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Pacemakers found to be seriously vulnerable to hacking

By Duncan Riley May 29, 2017

Pacemakers may save lives but they are also highly vulnerable to hacking, at least according to a report from a security firm published last week. Security research firm WhiteScope LLC made the claim after…

Google says it just costs too much to provide wage data in gender pay gap case

By Mike Wheatley May 29, 2017

Google Inc. is continuing to resist a demand from the United States Department of Labor that it provides data on its employees’ salaries, in a months-long case where it was accused of gender pay…

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Continuing tech IPO streak, finance software firm Alfa pops 30 percent in London debut

By Maria Deutscher May 29, 2017

U.S.-based tech firms aren’t the only ones benefiting from investors’ strong appetite for software. Alfa Financial Software Holdings Plc, a British provider of finance tools, saw its valuation surge after hitting the London Stock…

Emerging Tech

Google’s AlphaGo AI has been retired so its creators can focus on bigger challenges

By James Farrell May 29, 2017

Google Inc.’s artificial intelligence Go player, AlphaGo, last week beat Ke Jie, a Chinese 19-year-old considered to be the world’s best Go player. Now, at the top of its game, AlphaGo is retiring. Google announced…

Emerging Tech

Computex 2017 kicks off this week: Here’s what’s coming at Asia’s big tech show

By Collen Kriel May 29, 2017

Computex 2017, the largest information technology conference in Asia, kicks off May 30 in Taipei, Taiwan and runs until June 3. This year may not be quite as announcement-filled as last year, whose product introductions…

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Startup uses AI to create programs from simple screenshots

By Mike Wheatley May 28, 2017

Artificial intelligence is threatening worker’s jobs in dozens of different professions, from manufacturing and legal to banking and driving, and many more. Now, it’s time to add programming to that list. A new neural network being built…

Emerging Tech

Proposed drone law would allow state and local governments to make their own regulations

By Duncan Riley May 28, 2017

Hot on the heels of a court ruling that struck down the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to force owners of noncommercial drones to register them, a newly proposed law would give state and local governments the ability…

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Qualcomm settles with BlackBerry, but its legal troubles keep piling up

By Mike Wheatley May 28, 2017

Embattled mobile chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. last week wrapped up one of its long-running legal cases only to be immediately slapped with a new one, this time by its own shareholders. First up,…

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Proposed bill would allow victims to legally hack those who hack them

By Duncan Riley May 28, 2017

A revision to a controversial proposed bill that would allow victims of hacking to legally hack their hackers back was tabled Friday by Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.). The proposed law, the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, would…

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Microsoft sues Chinese company over Xbox game currency theft

By Duncan Riley May 28, 2017

Microsoft Corp. has filed a lawsuit alleging a Chinese company illegally accessed Xbox accounts to purchase game currencies using the credit card details of the victims. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court Northern…

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Pacemakers found to be seriously vulnerable to hacking

Google says it just costs too much to provide wage data in gender pay gap case

Continuing tech IPO streak, finance software firm Alfa pops 30 percent in London debut

Google’s AlphaGo AI has been retired so its creators can focus on bigger challenges

Computex 2017 kicks off this week: Here’s what’s coming at Asia’s big tech show

Startup uses AI to create programs from simple screenshots

Proposed drone law would allow state and local governments to make their own regulations

Qualcomm settles with BlackBerry, but its legal troubles keep piling up

Proposed bill would allow victims to legally hack those who hack them

Microsoft sues Chinese company over Xbox game currency theft

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