As if we didn’t have to worry about with smartphones catching fire. Battery-operated headphones being used by a woman on a Beijing-Melbourne flight exploded and left her with a blackened face and singed hair.

More than 33 million records from a corporate database belonging to global business services and debt collection company Dun & Bradstreet have been leaked online.

The world is being split into two camps, one that uses iOS and the other Android, according to the latest Monthly Mobile Operating System Barometer report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Meanwhile, Windows Phone is good as dead.

Apple employs some of the best computing minds on the planet. It makes some of the best designed devices, both big and small. It has oodles of cash stashed away for rainy days. It also far and away leads the field in arrogance as Sam Varghese found out.

Two members of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and two Russian hackers have been named in an indictment issued by the US Justice Department in connection with one of the Yahoo! email hacks which were announced last year.

Fully autonomous driverless cars will be commonplace within five years and likely have a large proportion of the “car park” within 10 years, says Thomas Schmidt, global managing director of TomTom Telematics.

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