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Motorola has been enjoying plenty of attention lately thanks largely to its striking Moto 360 smartwatch, which features a beautiful round display unlike many of the wrist-bound devices unveiled by its rivals, which feature far more conventional square screens. But the wearable device isn't all that Motorola is preparing for launch in the coming month. The company reportedly has eight new handsets currently in development, according to TKTechNews, and it's possible that all of them may be released before the end of the year: DROID DROID Maxx DROID Turbo Moto G Moto S Moto X+1 Moto X Play Nexus Shamu That last device on the list is of particularsignificance, of course. 'Shamu' is the codename of the greatly anticipated new Nexus 6, and it's looking increasingly likely that Motorola will be building it . The Nexus 6 will reportedly feature a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, 12MP rear camera with 4K video recording...

While Android is utilized by a cornucopia of handset manufacturers, Windows Phone is primarily a Nokia-only affair. Sure, there are other manufacturers that use Microsoft's mobile OS, such as HTC and Samsung, but let's be honest -- if you buy a Windows Phone, you want a Nokia. For a company like Apple, being the sole manufacturer of iOS is by design. However, Microsoft's business has always been about working with as many hardware partners as possible. Today, Microsoft announces a return to form with nine new hardware partners. However, that is not all -- additional internal hardware is getting support too. Does this signal the possibility of a dual-boot Windows Phone/Android device? "In addition to our great partners HTC, Huawei, Nokia and Samsung, today in Barcelona we announced we're now working with nine new Windows Phone partners, including: Foxconn, Gionee, JSR, Karbonn, Lava (Xolo), Lenovo, LG, Longcheer and ZTE. Collectively, Windows Phone partners mak...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to IBM to create a CMOS chip that will self-destruct on command, turning into silicon dust. The goal of the project, called Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR), is to develop technologies that would prevent classified military systems from falling into unfriendly hands. “It is nearly impossible to track and recover every [electronic] device [on the battlefield], resulting in unintended accumulation in the environment and potential unauthorized use and compromise of intellectual property and technological advantage,” DARPA states on the webpage for the VAPR program. VAPR is a “broad agency announcement” program that was announced last month in order to fund multiple development efforts to create “electronic systems capable of physically disappearing in a controlled, triggerable manner…[with] performance comparable to commercial-off-the-shelf electronics, but with limited device persistence that can be program...

Even though yesterday wasn't a Patch Tuesday, we ended up with two major browser-related updates: an unscheduled Adobe Flash patch, and an update from Firefox 26 to Firefox 27. Adobe's update came early when the company became aware of a vulnerability that was already being exploited (a so-called zero day). Firefox's update is an as-expected release, but it neverthless closes the door on a number of so-far unexploited vulnerabilities. Security holes patched proactively in this way can never be zero days, at least in theory, but if you don't apply security fixes promptly when they become available, you run the risk of being hit by what might as well be a zero day: a working exploit that appeared before you had closed the hole. Being Firefox's first update of 2014, its related Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories are conveniently numbered from MFSA 2014-01 to MFSA 2014-13, including four rated as Critical. Those are the bugs that might have led to remot...