Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin, is both a threat and an opportunity for financial services – and the banks are taking it very seriously

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an algorithm to help humanoid robots hit the ground without breaking themselves. At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of…

BlackBerry views its transformation process as largely being about getting its “mojo” back around its “rightful place” in security and privacy

There is a lot of work to be done in building trust and accountability in the wake of the Snowden revelations, says former MI5 director

Lexalytics has added language support for Danish, Norwegian and Swedish to its sentiment analysis software

An American biotech CEO claims she is the first to undergo gene therapy to reverse aging. Judge for yourself. Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a person’s DNA?

Apple has updated the entire iMac family, bringing a new Retina 4K display to the 21.5-inch iMac for the first time and the Retina 5K display to every 27-inch iMac. The updated iMacs also feature more powerful processors and graphics,…

NEW MICROCHIP-ENABLED CREDIT CARDS MAY STILL BE VULNERABLE TO EXPLOITATION BY FRAUDSTERS By October 2015, many U.S. banks will have replaced hundreds of millions of traditional credit and debit cards, which rely on data stored on magnetic strips, with new…

How Uber’s archenemy plans to make the world a better place by building a kind of public transit system from private cars. We were all in the car with Alexandr, listening to techno, which was his choice. He was driving;…

Researchers in Jaron Lanier’s lab at Microsoft are exploring ways for people to share the experience of mixed reality. Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But…