The EU has voted to give a Bill of Rights to robots that will give them “electronic personhood” status in the eyes of the Law in anticipation of a new kind of industrial robot revolution.

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The Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky has warned of an Android Trojan that uses compromised devices to attack WiFi routers.

Dubbed as “the Switcher Trojan”, it is distributed through counterfeit versions of popular apps, and rather than exploiting compromised devices directly, it seeks to take control of WiFi routers in order to re-direct traffic.

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A version of the Petya ransomware (which has been dubbed as “GoldenEye”) is targeting human resources (HR) departments with counterfeit job applications that are infected with malware.

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There have been renewed warnings from cyber security experts that much more needs to be done to provide adequate protection from the potentially devastating effects of hacks involving IoT devices.

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UK police have issued a warning to educational establishments to be vigilant, following an alert by Action Fraud that fraudsters are targeting UK schools with ransomware in order to demand big payments.

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Amazon Echo gadgets in homes across the city of San Diego on the West Coast of the US were activated by a comment make by a TV presenter.

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The outgoing US President Obama has commenced the public aspects of retaliation for the alleged Russian hacking of (and interference with) the US presidential election by expelling 35 Russian diplomats from the country.

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News has surfaced of a patent that’s reported to have been filed by Amazon back in December 2014 for a flying warehouse, or airborne fulfilment centre (AFC), that can use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to deliver items to users.

The patent has been recently unearthed and reported via Twitter by analyst Zoe Leavitt from CB Insights, who described the idea as ‘the Death Star of ecommerce”.

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A report by IDC has revealed that the fact that water damage is common and yet it is not covered by insurance policies is the reason why sales of water resistant mobile devices have increased so significantly in 2016.

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The growing optimism for the future of the web-based crypto-currency ‘Bitcoin’ received another boost this week as the value of 1 Bitcoin jumped above $1,000 (£815) for the first time in three years.

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