Security researchers in Vietnam have managed to hack the Face ID feature on Apple Inc.’s flagship iPhone X using a rubber mask, casting doubt on how the supposedly advanced security technology actually is. The discovery was made by researchers at BKAV Corp., which after experimentation managed to craft a custom mask that successfully fooled the iPhone ...

Machine learning startup Graphcore Ltd. has raised $50 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital, according to news published Sunday but not yet confirmed by the company itself. It’s also not clear what the valuation was on the deal. A report from Bloomberg Nov. 3 said that the company had been chasing a valuation of ...

Bitcoin spinoff Bitcoin Cash saw a massive surge in investment over the weekend as its price hit a high as $2,461.91 at one point, briefly surpassing Ethereum as the world’s second-most popular cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Bitcoin Cash or BCH for short, for those not familiar with the cryptocurrency, is a spinoff coin created following ...

After weeks of back-and-forth dealmaking, Uber Technologies Inc. and SoftBank Group Corp. have come to an agreement that will see the Japanese telecommunications giant invest $10 billion in the embattled ride-hailing company. The investment will include $1 billion in new shares and $9 billion from acquiring equity from existing shareholders. Employees will be able to ...

Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. today officially launched a new operating system dedicated to advancing conversational artificial intelligence capabilities, as the company aims to take on similar efforts from competitors such as Google LLC. Called the “Duer OS Prometheus Project,” the operating system is a conversation-based AI platform that is already providing conversational support to 10 major domains and ...

The Central Intelligence Agency created and used code that pretended to be from Kaspersky Lab while hacking people, a big twist on what has been an ongoing saga of allegations of Kaspersky colluding with the Russian government, according to the latest release by Wikileaks of leaked top secret U.S. government files. The Vault 8 release, issued ...

Apple Inc. is promising to fix a problem with its recently released iPhone X after reports emerged that that phone doesn’t work in cold temperatures. Dubbed “Coldgate” by Apple fanboy sites, the problem was first reported on Reddit by a user who said that he had noticed that his iPhone X screen became unresponsive when ...

Shares in Chinese search engine provider Sogou Inc. didn’t pop on their debut on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday after the company managed to raise $540 million in its initial public offering. Sogou is a spinoff from Sohu.com Inc., the Chinese internet portal that itself floated on the Nasdaq exchange back in 2000. Sogou offers a variety ...

In a surprising move, users across multiple platforms will soon have access to the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service after Microsoft Corp. announced new partnerships to deliver the service to other operating systems. Microsoft is teaming up with Bitdefender s.r.o, Lookout Inc. and Ziften Technologies Inc. to enable Windows Defender ATP to detect, protect and respond to ...

The price of bitcoin dropped in trading Wednesday after a plan for a proposed fork in the cryptocurrency that would have seen investors credited with an additional bitcoin-related cyptocurrency were dropped thanks to a lack of support. Called SegWit2x, the proposed fork would have increased the blocksize of bitcoin to allow quicker and less costly transaction ...