A new mother robot can build her own robot children, and evaluate their performance in order to improve the designs of the next generation. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created the new robot that was able to build and test generations of ten robots in five different experiments, the university reported on Wednesday. The […]

The Stagefright vulnerability for Android won’t seem to want to go away. According to Exodus Intelligence researchers one of the patched issued by Google could still allow access to Android devices. The researchers told Engadget via email, “the summary is that the Stagefright vulnerability is still exploitable and the 4-line patch that was implemented is […]

The attacker struck close to midnight, climbing into a manhole at the mouth of California’s Niles Canyon and slicing a series of cables that collectively carried billions of bits of Internet data. Hundreds of miles away at a Zayo Group Holdings Inc. network operations center in Tulsa, Okla., engineers saw the disruption immediately and later […]

The smartphone batteries of the future may take just six minutes to charge and could last for three whole days. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully developed a battery that could pave the way for that remarkable charging capacity. The team, led by Dr. Ju Li, built a battery that stores energy […]

For some, Facebook is synonymous with identity. User profiles can include a name (and it has to be real), phone number, address and images — all of which could then be used to create a false identity and hack other personal accounts. A potential security flaw, identified by technical director of SALT.agency Reza Moaiandinm, may allow […]

Jolla’s Sailfish OS had a rocky start, but now it’s found its first licensing partner: India’s second largest phonemaker, Intex Technologies. It’s even developing a regional mobile ecosystem called Sailfish India with the manufacturer and other partners (to be revealed in the future) in an effort to become a huge presence in the country. This […]

On Wednesday, Spotify sent emails to subscribers asking them to cancel their App Store subscriptions to the service to resubscribe on the web to avoid a $3 surcharge because of Apple’s App Store policies. The Federal Trade Commission is now looking into Apple’s policies, which include a 30 percent fee that it collects on all […]