Martyn Williams
Senior Correspondent
Martyn Williams produces technology news and product reviews in text and video for PC World, Macworld, and TechHive from his home outside Washington D.C.. He previously worked for IDG News Service as a correspondent in San Francisco and Tokyo and has reported on technology news from across Asia and Europe.
How to protect your Google and Facebook accounts with a security key
Security keys offer a more secure alternative to code-based two-factor authentication.
The BlackBerry KeyOne - a surprising phone with a hardware keyboard
For the first time the iconic BlackBerry hardware keyboard has been married with Android in the BlackBerry KeyOne.
Google becomes first foreign internet company to launch service in Cuba
Google servers inside Cuba are now live on the Internet, marking a major milestone in the country's communications evolution and promising faster access to Google's services for Cuban users.
Fake heads and robot probes: testing smartphones prior to launch
On the shelves of a laboratory near San Francisco sit tanks and tanks of mysterious looking liquids. It's the Silicon Valley offices of UL, a product testing organization previously known as Underwriters Laboratory, and these liquids...
Trump's cybersecurity mystery: 90 days in, where's the plan?
On Jan. 6, Donald Trump said his administration would produce a report on cybersecurity within 90 days after his inaguration. On Wednesday, President Trump marks his 90th day in office with no sign of a report or indication that one...
Trump extends Obama executive order on cyberattacks
U.S. President Donald Trump is extending by one year special powers introduced by former President Barack Obama that allow the government to issue sanctions against people and organizations engaged in significant cyberattacks and...
Cornell has a radio for the whole world with software filtering
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new type of radio-on-a-chip that could mean cheaper, more flexible wireless systems.
Inside the Russian hack of Yahoo: How they did it
One mistaken click. That's all it took for hackers aligned with the Russian state security service to gain access to Yahoo's network and potentially the email messages and private information of as many as 500 million people.
Four charged, including Russian gov't agents, for massive Yahoo hack
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has charged four people, including two Russian state intelligence agents, for their involvement in a massive hack of Yahoo that affected half a billion accounts.
SK Telecom pushes for interoperable quantum crypto systems
SK Telecom and Nokia have developed a prototype quantum cryptography system that combines the South Korean company's quantum key server with an encryption device from Nokia.
NTT DoCoMo demos VR control of robots over 5G
At this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Japan's NTT DoCoMo is demonstrating remote control of robots via a wireless virtual reality system over a next-generation 5G wireless link.