British machine learning startup Graphcore Ltd. Thursday said it has raised $30 million to push its vision of making chips for machine learning. The Series B round was led by Atomico and included existing investors Amadeus Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, C4 Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Draper Esprit Plc, Foundation Capital, Pitango and Samsung Catalyst Fund. A number ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will allow drone operators to apply for and gain instant approval to operate in restricted airspaces as part of its development of new Air Traffic Control and registration guidelines for unmanned aerial vehicles. The proposed authorization method, which is described more formally as “Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability,” will allow commercial ...

A Russian man who was involved in the distribution and maintenance of the Citadel malware that ran rampant in 2013 has been sentenced to five years in prison. Mark Vartanyan (pictured), also known as “Kolypto,” was arrested by Norway in October 2014 and served two years behind bars there before being extradited to the United States in ...

Ethereum wallets linked to at least three companies that have raised funds through initial coin offerings have been hacked, with about 150,000 ETH tokens ($31 million) being stolen. The hack exploited a vulnerability in wallets provided by Parity Technologies Ltd. and used by three companies. They were Edgeless Casino, which raised around $2 million in ...

Expanding on its efforts to engage with the academic and research communities, Apple Inc. has launched the “Apple Machine Learning Journal,” a blog dedicated to publishing scholarly research papers on the growing field of teaching computers to learn on their own. “Here, you can read posts written by Apple engineers about their work using machine learning ...

Nothing is sacred when it comes to potential targets for hackers. A newly identified security risk takes potential hacking quite literally out to sea in the form of ships. Detailed by a security researcher by the name of “x0rz” on Twitter, the configuration of certain satellite antenna systems on ships leaves them wide open to attack. ...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced a new standard for the wireless technology that will allow Internet of Things devices to talk to each other in a mesh network. Mesh networking is a network of connected devices where each node, in this case a connected device, can cooperate in the distribution of data to other ...

Apple Inc. iPhone users are about to get their first augmented-reality headset, as a Los Angeles company announced Tuesday it plans to launch a product that costs just $99. The company goes by the name of Mira Labs Inc. and the product is called Prism. It’s a headset that allows iPhone users to experience augmented ...

Google Inc. today rolled out a new security alert feature across its G Suite and App Scripts services following a widespread phishing attack that targeted users in May. The new alert feature aims to prevent a user accidentally click on a phishing link. It includes an added security alert delivered via a pop-up interstitial to warn ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that Internet-connected toys can present privacy and safety risks to both parents and children. In a newly published advisory, the FBI said Internet-connected toys typically contain sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, speech recognition and GPS options that collect data, which then is typically sent and stored by the ...