Marc Newson, the Apple Inc. designer who along with Jony Ive gave the world the Apple Watch, has turned to a new form of timekeeping — in this case, an insanely expensive and ostentatious hourglass. The “Marc Newson Hourglass For HODINKEE” is a limited-edition hourglass that doesn’t feature sand but instead what are described as ...

Users of popular media players such as Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time are being urgently warned to update their software after it was discovered that hackers could embed hidden computer viruses in the subtitles used by the services. Discovered by security firm Check Point Security Technologies Ltd., the new attack vector involves hackers crafting malicious files ...

The judge presiding over the Waymo Inc. lawsuit alleging that Uber Technologies Inc. stole its self-driving car technology has delivered another blow to the ride-hailing giant. The ruling says Uber must hand over an unredacted version of a due-diligence report it prepared prior to its purchase of Otto, the company founded by former Google Inc. engineer Anthony ...

The administrators behind the open-source Samba software platform have issued an emergency patch for a security hole that potentially could allow hackers to upload malicious files to vulnerable servers running the software. The vulnerability – CVE-2017-7494 – affects versions 3.5 and onwards of the software, which is used on Linux and Unix servers to provide Windows-based file and ...

Business process management firm Appian Corp. today sold shares to the public for the first time, going out at $12 a share and seeing an immediate pop of nearly 35 percent. The Reston, Virginia-based company had announced late Wednesday that it raised $75 million in its long-awaited initial public offering. Its pricing was dead center of the company’s initial ...

Scammers are using the unprecedented global coverage of the spread of the WannaCry ransomware to dupe Android users into downloading bogus apps that pretend to provide protection against it, despite the fact that WannaCry only works on Windows computers. The apps, which according to the newly independent security firm McAfee Inc. are mostly harmless at the moment, ...

The Trump administration wants to shoot down drones. While that statement may sound extreme in an era of “fake news,” it actually has a factual basis. The White House is said to be floating proposed legislation that would allow federal law enforcement officials to track, commandeer, disable, hack or destroy drones flying in the United States. ...

Quantum computing and the blockchain both get plenty of attention in 2017, and now researchers in Russia have combined the two to create what they claim is an unhackable distributed-ledger platform. The new technology, described as the “first quantum-safe blockchain,” promises to make it secure for organizations to transfer data without the fear of hacking from ...

Imzy, a site founded by former Reddit Inc. Vice President Dan McComas and pitched as a safe-space alternative to Reddit itself, is folding up shop. McComas posted Wednesday that despite having raised $11 million in venture capital funding, the site was shutting down. Announced in April 2016, Imzy, created by Saurus Inc., attempted to take on the ...

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 ...