Claw arms hardly make a drone look less terrifying, but they could make it more useful. That’s the promise of Prodrone’s latest hoverbot, the snappily-named PD6B-AW-ARM. This claw-handed drone can fly up to 6 km per hour and stay in the air for 30 minutes. Using its two five-axis robotic arms, it can lift a …

Yamaha has detailed five new products joining its MusicCast wireless music family, including a small benchtop speaker and a high-end sound bar. MusicCast is Yamaha’s proprietary multiroom system which allows streaming from user’s phones, network devices or services such as Spotify, Pandora and SiriusXM. Until now the MusicCast range has been missing two important elements: an entry-level speaker, and a …

Several 360-degree cameras have arrived in the past year for consumers, but a good, simple way to edit the video from them has lagged behind. One of the best desktop apps I’ve seen is the Samsung Gear 360 Action Director app bundled with the company’s Gear 360 camera. These tools are now available in Cyberlink’s new PowerDirector 15 suite for …

Tired of being exposed to news reports you suspect have little or no factual basis? So are Twitter and Facebook. The online social networks have joined a network of more than 30 international media companies and organizations that aims to improve the quality of information found online by weeding out hoaxes and fake news reports. The First Draft Coalition’s partner …

A 6-year-old boy from Brooklyn suffered burns to his body Saturday night when a Samsung Galaxy smartphone exploded. The boy was watching videos on the phone when the device suddenly exploded in his hands, the boy’s grandmother told the New York Post. The family called 911 and he was rushed to the hospital with burns on his body. He has …

Feeling poorly? Chances are, you’ve already checked out a few of the thousands of websites, medical papers and news stories out there on the internet to try to figure out why you feel the way you do. There’s also a good chance your brain glommed onto something frightening (CANCER!) before deciding on a more likely cause. And you know — …

Beginning Tuesday and ending on March 14, 2017, Google is launching its Project Zero Security Contest, which will award cash prizes to contestants who can hack a Nexus 6P and 5X knowing only the devices’ phone number and email address. For the exploit to occur, a user can open an email in Gmail or an SMS text in Messenger. However, …

Ad-blocking software maker Eyeo has announced it will start allowing publishers to buy “non-intrusive ads” that will appear to users of its Adblock Plus software. Eyeo and ad-tech company ComboTag will let publishers choose from “a marketplace of pre-whitelisted ads” that meet the criteria of its “Acceptable Ads Platform“. The ads will be visible by users who have elected to …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung explains what went wrong with exploding Note… 1:29 Samsung has a software solution to keep stragglers who haven’t yet returned or exchanged their Galaxy Note 7 phone after a voluntary product recall safe from harm. It’s issuing a software update that caps the battery’s recharge capacity at 60 percent. An issue that causes the anode …

Listen up: Amazon is offering another Prime membership perk. The e-commerce company said Tuesday it added full access to Audible Channels, as well as a rotating selection of more than 50 audiobooks from Audible’s library, to Prime accounts in the US. Audible Channels was introduced in July as a subscription service costing $4.95 a month that offers commercial-free, short-form audio …

“The NBN network is available in your area.” So sayeth the NBN website. But tell that to the ISPs… It’s been two months since the National Broadband Network website told me my area was ready for service. Two months of calling ISPs who tell me there’s nothing they can do yet to connect me to the local node. They don’t …

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Now playing: Watch this: Joseph Gordon-Levitt says he wants Snowden pardoned 2:39 Enlarge Image Edward Snowden says he did the right thing and should be pardoned. Jason Seiler Sure, Edward Snowden may have broken the law. But morally and ethically, he did the right thing, he told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday. Snowden drew international attention to internet …

The iPhone 7 reviews are in, and survey says Apple’s latest smartphone gets a lukewarm response. Despite its faster processor, improved cameras and better battery life, the iPhone 7 and its big brother, the iPhone 7 Plus, offer a lot of upgrades over their predecessors. But that wasn’t enough to impress reviewers. The smartphone is worth it if you’re due …

Peruvian chanteuse Yma Sumac is the latest famous figure to get the Google Doodle treatment, with the search giant celebrating the career of the 1950s performer on its homepage. Sumac was born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo in the early ’20s, although there’s some debate over exactly where, and whether she was born on 13 September 1922 or three …