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If you’re ever lost in the woods (or on the lam), watch out for high-speed quadcopters following you through the trees. The drones can now fly through complex and unknown environments at up to 40kmph, thanks to a new AI approach developed at the University of Zurich. The quadcopter’s flight lessons took place in a simulation. Analgorithmfirst piloted a computer-generated drone through a simulated environment that contained complex obstacles. This data was used to train the drone’sneural networkto predict a flight path based on information from onboard sensors....

Dropbox has todayupdatedits web app to be cleaner and more useful than ever. The revamp covers devices from Windows Phone to Android to iOS and more closely mimics the native experience of a Dropbox app. This is a huge improvement from the standard website when viewed on a mobile device. The interactions are all logical and seem smooth, if a bit on the sluggish side due to the nature of the web app beast....

I recently had the chance to sit down withDropboxcofounder and CTOArash Ferdowsi. The interview took place in their swanky new office in downtown San Francisco. We talked in-depth about the major changes coming to Dropbox and the success of the company to date. In 2007, Ferdowsi dropped out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to help build Dropbox with fellow cofounderDrew Houston. The company now stands 45 people strong, has several millions of users and is growing exponentially....

Bloombergreports thatDropbox, the popular cloud storage provider, just signed deals with Japanese mobile carrier Softbank and handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson to attract more customers by preloading the app in smartphones sold in Europe and Asia. The agreement, terms of which have been kept undisclosed, indicates that the Dropbox app will be preloaded on two phones running on Softbank’s network in Japan and Sony Ericsson Android phones that will be sold in 10 countries including the U....

Update at the foot of the article. If you, like me, have found the popular cloud-based file hosting platformDropboxto be an absolute lifesaver, you might be a little surprised to learn that by copying one file from a computer running the application, an attacker can access and download all of your files without you ever knowing. Security researcher Derek Newtonbegan looking into how how some of the file synchronisation tools operated, particularly what traces of information were left on a system as a result of using the tools....