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(Image: Life360)It’s a tale as old as time: the technology designed to keep you safe is found to be capable of putting you at risk. Such is the case with Life360, a smartphone application marketed as a way to keep track of family members’ whereabouts and ensure loved ones’ safety, …

OnePlus has always prided itself on producing fast phones with the latest silicon. That’s how it made a name for itself: by packing more power into its phones for less money. The company’s current flagship phone, the OnePlus 9 Pro, is fast, but how fast is it, really? It’s a …

OnePlus has always prided itself on producing fast phones with the latest silicon. That’s how it made a name for itself: by packing more power into its phones for less money. The company’s current flagship phone, the OnePlus 9 Pro, is fast, but how fast is it, really? It’s a …

  Image credit: Christaan Colen/Flickr Earlier this year, Western Digital got caught lying by omission when it came to disclosing that certain drives used shingled magnetic recording (SMR) instead of conventional magnetic recording (CMR). Now, the company has been caught misrepresenting how fast certain hard drives spin — and trying …

  Premom, one of the top pregnancy apps on both Android and Google Play, bills itself as a method of helping you “get pregnant quickly and naturally.” It offers fertility and ovulation tracking and asks individuals to upload detailed information about their sexual health in order to provide advice on …

The True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) is a poorly known member of the family Ziphiidae, second largest family of cetaceans (which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises). Little is known about its distribution, abundance and calving rate. However, an international team of researchers has now obtained the first images of a …

Using camera traps, primatologists from the Lukuru Foundation Tshuapa-Lomani-Lualaba (TL2) Project are the first to capture video footage of a previously unknown population of the critically endangered Dryas monkey (Cercopithecus dryas). Close-up of critically endangered Dryas monkeys (Cercopithecus dryas) now inhabiting the Lomami National Park in the Democratic Republic of …

Roughly 16 months ago, Symantec was caught distributing improperly signed cryptographic certificates that could be used to break HTTPS protection and put users’ at risk. Now, the company has been caught once again doing something similar — even though such activity is directly against the agreements it made when caught …

A pilot accused of smuggling more than £2.4m of cocaine into the UK was arrested while sitting on a toilet with his trousers down, a jury heard. Dutch pilot John Buwalda and another man are accused of bringing the drug into Kent by light aircraft. Both have denied conspiracy to …

Image copyright EPA Image caption Sergei Lavrov met several leading Serbian officials at the start of his two-day visit to Belgrade Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is on a high-profile visit to Serbia, which comes in the wake of some of the wildest allegations of espionage seen in the Western …