A flaw in BitTorrent clients can be exploited to allow single attackers to harness extra juice in launching DDoS attacks on a vast scale. At the USENIX conference in Washington, D.C., researchers from City University London unveiled ways that BitTorrent-based programs including uTorrent, Mainline and Vuze are vulnerable to distributed reflective denial-of-service (DRDoS) … [Read more...]
UK to Launch Electric Vehicle Wireless Charging Motorway Trial
The United Kingdom is set to trial wireless charging technology for electric and hybrid vehicles being driven along the motorway. The government has announced plans to trial wireless charging for electric vehicles (EVs) and explore how EVs and hybrid vehicles can be supported when used across the country's motorways. … [Read more...]
Apple Teams Up with App Devs to Make iPad Better for Work
iPads are apparently not doing too hot at the moment, and Apple is looking for a way to reverse the drop in sales that's been going on the past six quarters. According to The Wall Street Journal, Cupertino hopes to accomplish that by making its tablets more enticing to businesses. … [Read more...]
Windows 10 Sends Data to Microsoft, Despite Privacy Settings
Some Windows 10 features, such as Cortana and Bing search, continue sending data to Microsoft, even when they are turned off. New analysis by Ars Technica showed that some apps and services will communicate with the software giant's servers, even when the user tells them not to by the software's various privacy settings. … [Read more...]
Google to Develop Bandage-sized Glucose Monitoring Devices
Somewhat lost amid this week's excitement surrounding Google's rebirth as Alphabet was the company's latest foray into the world of medical devices. The company has entered into an agreement with DexCom to create a series of disposable continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices that the companies claim will be smaller and more affordable than current options. … [Read more...]
Watch the Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5 Event
For all of you anxiously anticipating Samsung's next Unpacked event, the wait is over. The event begins at 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday August 13, and Mashable is ready. You can follow our liveblog here, but you can also follow the event on Samsung's YouTube page. … [Read more...]
Don’t Hit MIT’s Hermes Robot, He Can Hit Back
We've seen films depicting human-controlled robots with lightning reflexes, mimicking its human puppet master, but the reality of such constructs has been less than viable, until now. The Hermes robot is shown in a video released on Friday responding to the real-time physical input from a human controller. … [Read more...]
3 Generations of Smart Cities
Smart cities are getting more and more attention in the media, from technology companies and entrepreneurs, and increasingly from both local governments and civil society. On one hand, smart cities hold the promise to potentially make the growing number of cities around the globe more efficient, more tech-savvy, more wired—and with all that, they can hopefully improve the … [Read more...]