Fitbit has said it is investigating a report from a Wisconsin woman who said she suffered second-degree burns when her fitness tracker caught fire.Dina Mitchell told ABC News that the Flex 2 began to combust on her wrist while she was reading a book."It burned the...

To understand why it is so difficult to defend computers from even moderately capable hackers, consider the case of the security flaw officially known as CVE-2017-0199.The bug was unusually dangerous but of a common genre: it was in Microsoft software, could allow a...

It's too soon to say if the tides are turning in President Trump's favor in Silicon Valley. However, 100 days into his presidency, there's a prevailing sense of cautious optimism in the tech community."It's still very early days for the administration and a lot of the...

After Microsoft officials dismissed evidence that more than 10,000 Windows machines on the Internet were infected by a highly advanced National Security Agency backdoor, private researchers are stepping in to fill the void. The latest example of this open source...

Six months after admitting defeat in its bid to crack China, Netflix has found a way to tap into the vast market.The company has signed a licensing deal with popular video streaming platform iQIYI, a subsidiary of Chinese search engine Baidu (BIDU, Tech30), Netflix...

The mobile application that accompanies many Hyundai cars exposed sensitive information that could have allowed attackers to remotely locate, unlock, and start vehicles.The vulnerability was patched in the latest version of the mobile app released in March but was...

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is proposing to overturn the landmark 2015 Obama-era net neutrality rules, setting off a fight over the future of the internet, according to an FCC official.FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is speaking Wednesday "to announce...

Tidigare i dag gick polisen ut och varnade för att ett falskt sms skickas ut med polisen som avsändare. Nu visar det sig att det faktiskt var polisens eget sms.– Det är en jättebra funktion, jag vill passa på att göra reklam för den, säger Jan Olsson på polisens...

Shares of Twitter Inc jumped on Wednesday after the microblogging service reported better-than-expected user growth in the first quarter, although its revenue fell for the first time.The surprising acceleration, whoch Twitter attributed to new features and heightened...

A cheating US husband has been charged with killing his wife after police said data from her wearable fitness tracker contradicted his version of events.Rochard Dabate, 40, claimed to have seen Connie Dabate shot to death more than an hour before her Fitbit device...

A South Korean court on Wednesday ruled that the ride-hailing group Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] illegally used private vehicles for commercial purposes, in the latest legal setback for the U.S. firm in Asia's fourth biggest economy.Uber's operations in South Korea...

Ett nytt sätt att ta betalt med kort har börjat införas i Sverige. Sättet beskrivs som snabbt, enkelt och säkert. Men SVT:s test visar att den nya tekniken öppnar för risker då den möjliggör för kopiering av ditt kortnummer – på ett sätt som tidigare inte var...