An email that claims to be from ASIC is instead a repository for Windows ransomware that will be downloaded if the recipients click on a link within the missive, the e-mail security company MailGuard claims.

A British company has announced what it claims is the world's first smart condom that can measure various statistics during sexual intercourse.

Government investigators in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man charged with child pornography offences, rather than reveal the technological means they used to locate him.

Forget Asimov's three laws of robotics. The big threat of robots isn't that they will kill us; it's that they will make the rich richer and produce mass levels of inequality.

Independent studies from Gartner and Dell show that a notebook is stolen about every 60 seconds. These often contain sensitive data and hackers need only a few milliseconds with the device to break a password – if there is one.

The trial of Samsung's heir Lee Jae-yong on alleged bribery and embezzlement charges will begin on Thursday.

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