Could Food Waste Power Our Cities?

Florida’s Harvest Power, a group that first started by collecting food waste from Walt Disney World, has found a new way to produce energy. Quadrillions of microorganisms, feeding on discarded food, consume the waste much faster than it would take for it to decompose and produce biogas – a mix of methane and carbon dioxide that is helping power up some area businesses.

Robot Furniture That Builds Itself

The biotech lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) is developing self-configurable ‘Roombots’ that could change your concept of furniture. The bots have the ability to merge with other material like a table top or a cushion to create a more adaptable object. But the team’s priority is creating furniture to assist the elderly.

The 75-Year Saga Behind a Game That Teaches Preschoolers to Code

Robot Turtles is a board game that teaches computer programming to preschoolers. Crowdfunded last year, the game, which is being mass produced for the general public, mirrors the evolution of complex computer coding to a language anyone can learn.

How the Internet of Things Could Become a Critical Part of Disaster Response

With so many devices hooked up to the Internet all over the world, a group of  French and German researchers argue the Internet of Things can play a vital role in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, when communication is critical, particularly with devices running on batteries and Bluetooth.

Mass Exploit of WordPress Plugin Backdoors Sites Running Joomla, Magento, Too

Researchers say thousands of websites have been hijacked and remotely commandeered by hackers exploiting the recently-patched MailPoet vulnerability in the WordPress content management system.

Researchers Say Flaws Could Expose Users of Privacy-Protecting Software

The finding, similar to the one recently announced by anonymity service Tor, centers around the privacy-oriented operating system, The Invisible Project. Exodus Intelligence researchers say users visiting rigged websites could have their addresses, and possibly their names, unveiled.