Before the National Security Agency began complaining about being shut out of encrypted devices, it helped develop software for secure communications that could be adapted by the private sector. The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland has developed encryption software that will coming to the public in a new app That technology is hitting the public this …

    U.S. stocks are opening modestly higher, led by gains in the technology sector following a big acquisition in the semiconductor industry. Chip designer Altera jumped 6 percent, the most in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, after the company agreed to be acquired by Intel for $17 billion in cash. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 58 points, …

    Pizza delivery apps. Fitness trackers. Dashboard GPS. Often, technology makes life easier for people whose lives are already very easy. But what about next-generation wheelchairs or 3D-printed prosthetics? In the field of assistive technology, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are also making life easier for people with disabilities, chipping away at truly big problems at steady pace. Their successes …

  When I moved to Switzerland in 2006, I spent my first month abroad trying to “find” the Internet. On my expat hierarchy of needs, being able to connect with family and friends back home and virtually escape from my newfound foreignness felt more important than anything else. But in 2006, public Internet access in my new hometown of Baden …

  Jiya Bavishi was born deaf. For five years, she couldn’t hear and she couldn’t speak at all. But when I first meet her, all she wants to do is say hello. The 6-year-old is bouncing around the room at her speech therapy session in Dallas. She’s wearing a bright pink top; her tiny gold earrings flash as she waves …

  As more companies reach out to Latinas, one of the top online destinations for millennial women is launching a section that it hopes will resonate with the demographic. “In our conversations with brands and advertisers, it is almost universally recognized that the Latina market is the fastest-growing market in the U.S., and it has great spending power and influence,” …

  Dr Damien Coyle from NeuroConcise has been working on his innovation for 15 years – and now it’s one of 12 to make it through to the final of the Invent 2015, a programme run by the Northern Ireland Science Park. The Londonderry man said: “NeuroConcise will benefit people who have no means of communication whatsoever. “A lot of …

      Xiaomi has managed to take the Indian smartphone market by the storm. All the devices it launched in the Indian market turned out to be runaway successes, so when it launched a fitness band in India, this April, all eyes were on them. So, will Mi Band revolutionalize the wearable space in India? Let’s try to find …

Hola Better Internet, a VPN (virtual private network) service best known for its easy-to-use Chrome extension, is selling its free users’ unused bandwidth via its Luminati brand to anyone. Now reports are emerging the latter service has been used for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on websites. If true, this means that free Hola users’ machines are being turned …

      D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die is a wonderfully strange detective game with a twist: There’s a bullet lodged in your skull that allows you to touch certain objects and travel back in their timelines, to places and events pivotal to their existence. As a hardened Boston investigator, you’re searching for the people who brutally killed your wife …