According to a security warning by researchers Malwarebytes, a number of major news websites have seen adverts hijacked by a malicious campaign that attempts to install “ransomware” on users’ computers.   Over the weekend websites including the New York Times, the BBC, AOL and the NFL...

As more devices are hooked up to the Internet, it could be anything from medical equipment to industrial machinery - and even sex toys that would be vulnerable to cyber attack and not only just computers and mobile phones, says software firm Trend Micro.   Trend Micro spokesman Udo Schneider...

Lee Sedol, Korean champion of the ancient Asian Go game, beat AlphaGo program developed by a subsidiary of Google. Yet, he did it only once, having suffered three defeats in a row before that. In some ways, this competition is more important than the well-known history competition between Deep Blue...

Researchers with Palo Alto Networks Inc claimed that a pernicious type of software known as ransomware was used by hackers to target Apple Inc customers for the first such campaign against Macintosh computers over the weekend, reported Reuters.   Users are asked by hackers to pay ransoms in...

Being able to see your hands in virtual reality is an indescribable feeling. Many VR-headset manufacturers understand this. Some try to solve this problem with the help of smart sensors, and some suggest using just conventional controllers with buttons. Next month, Sony plans to reveal the date of...

A paper that is environment and cost friendly and comes with a capacity to detect external stimuli is no more a dream. A study published in the “Advanced Materials Technologies” show how taking simple household materials, the scientists have come up with an artificial skin that is paper based and...

At the exhibition Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HP revealed its Windows-smartphone Elite x3. It is positioned as a device that combines a smartphone, a laptop and a desktop computer. Elite x3’s characteristics are significantly more powerful than those of the premium smartphone Lumia 950 XL...

iPhones that had had their home buttons replaced by third parties has been rendered useless by a software issues can now be fixed after Apple released a fix for the problems of “Erroer 53” that users were affected by.   Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint reader, which is part of the home button...

The visual capacity of bacteria is similar to human eye, although at a much primitive stage. From the first discovery of bacteria which took place about “340 years ago” until recent times, scientists have been perplexed as to how these microscopic creatures manoeuvre their ways, like humans do they...