[ad_1] Click on any app to see more information about what they collect. If an app says it has “full account access” that means it can view and make changes to nearly everything but Google Pay and your password. When Pokemon Go first launched it required full account access, for example. Some might surprise you:…
[ad_1] It was looking like a banner year for business in China. The U.S. clothing company was expecting a 20 percent jump in online sales on Alibaba’s Tmall, thanks to the e-commerce giant’s massive reach. But executives soon learned that what Alibaba gives, it can also take away. The company refused to sign an exclusive…
[ad_1] With a recent string of tech IPOs and more to come, storied tech VC Bill Gurley said Monday, “it’s cool to go public again.” “For a good three or four years there was this meme in Silicon Valley that putting off your IPO was somehow cool, and it appears we’ve moved past that,” the…
[ad_1] Verizon shares should outperform the market in 2018, Barclays said Monday, upgrading the stock to overweight from equal weight. “Concerns about the carrier’s ability to reignite service revenue growth should start to subside as management delivers upon its expectation for year-over-year growth by the middle of the year,” analyst Amir Rozwadowski wrote to clients.…
[ad_1] When it comes to the promises of persistent location hyper-awareness, the promises of mobile have largely fallen flat. While this has been a bummer for consumers looking for more contextual services from the apps they have installed, this also has been a pain for marketers keen to get their hands on more quality user…
[ad_1] Chamath Palihapitiya says Box is his favorite idea to play the artificial intelligence trend. Box “sits on top of an enormous amount of R&D,” he said at The Sohn Investment Conference in New York Monday. It “give companies the ability to add intelligence to audio and video.” The investor said over the next 10…
[ad_1] Heptio is one of the more interesting companies in the container ecosystem. In part, that’s due to the simple fact that it was founded by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of the three engineers behind the original Kubernetes project, but also because of the technology it’s developing and the large amount of funding…
[ad_1] Netflix said on Monday it planned to raise $1.5 billion in debt as the video streaming pioneer continues a rapid expansion in production of original shows. The company said it intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include content acquisitions, production. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Draper bought nearly 30,000 bitcoins in a 2014 U.S. Marshals Service auction, and told CNBC in December he was still holding all those coins. If that is still the case, Draper’s holding is worth about $268 million at Monday’s prices. The opposition in Saturday’s debate, Financial Times Managing Editor Gillian Tett, highlighted nefarious uses…
[ad_1] When the Department of Defense announced in March, a 10-year winner-take-all cloud contract that could be worth up to $10 billion, it raised a few eyebrows. Last week, they clarified some of the conditions, and it turns out that much like a modern baseball free agent contract, there are a couple of points where…
[ad_1] Big banks are making it easy to zap money to your friends. Maybe too easy. Zelle, a service that allows bank customers to instantly send money to their acquaintances, is booming. Thousands of new users sign up every day. Some $75 billion zoomed through Zelle’s network last year. That’s more than twice the amount…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, and one of the nation’s most eligible relocation seekers, visited Dallas Friday evening to shed light on his business success, but not where he plans to build his coveted second headquarters. The George W. Bush Presidential Center and Southern Methodist University co-hosted Bezos’ interview, which lasted 51 minutes inside…
[ad_1] Hardware startup Glowforge, which makes a desktop laser cutter and engraver for home or office use, has finally opened up sales to the general public. The maker-targeted device, which can ‘print’ (read: engrave/laser cut) a variety of materials including leather, wood, acrylic, glass, and even the metal surface of a Macbook, starts at $2,495 for the…
[ad_1] Slack exposed the demand for a dead-simple internal communications tool, which has inspired a wave of startups trying to pick apart the rest of a company’s daily activities — including Slite, which hopes to take on internal notes with a fresh round of new capital. Slite is more or less an attempt at a…
[ad_1] Surprise firings, criminal investigations and vague statements that have world leaders scratching their heads has turned President Donald Trump’s administration into political theater. And the media – one of Trump’s favorite go-to targets- is reaping the benefits. Experts expected media ratings to normalize after the election when the NFL and other popular TV shows…
[ad_1] Apple is offering free battery replacements for some 13-inch MacBook Pro (without Touch Bar) laptops that may have a faulty component. The company announced recently that a limited number of these devices have a component that may fail, which would case the original built-in battery to expand. While Apple says this isn’t a safety…
[ad_1] Goldman Sachs is getting more serious about finding ways for its clients to invest in cryptocurrencies. The Wall Street giant enlisted Justin Schmidt, a former trader, to be the first head of digital asset markets in Goldman’s securities division. Schmidt began his role on Monday, April 16. “In response to client interest in various…
[ad_1] Apple‘s agreement to buy Shazam is the subject of an “in-depth investigation” by the European Commission. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced the probe on Monday, writing, “The way people listen to music has changed significantly in recent years, with more and more Europeans using music streaming services. Our investigation aims to ensure that music fans…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos once said he has convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff to thank for his e-commerce empire. The Amazon founder and CEO left his job at a New York-based hedge fund in 1994 and set out to sell books online, driven off Wall Street in part by competition from Madoff, according to a report from…
[ad_1] Victor Chavez | Getty Images Netflix content executive director, Ted Sarandos attends the Vive Netflix 2017 at Museo Casa de la Bola on August 2, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico. The proxy filing also show that Ted Sarandos, chief content officer, made $22.4 million, up from $18.9 million the prior year. By contrast, chief…
[ad_1] When Instagrammers don’t get enough likes or think their posts look boring, they sometimes impetously delete them. But they can later regret this common emergent behavior which also deprives Instagram of monetizable content and your history in images that could keep you locked into the service. So Instagram is rolling out a new feature…
[ad_1] Anthony Wallace | AFP | Getty Images A woman touches an ATM machine for digital currency Bitcoin in Hong Kong on December 18, 2017. Bitcoin rebounded above $9,000 over the weekend as the cryptocurrency extended post-Tax Day gains. The digital currency was at $8,987 as of 8:47 a.m. ET Monday, up more than $950…
[ad_1] Chuck Burton | AP Alexis Ohanian, husband of USA’s Serena Williams, holds their baby, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., before the doubles match in the first round of Fed Cup tennis competition in Asheville, N.C., Feb. 11, 2018. The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was known to limit screen time for his kids. Microsoft co-founder…
[ad_1] Apple opened up Monday after shedding more than 4 percent Friday. Shares started trading above $166, less than a percent higher than Friday’s close of $165.72. An opening price below $169 still marks a year-to-date decline for Apple, though. The company is still reeling from reports of weak iPhone sales and one analyst’s prediction…
[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018. Facebook‘s vice president of ads Rob Goldman wrote a blog post Monday morning that explains why Facebook needs private information from its users. Goldman said Facebook uses…
[ad_1] In a significant development, Samsung Electronics with 14.2 percent share surpassed Intel as the top vendor for the global semiconductor market in 2017 – a feat that took 25 years to happen – Gartner said on Monday. Samsung registered $59,875 million (roughly Rs. 3.97 lakh crores) in revenue while Intel at second place reported…
[ad_1] Asad Zaidi | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer displays the Careem Inc. ride-hailing app while booking a car in this arranged photograph in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Careem, the Middle East rival to Uber, had the data of its 14 million customers and drivers stolen in a cyberattack, the company…
[ad_1] Google on Monday said that its Files Go app is now available in Odia language. Files Go is a storage manager that helps users free up space on their phones, find files faster, and share them offline with others. The app was launched with support for Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi,…
[ad_1] Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the new Amazon Spheres opening event at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 29, 2018. Amazon is building smart robots as part of a project named “Vesta,” according to Bloomberg. The robots may launch as soon as 2019 according to…
[ad_1] Christian Artuso packs a long-lens camera and binoculars into the car just in case, but it’s his headlamp and ears that will really come in handy when trying to locate elusive owls in the dark in eastern Manitoba. “We probably won’t see very much,” Artuso says. “I really enjoy hearing them against the quiet of the forest.” He…
[ad_1] A Halifax-area company says it has a made-in-Nova Scotia solution to the challenge of recycling plastics — turn shopping bags into fence posts and patio furniture. Municipalities across the province have scrambled to find new markets for recycled plastic after China stopped accepting the material last year. The Halifax region, for instance, ended up with a 300-tonne…
[ad_1] Jerritt Clark | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Kanye West performs at the Rn. 1st Annual Roc City Classic Starring Kevin Durant x Kanye West on February 12, 2015 in New York City Rap superstar Kanye West praised his Tesla as the “funnest car” he’s ever driven and thanked Elon Musk in a…
[ad_1] Wikileaks has claimed that Coinbase has suspended it from using the cryptocurrency firm’s payments service. Coinbase offers a feature that lets online shops accept cryptocurrencies as payments. Wikileaks, which is famous for publishing confidential documents, sells items from t-shirts to posters. It allows people to pay in bitcoin. Wikileaks posted a tweet over the…
[ad_1] The head of Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it will scrutinise contracts between Uber Technologies and restaurants that use its food delivery app Uber Eats. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday several restaurateurs were disgruntled with contract terms they said left them, and not Uber, responsible for late deliveries despite being charged by…
[ad_1] Apple is replacing the batteries on some MacBook Pros after the discovery of an issue which can cause the battery to expand. The affected laptops are Apple’s MacBook Pro model, without Touch Bar, which were manufactured between October 2016 and October 2017. A post on the US technology firm’s website confirmed the problems saying:…
[ad_1] The SwiftKey keyboard app has been updated with support for Urdu (English) and a bunch of other languages, including Alsatian, Fongbe, Norman, and Warlpiri. The new language support is limited to Android devices. Microsoft has also added some bug fixes to deliver an improved typing experience through its keyboard app. Last month, the SwiftKey…
[ad_1] Jetpack Joyride India Official – the new and localised version of Jetpack Joyride that’s exclusive to India – launched on Thursday and since I was obsessed with the original game, I immediately downloaded the new one, and over the next few days, have cleared all 100 levels to find out how it measures up…
[ad_1] After a CBC News/Radio-Canada investigation in November showed how relatively easy it was to hack phones on the Bell and Rogers mobile networks, the telecom companies and Public Safety Canada refused to grant interviews. Instead, they chose to talk about the issue among themselves and in private, according to the federal lobbying registry. The November investigation…
[ad_1] Japan’s Toshiba Corp has decided it will cancel the planned $18.6 billion (roughly Rs. 1.23 lakh crores) sale of its memory chip unit if it does not get approval from China’s anti-monopoly regulator by May, the Mainichi newspaper said on Sunday. A consortium led by US private equity firm Bain Capital last year won a…
[ad_1] On Thursday, Alibaba said that its recently formed research and development arm — dubbed the Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook — has been working on an AI chip called the Ali-NPU and that the chips will become available for anyone to use through its public cloud, a spokesman told CNBC. The idea…
[ad_1] Employers are fed up with the U.S. health care system. That was my major takeaway from the National Business Group on Health’s conference, which I attended this week alongside the benefits leads from some of the largest U.S. companies, including Amazon, Honeywell and IBM. As you might expect, representatives from these companies talked about…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lixin Cheng, president of ZTE USA Inc. ZTE Corp., one of China’s biggest tech companies, said Sunday that it is taking steps to comply with a U.S. technology ban and that it is seeking a solution to the issue it says threatens its survival. The ban…
[ad_1] E-waste remains a huge problem worldwide: A report from United Nations University and members of industry found that only 20 percent of e-waste generated is documented to be collected and recycled, with the region around Australia having the lowest volume of output, but the highest ratio of e-waste per person. But Toshiba’s vice president…
[ad_1] Silicon Valley still clings to a particular gospel of hard work, where a start-up’s success depends on how hard employees “hustle,” lunch breaks get replaced with fasting rituals or chugged Soylents and engineers wear their consecutive sleepless nights like a badge of honor. But there are signs that the culture is changing. A new…
[ad_1] Manchester City will host Swansea City for the latest Premier League clash. Pep Guardiola will not allow his Manchester City players to rest going into the final few games of the Premier League season despite being crowned champions. City are eight points away from the record points total in Premier League history set by…
[ad_1] Chelsea take on Southampton in the last FA Cup semi-final of the weekend. A place in the FA Cup final will go some way to making up for disappointing seasons for both teams. Chelsea look set to miss out on a Champions League place, while Southampton are in danger of being relegated. Fans will…
[ad_1] Will the Centennial Flame monument on Parliament Hill, with its dancing fires lit by natural gas, become the Centennial LED? The federal government has launched a study of options to cut the flow of natural gas from Western Canada to the popular monument, and replace it with a more eco-friendly energy source. Natural gas piped…
[ad_1] When invasive species show up, Western science tells us they should be dealt with. But Nicholas Reo wonders whether we should instead ask why they’re here in the first place. Reo, an anthropology professor at Dartmouth College, researches how invasive species mitigation could be approached differently — and as a citizen of the Sault…
[ad_1] With over five million UK users, Kodi is slowly changing the way people consume TV. The legal player continues its march to success and there’s a simple reason why it may be so popular. Illegal add-ons can be installed on Kodi which allow users to access premium content such as sports and movies for…
[ad_1] Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 arrived earlier this year improving on the already brilliant Galaxy S8. The Korean firm’s latest flagship offers upgrades to the camera, processor and brings an updated design which places the fingerprint scanner in a much more user-friendly position. Along with these changes there’s all the usual features we’ve come to…
[ad_1] Microsoft will unveil the latest update to Windows 10 in less than three weeks’ time. The Redmond-based company will hold its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, at the start of next month. Microsoft typically uses this event to showcase a number of the innovations headed to its Windows 10 operating system. Build 2018 is…
[ad_1] Gmail’s billions of users could soon see a refreshed look and radical new features landing in their inbox. Google recently revealed that it’s working on a major Gmail upgrade which will offer a number of improvements to its hugely popular email service. In a recent statement to technology website The Verge, a Google spokesperson…
[ad_1] Samsung has purportedly finalised the design of its next flagship entry in the Galaxy S series. And it might not be the folding, dual-screen handset the company had hinted it would be. According to the latest rumours from Korean publication The Bell, the Galaxy S10 will look pretty much the same as its predecessor.…
[ad_1] Pivotal has kind of a strange role for a company. On one hand its part of the EMC federation companies that Dell acquired in 2016 for a cool $67 billion, but it’s also an independently operated entity within that broader Dell family of companies — and that has to be a fine line to…
[ad_1] Barcelona have the chance of securing their first piece of domestic silverware today, as they take on La Liga rivals Sevilla. The Copa del Rey final is being held at the Wanda Metropolitano and will feature to two team who have had excellent seasons. Sevilla still have a chance of breaking into the top…
[ad_1] New York City is a marvel of infrastructure planning and engineering. There are the visible landmarks — the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Empire State Building — and also the invisible ones that run the city beneath its crowded streets, such as one of the world’s most complex water tunneling and reservoir systems.…
[ad_1] Data is the lifeblood of the modern corporation, yet acquiring, storing, processing, and analyzing it remains a remarkably challenging and expensive project. Every time data infrastructure finally catches up with the streams of information pouring in, another source and more demanding decision-making makes the existing technology obsolete. Few cities rely on data the same…
[ad_1] Every startup needs a little skill and a little luck. BigID, a NYC-based data governance solution has been blessed with both. The company, which helps customers identify sensitive data in big data stores, launched at just about the same time that the EU announced the GDPR data privacy regulations. Today, the company is having…
[ad_1] Cloud computing has been a revolution for the data center. Rather than investing in expensive hardware and managing a data center directly, companies are relying on public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to provide general-purpose and high-availability compute, storage, and networking resources in a highly flexible way. Yet as workflows…
[ad_1] When you think about critical infrastructure, DNS or domain naming services might not pop into your head, but what is more important than making sure your website opens quickly and efficiently for your users. NS1 is a New York City startup trying to bring software smarts and automation to the DNS space. “We’re a…
[ad_1] New York City has an incredible density of up-and-coming enterprise-focused startups. While the winners are publicized and well-known, we felt it was time to put a bit of a spotlight on younger companies, ones you may not have heard about yet, but are likely to in the coming years. TechCrunch asked two dozen founders,…
[ad_1] There used to be two cultures in the enterprise around technology. On one side were software engineers, who built out the applications needed by employees to conduct the business of their companies. On the other side were sysadmins, who were territorially protective of their hardware domain — the servers, switches, and storage boxes needed…
[ad_1] While most people probably would not think of New York as a hotbed for enterprise startups of any kind, it is actually quite active. When you stop to consider that the world’s biggest banks and financial services companies are located there, it would certainly make sense for security startups to concentrate on such a…
[ad_1] Manchester United are travelling to London for the FA Cup Semi-Final. The Red Devils will take on Tottenham Hotspur in Wembley Stadium. Ahead of the clash, Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino said it would be “fantastic” to win a trophy, but that only Premier League or Champions League success would be seen as a step-up…
[ad_1] Google’s decision to launch a new messaging service called Chat without end-to-end encryption shows utter contempt for the privacy of Android users and has handed a precious gift to cybercriminals and government spies alike, Amnesty International has said. Earlier this week,Google spokesperson confirmed that the new service will not use end-to-end encryption and that…
[ad_1] Russian authorities are freezing up vast swathes of the country’s online world in what critics call a heavy-handed – and so far unsuccessful – attempt to block a popular messaging app, Telegram. The head of the communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of IP addresses unrelated to Telegram have been blocked since a court…
[ad_1] Google’s Project Zero team has publicly disclosed a flaw in Windows 10, even though Microsoft wanted to keep it under wraps until it came up with a fix. The flaw affects Windows 10 S, which is a version of the operating system that the company had designed as a safer platform for educational institutions…
[ad_1] A snake researcher is using DNA analysis to learn more about one of Nova Scotia’s most elusive and threatened snakes. The eastern ribbonsnake is 70 centimetres long and in the same genus as the common garter snake. “They look very much like garter snakes to the uninitiated, but a dead giveaway is they have a crescent-shaped white scale…
[ad_1] Samsung smartphone fans will soon have a much cheaper option with the launch of the new mid-range Galaxy A8. This budget Galaxy S8 rival was announced last December and offers some very decent specs without the flagship price. Now it seems Samsung is finally ready to unleash this new device in the UK with…
[ad_1] London’s Transport Commissioner Mike Brown met Uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi in January, a freedom of information request revealed, as the Silicon Valley app fights to keep its cars on the streets of its most important European market. Uber is battling a decision by the city’s transport regulator last September to strip it of its…
[ad_1] It’s the kind of thing that seems doable, in a “surely-someone-will-figure-it-out” kind of way. That is, until you consider the nearly endless list of details involved. Getting humans safely to and from Mars, long a staple of Hollywood movies, has proven to be much more easily imagined than achieved. “Spaceflight is maybe the most…
[ad_1] Google Photos, the photo storage app on Android and iOS, is getting newer video editing capabilities. An update to the Photos app is rolling out on Android smartphones and it includes new more powerful movie editor. The feature was earlier available on Google Photos for iOS, which was reportedly based on the Clips app…
[ad_1] Dell on Friday announced that it is offering the AMD Ryzen processor with Radeon RX Vega Graphics in its Inspiron portfolio – specifically, the Inspiron 15 5575. The notebook is available in India at a starting price of Rs. 38,990 for the R3 model and Rs. 49,990 for the R5 model on www.dell.co.in. The…
[ad_1] Seven-year-old Jaclyn recently chose bright blue-framed glasses with red dots “because they’re a splash of colour.” Jaclyn was diagnosed with myopia, or nearsightedness, at the age of age four. “I was surprised to learn that she needed glasses,” recalled her mother, Ellen Rosenberg, in Toronto. Jaclyn wears glasses all the time at school, where they help her to…
[ad_1] OnePlus fans could get a glimpse of a new smartphone very soon and it may well be the Android device to beat in 2018. The all-new OnePlus 6 will be the next cutting-edge call maker to come from the Chinese smartphone firm and, if all the latest rumours are true, it could cause its…
[ad_1] There’s no question that Apple’s iPhone X is the best smartphone the US technology firm has have ever made. This stunning device, which was unveiled late last year, includes a glorious edge-to-edge display, improved dual-lens camera and much faster processor. Facial recognition also means you can unlock the phone simply by looking at the…
[ad_1] EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS Huawei P20 Pro review Huawei P20 Pro review PROS – Nice design with a premium feel • Incredible triple camera makes photography easy • Never-ending battery life • Good display CONS – No headphone port • No wireless charging • Huawei’s EMUI is not a patch on Google’s stock Android If three’s…
[ad_1] Apple on Friday said component failure in a limited number of MacBook Pros has caused built-in battery to expand, adding, it will offer worldwide free replacement for such batteries. Apple said the flaw, reported in some 13-inch Macbook Pros without Touch Bars, is not a safety issue. The affected units were manufactured between October…
[ad_1] TalkTalk is the most complained about home broadband and landline provider, while BT and Vodafone drew the most complaints for their mobile services, figures show. BT is also the most complained about pay TV provider, according to the latest quarterly league tables of complaints made to Ofcom from October to December. Faults and other…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has brought a long-awaited setting to its popular chat app. The feature, which first appeared in beta in early January 2018, allows those who are registered as administrators in a group chat to revoke that same status from other participants. Until now, those who wanted to remove an admin from a group conversation…
[ad_1] The Justice Department has reached out to all four major U.S. wireless carriers as part of an antitrust investigation, a person close to the situation told CNBC. The source said that the department sent letters to AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint in February requesting information. The person also said the Justice Department previously examined…
[ad_1] Stock market investors showed lukewarm enthusiasm for Pivotal Software’s debut on Friday. After pricing the IPO at $15, the company closed the day at $15.73. Although it didn’t “pop” for new investors, pricing at the midpoint of its proposed range allowed Pivotal to raise $555 million. Its public company market cap exceeded $3 billion. The…
[ad_1] Germany’s Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit yesterday from Axel Springer against Eyeo, the company behind AdBlock Plus. The European publishing giant (which acquired Business Insider in 2015) argued that ad blocking, as well as the business model where advertisers pay to be added to circumvent the white list, violated Germany’s competition law. Axel Springer won…
[ad_1] An Australia-based scientist has documented bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales off northern Vancouver Island for the first time. Marine ecologist Luke Halpin said his findings, published in the journal Marine Biodiversity Records, highlight the first confirmed sightings in the area of both species, which are usually found in warmer waters. Halpin said he sighted both species…
[ad_1] The University of Alberta is being criticized for its decision to give David Suzuki an honorary degree. Earlier this month, the university announced that the longtime environmentalist will be one of 13 people to receive the honour later this spring. Andrew Leach, the architect of Alberta’s climate change plan and an economics professor at…
[ad_1] A family of great horned owls rescued after Monday’s ice storm has been moved to The Owl Foundation in the Niagara Region for further treatment. The female great horned owl and her two owlets continue to rest and recuperate after the mother owl was knocked from her nest by falling ice on Petrie Island during the…
[ad_1] Ekso is also getting inbound inquiries from construction, aerospace and other manufacturers, and ramping up its production of the vest, according to the CEO. Before selling the vests, Ekso put them through extensive testing in labs and out in the field, making sure they work in below-freezing temperatures, or when they’re covered in concrete…
[ad_1] It’s been a hell of a week for ZTE. News Monday that it was being hit with a seven-year export ban sent the company scrambling. The Chinese handset maker suspended its earnings report and reportedly sent its lawyers to meet with Google to see if anything could be worked out about a punishment that…
[ad_1] When Apple launched its new App Store in iOS 11 back in September, it aimed to offer app developers better exposure, as well as a better app discovery experience for consumers. A new study from Sensor Tower out today takes a look at how well that’s been working in the months since. According to…
[ad_1] Containers are eating the software world — and Kubernetes is the king of containers. So if you are working on any major software project, especially in the enterprise, you will run into it sooner or later. Cloud Foundry, which hosted its semi-annual developer conference in Boston this week, is an interesting example for this.…
[ad_1] After introducing the two witnesses from Facebook on Thursday, the chair of the privacy committee lamented the fact that neither of them was Mark Zuckerberg. “I think we were, and myself as chair, disappointed that Mr. Zuckerberg declined our request,” Conservative MP Bob Zimmer said with a sigh. “And I’d say we don’t take that lightly.” “Our…
[ad_1] The last of the dodos left this planet somewhere in the mid to late 17th century, brought to extinction by early European explorers and invasive species of animals introduced to its native island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Extinct but not forgotten. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the U.K. houses the last remains…
[ad_1] Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re exploring why our communities are at a turning point and exploring ways to recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. Britain announced this week that it plans to ban the sale of single-use plastic straws, as support for similar bans…
[ad_1] Some people report using Facebook less, but that damage might be outweighed in an upcoming earnings report by healthy Instagram’s advertising sales. About 15 percent of users said in a poll that they will decrease their use of Facebook after a data scandal related to Cambridge Analytica, according to Daniel Ives, head of technology…
[ad_1] Tesla shares fell on Friday after news of another California state government probe into a workplace injury was reported by Bloomberg. A worker employed by subcontractor Automatic Systems reportedly broke his jaw when he was hit by a skid carrier at Tesla’s assembly plant in Fremont, California. Tesla shares fell as much as 2…
[ad_1] “We all know we don’t succeed just by having a good idea or working hard. We succeed by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up instead of having time to code, if I didn’t know I’d be fine if Facebook didn’t work out, I wouldn’t be standing here today.…
[ad_1] A wave of negative sentiment surrounding Apple has sent the company’s stock negative for the year. As of Friday, Apple is the worst-performing stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. Shares are down more than 1 percent from the beginning of 2018. It fell after Friday morning after Morgan Stanley predicted that the company’s…
[ad_1] Tesla’s electric car sales will suffer due to increased competition from German automakers, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm reaffirmed its underweight rating for Tesla shares, citing the electric car pipelines from Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi. “Tesla has, to date, faced relatively little competition in the market for luxury electric vehicles, and so we…
[ad_1] Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017 in Washington, DC. Former FBI director James Comey will visit Amazon on Monday for a fireside chat with employees. Comey is participating in one of Amazon’s “Fishbowl” events on the company’s campus, where he will…
[ad_1] Shares of enterprise software company Pivotal started trading on Friday, the first day on the public market for the IPO. The stock opened at $16.75 per share, and traded up as high as 10 percent in the moments after opening, before losing gains. On Thursday Pivotal priced its stock at $15 per share in…
[ad_1] Here’s one way to ask out a potential prom date: Build her a digital fort. Thanks to Fortnite — the popular video game that’s part Hunger Games, part Minecraft — many teens have found a new way to craft their “promposals.” Reddit user Navypython shared video footage of the game, which includes a massive…
[ad_1] AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson revealed on Thursday the carrier’s plans to launch another live TV service called “AT&T Watch,” which would offer a cheap, $15-per-month bundle of channels for customers, and be provided to AT&T Wireless subscribers for free. At this price point, the service would be one of the lowest on the market…
[ad_1] A note from Mirabaud analyst Neil Camping suggests that Apple is going to kill the iPhone X this year. It might be true that the phone will be upgraded, but it’s not “dead.” Instead, I think what we’re seeing is more of a reflection of Apple’s new strategy in response to slowing growth in…
[ad_1] The second significant change to Alphabet’s balance sheet comes because of a new accounting standard for equity security investments. Under the new rule, called Accounting Standards Update 2016-01, Alphabet has to report the unrealized gains and losses from its investments on its income statement. For example, Alphabet bought a stake in both ride-hailing start-up…
[ad_1] A new study from the National Foundation for American Policy, shows that U.S. tech companies are relying more on skilled foreign workers using H-1B visas, while Indian outsourcing firms are losing their previous stronghold in the area. According to the study, four U.S. tech companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, and Google – were among…
[ad_1] There are two kinds of people in the world: those who hate building Ikea furniture and madmen. Now, thanks to Ikeabot, the madmen can be replaced. Ikeabot is a project built at Control Robotics Intelligence (CRI) group at NTU in Singapore. The team began by teaching robots to insert pins and manipulate Ikea parts…
[ad_1] Tim Cook, CEO of the world’s largest corporation (by market value) – Apple, recently claimed that users are not quite keen on a merged experience between their mobile devices and desktop computers, putting a big question mark on recent reports about Apple creating a unified experience involving the merger of the codebase of macOS…
[ad_1] SunTrust Banks on Friday said a former employee may have attempted to download information on nearly 1.5 million clients and share the information with a criminal third-party. The company said it believes the information included names and account balances, but it did not include personally identifiable information, such as social security numbers, account numbers,…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple. Apple’s iPhone sales in the June quarter will significantly disappoint versus Wall Street expectations, according to Morgan Stanley. But the firm says any drop in the stock from poor results will be a great buying opportunity. Morgan Stanley lowered…
[ad_1] Along with the Honor 10 smartphone, the Huawei sub-brand has launched a notebook called Honor MagicBook in China. The MagicBook, which appears to have taken design cues from the Apple MacBook series, is a light-weight laptop. It will be available in three colour variants – Glacier Silver, Star Grey, and Nebula Violet – in…
[ad_1] The nepotism afforded star American researcher Carlo Montemagno by the University of Alberta extended beyond the hiring of his daughter and son-in-law as a condition of his employment. CBC News has learned Montemagno’s nephew, Kyle Minor, was not only a doctoral student in his uncle’s much-touted Ingenuity Lab at the U of A between…
[ad_1] A new report is calling on the Canadian government to protect the beluga whales that call Churchill, Man. home every summer by creating a national marine conservation area in Western Hudson Bay. The report, called Western Hudson Bay and Its Beluga Estuaries: Protecting Abundance for a Sustainable Future, was released by Oceans North Friday morning.…
[ad_1] With the aim of countering arch rival Jio and its Jio TV app, Bharti Airtel is continuously upgrading its Airtel TV app. The telco has been offering a free subscription to Amazon Prime since January and partnered with Hotstar in February to widen the catalogue of its Airtel TV app. And now, it is…
[ad_1] China has long pushed the development of top-end semiconductors as a key strategic objective. Now, as a trade war with the United States looms, a government decision to accelerate the development of the domestic chip industry underlines how far those goals have fallen short. Senior Chinese officials are increasingly concerned about stalling efforts to…
[ad_1] E-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has bought a Chinese microchip maker to further its cloud-based “internet of things” (IoT) business, underscoring its commitment to the chip industry, an Alibaba spokeswoman said on Friday. The announcement comes days after the United States banned American firms from selling chips and other components to Chinese telecoms…
[ad_1] MKM Partners’ Rob Sanderson downgraded Twitter in June 2015 shortly before the stock would be cut in half on disappointing user growth and advertising revenue. But now he is positive, upgrading the stock to buy from neutral on Friday with a note titled, “Twitter is Here to Stay and Still Has Mass Market Potential.”…
[ad_1] Apple’s iPhone X is likely to be discontinued this year if earnings from one of the company’s top suppliers is anything to go by, according to an analyst. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, or TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry company, revised its full-year revenue target to the low end of its forecast. Shares in the…
[ad_1] Amazon on Thursday rolled out a new set of tools called Alexa Skill Blueprints, which lets users create custom responses for the smart assistant. The e-commerce giant is providing users with a set of simple templates that help in creating personalised experiences for Alexa within minutes by simply filling in the blanks. The Alexa…
[ad_1] Microsoft has launched its Microsoft Edge antivirus protection for Google Chrome web browser users. The Windows Defender anti-virus scanning software was developed for the minimalist web browser, Microsoft Edge – the default on its Windows 10 operating system. Windows Defender is available as a Chrome extension. It includes a list of malicious URLs that…
[ad_1] Samsung Galaxy S8 owners have recently been treated to Google’s Android Oreo on their devices. This upgraded operating system began being pushed out to Galaxy phones earlier in the year and delivers a number of improvements and bonus features. If you’ve downloaded Oreo you should now be getting access to new functions such improved…
[ad_1] Windows 10’s blockbuster new update has been delayed – again. Microsoft has unearthed another show-stopping glitch in its new software. The new update, which is tipped to be called Spring Creators Update, was scheduled to roll-out to Windows 10 users for free last week, however, a serious software problem was discovered that needed to…
[ad_1] Google is “pausing investment” in its consumer-facing messaging app, Allo. By that, the tech giant means transferring the entire workforce to other projects and shifting all resources to the Android Messages team. The Android Messages app will power the long awaited RCS platform that Google has been working with carriers and OEMs for years…
[ad_1] Ericsson beat quarterly profit expectations on Friday as savings started to kick in, fueling hopes for a recovery at the struggling mobile equipment maker and sending its shares up 15 percent. The Swedish company, which is restructuring and has replaced much of its top management, has struggled with falling spending on networks by telecoms…
[ad_1] Microsoft received 22,939 legal requests for customer information from law enforcement agencies during the second half of 2017, which is a slight decrease from the previous six-month period, the company has said. In its biannual digital trust report released late on Thursday, Microsoft said that a majority of the law enforcement demands continued to…
[ad_1] SHENZHEN, China — Chinese tech company Huawei wants to change the way people talk to their artificially intelligent voice assistants. The firm plans to make those conversations more emotionally interactive, according to senior executives. Voice-powered virtual assistants currently serve a functional role, by giving information — “What’s the weather like?” — or completing small…
[ad_1] Joan Cros | NurPhoto | Getty Images New ZTE Blade V9 at ZTE stand during the Mobile World Congress Day 2 on February 27, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. China’s ZTE said Friday that a U.S. ban on exports to the technology firm could threaten its survival and adversely affect American companies. Earlier this week,…
[ad_1] Social media can be a welcome distraction from the daily grind of the office, but it can also be a useful tool for advancing your career — if you know how to use it. That doesn’t just mean listing your resume on LinkedIn and or liking the same interests as your boss on Facebook.…
[ad_1] Sky confirmed some impressive new figures in its latest quarterly earnings call. The UK broadcaster confirmed its annual revenue increased by five per cent year-on-year, bringing the total to £10.1 billion. Sky also revealed its flagship Sky Q system – an all-new system that redesigned the iconic Sky+ HD hardware from the ground up…
[ad_1] One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command. Now, a little-noticed tax filing by a research lab called OpenAI has made some of those eye-popping figures public. OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016.…
[ad_1] Although I do my best to minimize the trash produced by my lifestyle (blog posts notwithstanding), one I can’t really control, at least without carrying a spoon on my person at all times, is the necessity of using a disposable stick to stir my coffee. That could all change with the Stircle, a little…
[ad_1] Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have been lobbying federal regulators to protect at least some virtual currencies from being categorized as securities, a designation that would carry significantly more oversight. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz helped assemble a group of investors and lawyers that met with the Securities and Exchange Commission in late March.…
[ad_1] PH Moto G6 and G6 Plus release LIVE MOTO G6 UPDATES • It’s official! The Moto G6 has just been unveiled at Motorola’s event in Brazil. • Three new phones – Moto G6 – Moto G6 Plus – Moto G6 Play – and all feature Qualcomm processors. • New Moto G devices will include a Max…
[ad_1] Everyone seems to be insisting on installing cameras all over their homes these days, which seems incongruous with the ongoing privacy crisis — but that’s a post for another time. Today, we’re talking about enabling those cameras to send high-definition video signals wirelessly without killing their little batteries. A new technique makes beaming video…
[ad_1] After touting the benefits of investing in technology, Cramer sat down with United Rentals CEO Mike Kneeland, whose construction equipment rental company is doing just that to stay ahead of the curve. “We started out with telematics. We had to put telematics on our total fleet,” Kneeland told Cramer on Thursday, referring to a…
[ad_1] As stocks sank on Thursday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer inspected the market for the various triggers that sparked the decline. “Thanks to a nasty combination of the yield on the 10-year Treasury approaching 3 percent, a series of disappointments in the consumer products space, some amazingly fast growth in personal and corporate spending, a rally…
[ad_1] The Trump administration’s trade dispute with China may have quieted down, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued on Thursday that it is far from over. “We’ve opened up a new front in the trade war, and while it’s quieter than all of the bombast about tariffs that had people freaking out, there are still a…
[ad_1] At this point, Cramer admitted that “anything can happen” to push any one of these market leaders to the $1 trillion finish. “Right now, though, Amazon’s the one that could break free, break away from this three-horse pack to challenge Apple,” he said. “Can it overtake the favorite? Not if Apple surprises to the…
[ad_1] A research project at the University of Windsor is using 3D printed lookalikes to discover why a species of toad in Costa Rica turns bright yellow for a single day during its mating season. The project started a decade ago when Dan Mennill and Stephanie Doucet witnessed a remarkable transformation while studying birds in Costa Rica. During the first…
[ad_1] A Microsoft co-founder’s mission to locate sunken warships in the South Pacific has chalked up another victory with the discovery of the USS Helena nearly 75 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in the waters off the Solomon Islands, reviving stories of the battle-tested ship’s endurance and the nearly unbelievable survival of…
[ad_1] Deep in the forests of Borneo live species of ants with a rather novel way of fending off enemies: they explode. While they were first identified in 1916, no new species have been discovered since 1935. Now, a group of international scientists from multiple disciplines including botany, chemistry and entomology, have discovered 15 more separate species…
[ad_1] The spread of humans around the world from Africa thousands of years ago wiped out big mammals in a trend that, if it continues, could make the cow the biggest mammal on Earth in a few centuries’ time, a scientific study said on Thursday. The spread of hominims — early humans and relatives such…
[ad_1] AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson testified on Thursday in support of the telecom giant's proposed merger with Time Warner. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] As the Defense Department continues its march toward procuring a secure cloud software, an acquisition potentially worth up to $10 billion, Amazon Web Service has boosted its marketing presence at the doorstep of the Pentagon. A series of AWS advertisements promoting an upcoming summit have recently appeared on the walls and floors of the…
[ad_1] Ebay is rolling out an app update designed to make it easier to list items for sale on its online marketplace. Instead of filling out detailed forms on your mobile phone’s small screen, you can now scan the barcode on the item in question or type a description, choose the item’s condition, then click…
[ad_1] David Mareuil | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Customers inspect new iPhone 8 and plus models at a telecom shop in Omotesando Avenue in Tokyo, Japan on September 22, 2017. A disappointing forecast from a key Apple chipmaking partner has some Wall Street analysts worried about iPhone sales forecasts. On Thursday Bank of America…
[ad_1] As the messaging app Telegram continues to try to evade Russian authorities by switching up its IP addresses, Russia’s regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) has continued its game of whack-a-mole to try to lock it down by knocking out complete swathes of IP address. The resulting chase how now ballooned to nearly 19 million IP addresses…
[ad_1] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped short today of echoing British Prime Minister Theresa May’s call for Commonwealth members to ban the use of single-use plastics — but pointed to a planned discussion at the next G7 summit, being hosted by Canada later this year. May announced earlier Thursday that her government is banning plastic…
[ad_1] Venture capitalist Bill Gurley — an well-known voice of caution in Silicon Valley — came out strongly in favor of Uber on Thursday, despite leaving the company’s board last summer. Although he didn’t address past controversies at Uber, he explained in a blog post why he thinks Uber’s biggest success is often overlooked. “Driving…
[ad_1] Biology is undergoing a huge shift, as researchers now have a new tool to alter our genetic code. Advances in a technology called CRISPR — which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats — give scientists something like a pair of “scissors,” so they can snip away at genetic material with the goal…
[ad_1] If you’ve worked through the amazing selection of games provided by the NES and SNES Classic Editions, you may be in luck: SNK, the legendary arcade game creator behind the likes of Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, is teasing what looks like its own tiny arcade cabinet. Teased as part of the company’s 40th…
[ad_1] “The job of assembly, which may come naturally to humans, has to be broken down into different steps, such as identifying where the different chair parts are, the force required to grip the parts, and making sure the robotic arms move without colliding into each other,” Assistant Professor Pham Quang Cuong said. “Through considerable…
[ad_1] Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is very proud, in fact he is ‘particularly proud’ of a unique benefit that the company provides to its employees: the chance to go back to school and learn some in-demand skills for the workplace. With, Amazon Career Choice, Amazon pre-pays up to $12,000 in tuition, fees, and…
[ad_1] In advance of Earth Day, Apple on Thursday announced several new recycling initiatives and debuted Daisy, a recycling robot adept at disassembling iPhones. Daisy resides in a facility in Austin, Texas, where the robot sorts through old iPhone rubbish to extract high quality components for recycling. Daisy can disassemble nine different iPhone versions and…
[ad_1] Morgan Stanley found the biggest losers in the apparel industry in 2017 included Sears Holdings, Macy’s, Ascena Retail Group, L Brands, Ralph Lauren and Chico’s. Amazon’s gains have a lot to do with losses at traditional department stores, the firm said. Morgan Stanley is predicting department stores will only comprise about 8 percent of…
[ad_1] Silicon Valley is getting too arrogant and “losing touch with reality,” Google Ventures partner M.G. Siegler wrote in a blog post Wednesday. “You can see it in the tweets. You can hear it at tech conferences. Hell, you can hear it at most cafes in San Francisco on any given day,” Siegler wrote. “People…
[ad_1] Bezos illustrates the point with an example at Amazon — to prep for meetings, employees there write “structured” six-page memos, explains Bezos. “Not surprisingly, the quality of these memos varies widely,” he says. “Here’s what we’ve figured out,” Bezos writes. “Often, when a memo isn’t great, it’s not the writer’s inability to recognize the…
[ad_1] Stuart Lombard, CEO of the smart thermostat maker Ecobee, says he likes to share Bezos’ annual letter with the whole company for inspiration. Some of the key insights, like long-term thinking, continuous learning, and simplified company structure, all serve as building blocks for his startup’s culture, he said. Ecobee is a close partner of…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The silhouettes of attendees are seen at the Google booth during the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 11, 2018. Google has been pitching companies to create videos for a new “How To” feature for its smart assistant. It plans to show the…
[ad_1] If bitcoin can’t recover $8,600 soon, bitcoin “miners” will likely find it unprofitable to keep creating the cryptocurrency, Morgan Stanley analysts said. Bitcoin traded slightly higher near $8,200 Thursday, according to CoinDesk. It has struggled to recover in the last few months after tumbling from a record high above $19,000 in mid-December. “We estimate…
[ad_1] A disappointing forecast from a key Apple chip partner is driving shares of iPhone suppliers lower. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing said Thursday its revenue forecast range for the second quarter is $7.8 billion to $7.9 billion versus the Wall Street estimate of $8.8 billion. “Moving into second quarter 2018, continued weak demand from our mobile…
[ad_1] Amazon has the power with one rumor about a new business effort to sink entire sectors of the market, far beyond the retail industry it has has already upended. It also may have the power of the word to finish off the era of Microsoft’s corporate meeting monolith. “We don’t do PowerPoint (or any…
[ad_1] Amazon rolled out a new set of tools called “Alexa Blueprints” on Thursday that let you create custom responses for its Alexa smart assistant on an Echo. You can use it to tell the dogwalker where you keep your leash, for example, or to have Alexa provide a house guest with information on where…
[ad_1] Watchmaker Jaquet Droz announced its Signing Machine – a mechanical device that will sign your name for you using a series of miniature gears and springs – in 2014. Four years later, the company is ready to ship their miraculous contraction just in time for you to ink the deal you’ve made with Cybereus,…
[ad_1] Helios and Matheson Analytics is looking to push additional capital into its prime and wildly popular asset, MoviePass, by raising money in a new stock sale that appears to be giving Wall Street fits. Looking to raise additional capital, Helios and Matheson said it would sell up to $150 million in a stock sale…
[ad_1] Senior members of the Facebook leadership team faced a rough ride from MPs at a Commons committee on Thursday for their failure to inform more than 600,000 Canadians that their privacy might have been compromised. For more than two years, Facebook knew that the personal information of potentially thousands of Canadians was in the hands…
[ad_1] Motorola’s phones aren’t always the flashiest, but there sure are a lot of them. And today, there are even more. The Lenovo-owned brand is launching not one, but four new handsets for your budget-phone-buying pleasure. The new handsets were launched at an event in São Paulo, Brazil. We, sadly, were not there. Instead, we…
[ad_1] Ethan Miller | Getty Images Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm Qualcomm slid more than 4 percent Thursday after the company announced layoffs and said it would be withdrawing and refiling a merger application with Chinese authorities regarding a tie-up with Dutch semiconductor company NXP. Sources tell CNBC Qualcomm is “very concerned” with the fate…
[ad_1] mParticle, which helps companies like Airbnb and Spotify manage their customer data, has hired four new executives — including John Sedlak, most recently a vice president at Adobe, who’s joining the company as chief revenue officer. In addition, Kiran Hebbar (formerly CFO of Social Tables) is joining as chief financial officer, Will Rogers (previously an…
[ad_1] If you’ve logged into a website or app using the “login with Facebook” feature, your data could have been exposed to third-party trackers. Web trackers are exploiting websites’ access to Facebook user data, according to a security research report by Steven Englehardt and two other researchers at Freedom to Tinker, a blog hosted by…
[ad_1] It’s been 16 months since Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) issued a warning to air passengers about the potential fire hazard of dropping their cell phones between airline seats, but so far Transport Canada has not followed suit. It was December 2016 when CASA cautioned that smartphones “can fall into aircraft seat mechanisms…
[ad_1] Microsoft Translator has been upgraded to offer artificial intelligence (AI) powered offline language packs across all Android, iOS, and Amazon Fire devices. The AI-powered offline language packs were previously limited to devices with a dedicated AI chip. However, Microsoft engineers have now leveraged edge computing to bring AI-backed neural machine translation (NMT) to the…
[ad_1] Residents at an Oshawa, Ont., retirement home are among the first people in the country to try an innovative therapy for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients called the BikeAround. The device combines a stationary bicycle, a dome-shaped projector and Google Street View technology. Users sit on the bike and are able to pedal through video of meaningful destinations — a childhood home,…
[ad_1] The total music industry revenues in India grew from Rs. 570.7 crore in 2016 to Rs. 725.6 crore in 2017. This increase in revenue by Rs. 154.9 crore is the largest since 2011, according to data from IFPI, a not-for-profit international organisation which represents the interests of 1,300 record companies from across the globe.…
[ad_1] The head of one major cryptocurrency exchange will not comply with the New York Attorney General’s request for information. “The resource diversion for this production is massive. This is going to completely blow up our roadmap!” Kraken co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell said in a statement he shared via Twitter on Wednesday. “Then I…
[ad_1] Amazon this morning is introducing “Alexa Blueprints,” a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses, without needing to know how to code. The idea is to allow Alexa owners to create their own voice apps, like a trivia game or bedtime stories, or teach Alexa to…
[ad_1] Last year’s release of the Ryzen 7 1800X was truly a watershed moment for the PC industry. After multiple generations of stagnation with barely anything to offer in terms of competition against Intel, AMD has spent the last year releasing product after product at a staggering pace, and most of them have been extremely…
[ad_1] The capsule being developed to take people to space is 530 cubic feet and has room for six, according to the Blue Origin website. The capsule “is large enough for you to float freely and turn weightless somersaults,” Bezos’ space company says. The capsule is carried over 100 kilometers above Earth, or more than…
[ad_1] Entrepreneur Josep Esteba became so frustrated trying to get around his native Spain in a wheelchair for more than 20 years that he embarked on a mission to map cities for disabled people all over the world. “Many years ago I travelled a lot for work, and would arrive in cities that I didn’t…
[ad_1] A popular ice cave just outside Haines Junction, Yukon, might be gone within a few years, geologists say. The Yukon Geological Survey predicts the formation will have melted completely, if not collapsed, within the next five years. The prediction is based on measurements of the cave over the last 13 years, using aerial images from Google maps. In…
[ad_1] Stringer | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Customers try the new iPhone 8 at the Apple store on September 22, 2017 in Hong Kong, China. A major Asian chip manufacturer’s weaker than expected guidance for the June quarter is driving technology stocks lower. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) on Thursday said its revenue forecast range…
[ad_1] A long time after protecting users on its Edge browser, Microsoft has now brought Windows Defender Browser Protection to the Google Chrome browser in the form of an add-on. The new Chrome extension is available for free download via Chrome Web Store and is claimed to protect users against phishing and malware content. It…
[ad_1] Comcast is teaming up with one of the nation’s largest Blue Cross health insurers, Independence Health Group, to launch a new consumer-oriented health-care technology platform. “Through this collaboration, we will explore how we can best use technology to enhance how consumers access and use healthcare services, which we know at times can be frustrating,”…
[ad_1] Popular communication app Truecaller on Thursday announced that in less than a year, the app has leapfrogged from 100 million monthly active users (MAUs) to 100 million daily active users (DAUs) globally. “There are only a handful of mobile-only services that impact as many users each and every day and we are humbled to…
[ad_1] OnePlus’ first advert for its hotly-anticipated new handset, OnePlus 6, has leaked online. The advertisement appears to be created for the Indian market – one of the most important for the Shenzhen-based technology company. Unfortunately, the leaked advert, which appears to have been shot on a smartphone during an internal briefing, doesn’t reveal the…
[ad_1] British artificial intelligence start-up BenevolentAI has bagged $115 million from investors, lifting its pre-money valuation to $2 billion. The London-based firm, which is focused on the pharmaceutical industry, said the latest round of funding will help it scale drug development and its AI platform. The company currently has more than 20 drug programs. It…
[ad_1] Adyen, a Dutch payments processing firm that counts Uber, Spotify and Netflix among its clients, is considering a stock market listing this year, a source told CNBC, after the company reported record revenues in 2017. The company, which is currently valued at over $2 billion, is in talks with Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan…
[ad_1] Google has rolled-out an improvement to turn-by-turn directions to a select number of Google Maps users. The new system uses local landmarks when pointing you to your destination. At the moment, Google Maps uses a combination of street names and estimated distances in its turn-by-turn directions. However, that’s not really how people provide direction…
[ad_1] Asus on Thursday announced that it has started taking pre-orders for the refreshed ROG Strix GL503 and ROG GX501 in India. Both gaming laptops were announced in the country earlier this month as the company’s latest offerings with eighth generation Intel Core processors. While the ROG Strix GL503 price in India has been set…
[ad_1] With the White House ramping up efforts to derail the ambitions of Chinese tech companies in the U.S., electronics giant Huawei said it would increasingly look to Europe to grow its international market share in high-end devices. At the company’s annual analyst summit in Shenzhen, Changzhu Li, vice president of the consumer business group’s…
[ad_1] Netflix on Thursday announced that it is bringing mobile previews to iOS, with Android to follow. Gadgets 360 had first reported about this feature over a month ago, and it is now available for users. This way, you can take a look at previews and decide if you want to watch a show. When…
[ad_1] People in China will spend more time on their smartphones and other mobile devices than watching television for the first time this year, according to a study. Chinese adults will spend two hours and 39 minutes a day on average on their mobile devices, compared to two hours and 32 minutes watching TV, a…
[ad_1] Several third-party trackers are abusing the Facebook Login system, exfiltrating users’ data including name, email address, age range, gender, locale and profile photo, a new security research report has claimed. The unintended exposure of Facebook data to third-party JavaScript trackers is not owing to a bug in the Login With Facebook system. “Rather, it…
[ad_1] Apple has already had a busy start to the year launching its all-new HomePod smart speaker and refreshed iPad which packs more power at a much lower price. Now it seems another new device could be on its way with rumours suggesting a updated iPhone SE might launch in the next few months. As…
[ad_1] Any time you go out shopping with a tight budget, you have to deal with compromises. With laptops, you can’t get very high performance, but at the very least you need a functional device with a keyboard and trackpad that are comfortable to work with, enough ports for basic connectivity, and a body that…
[ad_1] Swiss engineering giant ABB is seeing strong growth momentum in developing markets ranging from Asia to Africa, the president and chief executive told CNBC Thursday. “Asia, Middle East and Africa is really performing very well,” ABB’s Ulrich Spiesshofer told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” Thursday, following the company’s first-quarter earnings report that showed a 20…
[ad_1] “The Irish DPC in conjunction with other EU DPAs (data protection authorities) continues to raise questions with Facebook in relation to the pilot of facial recognition it has run in U.K., France, Germany in advance of GDPR. There a number of outstanding issues on which we await further responses from Facebook,” a spokesperson for…
[ad_1] The WhatsApp High Priority Notifications work similar to the Pinned Messages, which was launched earlier WhatsApp for Android has added yet another new feature with its new beta update, while a separate feature has been added in the public version. In the latest WhatsApp beta version, the app has added ‘High Priority’ notifications that will…
[ad_1] Investigations into how Google may be using its Android smartphone operating system and its AdSense advertising service to thwart rivals are advancing, Europe’s antitrust chief said on Wednesday, amid concern about the lengthy proceedings. The European Commission opened its investigation into Android in 2015, following a complaint two years earlier from the lobbying group FairSearch.…
[ad_1] He pointed out that actual hyperloop systems will not travel at 750 miles per hour, though that is the technology’s often-cited, theoretical maximum speed. Instead, the average speed will be much slower. The way to maintain passenger comfort is by accelerating and decelerating slowly, he said. “It will be like a very comfortable airplane…
[ad_1] Facebook has posted a job opening looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA, two custom silicon designs that companies can gear toward specific use cases — particularly in machine learning and artificial intelligence. There’s been a lot of speculation in the valley as to what Facebook’s interpretation of custom silicon might be, especially…
[ad_1] Qualcomm has begun cutting jobs as part of its promise to investors to cut annual costs by $1 billion (roughly Rs. 6,500 crores), the chipmaker said on Wednesday. “Qualcomm is conducting a reduction of our full-time and temporary workforce,” a company spokesperson who declined to be identifies said, without disclosing the exact numbers of job…
[ad_1] Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods is taking its plant-based "Impossible Burger" to the shores of Hong Kong. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Amazon Prime membership has exceeded 100 million paid Prime members worldwide, according to company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. In his annual shareholder letter – published since 1997 and widely considered a must-read among executives and business leaders around the globe – Bezos listed the 100 million-plus figure as one of Amazon’s chief milestones…
[ad_1] Facebook is building a team to design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chipmakers such as Intel Corp. and Qualcomm, according to job listings and people familiar with the matter. The social media company is seeking to hire a manager to build an…
[ad_1] Intel on Wednesday confirmed it has chosen to close its New Devices Group, which has worked on augmented reality glasses and other consumer products. With the move to leave the wearables market, Intel will remain focused on delivering chips for PCs, servers and other hardware, while also looking at emerging technologies. The Information first…
[ad_1] The all-new Nokia 7 Plus is now available to pre-order in the UK. This latest mid-range device was announced at Mobile World Congress in February and offers premium specs at a very low price. HMD Global, the company behind the Nokia phone re-launch, says the 7 Plus will be available to buy from EE,…
[ad_1] OnePlus might be busy working on its next-generation flagship smartphone, but the Shenzhen-based company has still found time to push-out a new software update for OnePlus 5T owners. The operating system update brings an iPhone X-style feature that likely won’t arrive on other Android OS handsets until Android 9.0 P launches later this year.…
[ad_1] Sky has slashed the price of its Sky Cinema and entertainment channels in a jumper new deal via NOW TV. The UK satellite broadcaster has slashed 50 per cent off its six-month Entertainment and Sky Cinema Pass, dropping the price from over £100, down to £51. That’s quite the deal – especially since NOW…
[ad_1] Canada’s latest greenhouse gas inventory report to the United Nations shows emissions are starting to trend downward, but not nearly at the rate needed to meet the country’s international commitments under the Paris climate change accord. The report was made public Tuesday, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at the National Assembly in Paris…
[ad_1] Joshua Roberts | Reuters Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Jeffrey Bewkes (L) speaks with Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Randall Stephenson before a Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on the proposed deal between AT&T and Time Warner in Washington, U.S., December 7, 2016. “This combination gives us a…
[ad_1] If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much smaller. Facebook members outside the United States and Canada,…
[ad_1] If you’d like a way to invest in the future of cars, including autonomous vehicles and electric batteries, Tesla has been a rewarding stock market bet, up from $20 in 2010 to close to $300 today. But it has not been stress-free, for stockholders or for Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk. Musk recently…
[ad_1] Elon Musk is clamping down on spending at Tesla and, to do this, he’s drawing on an ancient philosophy called “first principles.” The term was coined more than 2,000 years ago by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who believed we learn more by understanding a subject’s fundamental principles, those “things better known and clearer…
[ad_1] European payments firm iZettle launched a platform Thursday that lets merchants set up online stores, in its biggest product release since 2011. The fintech firm is known for its mini card readers and payment processing technology, similar to Square in the U.S. But it is now looking to expand its offering as competition heats…
[ad_1] [The stream is slated to start at 6:30 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] SpaceX is set to launch Wednesday evening from Florida in its latest mission for NASA, launching a new planet-hunting satellite into orbit around the Earth. Elon Musk’s rocket company…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer has found one surefire way to boost your stock on a tepid day like Wednesday: say you’re making investments in technology to make your company more efficient. “Just look at the stock of Home Depot,” the “Mad Money” host said. “[It] announced this morning that it’s hiring 1,000 technical professionals as…
[ad_1] It’s almost time for SpaceX to launch NASA’s TESS, a space telescope that will search for exoplants more across nearly the entire night sky. The launch has been delayed more than once already: originally scheduled for March 20, it slipped to April 16 (Monday), then some minor issues pushed it to today — at…
[ad_1] The worst could be over for bitcoin, according to one of the best-known cryptocurrency hedge fund managers. Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital, said the digital currency has been growing at 165 percent per year in the five years the firm has been in business. “Something that’s growing that fast hardly ever gets below…
[ad_1] Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee works on a Telsa Motors Model S sedan as it makes its way along an assembly line at company’s assembly plant in Fremont, California. California’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration started an investigation into Tesla on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson for the agency. The…
[ad_1] Brent Lewis | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has released his latest annual shareholder letter. In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having high standards in running a business. By setting high standards, companies are able to live up to “ever-rising customer expectations,” he said.…
[ad_1] Tesla’s battery production for the Model 3 is the company’s real obstacle to putting cars on the road, not Model 3 assembly itself, said Oppenheimer analyst Colin Rusch on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” “The real concern for us ultimately is how many batteries they can make that fit the specs,” he said, adding that he…
[ad_1] Facebook has begun putting together a team of people who can work on chip designs, Bloomberg reported shortly before market close on Wednesday. The report cited people familiar with the matter and pointed to a job listing that says Facebook wants a manager who can “build and manage an end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver…
[ad_1] – Open Settings– Tap General– Select Restrictions– Choose “Enable Restrictions”– Create a passcode– Choose “Do Not Disturb While Driving”– Pick “Don’t Allow Changes’ Apple says drivers will still hear alarms, emergency alerts and any timers you might have set before getting in the car. There are still ways people can reach you: – If…
[ad_1] A new space imaging startup called EarthNow aims to provide not just pictures of the planet on demand, but real-time video anywhere a client desires. Its ambition is matched only by its pedigree: Bill Gates, Intellectual Ventures, Airbus, Softbank, and OneWeb founder Greg Wyler are all backing the play. Its promise is a constellation…
[ad_1] Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller and Federal Reserve chair runner-up Kevin Warsh have invested in a cryptocurrency project called Basis, along with many other investors, the company said Wednesday. Bain Capital Ventures said it led the $133 million private placement, which was the private equity firm’s first purchase of cryptocurrency tokens. Other investors included Alphabet’s GV…
[ad_1] Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of the firms developing the super-fast transport method, will begin building a track in Abu Dhabi with the aim of having it operational by 2020. The company signed an agreement with Aldar Properties PJSC, the developer behind Yas Island’s Formula 1 racing circuit, to begin construction of the hyperloop…
[ad_1] A project to stream continues video of Earth from satellites says it just got an influx of money from some of tech’s top investors, including SoftBank and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. A company called EarthNow said on Wednesday it plans to use a large constellation of satellites to provide “live and unfiltered” footage of…
[ad_1] Susana Bates | AFP | Getty Images Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attend a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California in September 2015. Overall, whether in the developed or developing world, consumers are showing few signs of being very bothered by the fallout from…
[ad_1] Cybersecurity continues to be a growing focus and problem in the digital world, and now Stripe is launching a new paid product that it hopes will help its customers better battle one of the bigger side-effects of data breaches: online payment fraud. Today, Stripe is announcing Radar for Fraud Teams, an expansion of its…
[ad_1] The good news is that, while some of this is kind of creepy — like Microsoft’s knowledge of the apps I opened on my home computer — Microsoft doesn’t seem to have as much as other companies… at least not on the surface. If you use the Edge browser and, like me, share your…
[ad_1] Snapchat users can now shop directly from a snap without leaving the app. Shoppable AR is a new feature on Snapchat that gives advertisers the ability to add a website to sponsored photo filters all within the platform. The lens — which was announced on Wednesday — opens up options to directly buy products,…
[ad_1] GoPro is willing to take that old digital camera stuffed in your junk drawer even if it’s not a GoPro. Through a program called Trade-Up, the camera company will discount the GoPro H6 Black $50 and Fusion $100 when buyers trade in any digital camera. The company tried this last year for 60 days,…
[ad_1] This week Snapchat is rolling out Shoppable AR, a new feature that makes it even easier for advertisers to sell goods through sponsored lenses. The new offering builds on top of the Sponsored Lenses the service rolled out in late-2015, which let advertisers create branded filters, bringing product placements to selfies. Now companies can…
[ad_1] Shares of Roku plunged more than 9 percent on Wednesday after Amazon and Best Buy announced they would team up to sell smart TVs. Under the terms of the new deal, Best Buy will become one of the only brick and mortar retailers where customers can walk in and buy a TV powered by…
[ad_1] Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper. At launch, the app teaches would-be coders how to write JavaScript, via short lessons on their iPhone or Android device. The goal is to get coders proficient in the basics and core concepts, so they…
[ad_1] Shares sank below $150 Wednesday, after closing Tuesday more than $10 higher. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] “That’s why we’ve spent so much time in developing this, over seven years developing this engine, to make it reusable,” Smith said. “This engine will actually perform 100 starts — 100 full missions that we’d actually be able to go do,” Smith said. BE-4 is built for Blue Origin’s coming New Glenn rocket. Smith…
[ad_1] Marissa Mayer was celebrated as a savior when she left Google to become chief executive of Yahoo in 2012. A brilliant computer scientist, Ms. Mayer was the 20th employee at Google, and influenced many of the company’s signature features — including Gmail and Google Maps. But could she save Yahoo? The company was reeling…
[ad_1] Morgan Stanley raised the stakes for Tesla shareholders, saying the developments over next few months could move the stock significantly up or down. “We see the next three months as the most critical time in Tesla’s history since the Model S launch six years ago. The fundamental pendulum could move in either direction or…
[ad_1] During a tour of the office, Aïda Figuerola, global events at King told CNBC that every floor “has its own kitchen, its own games area and its own flavor,” while themes tailor to certain areas according to their needs. As a company, King worked closely with all of the teams in Barcelona, in order…
[ad_1] Jensen Harris worked for Microsoft for 16 years. He joined the company after graduating from college and lead the design and development of well-known products including Microsoft Office and Windows. He was, for a decade and a half, steeped in corporate culture. Then, three and a half years ago, the tech executive left Microsoft…
[ad_1] Drivers will earn $1 for each product sold, plus 25 percent commission per sale. They can also earn a weekly $10 bonus when at least 10 items are sold, and Cargo claims that drives can earn up to $500 a month. Some products, including Smartwater, are free to passengers and therefore won’t earn commission.…
[ad_1] At the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, the team behind the U.S. government’s cloud.gov application platform announced that it is now a certified Cloud Foundry platform that is guaranteed to be compatible with other certified providers like Huawei, IBM, Pivotal, SAP and — also starting today — Suse. With this, cloud.gov becomes the first…
[ad_1] A man suspected of masterminding the theft of about 600 computers used to mine bitcoins and other virtual currencies has likely fled to Sweden after breaking out of a prison in Iceland, officials said Wednesday. Swedish police spokesman Stefan Dangardt said no arrest has been made in Sweden but Icelandic police have briefed them…
[ad_1] Cloud Foundry is among the most successful open source project in the enterprise right now. It’s a cloud-agnostic platform-as-a-service offering that helps businesses develop and run their software more efficiently. In many enterprises, it’s now the standard platform for writing new applications. Indeed, half of the Fortune 500 companies now use it in one…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for Android has added a new feature in its latest Beta update. In the latest WhatsApp beta version, the app has added ‘High Priority’ notifications that will enable users to manage push notifications better. It is similar to the pinned chats feature that WhatsApp had rolled out last year. WhatsApp has also separately…
[ad_1] Aside from giving disabled people a new level of empowerment, avatar robots present myriad possibilities for work with concomitant economic benefits. If you’re a doctor, for instance, you could log into a robot in Antarctica or on a space station to tend to a critically ill person. Robots as a whole are beneficial for…
[ad_1] While smaller companies are seeing a lot of new options for distributed office space, or can pick up a couple offices in a WeWork, eventually they get big enough and have to find a bigger office — but that can end up as one of the weirdest and most annoying challenges for an early-stage…
[ad_1] Amid controversies around data abuse through its social network, Facebook has now added expanded its app’s use cases by enabling an option for mobile recharges in India. The new option is initially available within the latest Facebook app for Android devices. However, users with an iPhone need to wait for sometime to get a…
[ad_1] Amazon Technologies has won a patent for a marketplace that offers data feeds, including bitcoin transactions. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday approved the Amazon.com subsidiary’s Sept. 2014 filing for a patent that can correlate different data streams and sell the combined feed as a subscription to people who want to track…
[ad_1] My friend Rick is a voiceover artist and works in Ohio – right along the flight path for jets taking off and landing at the Columbus airport. As a result, he said, he had to record late at night when the airport closed, a limitation that he found exasperating. Enter StudioBricks, a cool startup…
[ad_1] Russia’s telecoms watchdog plans to probe Facebook before the end of the year after blocking access in the country to the popular messaging app Telegram, its head said on Wednesday. “We will conduct a probe of the company before the end of 2018,” the head of state regulator Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, told pro-Kremlin newspaper…
[ad_1] Shares of eBay jumped nearly 4 percent in the premarket Wednesday after analysts at Morgan Stanley ‘double upgraded’ the stock on expectations that a transition away from PayPal will give the company’s numbers a boost. Analysts at the investment bank raised their rating on eBay to overweight all the way from underweight and hiked…
[ad_1] 500 Startups may soon be coming up on the one-year mark for the end of a tumultuous saga involving its founder, but its accelerator classes still continue to plug along — and its next batch is now getting ready to roll. The firm’s 23rd batch of startups this year consists of the usual mix…
[ad_1] AJ Brustein was out spending time with a member of his merchandising team when a nearby store ran out of stock of some goods — but there was no one on staff responsible for that location. Fortunately, the employee he was with had already showed him how to restock the shelves, and he offered…
[ad_1] Fortnite iOS has been a bonafide success since launch with revenue surpassing the likes of Pokemon Go and Candy Crush Saga and finding a place in the top 10 grossing list on iPhone in 23 countries. Now it seems that Epic Games’ battle royale title has earned $25 million (approximately Rs. 165 crore) in…
[ad_1] Peter Adams | Photolibrary | Getty Images Crawford Market in Mumbai, India. India, home to 1.3 billion people, offers a huge consumer market. But, according to one business expert in the country, the capacity of the world’s second largest population to sell is undervalued. “I think one of the areas which we need to…
[ad_1] With a stock price that has increased 135 percent over the last five years, Home Depot remains one of the few giant brick-and-mortar retailers to find success in the age of Amazon. Now, the $200 billion home improvement retailer is going on the biggest technology hiring spree in its history to try to maintain…
[ad_1] Big tech firms such as Facebook could inadvertently benefit from new European privacy rules aimed at strengthening consumer control over personal data. Speaking to CNBC’s “Street Signs,” Cenkos Securities analyst Alex DeGroote said consumers will spend more time on Facebook’s homepage or newsfeed because they will be less inclined to accept consent from a…
[ad_1] Getty Images Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Facebook is bringing its facial recognition technology back to Europe, despite agreeing with regulators to drop the feature nearly six…
[ad_1] Pokémon Go players will be falling over themselves to try this hilarious new iPhone hack. Reddit user FrozenPenguinToaster revealed the nostalgic hack on the social news website earlier this week. The hack swaps-out the default iOS incoming call screen for the classic battle menu from Pokémon video games on Nintendo’s GameBoy console. It even…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for Android has added some new features and bug fixes in its latest updates. Earlier, it fixed a timestamp issue found in the WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109. Now, the messaging app has introduced a new feature that lets users download deleted media files. Previously, when users deleted specific files sent over WhatsApp by…
[ad_1] WhatsApp users should be aware of a new scam doing the rounds on the successful messaging platform. Unlike previous scam messages that have circulated on the Facebook-owned chat app, this latest message actually contains an element of truth. The WhatsApp hoax encourages users to forward on the message, like the chain-mail messages that used…
[ad_1] The new Sonos One was revealed late last year with the major update finally making this hugely popular speaker brand a whole lot smarter. With Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant now built in, the Sonos One can be controlled via simple voice commands with music, timers, weather reports and even smart home features all instantly…
[ad_1] Joining the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 bandwagon, Paytm app has started showing live cricket score updates. The IPL score updates are available right on the homescreen of the Paytm app starting this season and will continue to appear across all major domestic and international cricket tournaments following the ongoing T20 tournament. The experience…
[ad_1] In 1941, comic book readers were introduced to a scrawny kid with a heart of gold named Steve Rogers, co-created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. He didn’t have the chops to join the army, but was chosen to be boosted with the power of the super-soldier serum and vita-rays. He was pushed to…
[ad_1] Google has rolled out Chrome 66 on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. The latest update comes with several design tweaks, security and developer features, user-facing features, and policy changes. The key highlights of the latest update include media autoplay behaviour, password export feature, site isolation trial, and some bug fixes. In January 2018,…
[ad_1] Together, the two creatures lurking in the depths weigh as much as a thousand average humans. But the only hint of their presence is the ring of bubbles forming at the surface of the ocean. Moments later, two gaping, barnacled mouths explode through the waves and take a school-bus-sized gulp of fish and water. Kelsey Bisson may be a marine…
[ad_1] Los Angeles should consider legal action against Waze over complaints that the traffic navigation app is recklessly guiding motorists off thoroughfares and into residential neighbourhoods in search of shorter or quicker routes, a city council member said Tuesday. Councilman David Ryu sent a letter to the city attorney’s office, outlining what he says are…
[ad_1] Russia’s state communications regulator on Tuesday said it had blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon, saying they were being used by the Telegram messaging service which Moscow moved to ban this week. Russia’s Roskomnadzor watchdog began blocking Telegram, a messaging service popular in Russia, on Monday after it refused to comply with…
[ad_1] Apple plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium subscription offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is part of a broader push by the iPhone maker to generate more revenue from online content and services. The Cupertino, California company agreed last month…
[ad_1] Cryptocurrency wallet and exchange firm Coinbase has hired a Wall Street executive as its finance chief. The company said in a blog post on Tuesday that Alesia Haas, the chief financial officer of publicly traded hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management, will join it as chief financial officer (CFO) immediately. Haas will help Oz Management…
[ad_1] Instead of providing a host of fresh features, Microsoft has decided to fix a bunch of reliability issues through its new Windows 10 update. The latest move comes days after the anticipation of the next major Windows 10 update codenamed Redstone 4 that was internally due on April 10 and was likely to arrive…
[ad_1] Zach Gibson | Getty Images Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Facebook will begin asking users if their data can be used to power services like facial recognition…
[ad_1] Amazon has silently released a lite web browser app for Android devices that is touted to be “lighter than the competition”. Called Internet, the app is specifically designed to consume less space on the device and comes under 2MB in size. It is also claimed to offer a private user experience by not asking…
[ad_1] A.I. has sparked fears and warnings that machines might dominate humans, but Gawdat said that it’s up to people to show them the right behavior. “The idea of us worrying about this might be warranted, (but) it doesn’t get us far.” Instead, he said, action should be taken. That could include portraying the right…
[ad_1] Amazon on Tuesday announced a new feature that enables international users to easily import goods from the US. While a local Amazon app is present in several countries, but it doesn’t always let users purchase products outside their home markets – which essentially makes it difficult for people to buy products sold by Amazon…
[ad_1] The technology sector is offering global opportunities to investment groups such as Abu Dhabi Financial Group (ADFG), the CEO of the firm told CNBC. “When we talk about technology, it’s a completely different landscape from any other conventional sector. Technology really is something that does not work with the conventional way of thinking and…
[ad_1] Megatrends like technology are obvious targets for investment, but there are less apparent ones like population aging that also present vast opportunities, said an expert on Wednesday. “This is just happening and it comes along with a number of added needs by this population, a number of focuses as well,” said Nannette Hechler-Fayd’herbe, Credit…
[ad_1] Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. They ask users review how Facebook uses data around the web to target you with ads, sensitive profile info they share, and facial recognition But with a design the encourages rapidly hitting the…
[ad_1] Jio is also said to offer SD channels at Rs. 200 a month with this service Jio Home TV, if rumours are to be believed, is set to be the telecom giant’s next big project that will reportedly offer a fresh change in the Indian Direct-to-Home (DTH) space. According to a report, Jio Home…
[ad_1] As millions of Canadians cast ballots in pivotal provincial elections this year, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to gauge how much they were influenced by online campaign ads tailored to their specific interests and opinions. Political parties and candidates are increasingly relying on Facebook in particular to communicate their sales pitches to…
[ad_1] Galarm – group alarm – is a very simple sounding app that is actually surprisingly useful. As the name suggests, this is a social alarm clock – you can set the alarm for yourself, and others you’re sharing the alarm with will be able to see if you turned it off, or they could…
[ad_1] Around 23 million Canadians use Facebook every month, and with elections looming in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick and a federal campaign next year, those users will no doubt be besieged by political ads on the social media platform. But unlike on TV and radio, political ads online are not strictly regulated. They’re also targeted at…
[ad_1] A new community space opened at the Google campus in Kitchener on Tuesday, with an aim to help with local STEM education, innovation and digital skills for youth. The new community space can be used by local nonprofits and organizations for free as event space, co-worker areas as well as a place to host programs. Google has…
[ad_1] If you happen to be lucky and have clear skies tonight, step outside and look west for a beautiful pairing. After the sun sets, you’ll be able to catch an extremely slender crescent moon together with the bright jewel of the night sky, Venus. You’ll have to have a keen eye to spot the…
[ad_1] Legendary activist investor Carl Icahn has accumulated a medium-sized stake in VMware, according to sources familiar with the matter. Icahn’s stake is below the 5 percent threshold that mandates public disclosure. It’s unclear if Icahn has a particular agenda or is pushing for anything specific from VMware or Dell, which owns about 80 percent…
[ad_1] Wilson wants the Air Force to put new assets in space that are resilient, perhaps even to the point of repelling an attack. Amid rising potential threats in space from China and Russia, Wilson and Chief of Staff David Goldfein said “our determination is to be the predator, not the prey.” “We built exquisite…
[ad_1] SHENZHEN, China — In a grand hotel ballroom on Tuesday, Huawei executives laid out a soaring vision for the future. The Chinese electronics giant, already the world’s biggest supplier of the equipment that powers the wireless age, now wants to provide the digital backbone for artificial intelligence, the internet of things and other transformative…
[ad_1] If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to let states collect sales tax on out-of-state retailers, it would harm small business to the benefit of big companies, like Amazon, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist told CNBC on Tuesday. The justices heard arguments on the issue Tuesday. South Dakota is asking the court to overturn a 1992…
[ad_1] Chinese smartphone maker ZTE’s U.S. woes deepened on Tuesday, as regulators proposed new rules that could cut into its sales, while a supply ban means it may not be able to use Android software in its devices, according to a source. The U.S. Commerce Department banned American firms on Monday from selling parts and…
[ad_1] Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said on Tuesday that the company is “principled” about the sorts of people it works with. The statement comes on the same day that Microsoft announced it’s one of 34 companies that signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, a document promising that, among other things, participants won’t…
[ad_1] Facebook researchers are creating a device that could allow users to interpret messages through vibrations, MIT Technology Review reported. Researchers from the social media company built a prototype of a cast-like device that vibrates in patterns to match up with specific sound. Inspired by Braille and Tadoma, a method of communication for the blind…
[ad_1] Apple is tight-lipped and rarely reveals plans for future products, and like many companies, Apple’s ideas and prototypes don’t always make it to shelves. But there are other signs that services like Setapp — software subscriptions aimed at Mac-powered businesses and students — may get more common. For one, Apple recently acquired magazine subscription…
[ad_1] As shares of Netflix surged to an all-time high on Tuesday and sent the broader market higher, CNBC’s Jim Cramer tied the rise to the lasting effect of the FANG stocks on the economy. Analysts have long said FANG, Cramer’s acronym for the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet, was near-dead…
[ad_1] Yesterday was a rough one for ZTE. A year after pleading guilty to violating sanctions with Iran and North Korea, the U.S. Department of Commerce brought the hammer down and announced a seven-year export restriction on goods sporting U.S. components. That applies to more than a quarter of the components used in the company’s…
[ad_1] To be sure, the market for cryptocurrency index funds is getting increasingly crowded, with major players flooding in. Coinbase, the leading U.S. marketplace for cryptocurrencies, announced in March it was releasing a weighted index fund to give accredited U.S. investors access to crypto assets. Earlier this month, U.S.-based Cryptos Fund launched a new entity…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer cautioned investors against buying Snap despite the social media company’s new app redesign — at least for now. “The stock is not cheap here,” Cramer said on “Mad Money” Tuesday. “I say take a pass — for now — at least until we know whether the Snapchat redesign will actually hurt…
[ad_1] As shares of Netflix surged to an all-time high on Tuesday and sent the broader market higher, CNBC’s Jim Cramer tied the rise to the lasting effect of the FANG stocks on the economy. Analysts have long said FANG, Cramer’s acronym for the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet, was near-dead…
[ad_1] Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. An activist hedge fund that wants Facebook to set up a risk oversight committee asked fellow shareholders on Tuesday…
[ad_1] Tesla shares bumped up more than 1 percent in after hours trading on Tuesday, after electric vehicle blog Electrek reported it obtained an email from Tesla CEO Elon Musk that confirms the company is halting production at its two main factories for several days to upgrade equipment, and hopes to produce 6,000 Model 3…
[ad_1] Space is a booming business — and it’s only going to get bigger, said Dylan Taylor, founding partner at Space Angels Network, a privately held financial services firm that focuses exclusively on the aerospace industry. “Space is the hottest sector right now,” Taylor told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan during an exclusive interview on Tuesday at…
[ad_1] Bitcoin pundits had bet on prices recovering after U.S. investors filed their taxes. But as markets headed into the close on tax day, prices pulled back dramatically below $8,000. Bitcoin fell more than $200 in 30 minutes, to a low of $7,861 as of 4:00 p.m. ET, according to CoinDesk. The digital currency has…
[ad_1] Buick unveiled an electric concept car Tuesday in China, which remains the brand’s biggest market, by far. The Buick Enspire is an all-electric sport utility vehicle that can drive zero to 60 mph in 4 seconds and travel 370 miles on a single charge. Like Tesla vehicles using that company’s Supercharger stations, the Enspire…
[ad_1] The embattled voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica quietly sought to develop its own virtual currency in recent months through a so-called initial coin offering, a novel fund-raising method that has come under growing scrutiny by financial regulators around the world. The planned coin offering and a broader push into the world of virtual currencies were…
[ad_1] As Google employees fret about about becoming engaged in “the business of war,” Alphabet board member Eric Schmidt thinks the tech industry will likely form a shared set of “AI-principles” to guide how Silicon Valley works with the Department of Defense. Schmidt, chairman of the Department of Defense’s Innovation Board, spoke before a hearing…
[ad_1] Christoph Auer-Welsbach Contributor Christoph Auer-Welsbach is an experienced founder, investor and product manager active in the fields of artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT and web/mobile. He is the co-founder of the global applied AI community City.AI. This year, artificial intelligence will further elevate the enterprise by transforming the way we work, securing digital assets, increasing…
[ad_1] Adam Galica | CNBC Ginni Rometty, Chairman, president and CEO of IBM at the 2018 WEF in Davos, Switzerland. IBM will report financial results for the first quarter after the bell on Tuesday. The company will hold a teleconference with analysts at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s what the street is expecting, according to…
[ad_1] Netflix stock soared following Monday’s after-hours earnings call, when the company reported a greater-than-expected number of new subscribers. But Michael Graham, managing director and senior equity analyst at Canaccord Genuity, said this is only the beginning. “If you look at the penetration that Netflix has in all of the different … countries that it’s…
[ad_1] Twitter shares rallied more than 10 percent Tuesday on an upgrade from Morgan Stanley, citing that the platform’s relationship with advertisers, improving user numbers and positive revisions make it “a more compelling risk/reward.” As the company gets ready to announce first-quarter earnings next week, one trader says the stock looks primed for an even…
[ad_1] Henry Nicholls | Reuters Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, center, arrives at the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London, Britain, March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica was planning to raise money by issuing a new type of digital currency before it became embroiled in a scandal surrounding the misuse of Facebook Inc personal…
[ad_1] Chris Wylie, the whistleblower at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica data-mining scandal, will appear before the Parliamentary privacy committee, says committee chair Bob Zimmer. A date has yet to be set for Wylie to appear, but Zimmer said they have confirmed he will attend. “We are working on a date that he is able…
[ad_1] Amazon has quietly launched an Android web browser app for emerging markets, where access to mobile data and high-speed connectivity is more limited. The browser has the rather generic name of: “Internet: fast, lite and private” on Google Play, and promises to be “lighter than the competition.” The app first appeared on the Play…
[ad_1] Between running the e-commerce behemoth Amazon and the aerospace company Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has a lot going on. But recently, the tech executive has shared a few more personal moments on Instagram. Though he is currently worth over $122 billion according to Forbes, the tech boss does…
[ad_1] Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Tesla car dealership in Shanghai taken on March 17, 2015. The new policy is seen as a boon to Tesla’s plans to build its own plant in Shanghai. That project was thought to be under threat because the U.S. firm did not want to partner with a…
[ad_1] Tesla’s manufacturing issues will not improve significantly this year, according one Wall Street firm. Bernstein reiterates its market perform rating on Tesla shares, warning investors the electric-car maker will have difficulty meeting its profit margin forecast. Buzzfeed reported Monday that Tesla is temporarily shutting down production of the Model 3 at its factory in…
[ad_1] Hardware isn’t easy — especially if you decline to take advantage of the global manufacturing infrastructure, build everything in a flat in London, and use only local labor and materials. But that’s what the creators of successful Kickstarter project Moon did, and they have no regrets. Back in 2016, I got a pitch for…
[ad_1] The video is not an actual recording of Obama. It’s a highly edited video that digitally alters footage of Obama to make his mouth mimic a voice actor’s movements. The audio of the speech was recorded by Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele. The clip eventually shows a split screen of Obama and Peele, revealing the…
[ad_1] Hours before the midnight Tax Day deadline, the Internal Revenue Service page for paying your tax bill using your bank account has crashed. The IRS “Direct Pay” page allows filers to transfer funds from their checking or savings account to pay what they owe. As of 11:50 AM on April 17 — Tax Day…
[ad_1] NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is set to launch next year for a journey around the moon, will mark the first time that a deep-space craft has been built using 3-D-printed parts. The space agency wants to conduct a new set of lunar missions, as well as exploration to other destinations including Mars. The Exploration…
[ad_1] Your Venmo transactions are public by default, but they don’t need to be. You can make them private so that nobody can see when you’re paying another user. It’s easy, just do this: – Login to Venmo – Choose “Settings” in the top-right corner on the web site, or at the bottom of the…
[ad_1] Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced more details Tuesday about how his department will become “a one stop shop” for regulating the burgeoning space industry. The Commerce Department also plans to work with the existing regulations enforced by the Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Communications Commission, Ross said. “The Department is repositioning and consolidating all…
[ad_1] Blockchain, a cryptocurrency wallet service, has hired a former Goldman Sachs executive to help boost its presence with institutional clients. Breanne Madigan joined the firm this month, Blockchain announced Tuesday. She will take up the role as head of institutional sales and strategy. Madigan most recently served as head of institutional wealth services at…
[ad_1] Building conversational interfaces is a hot new area for developers. Chatbots can be a way to reduce friction in websites and apps and to give customers quick answers to commonly asked questions in a conversational framework. Today, Google announced it was making Dialogflow Enterprise Edition generally available. It had previously been in Beta. This…
[ad_1] “We work to help health care providers — from doctors to hospitals and treatment centers — get online and connect with people who need their help. Substance abuse is a growing crisis and has led to deceptive practices by bad actors,” Google’s Senior Director of Global Product Policy David Graff said in a statement…
[ad_1] Netflix reported strong numbers for its first quarter, but a couple of Wall Street analysts see risks for the company moving forward. On Monday, the streaming giant reported earnings per share and revenue that met analyst expectations. Netflix shares rose nearly 7 percent as investors cheered the company’s strong subscriber growth. However, Jefferies equity…
[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft‘s privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute. The justices heard arguments in the high-profile case on Feb. 27, but President Donald Trump on March 22 signed…
[ad_1] Huawei is readjusting its approach the the U.S. In an annual meeting in Shenzhen, the company asserted its commitment on existing customers and markets. It’s a shift in focus for a company that has been aggressively targeting new territories, looking to expand its position as the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer. It’s understandable, of…
[ad_1] Resy launched in the summer of 2014 with a simple premise: If you want a premium reservation at a restaurant on short notice, you should be able to pay for it. Four years and 160 markets later, Resy has changed a lot since then. But today, the company is about to change things up…
[ad_1] Acer has tied up with Marvel Studios for the launch of three special edition laptops in India, which are inspired from characters from the upcoming movie, Avengers: Infinity War. The laptops include the Captain America Edition of the Aspire 6 which is priced at Rs. 63,999; a Thanos Edition of the Nitro 5 at…
[ad_1] The missing home button on the iPhone X provides another potential clue for the future of iPhone design: a continuing war on buttons. “Apple is still on a quest to get rid of as many buttons are they can,” Snell said. He speculates that the iPhone’s side buttons could become completely virtual like the…
[ad_1] When you’re raising venture capital, it helps if you’ve had “exits.” In other words, if your company has been acquired or you’ve taken one public, investors are more inclined to take a bet on anything you do. Boston -based serial entrepreneur David Cancel has sold not just one, but four companies. And after a few…
[ad_1] A second round of proposed tariffs on Chinese goods would likely take greater steps to protect American intellectual property, according to several analysts. “While the focus today is trade, the real agenda is to protect U.S. [intellectual property],” Pitzer wrote, noting that current litigation playing out in China could further inflame U.S.-China tensions over…
[ad_1] Amazon is in talks with Brazilian airline Azul SA on shipping goods in the country, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in the latest sign of the retailer’s big plans in Latin America’s largest economy. The talks with Azul, which serves over 50 percent more Brazilian airports than its nearest rival,…
[ad_1] A move by the United States to ban American firms selling components to the Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp will also hit a target closer to home: Qualcomm Inc, a U.S. company that is a major supplier of chips for ZTE’s phones. The U.S. Department of Commerce slapped a seven-year ban on sales…
[ad_1] Thousands of free, popular children’s apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting growing criticism of Silicon Valley’s data collection efforts. Seven researchers analysed nearly 6,000 apps for children and found that the majority of them may be in violation of the…
[ad_1] Kraken is pulling operations from one of the biggest markets for cryptocurrency trading. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange said Tuesday that it would withdraw services in Japan due to rising costs of maintaining its business there, but indicated it could return in the future. It added that the suspension of activity in Japan would…
[ad_1] Shares of Netflix jumped more than 7 percent in the premarket Tuesday after the company said it added nearly 1 million more subscribers in the previous quarter than analysts were expecting. The streaming giant said Monday after the close it added a total of 7.41 million subscribers in the first quarter. In the U.S.,…
[ad_1] Despite most the world’s largest technology companies harking from the U.S., Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates highlighted the contribution made by the developing world in a speech Tuesday. Kenya’s “pioneering” M-Pesa digital payments platform “has been a model for dozens of countries around the world,” Gates said, speaking at the Commonwealth Heads of…
[ad_1] “Netflix once again demonstrated a higher pace of sub growth than expected, while also raising price. The combination of a double-digit price increases across 80% of their sub base, combined with some F/X help, drove Netflix revenue +43% y/y, their highest growth rate since 2011 Since we view this as a thesis-confirming result, we…
[ad_1] A top Wall Street firm is getting more optimistic on Twitter’s prospects. Morgan Stanley raised its rating for Twitter shares to equal-weight from underweight, predicting better ad sales growth this year. “Constructive advertiser conversations, improving user growth, and positive revisions make [Twitter shares] a more compelling risk/reward,” analyst Brian Nowak wrote in a note…
[ad_1] A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission. The ruling adds to the privacy woes that have been mounting against Facebook for weeks since it was disclosed that the personal information…
[ad_1] The biggest stock-picking fund at BlackRock raised its bet on Facebook in March, a source familiar with the matter said, making the social media company a top 10 equity holding and apparently betting that Facebook’s privacy scandal will not weigh on the stock for long. A person familiar with the matter said the Global…
[ad_1] Software giant Opera recently announced that it would be discontinuing its Opera VPN app on both iOS and Android with effect from April 30, 2018. All paying Opera Gold users will be provided with the option to redeem a free one-year subscription for SurfEasy Ultra VPN. Additionally, the company announced that Opera users not…
[ad_1] Russia’s state telecommunications regulator said on Tuesday it had sent requests to Google and Apple asking them to remove the Telegram messenger service from their application stores, the Interfax news agency reported. The watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said on Monday it had begun blocking access to Telegram, implementing a decision by a Russian court. [ad_2] Source…
[ad_1] White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce will leave his post and return to the National Security Agency, a White House official said on Monday. “Joyce is three months past his detail of a year and is deciding to return to NSA,” the official said. His departure follows that of his boss, Tom Bossert, who…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for Android has added some new features and bug fixes in its latest updates. Earlier, it fixed a timestamp issue found in the WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109. Now, the messaging app has introduced a new feature that lets users download deleted media files. Previously, when users deleted specific files sent over WhatsApp by…
[ad_1] Uber’s robust growth in Brazil, its biggest market outside the United States, has given the ride-hailing app a far stronger position than it had in Asian markets that it recently exited, a senior executive said on a visit to South America. In a telephone interview with Reuters, Andrew Macdonald, who runs operations in Latin…
[ad_1] Cisco is currently working to protect its customers from up to 20 billion cybersecurity attacks per day, but the internet networking company is looking to a world changed by future wireless capabilities. Speaking with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Cisco President for Asia-Pacific and Japan Miyuki Suzuki said the company is working to develop the next…
[ad_1] Intel has announced the development of new virus scanning techniques that will allow for better threat detection on Windows PCs and cloud services. These capabilities are called Accelerated Memory Scanning and Intel Advanced Platform Telemetry. Intel has also launched Security Essentials, which includes numerous critical root-of-trust hardware security capabilities, for Intel Core, Intel Xeon,…
[ad_1] Microsoft has pushed-out the latest beta for its forthcoming Windows 10, which hints at some of the new features penciled-in for launch later this year. Codenamed Redstone 5, the blockbuster new update will follow the Spring Creators Update, which is scheduled to launch in a few weeks, sometime in the autumn. The biggest change…
[ad_1] The French government is building its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations between top officials, the digital ministry said on Monday. None of the world’s major encrypted messaging apps, including Facebook’s WhatsApp and Telegram – a favourite of President Emmanuel Macron – are based in…
[ad_1] Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo smart speakers launched in India in October last year, and its main rival, the Google Home, only launched in India last week. Developers can integrate the Echo speakers with their applications to enable voice-based use cases and since their launch, Amazon has been trying to get more and more Indian services…
[ad_1] In what could begin a new era for forensic science, the police in Britain have arrested a drug dealer based on fingerprints they found on a WhatsApp image sent by the criminal to his clients. The photograph showed part of the dealer’s hand “and there was potentially a fingerprint,” the BBC reported late on…
[ad_1] The feature to request money is available in WhatsApp Android beta v2.18.113 WhatsApp has received a new feature for Android beta users that lets you request money from contacts. Since the feature was spotted in testing, WhatsApp Payments only allowed users to send money to contacts. However, even now, the request money feature does not work…
[ad_1] Jio is also said to offer SD channels at Rs. 200 a month with this service Jio Home TV, if rumours are to be believed, is set to be the telecom giant’s next big project that will reportedly offer a fresh change in the Indian Direct-to-Home (DTH) space. According to a report, Jio Home…
[ad_1] In machine learning, mathematical models are built and then fed with huge volumes of data, experts said. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Most people buying a laptop for home use wouldn’t typically pay too much attention to the weight, but if you’re going to be carrying it around with you on a daily basis, then this would matter a lot. Hybrid tablets such as the Microsoft Surface Pro have tried to cater to this niche segment of…
[ad_1] The CEO of Netflix has offered insight into how the online streaming service arrives at the suggestions it makes to users about what shows and movies to watch. During a question-and-answer session Saturday morning at the TED conference, Reed Hastings, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix, talked about running the multi-billion dollar company. Sitting…
[ad_1] The southern mountain caribou is on the verge of disappearing from the American landscape — and that’s a dire warning to Canada, scientists say. Last week, biologists flew over southern British Columbia to count the number of caribou in the last remaining herd that migrates south from B.C. to the U.S. — the South…
[ad_1] Rebele said, “Modern emissions controls are required on cars…but there is not a single outboard motor that has a catalytic converter, so they’re putting out ten times the cancer-causing pollution that a car does per gallon of gas, and there’s no plan to change that.” Besides Rebele said, “Boats piss people off because they…
[ad_1] [The stream is slated to start at 2:00 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Vice President Mike Pence is expected to speak on space policy Monday at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. While the White House declined provide advance notice…
[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018. A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully created facial templates for people without…
[ad_1] Netflix’s spending priorities are more typical of a media company than a technology one, according to CEO Reed Hastings. “We’ll spend over $10 billion on content and marketing and a billion-three on tech,” Hastings said on a call with analysts. “So, I mean, just objectively, we’re much more of a media company in that…
[ad_1] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweaked President Donald Trump via Twitter on Monday, following two Pulitzer Prize wins by the Washington Post. In a tweet, Bezos praised the reporters at the Washington Post for their investigative reporting that led to “Alabama” and “Moscow,” referencing the two story topics that landed the journalism prizes — and…
[ad_1] The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is considering a new complaint against China to retaliate for restrictions on high tech sectors, like cloud computing, the Wall Street Journal reported. Separate from levies on steel and aluminum and tariffs on Chinese imports over alleged intellectual property theft, the complaint would open up a new…
[ad_1] FilmMagic | HBO | Getty Images Elon Musk speaks on stage during the Westworld Featured Session during SXSW at Austin Convention Center on March 10, 2018 in Austin, Texas. Tesla is temporarily shutting down production for the Model 3 at its factory in Fremont, California. Buzzfeed reports that the pause will last four to…
[ad_1] The acquisition of sports content is becoming more expensive, affecting Walt Disney‘s ESPN. In response to this, last week Boston Private Wealth, a wealth management and banking company, sold its shares of the media giant. “We’re not really able to look at [Disney] over the next couple of years and see that as a…
[ad_1] The company sells its plan on the individual market in Colorado, including via the state exchange created through the Affordable Care Act. Its Minneapolis-based team is also planning to expand into other states and into the burgeoning market for Medicare Advantage in the coming months. Sheehy told CNBC he saw an opportunity to sell…
[ad_1] Microsoft, which once called Linux a “cancer,” is now embracing the open-source operating system and using it to secure internet-connected devices. At an event on Monday, Microsoft introduced Azure Sphere, a package of products including a new design for chips that will be packed into small gadgets deployed around the world, and said it’s…
[ad_1] Musk’s vision is to move people or cargo on “electric skates” at between 125 and 150 miles per hour, a technology he calls “Loop.” The tunnels could also someday be used for “hyperloop” transportation, a much faster vacuum-powered technology that could move “pods” at up to 600 miles per hour. Several companies, including Virgin…
[ad_1] Shares of Roku jumped more than five percent in after-hours trade, after announcing that the media streaming device will offer access to ESPN+, Disney’s new sports video streaming service. Roku device users can now watch ESPN+ for $4.99 a month or $49.99 per year. ESPN+ is offering 10,000 live sporting events in its first…
[ad_1] Pluralsight, the Utah-based education technology company, has revealed its IPO filing. Given the timing of the unveiling, the company is likely targeting a May public debut. Its core business is online software development courses, helping people improve their skills in categories like IT, data and security. Businesses small and large pay Pluralsight to help train…
[ad_1] But doing this can give these tech giants access to a lot of information about what you’re doing — even if you’re not using their services directly. For instance, Facebook says it can collect your IP address (which can be used to figure out your location), browser and operating system information, and data on…
[ad_1] The cryptocurrency world is a strange one, but at least it has a sense of humor. A new game has you riding a little crypto-car along the wildly fluctuating prices of major and minor currencies. It’s quite ridiculous, and it isn’t even a bad game! It’s called Crypto Rider, predictably, and is very much…
[ad_1] Netflix investors have been piling into the stock this year on optimism for global expansion. But the company’s financials on Monday show that there’s plenty of domestic growth remaining. Netflix added 7.41 million subscribers this past quarter, bringing the total to 125 million. It was only expected to add 6.5 million subscribers, according to…
[ad_1] Netflix has relied on international growth and heavy investments in original content to drive subscriptions — and Monday’s results provided an update on their effectiveness. Netflix’s addition of more than 7.4 million international subscribers set a new record, marking growth of 50 percent from a year ago. The company also said it expects to…
[ad_1] Just last quarter Netflix passed a $100 billion market cap — and we might already be talking about it as a $150 billion company before too long with yet another big financial quarter that sent its stock soaring. Netflix, again, beat out some expectations Wall Street held for the first quarter and provided a…
[ad_1] The United States and Britain on Monday warned of a global cyber attack targeting routers and other networking equipment, blaming Russian government-backed hackers for the campaign on government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators. Washington and London issued a joint alert, saying the widespread, global campaign began in 2015 and could be escalated to…
[ad_1] Facebook may be under attack for not protecting user privacy. But it’s spending fortune to protect Mark Zuckerberg. According to a security filings, Facebook spent $7.3 million last year “for costs related to personal security for Zuckerberg at his residences and during personal travel pursuant to Mr. Zuckerberg’s overall security program.” That marked a…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s product management director David Baser just wrote a blog post explaining when Facebook and its partners collect your personal information and when it’s shared. It also reiterates how it’s able to gather information on people who don’t use Facebook. Here’s the nugget you need to know about: When does Facebook get data about…
[ad_1] Digital currency exchange Coinbase is building on a recent hiring streak with a deal to buy Earn.com announced Monday. As part of the acquisition, the crypto company will bring on Earn’s founder and CEO as its first-ever chief technology officer. Before running Earn, which lets users send and receive digital currency for replying to…
[ad_1] “The National Space Council has developed the first comprehensive space traffic management policy, which we will soon be sending to the President’s desk for his approval,” Vice President Mike Pence said Monday at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “This new policy directs the Department of Commerce to provide a basic level…
[ad_1] T-Mobile will pay $40 million to the U.S. Treasury to settle accusations that it failed to improve call delivery for rural customers. The Federal Communications Commission announced the fine on Monday, after an investigation showed a “practice of injecting false ring tones” into hundreds of millions of calls. The FCC opened the investigation after…
[ad_1] The South Dakota law breaks both with Supreme Court precedent set in the 1992 case of Quill vs. North Dakota and the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) enacted by Congress in 1998. These protections shelter small businesses from the demands of 46 state tax auditors covering 12,000 local tax jurisdictions. A ruling for South…
[ad_1] T-Mobile will pay $40 million as part of a settlement with the FCC for playing ringing sounds to mislead customers into thinking their calls were going through when in fact they had never connected in the first place. The company admitted it had done so “hundreds of millions” of times over the years. The…
[ad_1] Christophe Morin | Bloomberg | Getty Images A cyclist passes the entrance to the La Maison du Bitcoin bank in Paris, France, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. Bitcoin prices were lower Monday ahead of the much-anticipated tax deadline, which bullish pundits say has been holding back the digital currency this year. The cryptocurrency was…
[ad_1] Fred Dufour | AFP | Getty Images A Chinese woman reacts while setting up the facial recognition feature on her iPhone X inside an Apple showroom in Beijing on November 3, 2017. Apple’s iPhone sales in China will not return to their peak levels anytime soon, according to one Wall Street analyst. UBS predicts…
[ad_1] Amazon Business, which sells bulk items to business customers, has shelved its plan to sell and distribute pharmaceutical products after considering it last year, according to people familiar with the matter. Instead, the company is focused on selling less sensitive medical supplies to hospitals and smaller clinics through Amazon Business — and it has…
[ad_1] NASA TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system. SpaceX is getting set to launch a satellite for NASA that aims to discover thousands of planets over two years. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is slated to head into orbit on…
[ad_1] Getty Images Exterior view of the Siemens Forum, part of the Siemens Headquarters, in Munich, Germany. German multinational Siemens is expanding its already sizeable Middle East presence by investing in the digital sphere, to the tune of $500 million over the next three years. The engineering and software giant announced over the weekend its…
[ad_1] Disclosure: Affiliates controlled by Eric Jackson hold long positions in Take Two Interactive, Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard. Take Two Interactive is one of my favorite stocks for the balance of 2018 and into 2019. After more than doubling in 2017, the game publisher responsible for the Grand Theft Auto franchise has seen a sharp…
[ad_1] The recent discovery of a massive trove of rare earth elements off the coast of Japan may bring relief to fears of shortages of the key elements used in an array of technological devices, including cellphones, cars and defense systems. But rare earths are just some of the elements increasingly sought after as more…
[ad_1] SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket today during a 30 second window at 6:32pm EDT. Onboard is NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) designed to find exoplanets. SpaceX said this morning there’s an 80 percent chance of launching today. Following the launch, SpaceX will attempt to recover the Falcon 9 rocket…
[ad_1] Sony promised an ‘ultra low-light camera’ during its Mobile World Congress press conference back in February. The off-hand announcement was intended to throw a bit of shade at Samsung’s recent flagship, but ultimately had the unintended consequence of undermining the company’s own newly announced XZ2. But, then, Sony’s never been great when it comes…
[ad_1] Media giant Tronc is jumping Monday on a report by Axios that Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank has considered a buyout bid. The stock was briefly halted just before 11 a.m. ET after spiking roughly 9 percent. Shares resumed trading roughly 12 percent up. The company behind The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and…
[ad_1] The APT database, Asset Strategy Library, was developed over 20 years and helps clients prevent costly downtime and repairs by identifying when equipment is about to fail. Uptake’s machine learning technology essentially gets smarter as it consumes more data, and APT’s library amounts to tens of thousands of history lessons on why equipment fails.…
[ad_1] A new update is bringing an improved user interface to older Tesla vehicles. According to this report citing forum users, the v8.1 (2018.12) update improves the speed and capability in Model S and Model X vehicles equipped with an Nvidia Tegra 3-powered MCU. This was expected; Musk stated in late December 2017 that Tesla…
[ad_1] American Express is ending its frequent-shopper program Plenti, despite years of marketing and high-profile partners like RiteAid, ExxonMobil and Macy’s. The Plenti program will end on July 10, the company announced in a tweet Monday. All Plenti points will expire on that date. Plenti was launched in mid-2015 to great fanfare as a frequent-shopper…
[ad_1] iHeartRadio is best known for its free service offering thousands of live, streaming AM and FM radio stations and its ability to create your own custom station, similar to Pandora. Today, the company is adding a new feature for all users – both free and paid – that blurs the lines between streaming radio…
[ad_1] The U.S. Department of Commerce is banning American companies from selling components to leading Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE for seven years for violating the terms of a sanctions violation case, U.S. officials said on Monday. The Chinese company, a top smartphone seller in the United States, pleaded guilty last year in federal court…
[ad_1] Elon Musk took to Twitter Sunday night to announce a new recovery method for an upper stage SpaceX rocket. A balloon — a “giant party balloon” to quote him directly — will ferry part of a rocket to a bounce house. Seriously. If anyone else proposed this idea they would be ignored, but Elon…
[ad_1] This weekend, former Apple engineer and consumer gadget legend Tony Fadell penned an op-ed for Wired. In it, he argued that smartphone manufacturers need to do a better job of educating users about how often they use their mobile phones, and the resulting dangers that overuse might bring about. Take healthy eating as an…
[ad_1] AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson could be feeling a little like Casey at the Bat as he awaits a verdict on whether his company can buy Time Warner. He’s down two strikes, and if he fails this time, his legacy may be sealed. A blocked Time Warner acquisition would be the third misstep for Stephenson…
[ad_1] Just like Nintendo before it, Sega is releasing a mini version of its iconic Mega Drive game system. The system is supposed to be available sometime in 2018 and the company also announced at least 15 classic Sega games will hit the Switch this summer to celebrate the system’s 30th anniversary. Sega turned to…
[ad_1] More devices are coming onto the Internet every single day, and that’s especially true within organizations that have a fleet of devices with access to sensitive data — which means there are even more holes for potential security breaches. That’s the goal of Kolide. The aim is to ensure that companies have access to…
[ad_1] Zuckerberg’s testimony “raised investor concerns about the potential for government regulation of the use of consumer data,” he wrote. “The Zuckerberg hearing revealed to many government officials the scale of personal data that FB users had agreed to allow the firm to gather, raising regulatory risks. “ In addition to the regulatory challenges, Facebook…
[ad_1] HP India on Monday debuted its commercial Virtual Reality (VR) solutions and services – including the world’s first professional wearable VR PC – for businesses in the country. The PC and printing major launched HP ZBook 17 mobile workstation at a starting price of Rs. 1,65,000, HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Tower at Rs. 72,000…
[ad_1] Weibo, which is seen as China’s equivalent of Twitter, reversed a ban on gay content Monday. On Friday, the social media service which has 172 million daily active users, announced plans to remove posts containing pornographic cartoons, videos that promote violence, homosexual content, and violent video games. Weibo said that it would do this…
[ad_1] Russia’s state telecommunications regulator said on Monday it had begun blocking access to messenger service Telegram after the service’s owner refused to comply with an order to give Russian state security access to users’ secret messages. The watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said in a statement on its website that it had sent telecoms operators a notification…
[ad_1] Apple fans wanting to buy a new iPad may have noticed some very good deals from the UK’s top high street retailers. Currys and Argos have both slashed the price of last year’s tablet with discounts of around £40 available right now. Currys currently has Apple’s iPad 2017 on sale for £299 (saving £40)…
[ad_1] Facebook has refreshed its Bookmarks menu to let users navigate, access and make changes to their privacy settings easily. The updates will be rolled out globally over the next two weeks. Users can now access various Facebook settings, including Account Settings, Privacy Shortcuts, News Feed Preferences, Activity Log, Payments Settings and access to Help…
[ad_1] Android P looks set to include a number of iPhone X-inspired features. Google has already revealed the latest version of its mobile operating system will include support for notched displays. An increasing number of Android manufacturers are using a small cut-out, or notch, to house the front-facing camera, speaker grill, and ambient light and…
[ad_1] Federal Communications Commission A newly-released Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing shows a gold version of the iPhone X. Apple apparently designed a gold-colored version of the iPhone X but hasn’t released it yet, regulatory filings have revealed. Companies launching new phones in the U.S. must file a document detailing the device with the Federal…
[ad_1] WhatsApp Payments has received a new feature for Android beta users. You can now request money from contacts, apart from sending money. Previously, users could only make payments using WhatsApp Payments. For now, the request money feature appears to be limited to payments initiated by UPI ID and QR code, and doesn’t work if…
[ad_1] Danish understatement meets Mountain View tech Skagen is a well-know maker of thin and uniquely Danish watches. Founded in 1989, the company is now part of the Fossil group and, as such, has begin dabbling in both the analog with the Hagen and now Android Wear with the Falster. The Falster is unique in…
[ad_1] SONY The headline feature of the new Xperia XZ2 Premium is the dual-camera set-up Sony unveiled its flagship Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact handsets during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) technology tradeshow, which was held in late February. The next-generation Xperia smartphones sported an all-new design, 18:9 display with almost no bezels on the…
[ad_1] Indian ride-hailing firm Ola, backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group, said it will add 10,000 electric three-wheelers to its fleet over the next 12 months as part of a plan to promote the use of electric vehicles. Ola plans to have 1 million electric vehicles on offer by 2021, it said in a statement, adding…
[ad_1] Jio Home TV, if rumours are to be believed, is set to be the telecom giant’s next big project that will reportedly offer a fresh change in the Indian Direct-to-Home (DTH) space. According to a report, Jio Home TV will offer SD (Standard Definition) channels for a monthly price of Rs. 200 and SD…
[ad_1] Regulators should review the “potential monopolization of data” by U.S. technology giants in the U.K. that could hamper homegrown development of artificial intelligence (AI), an influential body has recommended. A committee made up of lawmakers from the House of Lords, the upper house of Britain’s parliament, released a report Monday on the need for…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6 has appeared in a series of leaked images ahead of its release date. The new images show-off new colour choices which could be available to consumers in the coming weeks and months. Previous leaked photographs have revealed the all-new flagship smartphone with a black case. However, the new renders showcase three potential…
[ad_1] German software maker SAP expects to generate new business in the Middle East as a result of Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030” plan, a senior executive at the company told CNBC. There is a big push toward cloud computing in Saudi Arabia, according to Luka Mucic, chief financial officer at SAP. “Companies both in the…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for Android has added some new features and bug fixes in its latest updates. Earlier, it fixed a timestamp issue found in the WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109. Now, the messaging app has introduced a new feature that lets users download deleted media files. Previously, when users deleted specific files sent over WhatsApp by…
[ad_1] As the US and China threaten to impose tariffs on goods from aluminium to wine, the two nations are waging a separate economic battle that could determine who owns the next wave of computing. Chinese universities and US technology companies such as IBM and Microsoft are racing to develop quantum computers, a type of processing that’s…
[ad_1] The Pentagon says Saturday’s airstrikes were a legitimate and proportionate response to Assad’s continued use of fatal nerve agents. The episode is being called the biggest Western intervention in Syria’s civil war since the conflict began in 2011. “When our president draws a red line, our president enforces the red line,” U.S. Ambassador to…
[ad_1] Electric vehicle maker Tesla has mislabeled and under-counted workers’ injuries to make its safety record look better than it was, according to a new investigative report by RevealNews.org. “Company officials labeled toxic exposures, muscle strains and repetitive stress injuries as personal medical issues or minor accidents requiring only first aid, lowering its official injury…
[ad_1] A new report by RevealNews.org says that electric vehicle maker Tesla failed to record workers’ serious injuries accurately. Mislabeling and under-counting injuries made Tesla’s safety record look better than it actually was, the report concludes. Sources told Reveal that safety compromises were made to appease CEO Elon Musk’s aesthetic preferences at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif.…
[ad_1] Would being asked to pay Facebook to remove ads make you appreciate their value or resent them even more? As Facebook considers offering an ad-free subscription option, there are deeper questions than how much money it could earn. Facebook has the opportunity to let us decide how we compensate it for social networking. But…
[ad_1] In fact, that’s the Stinger’s major trap card. For 48 grand, I get a twin-turbocharged, 3.3-liter, 365-horsepower V6 engine mated to a rear-biased all-wheel-drive system. You get adaptive cruise, lane keeping, leather seats, CarPlay, a Harman Kardon audio system, blind spot monitoring and auto high beams. And that’s just the GT1. You can add…
[ad_1] Not only is there a need for more growth-stage capital, which iNovia plans to provide, but there’s been renewed support from academia and the government to make Canada an attractive place for tech companies, he says. As the U.S. administration tightens the rules around the H-1B visa program, which allows American companies to employ…
[ad_1] iPhone X currently ships in two colour options – Silver and Space Grey. However, it appears Apple had planned to unveil a third option during its September launch event. The Cupertino-based company filed photographs of a never-before-seen gold finish with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ahead of its hardware event on September 12th…
[ad_1] Samsung already has a stellar line-up of devices with its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S9 flagships considered to be some of the best smartphones money can buy. These current call makers feature stunning curved designs, market-leading cameras and the brightest displays in the business. However, if you want the ultimate powerhouse it appears you…
[ad_1] Being a beta tester has advantages and disadvantages – you get access to the latest features and updates before anyone else, but you have to suffer through glitches and bugs. WhatsApp allows any Android smartphone owners to road-test the beta version of its hugely-successful chat app. However, users were perplexed by a bug that…
[ad_1] Tax professionals are aware of the issue. “We try to tell our members on a regular basis, even weekly this time of the year, is go out and check your EFINs [tax pro number]. See how many returns are being filed,” said Larry Gray, a CPA, who is also the government liaison for the…
[ad_1] Arsenal face Newcastle United in the first of today’s Premier League matches. Not only will the Gunners be looking to close the gap on Chelsea in fifth, but Arsene Wenger’s men will also have an eye on Burnley. The Clarets are just two points behind Arsenal in the Premier League table, having played one…
[ad_1] The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular destinations for torrent users online, holding a place amongst the 100 most-visited websites worldwide. The torrent repository achieved an infamous reputation by hosting torrent files which allowed users to download copyrighted material for free without permission from the rightsholders. There is little vetting when it…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has released a fix to an issue that replaced the timestamps on the Android beta version of the app with ASCII codes. The bug was found in the WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109 that was released on April 12, and did not have a big impact on the chat experience other than changing the ‘Yesterday’ and…
[ad_1] Windows 10 fans have been put on alert about a critical bug which lets cybercriminals steal their username and password. The vulnerability affects Microsoft’s Outlook software, and attackers can take advantage of it to steal Windows login credentials. A hacker can get access to this sensitive information by convincing a victim to preview a…
[ad_1] GoFundMe is now funded largely by donations — users are presented with a voluntary option at the end of a transaction to send a few extra dollars to the site. The site’s fee structure still indicates a 5 percent fee on “certified charity campaigns, and all campaigns created outside the United States and Canada.”…
[ad_1] In 1941, comic book readers were introduced to a scrawny kid with a heart of gold named Steve Rogers, co-created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. He didn’t have the chops to join the army, but was chosen to be boosted with the power of the super-soldier serum and vita-rays. He was pushed to…
[ad_1] Tottenham Hotspur face Manchester City in the biggest game of a packed Premier League weekend. Spurs could inflict a fourth straight defeat on the Manchester club, following City’s back-to-back defeats against Liverpool in the Champions League and last weekend’s shock defeat to Manchester United. However, despite a string of bad results, Manchester City could…
[ad_1] That idea that the post office is losing big likely stems from a Citigroup report. The report alleges the USPS’ pricing model is unsustainable, and that parcel rates would need to rise significantly for the agency to break even. The report was mentioned in a widely circulated Wall Street Journal commentary by shipping analyst…
[ad_1] It’s easy to get your cracked iPhone screen fixed, just make sure you take it to the right place. While it might be tempting to take it to the cheapest repair spot, you should always take an iPhone with a broken screen to Apple or one of its authorized partners to get it repaired,…
[ad_1] If you think of the web like an iceberg, you have the surface web up top. It’s the internet you see and use every day and consists of all the websites indexed by traditional search engines like Google. It’s where you shop on Amazon and listen to music on Spotify. What’s submerged is the…
[ad_1] I don’t recommend Nest Hello yet, because Google needs to works out kinks, like false positives that suggest someone’s at your door when it’s just a flag blowing in the wind. Also, my unit froze twice in a week, requiring a complete reset. A software update could fix that problem, but there isn’t one…
[ad_1] A month after news of the data fiasco at Facebook dampened enthusiasm for the idea that innovation can cure all ills, the tech dream was still alive at the big-ideas TED Conference this week. TED attendees were keenly aware of recent tech troubles, from Facebook being called before Congress over user privacy to a…
[ad_1] Just a couple of days after WhatsApp beta for Android was spotted replacing timestamps with ASCII codes, the development team has released a new beta version that fixes the odd issue. It was found that the bug was only affecting the WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109 that was released on April 12. The bug wasn’t…
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[ad_1] Just a couple of days after WhatsApp beta for Android was spotted replacing timestamps with ASCII codes, the development team has released a new beta version that fixes the odd issue. It was found that the bug was only affecting the WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109 that was released on April 12. The bug wasn’t…
[ad_1] By now you’ve probably gathered that Facebook uses things like your interest, age and other demographic and geographic information to help advertisers reach you. Then there’s the stuff your friends do and like — the idea being that it’s a good indicator for what you might do and like. So, if you have a…
[ad_1] Chelsea head to Southampton for today’s early Premier League kick-off. It’s a huge match for both clubs with Chelsea trying to stay in the hunt for a a coveted Champions League place and Southampton looking to avoid relegation. The home side currently sit in the bottom three and have lost their past three games.…
[ad_1] With the aim of convincing more citizens to use the BHIM app over tons of other payments apps, the government has now announced a cashback scheme for both customers and merchants. The new scheme comes days after the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) extended the BHIM cashback scheme for merchants until March 31.…
[ad_1] The controversies that trail Facebook have everyone, experts to users alike, wondering what the possible alternatives might be. After all, with Mark Zuckerberg in Washington defending the social media platform’s privacy missteps, the days of feigning ignorance over its flaws seem to be behind us. While some believe that a competitor that makes privacy…
[ad_1] Huawei is taking on its Android rivals with the launch of its feature-packed P20 Pro. This phone offers a swathe of flagship specs including a stunning glass design, fast processor and Leica-branded cameras which are powered by artificial intelligence. In fact the P20 Pro actually boasts a triple lens system on the rear of…
[ad_1] As recently as December, the Justice Department reminded the public that marijuana remains a controlled substance that is banned by law and that the federal prohibition takes precedence over state laws. But the uncertainty over the substance’s legality on a national level hasn’t stopped marijuana’s growing popularity in the 29 states where it has…
[ad_1] There’s good and bad news for Samsung fans as the Korean technology firm has just pushed out a refreshed Galaxy S8 design. The new burgundy red colour scheme was originally launched in Korea late last year but Samsung is now allowing millions more of its avid followers to buy this stunning device. The bad…
[ad_1] Google Chrome fans are being warned about a malware campaign that spreads malicious files through fake updates for the internet browser. The malware first started being distributed in December 2017, and leverages hacked websites to redirect users to pages promoting fake software updates. It was discovered by security experts Malwarebytes, with the campaign dubbed…
[ad_1] Samsung fans wanting to own the new Galaxy Note 8 have a very good reason to buy one. This stunning phablet has just been reduced to one of its lowest prices ever with a massive discount of £200. When the Note 8 went on sale late last year it came with a SIM-free price…
[ad_1] GETTY Artificial Intelligence: Are super smart killer robots going to take over the world? Many a film and novel has been made spouting the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), with clever robots wiping out humanity being the stuff of nightmares for decades. Hal 9000 from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey brought dread…
[ad_1] KODI • PIRATE BAY • GETTY Kodi and Pirate Bay fans have been given a shock piracy statistic Kodi add-on and Pirate Bay fans based in Britain may have found out why it’s difficult to access illegal content online at the moment. A study has revealed that the UK is the country in Europe…
[ad_1] Apple has denied rumours that iTunes will be shutting down. Alleged leaked reports had claimed the Cupertino-based firm was planning on phasing out iTunes by March 31 2019. This decision was reportedly made amid the huge popularity of streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify. However, Apple have now categorically hit out at…
[ad_1] As Nova Scotians dug out from a spring snowstorm this week, scientists 200 kilometres off the coast were measuring record-high ocean temperatures in deep water that reached 14 C. That’s 14 C. In April. “It’s sort of a shock,” said Dave Hebert, a veteran ocean climate scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Halifax. “I was…
[ad_1] Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous vehicles without safety drivers on some California roads, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It would be putting its cars — well, minivans — on streets around Mountain View, where it already has an abundance of data. The company already…
[ad_1] After a two-year hiatus, earthquakes have resumed shaking a New Brunswick village. Earthquakes Canada has recorded 22 quakes on the western edge of the province near the border with the United States, most of them in an area that includes McAdam. “It’s like a very loud bang and it wakes you up in the middle of…
[ad_1] An international body that regulates worldwide shipping has agreed to stop the use of a highly polluting fuel in the Arctic. But the International Maritime Organization will wait to implement a ban on heavy fuel oil until its impact on northern communities is complete, a caveat inserted at Canada’s request. The organization will “develop…
[ad_1] Look up at the sky tonight. Every star you see — plus hundreds of thousands, even millions more — will come under the intense stare of NASA’s newest planet hunter. Set to lift off early next week, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spacecraft will prowl for planets around the closest, brightest stars. These…
[ad_1] Is the world ready for cows armed with artificial intelligence? No time to ruminate on that because the moment has arrived, thanks to a Dutch company that has married two technologies — motion sensors and AI — with the aim of bringing the barnyard into the 21st century. The company, Connecterra, has brought its…
[ad_1] Getty Images Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg only made a salary of $1 in 2017, but his company spent close to $9 million…
[ad_1] Of all the technology sector’s battleground stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer has found the stock of Micron Technology to be the most controversial. “After all, when a semiconductor stock sells at less than five times earnings, your thinking is that it represents a tremendous bargain — how could it not?” the “Mad Money” host said.…
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[ad_1] ForeScout is a $1.3 billion company focused on helping government agencies and businesses implement security measures for growing online networks. With more and more smart devices being rolled out, ForeScout helps prevent breaches across the whole network instead of installing software designed for each device. Cramer liked that the company, which came public last…
[ad_1] Alessandro Di Ciommo | NurPhoto | Getty Images SoftBank Group Corp Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, February 8, 2017. SoftBank’s massive Vision Fund said in 2017 that its minimum check size is $100 million. But in the financial-technology market, the number appears to be twice as big.…
[ad_1] CVS Health has hired an Iora Health executive to help run its MinuteClinics, CNBC has learned. Dr. Marc-David Munk will join CVS as chief medical officer for the drugstore chain’s walk-in clinics and as associate chief medical officer of CVS Health. He had been at Iora Health since 2015. For two of those years,…
[ad_1] On March 18, one of the cars in Uber’s self-driving vehicle pilot program hit and killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking across the street in Tempe, Arizona. The next day, Uber halted its pilot programs in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Toronto. Despite this, Uber is still envisions self-driving cars a key…
[ad_1] White called this company a “money machine.” While he acknowledged that the Facebook data scandal has hurt the entire tech sector, he called Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony on Capitol Hill this week “a phenomenal performance.” “Zuck crushed it this week,” White said. Facebook stock was trading just over $164 Thursday, compared with the March 16…
[ad_1] Google isn’t alone in being gamed by scammers, but the company is strangely ineffective when it comes to fighting scams on Maps. For instance, local business giant Yelp is widely regarded as being more effective at fighting review spam than Google. When Hawkins finds a business with an average five-star rating and clearly fake…
[ad_1] Joe Skipper | Reuters SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 6, 2018. Amid reports of Tesla Model 3 missed production targets and manufacturing challenges, CEO Elon Musk has stepped up…
[ad_1] Bitcoin multiplied more than 13 times last year, and the entire cryptocurrency market gained well over $500 billion in paper value. As a result, U.S. households likely owe $25 billion in capital gains taxes for their digital currency holdings, according to estimates from Tom Lee, head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. However, properly…
[ad_1] Arista shares fell more than 9 percent on Friday after an industry research firm issued a report suggesting that big customers like Microsoft could be moving some business to lesser-known companies. Cleveland Research’s Ben Bolin downgraded Arista to “neutral” from “buy” and said there’s been “some shift” from Arista to so-called white-box switches at…
[ad_1] Advertising giant WPP is preparing for the possibility of CEO Martin Sorrell’s departure, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The firm is weighing contingency plans, including naming veteran executives Mark Read and Andrew Scott as co-CEOs, the newspaper reported, citing anonymous sources and publication Campaign U.K. CNBC last week confirmed Sorrell…
[ad_1] Thom Baur | Reuters A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 6, 2018. SpaceX has vaulted to become one of the most valuable private companies in the world. But, more importantly, SpaceX finds it “the easiest” to raise…
[ad_1] Tesla is struggling to manage and fix a significant volume of flawed or damaged parts from its suppliers, sending some to local machine shops for rework, according to several current and former Tesla engineers. The company said it also makes adjustments to the design of some parts after receiving them from suppliers. On Friday,…
[ad_1] Tesla is one of the more interesting companies for Wall Street that had an interesting couple of months this year — and it seems even tweets from Elon Musk, who said that the company will be profitable in the back half of the year, may be enough to swing its stock. The Tesla and…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Apple should significantly increase its capital return to shareholders, according to one Wall Street firm. Longbow Research said Apple could double its dividend and have its payout level still be in-line with its large technology competitors. “We see…
[ad_1] Zillow shares plunged 9 percent on Friday after the online real estate database company announced it will begin buying and selling homes, a capital-intensive endeavor. With Zillow’s new program, announced on Thursday, home sellers in the test markets of Phoenix and Las Vegas will be able to use Zillow’s platform to compare offers from…
[ad_1] The Snapdragon processor is built on an architecture created by ARM, which powers most smartphones and tablets, instead of a processor using the x86 architecture pioneered by Intel and traditionally found in Mac and Windows computers. The Snapdragon 835 processor in the Envy X2, for example, is the same chip in the US version…
[ad_1] Twitter, Vine, Voxer, MessageMe. Facebook has repeatedly cut off competitors from its feature for finding your Facebook friends on their apps…after jumpstarting its own social graph by convincing people to upload their Gmail contacts. Meanwhile, Facebook’s Download Your Information tool merely exports a text list of friends’ names you can’t use elsewhere. As congress…
[ad_1] Postmates is different from some of its larger competitors like Grubhub, which is a public company focused on food delivery, as it also fulfills orders beyond food to include goods, targeting local hardware or electronics stories in addition to food deliveries. Analysts say seeing this kind of growth in markets like Los Angeles and…
[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images A letter carrier holds Amazon.com packages while preparing a vehicle for deliveries at the United States Postal Service (USPS) Joseph Curseen Jr. and Thomas Morris Jr. processing and distribution center in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump’s recent focus on what the post office charges Amazon for delivery…
[ad_1] Zuroa’s founder and CEO Tien Tzuo had a vision of a subscription economy long before most people ever considered the notion. He knew that for companies to succeed with subscriptions, they needed a bookkeeping system that understood how they collected and reported money. The company went public yesterday, another clear sign post on the…
[ad_1] A stressed Elon Musk says his electric vehicle car company Tesla is going to deliver all the Model 3 cars people have ordered, if six to nine months behind schedule. He also takes responsibility for the delay and a series of missed targets. “You started saying, ‘We’ll do 5,000 a week.’ Then, okay, that…
[ad_1] Denis Balibouse | Reuters Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google Gmail is getting a new Confidential Mode that will add an extra layer of security to messages that you wish to remain private, according to The Verge. Confidential Mode feature, which might be revealed as soon as May 8 during Google’s annual developer conference, reportedly lets…
[ad_1] Seth Wenig | AP New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, right, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, left, and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka speak during an announcement in Newark, N.J., Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. Amazon leaders were again in the tri-state region as reports indicate the Seattle-based e-commerce giant has representatives touring Newark, N.J. earlier this…
[ad_1] Games, dating apps and streaming services contributed to a rise in consumer spending in iPhone apps last year, according to new data from app store intelligence firm, Sensor Tower. The firm found that U.S. iPhone users spent 23 percent more on in-app purchases in 2017 than they did the year prior – or, an…
[ad_1] Let’s go back to election day, 2016. As soon as the results came in, reports of Russian interference came up. And as far as the Department of Justice is concerned, Moscow did it specifically to tilt the election to Trump. Zuckerberg initially called it a pretty crazy idea to think anyone could use FB…
[ad_1] Stores are beginning to conform to shoppers’ needs and wants. Express‘ New York shop on Madison Avenue, serving as a prototype for future expansion plans, has been decked with phone chargers, digital styling screens, lounges, and will hold events every month inspiring young entrepreneurs. Most important for shoppers in a pinch: Express will have…
[ad_1] That’s why Facebook is a key ingredient in many socially responsible funds; 80 funds that examine companies’ environmental, social and governance practices count Facebook as a top 10 holding. But that might be about to change as some of the major ratings providers serving as a filter for many ESG funds reconsider Facebook’s positive…
[ad_1] Is the world ready for cows armed with artificial intelligence? No time to ruminate on that because the moment has arrived, thanks to a Dutch company that has married two technologies — motion sensors and AI — with the aim of bringing the barnyard into the 21st century. The company, Connecterra, has brought its…
[ad_1] The first Roadie tuner was a modern marvel. An automatic guitar tuning system, the little device connected to your phone to listen to your guitar strings and then set them to the proper tuning using an internal motor. The new model, the $129 Roadie 2, is even cooler. I’ve been using the Roadie 2…
[ad_1] Mike Blake | Reuters Comic con fans gather at the Netflix booth at Comic Con International in San Diego, California, July 19, 2017. Comcast will begin offering Netflix subscriptions within its cable bundles this month, the companies reported Friday. This is the first time that Netflix has been included in a major U.S. television…
[ad_1] Fresh off its relaunch as an app offering a suite of tools for podcasters, Anchor today is rolling a new feature that will make it easier for people to find someone to podcast with: Cohosts. As the name implies, the app will now connect you – sometimes immediately, if people are available – with…
[ad_1] David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Boeing Co. 737 MAX 9 jetliner sits on the production floor at the company’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. The aircraft industry is increasingly reliant on titanium as a strong but lightweight material for use in wing assemblies, steering wheels,…
[ad_1] With just a few days to the U.S. tax filing deadline, still only a tiny fraction of Americans have reported their cryptocurrency holdings, according to Credit Karma. Of the most recent 250,000 filers on the Credit Karma Tax platform, fewer than 100 people reported capital gains on their cryptocurrency investments, data released Friday showed.…
[ad_1] Deng Yufeng wanted to create art that prods people to question their lack of data privacy. What better way, he reasoned, than to buy the personal information of more than 300,000 Chinese people off the internet and display it in a public exhibition? The police did not appreciate the irony. Last week, the authorities…
[ad_1] While companies’ operations become increasingly fragmented into a wide variety of different spots — especially if they exist somewhere in a group of different cloud tools — making sure those operations are still healthy has become more and more critical. And for companies whose lifeblood is directly keeping that software online longer, it’s even…
[ad_1] AMD is hoping to continue the disruptive streak it began in the PC market last year by announcing the upcoming launch of its second-generation Ryzen desktop processors. The new Ryzen 7 2700X, Ryzen 7 2700, Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 5 2600 replace the equivalent 1000-series CPU models and promise improved performance across a range…
[ad_1] Saftey, including with self-driving cars, is a huge priority for Uber, the ride-hailing company’s new safety advisory board chairman told CNBC on Friday. “I took this advisory position knowing that there’d be many interesting issues to be focused on,” said Jeh Johnson, secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama. Johnson, who is the…
[ad_1] The chief executive of the Telegram messenger service, Pavel Durov, said on Friday the application will use built-in systems to circumnavigate a ban in Russia imposed by a court earlier on Friday. He said on his page in the VK social network that he still cannot guarantee that Telegram users will retain access to…
[ad_1] At the federal level, this means committing at least $250 million in annual federal funding to help bring computer science education to the schools that do not currently have the resources to offer it. At the same time, we know the future of work is rapidly changing. More needs to be done to prepare…
[ad_1] Expanding its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, Panasonic India on Friday unveiled the AI-powered “Arbo Hub” platform that gives users access to multiple apps and services. The device maker also announced it will launch its upcoming Panasonic P85 NXT and Eluga Ray 710 devices with Arbo Hub built-in. Arbo Hub adapts to…
[ad_1] A Moscow court on Friday ruled to block the popular messaging app Telegram in Russia, after it refused to give state security services access to private conversations. The ruling follows a long-running battle between authorities and Telegram, which has a reputation for secure communications, as Moscow pushes to increase surveillance of Internet activities. The…
[ad_1] The first things police seized when they raided Shamo’s home and stash house were bags of cash, gold bars, a Ford pickup and a BMW. It took another year for his bitcoin to show up in court paper. “It’s really been a process that we’ve never dealt with before,” said Skordas, Shamo’s attorney. “I’m…
[ad_1] Indian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure has lost over $3.5 million and is blaming its head of security. In a message posted to its website Thursday, the company said that its Chief Security Officer (CSO) Amitabh Saxena was extracting a cryptocurrency known as bitcoin gold in order to distribute it to customers. But Coinsecure claimed the…
[ad_1] Elon Musk gave more detailed financial guidance for Tesla on social media Friday in a Tweet reply to The Economist at 1:11 am Pacific time. Tweet Link “The Economist used to be boring, but smart with a wicked dry wit. Now it’s just boring (sigh). Tesla will be profitable & cash flow+ in Q3…
[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. The comments come following revelations that 87 million users were affected by the recent data leak. A…
[ad_1] The ban comes after a protracted dispute between Telegram and Russian authorities, who insist they need access to the encryption keys to investigate serious crimes, including terrorist attacks. Telegram is arguably the first widely popular means of communications in Russia that has been officially banned. Telegram, a popular app developed by Russian entrepreneur Pavel…
[ad_1] Apple has started to inform macOS users that support for 32-bit apps will be stopped soon. Mac users running macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra will receive a one-time alert when they open a 32-bit app. The Cupertino giant has not informed exactly when support for 32-bit apps on macOS will cease. It had warned developers…
[ad_1] With an aim to help civic authorities, traffic police, researchers, think tanks and policymakers discover ways to apply data to make better infrastructure and traffic management decisions, cab aggregator Uber on Thursday launched the second phase of ‘Movement’ in India. ‘Movement’ is a free tool which uses Uber’s anonymised data from millions of trips…
[ad_1] Europe has no doubts that tech firms other than Facebook are affected by privacy and data protection issues similar to the social media giant, European Commissioner Vera Jourova told CNBC. “I don’t have doubts that are some bad practices among other IT providers and networks. So what I have said about GDPR and our…
[ad_1] Better known for its dominance in China’s insurance market, Ping An Insurance has been delving into the technology space with Ping An Technology. Speaking with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Ping An Technology CEO Ericson Chan said his company is the “high-tech core for the whole Ping An group,” selling end-to-end tech services and conducting research…
[ad_1] Apple’s app accelerator, which was first announced by Tim Cook in 2016, has now been active in India for around a year. Any registered Apple developer can apply to the accelerator via its website, and either take part in one to many sessions, deep dive labs on specialised subjects, or one-on-one consultations with Apple’s…
[ad_1] Microsoft’s Windows 10 Spring Creators Update will be rolled out to users in the coming weeks and has plenty of features including new fonts, redesigned keyboard settings page and faster pairing for Bluetooth devices. There’s also the long-awaited Timeline feature which lists all previews of all your apps in chronological order, allowing users to…
[ad_1] Coinsecure is one of the more well known crypto-currency exchanges in India, and one that multiple Bitcoin traders have recommended to us in the past. It also serves as a Bitcoin wallet. Customers got a nasty surprise on Thursday, when Coinsecure updated the front page of its site to inform users that 438 Bitcoin,…
[ad_1] The U.S. Congress isn’t exactly the best forum to untangle the intricate weaving of Facebook, your data and advertiser access. But its particular failings provided an ideal platform for Mark Zuckerberg to perch atop an extra seat cushion and deflect the conversation back to comfortable places. Most of the geriatric politicians on hand lacked a fundamental understanding of what is at…
[ad_1] A U.S. judge in Philadelphia has ruled that limousine drivers for Uber Technologies Inc are independent contractors and not the company’s employees under federal law, the first ruling of its kind on a crucial issue for the ride-hailing company. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson on Wednesday said San Francisco-based Uber does not exert enough…
[ad_1] A US judge in Philadelphia has ruled that limousine drivers for Uber Technologies are independent contractors and not the company’s employees under federal law, the first ruling of its kind on a crucial issue for the ride-hailing company. US District Judge Michael Baylson on Wednesday said San Francisco-based Uber does not exert enough control over drivers for…
[ad_1] The US Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday the ride-hailing company Uber Technologies had agreed to expand its proposed settlement with the agency over charges it deceived consumers about its privacy and data security practices. The FTC said the expansion of the proposed settlement comes after the commission learned Uber had failed to disclose a “significant”…
[ad_1] Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming service, said on Thursday it is to buy Loudr.fm, a San Francisco-based provider of licencing technology to help it to locate songwriters and pay them royalties they are due. The acquisition helps address a major weakness Spotify has warned exists in its business model, namely locating and ensuring…
[ad_1] After years of resisting major changes pushed by riders and government regulators, Uber announced upgrades this week it said are aimed at keeping its US ride-hail customers safe. The mobility company will add an emergency 911 feature akin to a “panic button” – a type of enhanced 911 that connects passengers directly with emergency personnel,…
[ad_1] Not mentioned in the executive order is the subject for which the USPS has been a topic of Trump’s recent public discussion. In recent weeks, Trump claimed that the service was losing billions due to Amazon. One of Trump’s main contentions was that the Jeff Bezos-led retailing juggernaut was ripping off the USPS. Amazon…
[ad_1] Getty Images Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles at the conclusion of his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Facebook shares, which closed at $163.87 on Thursday, have dropped more than 11 percent over the…
[ad_1] It’s been another tough week for Facebook with its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, being quizzed in front of Congress. Facebook has found itself in the centre of an ever-growing scandal around the privacy of its users. The social network has confirmed 87 million users’ personal data were scraped and used by UK-based political data company,…
[ad_1] Google cloud leader Diane Greene told employees that the company is drafting a set of ethical principals to guide the use of its technology in the wake of internal objections to its partnership with The Pentagon, according to a Defense One report. In March, Google announced that it had partnered with the Department of…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer says that when President Trump takes a Twitter break, Amazon is the stock you want to have. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Paul Jacobs, who was ousted as Qualcomm‘s chairman in March, is talking to strategic investors and sovereign wealth funds to chip in for a fully financed bid to take Qualcomm private in the next two months, according to people familiar with the plan. He would run the company after it’s gone private. One of…
[ad_1] Arsenal will face off against CSKA Moscow at the VEB Arena looking to book their place in the Europa League semi-finals. The Gunners go into the clash with a 4-1 aggregate advantage after a convincing win at the Emirates last week. However, as this week has shown, anything can happen in a European two-legged…
[ad_1] Is a fine-brewed dark roast any different from a cup of instant? Or is coffee just coffee? Biotechnology students at Algonquin College have been working all year to try to figure out what makes a perfect cup of joe. “Coffee smells like coffee … but there are subtle differences,” said professor Martin Lee, who led the…
[ad_1] You’ll soon be able to draw on the world around you and shoot back-and-forth Instagram Boomerang GIFs with the Facebook Camera. Bringing additional creative tools to the Facebook Camera could make it a more popular place to shoot content and help the company compete with Snapchat. “We wanted to give people an easy way…
[ad_1] Europe is weeks away from enacting strict data privacy, and Americans’ interest in what companies know about them from their online profiles is at an all-time high. Still, agencies and marketing consultants — the people who advise how companies should spend their advertising budgets — feel consumers’ concerns about data leaks are just a…
[ad_1] Zuora is nothing like Amazon or its cloud-computing division Amazon Web Services. In fact, Zuora is a customer of AWS, where it hosts much of its data and operations, and some parts of Amazon even use Zuora’s technology. But there’s a growing concern — or paranoia — across the technology landscape that Amazon is…
[ad_1] Shares of chipmaker Broadcom jumped 4.41 percent in after-hours trade after the company said on Thursday it would buy back up to $12 billion of its common stock. The company, which last month ended its efforts to acquire rival Qualcomm, said the authorization of the repurchase program is effective immediately and until the end…
[ad_1] Uber will start doing annual criminal background checks on U.S. drivers and hire a company that constantly monitors criminal arrests as it tries to do a better job of keeping riders safe. The move announced Thursday is one of several actions taken by the ride-hailing company under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who said that…
[ad_1] Subscription biller Zuora was well-received by stock market investors on Thursday, following its public debut. After pricing its IPO at $14, the company closed at $20, valuing the company around $2 billion. It was also much higher than expected. The company said in its filings that it planned to price its shares between $9 and…
[ad_1] This could be the year bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies get backed by an influential investor class: global pension and endowment funds. Institutional investors have held off on the fledgling cryptocurrency asset. However, money managers for the multibillion-dollar class have been laying the groundwork to make an investment at some point, possibly as soon as…
[ad_1] For all the good of Android’s open-source approach, one of the clear and consistent downsides is that the onus to issue software updates falls on the manufacturer. That can mean frustration for those waiting for the latest and greatest feature updates — and in some cases, it can put your phone at risk with…
[ad_1] Graham says he tried to invest in Facebook, but Zuckerberg turned him down for a better offer. Then Zuckerberg revealed a “moral dilemma,” remembers Graham. “He worried he had been too encouraging in our earlier conversations. I was disappointed but quite impressed by the maturity with which he handled the matter—pretty good for a…
[ad_1] Environmental groups say a Federal Court ruling will allow a lawsuit aimed at pesticides blamed for damaging bee populations to go to a full hearing. They say the decision, released this morning, dismissed an appeal by the federal government and chemical companies to block the case against the commonly used pesticides. Many studies have…
[ad_1] The record-setting score that settled the Donkey Kong arcade rivalry, made famous by the documentary The King of Kong, has been invalidated by Twin Galaxies, the de facto arbiter of arcade world records. What’s more, Billy Mitchell, the occasionally controversial player who set the scores, has been permanently banned from consideration for future records.…
[ad_1] The National Transportation Safety Board has “revoked” Tesla’s status as a party to its investigation of a fatal crash that took place in Mountain View, Calif. in March. However, Tesla maintains it withdrew from the probe. An Apple engineer named Walter Huang was killed in the March 23rd crash, driving a 2017 Tesla Model…
[ad_1] Wall Street is growing less confident in the technology sector and continues to be negative on retailers, according to the latest data on short selling. Across the 11 S&P 500 sectors, five saw increases in the amount of available shares that are sold short, a bet that they will decline in value. The biggest…
[ad_1] Google is reportedly set to launch a revamped Gmail in the coming weeks, with a “fresh, clean look for Gmail on the web.” Businesses that use G Suite, Google’s service that includes email, Docs, Drive and Calendar, have been emailed about the update, according to a report on tech website The Verge. The redesign…
[ad_1] Corporate America’s support for clean energy is gathering steam and expanding beyond big tech pioneers like Apple and Google. Companies signed deals that support the development of 2.8 gigawatts of new renewable power in the United States last year, according to a report from the Rocky Mountain Institute released Thursday. That’s roughly equivalent to…
[ad_1] The idea for the BionicWheelBot came from the Sahara flic-flac spider, which rolls away when it feels threatened. Like its animal counter-part, the BionicWheelBot rolls using 15 small motors and an inertial sensor, which helps the bot keep track of its orientation. Some of Festo’s earlier projects include robotic ants, a robot kangaroo, a…
[ad_1] The blockchain startup Ripple’s cryptocurrency is not a security, one of its top executives told CNBC on Wednesday, seeking to put to rest speculation that it has not been added to popular exchange Coinbase because of questions over its status. “We absolutely are not a security. We don’t meet the standards for what a…
[ad_1] I know you say we can already control our data on Facebook. But honestly, I’m still not exactly sure what happens to it once it enters your machines. As Todd Haselton, my CNBC colleague, points out, even when my data is taken off Facebook, there’s no way to be sure it hasn’t already been…
[ad_1] Adriano Machado | Reuters The chief executive of Uber Technologies, Dara Khosrowshahi. The U.S. Federal TradeCommission said on Thursday the ride-hailing company Uber Technologies had agreed to expand its proposed settlement with the agency over charges it deceived consumers about its privacy and data security practices. “I am pleased that just a few months…
[ad_1] Meet Bubblz, a French startup that wants to optimize all the boring processes that slow you down. If you’re trying to hire someone, if you need to collect information from many people, if you regularly put together marketing campaigns, you can use Bubblz to automate all the steps and collaborate with your coworkers. Many…
[ad_1] Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., listens during a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Revelations of a massive data leak at Facebook have shocked users, investors, lawmakers and even some…
[ad_1] Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg — or perhaps more accurately, members of his staff — are going to be…
[ad_1] A cryptocurrency with ties to former hedge-fund manager Michael Novogratz has surged past litecoin into fifth place by market capitalization. CoinMarketCap data showed eos climbed more than 30 percent over the last 24 hours for a market capitalization of nearly $7.1 billion, topping litecoin’s $6.8 billion. Bitcoin is the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization,…
[ad_1] The live events will include more than 180 MLB games and NHL games throughout the season (MLB.tv package will be available for an additional $24.99 per month), the entire MLS Live out-of-market schedule with more than 250 games, and thousands of college sports from swimming to track and field to volleyball. College sports will…
[ad_1] As Thomas Edison famously said, “Hell, there are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something.” In other words, we have to break out of our usual constraints in order to innovate. Think about your own workplace: Would it be considered innovative? The answer, of course, depends on where you work. But it…
[ad_1] Uber will start doing annual criminal background checks on U.S. drivers and hire a company that constantly monitors criminal arrests as it tries to do a better job of keeping riders safe. The move announced Thursday is one of several actions taken by the ride-hailing company under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who said that…
[ad_1] Criminal records, driving records, employment verifications. Companies that use on-demand employees need to know that all the boxes have been checked before they send workers into the world on their behalf, and they often need those boxes checked quickly. A growing number of them use Checkr, a San Francisco-based company that says it currently…
[ad_1] Leah Millis | Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 11, 2018. The European Union (EU) has announced it plans to deepen its investigation into the harvesting of personal data, adding that…
[ad_1] Following successful launches in Perth and Sydney earlier this year, ride-hailing platform Ola announced the launch of operations in Melbourne in an emailed statement. In lieu of this, Ola is offering passengers free rides from Thursday, for a limited period of time. Following the launch of operations in Australia, Ola has been positively received…
[ad_1] Veteran technology analyst Colin Sebastian said growing scrutiny of social media giant Facebook could wind up benefiting the company in the end. CNBC’s Mike Santoli spoke with Sebastian, who leads internet stock research at Baird, in an exclusive interview for CNBC PRO . Santoli asked him about growing regulatory concerns in light of Facebook’s…
[ad_1] A musician from Raleigh, North Carolina named Chase Holfelder, recorded a cover of Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity,” a stonerific acid jazz anthem that should be familiar to ’90s kids. This version, however, is recorded entirely inside a virtual reality rig with the help of the HTC Vive and VRScout. Holfelder used the SoundScape VR project…
[ad_1] One of the biggest concerns creating a black cloud over the tech sector is the specter of regulation. The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, which will theoretically give users more control over their data. Zuckerberg said Wednesday that regulation is “inevitable” but lawmakers need to…
[ad_1] When Luminar came out of stealth last year with its built-from-scratch lidar system, it seemed to beat established players like Velodyne at their own game — but at great expense and with no capability to build at scale. After the tech proved itself on the road, however, Luminar got to work making its device…
[ad_1] Another huge poster “appeared” on Broadway, right by Times Square in New York City, stating “Russia won the White House for you, Donald Trump,” taken from a statement on Twitter from writer Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, who was blocked by the president after she tweeted a message at him. She was then part of a group…
[ad_1] Bitcoin surged more than 17 percent in a sudden move on Thursday to above $8,000, according to trading on Coinbase. The cryptocurrency hit a high of $8,011 was trading about 14.4 percent higher near $7,846 as of 7:54 a.m. ET, according to Coinbase. Bitcoin had been suffering from tax-related selling in the run-up to…
[ad_1] For many of us around the world – and especially in India and Brazil – Orkut was the introduction to social networking in the early 2000s. Developed by Google employee Orkut Buyukkokten in 2004, Orkut.com at its peak saw 300 million active users on the platform, until it was supplanted by Facebook, and eventually…
[ad_1] There’s been some good and bad news for OnePlus fans today. The Chinese smartphone company has just announced that its hugely successful £449 OnePlus 5T device is now out of stock across the UK and Europe. Some mobile operators, such as O2, are still selling the popular device but those wanting to buy one…
[ad_1] As the global PC market experienced its 14th consecutive quarter of decline in the first quarter this year – dating back to the second quarter of 2012 – Dell with 6.5 percent experienced the strongest growth rate, market research firm Gartner said on Thursday. HP‘s worldwide PC shipments increased 2.8 percent in the first quarter…
[ad_1] Apple is refreshing its iPhone 8 and 8 Plus lineup with the launch of its Special Edition (PRODUCT)RED devices. These new-look smartphones go on sale tomorrow and include a glass and aluminium design, Retina HD display, A11 Bionic processor and upgraded camera which takes improved photos in low light. Apple has confirmed that the…
[ad_1] Google has rolled out a “More results” button in Search for mobile users that will allow them to load additional search results beyond the first set that are displayed. “We’ve launched a new “More results” button that makes it easier & faster to get more search results on mobile. Now additional listings load below…
[ad_1] Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re looking at why our communities are at a turning point and exploring ways to recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. The recycling symbol is something many of us look for when deciding whether or not…
[ad_1] Lenovo on Thursday expanded its notebook family in India by launching the refreshed ThinkPad X1, as well as some new models in the ThinkPad T, ThinkPad X, and ThinkPad L series. The new models are powered by eighth-generation Intel Core processors and include USB Type-C power adapters for universal charging alongside featuring USB Type-C/…
[ad_1] A house that suffered major fire damage two years ago is on the market for $800,000 in San Jose, California. The listing, which has already attracted criticism online, would appear to be a clear example of Silicon Valley’s overheated housing market. But the realtor behind the sale has defended the asking price, telling local…
[ad_1] HandBrake, a popular open-source video transcoding app that is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, has received a new update almost two years after it got updated to version 1.0. The new version, HandBrake 1.1.0, brings a redesigned user interface as well as new and improved official presets, including 4K device presets for Apple…
[ad_1] The short answer is no. Zuckerberg seemed startled when lawmakers asked whether his business model would change as a result of the recent scrutiny. Congresswoman Eshoo asked Zuckerberg if he is willing to change Facebook’s business model “in the interest of protecting individual privacy.” Zuckerberg said that he is continuing to make changes but…
[ad_1] It’s almost like looking at baby pictures. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have photographed regions around young stars — they call it a “zoo” — that may be what our solar system looked like as an infant. These images will help further our understanding on how planets form and even how we have come to be,…
[ad_1] Google is planning a major design overhaul for Gmail as seen in the Early Adopter Program which is said to offer a “new Gmail experience” in “the coming weeks”. As per online reports, Gmail is getting new features such as Smart Reply on Gmail web, native offline support, and improved access to other Google…
[ad_1] The materials sit in a roughly 965-square-mile Pacific Ocean seabed near Minamitorishima Island, which is located 1,150 miles southeast of Tokyo, according to the study published in Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports. Rare-earth metals are crucial in the making of high-tech products such as electric vehicles, mobile phones and batteries, and the world has…
[ad_1] Citibank is offering up to 100 percent cashback for its users on purchase of 3-month membership plan of Apple Music and purchase of monthly plans for Hotstar Premium. The offer, valid from April 10 till July 9, is applicable on transactions made using Citibank credit cards (not on Citi Corporate credit card). Cashback amount…
[ad_1] U.S.-China tensions are rising about Beijing’s treatment of foreign firms’ intellectual property, but China already recognizes the need to protect its own technologies, according to one CEO. Speaking with CNBC’s Dan Murphy on Wednesday, Bill Studebaker of Robo Global said China has been a “chronic abuser” of intellectual property in the technology space, but…
[ad_1] LG is making efforts to improve the user experience on its devices after it opened a “Software Upgrade Center” in its native Korea. The new lab will be focused on “providing customers worldwide with faster, timelier, smartphone operating system and software updates,” the company explained in a brief statement. The idea is to help…
[ad_1] The messy battle for the future of urban transportation is playing out in the gridlocked and bike-cluttered streets and sidewalks of the District of Columbia – and the subway tunnels underneath it. On Wednesday, Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi appeared in Washington with Mayor Muriel Bowser, D, to announce a suite of new initiatives…
[ad_1] Netflix’s chief content officer said in an interview published Wednesday the streaming giant would not attend this year’s Cannes Film Festival because of a change in French regulations. Speaking to the industry magazine Variety, Ted Sarandos said the festival – whose selection will be made public Thursday – had instituted a new rule prohibiting…
[ad_1] Walmart looks likely to take the next round in the battle for India’s retail market over rival Amazon.com. Flipkart Online Services, the country’s leading e-commerce company, is leaning toward selling a controlling stake to the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company, rather than Amazon, because of the greater certainty in such a deal, according to people familiar…
[ad_1] About 3 percent of Facebook’s annual advertising revenue could be at stake because of the scandal involving its handling of user data, according to a widely followed tech analyst. The social media giant may feel that lost revenue, which could range from $1 billion to $2 billion, as a result of the public revelations…
[ad_1] Amid the criticism over data abuse by Facebook, WhatsApp has now reassured its users that their data and communications are secured with end-to-end encryption, nobody in between can read messages and listen to calls – not even WhatsApp itself. The instant messaging app, which is owned by Facebook, has posted a new FAQ section…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies is looking to be virtually a one-stop transportation shopping app, saying on Wednesday it will add new services, including car-sharing and train tickets. Later this month in San Francisco, the ride-hailing firm will launch Uber Rent in collaboration with Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing service that offers privately owned cars for rent. “We’re…
[ad_1] Apple on Wednesday appointed a new executive to oversee its Apple Music streaming business and hit 40 million subscribers, the company said. Apple said it had appointed Oliver Schusser as vice president of Apple Music and international content. Schusser, who joined Apple 14 years ago, will report directly to Apple senior vice president Eddy…
[ad_1] Facebook’s Instagram will soon allow its users to download a copy of all the content they have uploaded on the photo-sharing platform, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The disclosure comes amid global concerns about the privacy of users’ information on social media platforms and the amount of user data that companies keep. While Facebook has…
[ad_1] Technology company Zuora on Wednesday priced its initial public offering at $14 per share, a day before the company expects its stock to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange. At that price, the company has an implied valuation of $1.44 billion. The results suggest investors believe there is still interest in young…
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — When it comes to regulating Facebook, Congress is in over its head. But does that matter? This week’s marathon testimony by Mark Zuckerberg, the social network’s chief executive, revealed the limited understanding many lawmakers have of what Facebook is and how it works. Members of Congress came with a mixed bag of…
[ad_1] Yuree Hong, a digital marketer based in Singapore, is determined to change that. Her blockchain community, S/HE Blockchainers Asia, invites only female speakers, but opens its doors to everyone. While many blockchain events draw few women, at least 30 to 40 percent of the attendees at Hong’s events are female, she said. Hong explained…
[ad_1] If you were hoping to get some sweet drone footage of a NASCAR race in progress, you may find your quadcopter grounded unceremoniously by a mysterious force: DroneShield is bringing its anti-drone tech to NASCAR events at the Texas Motor Speedway. The company makes a handful of products, all aimed at detecting and safely…
[ad_1] We’ve trained machine learning systems to identify objects, navigate streets, and recognize facial expressions, but as difficult as they may be, they don’t even touch the level of sophistication required to simulate, for example, a dog. Well, this project aims to do just that — in a very limited way, of course. By observing…
[ad_1] Boeing’s venture capital arm invested outside the U.S. (again), putting funds behind a space company (again). The U.S. industrial giant joined Rolls-Royce and defense company BAE Systems in a $37.6 million fundraising round for U.K.-based propulsion company Reaction Engines. This is both the second foreign investment and the second space investment for Boeing HorizonX…
[ad_1] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update has been delayed, according to sources inside Microsoft. The hotly-anticipated operating system update has purportedly been pushed back due to a software glitch. Windows Central claims the Redmond-based technology company uncovered a blocking bug and has temporarily postponed the release date of Windows 10 Version 1803 to the public.…
[ad_1] As thin trading sent stocks lower and oil prices soaring into the close on Wednesday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer searched for non-oil-related action that defined the tape. “It’s always weird when you look at the non-oil standouts on a day like today because the most glaring one happened to be the stock of Facebook. For…
[ad_1] Google Chrome could be getting a huge update in 2018. Google Chrome is without a doubt the most popular internet browser in the world – and it doesn’t look like it will lose that crown anytime soon. Latest NetMarketShare stats for the first three months of 2018 give the search engine giant’s browser a…
[ad_1] Increased regulation in the technology sector would be good for Facebook but bad for its competitors, said Kevin Knight, former Team Lead of Facebook Creative Shop in New York. “The harder the government makes it for companies to access shared data or data that changes places, that changes between different platforms,” Knight told CNBC,…
[ad_1] Apple’s latest iOS 11.3 software update is reportedly causing iPhone 8 devices that have had screens repaired by third-parties to stop working. Owners that chose a third-party vendor to repair their iPhone screen over Apple have allegedly seen their touchscreen stop working after updating to iOS 11.3. Affected users said the display on their…
[ad_1] African scientists, often overlooked by Western publications, hope a new journal will put their work on par with their global colleagues. Scientific African is billed as a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal featuring research from across Africa. It will focus on research specific to the continent and will offer open access with no subscription required. The…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg faced a harsher crowd on Capitol Hill Wednesday in the second day of congressional hearings for the Facebook founder and CEO. Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee grilled Zuckerberg for nearly five hours about his company’s legal obligations, guiding principles and his own philosophies as steward of the largest social…
[ad_1] It started out with rock snot and ended with a call for scientists to stand up to suppression. Canada’s Science Minister Kirsty Duncan used her TED talk in Vancouver to highlight her government’s record on science and blasted those who would silence researchers. “It is critical — absolutely critical — that our scientists are free to…
[ad_1] Tesla is targeting November 2019 as the start of production for its Model Y sport utility vehicle, with production in China to begin two years later, two sources told Reuters this week, shedding some light on the electric vehicle maker’s next project that could tax its resources and capacity. Reuters has learned the Silicon…
[ad_1] “Sleeping on the factory floor, doing — why are you doing that?” King asked. “Because I don’t have time to go home and shower,” Musk responded. In the seven days ending April 3, Tesla produced 2,020 Model 3s, the company announced, which was less than its 2,500-car target. Still, Tesla said it hopes to…
[ad_1] The days of reading the small print to see whether a repair or new part for your ailing laptop will void its warranty may be coming to an end. The FTC has officially warned several companies that their policies of ceasing support when a user attempts “non-approved” repairs or servicing are likely illegal. It’s…
[ad_1] Yesterday we reported that Instagram lacked data portability, knocking the app for the absence of an equivalent to Facebook’s Download Your Information too. Now an Instagram spokesperson tells me “We are building a new data portability tool. You’ll soon be able to download a copy of what you’ve shared on Instagram, including your photos,…
[ad_1] Apple named a new Apple Music boss on Wednesday, and his background hints at what the company’s thus far nebulous content strategy might be going forward. Oliver Schusser will be the new vice president of Apple Music and international content. He’ll split his time between Apple’s Cupertino headquarters and Culver City, Calif., where many…
[ad_1] Scientists from the University of Alberta have accidentally discovered the first two subglacial lakes found in the Canadian Arctic — and their unique conditions could help scientists in their search for life beyond Earth. The two lakes were found underneath the ice cap, below between 550 and 750 metres of ice. The discovery was made…
[ad_1] Franklin Robotics developed an autonomous robot named Tertill that weeds your garden.Tertill is an autonomous, weatherproof and solar-powered robot. It was created by Franklin’s chief technology officer Joe Jones, who also invented the Roomba. Tertill roams your garden looking for plants that are less than an inch tall. It trims the weeds using a…
[ad_1] Ahead of the chance to grill Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill, Rep. Michael Burgess made a disclosure that played into the hands of critics who say lawmakers don’t know enough about technology. “I don’t want to speak for the rest of the committee, but I will be the first to confess that the…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill for the second day on Wednesday, testifying in front of lawmakers after a data scandal with the research firm Cambridge Analytica resulted in as many as 87 million Facebook users private data being compromised. And while Zuckerberg was on the East Coast facing hours…
[ad_1] But Zuckerberg’s suggestion that this dialog box gives users complete control is misleading. This is why Zuckerberg was called to Capitol Hill in the first place: Users haven’t and still don’t have an easy way to control who sees their data after it’s been posted to Facebook. Cambridge Analytica, for example, was able to…
[ad_1] Tenor is now going to exclusively power GIF searches in LinkedIn messaging after Google a few weeks ago, adding yet another service to its already pretty large portfolio of messaging platforms. Tenor has long positioned itself as a GIF search tool working across a number of different platforms, ranging from its own keyboard to…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg is going before Congress for a second time Wednesday — and members of the House are likely to be better versed in both Facebook’s business model and technology in general than their Senate counterparts were yesterday. The Facebook founder and CEO spent nearly five hours addressing members of the Senate Judiciary and…
[ad_1] Spotify and Hulu announced a joint plan for customers on Wednesday that offers access to both services for $12.99 per month. Users will save $5 by signing up for both. Spotify Premium costs $9.99 per month for ad-free service and access to its music library. Hulu’s “limited ads” service costs $7.99 per month. The…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg’s flimsy defense when congress asked about a lack of competition to Facebook has been to cite that the average American uses eight social apps. But that conveniently glosses over the fact that Facebook owns three of the top 10 U.S. iOS apps: #4 Instagram, #6 Messenger, and #8 Facebook according to App…
[ad_1] The venture capitalist warns that tech regulation could lead to political corruption and a loss of entrepreneurs. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] At its re:Invent developer conference, AWS made so many announcements that even some of the company’s biggest launches only got a small amount of attention. While the company’s long-awaited Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes got quite a bit of press, the launch of the far more novel Fargate container service went a bit under.…
[ad_1] Blockchain firm Ripple, whose digital currency has seen huge volatility in recent months, is investing in a $150 million blockchain-focused fund. Ripple, which owns about 60 billion of the 100 billion ripple, or XRP, tokens created, said Wednesday that it would invest $25 million into the fund, created by Blockchain Capital, a venture capital…
[ad_1] Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2018. Despite the fact that Facebook hosts and produces content, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress he doesn’t…
[ad_1] Jason LaVeris | FilmMagic | Getty Images (L-R) Actors Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Winona Ryder, Millie Bobby Brown, Matthew Modine and Gaten Matarazzo attend the premiere of ‘Stranger Things’ at Mack Sennett Studios on July 11, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Investors should buy Netflix shares into its earnings report next week even after…
[ad_1] Talkspace, a start-up that offers therapy via video chat, is getting serious about selling to employers and has just brought on a chief medical officer to help. Neil Leibowitz, who previously served as senior medical director at UnitedHealth, joined Talkspace this month. His hiring comes as the company builds out its enterprise business and…
[ad_1] Facebook-owned Instagram is testing a new feature dubbed Nametags – said to be a clone of Snapchat’s ‘Snapcode’ – that will let users create a “custom scannable tag” similar to a QR code by designing a pattern of emojis. Once a Nametag is created, other users can scan it via the Instagram Stories camera…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday in the second day of congressional hearings for the Facebook founder and CEO. He appeared at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday. You can read CNBC’s coverage of that hearing at the links below: The company is…
[ad_1] A house built by a 3D robot printer was opened to the public in western France on Saturday, with backers hailing it as a step forward in green construction. Professor Benoit Furet, whose teams from the University of Nantes headed up the project, said it was the first house built in situ for human…
[ad_1] Two B.C. researchers say Jasper National Park is due for a catastrophic forest fire — and they’re worried officials aren’t doing enough preparation and prevention for it. Emile Begin and Ken Hodges said a major forest fire in the area is an inevitability. “It’s a matter of when, not if,” Begin told CBC’s Radio…
[ad_1] The remarkable recovery of striped bass in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence reached unprecedented levels in 2017, according to the latest assessment from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Department scientists say the spawning population tripled between 2016 and 2017 and is now estimated at one million fish — a 100-fold increase from the…
[ad_1] Horacio Villalobos | Corbis | Getty Images Steve Huffman CEO, Reddit, delivers remarks on ‘Redesigning Reddit’ during the third day of Web Summit in Altice Arena on November 08, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Reddit has banned almost 1,000 accounts linked to a controversial Russian firm accused of using online propaganda to influence the U.S.…
[ad_1] In a bid to smoothen the ride for its drivers, ride-hailing platform Uber on Wednesday launched a new app that will initially be available to select driver-partners in Kochi and courier partners in Chennai. The app was built after experimenting with over 100 driver and courier partners in Bengaluru as part of the global…
[ad_1] Still, not all market players agree on Facebook’s future. Bank of America Merrill Lynch in early April removed the internet company from its US1 list of best investment ideas and cut its target price twice in March, citing the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into its data practices. It maintained its buy rating for Facebook,…
[ad_1] TravelPerk, a Barcelona-based SaaS startup that’s built an end-to-end business travel platform, has closed a $21 million Series B round, led by Berlin-based Target Global and London’s Felix Capital. Earlier investors Spark Capital and Sunstone also participated in the round, alongside new investor Amplo. When we last spoke to the startup back in June 2016 — as…
[ad_1] Instagram’s latest update brings one of the best features of the Galaxy S9+, Note 8 and iPhone X to its photo-based social network. The new feature, dubbed Focus, brings Portrait Mode-style effect to photographs taken within the app. Apple introduced its Portrait Mode feature alongside the dual-camera system that debuted with the iPhone 7…
[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook have exchanged words over privacy during the last…
[ad_1] FACEBOOK • GETTY Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fielded questions for close to five hours Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, appeared before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee yesterday for the first of two US congressional hearings in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. During almost five hours of questioning by…
[ad_1] With Fortnite hitting iOS last month after debuting on the PS4, PC, and Xbox One, you aren’t short of ways to play Epic Games’ battle royal sensation. The developer has touted cross-play and cross-progression as being two key pillars of Fortnite, meaning you can play with your friends on PS4, PC, and iOS, or…
[ad_1] The post claims CEO Mark Zuckerberg “invented the word BFF” (an acronym for Best Friend Forever) to test the safety of Facebook accounts. It then asks users to comment “BFF” on the post and if it appears in green then their account is safe. If not, it advises them to change their password immediately…
[ad_1] While a large number of people believe that Facebook secretly uses the microphone on their devices to better target ads on its platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg refuted this belief. The executive in a Senate hearing on Tuesday explicitly said no to a question on whether Facebook uses audio from mobile devices specifically for ads.…
[ad_1] As for Rakuten’s ambitions in Japan’s crowded telecommunications space, Mikitani said lower capital costs from new technologies and his company’s proven track record in other businesses make him optimistic. At present, Rakuten sees about $120 billion in global transactions, and Mikitani said the goal is not just to have a shopping platform. With the…
[ad_1] There was a heated exchange between Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Zuckerberg over whether Facebook is a monopoly or not. Graham asked Zuckerberg to name competitors and he cited Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. The senator then kept probing and eventually asked, “You don’t think you have a monopoly?” Zuckerberg said: “Doesn’t feel like…
[ad_1] In the wake of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony on Capitol Hill, John Zimmer of Lyft chimed in on the subject of user privacy. “I think within any company, user trust, and therefore user privacy, has to be a top priority,” said the Lyft president. Speaking to CNBC’s Akiko Fujita on Wednesday at the…
[ad_1] Spotify is developing an updated version of its free music service, according to a report. The recently-listed firm is simplifying its service, especially for mobile users, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. The new service would let mobile listeners access playlists faster and have increased control over the songs they hear on top playlists, the…
[ad_1] Torrent downloaders are been warned that sensitive information such as their e-mail addresses and locations could be vulnerable. Recently, one of the main destinations for torrent fans looking to download TV shows has displayed a stark warning. EZTV is one of the most popular destinations for torrent users looking to download the latest episode…
[ad_1] Google Chrome has confirmed plans to join a new industry standard which proposes an alternative to the traditional alpha-numeric password. Dubbed WebAuthn, the new open standard is already supported in the latest version of Firefox. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge will support WebAuthn in upcoming software updates, scheduled to launch in the coming weeks.…
[ad_1] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update is set to roll-out worldwide, starting from today, April 10th. Microsoft typically staggers the roll-out its blockbuster updates to alleviate strain on its servers, so it might be a few more days until the new software drops for you. Users who are signed-up to the Windows Insiders scheme can…
[ad_1] A study published recently in the scientific Journal PLOS One shows it’s likely beluga whales have their own culture, including the ability to pass on knowledge about their migration behaviour to one another. Researchers looked at a sample and genetic marker set of 1,647 whales spanning more than two decades, according to the study.…
[ad_1] Donations stemming from the heartbreak of 15 deaths in the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus crash have propelled a fund for the players’ families into GoFundMe’s top five largest global campaigns. The money, $7.3 million ($5.8 million US) and counting, comes from 65 countries, according to GoFundMe’s PR agency in Canada, North Strategic. No…
[ad_1] The dominant tech trend in places like Southeast Asia will not be artificial intelligence as a whole, but rather it will be the more specific AI field of machine learning, according to a researcher from Deloitte. “Machine learning is the big one, not AI. AI’s a very broad field, we are talking about the…
[ad_1] When the president of the Manitoba Nomads, a chapter of the outlaw motorcycle gang the Hells Angels, heard his members had been turned away from a hotel for wearing their trademark logos, he called on them to boycott the business. They obeyed Dale Kelland in droves. On March 27, supporters took to social media to express their…
[ad_1] A jawbone fossil found on a rocky English beach belongs to one of the biggest marine animals on record, a type of seagoing reptile called an ichthyosaur that scientists estimated at up to 26 metres (85 feet) long — approaching the size of a blue whale. Scientists said on Monday this ichthyosaur, which appears to be the largest marine…
[ad_1] Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg brought notes to his U.S. Senate hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.…
[ad_1] Do you want to see the only human off-Earth outpost? Over the next day or so, you may be able to watch it silently gliding through the night sky. The International Space Station (ISS) is the only place where you can usually find the only six people living and working in space. And if you…
[ad_1] Blood testing start-up Theranos has laid off most of its remaining workforce, leaving only two dozen or fewer employees, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes announced the layoffs at an all-employee meeting at Theranos’ offices in California on Tuesday. The layoffs were part of a…
[ad_1] Sarbanes, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, will also get a chance to question Zuckerberg when the CEO appears before that committee on Wednesday. Facebook is under scrutiny after reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users. The…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg ran his apology scripts, trotted out his lists of policy fixes and generally dulled the Senate into submission. And that constitutes success for Facebook. Zuckerberg testified before the joint Senate judiciary and commerce committee today, capitalizing on the lack of knowledge of the politicians and their surface-level questions. Half the time, Zuckerberg…
[ad_1] Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee joint hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 10, 2018. Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana confronted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the transparency of…
[ad_1] Although recent scrutiny has “clearly hurt” Facebook’s mission, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said there has not been a dramatic decline in usership. Zuckerberg spoke on Tuesday at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees, where he was questioned for more than four hours about Facebook’s treatment of user data. The company has…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially shot down the conspiracy theory that the social network has some way of keeping tabs on its users by tapping into the mics on people’s smartphones. During Zuckerberg’s testimony before the Senate this afternoon, Senator Gary Peters had asked the CEO if the social network is mining audio from…
[ad_1] With scandals and pseudo-scandals swirling at Facebook, Tesla and Amazon, CNBC’s Jim Cramer wanted to inspect each household company to gauge the potential negative impacts. “With all three names rebounding nicely today along with the rest of the market, … I think we need to conduct a damage assessment,” the “Mad Money” host said…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg testified Facebook did not notify the Federal Trade Commission about the Cambridge Analytica data leak years ago because the social media giant “considered it a closed case.” The Facebook founder and CEO spoke at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday, the first of two congressional hearings for…
[ad_1] Since Axios published a story titled “Trump Hates Amazon, Not Facebook,” Amazon has been the target of a firestorm launched from President Trump’s Twitter account. Trump has railed against the e-commerce giant for its tax treatment and what he considers to be an unfair deal with the U.S. Post Office, but most market-watchers assume…
[ad_1] Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab are giving a “voice” to that voice inside your head. The team has come up with a way to communicate with a computer system by having users “speak silently” to themselves, or subvocalize. The device, called AlterEgo, uses electrodes to read the neuromuscular signals from the user’s internal speech…
[ad_1] There will always be a version of Facebook that users can access without paying, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in congressional testimony on Tuesday. “Yes, there will always be a version of Facebook that is free,” Zuckerberg said during a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Zuckerberg testified in Congress…
[ad_1] Amazon officials told leaders here that the lack of a “blueprint for talent” was one of the reasons the e-commerce giant didn’t choose St. Louis region for its second headquarters, according to an economic development official. St. Louis Economic Development Partnership CEO Sheila Sweeney‘s comments came Wednesday at an event in Belleville, the Belleville…
[ad_1] Google is in advanced talks to buy Nokia’s airborne broadband system, Bloomberg reports, citing multiple sources with knowledge of the discussions. Google would use Nokia’s technology to offer faster in-flight WiFi. Nokia announced its air-to-ground connectivity network late last year with internet speeds as fast or faster than those of the in-flight internet company…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg testified at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday, in the first of two congressional hearings for the Facebook founder and CEO. Watch the live stream of Zuckerberg’s testimony here. Zuckerberg faced tough questions on user privacy, foreign meddling on the site and abuse of social media tools…
[ad_1] Facebook didn’t ban Cambridge Analytica when it found out in 2015 that it had received user data from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, and Zuckerberg called that a mistake during his testimony before the Senate. Cambridge Analytica has since been banned. Zuckerberg explained that “I want to correct one thing that I said earlier in response…
[ad_1] Investors shouldn’t be leaving Facebook just yet, said Brent Thill, managing director of the internet research team at Jefferies. “Clearly there’s an expense hit,” the analyst told CNBC before the start of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s testimony before Congress on Tuesday. Jefferies lowered earnings numbers this week. But “a survey with our partners in…
[ad_1] Facebook shares surged 4.5 percent on Tuesday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday. The stock was already up about 2.5 percent at 2:20 p.m. ET, around the time the hearing was set to begin. Facebook shares hit a high of $195.32 per share in February, but have fallen almost 11…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified to a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday that Facebook is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. “I know we are working with them,” Zuckerberg said during the hearing. When asked by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont about Facebook’s involvement with Mueller’s investigation, Zuckerberg…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he sees combating election interference as one of his “top priorities” this year. The Facebook founder told senators the company’s delay in identifying Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election is “one of [his] biggest regrets in running the company.” Zuckerberg said methods to spread political misinformation…
[ad_1] At the core of Facebook’s “well-being” problem is that its business is directly coupled with total time spent on its apps. The more hours you pass on the social network, the more ads you see and click, the more money it earns. That puts its plan to make using Facebook healthier at odds with…
[ad_1] Pantera Capital, a hedge fund that gained attention for returning 25,000 percent over its lifetime through the end of last year, saw the value of its cryptocurrency fund cut nearly in half in March, according to an investor letter Tuesday. “This was a really rough month for the Digital Asset Fund and the space…
[ad_1] Former Facebook executive Mike Hoefflinger said the failure of Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to protect user data “looks a bit like arrogance,” but said it’s more a matter of not anticipating what could have gone wrong. “If you attract 1.4 billion people a day, some of them are not going to be…
[ad_1] “The current system costs American jobs at the expense of American taxpayers,” Cassidy told CNBC in a statement. “American taxpayers should not be subsidizing Chinese companies mailing items to the U.S., competing with our businesses.” The bill plays into two of Trump’s favorite issues: It bolsters Trump’s clampdown on what he decries as the…
[ad_1] Such granular profiles are fundamentally wrong, said Cook. “We’ve never believed that these detailed profiles of people — that has incredibly deep personal information that is patched together from several sources — should exist. That the connection of all of these dots, that you could use them in such devious ways if someone wanted…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg is testifying at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday, in the first of two congressional hearings for the Facebook founder and CEO. The company is facing questions following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million…
[ad_1] It’s hard to #DeleteFacebook with no viable alternative, but at least you can export all your data. There’s no such option on Instagram . That lack of data portability puts users at the mercy of Instagram’s product and policy decisions. And it could even put users at risk as those who seek to backup…
[ad_1] In the new world of health care, which is starting to reward care providers for keeping a patient healthy rather than for pricey tests and procedures, there’s a trend towards more direct involvement in patients’ lives. But that doesn’t mean passive scraping of social media to learn about a patient’s most basic needs. In…
[ad_1] Heat waves in the planet’s oceans are happening more frequently and lasting longer than they did a century ago, a new study shows. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, brought together scientists from Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia to examine ocean temperature data dating back to 1900. Marine heat…
[ad_1] b8ta, the store founded by Nest alums to sell trendy gadgets, is entering new territory. Today, the startup is launching “Built by b8ta,” which functions as a retail-as-a-service platform for brands that want a physical presence. Building off the success of its own retail stores, b8ta is confident it can provide an easy, cost-effective…
[ad_1] Entrepreneurs have it rough in Africa, India, Pakistan — places where VC cash doesn’t fall from the sky and necessary infrastructure like reliable banking and broadband can be hard to come by. But companies grow and thrive nevertheless in these rugged environments, and DFS Lab is an incubator focused on connecting them with the…
[ad_1] Shares of Sprint and T-Mobile jumped Tuesday on a report that the telecom companies have resumed merger talks. Sprint jumped more than 6 percent before being briefly halted. The stock resumed trading at roughly 11 percent up. Shares of T-Mobile were up nearly 7 percent immediately following the report. It’s the latest update in…
[ad_1] The total number of high profile investors and venture capital funds continues to increase in 2018 – a trend Space Angels traces back to 2009. Andreeseen Horowitz and Accel Partners are the latest Silicon Valley funds to back space ventures, with the former investing in satellite start-up Astranis and the latter funding World View.…
[ad_1] Instagram is one-upping Apple with a portrait mode feature that runs on a wider variety of phones and works with video, not just photos. Last month TechCrunch reported about a Focus feature buried in Instagram’s code which began publicly testing a week later. Now Instagram is rolling out Focus, which blurs the background while…
[ad_1] Instagram on Tuesday announced the launch of two new features on the social networking platform globally. The first update is a new camera format on Instagram Stories called Focus that lets users take portrait shots with Bokeh effect from their phone’s rear or front camera. “When you take a photo or video of someone…
[ad_1] Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg needs to thread the needle this week by answering lawmakers’ questions without “hanging himself,” online privacy advocate Michael Fertik told CNBC on Tuesday. Fertik, founder and executive chairman Reputation.com, pointed out that Facebook could in theory face more than $2 trillion in fines if the Federal Trade Commission were to…
[ad_1] There’s a new venture fund in town from some familiar faces. Carey Lai, who previously worked at Intel Capital and IVP, is joining forces with Paul Yeh, formerly of Kleiner Perkins. They’re calling it Conductive Ventures and it’s launching with $100 million under management. They’ll be investing in “expansion stage” companies across enterprise software…
[ad_1] Sushil Kumar | Hindustan Times | Getty Images (R-L)Sandeep Kataria, Director Commercial Vodafone India; Reed Hastings, Co founder and CEO, Netflix and Himanshu Patil , COO Videocone d2h Limited at Netflix’s Multi-Platform Parterships Annoucement on March 6, 2017 in New Delhi, India. Netflix shares will rise as the streaming giant will generate strong growth…
[ad_1] Either CEO Mark Zuckerberg or COO Sheryl Sandberg will be in a different role at Facebook as a result of the social network’s data scandal, one analyst told CNBC on Tuesday. “The company is not well managed,” said Brian Wieser, a senior research analyst at Pivotal Research Group with a sell rating on Facebook’s…
[ad_1] Cambridge, U.K.-based startup Spectral Edge has closed a $5.3M Series A funding round from existing investors Parkwalk Advisors and IQ Capital. The team, which in 2014 spun the business out of academic research at the University of East Anglia, has developed a mathematical technique for improving photographic imagery in real-time, also using machine learning technology. As we’ve…
[ad_1] In order to value bitcoin and predict future prices, analysts at Barclays came up with a model that likens it to an infectious disease. Like flu season, the mania around cryptocurrency and subsequent price spikes could be coming to an end. “Like infection, transmission – especially to those with ‘fear of missing out’ –…
[ad_1] Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going to be hammered with questions from lawmakers Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington. If he can keep the conversation focused on data privacy, he’ll emerge a winner. That’s because Facebook’s real bugaboo isn’t privacy at all. The biggest potential threat to Facebook — along with Alphabet —…
[ad_1] Facebook will pay upwards of $40,000 to people who catch large data leaks. The company announced a bounty program on Tuesday which would reward people who find cases of data abuse on its platforms. Payouts start at $500, and people can receive more than $40,000 for big discoveries. The data abuse program is the…
[ad_1] Facebook’s data privacy scandal, kicked off by Cambridge Analytica revelations late last month, is far from dying out. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify to US Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday, while other executives have begun doing the rounds of various regulators in Europe. Facebook had revealed that data of 87 million users…
[ad_1] Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee stocks Greek yogurt in a Kroger supermarket in Peoria, Illinois. Amid sweeping changes in the grocery industry, Kroger announced on Tuesday it is hiring for 11,000 new positions, including 2,000 management roles. It is also investing $500 million in associate wages and training and development…
[ad_1] Uber has started to roll out a payment authorisation hold feature that will enable the company to hold a user’s upfront fare amount ahead of a trip. The cab-hailing company will essentially authorise your non-cash payment (credit and debit cards) method for every trip requested, to the amount of the upfront fare. The move, according…
[ad_1] In the notification, Facebook explains — and this is important because it means that your data might have been shared, even if you never opened or authorized a third party application to access it — that information such as your public profile, the pages you like on Facebook, your birthday and the current city…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is by far the most popular cross-platform messaging app in India. Globally, WhatsApp has 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs) and the app processes around 60 billion messages each day. This makes it a great platform for anyone to offer business services or customer support over mobile. In January this year, WhatsApp introduced…
[ad_1] Walmart is working with delivery service Postmates to bring online grocery orders to more shoppers’ homes. The partnership will roll out in Charlotte, North Carolina, the companies announced Tuesday, and will grow to other areas in the U.S. in the coming months. Having a grocery delivery service is increasingly important as more shoppers opt…
[ad_1] Splunk has always been known as a company that can sift through oodles of log or security data and help customers surface the important bits. Today, it announced it was going to try to apply that same skill set to Industrial Internet of Things data. IIoT is data found in manufacturing settings, typically come…
[ad_1] Western Digital on Tuesday expanded its G-Drive and G-Speed range of solid state drive (SSD) models by unveiling three new solutions featuring a Thunderbolt 3 port. Called the G-Drive Mobile Pro SSD, G-Drive Pro SSD, and G-Speed Shuttle SSD, the new models are targeted at creative professionals – designed specifically to handle demanding workflow…
[ad_1] Thune did not rule out regulations on Facebook and other social media platforms. However, he called himself a “light-touch person” on business regulations and said Tuesday’s hearing will only start the process of figuring out potential regulatory fixes. Several lawmakers, including Commerce Committee ranking member Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., have pushed for tougher regulation…
[ad_1] HP Electronics on Monday announced the launch of its Chromebook x2 that is termed as the “world’s first Chromebook detachable”. It essentially means that its display can be detached and used as a standalone tablet. The Chromebook x2 has been priced starting at $599.99 (roughly Rs. 39,000) and is said to be made available…
[ad_1] There’s nothing quite like hanging out of a helicopter dozens of metres above the ocean to give you perspective. You’ve been given the job of guiding a metal cable, with a man attached, safely to a ship below. You know it’s all fake, and that it’s all computer-generated images beamed into a virtual reality headset to trick…
[ad_1] Luis Fonsi’s Despacito Ft. Daddy Yankee, the most streamed video of all time on YouTube that hit a record 5 billion views recently, was deleted from YouTube for a brief while on Tuesday. It appears that Vevo, a US-based video service that is a joint venture between Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment…
[ad_1] Google has launched its smart speaker products Google Home and Google Home Mini in India, following Amazon into one of the world’s most promising markets for technology. The devices are equipped with Google Assistant, the search giant’s digital voice assistant, which is activated when a user says “OK, Google” or “Hey, Google.” Google Home…
[ad_1] Tyrone Siu | Reuters Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang attends an event during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan May 30, 2017. Nvidia’s dominant positions in the artificial intelligence and gaming markets are unmatched, according to Morgan Stanley. The bank raised its rating for Nvidia’s shares to overweight from equal-weight, predicting…
[ad_1] Money transfer start-up WorldRemit expects to turn a profit in 2019, its chief executive said Tuesday. Ismail Ahmed told CNBC that, despite the firm’s heavy investment in partnerships and user acquisition, he believes it will reach profitability by next year. “Even with the amount of investment we’re making in customer acquisition and branding, we…
[ad_1] In April 2010, Facebook announced the launch of a platform called Open Graph to third-party apps. This update allowed external developers to reach out to Facebook users and request permission to access a large chunk of their personal data — and, crucially, to access their Facebook friends’ personal data too. If accepted, these apps…
[ad_1] ONEPLUS • MARVEL STUDIOS OnePlus 6 will purportedly ship with a special edition Avengers Infinity War design OnePlus has teamed-up with Disney to launch a new special edition Avengers: Infinity War model of its upcoming OnePlus 6, rumours suggest. Last week, a brief teaser surfaced on OnePlus’ social media accounts which appeared to confirm…
[ad_1] Thanks to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people have started talking about privacy on the Internet, but Facebook is not the only one that’s tracking you. Spend a few minutes looking at your Google My Activity page for a scary reminder about everything the company knows about you, and it isn’t easy to leave either.…
[ad_1] Anthony Kwan | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee scans a quick response (QR) code displayed on the Ant Financial Services Group’s Alipay app, an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding. Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial is looking to raise $9 billion in a private funding round, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Ant Financial owns…
[ad_1] Apple’s follow-up to the iPhone X could sport three camera lens, according to one source. The triple camera set-up could increase the optical zoom capabilities of the best-selling handset, the tipster revealed to the Economic Daily News. Apple debuted its dual-camera systems with the iPhone 7 Plus back in September 2016, enabling users lossless…
[ad_1] France is entitled to bring criminal proceedings against local managers of ride-hailing app Uber for running an illegal taxi service, the EU top court ruled on Tuesday, dealing the Silicon Valley start-up another legal setback. “Member states may prohibit and punish, as a matter of criminal law, the illegal exercise of transport activities in…
[ad_1] Online search giant Google has filed an appeal at the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) against a judgment from India’s competition watchdog that found it guilty of “search bias”, two sources aware of the matter told Reuters. The appeal was filed on Monday, one of the sources said. In February, the Competition Commission…
[ad_1] Pitted against the glacial pace of the UN’s discussion process, activists hoping for an international ban on killer robots have repeatedly been left fuming and frustrated. Pitted against each other in the battlefield, lethal autonomous weapons systems — or LAWS — could in short order cause “absolute devastation,” according to one of those activists.…
[ad_1] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update is set to roll-out worldwide from April 10th. However, Microsoft typically staggers the roll-out its blockbuster updates to alleviate strain on its servers, so it might be a few more days until the new software drops for you. Until then, there is a way to kickstart the update a…
[ad_1] Google’s two smart speaker products — the Google Home and Google Home Mini — and its Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones are now available in India following a launch event in the country. The devices are priced at Rs 9,999 ($154), and Rs 4,499 ($69), respectively, and Google confirmed that they are available for purchase online…
[ad_1] The CEO of Chinese tech company Xunlei said Monday there was no basis for the multiple class action lawsuits his company received from investors. That followed an announcement from the firm last year that it would use blockchain technology and cryptocurrency for its cloud computing services. The lawsuits allege that Xunlei — which is…
[ad_1] Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies said on Monday it has agreed to buy electric bicycle service Jump Bikes, allowing Uber to offer US passengers an alternative to cars and further consolidating the crowded bike-sharing industry. Jump is a dockless electric bike service that has rolled out in San Francisco, where it has 250 bikes, and Washington. About…
[ad_1] The Moto G6 series will be launched on April 19 Moto is expected to showcase its Moto G6 lineup on April 19, and the Lenovo-owned company has released an updated camera app ahead of the launch. The Moto G6 smartphones are set to make their debut soon, but seemingly fresh hardware isn’t the only…
[ad_1] Facebook is displaying advertisements for well-known American corporations on group pages operated by overseas wildlife traffickers illegally selling the body parts of threatened animals, including elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger teeth. a secret complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, wildlife preservation advocates allege that Facebook’s failure to stop illicit traders using…
[ad_1] In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that is currently rocking Facebook, privacy has finally become an issue that people are starting to care about. Perhaps that’s why WhatsApp sought to distance itself from parent entity Facebook, to say it collects very little data and that every single message is end-to-end encrypted. However,…
[ad_1] Jio, Airtel, and BSNL are cashing in on the IPL 2018 fever, as the digital revolution has made it possible for anyone with a smartphone to stream all IPL matches online in real-time. Jio and BSNL have launched exclusive IPL recharge packs for their subscribers, while Airtel is letting its customers stream the live…
[ad_1] Apple said Monday it had achieved a goal of “100 percent clean energy” for its facilities around the world. The California tech giant said its retail stores, offices, data centres and co-located facilities in 43 countries were operating with nonpolluting or renewable energy. Nine additional manufacturing partners have committed to power all of their…
[ad_1] The development could one day take some pressure off congested capital Manila, according to Singapore-based urban planning firm Surbana Jurong, one of the partners in the project. The smart city aims to tap on up-and-coming technologies that would tackle issues arising from the increasing population density in the Southeast Asian country. “Driverless cars probably…
[ad_1] Tesla said a week after the accident that vehicle logs showed no action had been taken by the driver right before the crash and that he had received earlier warnings to put his hands on the wheel. The driver, who was 38, died at a nearby hospital shortly after the vehicle hit a concrete…
[ad_1] Sick of chatting but want to stay connected? Tribe‘s app lets you play clones of Space Invaders, Flappy Bird, Fruit Ninja, Name That Tune and more while video chatting with up to seven friends or strangers. Originally a video messaging app, Tribe failed to gain traction in the face of Snapchat and Facebook Messenger.…
[ad_1] Apple has announced a special edition (PRODUCT) RED iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The new handsets bring a crimson glass enclosure to the next-generation handsets, complete with a matching aluminium band. The front of the smartphone remains black, unlike last year. The limited edition PRODUCT (RED) iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus had…
[ad_1] The Canadian government wants more study on the impact of eliminating heavy fuel oil in the Arctic before it signs onto an international agreement to ban its use there. Sixteen months ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then-U.S. President Barack Obama jointly committed to phase down the use of heavy fuel oils in the…
[ad_1] Anyone wondering if their private Facebook data might have been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal will soon get their first clues. Starting Monday, all 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds, titled “Protecting Your Information,” with a link to see what apps they use and what information they…
[ad_1] The Canadian company at the heart of the international scandal over the unauthorized use of Facebook information received $100,000 in federal funding last year to develop data-driven tools for political campaigns, The Canadian Press has learned. AggregateIQ Data Services Ltd. received the one-time contribution from the National Research Council for a nine-month project aimed…
[ad_1] If your last name is Andreychuk, you might want to consider running for municipal office. But if it’s Zalapski, you might want to keep your hat out of the ring. A new study in the March issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science suggests that the order in which municipal candidates’ names appear on ballots can have…
[ad_1] Get ready to find out if your Facebook data was swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a detailed message on their news feeds. Facebook says most of the affected users (more than 70 million) are…
[ad_1] A $20 million international competition to make profitable products from a gas that otherwise would contribute to global warming has entered its final stretch. The 10 finalists in the contest sponsored by a U.S. energy company and a group of Canadian oil sands producers have shown in a lab they can use carbon dioxide…
[ad_1] People treat blockchain as a “futuristic integrity wand”—wave a blockchain at the problem, and suddenly your data will be valid. For almost anything people want to be valid, blockchain has been proposed as a solution. It’s true that tampering with data stored on a blockchain is hard, but it’s false that blockchain is a…
[ad_1] Instagram is preparing to launch a feature called Nametags that lets you create a special image that people can scan with the Instagram Stories camera to follow you. TechCrunch broke the news of Nametags code in Instagram’s Android APK last month. But now thanks to reader Genady Okrain we have screenshots and more details…
[ad_1] Sacramento Bee | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Backpage.com founders James Larkin, left, and Michael Lacey, right, attend a hearing on Aug. 23, 2017 in Sacramento. The founders of Backpage.com and five others at the classified site have been indicted on federal charges in what authorities say was a scheme to facilitate prostitution…
[ad_1] Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer enters their pin number as they make a chip and pin payment via a Verifone Systems credit card payment device. Shares of Verifone skyrocketed more than 50 percent in extended trading after a private equity firm-led investor group announced it would acquire the electronic payment…
[ad_1] Although the Trump Organization is headquartered in New York, the store does not claim to collect sales taxes in the state. There are 45 states that levy sales taxes. Tax experts speculate that the Trump Organization could be employing a tactic commonly known as “entity isolation” to avoid levying sales taxes in most of…
[ad_1] All of us grew up around tech different from what we have today, and many of us look back on those devices with fondness. But can you recall the exact sound your first Casio keyboard made, or the cadence of a rotary phone’s clicks? Conserve the Sound aims to, well, conserve the sound of…
[ad_1] Coinbase, the leading U.S. marketplace for cryptocurrencies, is working on ways to expand its business as it tries to stay ahead of the competition. The San Francisco-based company has made a series of announcements that pave the way towards supporting new crypto-assets, while reportedly stepping up its efforts to work with regulators. In doing…
[ad_1] Facebook is under scrutiny after reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users. The company also has faced questions after reports of Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential election. Kennedy said the most “frightening” issue is whether Facebook really has control…
[ad_1] Investors in the Facebook or Amazon crosshairs need to start with one question: do you own a particular stock for the very long term? If the answer is yes, then you can stop reading now. You’ve accepted the ups and downs that come along with being a long-term investor. Time horizon is one out…
[ad_1] Last week, after frustrated activists from Myanmar sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, they got something unexpected: a reply. The activists, representing six civil society organizations, harshly criticized Mr. Zuckerberg in the letter, saying he had mischaracterized Facebook’s response to violence-inciting messages in Myanmar and had not devoted…
[ad_1] Ronen Tivony | NurPhoto | Getty Images Hardships for foreign entrepreneurs in the U.S. have increased, thanks to the heightened vetting of H-1B visas, Trump’s Muslim ban and an increasingly hostile stance toward immigration. After six years at LinkedIn, Vikram Rangnekar wanted to go back to his entrepreneurial roots. There was just one big…
[ad_1] Joshua Roberts | Reuters Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg leaves a meeting with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 9, 2018. Zuckerberg will testify amid backlash over the revelation that consulting firm Cambridge Analytica may have misused the personal information of up to 87 million people. Nelson said…
[ad_1] The popular quiz startup HQ Trivia is beginning to roll out the first of many new social features to its app focused on leveraging competition with friends and family during game time. HQ Trivia has managed to bring people together in real life to play the game on their phones, but the startup has…
[ad_1] Another day, another medical innovation challenge sponsored by a Silicon Valley technology company looking to get into health care. This time it’s Google teaming up with the American Medical Association, a physician lobbying group, on a plan to get start-ups to come up with the “best new ideas for fostering data sharing from health…
[ad_1] Musk says the upcoming test will be with an “upgraded” Hyperloop pod. However, getting it to that speed in under a mile will still push the limits of the system and could result in the Hyperloop pod disintegrating into “shredded metal,” says Musk. This is kinda nutty for such a short distance, so could…
[ad_1] Controversial cryptocurrency company Longfin disclosed in a filing Monday that its accounting firm has resigned from engaging with the company. The news comes one business day after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it has frozen $27 million in proceeds from insider stock sales. Shares of Longfin (Ticker: LFIN) remained halted Monday, down…
[ad_1] Despite often referencing his aim to reach Mars within a few years, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has shown little hardware for the massive rocket to send humans to the red planet. Until Sunday. Musk shared a photo of the “main body tool” – essentially a large manufacturing mold to weave the carbon fiber that…
[ad_1] “My initial reaction was skepticism after hearing about Facebook’s plans to integrate health data to attempt to ‘help patients.’ The specific use case example of identifying patients with few social supports in the area after discharge from the hospital seemed to be quite contrary to my experience as a practicing internal medicine hospitalist, as…
[ad_1] It was not Yang Qingning’s millions of social media followers or her political beliefs that made the young woman the scorn of Chinese state media recently. It was her tiny baby. Two of China’s most popular video platforms disappeared from app stores this week after the state broadcaster CCTV accused them of promoting underage…
[ad_1] There’s no question that we should have spotted Russian interference earlier, and we’re working hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Our actions include: Building new technology to prevent abuse. Since 2016, we have improved our techniques to prevent nation states from interfering in foreign elections, and we’ve built more advanced AI tools…
[ad_1] Northrop Grumman built and operated the components that failed during the controversial January launch of the U.S. spy satellite known as Zuma, according to a Wall Street Journal report Sunday. Two independent investigations, made up of federal and industry officials, pointed to the Northrop’s payload adapter as the cause of the satellite’s loss, the…
[ad_1] UK startup Juro, which is applying a “design centric approach” and machine learning tech to help businesses speed up the authoring and management of sales contracts, has closed $2m in seed funding led by Point Nine Capital. Prior investor Seedcamp also contributed to the round. Juro is announcing Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise’s co-founder) as an…
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[ad_1] Fund managers have begun to ditch so-called FANG stocks that powered the U.S. stock market to record highs in January and are slowly rotating into commodity-related shares and other value stocks which typically outperform in late-cycle recoveries. Portfolio managers holding shares of Facebook, Amazon.com, Netflix, and Google-parent Alphabet say they are increasingly concerned that…
[ad_1] Brian Snyder | Reuters Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Alumni Exercises following the 366th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 25, 2017. Facebook is forming a commission to study social media’s effect on elections, the company said Monday. “The last two years have taught us that the same…
[ad_1] Global app downloads and consumer spending in apps had yet another record quarter, according to a new report from App Annie, out on Monday. In the first quarter of 2018, iOS and Google Play downloads grew more than 10 percent year-over-year to reach 27.5 billion – the highest figure to date. In addition, consumer…
[ad_1] IPL 2018 has kicked off, with cricket fans across the country getting more than 50 days of the fast-paced, action-packed tournament. And gone are the days when you had to rush to the TV to watch the matches, as the data revolution has made it cost effective for fans to get the ball-by-ball action…
[ad_1] Washington’s increased scrutiny of technology giants could spell trouble for their stocks, if history is any guide. Technology is the least regulated industry sector, with just 27,000 regulations versus 215,000 for manufacturing and 128,000 for the financial sector, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. That light touch could change in the wake of…
[ad_1] I expect to hear how Facebook is strengthening its privacy protections and empowering consumers to understand and choose how their data is shared. The big question for Congress is what comes next. Facebook is just the latest corporation that failed to protect Americans’ data. In the last year alone, I have responded to poor…
[ad_1] White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow spoke Monday in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” In a tweet early Monday, Trump called out China again for what he has called unfair trade practices by the world’s second-largest economy. @realDonaldTrump: When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is…
[ad_1] Bitcoin dropped more than 6 percent over two hours Monday, below $7,000 as the April tax-filing deadline approaches. The cryptocurrency hit a low of $6,705.78 as of 9:27 a.m. ET Monday, according to data from CoinDesk. Bitcoin prices have fallen more than 27 percent over the past month. Tax-related selling has been a key…
[ad_1] Joining the IPL 2018 bandwagon, Snapchat on Monday announced its partnership with four teams. The partner IPL teams, namely the Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi Daredevils, and Rajasthan Royals, have joined Snapchat’s Official Stories. Snapchat has also additionally released a bunch of new creative tools to let fans support their favourite team using…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images Uber’s new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, replaced Travis Kalanick. On Wednesday, Nov. 22, an Uber hack involving 57 million customers and drivers was revealed. Under Kalanick, the company had hidden the hack for over a year and paid a $100,000 ransom. Last week, one of the biggest bike-sharing platforms in…
[ad_1] Apple is doing it again. The company just unveiled a new version of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. It has a bright red enclosure and a black front. A portion of Apple’s proceeds will fund HIV/AIDS grants from the Global Fund. Other than that, it’s an iPhone 8. You’ll get the exact…
[ad_1] In an interview last month Parker Harris and Marc Benioff told the story of how when they first launched the company, they were trying to raise money and nobody would give them a dime. Benioff said he went to every venture capital in Silicon Valley — and was turned down every single time. This…
[ad_1] Pivotal Software, a division of Dell Technologies, said on Monday it expects its initial public offering of 37 million Class A shares to raise up to $592 million. Pivotal Software said it expects the offering to be priced between $14 and $16 per share. The company, which plans to list on the New York…
[ad_1] IPL 2018 has kicked off, with cricket fans across the country getting more than 50 days of the fast-paced, action-packed tournament. And gone are the days when you had to rush to the TV to watch the matches, as the data revolution has made it cost effective for fans to get the ball-by-ball action…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will hold meetings with some U.S. lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due to appear at congressional hearings over a political consultancy’s use of customer data, two congressional aides said on Sunday. The planned meetings at Capitol Hill are expected to continue through Monday afternoon and include some…
[ad_1] Microsoft has released the source code for the original, 1990s-era File Manager that is so familiar to all of us who were dragging and dropping on Windows 3.0. The code, which is available on Github under the MIT OSS license, will compile under Windows 10. File Manager uses the multiple-document interface or MDI to…
[ad_1] Intel has decided to kill the Intel Remote Keyboard app for Android and iOS devices in order to protect user devices from three vulnerabilities – one of which was classified as “critical”. The chip maker has also issued a Product Discontinuation notice to recommend users to uninstall the app from their devices. The app…
[ad_1] Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told USA TODAY he’s leaving Facebook out of growing concern for the carelessness with which Facebook and other Internet companies treat the private information of users. “Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and … Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this,” he said in an…
[ad_1] KODI.TV • GETTY The latest research shows a spike in Kodi activity, as the popularity of BitTorrent falls away Kodi has seen a spike in popularity in Canada, according to a recent study. The media player has seen a dramatic uptake in popularity – with pirates turning their backs on other methods of watching…
[ad_1] James Murray is a funny man. A producer, actor, and writer, Murray is best known as Murr on the show Impractical Jokers. I spoke to him for a Technotopia interview about the future of TV, VR, and media and he has a lot to say. His dream? To offer immersive experiences to his audiences…
[ad_1] Global IT spending is projected to hit total $3.7 trillion (roughly Rs. 240 lakh crores) in 2018 – an increase of 6.2 percent from 2017, market research firm Gartner said on Monday. “Although global IT spending is forecast to grow 6.2 percent this year, the declining US dollar has caused currency tailwinds which are…
[ad_1] Jewel Samad | AFP | Getty Images Alibaba founder Jack Ma waits on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York on September 19, 2014. SenseTime is a little-known AI firm with a valuation reportedly higher than $3 million. The firm provides facial-recognition technology that can be used for things like…
[ad_1] YouTube defines its main site as a platform for viewers aged 13 years or older, while directing younger children to its YouTube Kids app — which contains a filtered set of videos to show appropriate content and ads. The distinction between YouTube’s main site and its stand-alone app for young children is especially relevant…
[ad_1] Cambridge Analytica has been accused of collecting data on millions of people’s profiles without their consent. The company worked on Facebook ads with President Donald Trump’s campaign, but it maintains that the data was not used during the U.S. election. Cambridge Analytica’s ousted CEO Alexander Nix was caught on camera saying that the firm…
[ad_1] According to TechCrunch, Snapchat users have now started to see these changes. The photo-based social network is now displaying Stories in reverse chronological order for some users, replacing the controversial redesign’s algorithmically sorted feed. Showing the most recently shared Stories first in the feed makes them predictable and coherent to browse, since it allows…
[ad_1] OnePlus is expected to launch a pair of next-generation wireless earbuds alongside its forthcoming flagship, OnePlus 6. The bluetooth earbuds were revealed on a Bluetooth certification website, which confirmed the existence of a product called the OnePlus Bullets Wireless. OnePlus already sells a pair of wired earbuds under the Bullet brand. It’s unclear whether…
[ad_1] With the aim of rewarding new and existing riders, Uber India has launched a new programme called Ridesmart Rewards. This new offering is designed to give users of Uber Ride Packages aka Uber Ride Pass savings on their UberGo, UberPremier, and UberPool rides. It also offers rewards for flight and movie ticket bookings via…
[ad_1] The hotly-anticipated OnePlus 6 might be here sooner than any of us thought. Earlier this year, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau confirmed the company’s next handset would land in late Q2 2018. For OnePlus, this financial quarter runs from April 1st to June 30th. As a result, most industry observers expected the OnePlus 6 to…
[ad_1] The Goa government has decided to launch its own app-based taxi service to some key tourist destinations in the coastal state. The state-run Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) today invited the taxi operators to register with the new mobile application-based transport service. Currently, the tourist taxi operators run their businesses individually in Goa. They…
[ad_1] Facebook has rolled-out a dramatic change to your News Feed today, as part of its ongoing plans to improve privacy following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Earlier this month, Facebook confirmed 87 million users’ personal data was scraped and used by UK-based political data firm Cambridge Analytica. Of those, Facebook has admitted that up…
[ad_1] Keep your cool, Mark Zuckerberg, because this could get ugly. Show deference. Take your lumps. Watch your tone. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. So goes the advice from congressional experts and crisis communications specialists, who say the Facebook CEO’s testimony this week before U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill will be unlike any public grilling the tech billionaire…
[ad_1] The number of Facebook users affected by the recent data sharing scandal could exceed 87 million and records could be stored in Russia, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie said on Sunday. Wylie said that Aleksandr Kogan, whose quiz app harvested the data of tens of millions of Facebook users, could have allowed that data…
[ad_1] An Egyptian court ruled on Saturday that a judicial decision to suspend the licences of ride-hailing companies Uber and Careem should not be applied, allowing them to continue their work, judicial sources said. Forty-two Egyptian taxi drivers filed a lawsuit in the administrative court a year ago against US-based Uber and its Dubai-based competitor…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has attempted to address privacy concerns surrounding its service as parent company Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal continues. The world’s most popular instant messaging service, WhatsApp says it collects very little data and that every single message is end-to-end encrypted. This clarification comes as experts have claimed that the service keeps track of users’…
[ad_1] Still, those changes will likely take time, because there is still “a big gap” when it comes to intellectual property laws between the United States and China, he added. President Donald Trump briefly addressed the issue in an optimistic tweet on Sunday, writing that a deal on intellectual property would be struck between the…
[ad_1] Moto is expected to showcase its Moto G6 lineup on April 19, and the Lenovo-owned company has released an updated camera app ahead of the launch. The Moto G6 smartphones are set to make their debut soon, but fresh hardware isn’t the only thing that the company is focussing on. With a software update,…
[ad_1] The growth in China’s financial technology industry may look like it’s peaking given the wide usage of internet payments, but the sector has yet to reach its full potential, one fintech firm told CNBC on Monday. The world’s second-largest economy already has one of the highest fintech adoption rates, according to a 2017 report…
[ad_1] Salesforce has always been a company that is looking ahead to the next big technology, whether that was mobile, social, internet of things or artificial intelligence. In an interview with Business Insider’s Julie Bort at the end of March, Salesforce co-founders Marc Benioff and Parker Harris talked about a range of subjects including how…
[ad_1] A Republican U.S. senator warned on Sunday that Facebook may need to be regulated to address concerns about the company’s privacy and foreign propaganda scandals, saying they may be “too big” for the social media company to solve alone. “My biggest worry with all this is that the privacy issue and what I call…
[ad_1] For Facebook, Tuesday is being seen as a kind of dreaded final exam. That’s when Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, will swap out his trademark gray T-shirts for a suit and tie, and embark on a two-day marathon of testimony on Capitol Hill. His goal? To apologize for Facebook’s missteps, reassure Congress that…
[ad_1] Facebook is suspending a data analytics firm called CubeYou from the platform after CNBC notified the company that CubeYou was collecting information about users through quizzes. CubeYou misleadingly labeled “for non-profit academic research,” then shared that information with marketers. The scenario is eerily similar to how Cambridge Analytica received unauthorized access to data from…
[ad_1] The growth of Windows has slowed as Microsoft’s mobile platform goals have faded and the PC market matured. As a result, Microsoft has had to seek new revenue outside of its operating system. In 2017, as part of that effort to grow, Microsoft announced a new subscription product called Microsoft 365, bringing together Windows, the company’s…
[ad_1] Dictionary app Reverso is getting new features with its 8.0 update. There are new exercices and games to help you learn new words. Reverso also now has an integrated thesaurus. Reverso is one of the biggest dictionary players out there. It now has over 40 million unique visitors on its website and app every…
[ad_1] If you’re optioning an X3 xDrive30i, start with the standard “xLine design theme.” The executive tier adds the convenience, premium, and executive packages in one big bundle. That means gesture control, a heads-up display, surround-view cameras, a navigation system, a panoramic moonroof and about a dozen other features that transform it from a basic…
[ad_1] Lego Mindstorms have paved the way for many programmable toys. And Austrian startup Robo Wunderkind is building a new kind of Lego-like programmable kit. The startup first launched on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage and just raised $1.2 million (€1 million) from SOSV, Austrian Federal Promotional Bank and multiple business angels. Compared to many programmable…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg didn’t mince words during a phone call with reporters last week: If you had ever publicly posted something to Facebook, there’s a pretty good chance that information was now in someone else’s hands. Put another way, at some point during the past few years, a person or group probably landed on your…
[ad_1] Chelsea face West Ham United in the final game of a bumper weekend of Premier League action. Defending champions Chelsea face a real battle to finish in the top four. The Blues are 11 points behind Tottenham in fourth, but could close the gap to eight points with a win. West Ham are struggling…
[ad_1] F1 is back this weekend with the world’s best drivers lining up for the Bahrain Grand Prix. F1 2018 is looking to be a closely fought contest with three teams expected to be in contention for race wins. The first round in Melbourne saw Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel snatch victory from Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. Vettel…
[ad_1] Researchers in Korea created a prototype robot named Fribo. Its job is to encourage lonely people to text and call one another. Fribo creates a virtual living space that brings isolated users to a central location. The robot is built with sensors and microphones that pick up on daily activities in your home. For…
[ad_1] Arsenal will face Southampton at the Emirates Stadium in the Premier League today. The Gunners will be looking for their sixth win in a row in all competitions, with their latest victory coming midweek. Arsene Wenger’s side put themselves in a strong position to move into the Europa League semi-finals with a 4-1 win…
[ad_1] Airtel TV app is offering free access to live matches and match highlights for IPL 2018 and the upcoming Asia Cup 2018 via the Hotstar app. The move follows the February announcement of the Airtel TV and Hotstar content partnership. In preparation of its IPL coverage, Airtel rolled out a new version of the Airtel TV app which comes with…
[ad_1] Sky has dropped the price of streaming its Sky Sports channels via NOW TV. The UK broadcaster has slashed 40 per cent off its two-month Sky Sports Pass, dropping the price from £33.99 down to £20 a month. After the deal ends, your NOW TV Sky Sports Pass will auto-renew at £33.99 a month,…
[ad_1] SONY Sony Xperia XZ2 is a brilliant smartphone, but it has one glaring design flaw Sony Xperia XZ2 is now available to buy in the UK. The smartphone was announced at a press conference during the 2018 Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona, back in February. The latest Sony handset boasts a top-of-the-line Qualcomm…
[ad_1] SAMSUNG • GETTY • EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS Samsung Gear S4 is purportedly currently in development and scheduled to launch in late 2018 Samsung Gear S4 could launch this year, according to a new report from SamMobile. The technology blog has a solid track record when it comes to forecasting forthcoming Samsung hardware. SamMobile claims the…
[ad_1] Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Pics or it didn’t happen. The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with a host of Silicon Valley executives this week, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz, and Virgin founder Richard Branson, photos show.…
[ad_1] Ryan Knight, a Democratic activist in Los Angeles, called for a boycott of Apple in February because it hadn’t responded to calls to delete a channel from the National Rifle Association from its streaming-video service after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. “Dear @Apple,” Mr. Knight wrote on Twitter. “Your silence is deafening. #BoycottApple.” More…
[ad_1] MX3D, a Dutch robotics firm, 3D printed a functional stainless steel bridge for pedestrians in Amsterdam’s red light district. The 41-foot-long bridge took four robots, 9,920 pounds of stainless steel and six months of printing to complete. MX3D combined an industrial robot, a welding machine and software to make the 3D printers. MX3D also…
[ad_1] YouTube is said to be planning to release a new version of its YouTube Kids service that gives parents the option to turn off algorithmically recommended videos and only display those suitable for children handpicked by a team of curators. “The whitelisted option of the app could be released within the coming weeks. It’s…
[ad_1] Facebook will allow users to delete sent messages from the recipients’ device, the US company has confirmed. The ability to recall sent messages rolled-out to Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp back in October 2017. Earlier this week, technology blog TechCrunch broke the news that Facebook was quietly wiping messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and…
[ad_1] “By 10:30 that night we had shut down every single computer that we had and all our servers,” Long recalled about the Thursday night in January. “By midnight we successfully shut off every computer in the organization and started from scratch. It’s surreal.” By 4 a.m. on Friday, Long and his team had recruited…
[ad_1] Computer and mobiles accessories maker Logitech on Friday announced the launch of the latest Logitech K120 wired and Logitech MK235 wireless Hindi-based keyboards in India as part of the company’s Digi@भारत campaign. With this launch, Logitech says it aims to reach 40 crore Hindi speakers in the country and help reduce the digital divide under…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6 has the subject of intense debate ever since leaked images revealed the forthcoming flagship smartphone’s final design. The latest handset from OnePlus will sport a controversial notch in its edge-to-edge display. OnePlus 6 will have the same all-screen design as the latest flagship Apple handset – iPhone X – with a small…
[ad_1] Google Chrome users have uncovered that the web browser appears to have started scanning the rest of the files on their computer. And they aren’t best pleased about it. The new functionality comes as a result of upgrades to the Chrome Cleanup Tool last year. The latter scans users’ machine in an attempt to…
[ad_1] Sky has dropped the price of streaming its Sky Sports channels via NOW TV. The UK broadcaster has slashed 40 per cent off its two-month Sky Sports Pass, dropping the price from £33.99 down to £20 a month. After the deal ends, your NOW TV Sky Sports Pass will auto-renew at £33.99 a month,…
[ad_1] India’s central bank barred banks on Friday from having any links to virtual currency dealers, slashing the prices of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies on local exchanges. Pakistan’s central bank said in a separate statement late on Friday that crypto-currencies were not legal in the country. The State Bank of Pakistan told banks and other…
[ad_1] Microsoft is working on a call recording feature in Skype that will also support integration from third-party apps including Xsplit, Wirecast and Vmix. Windows 10 and Mac users will be able to record calls if they switch their desktop Skype client over to the “Content Creator” mode to place, record, import and edit recordings…
[ad_1] Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will launch from Kazakhstan on his first mission to the International Space Station in November, and he’s in the final stages of a gruelling training program to get his mind and body ready. “It’s all challenging, because all these training sessions, they represent things that I must know and I…
[ad_1] Facebook has not had a great past few weeks, with its latest misfortunes triggered by the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal that broke out recently. Fuel was added to the fire this week, as Facebook confirmed it had deleted CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s messages from several recipients’ inboxes on Facebook. Facebook has now confirmed it…
[ad_1] WhatsApp users have been warned about a fake version of the Facebook-owned app which can steal sensitive user data. Research from security experts Malwarebytes uncovered the bogus app called WhatsApp Plus. The app isn’t found on the official Google Play Store or Apple App Store, but is instead being circulated on blogs and forums…
[ad_1] Netflix is attempting its largest acquisition, offering more than $300 million (roughly Rs. 1,947 crores) to buy Regency Outdoor Advertising that owns billboards across Los Angeles. Aleksandra Michalska reports. That’s according to Reuters sources. For now, Netflix is just one of the bidders. But if it gets its way, Regency will be its biggest buy.…
[ad_1] Founded by former Kiva execs, 6 River Systems raised $25 million in a series B round of funding led by Menlo Ventures, with Norwest Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures and strategic backers iRobot also in the round. The company’s robot, the “Chuck,” works alongside humans in warehouses and fulfillment centers. It autonomously guides workers to…
[ad_1] Logistics may not be the most exciting application of autonomous vehicles, but it’s definitely one of the most important. And the marine shipping industry — one of the oldest industries in the world, you can imagine — is ready for it. Or at least two major Norwegian shipping companies are: they’re building an autonomous…
[ad_1] U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday. A Phoenix FBI official said that there was “law enforcement activity” on Friday at the Sedona, Arizona home of Michael Lacey,…
[ad_1] Sky, Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three mobile phone customers will all be seeing a price rise in their monthly bills. Price rises are kicking into effect alongside changes to the Retail Price Index (RPI) rate of inflation. Vodafone customers will be seeing price rises of up to 4.1 per cent in April. Those on…
[ad_1] While the deal isn’t done, Amazon does have a basic advantage. Its cloud services have been certified for the highest possible security level, while many of its competitors’ have not. An Amazon spokesperson cited the accreditation as a point of distinction but said she didn’t think there is any feature that puts one company…
[ad_1] Cardiff City can reduce the gap between them and Wolves to a mere three points with a victory tonight. The Championship top two will clash at Cardiff City Stadium tonight. The Bluebirds – who have a game in hand – are the form team in the division, totalling nine wins in 11 unbeaten matches.…
[ad_1] A European satellite launched this week to try out ways of tackling the growing amount of garbage in space will use technology as familiar to the ancient Romans as astronauts — nets and harpoons. Engineers who have designed and created harpoons for two pioneering space debris clearing projects said the appeal of such time-tested concepts…
[ad_1] Mount Kilauea, the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaii, is spraying lava, but the activity does not pose a threat to nearby communities at this time, the U.S. Geological Survey says. The USGS has described it as spattering and captured video of the event this week on the surface of Kilauea’s lava lake…
[ad_1] Which jobs qualify as “new-collar” positions? According to IBM, which has embraced the phrase with a website devoted to its new-collar jobs, titles include “application developer,” “systems administrator,” “data center technician,” “software engineer,” “project manager,” “technical support representative” and “security analyst.” In 2017, 15 to 20 percent of IBM’s new hires in the U.S.…
[ad_1] As if there weren’t already cameras enough in this world, researchers created a new type that is both microscopic and self-powered, making it possible to embed just about anywhere and have it work perpetually. It’s undoubtedly cool technology, but it’s probably also going to cause a spike in tinfoil sales. Engineers have previously investigated…
[ad_1] The process will require advertisers to confirm their identity and location. The political ads will be clearly labeled and have “paid for by” information posted next to them. Later in June, Facebook will release a public political ads database which will show the image, text, spend and target demographic audience for the ad. The…
[ad_1] The surging popularity of Epic Games’ “Fortnite” is not significantly affecting Take-Two’s games, according to one Wall Street firm. Piper Jaffray reiterated its overweight rating for Take-Two shares, citing the company’s older gamer demographic for its titles. Take-Two shares are down 10 percent this year through Thursday compared to the roughly break-even S&P 500…
[ad_1] When average U.S. gas prices reached their all-time high of $4.10 a gallon during the recession in 2008, U.S. automakers sold far fewer trucks and SUVs than they do today, and fewer than they had several years before. In 2008, cars were 51 percent of sales, and trucks, SUVs and crossovers were 49 percent.…
[ad_1] Facebook is looking to self-police by implementing parts of the proposed Honest Ads Act before the government tries to regulate it. To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or “issue” ads on “debated topics of national legislative importance” like education or…
[ad_1] Best Buy shoppers may had have had their payment information hacked, as the company becomes the latest to report its exposure in a data breach that occurred last year. The electronics retailer says that [24]7.ai , a company that provides the technology backing its chat services, was hacked between Sept. 27 and Oct. 12,…
[ad_1] There are at least 500,000 pieces of junk floating around in Earth’s orbit, including defunct satellites, rocket boosters, nuts and bolts. All that debris poses a threat to astronauts and spacecraft, according to NASA. The University of Surrey Space Center wants to help. It is testing a satellite platform called RemoveDEBRIS that collects space…
[ad_1] Unlike Facebook, Twitter and Google, Amazon doesn’t offer an easy way to download a file of everything it knows about you. Instead, you’ll need to do some digging. I did a bit of that for you, to show you an example of the sort of data Amazon might have on you if, like me,…
[ad_1] Greycroft co-founder Alan Patricof said Friday Amazon is “not necessarily” a bad company, but urged that “as a society we have to think about the fact that, you know, at what point do we say we’re destroying the fabric of America?” The venture capitalist pointed to empty storefronts and the country’s worsening drug epidemic…
[ad_1] Apple CEO Tim Cook has doubled down on his objection to repealing DACA, an immigration policy which temporarily protects certain young, otherwise undocumented immigrants from deportation. “The DACA situation is one that I am truthfully, as an American, deeply offended by,” Cook says, according to an excerpt of an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes…
[ad_1] Netflix is just one of the bidders for the Los Angeles-based company, called Regency Outdoor Advertising, and there is no certainty that its offer will prevail, the sources said this week, asking not to be identified because the matter is confidential. Netflix declined to comment. Regency Outdoor did not respond to a request for…
[ad_1] Facebook messages that Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives sent to other users on the social network were recently found to be deleted from those user’s inboxes, TechCrunch reported Friday. Three unnamed sources speaking to TechCrunch said that messages they had previously received from Zuckerberg were no longer in their inboxes, though the messages…
[ad_1] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency freeze of $27 million in profits from stock sales involving the CEO of cryptocurrency company Longfin and three other affiliated individuals, the agency said in a statement Friday. Longfin’s stock was halted on the Nasdaq as of 10:01 a.m. ET on the SEC alert after…
[ad_1] Allowing Facebook users to pay to opt out of having their data used by the company would likely be an unsustainable business model, entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Ann Winblad told CNBC on Friday. In an interview with NBC’s “TODAY” show, which aired Friday, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said if users wanted to opt out…
[ad_1] Barely a decade after the worst housing crash in history, home prices are soaring, and fewer buyers are able to afford the homes they want. In fact, a growing number of Americans, including tech workers who are paid relatively well, are unable to live in the same communities where they work. Teachers, first responders,…
[ad_1] Amazon is making it easier for parents to manage their child’s device usage from their own phone, tablet, or PC with an update to the Parent Dashboard in Amazon FreeTime. Since its launch in 2012, Amazon’s FreeTime Unlimited has been one of the better implementations of combining kid-friendly content with customizable profiles and parental…
[ad_1] That idea that the post office is losing big likely stems from a Citigroup report. The report alleges the USPS’ pricing model is unsustainable, and that parcel rates would need to rise significantly for the agency to break even. The report was mentioned in a widely circulated Wall Street Journal commentary by shipping analyst…
[ad_1] Superintelligence — a form of artificial intelligence (AI) smarter than humans — could create an “immortal dictator,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk warned. In a documentary by American filmmaker Chris Paine, Musk said that the development of superintelligence by a company or other organization of people could result in a form of AI that governs…
[ad_1] American Express on Monday announced the launch of Amex Pay mobile payment service in India. The service allows American Express card users to make QR code-based and contactless payments through the Amex mobile app. The feature works with most issued, non-cancelled American Express credit and charge cards; American Express Prepaid Cards, Virtual Accounts, Corporate…
[ad_1] The EDPS is in charge of making sure that data are being handled correctly within EU institutions like the Commission. But it is also part of a working group made up of the data protection authorities from various member states Buttarelli said data protection authorities from across the EU will meet next week. Some…
[ad_1] Uber India has started to roll out a payment authorisation hold feature that will enable the company to hold a user’s upfront fare amount ahead of a trip. The cab-hailing company will essentially authorise your non-cash payment (credit and debit cards) method for every trip requested, to the amount of the upfront fare. The…
[ad_1] Steve Jurvetson, the prominent venture capitalist who left DFJ in a messy split late last year, appears to be starting his own firm, Recode has learned. Jurvetson is listed as the founder of a soon-to-launch fund called Future Ventures, according to the firm’s website. “At Future Ventures, we support passionate founders who are forging…
[ad_1] A year-long review of climate change risk disclosures to investors by large Canadian publicly-traded companies has found huge disparities in practices between corporations and industries. The Canadian Securities Administrators, a national body representing provincial securities regulators, says it plans to do further work to develop new guidelines and potentially new rules to help companies…
[ad_1] In a bid to protect users from phishing scams and ransomware, Microsoft is rolling out new security features for the Home and Personal versions of its Office 365 suite. The new protection capabilities include email encryption, ransomware detection and recovery and files restore features. “Today, we’re announcing new advanced protection capabilities coming to Office…
[ad_1] A scientist in England has made an enlightening discovery about Atlantic puffins — under a UV light, their bills glow like a freshly cracked glow stick. “It was sort of discovered by accident,” said Jamie Dunning, the ornithologist who first saw the beaks light up. Dunning normally works with twites, another type of bird, but he had been…
[ad_1] Outlook is down across the UK, email users have claimed. Thousands of Outlook users have reported issues accessing the email service, believed to be linked to an authentication issue hitting Office 365. Outlook users who have not logged in to the service for a while have been left unable to access the online portal,…
[ad_1] Office 365 is down and not working for hundreds of users that have reported login and server connection problems with the Microsoft software. Independent website Down Detector has registered a surge of Office 365 down reports today. The Office 365 down reports started emerging from users around 11am BST, with the issues peaking at…
[ad_1] Alongside the Rs. 299 annual offer for all sports, Hotstar has also lowered the annual subscription fee for all its premium content to Rs. 999. That’s a 58 percent discount against the Rs. 199 monthly tier, which comes to Rs. 2,388 for the year. Of course, you’d mostly never have to pay the full…
[ad_1] Like it or not, Google is omnipresent today. But about five months ago, I wanted to find out if I could cut Google out of my life. The experiment has been a roller coaster of epic proportions, but in the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and the ensuing privacy debate, it’s gone from…
[ad_1] Facebook has admitted that it has been deleting messages that Mark Zuckerberg had sent to a few people. While regular users can only delete messages in their own inbox and are not allowed to remove them from recipient’s inboxes, Facebook did that for its founder and CEO. The company has cited ‘corporate security’ as…
[ad_1] HP has unleashed a range of new, fifth-generation HP ZBook Mobile Workstations, including the ZBook Studio x360 G5. The new devices are said to be designed for creative and technical professionals, executives, as well as students. The ZBook Studio x360 G5 is a 2-in-1 convertible laptop that is equipped with a 360-degree hinge. Also,…
[ad_1] One of the biggest power players in Silicon Valley is based about 5,000 miles away from California. Softbank, the massive Japanese conglomerate, started as a software distributor in the 1980s, grew into a telecom giant and now spans telecommunications, e-commerce, finance, technology services, semiconductor design, media and marketing, robotics and even baseball. Last year,…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics Co Ltd tipped a surprise record first-quarter profit on Friday but market reaction was muted due to growing concerns that the semiconductor boom that has driven the South Korean tech giant’s earnings is about to end. Samsung shares fell after the announcement as analysts forecast similar or lower profit in the second…
[ad_1] A Brazilian judge has ordered that Facebook pay BRL 111.7 million ($33.4 million or roughly Rs. 217 crores) for failing to cooperate with a corruption investigation, federal prosecutors said on Thursday, prompting Facebook to say it was exploring “all legal options.” The judge fined Facebook for failing to give access in 2016 to WhatsApp messages exchanged…
[ad_1] Facebook users could have to pay to completely opt out of their data being used to target them with advertising, the company’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told NBC News on Thursday. NBC asked if Facebook could come up with a tool to let people have a button that allows them to restrict the…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics Co tipped a surprise record first-quarter profit on Friday but market reaction was muted due to growing concerns that the semiconductor boom that has driven the South Korean tech giant’s earnings is about to end. Samsung shares fell after the announcement as analysts forecast similar or lower profit in the second quarter, due…
[ad_1] The highly anticipated update to Apple’s Mac Pro is now said to only make its way to the market sometime next year. Last year, at a roundtable discussion, Apple had responded to the concerns of Mac Pro users by saying that it is developing a brand new Mac Pro and that it would only…
[ad_1] Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust? Josh Constine @ / 7 hours You can’t remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages they…
[ad_1] Facebook has broken Tinder for many users, following a slew of permission changes. Ever since the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, which saw the personal information of some 87 million Facebook users shared with the UK-based data mining company, Facebook has pushed through a number of security and data privacy updates. However, these sweeping changes…
[ad_1] A Samsung Galaxy S9 Mini could be just around the corner, according to a new leak. The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are some of the best Android smartphones on the market right now. However, there could be a new addition to the flagship Galaxy S9 range scheduled to launch in the coming weeks.…
[ad_1] Facebook bigwig Mark Zuckerberg has warned that most of his site’s users have probably had its data “scrapped” by third-parties. Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook users who had allowed others users to search for them by e-mail or their phone number would be affected. The warning was revealed in a call that the Facebook co-founder…
[ad_1] Bollywood star Salman Khan was convicted Thursday of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago and sentenced to five years in prison. The actor contends he did not shoot the two blackbuck deer in the western India preserve in 1998 and was acquitted in related cases. He was in court for…
[ad_1] A shift to harvesting crustaceans like shrimp and lobster is feeding a growing carbon footprint for the world’s fisheries, according to new research from the University of B.C. The study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, found a 21-per-cent increase in greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of fish landed by the world’s…
[ad_1] Several studies have suggested that long-term calorie restriction can extend lifespan and slow age-related chronic diseases in a variety of animals in the lab, including rats,mice, fish and worms. Now, French researchers conducting a 10-year experiment have recorded a significant increase in the lifespan of grey mouse lemurs that had their calorie intake moderately reduced, starting in early…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump tweeted another attack on Amazon — his fifth in a week — this time focusing his criticism on The Washington Post, which is owned by the online retailer’s CEO, Jeff Bezos. “The Fake News Washington Post, Amazon’s ‘chief lobbyist,’ has another (of many) phony headlines,” the president tweeted, criticizing the newspaper’s…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer knows that Friday’s nonfarm payroll report will undoubtedly affect markets: the stronger the report, the more worry investors will have about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates too quickly. And while higher rates are a boon for the banks, they’re a problem for many other businesses, particularly housing. “In fact, I…
[ad_1] Twitter defended its current policies while saying it would invest more in combating misinformation, after fielding criticism for the number of fake accounts and hoaxes that arose during the shooting on YouTube’s campus on Tuesday. Twitter has come under fire for fake news in the past, but the number of bad actors was particularly…
[ad_1] Yuri Gripas | Reuters President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., upon his return to Washington from New York, December 2, 2017. President Donald Trump lashed out against Amazon for the sixth time in a week, during an Air Force One trip on Thursday back from an event in West…
[ad_1] Spotify Technology’s no-frills direct listing on Tuesday had little bearing on the music streaming service’s explosive growth potential, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “What Netflix is to video, Spotify is to audio,” the “Mad Money” host said. “And Spotify believes that the streaming market is still in its infancy.” Spotify’s direct listing differed from…
[ad_1] Shares of Spotify rose 2.5 percent Thursday after an analyst at Stifel called the music streaming service one of the best value deals on the internet behind Amazon and Netflix. “We believe an all-you-can-listen-to on-demand music streaming service for $9.99 a month is high on the list of Internet services offered on a value…
[ad_1] Finding a lost phone is much easier if you install the right apps and make sure you’re prepared before you lose the phone. CNBC will walk you through the steps that will help you find a lost phone, whether it’s under the couch or was left behind at a restaurant. Here’s what you need…
[ad_1] Tobacco products are promoted across Facebook despite policies the social media platform employs to prevent that, Stanford University researchers found. The Stanford team found “widespread” tobacco promotion and sales across Facebook. Some e-cigarette pages show product photos and lists of flavor options while hosting a big “shop now” button that takes the browser off…
[ad_1] JASON REDMOND | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith speaks during the annual Microsoft shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Washington on November 29, 2017. Microsoft is letting firms it works with on joint ventures keep patent and design rights for the technology it collaborates on. The move, part of…
[ad_1] Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg echoed CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s rhetoric on Thursday, by taking personal responsibility for letting third parties access Facebook user data without permission. “I feel deeply personally responsible, because a lot of mistakes were made,” Sandberg said in an interview with Bloomberg. “What we didn’t do until recently and what we are…
[ad_1] Amit Madheshiya | Bloomberg | Getty Images Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft The much-anticipated Supreme Court case US v. Microsoft — which could have decided the extent of American jurisdiction over foreign servers — is now, for all intents and purposes, dead. On March 30th, the Department of Justice moved to drop…
[ad_1] Tesla had aimed to make 2,500 Model 3s per week by the end of the first quarter this year. Instead, it made 2,020 Model 3s during the week from March 27 to April 3. In January, Tesla said it made “major progress addressing Model 3 production bottlenecks,” in the last quarter of 2017. It…
[ad_1] You only get one link on Instagram, but Tap Bio lets you point that to a customized landing page full of all the sites you want to share. Rather than constantly change your Instagram profile URL, you can easily add slides equipped with links to your Tap Bio corresponding to your latest Instagram posts.…
[ad_1] Gathered in a Washington, D.C., ballroom last Thursday for their annual “tech prom,” hundreds of tech industry lobbyists and policy makers applauded politely as announcers read out the names of the event’s sponsors. But the room fell silent when “Facebook” was proclaimed — and the silence was punctuated by scattered boos and groans. These…
[ad_1] The 5.5 percent minimum share was set in 2006 when the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) became law. But because the law was written more than a decade ago, it fails to capture the growing mix of package shipments, especially as a result of e-commerce growth, UPS wrote in a filing last year.…
[ad_1] Bumble retaliated by publishing an open letter as an ad in The New York Times and the Dallas Morning News. “Dear Match Group,” the letter began. “We swipe left on you. We swipe left on your multiple attempts to buy us, copy us, and, now, to intimidate us. We’ll never be yours. No matter…
[ad_1] Apple told TechCrunch that it plans to release a new Mac Pro computer in 2019 — a desktop computer that will set the tone for the developers and businesses that are critical to the company’s future. (The company later confirmed the plan to CNBC.) In fact, even if the new Mac Pro is one…
[ad_1] The exploratory effort to share medical-related data was led by an interventional cardiologist called Freddy Abnousi, who describes his role on LinkedIn as “leading top-secret projects.” It was under the purview of Regina Dugan, the head of Facebook’s “Building 8” experiment projects group, before she left in October 2017. Facebook’s pitch, according to two…
[ad_1] Unlike Facebook, Twitter and Google, Amazon doesn’t offer an easy way to download a file of everything it knows about you. Instead, you’ll need to do some digging. I did a bit of that for you, to show you an example of the sort of data Amazon might have on you if, like me,…
[ad_1] Facebook isn’t backing down from Stories despite criticism that it copied Snapchat and that Instagram Stories is enough. Instead, it’s committed to figuring out how to adapt the slideshow format into the successor to the status update. That’s why today the company is launching three significant tests that make Facebook Stories a default way…
[ad_1] Amazon just announced a new feature called Alexa Announcements that lets you broadcast an announcement to every Amazon Echo in your house. Users will be able to announce that “dinner’s ready!” for example, and every Echo in a home will repeat the message, alerting everyone who might be out of voice reach. It’s a…
[ad_1] As more and more spending moves online — whether that’s shopping or subscribing to services like Netflix and Spotify — there’s increasing demand for tools that allow those companies, especially smaller ones, to start getting paid. Stripe has made its name by providing developers with a simpler way to start charging customers and handling…
[ad_1] When the Israeli native realized there were no crypto courses listed for 2018, he rallied 12 classmates and sent a letter addressed to professors and associates of the business school. “Many of us will have to discuss blockchain at our jobs, it makes sense to teach it,” said Orr. “It gets you a competitive…
[ad_1] Virgin Galactic completed its first powered flight in nearly four years when Richard Branson’s space company fired up the rocket engine of its Unity spacecraft during a test flight Thursday, reaching supersonic speeds. @virgingalactic: VSS Unity went supersonic and will be landing shortly #SpaceShipTwo Unity took off from Mojave Air and Space Port, lifted…
[ad_1] Virgin Galactic took to the skies today for the first test of its rocket-powered spacecraft in over three years. The SpaceShipTwo launch platform deployed the USS Unity at a set altitude where the space craft will fire its engines for as long as 30 seconds bringing the craft to 1 1/2 the speed of…
[ad_1] Google Cloud is launching a new feature today that will give its users a new way to monitor and optimize how their data flows between their servers in the Google Cloud and other Google Services, on-premises deployments and virtually any other internet endpoint. As the name implies, VPC Flow Logs are meant for businesses…
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Members of the House and Senate committees that will question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about user privacy protection next week are also some of the biggest recipients of campaign contributions from company employees and the Facebook Inc. PAC. The committee that got the most Facebook contributions is the House Energy and Commerce…
[ad_1] German carmaker BMW is piloting a monthly subscription service, which will let drivers get access to a fleet of cars, whether they feel like driving a 5-series sedan to the office or using a faster M2 coupe for the weekend. The $2,000 fee (plus a $575 joining cost) includes delivery by a concierge, use…
[ad_1] Chesnot | Getty Images Digital cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin. Japan unveiled proposed guidelines for the legalization of a controversial means of raising money in the cryptocurrency space. A government-backed research group has put forward rules that would see initial coin offerings (ICOs) given regulatory definition and approval. An ICO is…
[ad_1] U.S. households likely owe $25 billion in capital gains taxes for their cryptocurrency holdings, which could result in “massive” selling of the digital currencies into U.S. dollars by the mid-April tax filing deadline, one Wall Street analyst said. “This is a massive outflow from crypto to USD and historical estimates are each $1 of…
[ad_1] Pinterest is known for having, and promoting, a lot of business content. It’s actually a majority of the content, and it’s usually from some of the most well-known brands that feed into the kinds of sometimes dream-level wants and needs of its users. And while Pinterest a majority of Pinterest’s potential is locked up…
[ad_1] Procurement isn’t the most exciting topic in the world, but for large businesses, it’s an area where inefficiencies can quickly affect the bottom line. Simply getting a complete view of all of the products and services that a company buys is a challenge in itself, though, which in turn makes it hard to find…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg blunted his worst critics by taking responsibility for his company’s data leak scandal, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. The social media giant’s stock rose nearly 4 percent early Thursday, a day after Zuckerberg told reporters on a call that he had not seen a noticeable change in user behavior in…
[ad_1] Helios and Matheson Analytics, which already owns movie ticket subscription service MoviePass, has acquired Moviefone. Despite the old-school name, Moviefone is now a digital media business with trailers, movie information and ticketing via Fandango — it says it reaches 6 million unique visitors each month. Moviefone was previously owned by Oath, the Verizon subsidiary…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for Android has received a new beta version that brings the ability to lock recording of voice messages. This was previously added to WhatsApp for iPhone and is designed to let users conveniently record long voice messages without holding the record button down the entire time. It is also reported that WhatsApp is…
[ad_1] Twitter suspended more than 1.1 million accounts that were promoting terrorism over a two year stretch, the company announced Thursday, including more than 274,000 accounts in the last six months of 2017. It’s not really the kind of “1 million user” milestone anyone likes to celebrate. On one hand, it’s good to know that…
[ad_1] While IMAX has become synonymous with enormous theatrical screens, Chief Marketing Officer JL Pomeroy told me the company has “been an innovator at the forefront of technology breakthroughs for the last 50 years” — for example, it recently started creating virtual reality centers. And today, IMAX is releasing its first augmented reality project, developed in…
[ad_1] Popular dating app Tinder suffered a brief outage after its users got stuck in Facebook login process where they were asked for extra permissions, only to be sent back to the original Facebook log-in request. Confirming the glitch, the dating app tweeted late on Wednesday: “A technical issue is preventing users from logging into…
[ad_1] Virgin Galactic is preparing for the first powered flight of its spacecraft Unity on Thursday, CNBC has learned. Richard Branson’s space tourism venture is going to fire the engines of its vehicle during a flight at Mojave Air and Space Port, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC. (The news was first seen…
[ad_1] Flipkart is hosting another edition of the Apple Week from April 3 to April 9 wherein exclusive discounts and offers will be available on certain iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad models, apart from the AirPods and Apple TV, as well as Apple’s MacBook range of laptops. Additionally, Flipkart is also offering assured buyback value…
[ad_1] A cyberattack on a shared data network forced four of the nation’s natural-gas pipeline operators to temporarily shut down computer communications with their customers over the last week. No gas service was interrupted, the companies said, and the interruption of customer transactions was merely a precaution. It was unclear whether any customer data was…
[ad_1] After suffering a decline of three percent in 2017, global shipments of devices including PCs, tablets and mobile phones are forecast to return to growth (at over 1.3 percent) in 2018, market research firm Gartner said on Thursday. While the performance of shipments of devices fluctuates Year-over-Year (YoY), end-user device spending continues to rise…
[ad_1] Scientists in Antarctica have harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets. Researchers at Germany’s Neumayer Station III say they’ve picked 3.6 kilograms (8 pounds) of salad greens, 18 cucumbers and 70 radishes grown inside…
[ad_1] Amazon on Thursday announced the launch of a new “Back to School” store that is specifically designed to help students and parents purchase their educational requirements before the end of the holidays. The online store includes special offers on various desktops, notebooks, printers and inks, smartphones, and tablets. It also lists various storage devices,…
[ad_1] Facebook stock rose nearly 4 percent in premarket trading Thursday after CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters he had not seen a noticeable change in user behavior in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. “I don’t think there has been any meaningful impact we’ve observed,” Zuckerberg said, when asked if the tech giant…
[ad_1] Apple’s capital return plan will get much larger, according to one Wall Street firm. Citi Research reiterated its buy rating for Apple shares, saying the company will use tax reform proceeds to significantly increase its stock buyback and dividend program. “We do expect volatility ahead as consensus estimates calibrate to lower March and June…
[ad_1] Implementation of stricter rules appears to have adversely affected the total number of apps on the App Store, has they have reportedly dropped from 2.2 million to 2.1 million by the end of 2017. This is said to be the first-ever decline in the number of apps on the App Store, and it is…
[ad_1] Dan Kitwood | Getty Images A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin on October 24, 2017 in London, England. Bitcoin is likely to fare worse than other assets in the coming months because it has no fundamental worth, an investment research firm said in a note Thursday. London-based Capital Economics explained that the…
[ad_1] A few years ago, people were starting to write off the food-delivery industry, as many of the companies in that space were facing troubles. That turned around though, and the space has become really competitive again – just recently, Zomato announced a $150 million funding round from Ant Financial Services, and rival Swiggy revealed…
[ad_1] Italian state lender CDP is set to buy a stake of up to 5 percent in Telecom Italia (TIM), three sources close to the matter said on Thursday, in a move intended to safeguard Rome’s interest in a company seen as strategic. The decision comes as activist fund Elliott, which has built a potential…
[ad_1] Telecom giant Airtel on Thursday announced that its video streaming app Airtel TV will offer free access to live matches and match highlights for the upcoming IPL 2018 and Asia Cup 2018 via the Hotstar app. The move follows the February announcement of the Airtel TV and Hotstar content partnership. Add to that, the…
[ad_1] China could potentially end up losing more than the U.S. from the ongoing trade tensions that are now spilling over into the technology sector, according to a Hong Kong-based investment services firm. That is because major U.S. tech firms operating in China are already under pressure from President Donald Trump to shift their manufacturing…
[ad_1] Tuesday’s shooting at YouTube shines a macabre spotlight on a debate that’s ripped through the online video giant for the past year. Nasim Aghdam, 39, of San Diego, arrived at the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, around lunchtime with a 9-millimetre Smith and Wesson handgun. She opened fire, injuring at least three, before…
[ad_1] The Facebook data scandal showed that the group of technology stocks known as the FANGs were operating in a “kind of fairyland,” one analyst told CNBC Thursday, with J.P. Morgan adding that it is “switching preferences” away from just internet stocks. FANGs refer to shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet-owned Google. Tech stocks…
[ad_1] YouTube often takes action against videos that violate its guidelines, and has well-established procedures for doing so. The “YouTubers” who produce videos and post them on the site aren’t always happy about its decisions, but their discontent rarely leads to violence. That may have changed Tuesday, when Nasim Aghdam – herself a YouTuber –…
[ad_1] Tinder users have been left scrambling after users saw their messages and matches disappear. The missing data appears to be linked to a fairly significant change in permissions rolled-out by Facebook last night. Tinder leverages Facebook data to create a dating profile within the app. It also uses your Facebook friends to remove any…
[ad_1] Within minutes of the shooting at YouTube offices in California, social media was awash with conspiracy theories and images of the supposed “shooter” wearing a Muslim headscarf. Some Facebook videos were quick to claim that it was a “false flag” attack, carried out to discredit the powerful US gun lobby in the wake of…
[ad_1] The Kremlin on Thursday said Facebook’s removal of accounts controlled by various Russian media was a hostile move that smacked of censorship. Facebook said on Tuesday it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a “troll factory” indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S.…
[ad_1] Dell recently revealed its Dell G Series of gaming laptops that poised to take over from its entry-level Inspiron Gaming series. In addition to this, the company also announced the latest revisions to its Alienware 15 and 17 laptops sporting 8th generation Intel Core processors and Nvidia Max-Q designed chips. And while most gamers…
[ad_1] GETTY Facebook could be SHUT DOWN if it fails to respect users’ privacy Facebook could be shut down if there is evidence the personal data of citizens is being systematically harvested, an Indonesian cabinet member has threatened. Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Rudiantara made the threat ahead of the Indonesian presidential race. There…
[ad_1] Samsung Galaxy Note 8 owners have started to see the hotly-anticipated Android 8.0 Oreo update land on their handsets. According to multiple reports from Note 8 users on social news site Reddit, Android Oreo is now rolling-out across the United States. The operating system update appears to only be rolling out to unlocked units…
[ad_1] Ola on Thursday launched an in-trip insurance programme for its customers across India, providing cover up to Rs. 5 lakh in cases such as loss of baggage or laptops, missed flights, accidental medical expense, ambulance transportation cover, and more. Ola says it is extending the benefits of its driver partner ‘Chalo Befikar’ insurance program…
[ad_1] Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images YouTube’s headquarters is seen during an active shooter situation in San Bruno, California on April 03, 2018. Google said Thursday that it would boost security in YouTube offices globally following the shooting at the video platform’s headquarters earlier this week. On Tuesday, Nasim Najafi Aghdam shot at…
[ad_1] Facebook scans the chats and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, making sure it all abides by the company’s rules governing content. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked. The company confirmed the practice after an interview published earlier this week with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised questions about Messenger’s practices…
[ad_1] Jio, the country’s fourth largest telecom operator by subscriber base, has launched a new prepaid pack days before the latest edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is scheduled to begin. The new Jio Rs. 251 recharge pack offers a total of 102GB data with validity of 51 days, and is said to give…
[ad_1] The British political consulting firm at the center of Facebook’s data scandal announced on Wednesday the data leak only affected 30 million users — a lower threshold than the “up to 87 million” claimed by Facebook. “Cambridge Analytica licensed data for no more than 30 million people from GSR [Global Science Research], as is…
[ad_1] Broadcom said on Wednesday it had completed its move back to the United States from Singapore, weeks after President Donald Trump blocked its $117 billion (roughly Rs. 7.6 lakh crores) offer to buy Qualcomm on national security grounds. Broadcom, which was a US company until it was bought in 2016 by Singapore’s Avago, had announced its plan…
[ad_1] Guillermo Gutierrez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook, speaks during the APEC 2016 CEO Summit in Lima, Peru, on November 19, 2016. Australia’s Privacy Commissioner said on Thursday she had opened a formal investigation into social media giant Facebook after the company confirmed data from 300,000…
[ad_1] KODI • GETTY • EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS Research has revealed the number of illegal streams broadcasting the Joshua vs Parker fight online Those who tuned-in to the Anthony Joshua vs Joseph Parker fight on Saturday night could face hefty fines and even arrests. Digital platform security firm Irdeto identified 339 separate streams that illegally distributed…
[ad_1] Facebook has endured a bruising 2018 so far. The social network giant have faced a backlash from users as the data Mark Zuckerberg’s firm stores has been brought into the limelight. This came into focus after a whistleblower claimed Cambridge Analytica used personal data taken without authorisation from Facebook users in 2014. This information…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6 could arrive with a limited edition Avengers: Infinity War design, according to the latest teaser trailer from the company. OnePlus shared a brief nine-second clip that quickly cuts between its own logo and that of the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War feature film. It ends with the release date of the new Marvel…
[ad_1] “This is going to be a never-ending battle” said Mark Zuckerberg. He just gave the most candid look yet into his thoughts about Cambridge Analytica, data privacy, and Facebook’s sweeping developer platform changes today during a conference call with reporters. Sounding alternately vulnerable about his past negligence and confident about Facebook’s strategy going forward,…
[ad_1] iOS 11.4 is now available to download in beta. Apple released the developer and public beta days after it rolled-out iOS 11.3 to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users worldwide. Available to download today in beta, iOS 11.4 beta 1 includes two of the previous version’s most noted omissions. The first – Messages in…
[ad_1] Windows 10 fans will be able to download the Spring Creators Update, the next big software upgrade for Microsoft’s OS, in the next few weeks. The Windows 10 update will be the first of two upgrades that Microsoft have planned for its flagship OS this year. However, if you want to hold fire and…
[ad_1] GETTY Facebook could be SHUT DOWN if it fails to respect users’ privacy Facebook could be shut down if there is evidence the personal data of citizens is being systematically harvested, an Indonesian cabinet member has threatened. Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Rudiantara made the threat ahead of the Indonesian presidential race. There…
[ad_1] A B.C. energy-storage company will showcase the power of its lithium battery on international waters next year. Richmond’s Corvus Energy has been selected by the Sweden-based ferry operator Stena Line to provide electric power for its first hybrid-style vessel, on a 3½-hour route between Sweden and Denmark. The technology will work much like that of a plug-in hybrid vehicle,…
[ad_1] Two pink salmon have been found near Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., 260 kilometres farther up the Mackenzie River than ever reported. The two pink salmon were caught last fall and given to the Arctic Salmon project, which has been tracking the change in distribution of salmon in the Arctic since 2000. People who give a salmon to the project —…
[ad_1] At the centre of our galaxy lies a supermassive black hole, about four million times the mass of our sun. New research has found that it’s not alone. For some time, the theory has been that the supermassive black holes at the centre of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are accompanied by…
[ad_1] Michael Jaconi Contributor Michael Jaconi is the co-founder and chief executive of Button, and formerly served as the CEO of Rakuten Loyalty. Since the dawn of the internet, the titans of this industry have fought to win the “starting point” — the place that users start their online experiences. In other words, the place…
[ad_1] It seems Canada and Russia have a prehistoric connection of the “beautiful” but “cockroachy” kind, involving a 53 million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly. Paleoentomologist Bruce Archibald of Simon Fraser University and the Royal B.C. Museum said the discovery in B.C.’s McAbee fossil beds is strikingly similar to fossils of the same age from Pacific-coastal…
[ad_1] Cambridge Analytica is refuting a report by Facebook today that said Cambridge Analytica improperly attained data on up to 87 million users. Instead, it claims it only “licensed data for no more than 30 million people” from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan’s research company Global Science Research. It also claims none of this data was used in work…
[ad_1] The snow-crab fishery on the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia is keeping its Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) environmental sustainability certification. The validation was contained in an expedited audit of the Scotian Shelf fishery ordered after the deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2017. Two of those…
[ad_1] The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $1.4 billion in bets against the stock. “I’m not going to sell [for] the next three years,” Longfin CEO and Chairman Venkat Meenavalli said Wednesday…
[ad_1] A co-founder of Smartsheet, the enterprise collaboration startup that just filed for an IPO, is taking a hard right turn into the world of agriculture robotics. Brent Frei tells Geekwire that he has been working on an automated system for clearing rocks from land. It’s a bit unexpected, but far from a bad idea.…
[ad_1] Tinder requires its users to link their profiles to a Facebook account for verification and profile details. The user is required to authorize Tinder’s use of their personal data, then the app pulls in users’ name, age, photos, interests and more. When users open the Tinder app, they are asked to sign in via…
[ad_1] As part of its ongoing efforts to patch its systems against the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws, Intel indicated last month that it would be issuing fixes as far back as 2005’s Yorkfield processors. But in a new guidance document the company announces that many of these older platforms will not receive fixes after…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking personal responsibility for letting malicious parties have access to user data, and says the company will embark on a three-year push to prevent these issues from happening in the future. “I started this place, I run it,” Zuckerberg said during a call with reporters on Wednesday. “I’m responsible…
[ad_1] Getty Images President Donald J. Trump speaks during a meeting with members of his Cabinet, in the Cabinet Room of the White House March 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump is “not involved” in the process of choosing whether Amazon receives a multibillion-dollar Defense Department cloud computing contract, the White House said…
[ad_1] The App Store shrank for the first time in 2017, according to a new report from Appfigures. The report found the App Store lost 5 percent of its total apps over the course of the year, dropping from 2.2 million iOS apps in the beginning of the year, to 2.1 million by year-end. Google…
[ad_1] Tesla could be the U.S. automaker most hurt by a trade war with China, says one analyst. And the other U.S.-built brands likely to suffer most after that are not American, but German, said Barclays analyst Brian Johnson in a note sent Wednesday. While China is a huge market for Ford, General Motors, and…
[ad_1] Facebook said on Wednesday that it believes most of its users could have had their profile data, such as phone numbers and email addresses, scraped by third parties. The announcement was buried inside a post from Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, which discussed changes that Facebook is making to tools that it offers…
[ad_1] The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program is perhaps the best place to get federal funding for an idea that sounds crazy — because the program managers think it might be just crazy enough to work. Researchers making the “Phase I” cut are awarded about $125,000 over 9 months to develop their idea, be it…
[ad_1] Amazon’s cloud business on Wednesday announced the launch of a service — called Secrets Manager — for storing important company information, such as passwords. The service is Amazon’s latest effort to bolster its security software offerings, but it also comes after a string of reports about breaches of AWS that include passwords to other…
[ad_1] Facebook is entering a tough transition period where it won’t take chances around data privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, CTO Mike Schroepfer tells TechCrunch. That’s why it’s moving up the shut down of part of the Instagram API. It’s significantly limiting data available from or requiring approval for access to Facebook’s…
[ad_1] When you delete your account, people won’t be able to see it on Facebook. It may take up to 90 days from the beginning of the deletion process to delete all of the things you’ve posted, like your photos, status updates or other data stored in backup systems. While we are deleting this information,…
[ad_1] Facebook said on Wednesday that an estimated 622,161 Canadians may have had their data shared with the British company Cambridge Analytica. The social network said the number is a fraction — 0.7 per cent — of the 87 million people it now believes were affected globally. The majority of those users, nearly 82 per…
[ad_1] One of the joys of cloud computing is handing over your data to the cloud vendor and letting them handle the heavy lifting. Up until now that has meant they updated the software or scaled the hardware for you. Today, AWS took that to another level when it announced Amazon DynamoDB Continuous Backups and Point-In-Time…
[ad_1] Facebook updated the number of users impacted by the Cambridge Analytica leak to 87 million Wednesday, up from previous estimates of 50 million. The research firm was accused of improperly gaining access to personal information of Facebook users, spurring legal probes and changes to Facebook’s privacy policies. Facebook issued the updated number is a…
[ad_1] AWS’ S3 storage service today launched a cheaper option for keeping data in the cloud — as long as developers are willing to give up a few 9’s of availability in return for saving up to 20 percent compared to the standard S3 price for applications that need infrequent access. The name for this…
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[ad_1] Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tom Reilly, chief executive officer of Cloudera. Shares of cloud software company Cloudera fell more than 40 percent Wednesday to all-time lows after the company issued guidance that came in just below Wall Street estimates. The stock had shed roughly $1.25 billion in shareholder value by midday,…
[ad_1] One of the many accusations about the trouble with Facebook – amid its data privacy concerns and enabling of Russian trolls – is that it keeps people locked into echo chambers where access to other viewpoints are limited. This is a common problem across social media, people are beginning to realize. A new app…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump is not attacking the business sector with his recent critiques of Amazon.com, but he wants a “level playing field” when it comes to taxes and the online retail giant, his economic advisor said on Wednesday. “His view on Amazon is we’ve got to have a level playing field with regards…
[ad_1] Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes. The letter, which is circulating inside Google and has garnered more than 3,100 signatures,…
[ad_1] Facebook is spelling out in plain english how it collects and uses your data in rewritten versions of its Terms Of Service and Data Use Policy, though it’s not asking for new rights to collect and use your data or changing any of your old privacy settings.The public has seven days to comment on…
[ad_1] Former Twitter product lead April Underwood is getting another promotion this morning, now rising to the role of chief product officer of what aims to be the dead-simple employee communications platform Slack, according to Fortune. Underwood previously served as director of product at Twitter, where she worked for five years before joining Slack as…
[ad_1] Facebook is updating its terms of service and data policy to clarify what user information it collects and shares across its family of products including Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus and Messenger. The revised policies come at a time when the company is being scrutinized over how it shares personal information with third parties, especially in…
[ad_1] General Motors will stop making the small Chevrolet Sonic car, possibly by the end of the year, reported the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, citing sources. GM did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The move comes as automakers increasingly revise their lineups to suit the changing tastes of American buyers, who…
