some other nice features.
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The general malaise in the collectibles industry continued last week when one of only six known working Apple I computers sold for just US$355,000. It is the cheapest working Apple I computer to have sold in recent times and far short of the world record of $905,000.
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A team from the University of Bradford has developed a new technique for aging faces in photographic images, which could help those searching for persons that went missing as children years ago.
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Artificial intelligence researchers have long used games to train their machine learning algorithms. A team of researchers at Microsoft has recently cracked another game, this time creating a novel AI system that can get a maximum score on the notoriously difficult video game Ms. Pac-Man.
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