How to listen to music safely on a bike
Wearing headphones while cycling can be dangerous, even illegal. Instead, you can use a Bluetooth bicycle helmet or wearable speaker to listen to music or traffic directions safely while riding.
Stories by Peter Sayer
Motorola X4: Four times the Bluetooth audio
Lenovo's new Motorola X4 smartphone is half the price of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S8, but does at least one thing twice as well: stream audio to multiple Bluetooth speakers or headphones.
Neato Robotics adds more smarts to its vacuum cleaners
Neato Robotics has doubled the storage in its latest robot vacuum cleaner, the Botvac D7 Connected, and given owners new ways to interact with it.
UK seeks to limit Brexit effect on personal data flows
With a new round of Brexit negotiations beginning Monday, the U.K. is seeking to ensure that businesses sending personal information to or through the UK are not left stranded when the country leaves the EU.
IBM wants to make blockchain good enough to eat
After addressing information security in its cloud-based, permissioned blockchain, IBM is now turning to food security.
Symantec sells its problem SSL unit to DigiCert for US$1B
Symantec has found a way to make a dispute with Google over the validity of its TLS and SSL website certificates go away -- and get paid almost US$1 billion in the process.
EU court must rule how forgetful Google should be
Just how forgetful must Google be when applying the "right to be forgotten" created by a 2014 European Union court ruling?
Qualcomm opens European front in patent war with Apple
Qualcomm has asked two German courts to suspend sales of iPhones, alleging they infringe on its patents, while four Apple contractors from which Qualcomm had sought patent license fees have filed antitrust complaints against the chip vendor.
Bluetooth devices could soon have mesh networking capabilities
Bluetooth is about to get some significant new mesh networking capabilities -- and the best bit is, you may not need new hardware to benefit from them.
IBM wants you to encrypt everything with its new mainframe
IBM wants businesses to use its new z14 mainframe to encrypt pretty much everything -- an approach to security it calls pervasive encryption.
Google wins €1.1 billion tax ruling in Europe
Google has escaped a billion-dollar tax bill in Europe, as a French court has overturned an earlier tax ruling against the company.
Campaigners ask US court to reveal extent of spying by Five Eyes Alliance
Privacy International asks court to compel the U.S. government to reveal the extent of its eavesdropping activities, and the legal basis for them.
Ukrainian police seize computers that spread global NotPetya attack
Ukraine's Cyber Police have intervened to prevent further cyberattacks in the wake of last week's "ransomware" attack.
EU lawmakers call for a right to repair electronic equipment
Electronic devices should be robust and easily repairable -- and laws should encourage or enforce this, members of the European Parliament said Tuesday.
Less is more for Canadian quantum computing researchers
Researchers in Canada have found a way make a key building block for quantum computing from a custom photonics chip and off-the-shelf components intended for use in telecommunications equipment.