From InfoWorld: Google yesterday announced a six-month bug contest that will pay up to $200,000 for an Android "bug chain," one or more successful exploits of previously unknown vulnerabilities.

Dubbed "Project Zero Prize," it differed from hacking contests that take place over one or two days...

From CNET: Looking to expand its flock of followers, Twitter is launching a new app for live-streaming video on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Microsoft's Xbox One.

The new app will feature all the live-streaming available on the social network, including content from Periscope and Vine. Wednesday's...

From PC World: Drones and robots are getting computer vision with higher-resolution cameras and artificial intelligence to recognize objects and images.

Many are made with developer boards like Nvidia's Jetson TX1, which provides the smarts for auto-navigation and collision avoidance. TX1 has the...

From CNET: The Amazon Echo has arrived in Europe, bringing Amazon's acclaimed voice-activated personal assistant Alexa with it. And both US and European customers can soon choose from black or white models.

The Echo is a speaker that also acts as a hub for smart devices and software services, all...

From CNET: Cree shook up the lighting aisle a few years back with a high-performance LED light bulb that cost significantly less than the competition. Now, the North Carolina-based lighting manufacturer is changing things up again with an entirely new lineup of LEDs, all of which are expected to hit...

From PC World: Autonomous cars need a new kind of horsepower to identify objects, avoid obstacles and change lanes. There’s a good chance that will come from graphics processors in data centers or even the trunks of cars.

With this scenario in mind, Nvidia has built two new GPUs—the Tesla P4 and...

From InfoWorld: Canadian enterprise information management vendor OpenText has agreed to buy Dell Technologies' EMC enterprise content division for $1.62 billion in a deal that, the companies say, will allow them to focus on their core missions.

The acquisition of the "highly profitable" Dell EMC...

From CNET: The PS4's next big system update, version 4.00, arrives tomorrow, September 13, Sony announced today. In addition to the features that beta testers have been checking out for weeks, it also includes some other new things.

As detailed in a PlayStation Blog post, the 4.00 update adds...

From InfoWorld: V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google's Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences.

For its part, the V8 team has released version 5.4, a new branch of the engine. "V8 5.4...

From CNET: Samsung has agreed to replace every single Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, after at least 35 reports that the phone's batteries could overheat and explode. But some argued the voluntary recall wasn't enough, since the phones were still on sale. Consumer Reports called for the US Consumer...