An artificial intelligence program has beaten a team of six poker players at a series of exhibition matches in China.The AI system, called Lengpudashi, won a landslide victory and $290,000 (£230,000) in the five-day competition.It is the second time this year that an...

It's an unsafe Office environment.Two cybersecurity firms have uncovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office files that have allowed hackers to install malware through Word documents. The exploit -- referred to as "zero day," because it hasn't yet been patched --...

A bug in Word apparently targeted by scammers trying to steal banking logins will be patched, Microsoft has said.The previously undetected, or "zero-day", vulnerability had been reported over the weekend.Then, on 10 April, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint announced it...

Twitter sued the U.S. government last week to protect the identity of an anonymous user who had been tweeting critical things about President Donald Trump and his administration.The move, and the fact that the government then rescinded its request for the user’s...

Apple manufacturer Foxconn is said to have made a large bid for Toshiba’s NAND storage unit. According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Foxconn this week offered up $27 billion for the business, a bid considerably higher than had previously been offered...

Qualcomm today announced it has countersued Apple [PDF] in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, nearly three months after the iPhone maker sued the chipmaker for $1 billion in alleged unpaid royalty rebates and accused the company of...

WUHAN, China — Russell Abney raised two children on solar power. The 49-year-old Georgia Tech graduate worked for the last decade in Perrysburg, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo, pulling a good salary as an equipment engineer for the largest American solar-panel maker.On the...

The World Wide Web needs a complete rethink to prevent spying and the spread of "nasty, mean ideas" on social media websites, its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, said on Monday.Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web as a platform on top of the...

The 16-year-old’s request for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets from American fast food chain Wendy’s has been retweeted more than 2.2m times – making it the third most popular tweet of all time, and the most popular of 2017 so far.To put this in perspective, Ellen...

WHEN CHINA boldly seized a U.S. underwater drone in the South China Sea last December and initially refused to give it back, the incident ignited a weeklong political standoff and conjured memories of a similar event more than 15 years ago.In April 2001, just months...

  Skam är tillbaka i Norge. Men när klippet skulle läggas upp tidigare under måndagen – krånglade sidan. Dessutom tillkännager nu NRK att klippen trots allt blir tillgängliga i hela Norden.I Norge skulle det nya klippet av Skam släppas klockan 13.28 under...

A new zero-day flaw affecting all versions of Microsoft Office is being exploited in attacks in the wild, and no user is safe – not even those who use a fully patched Windows 10 machine.Even worse: targets do not have to anything except run a malicious file in order...