BlackBerry Ltd. is the latest company to make a move into the self-driving car business, as the once-great mobile phone maker launched an autonomous driving research center on Monday. While BlackBerry’s decision to abandon making mobile phones in favor of developing software is well-known, what isn’t as well known is that one of the company’s ...

The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has started to roll out blockchain technology to secure state databases to prevent them from being hacked. Said to be the first use of the blockchain for governance in Asia, the new platform has already been rolled out on a pilot basis in two state government departments, Civil Supplies ...

A new study has found that while Automattic Inc.’s WordPress content management system continues to have security flaws, they’re not as bad as commonly thought. German security firm RIPS Technologies GmbH analyzed all 47,959 plugins that are available from the official WordPress repository using its static code analyzer and found that only 8,800 of the plugins had ...

An inquiry by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board following the crash of Facebook Inc.’s Aquila drone back in June has determined the cause: wind and software failure. The maiden flight of the solar-powered Aquila drone, which has a wingspan roughly equivalent to a Boeing 737, was initially praised by Facebook as having been a success but was subsequently ...

2016 can’t end quickly enough in the land of corporate security. LinkedIn Inc.-owned online learning provider Lynda.com disclosed over the weekend that it was hacked, with the personal details of some 9.5 million users being accessed. On a bright note, if there can be for such occurrences, only a small number of hacked accounts included ...

General Motors Corp. will begin testing its own self-driving cars in Michigan following the state’s decision to legalize the operation of autonomous vehicles, the company announced Thursday. Testing of GM’s autonomous Chevrolet Bolt EV had been underway at GM’s Technical Center campus in Warren, Mich., but the new legislation will allow it to expand the ...

Verizon Communications Inc.’s takeover of Yahoo Inc. has been thrown into doubt again following news Wednesday that Yahoo had suffered another major hack that had compromised the accounts of a staggering 1 billion users. According to Bloomberg, Verizon is exploring a price cut or possible exit from its $4.83 billion pending acquisition of Yahoo. Verizon ...

OB1, the development company behind open-source peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round backed by BlueYard Capital, Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Launched in April this year, OpenBazaar provides a decentralized P2P e-commerce marketplace powered by bitcoin payments that use P2P networking, Ricardian contracts, decentralized reputation and multi-signature escrow. ...

New research has found that 28 Android phones ship from the factory with preinstalled malware that can hijack a phone, install adware and other forms of malware. The phones were discovered with the malicious apps by security researchers with Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web, which found that the phones had downloader malware installed in firmware. While ...

Ordering room service could soon be as easy as saying, “Alexa, order me a room service hamburger.” Wynn Las Vegas today announced a deal with Amazon.com Inc. to equip its hotel rooms with Amazon’s smart home assistant Echo. The deal, claimed to be an industry first, will eventually see 4,748 hotel rooms equipped with an Echo, ...