[ad_1] Jason Lee | Reuters A man visits Qualcomm’s booth at the Global Mobile Internet Conference 2017 in Beijing, China April 28, 2017. Semiconductors may be the sector most affected by rising trade tensions between the U.S. and China. China on Wednesday announced brand-new tariffs on 106 U.S. products, including soybeans, cars, aerospace and defense.…
[ad_1] An ambitious new mapping project gives Canadians a chance to peer into the near future and visualize just how hot a warming climate could make their own backyards over the next 80 years. “The impacts are startling,” said Ian Mauro, co-director of the University of Winnipeg’s Prairie Climate Centre, which launched its Climate Atlas of…
[ad_1] Californian media reported that Aghdam’s family had warned authorities that she could target YouTube prior to the shooting. The San Jose Mercury News quoted her father, Ismail Aghdam, as saying he had told police that she might go to YouTube’s headquarters because she “hated” the company. Efforts to reach her relatives by phone were…
[ad_1] Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 on Wednesday as the price of several major digital currencies fell. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value fell as low as $6,870, according to data from industry website CoinDesk, which tracks the price across a number of exchanges. Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst at eToro, said that the move…
[ad_1] Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Daniel Ek, chief executive officer and co-founder of Spotify AB Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek is worth over $2 billion following the company’s trading debut on the NYSE. Despite Spotify’s shares coming off their initial highs Tuesday, Ek’s 9 percent stake in the company has soared in value…
[ad_1] Shares of Spotify dropped as much as 8.5 percent in a volatile morning of trading Wednesday, a day after debuting on public markets. The stock opened at $140, lower than Tuesday’s close but still higher than its reference price of $132 set Monday. Shares pared losses to just 3 percent down in the first…
[ad_1] In a key development, Apple is said to have hired John Giannandrea, Google’s Head of Search and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to lead the company’s Machine Learning (ML) and AI strategy. Giannandrea, who took the role of Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google from Amit Singhal in early 2016, will report directly to Cook,…
[ad_1] Canadian scientists thought one of the Arctic’s largest lakes could handle small changes in climate, but it turns out that’s not the case. A study published recently in the journal Nature Communications, found that it only took 1 C of warming in the last 18 years to change the ecosystem in Lake Hazen on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut — which holds…
[ad_1] Tinder is getting into video. On Wednesday, the popular dating app will begin testing its first video-based feature, Tinder Loops, with iOS users in Canada and Sweden. The company says it will evaluate how users respond to Loops before making a decision to roll it out to other markets. As you may have guessed…
[ad_1] Apple’s mobile payment platform Apple Pay arrived in Brazil on Wednesday with an exclusive partnership with Itau Unibanco Holding, the country’s largest private lender. The bank said Apple Pay will be available during the 90-day exclusive period to Itau’s roughly 1.2 million cardholders who also own an iPhone 6 or higher. Under the terms…
[ad_1] Walmart employees and customers come from all demographic groups, including the lower-income population that accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s health costs. This gives Walmart the potential to make a real difference. “Walmart has access to the food consumption, medical data and shopping cart of Americans from all social classes, and not…
[ad_1] According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple could be working on new gestures for its iPhones. In addition to normal touch gestures, iOS could detect when you hover your finger over the screen to trigger some actions. When Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone, he spent quite a bit of time demonstrating the…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for iPhone has received an update that brings with a couple of new changes. The app now lets you see recent status updates in the WhatsApp widget in your iPhone’s Today View. The WhatsApp for iPhone update also enhances the voice messaging feature that will now continue to play your voice messages if you…
[ad_1] Taylor Smrczek had a dramatic weekend that culminated in a tearful reunion with her three-year-old mixed terrier Ginger on Tuesday night. In the early hours of Monday morning, Smrczek gave birth to a boy, who was named Jackson. As she waited for her father to visit her in the hospital that afternoon, she learned the family home…
[ad_1] Microsoft has rolled out a bunch of security updates to patch a critical remote execution vulnerability that majorly affects Windows Defender on Windows and Windows Server platforms. The issue, listed as CVE2018-0986, exists within Microsoft Malware Protection Engine also impacts Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Forefront EndPoint Protection 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016,…
[ad_1] Here’s what that means: “When you connect a third-party application to your Twitter account, you are granting that application access to use your account. Depending on its permissions, an authorized application may be able to use your account in various ways, including reading your Tweets, seeing who you follow, updating your profile, posting Tweets…
[ad_1] Giving its Messenger a more visual appeal, Facebook on Tuesday said that users can now send 360-degree photos and HD videos from within the platform. The 360-degree photos in Messenger are available globally on both iOS and Android platforms. HD quality videos are available in Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong,…
[ad_1] Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress next week on the social media site’s privacy policies in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Wednesday. It’s the first confirmed appearance before Congress for Facebook’s top executive and follows reports from last week that…
[ad_1] Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Facebook shares to $200 from $230, citing concerns about the social media company’s ad sales after its recent data scandal. “Following FB’s recent data/privacy issues and its announcement that it will end partnerships with third party data providers, we sense growing investor concern about near-term ad revenue,”…
[ad_1] Apple is developing gesture control and curved screens for iPhones, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The control features would allow a user to move their finger close to the screen without touching it in order to carry out a function. But the technology won’t be ready for at least…
[ad_1] Here’s why Wall Street is not yet shaking in its boost over Spotify. Spotify opened at $165.90, well above the reference price of $132. That “reference price”–provided by Morgan Stanley — was based on recent trading in the secondary market. It closed just below $150, down from the initial price but well above the…
[ad_1] After suing Nokia in 2017 and Facebook this year, BlackBerry has now reportedly filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Snapchat’s parent company Snap. Earlier this month, BlackBerry sued Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, alleging that they copied technology and features from the BlackBerry Messenger. Last year, BlackBerry had sued Nokia, alleging infringement of…
[ad_1] China announced additional tariffs on 106 U.S. products today, in a move likely to heighten global concerns of a tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s biggest economies. The tariffs are designed to target up to $50 billion of U.S. products annually. (CNBC) * Japan braces for Trump assault on trade (Reuters) * China’s ambassador…
[ad_1] When the University of Maryland-Baltimore County basketball team pulled off the greatest upset in NCAA history, player Nolan Gerrity had the perfect metaphor for what he was feeling. “It’s like your first Fortnite victory, honestly,” he told reporters. For those out of the know, it was a puzzling statement. But Gerrity’s example made perfect…
[ad_1] Amazon may make an offer to buy Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, an Indian newspaper reported Wednesday. Flipkart is already in advanced talks with Walmart to sell a majority stake to the U.S. retailer but Amazon has held its own exploratory discussions to buy the company, India’s Mint newspaper said on Wednesday. Citing two unnamed…
[ad_1] If you’re travelling to a place with no Internet, it’s going to be difficult to get your daily YouTube fix. That’s just one of the many reasons why you might want to download YouTube videos. Once you download videos you can watch them at leisure without having to worry about your Internet connection. We…
[ad_1] Apple Music for Android has been updated with a new music video experience. The new experience debuted just after Apple tweaked the music video experience on iPhone and iPad devices with the release of iOS 11.3 last week. It mainly makes music video playback on Android devices in line with what is already existing…
[ad_1] Mozilla on Tuesday unleashed a new version of its popular Firefox Web browser that is designed to be used with VR and AR headsets. Called Firefox Reality, the browser is built from the ground up to be used with virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, instead of being on the computer or smartphones. The…
[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] Facebook has silently added a tool to let you remove multiple third-party apps that are accessing your personal data on the social networking site. The latest development, which has been rolled out on mobile and desktop, comes days after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal emerged publicly and adversely affected the growing presence of the…
[ad_1] Hooq recently announced a pilot season to create its own originals. Out of the 500 entries that it received, Hooq shortlisted five ideas, whose pilots were produced and are now available on the Singapore-headquartered streaming platform. Out of these, one show will be green-lit for a full season. The shortlist includes one entry from…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer, Twitter. High-profile technology executives have called for increased gun control in the wake of the shooting at YouTube’s headquarters that left at least three people injured and the suspect shooter dead. The attack at the Google-owned video service’s headquarters in San…
[ad_1] Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday said that Jio Payments Bank has commenced operations with effect from April 3, 2018. “The Reserve Bank has issued a licence to the bank under Section 22 (1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 to carry on the business of payments bank in India,” the country’s central bank…
[ad_1] Barry Huang | CNBC Mobike bicycles are seen in line at a docking area along a pedestrian sidewalk at the Central Business District (CBD) in Beijing, March 27, 2017. Meituan Dianping, China’s largest provider of on-demand online services, is buying bike-sharing firm Mobike for $2.7 billion excluding debt, in a deal that will intensify…
[ad_1] After announcing a new range of entry-level gaming PCs and new upgrades to its Alienware gaming laptops, Dell has also unveiled a new series of Inspiron all-in-one PCs, an updated XPS 15 laptop, a new colour variant for the XPS 15 2-in-1 laptop, an Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 special edition laptop, and six S…
[ad_1] Shares of Spotify Technology ended up 12.9 percent on their first day of trade on the New York Stock Exchange, a smooth debut that could pave the way for other companies looking to go public without the aid of Wall Street underwriters. Spotify shares opened at $165.90 (roughly Rs. 10,770), up nearly 26 percent from…
[ad_1] Photo-sharing platform Snapchat has introduced a new Group Video Chat feature that will make connecting with friends and family more fun. It also introduced Mentions, allowing users to easily tag other users in their Snaps. “Today, we’re excited to introduce Group Video Chat on Snapchat!” parent company Snap said in an emailed statement on…
[ad_1] The BBC believes “British creativity and British content are now under real threat” from US media companies. The broadcaster says its iPlayer on-demand platform is increasingly being squeezed by the likes of Netflix and Prime Video. In its second annual report since its new charter was established, the BBC says the industry is “more…
[ad_1] Galaxy S8 and Note 8 users are expected to get the Android Oreo update from Samsung in the next few weeks. And the upgrade to the latest version of Google’s mobile OS will also bring an awesome S9 feature to the older devices. Samsung added GIF support to its Always-on Display quite quietly with…
[ad_1] The person who allegedly shot at least three people at YouTube’s campus on Tuesday afternoon has been identified as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, according to senior law enforcement officials. Police responded to YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, around 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday. Approximately 1,100 people work in the complex, which is about…
[ad_1] Samsung may have ruled out any further operating system updates or security patches for the three-year-old Galaxy S6 smartphone, however, the company has pushed-out a major upgrade to its equally-ancient Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch. The company has included a redesigned user interface, brand-new fitness features, and the ability to control a PowerPoint presentation or…
[ad_1] Google Maps’ rival Waze could be about to see a rise in the number of advertisements included in the software. The turn-by-turn navigation app was acquired by Google for around $1 billion, some £711 million, back in 2013. Waze has announced a new advertising campaign, dubbed Local ads, which launched publicly last week. Executive…
[ad_1] Snapchat is adding some new features to the hugely popular social network. Snapchat users see several new features when they log into the selfie app this week. The inbound update will bring with it the ability for Snapchat users to add Mentions to Stories and enabling group video chat for up to 16 users.…
[ad_1] Long weekend visitors to Tofino, B.C., might have thought they were witnessing something out of science fiction, with hundreds of tiny, blue, jellyfish-like creatures covering the beaches. But what was initially thought of as a rare sighting of Velella velella is likely the new normal. Mayor Josie Osborne says spring-time strandings of Velella velella on Tofino’s…
[ad_1] The tech community is already sending out public messages of support for YouTube in the wake of a tragic shooting that left at least three people injured and the suspected shooter dead. Google CEO Sundar Pichai called the incident that unfolded on YouTube Tuesday afternoon an “unimaginable tragedy” and called for all employees to…
[ad_1] Astrophysicists have produced the largest 3D map of our universe at a time when it was in just in its infancy. Light from distant stars and galaxies can take hundreds of millions to billions of years to reach us — depending on how far away they are — which means when we look at galaxies…
[ad_1] ROAM Robotics, a company that specializes in developing exoskeletons, has created an armored knee support intended to reduce leg strain while skiing or snowboarding. The device is equipped with sensors that allow the prosthetic to anticipate its user’s movements, and automatically adjusts the torque using an air bladder. A companion app for iOS and…
[ad_1] Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Technicians make repairs to bitcoin mining machines at a mining facility operated by Bitmain in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. One of Wall Street’s biggest worries for AMD and Nvidia just became real. China-based Bitmain on Tuesday revealed its specialized digital currency mining…
[ad_1] The Jeep Wrangler is a rugged SUV that bears a resemblance to military vehicles and has historically been meant for enthusiasts interested in plowing through giant mud puddles and crawling up boulders. But Jeep is selling a record number of the new Wranglers, as U.S. car buyers show ever greater favor for trucks and…
[ad_1] One of the world’s largest advertising companies, WPP, said on Tuesday it was investigating CEO Sir Martin Sorrell after “an allegation of personal misconduct.” WPP’s board appointed an independent counsel to investigate Sorrell, the company told CNBC. The ongoing investigation doesn’t appear to be material to the business, the company’s statement said. The Wall…
[ad_1] Tesla announced a production target of 5,000 Model 3 sedans per week by the end of this year’s second quarter. But it may take longer than expected. “If they say summer, I would add three months to it,” Jamie Albertine of research company Consumer Edge told CNBC. “They’re doing something that is incredibly difficult:…
[ad_1] Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.…
[ad_1] Apple has hired Google‘s chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, a major coup in its bid to catch up to the artificial intelligence technology of its rivals. Apple said on Tuesday that Mr. Giannandrea will run Apple’s “machine learning and A.I. strategy,” and become one of 16 executives who report directly to…
[ad_1] Facebook is removing more than 270 pages and accounts operated by the same Russian organization which attempted to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In a post on his Facebook page on Tuesday, Zuckerberg said the company had found evidence the Internet Research Agency (IRA) had been attempting to manipulate…
[ad_1] Yuri Gripas | Reuters President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the Infrastructure Initiative at the Local 18 Richfield Training Site in Richfield, Ohio, March 29, 2018. President Donald Trump unveiled a list Tuesday of Chinese imports his administration aims to target as part of a crackdown on what the president deems unfair trade practices.…
[ad_1] Cloudera stock fell more than 19 percent after the company posted guidance that fell below analysts’ expectations. But for the fourth quarter of Cloudera’s 2018 fiscal year, which ended Jan. 31, the company did beat estimates. – Earnings: Loss of 10 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 23 cents as expected by analysts,…
[ad_1] Police have reported to YouTube’s headquarters on reports of an active shooter, San Bruno police confirm. Tweet Several people identifying themselves on social media as employees at the Google-owned video company or as being on present at the scene have reported hearing shots. Tweet Tweet Tweet Todd Sherman, who lists himself as a product…
[ad_1] Spotify is 12 years old, and has never been profitable. Last year it posted an operating loss of $461 million. Today, as it goes public, it wants investors to value it at something above $20 billion. In order to believe that’s a good idea, you have to believe that Spotify has figured out a…
[ad_1] There would be no way for an online buyer to avoid the tax, which means the long-term effect of this arrangement would be that states would lessen downward pressure on taxes between jurisdictions. Consumers would be forced to wear their home jurisdiction like a tax albatross when they shop online. Think about the difference…
[ad_1] Stocks opened higher on Tuesday after tumbling on the first day of the new quarter, but the market could still hit new lows in coming days, strategist Kenny Polcari told CNBC on Tuesday. That “doesn’t mean that all the concerns from yesterday are gone by any stretch of the imagination,” the O’Neil Securities director…
[ad_1] After a racial slur GIF caused Snapchat to remove its GIPHY sticker feature, Snapchat confirms to TechCrunch it’s reinstated its integration. GIPHY has apologized, fixed the bug that let the objectionable GIF slip through, and reviewed its GIF sticker library four times in an effort to guarantee that offensive content won’t end up in…
[ad_1] That’s not to say Amazon is free and clear from regulatory scrutiny. The agencies are “absolutely” taking a closer look at the digital economy and market power of Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech giants, Kovacic said. Here are some possible avenues regulators could pursue: Unfair competition. If Amazon is vulnerable to antitrust law,…
[ad_1] Fellow streaming and media giant Netflix may provide a roadmap for Spotify’s future stock performance, according to one analyst. Spotify’s stock started trading on Tuesday in an unusual public offering — one that lacks many formalities, like a traditional roadshow, that help Wall Street figure out what to expect. But Michael Morris, analyst at…
[ad_1] Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter-billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier. The cost-plus NASA contract, valued at $247.5 million, will allow the defense contractor’s secretive Skunk Works division to continue development of Lockheed Martin’s…
[ad_1] Red flags and “disputed” tags just entrenched people’s views about suspicious news articles, so Facebook is hoping to give readers a wide array of info so they can make their own decisions about what’s misinformation. Facebook will try showing links to a journalist’s Wikipedia entry, other articles, and a follow button to help users…
[ad_1] “It was a momentary ode to our neutrality in the process of price discovery,” a reference to Switzerland’s reputation for neutrality in foreign military conflicts. Mixing up Sweden and Switzerland has been publicized as a common irk for citizens of the countries. Tweet from NYSE: We hope everyone enjoyed our momentary ode to our…
[ad_1] Apple’s reported move to use its own chips instead of Intel’s products for its PC business will boost its financials, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Apple plans to ditch Intel chips and opt for an in-house offering for its Mac computers beginning in 2020. The “insourcing of…
[ad_1] This option lets you replace words that you type with others. If, for example, you want to replace “ducking” with a naughtier word, you can do that here: Open Settings on your iPhone Tap General Tap Keyboard Choose “Text Replacement” Tap the + button in the top-right corner Here, to be appropriate, we’ll create…
[ad_1] Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, users have flocked to their Facebook privacy settings to sever their connection to third-party apps that they no longer wanted to have access to their data. But deleting them all took forever because you had to remove them one by one. Now Facebook has released a new way to…
[ad_1] Over the last several years, Zendesk has been making the transition from a company that caters mostly to small businesses to one with larger enterprise customers — and their revenue reflects that. The company announced it has crossed the $.5 billion annual run rate since its last earning report in February. It also announced…
[ad_1] Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk‘s electric car company Tesla missed its Model 3 production target, but Musk wants everyone to know he’s grinding away. Tesla produced 2,020 Model 3s in the past seven days, according to a statement from the company released Tuesday, which was less than the 2,500 cars per week the electric…
[ad_1] Spotify soared 26 percent from its reference price in the company’s stock market debut Tuesday, opening at $165.90 a share. The music streaming service is trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SPOT.” Unlike a traditional IPO, Spotify conducted a direct listing, meaning no banks underwrote the offering and no…
[ad_1] Markets managed to deny another sell-off even after President Donald Trump went after e-commerce giant Amazon for the fourth time in a week, closely followed trader Art Cashin told CNBC on Tuesday. Stocks briefly fell early in the day after Trump took to Twitter to reinforce his assessment that Amazon’s business is costing taxpayers…
[ad_1] When Stackery’s founders were still at New Relic in 2014, they recognized there was an opportunity to provide instrumentation for the emerging serverless tech market. They left the company after New Relic’s IPO and founded Stackery with the goal of providing a governance and management layer for serverless architecture. The company had a couple of…
[ad_1] John Giannandrea, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google, is stepping down from his position as head of the Search and Artificial Intelligence (AI) units, the media reported. According to a report in The Information late on Monday, Giannandrea’s role is being split into two. Jeff Dean, who leads the company’s deep learning AI…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook Bank of America Merrill Lynch is getting less bullish on Facebook. The firm reiterated its buy rating for the internet company but took it off its US1 top ideas list. The bank did not provide much detail for the removal. “Facebook (FB)…
[ad_1] Google is rolling out a new feature today that will help you better plan your night at the movies. While the company has supported displaying movie showtimes within Google Search results following the closure of its standalone movie site in 2016, this update will help you narrow down your options more efficiently, thanks to the…
[ad_1] With the start of the 2018 Indian Premier League just days away, Hotstar has quietly unveiled a new sports-only subscription discount at Rs. 299 a year to entice cricket fans. That’s about Rs. 25 a month, and it includes a lot more than the full digital coverage of the two-month Twenty20 tournament. In fact,…
[ad_1] Kiss bassist Gene Simmons said musicians aren’t getting paid what they deserve by streaming platforms, but that’s not entirely Spotify’s fault. The music streaming service, which starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, revolutionized the music industry with licensing agreements that make practically every popular album available to stream. Those agreements with…
[ad_1] Apple Watch has become increasingly fitness oriented over the years, but there is one feature that it doesn’t offer — sleep tracking. Sleep tracking is the kind of feature that not everyone needs, but if you’ve ever felt tired during the day, or had trouble focusing, it could be because of a lack of…
[ad_1] Bitcoin prices rose above $7,400 Tuesday after reports that Japanese online brokerage firm Monex Group is looking to take over a recently-hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. The Japanese company plans to bid several billion yen for a majority stake in Coincheck as soon as this week, and will set up a new management team…
[ad_1] Perhaps aiming to snag some attention away from Snapchat’s big group video call update out this morning, Facebook also announced an update to its chat app Messenger, which will now allow users to share 360-degree videos and HD quality video (720p). In both cases, you’ll have to capture the photo or video outside the…
[ad_1] SMS Organizer is one of Microsoft’s most popular apps on Android. The app was created as part of Microsoft Garage, the company’s platform for experimental projects, and is exclusive to India. It was launched with the ‘beta’ moniker on Google Play, but has a separate beta testing programme. In its latest beta update, the…
[ad_1] In a traditional initial public offering, banks underwrite the offering, meaning they set an offering price, and buy or sell shares during the initial selling to keep prices from being too volatile. But Spotify’s direct listing — unusual enough on its own — is further different because the company is both direct-listing and offering…
[ad_1] MSI has launched a new lineup of gaming laptops in India. It has announced three new models – the new GS65 Stealth Thin, GE Raider RGB Edition, and GT75 Titan – priced at Rs. 1,69,990, Rs. 1,64,990, and Rs. 2,99,990 in India respectively. All the three laptops feature the latest Intel 8th Generation Core…
[ad_1] Tesla shares briefly jumped almost 7 percent Tuesday morning, despite the fact that the company fell short of its goal of producing 2,500 Model 3 sedans a week. The company also said it will not require an equity or debt raise this year, apart from standard credit lines. Shares of the electric car maker…
[ad_1] Dell has revealed new upgrades to its Alienware 15 and 17 gaming laptops. The duo will now feature 8th generation Intel Core i5, i7, and i9 processors with upto 6 cores. Along with this, they will allow for overclocking for upto 5.0GHz, the first time ever on the company’s most powerful laptops. In order…
[ad_1] The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating trading activity in shares of Longfin, a tiny stock that surged astronomically in December after the firm announced a cryptocurrency-related acquisition, the company disclosed late Monday. Longfin (Ticker: LFIN) shares plunged 30 percent to near $10 a share in Tuesday morning trading. The Division of Enforcement…
[ad_1] SalesLoft, an Atlanta-based startup that helps companies manage the contact phase of the sales process, announced a $50 million Series C today. Insight Venture Partners was lead investor with participation from LinkedIn and Emergence Capital, which also participated in the company’s A and B rounds. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $75 million,…
[ad_1] Asus on Tuesday expanded its Republic of Gamers (ROG) range of gaming machines by unveiling refreshed models with the latest 8th Generation Intel Core processors and ‘Aura Sync’ technology to help gamers customise lighting. The refreshed range includes the Asus ROG G703, Asus ROG Zephyrus M (GX501GI), ROG Huracan (G21), ROG Zephyrus (Gx501GI), ROG…
[ad_1] There are also strict cultural rules that govern advertising, which has caused controversy in the past. Notable controversial Saudi ads have included airbrushing women out of Ikea catalogues, the portrayal of athletic women in a Nike ad, and a Coke ad where a young woman is being taught to drive by her father. And…
[ad_1] Acer is launching a variant of the 15.6-inch Nitro 5 gaming laptop with options for Intel Core i7+ processor. The Acer Nitro 5 is the latest device to join the growing number of gaming laptops that boast of being one of the first to include the 8th Generation Intel Core processor inside. Intel just…
[ad_1] Snapchat is rolling out group video chat, parent company Snap announced Tuesday. The new feature could help users stay engaged and spend even more time in the app. Snap’s growth rate has steadily increased, with its North American daily active user rate growing 17.7 percent last quarter from the previous year. For comparison, rival…
[ad_1] InVision, the NY-based design platform focused on collaboration, has today announced the acquisition of Wake. Wake is a design tool focused squarely on supporting design visibility throughout a particular organization. Wake allows companies to share design assets and view work in progress as designers build out their screens, logos, or other designs. Design team…
[ad_1] Amazon Appstore for Android has been upgraded with an ‘Actually Free’ section that lets you download paid Android games for free. The new section also offers unlocked in-game purchases to offer you an entirely free gaming experience on your Android device. You need to download the all-new Amazon Appstore app to get free games.…
[ad_1] This time, Wall Street isn’t taking a central role in the process. While Spotify has some bank advisors, it is planning what is called a direct listing, allowing it to trade on an exchange without all the regulatory hassles and expensive bankers that are the hallmarks of the traditional IPO. NYSE changed its rules…
[ad_1] Dell revealed its new range of entry-level gaming PCs. Dubbed as the Dell G Series, the company claims it to be its most “affordable” gaming range to date. The Dell G3 15 and 17 as well as the Dell G5 15 and G7 15 are the four laptops that form the Dell G Series…
[ad_1] The recent decline in Nvidia shares is a great buying opportunity, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm reiterated its buy rating for the chipmaker and added the company to its US1 top ideas list. It cited the company’s product leadership several large growth categories. Nvidia is “one of the more unique…
[ad_1] Cab aggregator Ola on Tuesday announced the acquisition of end-to-end public transport ticketing and commuting app, Ridlr. Ola said the the integration of Ridlr will bring new opportunities for users to serve their mobility needs, and that the acquisition complements Ola’s continued efforts to integrate its mobility platform with public transportation infrastructure. Ridlr enables…
[ad_1] Bakery-cafe chain Panera Bread’s website leaked customer records for at least eight months, cybersecurity blog KrebsOnSecurity reported on Monday. The blog post said the data leak included names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of credit card number of “millions” of customers who ordered food online on the company’s website,…
[ad_1] Shine, an early arrival in market now teeming with self-care apps and services, has closed on $5 million in Series A funding, the company announced today, alongside the milestone of hitting 2 million active users. The round was led by existing investor by Comcast Ventures with betaworks, Felix Capital and The New York Times…
[ad_1] Paytm Mall has raised about Rs. 2,900 crores in its latest round of funding led by SoftBank and existing investor Alibaba. SoftBank is also an investor in Paytm, while online retail rival Flipkart also received funding from the Japanese company last year. The deal values Paytm Mall at roughly $2 billion (roughly Rs. 13,007…
[ad_1] Bitcoin and ethereum just had their worst first-quarter price performances in history, but ripple fell the most out of the top three major cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin fell from $13,412.44 to $6,928.85 in the three months ended March 31, marking a more than 48 percent decline, according to data from industry website CoinDesk, which tracks the…
[ad_1] Two founders of a cryptocurrency firm that was endorsed by champion boxer Floyd Mayweather have been charged with carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company in question is called Centra and it raised $32 million via an ICO. An ICO is a process…
[ad_1] If you own a Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 Edge, it could be time for an upgrade. Samsung has confirmed the three-year-old flagship smartphone will no longer receive major Android operating system upgrades. The smartphones will also miss-out on monthly security patches from Samsung. That could leave the handsets vulnerable to malware, which is…
[ad_1] JPMorgan’s key blockchain executive is departing the bank for the world of startups, it has emerged. Amber Baldet heads up JPMorgan’s Blockchain Center of Excellence, which explores the development of distributed ledger technology and uses cases of blockchain technology across the firm’s business. A high-profile figure in the blockchain space in her own right, she is leaving…
[ad_1] Facebook Spaces has received an update that brings tons of customisation options to enhance your virtual appearance. The social networking giant has also upgraded the controls to fine-tune your looks on a screen. The new changes are a part of Facebook’s strategy to make people feel natural in virtual reality (VR). However, the Spaces…
[ad_1] Google is no longer accepting any new cryptocurrency mining extensions on its Chrome browser’s web store. The decision was announced in a new post on the Chromium blog today. Chrome extensions that use malicious code to hide cryptocurrency mining capabilities have been discovered in the Chrome web store. These leverage the computing power of…
[ad_1] At a time when governments are striving for stringent data security and privacy, users in Israel are now reportedly connected to WhatsApp through the Facebook servers, said a report on Monday. According to WABetaInfo, a popular fan website that tracks WhatsApp Beta, the switch has been made to ensure better connection quality. “All users…
[ad_1] Japanese online broker Monex Group Inc said on Tuesday it is considering buying Coincheck Inc, the local cryptocurrency exchange hit by a high-profile $530 million theft earlier this year. The company did not provide any details but the Nikkei daily on Tuesday said the deal could be worth “several billion yen” and an announcement…
[ad_1] With the aim to help the first-line workforce become more productive, Microsoft on Tuesday enabled digital payments services on its enterprise social network app Kaizala in the country. To begin with, Microsoft has integrated payment services of YES BANK and MobiKwik. Payment integration with Microsoft Kaizala will enable users to quickly send or receive money…
[ad_1] Acer has launched an all-in-one desktop called Aspire S24, its slimmest ever featuring a side profile of only just 0.235-inches. Over the last few years, manufacturers have been launching thinner laptops but it is rare to hear about how slim a desktop computer is. However, Acer has launched the new PC that is not…
[ad_1] After Facebook and Twitter, Google has cracked down on malicious cryptocurrency mining extensions on its Chrome platform. Until now, Google Chrome’s web policy permitted cryptocurrency mining in extensions as long as it is the extension’s single purpose and the user is adequately informed about the mining behaviour. “Unfortunately, approximately 90 percent of all extensions…
[ad_1] A merry gang of engineers from SpaceX, Boeing, Google and Willow Garage, started Zipline in 2011 to make and use drones for social good. The company beat Amazon, FedEx and UPS to the punch, firing up drone-based logistics in 2016. In two years, they have logged more than 186,000 miles and over 4,000 deliveries.…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6 will be the company’s most expensive smartphone yet, according to a new report around the upcoming handset. The next-generation smartphone will launch sometime in the next three months, OnePlus has confirmed. The flagship will be powered by the Qualcomm SnapDragon 845, and will have an edge-to-edge display, broken only by a small…
[ad_1] Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The initiative, code-named Kalamata, is still in early developmental stages but is part of a bigger strategy to make Apple’s family of devices work…
[ad_1] Tokyo has some of the best taxi services in the world. They’re widely praised for spotless cars, polite drivers and a culture of no tipping. Their high quality is one reason that ride-hailing services haven’t taken off in the city. But that could soon change as major Japanese companies and their partners enter the…
[ad_1] Amazon Echo owners can now make a donation to charity using only their voice. The heart-warming new feature was rolled-out to smart assistant Alexa in the United States this week. Echo owners can say, “Alexa, donate $20 to the American Cancer Society” and the virtual assistant will pull the amount of money specified from…
[ad_1] EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS Sony Xperia XZ2 review Sony Xperia XZ2 review: PROS – Glorious display • Improved design over previous Xperia devices • Good battery life • Fast Qualcomm 845 processor CONS – Awful fingerprint scanner placement • Bloatware galore • Feels heavy in your pocket • Still no edge-to-edge screen Sony is finally sprucing things up…
[ad_1] Scientists say a species of large, but harmless, shark has been gathering in atypically big groups off the coast of the northeastern United States and Canada. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says groups of 30 to 1,400 basking sharks have been seen in waters from Nova Scotia to Long Island, N.Y. between 1980…
[ad_1] The New York Stock Exchange on Monday set the reference price for shares of music streaming service Spotify Technology at $132. Spotify is pursuing an unusual direct listing to reach the public markets in place of an initial public offering, and shares are expected to start trading on Tuesday. The reference price is not…
[ad_1] Tofino beach-goers got a rare glimpse of some strange looking blue creatures Sunday, as hundreds of jellyfish-like creatures known as Velella velella washed ashore. Also known as By-the-Wind-Sailors, the small carnivorous animals are related to jellyfish. They do sting, but not enough to harm people. They use their stinging tentacles to feed on small fish larvae.…
[ad_1] Scientists have captured an image of the most distant individual star ever spotted — one that is nine billion light years away or 100 times farther away than the previous record-breaker. (Not including extremely bright exploding stars called supernovas). The star is a blue supergiant nicknamed Icarus, possibly hundreds of thousands of times brighter…
[ad_1] The development of 5G mobile networks, as well as smart vehicles, will be among the next hot sectors in Japan, a senior equity analyst told CNBC. Previously, the information technology industry in Japan was driven by products such as digital cameras and smartphones, but it has now reached a plateau, Kazunori Ito, senior equity…
[ad_1] Tesla’s fatal car crash and the Model 3’s slow rate of production is what’s behind Tesla’s dropping stock, said Colin Langan, a U.S. auto analyst at UBS. “Not only do you need to ramp this product, but you are going to have to make sure the quality improves as you ramp it,” Langan told…
[ad_1] The Lighthouse AI camera can be configured to record every time you’re away (it knows your smartphone’s location) or even while you’re home. It can then “ping” you based on certain events: If it sees a dog run across the room, a human enter the house — such as a dog-walker or babysitter —…
[ad_1] SpaceX is set to launch Monday afternoon from Florida, in the latest mission for NASA to send supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. Elon Musk’s rocket company will live stream the 4:30 p.m. ET launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with coverage expected to begin at about 4:10 p.m. ET. Delayed…
[ad_1] The idea of a robot methodically hunting you down isn’t the most pleasant of concepts. A metal-bodied being zooming after you at up to 25 miles per hour with multiple eyes fixed on your location seems… out of your best interest. The Skydio R1 drone seems friendly enough. though. I wouldn’t call it loving…
[ad_1] Despite a recent barrage of bad news, Tesla is still poised to disrupt the energy and transportation industries, said tech analyst-turned venture capitalist Gene Munster. Shares of the electric automaker have fallen under pressure as it is hit with headline after headline. The stock fell 22.4 percent in March, its second-worst month on record.…
[ad_1] Without warning, Instagram has broken many of the unofficial apps built on its platform. This weekend it surprised developers with a massive reduction in how much data they can pull from the Instagram API, shrinking the API limit from 5,000 to 200 calls per user per hour. Apps that help people figure out if…
[ad_1] Ever since wrapping a $2 billion fundraising round led by Softbank and Didi Chuxing last July, Grab has been moving quickly to connect the millions of “invisibles” across the region to its financial services. The GrabPay e-wallet launched across Southeast Asia in November of last year on the heels of the company introducing its…
[ad_1] Millennials may be a bit obsessed with self-care – and it’s beginning to pay off for the makers of self-care and digital wellness apps. According to data from multiple app store intelligence firms, the category is now seeing notable growth. In the first quarter of 2018, the top 10 grossing self-care apps in the…
[ad_1] The executive leading Google‘s search and artificial intelligence units, John Giannandrea, is stepping down after two years on the job, the company confirmed on Wednesday. Giannandrea’s role will now be split between two executives: Jeff Dean, the cofounder of Google Brain, one of the company’s AI research arms, will lead all of its AI…
[ad_1] Salesforce quelled speculation on Monday that it had been involved in a bidding war for MuleSoft, revealing in a filing that competition was not a factor in driving the price up to a hefty $6.5 billion. Rather, MuleSoft was just insisting that Salesforce pay up, and quickly. According to the timeline published by Salesforce,…
[ad_1] PillPack manages prescription medications for its customers which include those with multiple chronic conditions — all by packaging, organizing and delivering drugs. It boasts a “full-service” pharmacy, meaning its customer service team is available 24/7. One person close to the deal said that PillPack is committed to offering its service to customers, regardless of…
[ad_1] Tesla is shuffling its leadership after reportedly missing its first-quarter Model 3 production targets. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken charge of production of the company’s flagship electric sedan, pushing aside former Apple executive Doug Field, according to The Information. Field, Tesla’s Senior Vice President of Engineering Field will focus on “vehicle engineering,” while…
[ad_1] The stream has ended. SpaceX completed its seventh successful mission of 2018 with the launch of CRS-14. SpaceX is set to launch Monday afternoon from Florida in its latest mission for NASA to send supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. Elon Musk’s rocket company will livestream the 4:30 p.m. ET launch from…
[ad_1] CBS plans to make an all-stock offer for Viacom that values the U.S. media company at below its current market valuation, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, indicating tough negotiations lie ahead. As part of its initial offer to be submitted in the next few days, CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves will…
[ad_1] I recently received a review unit of the Embrace Smart Mirror . It’s essentially a 24-inch Android tablet mounted behind a roughly 40-inch mirror. It works well when 3rd party software is installed. Here’s what I learned. It’s impossible to get a good photo of the smart mirror I tried a tripod, selfie stick,…
[ad_1] Fitbit shaved off another roughly 10% of its value in trading today after a downgrade from a Wall Street firm, which will once again throw on more skepticism as to whether or not Fitbit can be a viable business in the smartwatch market. The note came from Morgan Stanley this morning, which said it…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Intel employees walk by a sign as they enter their office in Santa Clara, California. The decline in Intel shares on the report that Apple plans to stop using the company’s chips is a great buying opportunity, according to one Wall Street firm. Stifel reiterated its buy rating for…
[ad_1] SpaceX is set to launch its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station, sending up a lightly used Dragon capsule filled with goodies at 1:30 PST. In addition to the delivery, this Dragon will also take back some cargo: the malfunctioning Robonaut 2, which apparently bricked itself sometime during the last few months.…
[ad_1] But while Cook and Zuckerberg have some valid disagreements, each does benefit from the other’s success. Nearly all Facebook users are on mobile, and nearly 70 percent of all smartphone users use Facebook, according to January data from eMarketer. To be sure, Apple doesn’t supply the majority of phones, as other platforms like Google,…
[ad_1] Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer uses an Indian Rupee banknote to pay for a purchase as a sign for PayTM online payment method is displayed at a stall selling snacks in Bengaluru, India. SoftBank Group is investing $400 million in India‘s Paytm E-Commerce in a funding round that will value…
[ad_1] Hot on the heels of last week’s security issues, dating app Grindr is under fire again for inappropriate sharing of HIV status with advertisers and inadequate security on other personal data transmission. It’s not a good look for a company that says privacy is paramount. Norwegian research outfit SINTEF analyzed the app’s traffic and…
[ad_1] Apple is planning to use its own chips for its Mac devices, which could replace the Intel chips currently running on its desktop and laptop hardware, according to a report from Bloomberg. Apple already designs a lot of custom silicon, including its chipsets like the W-series for its Bluetooth headphones, the S-series in its…
[ad_1] Demand for Nvidia’s chips will suffer from waning digital currency mining demand this year, according to a Wall Street firm. Wells Fargo Securities lowered its profit forecast for Nvidia, citing the dramatic drop in ethereum prices so far this year. “In recent months … we felt that there were multiple risks associated with Nvidia’s…
[ad_1] Grindr, the gay dating app with more than 3.6 million daily active users worldwide, has been sharing the HIV statuses of its users with two other companies, according to a report by BuzzFeed. Apptimize and Localytics, companies that help optimize apps, have received some information that Grindr users put in their profiles. This includes…
[ad_1] Robinhood is rolling out its Coinbase-killer that’s already helped the fintech startup’s valuation grow 4X in a year. Zero-fee trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum is now available to all investors in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Montana. Everyone else is still on the waitlist. Robinhood users everywhere can already track 16 crypto coins including BTC, ETH,…
[ad_1] Misha Friedman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel Corp. Intel shares dropped sharply on Monday after a Bloomberg report that Apple would ditch Intel chips for an in-house model on Mac computers. Shares of Intel fell as much as 9 percent after the Bloomberg report, which cited unnamed…
[ad_1] Amazon and Netflix shares are down more than 11 percent over the past week through midday Monday. Both stocks are down more than 4 percent Monday. “In this month’s fund holdings update, Consumer Discretionary remained the most crowded sector, as large cap fund managers modestly raised their relative exposure to a five-month high,” strategist…
[ad_1] Shares of Facebook, Twitter and Snap fell into bear market territory Monday as the S&P 500, Nasdaq and a handful of major tech stocks flirted with correction. Facebook fell to more than 20 percent off its 52-week high, Twitter fell to 24 percent off its 52-week high, and Snap cratered nearly 40 percent off…
[ad_1] Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said on Sunday it would buy all shares that it does not already own in food delivery platform Ele.me. The deal implies an enterprise value of $9.5 billion for Ele.me, Alibaba said in a statement. Ele.me, which roughly translates as “Hungry?”, is part of a fast-growing — though fiercely…
[ad_1] Tesla shares are plunging after the company announced a large recall and revealed more details about a fatal Model X crash last month. The company on Thursday announced a voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S vehicles because of an issue with a power steering component. Tesla then revealed on Friday that the Model X…
[ad_1] Microsoft continues its steady pace of opening up new data centers and launching new regions for its Azure cloud. Today, the company announced the launch of two new regions in Australia. To deliver these new regions, Azure Australia Central and Central 2, Microsoft entered a strategic partnership with Canberra Data Centers and unsurprisingly, the…
[ad_1] Commvault, a provider of backup and recovery software, will soon find itself in a proxy battle with Elliott Management. Elliott plans to nominate four directors for Commvault‘s 11 member board. The hedge fund controls 10.3 percent of Commvault’s shares, making it one of the largest shareholders, according to a letter to management that was…
[ad_1] Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Richard Smith, former chairman and CEO of Equifax Inc., testifies before House Energy and Commerce hearing on “Oversight of the Equifax Data Breach: Answers for Consumers” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2017. Equifax, which suffered a massive data breach in 2017 that exposed the personal information of…
[ad_1] Elliott Management, an investment firm long known for its activist streak, set it sights on Commvault today, purchasing a 10.3 percent stake and nominating four Elliott-friendly members to the company’s board of directors. It likely means that Elliott is ready to push the company to change direction and cut costs, if it sticks to…
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[ad_1] Fitbit fell sharply Monday after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock, warning clients that it’s “hard to see a floor” for the price of company shares despite new technology. “We see more downside to the stock as revenues struggle to stabilize and cash burn resumes,” analyst Yuuji Anderson wrote Monday. “We think new smartwatches will…
[ad_1] Due to its expanded distribution network and fulfillment centers to ensure quick delivery, Amazon has a physical presence in many states and an obligation to pay sales taxes. Amazon currently collects and remits sales taxes for sales made directly by Amazon, as opposed to its third-party sellers, to all forty-five states with a statewide…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump bashed Amazon on Twitter claiming the U.S. Postal Service loses “a fortune” delivering packages for the Jeff Bezos-run retailer. Tweet Link “Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed. Also, our fully tax paying…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks an independent body resembling a sort of “Supreme Court” could fix some of the social media site’s content problems. “Over the long-term, what I’d really like to get to is an independent appeal. So maybe folks at Facebook make the first decision based on the community standards that are…
[ad_1] With the race to next-generation silicon in full swing, the waterfall of venture money flowing into custom silicon startups is already showing an enormous amount of potential for some more flexible hardware for an increasingly changing technology landscape — and Naveed Sherwani hopes to tap that for everyone else. That’s the premise of SiFive,…
[ad_1] Investors should sell Snap shares due to significant negative sentiment from its core users over its latest app revision, according to one Wall Street firm. MoffettNathanson, a boutique shop specializing in media and telecom, reiterated its sell rating for Snap shares, citing criticism from its focus group surveys on the social media company. Snap…
[ad_1] Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has said that its recent layoffs of about 220 employees will save it $34 million (roughly Rs. 221 crores) per year in salaries and taxes, as well as a one-time benefit of $31 million (roughly Rs. 201 crores) related to stock-based comp forfeitures. Snap made the disclosure in…
[ad_1] In the search for HQ2, Amazon representatives are visiting finalist cities and looking at the talent the e-commerce giant could attract with its second site. Company executives have visited more than 10 of the final 20 cities bidding for the company’s second North American headquarters, according to multiple reports from local and national media.…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fired back at Tim Cook, arguing the Apple CEO’s recent criticism about the social media company was “extremely glib.” Cook criticized Facebook last week during an interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, saying he “wouldn’t be” in the situation Zuckerberg has found himself in and questioned the…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected Apple CEO Tim Cook’s critique of his company’s business model, which Cook characterized as a scheme to monetize customers, calling it “glib” and “not aligned with the truth.” “I think it’s important that we don’t all get Stockholm Syndrome and let the companies that work hard to charge you…
[ad_1] A couple of years ago, Dropbox shocked a lot of people when it decided to mostly drop the public cloud, and built its own datacenters. More recently, Atlassian did the opposite, closing most of its datacenters and moving to the cloud. Companies make these choices for a variety of reasons. When Atlassian CTO Sri…
[ad_1] Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. opioid crisis, at Manchester Community College in Manchester, New Hampshire, March 19, 2018. Amazon shares fell nearly 2 in the premarket Monday after President Donald Trump attacked the company from his Twitter account. The president said via Twitter on Saturday that Amazon…
[ad_1] Samsung has revamped its Always-On Display with the ability to show GIFs on the screen when your Galaxy series handset is not active. The new GIF support is available for the Always-On Display version 3.2.26.4, while GIFs are initially working on the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, and Galaxy Note 8. We can expect its…
[ad_1] Google is all set to launch its Google Home and Google Home Mini smart speakers in India on April 10. Last week, we learnt from a communication circulated by a Google distribution partner – Redington India – to retailers, that Google was going to launch its smart speakers in the country in April. Next,…
[ad_1] To augment the experience between a user and its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered virtual assistant Siri, Apple has posted several job openings for engineers at its different offices globally. According to the data accumulated by Thinknum, the number of open positions that contain the term “Siri” has accelerated in recent weeks, with a current all-time…
[ad_1] Not everyone can afford the steep subscription fee that Adobe charges for its Adobe Acrobat DC PDF editor (Rs. 12,168 per year). The app is the best in the business for editing PDF files and there’s a reason Adobe charges that kind of money for it. However, most people don’t need that level of…
[ad_1] Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert to paper. On an Easter and Passover holiday weekend, city officials labored in preparation…
[ad_1] In a small room tucked away at the University of Toronto, Professor Dan Nemrodov is pulling thoughts right out of people’s brains. He straps a hat with electrodes on someone’s head and then shows them pictures of faces. By reading brain activity with an electroencephalography (EEG) machine, he’s then able to reconstruct faces with…
[ad_1] Paytm on Monday announced the latest update to its mobile app with a revamp to the home screen, a new look to the Passbook tab, and a revamped Profile section. In the latest announcement, Paytm has also pushed towards usage of its Money Transfer service. The update is available on the Apple App Store…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for iPhone has received an update that brings with a couple of new changes. The app now lets you see recent status updates in the WhatsApp widget in your iPhone’s Today View. To recall, last week, WhatsApp for Android received a new beta version that added a feature to notify contacts on shifting…
[ad_1] Google, Facebook, and Reliance Jio are among the companies that have shown intent to bid for the broadcasting rights to cricket in India over the next five years through 2023, which will be sold by the BCCI, India’s national cricket body, through an online auction on Tuesday, April 3. They will contest for the…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is reportedly adding a bunch of new features to enhance user experience. The new feature list includes a dark mode, Touch ID support for iPhone, polls in groups, and the ability to add as many as 4,096 participants in a group. These new changes are expected to roll out to WhatsApp for iPhone,…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics on Sunday announced the launch of three new laptops in its portfolio. These include one variant of the Notebook 5 and two variants of the Notebook 3. The Notebook 5 sports a 15.6-inch full-HD (1920×1080 pixels) LED anti-glare display with an 16:9 aspect ratio. On the other hand, one variant of the…
[ad_1] As a patient, finding a doctor in-network on your health plan can make a big difference when it comes to out of pocket costs. For insurers and the doctors they contract with, finding a better way to keep provider lists up to date, could make a big difference when it comes to administrative costs.…
[ad_1] China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and burned up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said. The craft re-entered the atmosphere around 8:15 a.m. Beijing time and the “vast majority” of it had burned up upon re-entry, the authority said in a brief statement on its…
[ad_1] Yuan Chen | VCG | Getty Images A Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket carrying China’s first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 blasts off from Wenchang Space Launch Center on April 20, 2017. China’s Tiangong-1 space station is forecast to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere over a remote part of the South Atlantic between 8:11 a.m. and 9:33…
[ad_1] U.S. wireless providers are trumpeting the virtues of their soon-to-be-unveiled 5G networks, but in Canada, the Big Three telecoms are sitting back and staying mum. Many experts believe it’ll take years for a full rollout of the next-generation wireless technology, which promises to deliver blistering fast download speeds — some say up to 200…
[ad_1] Hudson’s Bay said on Sunday that data from card payments in some of its Saks andLord & Taylor stores in North America had been compromised. The Canadian retail company said it had identified the issue and taken steps to contain it, adding that “there is no indication” so far that the issue had affected…
[ad_1] The Defense Department’s research wing is serious about putting drones into action, not just one by one but in coordinated swarms. The Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program is kicking off its second “sprint,” a period of solicitation and rapid prototyping of systems based around a central theme. This spring sprint is all about “autonomy.” The…
[ad_1] Forget the key or combination padlock — two Toronto engineers have revolutionized the device with one touch. Tapplock, a smart fingerprint padlock, was designed by David Tao and Jayden Li four years ago, but the invention is now earning them international attention. Last month, Tapplock One, the pair’s original design, won the iF Design Award, an prestigious…
[ad_1] You might know it as the “other white meat,” but to the pork industry, pig by-products are also toothpaste, ice cream and maybe even your favourite fabric softener. Once the prime cuts for your breakfast bacon and Easter ham are trimmed and prepared, there is plenty left over — porcine scraps that have some…
[ad_1] College students are finding it’s harder to turn a profit by mining cryptocurrencies. Even with universities footing the energy bill, it’s getting more expensive to break into the mining business. Equipment prices are soaring, even as digital currencies fall. “It’s gotten pretty ludicrous now the amount of money you have to spend to get…
[ad_1] Plastics and oil aren’t the only types of pollution having a negative impact on fish. According to a new study entitled Sound the Alarm, noise is also a growing problem for the aquatic animals. “In terms of fish behaviour and physiology, it’s negative responses across the board,” said Kieran Cox, a doctoral student at the University of Victoria.…
[ad_1] Though Facebook gets the attention because of a recent privacy gaffe, the social network is far from alone in collecting massive amounts of data on you to help marketers sell you stuff. Google, for one, also does extensive tracking to power its advertising engines. And many other websites and apps run ads sold by…
[ad_1] Now, the company is trying to bring the same principle to various sports stadiums.At ballparks, five National League teams (Mets, Braves, Marlins, Rockies, Giants) and four American League teams (Yankees, Tigers, A’s, Mariners) have partnered with CLEAR to let fans use the same service. Once enrolled, they can bypass lines and get into the…
[ad_1] Dubai’s Museum of the Future is shaping up to be one of the world’s most complex structures. The LEED-certified building is designed by Killa Designs and is scheduled to open in 2019. The inspiration for the torus form comes from the idea of “Feng Shui,” where the building’s shape represents the earth and the…
[ad_1] Arsenal will face Stoke City at the Emirates Stadium with the Gunners hoping to register back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time since November. The Gunners are currently on a three-game winning run as Arsene Wenger’s side have started to bounce back from a torrid run of form. Arsenal have started to turns…
[ad_1] Snapchat has gotten into the Easter spirit by creating an Easter egg hunt for its users. More than a million Easter eggs have been hidden for Snapchatters to find, with points given for each egg found. Regular Easter eggs net Snapchat users one point while harder-to-find golden eggs are worth five points. Snapchat keeps…
[ad_1] Samsung’s next smartphone launch looks set to come in the form of the new Galaxy Note 9. This device could arrive in the coming months with a recent report suggesting Samsung could reveal its new phablet as early as July. This would break from the tradition of an August launch with the early arrival…
[ad_1] Waldo (aka Wally), the star of the Where’s Waldo and the Where’s Wally books, is hiding out in Google Maps right now. To celebrate April Fool’s Day 2018, Google Maps have added the Easter Egg starring Waldo and friends Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw and Woof the dog. Waldo will be appearing in Google Maps…
[ad_1] The Jio Prime renewal option can be seen in a banner when you open the MyJio app Jio Prime membership will expire tonight, Saturday, but it is free for another 12 months for all customers who have already subscribed once. However, the renewal process is not automatic, and you need to apply to get…
[ad_1] The warnings have been sounded for years: Facebook is bad for us. It’s fuelling the spread of misinformation. It’s messing with democracy. But recent revelations about the massive collection of personal Facebook data might be the watershed moment in which users come to terms with what they’ve long been cautioned about and step away…
[ad_1] Facebook is scrambling to add safeguards against abuse of user data as it reels from backlash over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now TechCrunch has learned Facebook will launch a certification tool that demands that marketers guarantee email addresses used for ad targeting were rightfully attained. This new Custom Audiences certification tool was described by Facebook…
[ad_1] The vehicle in a fatal crash last week in California was operating on autopilot, making it the latest accident involving a self-driving vehicle, Tesla has confirmed. The electric car maker said the driver, who was killed in the accident, did not have his hands on the steering wheel for six seconds before the crash, despite several warnings…
[ad_1] Anthony Joshua will go toe-to-toe with Joseph Parker at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff in what’s set to be a blockbuster night of boxing. Around 78,000 fans will pack round the ring to watch the Joshua Parker fight, which is the first heavyweight unification bout ever held in Britain. Joshua’s IBF and WBA world…
[ad_1] At a time when the models of traditional social networks are being questioned, it’s more important than ever to experiment with alternatives. Arbtr is a proposed social network that limits users to sharing a single thing at any given time, encouraging “ruthless self-editing” and avoiding “nasty things” like endless feeds filled with trivial garbage.…
[ad_1] The iMac has a special place in Apple’s history. Launched in August 1998, barely a year into Steve Jobs’ second stint as CEO, the colourful all-in-one managed to stand out in a PC market that was – and many would say continues to be – dominated by “un-innovative beige boxes”. With its Bondi Blue…
[ad_1] The iMac has a special place in Apple’s history. Launched in August 1998, barely a year into Steve Jobs’ second stint as CEO, the colourful all-in-one managed to stand out in a PC market that was – and many would say continues to be – dominated by “un-innovative beige boxes”. With its Bondi Blue…
[ad_1] The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions is now the most successful open-source company, and its success was a catalyst for others to follow its model. Today’s open-source world is very different from those heady days in the mid-1990s when…
[ad_1] At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the possibility of “on-demand knitting.” Think 3D printing, but softer. The idea is actually quite compelling for those of us who are picky…
[ad_1] Buried deep below a sandy beach and pressed into soft clay, footprints from an ancient time hold clues to life for some of North America’s early humans. At least 29 footprints have been identified on Calvert Island in British Columbia and confirmed as the earliest known of their kind on the continent. Researchers at…
[ad_1] On March 31, a little-known part of Canada’s nuclear history will go dark for the last time. The National Research Universal Reactor — or NRU — at Chalk River, Ontario will be turned off for good Saturday evening. It first came online in 1957. Retired Atomic Energy of Canada Limited engineer Fred Blackstein was there…
[ad_1] As Mark Zuckerberg continues his apology tour, speaking to select journalists about his company’s failure to protect the data of 50 million users, there’s one news organization that claims the Facebook CEO has refused to even acknowledge their request to be interviewed. That would be Channel 4 in London, which along with the Guardian…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump bashed Amazon on Twitter for the second time in three days, this time claiming the U.S. Postal Service loses “billions of dollars” delivering packages for the Jeff Bezos-run retailer. Tweet Tweet Amazon is Trump’s new favorite punching bag, and that’s taken a toll on the high-flying stock. At one point this…
[ad_1] Google’s parent company Alphabet is increasingly commercializing the technology coming out of its artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind, four years after acquiring it. Earlier this week, Google’s cloud business announced a new service that converts blocks of text into natural-sounding speech, the first product containing DeepMind code that’s for sale. The new Google Cloud…
[ad_1] Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a new imaging system that can gauge the distance of objects obscured by fog so thick that humans can’t see through it. The goal is to integrate the technology into self-driving cars so that even in bad weather, the vehicles can avoid obstacles. The imaging-sensing system…
[ad_1] Jio Prime membership will expire tonight, Saturday, but it is free for another 12 months for all customers who have already subscribed once. However, the renewal process is not automatic, and you need to apply to get the Jio Prime extended service for one more year. But considering the network has 175 million users,…
[ad_1] WhatsApp are working on some brand new features for the hugely popular chat app. WABetaInfo have gone through the latest WhatsApp beta version for Android and discovered what will be coming in the next big update. And the Facebook-owned chat app look set to be introducing one feature that it’s been missing since launch.…
[ad_1] Liverpool kick off a bumper weekend of Premier League action against Crystal Palace. The Reds travel to Selhurst Park, knowing that a win would see them temporarily overtake Manchester United in second. Liverpool won’t be able to call on defender Joe Gomez, who injured his ankle during international duty for England. Emre Can is also a…
[ad_1] Android users have been put on alert about a cryptocurrency mining malware strain that can destroy phones and is almost impossible to uninstall. The newly discovered HiddenMiner malware is designed to use Android devices to mine for Bitcoin alternative Monero. But the dangerous malware eats up resources so much that it can cause a…
[ad_1] Microsoft has issued a new security patch to fix the earlier security update that was released in January to tackle the Meltdown vulnerability found in microchips from Intel and other chipmakers. The flaw “CVE-2018-1038” was found in the first patch that was issued to protect Windows 7 x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2 x64…
[ad_1] Kodi add-on and Pirate Bay fans as well as illegal streamers and torrent users have been warned that anti-piracy laws could be strengthened. The UK Government outlined the future of its piracy crackdown in a new white paper published this week. Last year saw a “landmark” agreement struck between creative industries and search engines…
[ad_1] GETTY Joshua v Joseph live stream warning There’s a huge night of boxing ahead as Anthony Joshua takes on Joseph Parker at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. The fight is being broadcast on Sky Box Office pay-per-view with the evening’s event costing £19.95 and it could be a price worth paying if you want…
[ad_1] Singapore’s competition watchdog said it had reasonable grounds to suspect competition had been infringed by Uber’s deal to sell its operations in Southeast Asia to rival ride-hailing firm Grab. In a rare move, the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has begun an investigation into the deal and proposed interim measures that will require Uber…
[ad_1] This is your last chance to get your hands on a free Google Home Mini. Google will once again be handing-out free Google Home Mini smart speakers in a series of pop-up events across London. The limited time promotion, which first launched on March 22nd, ends this bank holiday weekend, April 1st. Since the…
[ad_1] Tesla said on Friday that vehicle logs from last week’s fatal accident of a Tesla Model X in California showed that the autopilot had been engaged prior to the crash. Tesla said that the autopilot was on with adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. The company also said no action had been taken…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6 will sport a 3.5mm headphone port, OnePlus’ Carl Pei has confirmed. The co-founder confirmed the crucial feature during an exclusive chat with technology blog The Verge. It was unclear whether the Chinese smartphone start-up would include the industry-standard port, or follow in the footsteps of the likes of Apple, HTC, and Google…
[ad_1] About 100 Google U.S. employees concerned about cyber bullying inside the company have organized into a group proposing new policies for conduct at the unit of Alphabet, five people involved in the effort said in recent interviews. Three current employees and two others helping to organize the group said it formed last fall. They…
[ad_1] Facebook employees were in an uproar on Friday over a leaked 2016 memo from a top executive defending the social network’s growth at any cost — even if it caused deaths from a terrorist attack that was organized on the platform. In the memo, Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook vice president, wrote, “Maybe someone dies…
[ad_1] Dozens of high-tech phone smugglers have been apprehended by Chinese police, who twigged to the scheme to send refurbished iPhones into the country from Hong Kong via drone — but not the way you might think. China’s Legal Daily reported the news (and Reuters noted shortly after) following a police press conference; it’s apparently…
[ad_1] These kinds of leaks didn’t happen when I started reporting on Facebook eight years ago. It was a tight-knit cult convinced of its mission to connect everyone, but with the discipline of a military unit where everyone knew loose lips sink ships. Motivational posters with bold corporate slogans dotted its offices, rallying the troops.…
[ad_1] A company called Clipisode is today launching a new service that’s essentially a “talk show in a box,” as founder Brian Alvey describes it. Similar to how Anchor now allows anyone to build a professional podcast using simple mobile and web tools, Clipisode does this for video content. With Clipisode, you can record a…
[ad_1] When you’ve got leverage, don’t be afraid to use it. That’s been Google’s modus operandi in the news and publishing world over the last year or so as it has pushed its AMP platform, funding various news-related ventures that may put it ahead, and nourished its personalized Chrome tabs on mobile. The latter, as…
[ad_1] The current campaign being waged against the U.S. is serious. I believe it merits a response from a trusted source. Though there are fact-checking websites in the U.S. like Snopes, a threat of this magnitude requires more than just citizen-run or private organization-operated programs. A government effort to combat fake news would provide citizens…
[ad_1] At the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas this week, privacy was on the minds of many people. It was no wonder with social media data abuse dominating the headlines, GDPR just around the corner, and Adobe announcing the concept of a centralized customer experience record. With so many high profile breaches in recent years,…
[ad_1] A single friend of mine once remarked that the major difference among dating apps like OKCupid, Tinder and Bumble wasn’t the way they were designed or the companies behind them — it was how long they had existed. New apps, she said, were more likely to attract interesting and smart people who were actually…
[ad_1] A funny thing happened the last couple of times I was briefed on a Huawei flagship product: news was breaking about some major roadblock for the company’s U.S. distribution plans. First it was AT&T backing out in the midst of CES and then it was Best Buy’s decision to drop the company just ahead…
[ad_1] What do you do with a PhD in computer music? If you’re Jeff Smith, you create an app that you believe will connect the world across cultures – through mobile karaoke. “Music was the original social network before Instagram and Facebook,” said Smith, the co-founder and CEO of Smule. Smith has launched 27 companies…
[ad_1] Here are the five companies, what they do, and when GV invested: Spero Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company creating treatments for bacterial infections, started trading on the Nasdaq last fall and has a current market cap of $204.8 million. GV led its Series C in March 2017 and its stake is now worth $15.79 million,…
[ad_1] A start-up called Cobalt Robotics is making roving security robots for use in commercial buildings — whether that’s an office, data center or a hospital. The robot could help companies save money on human security guards: businesses spent almost $68 billion on physical security in 2016, according to industry research by Stratistics MRC. That…
[ad_1] When workflow management platform Asana announced a $75 million round of funding in January led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management, the startup didn’t give much of an indication of what it planned to do with the money, or what it was that won over investors to a new $900 million…
[ad_1] In conversations with CNBC, employees questioned the Connections program’s true anonymity and said they feared potential backlash if they give negative feedback about their jobs and managers. “There’s just no way you’re going to answer it honestly without an absolute guarantee that it’s anonymous,” said one person at the company. Two managers said the…
[ad_1] No matter what cloud you build on, if you want to build something that’s highly available, you’re always going to opt to put your applications and data in at least two physically separated regions. Otherwise, if a region goes down, your app goes down, too. All of the big clouds also offer a concept…
[ad_1] SpaceX succeeded in its sixth launch of 2018, putting the fifth batch of Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit using a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket. Launched Friday from the central coast of California, Elon Musk’s rocket company has now put up 50 Iridium satellites for the next-generation constellation. SpaceX announced before the launch it would…
[ad_1] SteelSeries has two new Arctis Pro gaming headsets out, and they pack a lot of tech and versatility into a comfortable, visually attractive package. The SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless and Arctis Pro + GameDAC are both incredibly capable headsets that deliver terrific sound, and depending on your system needs, should probably be your first…
[ad_1] A start-up called Cobalt Robotics is making roving security robots for use in commercial buildings — whether that’s an office, data center or a hospital. The robot could help companies save money on human security guards: businesses spent almost $68 billion on physical security in 2016, according to industry research by Stratistics MRC. That…
[ad_1] Tesla’s big stock drop this month will have negative implications for its ability to raise critically-needed funds, according to Wall Street analysts. The company’s shares declined 22 percent in March on concerns over a fatal car crash in California last week and worries over its Model 3 production rate. Tesla’s 5.3 percent bond, issued…
[ad_1] At the Adobe Summit this week in Las Vegas, the company introduced what could be the ultimate customer experience construct, a customer experience system of record that pulls in information, not just from Adobe tools, but wherever it lives. In many ways it marked a new period in the notion of customer experience management,…
[ad_1] SpaceX is set to launch Friday morning from the central coast of California, in an attempt to send Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit on a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket. Elon Musk’s rocket company will live stream the launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, likely beginning within a half an hour of the instantaneous launch…
[ad_1] The improved WhatsApp Change Number feature is expected to come to iPhones and Windows Phone devices soon WhatsApp is now making it easier to let you notify particular contacts about you having changed your phone number. This new WhatsApp feature is already rolling out to the latest Android beta version (2.18.97) of the app, and is…
[ad_1] Bitcoin is having a terrible first quarter, in fact the worst its ever seen. The price of the cryptocurrency has fallen from $13,412.44 on January 1 to $7,266.07 on March 30, marking a more than 45 percent decline, according to data from CoinDesk, a site which tracks the price of different digital coins. The…
[ad_1] The latest update to macOS provides support for external graphics card. Apple announced this would hit the OS last June at WWDC and now it’s finally here. The update allows Mac users to increase the graphical processing power through an external graphics card connected through Thunderbolt 3. Perviously users had to buy an eGPU…
[ad_1] After waiting more than a year to learn the fate of its memory chip business, Toshiba Corp. investors are going to have to hold on a little longer. The Japanese technology giant said Friday it’s missed an initial deadline to close the JPY 2 trillion ($19 billion) sale of the division by the end of…
[ad_1] We’ve already published a pretty extensive guide on how to find out everything Google knows about you. It knows a lot, particularly if you use its services such as Google Maps or search. I discovered late last year that it knows my name, gender, birthday, personal cell phone numbers, where I work, where I’ve…
[ad_1] China’s finance ministry said on Friday it has introduced tax breaks for chipmakers made in the country, at a time when the government is seeking to reduce dependence on foreign semiconductors amid trade tensions with the United States over technology transfers. The move comes as the United States is considering imposing tariffs on $50…
[ad_1] Organisers of the Cannes Film Festival last week said they will be making good on a 2017 promise to ban Netflix films from their main competition. Netflix doesn’t open films in theatres, a practice that contradicts Cannes’ policy. Could that hurt the streaming company, which wants to win the awards game even as it…
[ad_1] Samsung’s Galaxy S8 continues to be one of the best phones you can buy. This 2017 award-winner features a stunning curved design, market-leading camera and a bright edge-to-edge display that offers one of the best viewing experiences on the market. However, this flagship smartphone has now been superseded by the new, and more powerful,…
[ad_1] Singapore’s competition watchdog said it had reasonable grounds to suspect competition had been infringed by Uber Technologies Inc’s deal to sell its operations in Southeast Asia to rival ride-hailing firm Grab. In a rare move, the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has commenced an investigation into the deal and proposed interim measures that will…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is now making it easier to let you notify particular contacts about you having changed your phone number. This new change is already rolling out to the latest WhatsApp for Android beta (2.18.97) and is expected to reach iPhone and Windows Phone versions soon. It extends the original Change Number feature that allowed…
[ad_1] After a blistering rise, Uber’s international ambitions finally seem to be faltering. And after China and South East Asia, it’s possible that the consolidation path will be followed in India as well. If that actually happens though, India’s ride sharing market will basically become a one-horse race, and that’s not something that will be…
[ad_1] Easter has begun and the sales are already underway with some of the UK’s biggest retailers slashing prices on hundreds of products. Argos, Tesco and Currys have all got huge reductions across a range of products including TVs, smartphones and tablets. There’s also some good deals available for gamers with the PlayStation 4, Xbox…
[ad_1] Tianhan Chen | Cpressphoto | Getty Images The skyline of the city of Beijing, China on March 25, 2016. China’s finance ministry said on Friday it has introduced new tax breaks and exemptions for firms making semiconductors, seeking to limit dependence on foreign chips amid trade tensions with the United States over technology transfers.…
[ad_1] Snap is cutting another set of employees, focusing this time on the advertising side of the business after earlier trimming staff in engineering and content. The cuts total around 100 workers, according to people familiar with the matter, and represent the final step in a restructuring process set in motion in the fourth quarter.…
[ad_1] Instagram has released two new consumer-facing updates. According to the updates, GIF stickers will make a comeback on Instagram Stories after having first launched on the platform back in January this year. Apart from that, Instagram is also rolling out full screen support for all short-length ads in Instagram Stories. GIF stickers, powered by…
[ad_1] Mozilla this week launched an extension for its Firefox browser that makes it harder for Facebook to track users’ Web activity. The Facebook Container extension essentially hides users’ Facebook identity when they browse other websites. It creates a blue-coloured browser tab that isolates a Facebook session from the rest of the user’s activity on…
[ad_1] Xiaomi Mi TV 4S is the company’s newest Mi TV series of smart TVs in its home market. Xiaomi has launched the 55-inch Mi TV 4S in China, and the 4K TV comes with an HDR display, PatchWall, Dolby audio, and other features. Earlier this month, the manufacturer had announced another 40-inch Mi TV…
[ad_1] Alongside bringing new iOS, watchOS, and tvOS versions, Apple has released the macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 update for all compatible Mac machines. The new macOS update arrives after a list of beta releases. It has an enhanced support for external GPUs as well as includes features such as Business Chat and new detailed privacy…
[ad_1] Customs officers in southern China’s technology hub Shenzhen busted a group of criminals using drones to smuggle 500 million yuan ($79.8 million) worth of smartphones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, the official Legal Daily reported on Friday. Authorities arrested 26 suspects who used drones to fly two 200-meter (660-feet) cables between Hong Kong and…
[ad_1] Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella unveiled the company’s biggest reorganisation in three years, combining the divisions that focus on devices and software for businesses while moving the Windows operating system unit into the cloud operations. It’s a sweeping set of changes that includes the departure of Windows chief and Microsoft veteran Terry Myerson…
[ad_1] China’s Huawei Technologies, the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, posted a28 percent rise in 2017 net profit, driven by cost controls and a solid performance in its home market. Shenzhen-based Huawei saw 2017 net profit rising to 47.5 billion yuan ($7.3 billion), a big rebound from last year’s 0.4 percent increase. The outlook for Huawei,…
[ad_1] Apple is introducing new tools that will allow consumers to control how their data are used and deactivate their Apple ID accounts, as tech companies strive to bring their services into line with a tough new EU data protection law. Tech companies have long been scrutinised for how they protect their customers’ data and…
[ad_1] The computers sold today, also known as classical computers, are limited in their capabilities to solve certain issues, generally when it comes to large-scale computations. Quantum computers can be used to bridge the gap. “Just in the last five years, IBM has invested over $38 billion in these new capabilities,” Harriet Green, chairman and…
[ad_1] There’s still no official release date for the OnePlus 6 but there’s one big feature that we now know will be included of this flagship. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei revealed the firm’s next smartphone will feature a notch similar to the iPhone X. This design will allow…
[ad_1] Two new arrivals at the International Space Station went spacewalking Thursday less than a week after moving in. NASA astronauts Drew Feustel — who holds both Canadian and American citizenship — and Ricky Arnold quickly set about installing new wireless antennas, replacing a failed camera and removing jumper hoses from a leaky radiator. Mission Control…
[ad_1] Park rangers in the world’s top cocoa producer, Ivory Coast, are waging a campaign to protect national forests from the illegal farming of the raw ingredient in chocolate. Last year the governments of Ivory Coast and other top cocoa producer Ghana, along with food giants Nestle, Mars and Hershey, pledged to work together to…
[ad_1] The Chinese government had talks about possibly financing the world’s most ambitious investment project, SoftBank’s $100 billion bet on the future of technology known as the Vision Fund. China’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation, last year spoke with the Vision Fund about making an investment, according to five people with knowledge…
[ad_1] Last June, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan hung out the “we’re hiring” sign and dangled grants of up to $1 million to try and lure some of the best and brightest international researchers to come to work in Canada. Nine months later, 24 scientists have been given the nod — 10 of them Canadians coming home…
[ad_1] Microsoft announced a major reorganization Thursday, establishing two main engineering teams focused on experiences and devices, and cloud and AI platforms. Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and devices group, is leaving the company. “Leaving fills me with many emotions,” Myerson said in a post to his LinkedIn profile. “But I’m mostly…
[ad_1] Even though Nvidia’s stock has fallen under pressure for the chipmaker’s ties to cryptocurrency mining, Nvidia founder, President and CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t expect the crypto craze to die down anytime soon. “Cryptocurrency will be here. The ability for the world to have a very low-friction, low-cost way of exchanging value is going to…
[ad_1] The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved an application by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, allowing the aerospace company to provide broadband services using satellites in the U.S. and worldwide. “With this action, the Commission takes another step to increase high-speed broadband availability and competition in the United States,” the FCC said in a statement. This…
[ad_1] Companies and students who want to test an autonomous vehicle at the University of Michigan have the excellent Mcity simulated urban environment. But if you wanted to test a drone, your options were extremely limited — think “at night in a deserted lecture hall.” Not anymore: the school has just opened its M-Air facility, essentially…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The silhouette of Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., is seen during the Oculus Connect 4 product launch event in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. Facebook executive Andrew “Boz” Bosworth defended the company’s “questionable” growth tactics in a internal…
[ad_1] As markets recovered on Thursday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer emphasized just how much of a battleground the tape has become in 2018. “I think Amazon defines the modern-day stock market battlefield,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Here’s a stock that gave up 120 points in two days on rumors and stories about how President Trump…
[ad_1] As markets recovered on Thursday, Cramer emphasized just how much of a battleground the tape has become in 2018. “I think Amazon defines the modern-day stock market battlefield,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Here’s a stock that gave up 120 points in two days on rumors and stories about how President Trump hates Amazon.”…
[ad_1] The recent fatal accident in which a pedestrian was hit by an Uber-operated self-driving vehicle made Nvidia founder, President and CEO Jensen Huang realize how important his company’s work really is. “It’s tragic and we have to make sure that we learn from it,” Huang told Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” on…
[ad_1] SpaceX has a green light from the FCC to launch a network of thousands of satellites blanketing the globe with broadband. And you won’t have too long to wait — on a cosmic scale, anyway. Part of the agreement is that SpaceX launch half of its proposed 4,425 satellites within six years. The approval…
[ad_1] John Gress | Reuters Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc., takes part in an education-focused event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 27, 2018. Apple wants to bring consumers’ medical information, like lab tests and immunizations, to its iPhone, and now 40 hospitals have agreed to…
[ad_1] Uploading third-party data isn’t available for all markets that Facebook serves — only the U.S., Brazil, France, Germany, the U.K., Australia, and Japan. But Europe is getting a lot stricter. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect in May, will require people to opt-in before their behavioral data could be used to…
[ad_1] Tesla is urging workers to ramp up production of its affordable Model 3 sedans to “prove a bunch of haters wrong,” according to a report in Bloomberg. In a pair of internal emails obtained by Bloomberg, Tesla heads of engineering and production challenged workers to meet or exceed production goals of 300 or more…
[ad_1] Shares of Under Armour dropped 3.8 percent, before paring losses, after the active-wear company informed users of its online fitness and nutrition website their data had been compromised. Under Armour announced on Thursday that the breach affected an estimated 150 million users of its food and nutrition application, MyFitnessPal. The investigation indicates that affected…
[ad_1] Apple just released iOS 11.3, which has a new beta feature that lets users check the health of their battery and make sure that their iPhones are running at peak performance. Apple included this tweak after backlash in late 2017, when users complained that they noticed their phones slowing down. It turns out that…
[ad_1] The first quarter had more billion-dollar IPOs than were issued in all of last year and was the best quarter in three years, with 43 IPOs raising $15.6 billion, according to Renaissance Capital. The second quarter also looks to be strong, as big private tech companies finally make their debuts. Dropbox, which raised $750…
[ad_1] Facebook was informed that the app at the center of a massive data leak could sell user data to third parties, according to documents seen by the Financial Times, raising fresh questions about how the company protects its users’ data. The social network was sent terms and conditions for the second version of the…
[ad_1] A new voice is joining the call for regulating social media sites like Facebook: the users themselves. Most Facebook users say they support some governmental regulation of the use and distribution of personal data on social media, according to a survey conducted exclusively for CNBC by Reconnect Research. Many also believe the company itself…
[ad_1] So far, response has been generally positive among current employees. “This is probably one of the most, if not the most, significant reorgs in the company’s history with a new EVP [executive vice president] owning multi-billion dollar businesses and breaking up the largest legacy businesses,” said an employee who’s getting moved into one of…
[ad_1] After a brutal two weeks for Facebook that’s wiped out over $50 billion of market value, company executives held a conference call with reporters on Thursday to discuss how it plans to deal with the pressing issue of election security. Of particular interest to American voters is how the company is positioned for the…
[ad_1] Cryptocurrency ripple is the worst performer among the top digital currencies by market capitalization as the first quarter comes to a close. The entire sector has taken a hit this year due to regulatory concerns and an advertising crackdown. Total market capitalization for cryptocurrencies has fallen by more than 50 percent in 2018 so…
[ad_1] A racial slur GIF slipped into GIPHY’s sticker library earlier this month, prompting Instagram and Snapchat to drop their GIPHY integrations. Now Instagram is reactivating after GIPHY confirmed its reviewed its GIF library four times and will preemptively review any new GIFs it adds. Snapchat said it had nothing to share right now about…
[ad_1] A different approach to space tourism just got a Silicon Valley boost. CNBC has learned that World View Enterprises, which sends equipment to the edge of space using high-altitude balloons, closed its latest round of venture capital funding with $26.5 million at a valuation of at least $84 million — more than double its…
[ad_1] The CNBC All-American Economic Survey finds the nation living the American stream. The poll of 801 Americans around the country shows that 57 percent of the public has some form of streaming service, compared with 43 percent who do not. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percent. The data confirm the…
[ad_1] Google Play Audiobooks is getting a major update today that adds a number of new features to the service that were sorely missing when it launched earlier this year. None of these are groundbreaking, but they’ll help Google reach feature parity with some of its competitors while injecting a bit of its proprietary smarts…
[ad_1] Business Chat in iMessage is another new feature in iOS 11.3. It will let users chat with businesses for support, to purchase products, to schedule appointments and more. Lowe’s, Wells Fargo, Hilton and Discover are some of the first businesses that will work with Business Chat. You can download iOS 11.3 from your iPhone…
[ad_1] Apple just released an iOS update for your iPhone and iPad. 11.3 introduces a ton of bug fixes but also a bunch of new features. If you forgot about Animjois, today is your lucky day as Apple is adding four new Animojis — a dragon, a bear, a lion and a skull. But that’s…
[ad_1] In a farewell post on LinkedIn, Microsoft’s former head of Windows Terry Myerson explained why Microsoft failed in the smartphone business. It comes down to two problems: Underestimating Android’s business model, and building on an older technical platform that wasn’t quite ready for the job. “Looking back at this phase of my career, my…
[ad_1] The “long knives” have been drawn for Facebook after a slew of criticism over its data privacy practices, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. Cramer was particularly surprised by Apple CEO Tim Cook‘s recent comments about Facebook’s data leak. Cook criticized the social media company during an interview Wednesday with Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s…
[ad_1] Trump has been slamming China since he announced his candidacy for president in 2015. On the campaign, he constantly accused China of stealing American jobs and said in a debate that it was “using our country as a piggy bank.” Last week, Trump signed an executive memorandum to impose retaliatory tariffs on up to…
[ad_1] Bitcoin dropped Thursday, bringing losses for the week so far to about 17 percent. The largest digital currency by market capitalization fell 7.6 percent to a low of $7,331.52 before recovering to near $7,400, according to CoinDesk’s bitcoin price index. That brought the quarter-to-date decline to more than 45 percent. Ethereum, the second largest…
[ad_1] President Trump blasted Amazon over taxes Thursday saying the company pays “little or no taxes to state & local governments.” He is likely focusing on Amazon’s practice of not collecting state sales taxes for “third-party” sellers on its platform in most of the country. Tweet Link The comment came one day after Axios reported…
[ad_1] One of our favourite photo editing apps for the iPhone, Darkroom, just got better. Its newest update – Darkroom v3.5 – is available from Thursday on the App Store, and brings depth editing among other additions, which means you can now get more out of your Portrait mode photos on the iPhone X, iPhone…
[ad_1] Water scarcity is potentially one of the biggest problems facing humanity in the next several decades. Communities and countries around the world already face shortages, some of them severe. Governments are tasked with the challenge of ensuring access to water for their citizens. Institutions such as the United Nations consider access to clean water…
[ad_1] One theme that could continue to weigh on the sector for months to come is regulation. Though talk of regulation has mostly focused on Facebook, the social network’s data crisis could spill over to other big tech companies. On Monday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley called on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to testify at a…
[ad_1] Comedian Will Ferrell has joined the small chorus of public figures signing off Facebook for good. “I know I am not alone when I say that I was very disturbed to hear about Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of millions of Facebook users’ information in order to undermine our democracy and infringe on our citizens’ privacy,”…
[ad_1] Ken James | Bloomberg | Getty Images A United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) worker loads orders onto a truck in the shipping area at the Overstock.com Inc. distribution center in Salt Lake City, Utah. E-commerce company-turned-blockchain play Overstock.com‘s 4 million share offering has been canceled, according to a source familiar with the situation. Underwriter…
[ad_1] PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) hit iOS and Android earlier this month. Despite being available on Windows PC since last year, it made quite a splash on mobile devices topping the charts in several countries. And with its popularity comes concerns over cheating. PUBG Mobile is being ruined by PC gamers using keyboards and mice. This…
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the company’s initial public offering on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Snap is laying off 100 employees in advertising and sales, the company said Thursday. “Over the…
[ad_1] Balaji Telefilms-owned ALTBalaji has joined hands with Airtel to bring its digital content to the Airtel TV app. Under this deal, ALTBalaji’s entire range of original shows and movies is now available on the Airtel TV app. The ALTBalaji deal adds to Airtel’s existing content partnerships with Hotstar, Eros Now, Hooq, and Sony Liv.…
[ad_1] Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is rumoured to launch this summer. The South Korean company typically launches its productivity-focused phablet in August, ahead of the iPhone announcement in September. Last year, Galaxy Note 8 introduced a new dual-camera system. Samsung used the new 12MP dual-lens set-up to artificially add bokeh to the background of portrait…
[ad_1] Adobe Systems, the company best known for Photoshop, has lately been spending its time trying to figure out what makes consumers tick. The software maker has been quietly undertaking a project to help corporate customers automate their marketing efforts, part of an accelerated push into artificial intelligence. Called Perfect Path, the prototype system aims…
[ad_1] Rick Wilking | Reuters Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, shows the Drive Pegasus robotaxi AI computer at his keynote address at CES in Las Vegas, January 7, 2018. Uber Technologies does not use the self-driving platform architecture of Nvidia, the chipmaker’s Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. The ride-hailing service uses Nvidia’s graphics…
[ad_1] Snap, the parent company of popular photo-sharing app Snapchat is reportedly working on a new feature that will let users control which third-party apps will have access to their accounts, the media reported. The latest beta version of Snapchat has a new feature category called “Connected Apps” whose description read: “These apps are connected to…
[ad_1] Sky has launched another money-saving offer just in time for the Easter holidays. The new deal slashes the cost of the ultimate Sports and Entertainment bundle by £333. This means customers can get access to 10 Sky Sports channels – including F1 and Football – and all the latest shows and music for £40…
[ad_1] Dokdo is a game that puts you in command of your own pirate ship, free to sail the seas, taking on other pirates in naval battles, discovering islands and making them your own, and upgrading your ship to be able to take on tougher opponents. If that sounds familiar, you’re probably thinking of the…
[ad_1] FreeCharge on Thursday announced that it has launched UPI (Unified Payment Interface) support on its mobile apps. With the latest move, FreeCharge users will now be able to use all UPI-based payment services via their @freecharge UPI ID. Users can also link their bank accounts to a single UPI ID to make transactions seamlessly…
[ad_1] GDPR is short for the General Data Protection Regulation, a piece of legislation that will come into force across the European Union on May 25. Part of GDPR requires companies to allow users to download the data held on them and let them transfer it to another service if they want. Another part of…
[ad_1] Xiaomi Mi TV 4S is the company’s newest Mi TV series of smart TVs in its home market. Xiaomi has launched the 55-inch Mi TV 4S in China, and the 4K TV comes with an HDR display, PatchWall, Dolby audio, and other features. Earlier this month, the manufacturer had announced another 40-inch Mi TV…
[ad_1] Fears that Donald Trump is set to go after Amazon and enforce tighter regulation on the wider tech industry are overblown, according to a Wells Fargo analyst. Amazon dropped 3 percent on Wednesday after a report from Axios, citing anonymous sources, said that Trump wants to “go after” the e-commerce giant and address the…
[ad_1] Google on Wednesday rolled out an update to the Google Home app that enables users to connect the Assistant-enabled speaker to any Bluetooth speaker. This essentially means that the Google Home, Home Mini, and Home Max will be able to play music via your Bluetooth speaker. Before this, only Google Cast-enabled speakers could be…
[ad_1] Razer Basilisk customisable gaming mouse has been launched in India. The new mouse, targeted at gamers who are looking for a solution to enhance their experience for FPS gaming, is now available in the country with a price tag of Rs. 5,499. Bengaluru-based distributor Kaira Global has brought the Razer Basilisk to the Indian…
[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 how we can recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. China’s new rules that ban or seriously restrict foreign waste have Canadian municipalities struggling to find places to ship their recyclables. “It’s…
[ad_1] Group of Seven countries have agreed to a “common vision” for the development of artificial intelligence, a Canadian minister said Wednesday. Officials met in Montreal for a jobs and innovation forum ahead of Canada’s hosting of the G7 industrialised nations summit from June 8-9 in La Malbaie, Quebec. “G7 innovation ministers have agreed on…
[ad_1] A co-founder of a self-driving truck startup Uber bought to rev up its autonomous vehicle efforts is leaving the ride-share company, CNBC reported on Wednesday. Lior Ron’s profile on career social network LinkedIn indicated that since late 2016, he has been the head of Uber Freight, a service that matches shippers with truckers and…
[ad_1] Kodi once again finds itself facing more blocks. Despite the fact that the TV Player is totally legal, it appears Google is stopping users from getting easy access to it online. As most users of the internet giant will be aware, when you start searching for popular terms the autocomplete function kicks in and…
[ad_1] As a result of the recent revelations that showed the dark side of social media, Facebook on Wednesday announced some tweaks that are aiming to make privacy controls more handy for end users than before. The latest update from the Mark Zuckerberg-led team arrived in the aftermath of the data scandal that saw the…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies does not use the self-driving platform architecture of Nvidia Corp, the chipmaker’s Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. The ride-hailing service uses Nvidia’s graphics processing units known as GPUs, Huang told an audience on the final day of Nvidia’s GPU conference in San Jose, California. “Uber does not use Nvidia DRIVE technology.…
[ad_1] Futures trading giant CME Group has reached a deal to buy U.K.-based NEX Group for $5.49 billion. CME will acquire London-based NEX in a transaction valued at £10 ($14) per share, consisting of 500 pence in cash and 0.0444 CME Group shares, based on CME’s closing share price of $158.84 on Wednesday, NEX said…
[ad_1] Google Home and Google Home Mini are finally set to arrive in the Indian market next month. Based on communication shared by Redington India with its retail partners, G360 has learnt that Google has scheduled the launch of its smart speakers in the country in April 2018. This comes a few months after another…
[ad_1] Uber’s decision to exit Southeast Asia, where it was bleeding money, should give the global ride-hailing giant more firepower to focus on India, where it’s locked in a fierce battle with local rival, Ola, industry analysts say. With Uber considering a public offering in 2019, it would make sense for the company to pitch…
[ad_1] The family of the woman killed by an Uber Technologies self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a potential legal battle over the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle. Cristina Perez Hesano, attorney with the firm of Bellah Perez in Glendale, Arizona, said “the matter has been…
[ad_1] Uber counts Australia as one of its main markets and is investing heavily in the country’s ride-hailing industry, according to a senior executive at the tech firm. Ride-sharing has had good adoption in Australia and there’s competition from local rival GoCatch, the mature taxi industry and other firms, like India’s Ola, who are planning…
[ad_1] BlackBerry reported a fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday that beat analysts’ estimates and said it expects strong billings at its high-margin software and services business for the full year. The company, which reinvented itself after customers ditched its smartphones for Apple’s iPhones and Android devices, said revenue from its enterprise software and services business rose about…
[ad_1] Tesla shares are on pace for their worst monthly performance as the electric car company faces a spate of recent issues. Tesla stock is down 24.86 percent in March, as of Wednesday, pacing for its worst month since the company first went public in 2010. Other recent stock performance figures look pretty rough for…
[ad_1] Huawei is giving its Android rivals a serious run for their money with the launch of its new P20 Pro smartphone. This all-new device was unveiled in Paris yesterday and includes plenty of features that could make it one of the best smartphones of 2018. So, if you’re thinking of buying this next-generation gadget…
[ad_1] SAMSUNG • GOOGLE • GETTY Samsung Galaxy S8 Android Oreo release date boost – This is when the update is coming Samsung have confirmed when Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8 Plus and Note 8 users will be getting the Android Oreo update. The South Korean tech giant have slowly been rolling out the latest version…
[ad_1] Apple has just revealed a refreshed and updated iPad which brings more features at a lower price. This new tablet was unveiled at an event in Chicago with Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Product Marketing saying: “iPad is our vision for the future of computing and hundreds of millions of people around the…
[ad_1] A Chinese automaker known for its mini-buses, vans and utility trucks is making a big push into the U.S. market. On Wednesday, Sokon Industry Group’s SF Motors subsidiary revealed its first electric concept car — the SF5. CNBC caught up with SF Motors CEO John Zhang ahead of the unveiling event for a first…
[ad_1] Android fans are being warned about a new malware scam that is hidden on perfectly innocent looking apps. The malware was loaded onto seven different apps that were found on the Google Play store. The apps hid their true intent and bypassed security checks thanks to clever coding and delaying when the malware went…
[ad_1] The federal government should include steelhead trout in Canada’s Species at Risk Act, says a B.C. outdoor advocacy group, following a recent survey of the province’s rivers. The Outdoor Recreation Council of B.C. releases its endangered rivers list every two years, based on nominations from recreation and conservation groups, resource managers and the general public. This year,…
[ad_1] British investor Jim Mellon is taking aim at tech giants like Google and Facebook. Speaking with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Mellon said the days of rapid growth for the companies are behind them as increased government regulation looks more likely. “These fatted calves are now ripe for the plucking by governments everywhere,” he said, adding…
[ad_1] Like many millennials, bear cubs in Sweden are living at home with their moms longer than previous generations — and researchers think it’s because female bears are trying to stay safe from hunters. Brown bears in Europe are considered the same species as the grizzly bears that live in North America, although the European bears tend…
[ad_1] U.S. planemaker Boeing “detected a limited intrusion of malware” that affected “a small number of systems,” and said certain media reports on the disruptions were “overstated and inaccurate,” a company vice president said on Wednesday. Linda Mills, VP of Boeing commercial airplanes communications, said by email that “remediations were applied” and the intrusion would…
[ad_1] With constant news about data breaches, the public’s trust in big tech has taken a big hit this past year. Microsoft Interdisciplinary Scientist Jaron Lanier said Silicon Valley knows — and said many innovators are regretting their role in it. “I think I speak for all of us when I say that most of…
[ad_1] Festo’s flashy biomimetic robots are more or less glorified tech demos, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t cool. The engineering is still something to behold, although these robot critters likely won’t be doing any serious work. Its latest units move in imitation of two unusual animals: a tumbling spider and a flying fox (think…
[ad_1] Tesla bonds were downgraded by Moody’s to B3 from B2, which also changed the outlook to negative from stable due to the significant shortfall in the company’s Model 3 production rate. The 2025 Tesla bond was yielding around 7.7 percent Wednesday, up from 6.80 percent Tuesday. Yields move opposite price. Tesla stock plunged 7.7…
[ad_1] The price on Tesla’s junk bond, which matures in 2025, also fell to its lowest since the debt offering in August and short sellers have piled in amid growing worries about the company’s ability to deliver on its production goals. Tesla has burned through billions of dollars while it struggles to deliver on many…
[ad_1] Facebook is going to limit how much data it makes available to advertisers buying hyper-targeted ads on the social network. More specifically, Facebook says it will stop using data from third-party data aggregators — companies like Experian and a — to help supplement its own data set for ad targeting. Facebook previously let advertisers…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer dissects the wild moves of technology stocks and explains why Clorox came roaring back. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving north from Palo Alto to San Jose. The company will relocate 1,000 employees to a 220,000 square feet space in late 2018. HPE is was spun off from Hewlett-Packard in 2015 and is focused on servers and storage. This news comes months after HPE announced a different plan in…
[ad_1] “I bet Facebook’s going to be a little more like Equifax than Chipotle,” Cramer concluded. “Equifax has an unassailable market share position. The credit [rating] companies are a three-way oligopoly. […] I think Facebook has similar advantages.” In Cramer’s worst case, he could see shares of Facebook dropping 25 percent from their highs, putting…
[ad_1] Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook in an interview on Wednesday in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, saying privacy is a human right and a core American value. When asked what he would do if he were currently faced with the problems confronting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Cook said: “I wouldn’t…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer noticed some countervailing forces in Wednesday’s tape as stocks tapered their technology-led declines. As stocks fell on news that President Donald Trump may go after e-commerce giant Amazon for its tax treatment, the “Mad Money” host turned to some historically safe sectors to see if they were withstanding the pain. “While…
[ad_1] Lior Ron, the co-founder of a self-driving truck company Uber acquired, is leaving the company according to a person familiar with the matter. Ron co-founded Otto, an autonomous vehicle start-up, which Uber bought in 2016, and his LinkedIn profile lists him as the head of Uber Freight. Ron co-founded the start up with Anthony…
[ad_1] Cryptocurrency startup Ripple donated $29 million of its own digital currency XRP to support U.S. public schools, the company announced Wednesday. The donation, which Ripple said is the largest-ever cryptocurrency gift to a single charity, fulfilled thousands of requests from public school teachers on the crowdfunding site DonorsChoose.org. The money will be used to…
[ad_1] Electronic signature software company DocuSign on Wednesday filed paperwork to go public on the Nasdaq under the symbol DOCU, showing revenue growth of more than 50% from 2016 to 2017 while decreasing losses. DocuSign’s primary competitor is Adobe, which acquired EchoSign in 2011, according to the S-1 filing the company registered with the U.S.…
[ad_1] Traffic police in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have always had a reputation for strict enforcement of those flouting road rules in the metropolis of 12 million people. Now with the help of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology, jaywalkers will not only be publicly named and shamed, they will be notified of…
[ad_1] Neuralink, a company cofounded by Elon Musk that aims to develop brain implants for boosting people’s mental capabilities, had plans to test products on animals, according to a new report. The new information provides rare insight into Neuralink’s earliest plans for executing on its bold vision, which could ultimately diversify Musk beyond cars with…
[ad_1] Users of Grindr, the popular dating app for gay men, may have been broadcasting their location despite having disabled that particular feature. Two security flaws allowed for discovery of location data against a user’s will, though they take a bit of doing. The first of the flaws, which were discovered by Trever Faden and…
[ad_1] SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son’s plan to take over Silicon Valley and the global world of technology is starting to take form. The $100 billion Vision Fund will invest in another 30 companies over the next two years, adding to the 30 it has already invested in over the last year or so, said Rajeev…
[ad_1] All of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap are down for the year. Except for one, VeChain. That digital currency has gained more than 28 percent since January 1, which one analyst says is thanks to big-name partnerships and a unique structure that incentivizes investors not to sell. Prices of most cryptocurrencies have…
[ad_1] Public places may soon be filled with secret pieces of art unlocked by looking through the lens of AR, if Artopia’s cheerily creative app catches on. It essentially lets you geocache your 3D scribbles so anyone else can find, appreciate, and share them. Artopia, currently in beta for Android and iOS, is a straightforward…
[ad_1] If employees at Amazon, Apple, and Facebook were given the chance to take on the role of Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook or Mark Zuckerberg, many of them agree on what they would immediately change: their company’s vision and strategy. Job website Comparably recently surveyed nearly 26,000 workers from ages 18 to 55 across the…
[ad_1] A report by CSOOnline presented the possibility that Microsoft would be able to ban “offensive language” from Skype, Xbox, and, inexplicably, Office. The post, which cites Microsoft’s new terms of use, said that the company would not allow users to “publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for…
[ad_1] WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption for messages, which means it’s harder for others to see the conversations you have. WhatsApp also says it doesn’t store any messages, unlike Facebook Messenger. But its privacy controls are limited. According to WhatsApp’s terms, it reserves the right to send marketing messages for “something that might interest you,” which…
[ad_1] David A. Grogan | CNBC Bill George, Julie Grant and Faisal Mushtaq take part in a panel discussion on “What Will Amazon Do?” during the CNBC Healthy Returns conference in New York on March 28th, 2018. Amazon can reinvent the drug supply chain and infuse transparency into the health-care system, but it needs to…
[ad_1] Blix is a new European ebike brand that melds high style, faux leather, and a really nice electric drive train to create a $2,500 ebike that might be too pricey for some but hits most of the buttons when it comes to a fully augmented bike ride. The bike, called the Blix Komfort Prima,…
[ad_1] Amazon shareholders shouldn’t worry too much over the potential regulatory threat from the President Trump administration, according to GBH Insights. Axios reported on Wednesday Trump wants to “go after” Amazon and alter its tax treatment. The company’s stock lost as much as $50 billion in shareholder value at one point in the morning. “With…
[ad_1] [The stream is slated to start at 1:30 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to address reporters Wednesday, as news about a potential breakthrough with North Korea and the president’s opinion of online retail…
[ad_1] Solomon Hykes built a wonky open-source project a decade ago that later took on the name Docker and attained a private market valuation of over $1 billion. On Wednesday, Hykes (who’s French) wrote a blog post titled “Au revoir,” announcing his departure from the start-up. Hykes said he won’t be involved in the company’s…
[ad_1] It really is Go Time for GoDaddy . Amazon’s cloud services provider AWS and GoDaddy, the domain registration and management giant, may have competed in the past when it comes to working with small businesses to provide them with web services, but today the two took a step closer together. AWS said that GoDaddy…
[ad_1] Looking through the lens of stock investing, a Wall Street analyst says bitcoin is an attractive buy while it remains under pressure here. If an investor didn’t hold stocks through the 10 best days for the S&P 500 each year, the annualized return would drop to 5.4 percent from 9.2 percent, Thomas Lee, head…
[ad_1] Facebook will need to change its business model in order to win back user trust, said Roger McNamee, one of Facebook’s earliest advisors and a longtime tech investor. “If you want to restore trust, you have to accept that some of your past business practices are deeply harmful to people,” McNamee, managing director at…
[ad_1] John Gress | Reuters Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc., takes part in an education-focused event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 27, 2018. Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday the iPhone is in fact largely made in America. He clarified his comments to say the…
[ad_1] When Jay Srinivasan’s last company got acquired by Google, he and his co-founders were ready to get going right away — but they couldn’t figure out how to get ramped up or where things were. That’s sometimes a refrain you’ll hear from employees of companies that are acquired, or any employees really, who suddenly have…
[ad_1] In February, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the House’s tax-writing committee that Trump “feels strongly” that the government should permit sales taxes on purchases made over the internet. Congress has the power to levy taxes, and it is unclear whether the Treasury can take any action itself against Amazon. A Treasury Department spokesperson did…
[ad_1] Salesforce hasn’t wasted any time turning the MuleSoft acquisition into a product of its own, announcing the Salesforce Integration Cloud this morning. While in reality it’s too soon to really take advantage of the MuleSoft product set, the company is laying the groundwork for the eventual integration into the Salesforce family with this announcement,…
[ad_1] Tesla must quickly improve its Model 3 production rate if it wants to raise critically-needed funds from investors at a decent price, according to Morgan Stanley. The firm reiterated its equal weight rating for Tesla shares. The note came a day after the stock declined 8 percent on a negative analyst report and the…
[ad_1] Credit Karma, which once started as a simple credit report system and is now looking to expand into a true financial assistant, announced today it is getting a massive $500 million secondary investment from Silver Lake. As part of the investment, Credit Karma says it is getting a 23% bump in the valuation from…
[ad_1] The gay dating app Grindr has two security flaws that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users, according to a report by NBC News. Users’ location data could be exposed even if they chose not to share that data on their profiles, NBC said. Trever Faden, the CEO of…
[ad_1] The City of Atlanta‘s 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on. But as the city government’s desktops, hard drives and printers flickered back to life for the first time in five days, residents still could not pay their traffic tickets…
[ad_1] The calendar says spring, but what’s ahead? CBC meteorologists Johanna Wagstaffe in Vancouver, Christy Climenhaga in Regina and Jay Scotland in Charlottetown were asked during a YouTube live about the weather, forecasting and the season ahead across Canada. Watch the entire video below, or scroll further down for excerpts: Q: Are we going to…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies on Tuesday defeated an appeal by 80 Philadelphia taxicab companies accusing the ride-sharing company of trying to monopolise that city’s vehicle-for-hire market. The broadly worded decision by a unanimous three-judge panel of the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals could help Uber defend against similar claims in New York and other cities where the…
[ad_1] Advertisers for the first time must now decide whether putting content on Facebook represents a liability, tech analyst-turned-venture capitalist Gene Munster told CNBC on Wednesday. “I don’t think there’s going to be some huge aversion from Instagram or Facebook. I think that those platforms are going to be around forever,” Munster said in a…
[ad_1] Tata Sky on Wednesday launched World Screen, a value-added service that offers subscribers a “curated bouquet” of ad-free international entertainment content. The new offering comes at a monthly charge of Rs. 75 for Tata Sky subscribers and is designed to deliver entertaining content through set-top boxes as well as Tata Sky mobile app and…
[ad_1] As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014, the company received help from at least one employee at Palantir Technologies, a top Silicon Valley contractor to American spy agencies and the Pentagon. It was a Palantir employee in London, working closely…
[ad_1] With the launch of Waze Local, Google-owned navigation app Waze is offering small businesses a way to market themselves to consumers on the road. Waze has allowed larger brands to buy ads for years, and it’s been beta testing Waze Local since 2016. “It’s been a gradual strategy,” said Matt Phillips, who leads the…
[ad_1] Google on Wednesday launched a voice synthesiser called “Cloud Text-to-Speech” which is powered by its Britain-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind. The service is now available for developers to add it in their own applications. A text-to-speech service is a form of speech synthesis that converts text into spoken voice output. Google’s text-to-speech powers…
[ad_1] Executives from large technology firms could be called to appear in front of British lawmakers as they continue gathering evidence about fake news and data practices in the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, a member of parliament (MP) told CNBC Wednesday. Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliament’s Digital, Culture,…
[ad_1] You’re using the mapping app Waze to avoid traffic on your way to work when, at a stoplight, an ad for a tea shop pops up on screen, beckoning you with a 20 percent off deal. That’s the kind of scenario that Waze exec Matt Phillips says users will experience through the company’s new…
[ad_1] With recent revelations about the kind of data that was taken from Facebook for the election campaign of US President Donald Trump, people are becoming a little more sensitive about the kind of private data that’s being put out on the Internet. And of course, we’ve long talked about just how well Google knows…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump is not a fan of Amazon. Axios is reporting that Trump wants to “go after” the e-commerce giant, citing five sources who have talked about Amazon with him. “He’s obsessed with Amazon,” one source told the media outlet. “Obsessed.” Trump has discussed altering the company’s tax treatment because several of his…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies has agreed to pay $10 million (roughly Rs. 65 crores) to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two women engineers who accused the ride-services company of gender and race discrimination. The settlement, disclosed in a filing in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, says Uber also agreed to reforms to…
[ad_1] U.K. lawmakers will send a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday asking for clarification on whether he would eventually appear in front of them, after the social network agreed to send two of his deputies instead. Last week, Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, asked…
[ad_1] Headsets maker Plantronics said on Wednesday it would buy Polycom in a deal valued at $2 billion, two years after the video conferencing equipment maker was acquired by private-equity firm Siris Capital. The cash-and-stock deal comprises about $948 million in cash and Plantronics shares worth $358 million, as well as $690 million in debt.…
[ad_1] Canada’s BlackBerry reported a smaller quarterly loss on Wednesday, helped by higher margins from software and services sales. Net loss narrowed to $10 million, or 6 cents per share, in the fourth quarter ended Feb. 28, from $47 million, or 10 cents per share, a year earlier. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company’s revenue fell 18.5…
[ad_1] Facbeook unveiled a raft of measures Wednesday aimed at making it easier for users to see and access the data the social network holds on them and make changes where needed. The move comes after the explosive reports last week that a quiz app harvested 50 million Facebook profiles for data which were then…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The iPhone X is displayed during an Apple special event at the Steve Jobs Theatre on Sept. 12, 2017 in Cupertino, Calif. Goldman Sachs has slashed its Apple iPhone sales estimates for the first two quarters of the year. The investment bank said for quarter ended March, it is…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6 is one of the most highly anticipated Android smartphone releases of 2018. And OnePlus fans have now been given a glimpse into what the OnePlus 6 will look like and the features it will bring. Reliable tech tipster Evan Blass tweeted a picture he claimed showed the OnePlus 6. The Venture…
[ad_1] Amazon on Wednesday launched the Kindle Lite app for Android users in India. The new app, which was launched in beta back in November, weighs less than 2MB and provides basic Kindle features as well as a collection of over five million ebooks in English, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, and Malayalam. The US company…
[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 how we can recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. The farms outside Shanghai are a healthy green. Traditional crops like broccoli and cabbage are growing quickly in the spring…
[ad_1] Whistleblower Christopher Wylie had some harsh words for his former employer Cambridge Analytica before a British parliamentary committee on Tuesday — delivered alongside new accusations about the practices of a small Canadian company called AggregateIQ. The Victoria-based firm has been linked to an alleged scheme to sidestep Brexit campaign spending limits in order to influence…
[ad_1] Apple is going head-to-head with Google in education, a market the iPhone maker helped pioneer but has let languish. For the first time in several years, Apple released hardware specific to education: a new iPad that squares up against Google’s inexpensive Chromebook laptops, which have become popular in schools. Apple also introduced an education…
[ad_1] Would you as an employee like to stay at your office even after completing your day’s work? Chances are high that you will simply say no. But Microsoft found a large number of its employees are willing to work even after their day is over – whether it is to build a new program…
[ad_1] Analysts from financial services firm Morgan Stanley have predicted that Microsoft will reach $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 65 lakh crores) in market value within a year. In a new report to investors late on Monday, the firm put a 12-month price target of $130 (roughly Rs. 8,460) on Microsoft’s stock, up from $94 per…
[ad_1] A US-based analytics company facing allegations that it received personal data from the official mobile app of Prime Minister Narendra Modi without the consent of app users, has said that it does not sell, rent or re-market data. “CleverTap employees don’t have access to any of the data stored with it by a publisher,”…
[ad_1] Alphabet’s Google said on Tuesday it would acquire GIF platform Tenor to help enhance search and sharing of animated images. Google did not disclose the purchase price but said in a blog post that Tenor will continue to operate as a separate brand. “With their deep library of content, Tenor surfaces the right GIFs in…
[ad_1] Saudi Arabia and Japanese telecom giant-turned-tech investor SoftBank expanded their partnership on Tuesday, announcing the world’s biggest solar power generation project at a press conference in New York. The project was projected to cost $200 billion through 2030. That’s about how long it’s anticipated it will take to build out all 200 gigawatts of…
[ad_1] Huawei has just now announced the launch of its new P20 and P20 Pro devices at a major event in Paris. These latest smartphones feature a new all-screen design, faster processor, water resistant case and improved cameras with the P20 Pro even including a new triple lens system. This Pro device also has the…
[ad_1] Huawei’s latest smartphone, the P20 Pro, has just been revealed and it comes with one very unique feature. There’s already plenty of smartphones on the market that include dual-lens camera systems but Huawei is upping the ante with its P20 Pro getting three rear snappers. Huawei is obviously making a big deal about the…
[ad_1] Apple is giving its army of loyal fans more for a little bit less. The US tech firm has just revealed its rebooted and much cheaper iPad at an event in Chicago and there’s plenty of reasons why Apple fans should be pleased. At £319 this is officially one of the cheapest tablets Apple…
[ad_1] Apple’s iPad launch event is now over with company revealing a new tablet with more features at a lower price. Here’s everything you need to know about Apple’s latest iPad. UPDATE: • So here’s the specs of the new iPad – 9.7-inch Retina display, A10 Fusion processor, FaceTime HD camera, 10 hour battery and…
[ad_1] Read Story Transcript If there truly are plenty of fish in the sea, somebody forgot to tell the poor anglerfish. The deep-sea creature appears to take its cue from that line in South Pacific’s Some Enchanted Evening: “Once you have found her, never let her go.” And now, for the first time ever, the parasitic…
[ad_1] Amos Wiebe was driving down a logging road near Grande Prairie on the evening of March 21 when he noticed something in the trees. The hobby photographer was out looking for owls, but what he saw was somewhat more ferocious: two lynx, chasing each other up a tree. He slammed on the brakes and decided…
[ad_1] As the spring thaw lays bare the discarded waste of winter, many Canadian fitness enthusiasts are trying to spread the word about plogging, an eco-friendly exercise mashup that combines the endorphin rush of jogging with the environmental benefits of picking up trash. Plogging is a portmanteau of jogging and the Swedish phrase “plocka upp,”…
[ad_1] Neither Ottawa nor the provinces have really assessed the risks a changing climate poses to the country and have no real idea of what might be needed to adapt to it, says a new audit released Tuesday. The joint audit, conducted by federal Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand and auditors general in nine provinces, looks…
[ad_1] The day after closing a $4.5 million round of funding for her tech start-up, Dandelion Energy CEO and co-founder Kathy Hannun gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Most entrepreneurs complain about how arduous the fundraising process is. That goes double for entrepreneurs working in “cleantech.” And triple for women in tech. According to…
[ad_1] In a few days, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will fall out of orbit, burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, but space authorities still don’t know exactly where. Tiangong-1 was China’s first space station, launched in 2011, and visited just twice by Chinese astronauts. In 2016, the Chinese space agency announced it was no longer tracking the…
[ad_1] When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility vehicles, it also chose to scale back on one notable piece of technology: the safety sensors used to detect objects in the road. That decision resulted in a self-driving vehicle with more blind spots…
[ad_1] The tech sector sell-off is not just about Facebook’s data scandal anymore. Several of the market’s favorite technology stocks tanked as investors grew concerned over the companies’ ambitious growth following new developments Tuesday. The NYSE FANG index fell 5.6 percent on Tuesday and is down 6 percent over the last week, its worst showing…
[ad_1] Investors have become interested in the company again after a recent shift in business model. In the past few years, Oscar has started charging higher premiums, and it is now offering a so-called “narrower network,” which encourages members to access a curated list of high-quality medical providers. It also has tight relationships with health…
[ad_1] NASA has once again delayed the launch of its next-generation space telescope, this time, until 2020. Officials say they need more time to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope, which is considered a successor to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The observatory was supposed to fly this year. But last fall, NASA…
[ad_1] Considering we’ve got simulators for everything from driving a junker (x2) to moving into a neighborhood with a bunch of hot dads in it, I suppose it was only a matter of time until someone made a game where you assemble your own PC. It’s called PC Building Simulator, as you might guess, and…
[ad_1] Adriano Machado | Reuters The chief executive of Uber Technologies, Dara Khosrowshahi. Uber will not renew its permit to test autonomous vehicles on California public roads when it expires Saturday. And the company will have some explaining to do if it wants to get a new permit. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles told the…
[ad_1] Apple‘s new $299 iPads are likely to spur interest in classrooms — even if they’re not as cheap as low-end options from Google — according to firms that work with Apple on education. Apple hosted a low-key event on Tuesday in Chicago focused on the educational market, where it revealed an updated iPad and…
[ad_1] The Office of the Inspector General has issued its report on the circumstances surrounding the FBI’s 2016 lawsuit attempting to force Apple to unlock an iPhone as part of a criminal investigation. While it stops short of saying the FBI was untruthful in its justification of going to court, the report is unsparing of the…
[ad_1] Moody’s downgraded Tesla‘s credit ratings Tuesday and changed its outlook to negative from stable, citing “significant shortfall” in the Model 3 production rate and a tight financial situation. The credit ratings agency also said the electric car maker will likely need to raise more money in the near future to meet its cash needs…
[ad_1] A new research paper from Princeton University has found that 90 percent of affiliate posts on YouTube and Pinterest aren’t disclosed to users. Affiliate links are customized URLs that content publishers can include in their posts. They’re essentially ads, and publishers receive money from companies when users click on them. In the US, the…
[ad_1] As companies gather increasing amounts of data, they face a choice over bottlenecks. They can have it in the storage component or the backend compute system. Some companies have attacked the problem by using GPUs to streamline the back end problem or Flash storage to speed up the storage problem. Pure Storage wants to…
[ad_1] Tech shares were also under pressure after Reuters reported Nvidia is temporarily suspending self-driving tests. The news sent the stock down 7.8 percent. Tesla shares also fell 8.2 percent after the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board announced it would investigate a fatal crash that took place last week. Twitter fell 12 percent after short-seller…
[ad_1] Apple is expected to reveal a lower-price laptop and updated iPad at an education-themed event in Chicago on Tuesday, which could shore up Apple’s defenses against Google’s increasing presence in U.S. schools. Apple is notoriously secretive about future product launches, and Tuesday’s event is typically slim on details — no new products have been…
[ad_1] Shares of Nvidia lost as much as 10 percent on Tuesday, after the chipmaker announced it would suspend self-driving tests across the globe. The suspension followed a fatal Uber accident last week in which a self-driving vehicle killed a pedestrian in Arizona. “Ultimately [automated vehicles] will be far safer than human drivers, so this…
[ad_1] Facebook has data on where I was dating back to 2014, including multiple locations throughout specific days. Specifically, it showed where I was on Dec. 23, including at my previous apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey, in Times Square and in Chelsea, Manhattan, right down to the specific part of the street I was…
[ad_1] Google has acquired GIF platform Tenor, adding a library of animated images to its vast internet search engine. The company said in a blog post on Tuesday that it’s purchasing Tenor for an undisclosed amount and plans to integrate GIFs into Google Images and Gboard, the company’s virtual keyboard. “Most people now use Google…
[ad_1] Billionaire Ayman Hariri — whose Lebanese prime minister father was assassinated in 2005 and whose half-brother Saad is the current prime minister — is taking on Mark Zuckerberg. The 39-year-old Hariri’s new social sharing platform Vero — billed as an anti-Facebook app — has soared in popularity from just 200,000 users a month ago…
[ad_1] Today at Nvidia’s GTC conference the company unveiled a wild technology demo and it’s straight out of Black Panther. Simply put, a driver using virtual reality was remotely controlling a car in real life. “He’s not with us,” Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said pointing the driver on the stage. “He’s looking at this…
[ad_1] Tesla shares fell after the National Transportation Safety Board said it sent investigators to look into a fatal car crash last week in California, according to a post on social media. A negative analyst call from Citigroup also weighed on the stock, which has been under pressure this past one month. “2 NTSB investigators…
[ad_1] When it comes to augmented reality technologies, visuals always seems to be a pretty essential part of most people’s definitions, but one startup is offering an interesting take on audio-based AR that also calls on computer vision. Even without integrated displays, glasses are still an important part of the company’s products, which are designed…
[ad_1] Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today. Tenor will continue to operate as a separate brand within Google, the company said in a blog post. Tenor has increasingly positioned itself as a search company, using that as a…
[ad_1] Getty Images Scientist Dr. Astro Teller speaks speaks at Goalkeepers 2017, at Jazz at Lincoln Center on September 20, 2017 in New York City. The CEO of Alphabet’s research and development arm, X, says that the company is working on several projects related to agriculture and food production. Astro Teller, speaking on stage at…
[ad_1] Nvidia and Arm today announced a partnership that’s aimed at making it easier for chip makers to incorporate deep learning capabilities into next-generation consumer gadgets, mobile devices, and Internet of Things objects. Mostly, thanks to this partnership, artificial intelligence could be coming to doorbell cams or smart speakers soon. Arm intents to integrate Nvidia’s…
[ad_1] Apple will launch the fourth iteration of its smartwatch this fall, with a 15 percent larger display and “trendy” new design, according to an analyst report obtained by 9to5Mac. The new version of the Apple Watch may also have a longer-lasting battery, according to KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who wrote his predictions in a…
[ad_1] Nvidia is temporarily stopping testing of its autonomous vehicle platform in response to last week’s fatal collision of a self-driving Uber car with a pedestrian. TechCrunch confirmed this with the company, which offered the following statement: Ultimately [autonomous vehicles] will be far safer than human drivers, so this important work needs to continue. We…
[ad_1] After rocketing to a $250 million valuation in 2015 amid a massive hype cycle for on-demand companies, on-demand startup Shyp is shutting down today. CEO Kevin Gibbon announced that the company would be shutting down in a blog post this afternoon. The company is ending operations immediately after, like many on-demand companies, struggling to…
[ad_1] Apple on Tuesday at its education-focused event in Chicago launched a new entry-level 9.7-inch iPad, what is being called the iPad (2018). Priced the same as the previous budget model, it also supports the Apple Pencil stylus that was first introduced with the iPad Pro in 2015. The move by Apple is the Cupertino…
[ad_1] A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday resurrected a multi-billion dollar copyright case brought by Oracle against Google. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Google’s use of Oracle’s Java development platform to create the Android operating system was not protected under the fair-use provision of copyright law, reversing a 2016 jury…
[ad_1] Apple’s ebook creation tools – first launched in 2012 – have long played an interesting if minor role in the ecosystem. While Amazon has the indie book world sewn up with Kindle Direct Publishing, the desktop-based iBooks Author has always been the multimedia alternative and a favorite for folks creating one-off texts. Although there…
[ad_1] With the explosion of streaming services now available, it’s becoming more difficult to figure out not just what movie or TV show to watch next, but where you can actually watch it. Google today is rolling out its solution to this problem with a significant revamp of its Google Play Movies & TV app…
[ad_1] Francois Lenoir | Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2018. British Prime Minister Theresa May said she hoped Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg understood why people were concerned about alleged leaks of personal data, but it was up to him to decide…
[ad_1] Surprise! You don’t have to pay $5,000 or more to get a Space Gray Magic Mouse 2, Magic Keyboard or Magic Trackpad 2. You can now buy those devices separately. And because this is Apple, you’ll have to pay more to get the dark items. The Magic Mouse 2 costs $79 in silver and…
[ad_1] Amazon is getting into health care. That’s not speculation, at this point. The company hasn’t spoken much about its plans, as it’s still determining the scope through a series of brainstorming sessions with experts in the space, but its hiring trends and recent product development hints strongly at where it could go. So in…
[ad_1] Rackspace, which was taken private in a $4.3 billion deal in August 2016 by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is reportedly in consideration for an IPO by the firm, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company could have an enterprise value of up to $10 billion, according to the report. Rackspace opted…
[ad_1] Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress on the Cambridge Analytica leak and the company’s data practices in the coming weeks, CNN reported Tuesday. Zuckerberg has been invited to testify by no fewer than three congressional committees in the wake of reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to…
[ad_1] Arjun Kharpal | CNBC The Huawei P20 has a “hyper zoom” feature that lets you take zoomed in pictures without distorting the quality of the image. In this demonstration, the zoom was used to capture an image of letters down a tunnel. The Chinese technology firm is looking to offer a device that competes…
[ad_1] Apple is holding a press conference right now in Chicago. And the company unveiled a brand new device — well, sort of. Apple is going to sell a brand new 9.7-inch iPad that works with the Apple Pencil. Before today, only (more expensive) iPad Pro models could take advantage of the Pencil. Today’s new…
[ad_1] Getty Images Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, visits an Apple store where third grade children from PS 57 James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy are learning how to code through Apple’s ‘Hour of Code’ workshop program on December 9, 2015 in New York City. Apple released a new affordable iPad model on Tuesday that supports…
[ad_1] Last September, Atlassian launched Stride, it’s take on a Slack-like real-time communications platform for text, audio and video chats, into beta. Six months later, Stride is now generally available to any and all teams that want to give it a try. While Atlassian is a bit cagey about providing exact user numbers, so the…
[ad_1] Facebook should hire a special counsel to investigate its data leak scandal or else it’ll appear like it has something to hide, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. In a tweet early Tuesday, Cramer said: “Another day, no outside counsel hired by $FB to investigate. You would only not do this if you had something…
[ad_1] Waymo, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is collaborating with Jaguar Land Rover in a major expansion of its autonomous-drive ride-hailing program. The mobility company has signed a deal to buy 20,000 Jaguar I-Pace all-electric SUVs. Those vehicles will be modified with radar, LiDar sensors and cameras so they can operate in…
[ad_1] For years, the goal of marketers was to understand the customer so well, they could respond to their every need, while creating content specifically geared to their wishes. Adobe Cloud Platform has long acted as a vehicle to collect and understand customer data inside the Adobe toolset, but today Adobe took that a step…
[ad_1] A tsunami-proof floating hotel is coming to Japan. The first prototype room was unveiled at the Dutch-themed park, Huis Ten Bosch, in Nagasaki, in March. It’s a floating pod with a glass ceiling that allows the guests to stargaze at night. The pods are designed to accommodate two or three people and come complete…
[ad_1] Meet the Huawei P20. It’s a pretty nice phone. I played around with it, and I can confirm that it is, indeed, a solid flagship with some suitably over-the-top features — what’s that you say? Three rear-facing cameras?! But all of this is kind of a moot point if you live here in the…
[ad_1] Kloudless makes it easier for developers to connect their applications to a variety of third-party tools for file storage, customer management, calendaring and other services through a unified API. It’s a bit like an IFTTT for developers. Today, the company announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round led by Aspect…
[ad_1] Google’s Gboard keyboard (which we really like), has a problem that you might not have expected from a keyboard app – profanity. It turns out that using certain innocuous words can bring up suggestions that you might not have been expecting. It wouldn’t be a big deal if these suggestions were just irrelevant –…
[ad_1] One of Apple‘s largest rivals in China, Xiaomi, just announced the Mi MIX 2S phone , its answer to the iPhone X. It will cost 3,299 yuan ($527) in China, less than half the cost of the iPhone X (8,388 yuan, or $1,335.) According to an IDC report published last month, Xiaomi is the…
[ad_1] Huawei just unveiled its brand new flagship phone — the P20. It’s a solid, well-designed Android phone with a shiny design, an iPhone X-like notch and some extravagant features, such as not one, not two but three cameras on the back of the P20 Pro. I’ve played with the phone for a few minutes…
[ad_1] MariaDB is best known as a drop-in replacement for the popular MySQL database. But the MariaDB Corporation, which was founded by MySQL founder Monty Widenius and which offers all of its software under an open source license, clearly has its sights set on a bigger market and is looking to expand and better challenge the…
[ad_1] A proposal to roll out Google Street View, an application through which one can explore cities, tourist spots, hills and rivers using 360-degree panoramic and street-level imagery, has been rejected by the government, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union minister of state for home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said Google had submitted a…
[ad_1] The recently revealed Facebook data “breach” that allowed Cambridge Analytica to get access to millions of users’ worth of Facebook data has been greeted as a shocking scandal. Reporters and readers have been surprised to learn about the ability to gather personal data on the friends of people who install a Facebook app, the…
[ad_1] Late last year, TPCast announced an adapter that cut the HTC Vive cords. The company is back with an enterprise version that delivers 2k content to several HTC Vive units with sub 2ms latency. Unveiled at Nvidia’s GTC 2019 conference in San Jose, California, the product is aimed at VR uses cases where multiple…
[ad_1] WhatsApp beta adds a new Payments feature, soon after the ‘Send to UPI ID’ feature was added WhatsApp has added a new payments feature for the Android beta version of the app, which will allow users to transfer money by scanning QR codes. This WhatsApp feature is in addition to the recently added ‘Send to UPI…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images An Uber self-driving car drives down 5th Street on March 28, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Cars in Uber’s self-driving cars are back on the roads after the program was temporarily halted following a crash in Tempe, Arizona on Friday. The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber’s ability…
[ad_1] Incidents of malware on Android aren’t exactly unheard of. Case in point: Google recently announced the removal of over 700,000 bad apps and 100,000 malicious developers from Google Play last year. But, it seems, the Mountain View giant has been plagued with a major malware incident yet again. This time, a total of seven…
[ad_1] Palantir, a secretive company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, allegedly worked with Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of a controversy involving data harvested from Facebook users, according to the whistleblower at the center of the story. Christopher Wylie appeared in front of U.K. lawmakers Tuesday to give evidence about the scandal in…
[ad_1] Taiwanese hardware manufacturer Foxconn on Monday announced the acquisition of accessory firm Belkin and its associated brands, Linksys, and Wemo. The deal to buy the electronics maker has a price tag of $866 million (roughly Rs. 5,624 crores) by way of a cash merger, the companies announced in a joint statement. This acquisition indicates…
[ad_1] Uber will sell its business in Southeast Asia to a local competitor, Grab, the ride-hailing company announced late Sunday, in a deal that experts say is designed to position Uber for an initial public offering next year. Grab will purchase Uber’s ride-hailing and food delivery operations in the region in a deal valued at…
[ad_1] Huawei will be lifting the lid on their P20 line of Android smartphones today at a big launch event in Paris today. The Chinese tech giant are expected to unveil the P20, P20 Pro and P20 Lite this afternoon. And fans looking forward to the Huawei releases will be able to watch the big…
[ad_1] Huawei is about to unveil its brand new flagship smartphone — the P20. While many details have already leaked, this is going to be an interesting launch. The conference will begin at 3 PM in Paris, 9 AM in New York, 6 AM in San Francisco. The company chose to unveil its new device…
[ad_1] YouTube for Android has now received an update with a dynamic player that adapts to the shape of videos. The same experience was showcased in June last year and released for iOS devices in December. It doesn’t come through a version update, but users need to have the latest YouTube app on their devices…
[ad_1] Huawei are expected to unveil their new P20 flagships at a major event in Paris today. The Chinese tech giant are tipped to launch three new Android smartphones today – the P20, P20 Pro and P20 Lite. And ahead of the official announcement, the prices of these devices could have been leaked. Reliable tech…
[ad_1] Google has reportedly begun to block access to its apps on uncertified Android devices. Google usually sets prior requirements that mobile manufacturers have to meet in order to be able to preload the Google Suite of Apps on their devices. However, the technology giant has decided to make things a little harder. Earlier, it…
[ad_1] “Facebook fully recognizes the level of public and Parliamentary interests in these issues and support your belief that these issues must be addressed at the most senior levels of the company by those in an authoritative position to answer your questions,” the letter said. “As such Mr Zuckerberg has personally asked one of his…
[ad_1] Alongside unveiling the Mi MIX 2S, Xiaomi on Tuesday formally entered the market of gaming-focused computing devices by launching the Mi Gaming Laptop. The 15.6-inch Mi Gaming Laptop is touted to be a gaming notebook that you could carry to work with a thin profile, measuring just 20.9mm thick. However, despite its skinny build,…
[ad_1] Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower behind the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandal, is appearing in front of U.K. lawmakers Tuesday. It comes after explosive reports last week that a quiz app harvested 50 million Facebook profiles for data which were then sent over to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that was caught claiming it handled…
[ad_1] Google’s Chrome OS runs on many different devices, but until now has not featured on a tablet computer. But that has all changed with the newly announced Acer Chromebook Tab 10, which marks the first tablet ever to run Chrome OS. The Chrome OS-powered laptop has been announced just one day before Apple is…
[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. Do you read your news online? Enjoy takeout? Live in an apartment? Our changing lifestyles…
[ad_1] Google search is finally getting the mobile-first indexing feature after over a year of testing, and a limited rollout in December. With mobile-first search indexing, Google uses the mobile version of a page for indexing and ranking search results, to make searches easier for ‘primarily mobile’ users, the company writes in a blog post.…
[ad_1] The iPhone SE 2 is one rumoured Apple product that keeps appearing on fans’ wish lists. It’s been two years this month since the iPhone SE was first unveiled, filling that budget space for fans looking to get hold of an Apple phone. However, the Cupertino tech giant did not follow it up with…
[ad_1] Microsoft Edge has eventually debuted on iPad and Android tablets. The new development emerges just a couple of weeks after Microsoft released a beta version of its Edge browser for the iPad. The new app doesn’t offer advanced features such as Split View support on iPad. Instead, it comes as a scaled up version…
[ad_1] A mix of concern and disappointment met Uber Technologies’s deal to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, as drivers and users of the ride-hailing firms took in the prospect of sharply reduced competition. The services throughout Asia have long relied on discounts and promotions for consumers and incentives for drivers,…
[ad_1] Spotify, the world’s top selling music streaming service, expects revenue to grow 20-30 percent this year as currency swings slow the pace from 2017, it said on Monday, as it gears up for a highly anticipated stock market listing next week. The Swedish company said it expected 2018 revenue of EUR 4.9 billion to…
[ad_1] There’s just a few hours to go until Apple’s first big event of the year and it seems new iPads could be the big news of the day. The US technology firm will be revealing its latest devices in Chicago with rumours suggesting a cut-priced tablet is likely to be unveiled. It’s almost a…
[ad_1] Intel is best known as a chip maker for PCs, but its work in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and with telcos towards setting the stage for 5G rollout in India is less known. Gadgets 360 caught up with Prakash Mallya, Managing Director for Sales and Marketing, Intel India to talk about all…
[ad_1] GETTY • APPLE Apple CEO Tim Cook is tipped to launch a new iPad model, as well as iPhone SE and iOS 11.3 Apple is scheduled to hold its first press event of the year today in Chicago, Illinois. The Cupertino-based company has invited media from across the globe to “hear creative new ideas…
[ad_1] BJP took aim at Congress after the same security researcher highlighted the WithINC app was transmitting personal data of those that signed up in an unsecured format. A social media furore over data privacy on political party apps in India escalated on Monday with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and opposition Indian National…
[ad_1] Users should be checking what data services have access to. It’s not just Facebook of course, other big technology firms are in the business of collecting data which is central to their business models. The Facebook episode should be a wake-up call for people when it comes to learning about the information out there…
[ad_1] The governor of Arizona on Monday put the brakes on Uber’s self-driving car program in that state, citing “disturbing and alarming” dashcam footage from a fatal crash in that state. Arizona governor Doug Ducey sent Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi a letter saying he has directed transportation department officials to suspend Uber’s ability to…
[ad_1] Foxconn, best known for manufacturing practically everything in the world, has just announced the purchase of Belkin, the PC peripherals company, for $866 million in cash. That certainly makes it one of the larger consumer electronics acquisitions in recent memory. You probably know Belkin for its various lines of accessories, peripherals, and assorted consumer…
[ad_1] More automakers will soon offer vehicles through subscription services. Lexus today announced its upcoming UX crossover would be available through one and Bloomberg published a report today stating BMW is about to announce a subscription pilot. These automakers join a growing list of makers offering models through new financing vehicles. Currently, Volvo, Cadillac, Ford,…
[ad_1] It seems obvious that the way a robot moves would affect how people interact with it, and whether they consider it easy or safe to be near. But what poses and movement types specifically are reassuring or alarming? Disney Research looked into a few of the possibilities of how a robot might approach a…
[ad_1] The US social media giant faces a probe from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after 50 million people allegedly had their data secretly collected by Cambridge Analytica (CA). The collected information is believed to have been used to influence the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election – accusations which CA strongly denies.…
[ad_1] Fayez Nureldine | AFP | Getty Images Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh, on October 24, 2017. Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince is widely expected to drum up investment capital during the New York City leg of his U.S. visit, and he appears to be…
[ad_1] The #DeleteFacebook protest has grown in strength since the Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal first came to light, and thousands of users have deleted or deactivated their accounts. The UK-based consultant company stands accused of harvesting data from people without their consent to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election – accusations CA’s chiefs have denied.…
[ad_1] Shares of Travelport Worldwide soared 17 percent on Monday after a report said activist hedge fund Elliott Associates is in talks to make a bid for the company. Reuters reported that Elliott, the New York-based hedge fund founded by Paul Singer, has held talks with banks about financing a potential bid for Travelport. The…
[ad_1] Dropbox’s surge on the stock market has continued, with the company going up another 7% on its second day on the stock market. The company saw its shares close at $30.45, giving the company above a $13 billion market cap, fully diluted. When it priced its IPO, there was a question as to whether…
[ad_1] Gilles Mingasson | Getty Images MySpace co-founders Chris DeWolfe (left) and Tom Anderson (right) pose for photos in the Myspace headquarters in 2007. Myspace co-founder Tom Anderson, or “Myspace Tom” as he is best known, is taking full advantage of his early retirement. Anderson enjoys travel, photography, burning man — and trolling Facebook. Anderson…
[ad_1] Snapchat has ephemeral messages, and now Facebook has ephemeral friend requests. The big blue social network feeds off your social graph, and every time you expand it, it has more content to show you. But if you leave a questionable friend request in limbo for too long, you’ll probably never confirm or delete it. So…
[ad_1] Acton Smith said in December that growth in 2017 was tied to everything from concerns around Syria and North Korea to the avocado crisis, with prices hitting record highs. Perhaps no single event was as important as the U.S. presidential election in November 2016, which Acton said was “one of the triggers” for growth…
[ad_1] Whether you remember it or not, you may have once granted Facebook permission to store the contacts in your phone’s address book. If you did, Facebook is continuously uploading these contacts to its servers. You can find out if your phone is doing this, and stop it pretty easily. Here’s how to do that…
[ad_1] Tracking sea animals is a difficult task for many reasons, not least of which is the robustness necessary for any device to survive longer than a few weeks of water torture. The clunky solutions currently used to watch whales and other creatures might soon have a more lightweight competitor: this flexible, inexpensive “marine skin.”…
[ad_1] Project management software company Smartsheet revealed in its IPO filing on Monday that Gene Farrell, an executive who joined from public cloud provider Amazon Web Services last year, is receiving more compensation than Smartsheet’s own CEO, Mark Mader. The pay details suggest that for a smaller company, experience at Amazon’s market-leading cloud business is…
[ad_1] HQ Trivia, the TV-style game show in an app, is starting to make money. The company this week is rolling out its first sponsored games, including a $3 million deal which includes sponsored games from Warner Bros., as well as a sponsored game from Nike, arriving today. AdAge was the first to report on…
[ad_1] Facebook has been hit with a string of controversies surrounding alleged data breaches this month. The social media giant was hit by allegations a third-party consulting company collected data on 50 million people without consent to influence the US Presidential Election. And now whistleblowers have revealed Facebook has been allegedly collecting data on phone…
[ad_1] Facebook stores almost every single action users have had with the social network since they’ve joined it. Everything from the adverts you’ve clicked on, the events you’ve been invited to and the friends you have deleted is stored by Mark Zuckerberg’s firm. The data is, in essence, the history of your time with Facebook.…
[ad_1] Apple MacBook fans who were hoping to see a new laptop unveiled at the company’s March 2018 event could be in for a disappointing afternoon. Rumours have been rife that the US technology firm was planning to lift the lid on an updated MacBook Air. This hugely popular device hasn’t been refreshed in years…
[ad_1] Apple fans could soon see the iPhone X available in a fresh new colour scheme. The Cupertino tech giant are rumoured to be preparing a brand new blush gold colour scheme for the iPhone X to help “restore sales”. The claims from rumour site Macotakara (via 9to5Mac) says Apple are readying a new iPhone…
[ad_1] HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” debuted a new opening sequence, which took jabs at recent events like Facebook’s Russian hacking scandal and Juicero’s failed business plan. The fifth season of the HBO series, which debuted on Sunday, chronicles the trials and tribulations of fictional start-up founder Richard Hendricks and his team as they try to…
[ad_1] The U.S. maneuvers against China’s tech giants continue today with an official announcement from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai that the agency may soon ban purchasing anything from companies that “pose a national security threat.” Huawei, ZTE, and other major tech manufacturers aren’t named specifically, but it’s clear what is meant. Pai lists the risk…
[ad_1] Google Chrome is now better at hiding your web browsing habits. The latest version of the web browser, Chrome 65, includes a slew of new functionality to help protect the privacy of those using Incognito mode. For those who don’t know, Chrome’s Incognito Mode stops the web browser remembering your activity. Chrome won’t save…
[ad_1] If you’re thinking about buying a new iPad – don’t. At least, not yet. Apple will hold a media event at the Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago, Illinois tomorrow morning, where the company is tipped to unveil an all-new iPad. Those who are interested in buying a tablet from Apple should…
[ad_1] Google announced this morning its “mobile -first” index of the web is now starting to roll out, after a year and a half of testing and experimentation. Back in 2016, Google first detailed its plan to change the way its search index operates, explaining how its algorithms would eventually be shifted to use the…
[ad_1] OPPO • GETTY • ONEPLUS OnePlus has sold-out of its popular OnePlus 5T, hinting its all-new flagship could launch soon OnePlus no longer sells its smartphones in the United States. The Chinese start-up has sold-out of its flagship OnePlus 5T handset, with no more stock expected. OnePlus confirmed US customers are no longer be…
[ad_1] Despite its name, the Linux Foundation has long been about more than just Linux. These days, it’s a foundation that provides support to other open source foundations and projects like Cloud Foundry, the Automotive Grade Linux initiative and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Today, the Linux Foundation is adding yet another foundation to its stable:…
[ad_1] Amazon’s Alexa voice-recognition artificial intelligence will help a major Wall Street bank serve its customers. J.P. Morgan clients are now able to ask Alexa for the bank’s research reports, Bloomberg News reported Monday. The firm is also working on financial assets price data requests through Amazon’s device, according to David Hudson, the bank’s global…
[ad_1] Apple is tipped to launch the next version of its hugely-successful operating system, iOS 11.3, following its education-orientated media event. The Cupertino-based technology company rolled-out the sixth beta of iOS 11.3 over a week ago – a sign the final version is likely to be just around the corner. Many believe the latest iOS…
[ad_1] More than a year after CBC Toronto wrote about a website that has Canadians sharing personal information, passports and credit card information, thinking they’re on a federal government site, clients continue to be duped by the company. Passport Online provides what it calls application services, to help Canadians fill out a form that’s available for free…
[ad_1] Criminals are using the darker corners of the internet, hard-to-track digital currency and creative shipping techniques to sell illicit guns to Canadians, the RCMP warns. The message comes as thousands of young people across North America demand an end to gun violence, and the Trudeau government moves to tighten laws on the licensing, sale…
[ad_1] Shares of Facebook fell more than 5 percent Monday after the FTC confirmed it’s investigating the company’s data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica breach. “The FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook. Today, the FTC is confirming that it has an open…
[ad_1] A study shows half of Alberta’s boreal forest could disappear in just over 80 years due to wildfires and climate change. The research, published Monday in the journal Ecosphere, gives a glimpse at how vegetation could change based on the current rate of carbon emissions and climate change. “We found that wildfire could initiate…
[ad_1] Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, sources with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday, in what would be the U.S. company’s second retreat from Asia. The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, marks the industry’s first big consolidation in…
[ad_1] The way this all would immediately bear on tech investments would be to compress the sector’s valuation. Until last year, the tech bulls were correct that the Nasdaq’s market leadership was supported by stupendous sales-and-earnings growth by FANG and FANG-like companies (Adobe Systems, Nvidia, Apple, Salesforce) rather than speculative froth. Yet the froth did…
[ad_1] When Amazon agreed last year to begin collecting sales tax in New Mexico, state officials celebrated what they said could be tens of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue. But they aren’t cheering in Albuquerque City Hall. A year after that announcement, New Mexico’s largest city hasn’t seen a dime from Amazon. That’s…
[ad_1] Executives from Apple and IBM have called for more oversight on how personal data is used following the Facebook breach that saw roughly 50 million users’ data misused by consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Speaking at the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, Apple chief Tim Cook said “well-crafted” regulation was required, while IBM chief Ginni…
[ad_1] Spotify expects revenue to grow by around 20 to 30 percent this year, the world’s biggest selling music streaming service said on Monday, ahead of one of Europe’s most anticipated stock market listings. The Swedish company said it expected 2018 revenue of 4.9 billion to 5.3 billion euros ($6.1 billion to $6.8 billion), though…
[ad_1] Georgia Tech’s Gil Weinberg has a thing or two to say about interacting with robots. A musician and roboticist, Weinberg has created some of the coolest robots I’ve seen including Shimon, a robot that can play the marimba alongside human musicians. Weinberg learned early on that musicians need visual cues from their bandmates and…
[ad_1] Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday China and the United States should maintain negotiations and he reiterated pledges to ease access for American businesses, as China scrambles to avert a trade war. Li told a conference that included global chief executives that China would treat foreign and domestic firms equally, would not force foreign…
[ad_1] A Canadian online advertising company widely credited for its outsized role in convincing British voters to leave the European Union was also used in an effort to sidestep Brexit campaign spending limits, according to a whistleblower — though whether the firm was in on the alleged scheme itself is not clear. During the 2016…
[ad_1] More than a year after CBC Toronto wrote about a website that has Canadians sharing personal information, passports and credit card information, thinking they’re on a federal government site, clients continue to be duped by the company. Passport Online provides what it calls application services, to help Canadians fill out a form that’s available for free…
[ad_1] Huawei are holding a major event in Paris tomorrow where the Chinese tech giant are expected to launch their new P20 line of phones. Leaks have pointed towards Huawei having three different P20 phones up their sleeve – the P20, P20 Lite and P20 Pro. All phones are expected to share the same design…
[ad_1] GETTY-STOCK Broadband in the UK is a disgrace Once he is incarcerated I will tell him to email me a short video begging for his release. That should shut him up. If my experience is anything to go by he could still be tearing his hair out several days later. Even sending a short…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Monday formally inaugurated its first Garage facility in India. Spread across 8,000 square feet, the new Garage facility gives Microsoft employees a resource to support their experimentation and help them nurture new ideas. The facility is located at the Microsoft Development Centre in Hyderabad, Telangana and includes three dedicated lab sections, including…
[ad_1] Nokia announced their new lineup of devices at Mobile World Congress in February and now one of these smartphones has an official release date. The Nokia 7 Plus will arrive in stores from May 2 and those buying one will be treated to an exclusive Google Home Mini offer as part of the deal. HMD…
[ad_1] Smartphone and VR headset maker HTC has published its consolidated results for Q4 2017 — and it makes for grim reading. The topline figures are: Flat quarterly revenue of NT$15.7 billion (~$540M) with gross margin of -30.8% Quarterly operating loss of NT$9.6 billion (~$330M) with operating margin of -60.8% Quarterly net loss after tax:…
[ad_1] FACEBOOK • GETTY Facebook saved your phone call and text message history for years, it confirms Facebook has responded to reports it saves phone call and text message data from its users. The scandal-plagued company confirmed that it while it does scrape call and text data from users, this only takes place after users…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has disabled the advanced GIF and sticker search feature by default WhatsApp updates for its Android beta testers have shown off some new features. Android beta users with WhatsApp Payments enabled will now see an option to scan QR codes for payments. This is in addition to the recently added ‘Send to UPI…
[ad_1] Embattled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said Monday it was still waiting for regulators to approve the key sale of its chip unit, a delay that could stymie plans to complete the deal this month. The firm agreed in September to sell its memory chip business to a consortium led by US investor Bain Capital, which…
[ad_1] Google Maps this week rolled-out a feature-packed new update on iOS. The turn-by-turn navigation app includes a new feature in version 4.47 which displays the average waiting time for more than a million restaurants. According to Engadget, Google Maps will display the information when users search for a restaurant within the navigation app. Those…
[ad_1] WhatsApp updates for its Android beta testers have shown off some new features. Android beta users with WhatsApp Payments enabled will now see an option to scan QR codes for payments. Other features reported to be in the recent Android beta updates, unfortunately disabled by default, include Advanced GIF Search and Search Stickers. Let’s…
[ad_1] Almost three-quarters of Canadians surveyed say recent data mining issues with Facebook will cause them to modify how they use the platform with some saying they will delete their account. In an online survey conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, one in 10 people said they would stop using Facebook by either taking a break…
[ad_1] Google is pulling the latest update to its Duo app after users reported low volume levels during calls. It has paused the rollout of version 30 of the Google Duo app and is rolling back to version 29.2 for users who are affected by the issue. This essentially means that Duo app users who…
[ad_1] Imagine waking up, saying good morning and watching your home spring into life – switching on the kettle, opening the blinds and getting your towels warm ready for your morning shower. Smart homes that obey your every word may sound like something from the future but this way of intelligent living is fast becoming…
[ad_1] Nearly a week after an autonomous Uber SUV claimed the first life in testing of self-driving vehicles, the CEO of another tech company says he is confident its cars would have performed differently under the circumstances. John Krafcik, chief executive of Waymo, formerly Google’s autonomous-vehicle project, said Waymo’s cars are intensively programmed to avoid…
[ad_1] There were also the usual invocations of trans-Atlantic unity, solidarity, Western values and a Western world order. None of that is threatened by “clear agreements, good friends” (“clara pacta boni amici” in Latin). The U.S. just has to stop being taken for a ride in the name of Western leadership. Back to China: The…
[ad_1] On the same day Facebook bought ads in US and British newspapers to apologise for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social media site faced new questions about collecting phone numbers and text messages from Android devices. The website Ars Technica reported that users who checked data gathered by Facebook on them found that it had…
[ad_1] Uber sold its Southeast Asian business to rival Grab on Monday, ending a bruising battle between the ride-hailing behemoths and marking the US firm’s latest retreat from international markets. Singapore-based Grab is taking over the ride-sharing and food delivery operations of Uber in the region, with the California-based company to receive a 27.5 percent…
[ad_1] Allegations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official mobile application was sending personal user data to a third party without their consent caused a furore on social media in India and drew criticism from the leader of the opposition Congress party on Sunday. PM Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party denied the allegations and said the…
[ad_1] “I think it was fair that they spent time looking at what exactly happened. It’s quite complex the issue they’re at,” Sorrell told CNBC at the China Development Forum. “Firstly, they’ve been misled so … they’re responding to that, trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again. They’re looking at all the possibilities,” he…
[ad_1] The U.S. administration last week sent a letter to Chinese economic overseer Liu He seeking a tariff cut on U.S. autos to help cut China’s trade surplus with the United States, the Wall Street Journal said, citing unnamed sources. In the letter, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., speaks during an event in Menlo Park, California. Android cellphone users have noticed that Facebook has saved a virtual trove of their personal call data that extends back years, according to a report in Ars Technica. Amid an…
[ad_1] You know what tech startups hate? Complicated legal compliance. The problem is, Facebook isn’t a startup any more, but its competitors are. There have been plenty of calls from congress and critics to regulate Facebook following the election interference scandal and now the Cambridge Analytica debacle. The government could require extensive ads transparency reporting…
[ad_1] Facebook’s CEO apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal with ads in multiple U.S. and British newspapers Sunday, saying the social media platform doesn’t deserve to hold personal information if it can’t protect it. The ads signed by Mark Zuckerberg said a quiz app built by a Cambridge University researcher leaked Facebook data of millions…
[ad_1] Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square, expects bitcoin to become the single global currency within the next decade, he told the Sunday Times newspaper. Dorsey, a personal investor in bitcoin, expects the cryptocurrency to be used for simple things like coffee and said its ascendance to world’s currency will occur over 10…
[ad_1] This is the first midsize Volvo to get a top-to-bottom redo under the company’s new ownership. The 90-series cars got gussied up first, with the XC90 leading the charge, but now the new and improved Volvo look is being applied to the the mass market models. It’s important Volvo gets this one right. Even…
[ad_1] Google Chrome users could see another big update coming to their browser with the search giant revealing what’s coming soon. In a recent post on the firm’s Chromium Blog, Google has announced that its next upgrade to Chrome will mean adverts that play automatically with sound will be blocked. “As announced earlier, autoplay is…
[ad_1] Amazon customers have one day left to grab some huge discounts with the online retailer ending its “biggest ever Easter sale” tomorrow. This event has been running since last weekend and has seen hundreds of products, including the Amazon Echo, Fire TV and Fire tablets, dropped in price. Along with their own products Amazon has also…
[ad_1] Music streaming services are too similar and need to have more original content, Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine told the BBC. “The streaming services are all charging $9.99 and everyone has the same music,” he told the British broadcaster in an interview published Sunday. “And it’s really nice. You get whatever song you want,…
[ad_1] Now could be a very bad time to buy a MacBook. Apple has a big event planned for Tuesday with the US technology firm expected to reveal an update to some of its devices. The main event appears to be the possible launch of new budget iPad, which may have compatibility with Apple’s Pencil…
[ad_1] As the OnePlus 6 launch gets ever closer more details about this new smartphone continue to leak online. It’s already thought this flagship beater will include an all-screen design, fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and a new glass finish that will allow it charge wirelessly. Other new features could include a refresh and improved…
[ad_1] Google is giving away Google Home Mini speakers today. The US search company will be handing out the miniature smart speakers in a series of pop-up events across London this month. Starting today, March 22nd, Google has announced plans to hold a series of events across the capital to promote its AI-powered speaker. Since…
[ad_1] Samsung has already had a busy start to 2018 with the launch of the Galaxy S9 and S9+. Along with these new flagships the Korean technology firm is also set to release its new A8 mid-range phone which will go on sale next month. Now it seems they may be about to launch yet…
[ad_1] Google Maps this week rolled-out a feature-packed new update on iOS. The turn-by-turn navigation app includes a new feature in version 4.47 which displays the average waiting time for more than a million restaurants. According to Engadget, Google Maps will display the information when users search for a restaurant within the navigation app. Those…
[ad_1] It’s another big week for Apple with the US technology giant hosting a major event in Chicago. There’s no confirmation on what is going to be announced but there’s plenty of rumours and speculation that suggests new device could be unveiled. So, if you’re a big fan of Apple here’s everything you need to…
[ad_1] Supermodel Chrissy Teigen announced on Saturday she will stop using Snapchat, making her the latest in a rash of celebrities to speak out against the embattled social media platform. In a tweet to her nearly 10 million followers, she cited Snap’s much-maligned redesign and a controversial ad that made light of domestic violence as…
[ad_1] With a price of £999, Apple’s iPhone X is one of the most expensive smartphones on the market. However a new offer, from online retailer Very, is making this flagship a little more affordable. This latest deal slashes £170 off the cost of the iPhone meaning fans can grab one for £829. Here’s how…
[ad_1] Lepore started making stop-motion videos at 10 after her father lent her their family camcorder. After going to college for experimental animation at Maryland College Institute of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and getting her master’s in the same subject at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, she found herself with a body…
[ad_1] Some engineers at Apple were not happy with the change. “Our excuse was it’s too risky to take it back out at this point because something could crash,” he said. “We just made up some bulls—.” It stuck, and years later Apple even trademarked the start-up sound. It’s one of the few sounds that’s…
[ad_1] U.S. lawmakers on Friday asked Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to come to Congress to explain to explain how the data got into Cambridge Analytica’s hands, adding to pressure on the firm, which is under fire from investors and advertisers. Separately on Friday, Britain’s Guardian newspaper said a former Cambridge Analytica political consultant had…
[ad_1] Sony’s new Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact will arrive in stores on April 6th with these devices offering a new look and plenty of bonus features. The Japanese technology giant has moved away from its usual square design in favour of a more curvaceous appearance. The XZ2 and Compact now include soft edges and…
[ad_1] OnePlus’ latest update appears to confirm one of the biggest rumours surrounding its forthcoming flagship phone. The Chinese smartphone company’s first Android 8.1 Oreo firmware is now available in beta for OnePlus 5T owners. Technology blog XDA Developers has trawled through the preview software looking for clues on the new handset. OnePlus will launch…
[ad_1] Amazon is testing a dramatic change to its Echo smart speaker range. The US retail company is said to be testing a new mode that would help replace its usual talkative responses with a series of beeps. A number of Reddit users have spotted a new Brief Mode inside the Alexa app. Toggling on…
[ad_1] Samsung fans have finally got their hands on the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, with the Android smartphone launching last week. The Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus was released to rave reviews, with critics especially enamoured with the larger phone’s dual camera set-up. However, just a week after the S9 and S9 Plus’s launch,…
[ad_1] Alongside its education-focused event on March 27 in Chicago, Apple has announced a “Teacher Tuesday” event that will be held at its Michigan Avenue store. The company has sent media invites for the new event where it will host a Teacher Tuesday: Storytelling with Clips session featuring American rapper Towkio. Interestingly, the rapper attended…
[ad_1] Google is giving fans the chance to get £100 off its new Pixel 2 XL smartphone. This latest device was launched late last year an offers an almost edge-to-edge display, market-leading camera and water resistant design. There’s also a larger 3520 mAh battery tucked inside and Qualcomm’s 835 Snapdragon processor bringing it its power.…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has had a busy couple of weeks, with the Facebook-owned chat app rolling out a number of changes to the hugely popular messenger. WhatsApp at the start of this month released an update that brought with it some brand new features. The software update included the ability to add time and location stickers…
[ad_1] Pirate Bay fans are being put on alert after copyright holders have called on Google to remove piracy sites from search results. The calls from entertainment companies include Village Roadshow and Foxtel. The former are behind major movies such as The Matrix, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Lego Movie and Steven Spielberg’s latest film…
[ad_1] Jio on Friday announced a deal with Saavn for the integration of its Jio Music service with the popular music streaming platform. Reliance Industries, the parent company of Jio, in a statement said the combined entity would be worth $1 billion (roughly Rs. 6,500 crores), with the “implied valuation” of Jio Music standing at $670…
[ad_1] With the increasing penetration of smartphones, data becoming affordable and ever-growing availability of content, 80 percent of Internet users across all age-groups in the country are accessing YouTube, Google India has said. Google highlighted how YouTube is associated with India’s Internet growth story at “Brandcast 2018” event as it celebrated its 10th anniversary in…
[ad_1] A pair of mammoth tusks that had been illegally acquired by an American collector in 1960 have been returned to Canada. The tusks were recovered during an FBI investigation into Indiana collector, Don Miller in 2014. Miller told the FBI he had excavated the tusks on a trip he took between Calgary and the…
[ad_1] First responders want to fly drones over highways to drop off defibrillators before an ambulance arrives at an accident. Police are hoping to use the devices for surveillance from afar. Companies are eager to use drones to survey long stretches of pipelines, monitor vast areas of wildlife or drop of packages to doorsteps. ‘It’s exceptionally…
[ad_1] While the public can play an important role in helping provide information to authorities about animals that have washed ashore, there’s no need for them to get on top of the dead animals. On the weekend, a dead humpback whale washed ashore on the Bay of Fundy in Harbourville, N.S. Since then, people have flocked to…
[ad_1] Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate, according to four new United Nations scientific reports on biodiversity. Scientists meeting in Colombia issued four regional reports Friday on how well animal and plants are doing in the Americas; Europe and Central Asia; Africa; and the Asia-Pacific area. Their conclusion after…
[ad_1] For the past week, Mark Zuckerberg has grappled with a backlash from lawmakers, regulators and users over Facebook’s mishandling of data privacy. He has also had to face another restive group: his own employees. The Facebook chief executive has taken multiple steps over the past few days to communicate with the social network’s 25,000…
[ad_1] Facebook users got a real wake-up call this week, according to Ben Mezrich, whose best-selling book was made into the movie “The Social Network.” Trump campaign-linked Cambridge Analytica’s data mining from 50 million Facebook profiles brought into focus a fundamental truth, Mezrich told CNBC on Friday. His book “The Accidental Billionaires” was the basis…
[ad_1] Bruce Friedrich, the CEO and co-founder of a think tank accelerator called The Good Food Institute, estimates clean-meat products will be available at a high price within two to three years, and he believes they will be cost-competitive within 10 years. Friedrich knows that until the infrastructure for clean meat is in place, companies…
[ad_1] Chrome, and most other browsers, have a feature built-in called “incognito mode.” This prevents a browser from saving any data from the websites you visit, including cookies, history, or the data you might enter into a web form (such as a credit card number, your address, name, or anything else.) Incognito mode doesn’t mean…
[ad_1] Uber’s robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self-driving car operated by the company struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz. The cars were having trouble driving through construction zones and next to tall vehicles, like big rigs. And Uber’s human drivers had to intervene far more frequently…
[ad_1] It’s been a bit of a tumultuous week, to put it lightly, but one must always remember that no matter how dire things look on the global stage, there are always makers working obsessively to create something beautiful and useless — like this MIDI-driven, robotic music box. Tinkerer and music box aficionado Mitxela (via…
[ad_1] One Wall Street firm is getting worried about Micron shares after the stock’s surge so far this year. Micron reported better than expected fiscal second-quarter earnings Thursday and gave financial guidance for the next quarter above expectations. But Citi Research is concerned lower flash memory pricing will hurt the chipmaker’s financial results later this…
[ad_1] Dropbox made its public debut today, with the stock soaring nearly 40% on its first day of trading — meaning the company will now be beholden to the same shareholders that sent the company’s valuation well north of $10 billion. As a file-sharing and collaboration service, Dropbox’s first principle is going to be user…
[ad_1] Jack Taylor | Getty Images The U.K. headquarters of Cambridge Analytica on March 20, 2018, in London, England. Cambridge Analytica is in the midst of a dispute after an undercover sting operation caught senior executives boasting about psychological manipulation, entrapment techniques and fake news campaigns. The company’s CEO has been suspended and the U.K.’s…
[ad_1] Dropbox went public this morning to great fanfare, with the stock shooting up more than 40% in the initial moments of trading as the enterprise-slash-consumer company looked to convince investors that it could be a viable publicly-traded company. And for one that Steve Jobs famously called a feature, and not a company, it certainly…
[ad_1] Houston is now worth over $3 billion and co-founder Arash Ferdowsi owns shares valued at more than $1 billion. According to estimates from Pitchbook, Y Combinator bought shares in Dropbox for 3 cents, though it’s not disclosing how many it owns. Over the past 11 years, Dropbox took money from at least 95 different…
[ad_1] Facebook stock suffered its third worst week of all time in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal — which heightened privacy concerns and spurred government probes into the social media giant. Shares fell more than 13 percent on the week, closing just below $160. COO Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview with…
[ad_1] Getty Images Signs for company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the building in which they are based on March 21, 2018 in London, England. A British High Court judge has granted an application by the country’s data protection watchdog for a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica’s London offices, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)…
[ad_1] The swipe is where the similarity ends. Raya is less like Tinder and more like a secret society. You need a member’s recommendations or a lot of friends inside to join, and you have to apply with an essay question. It costs a flat $7.99 for everyone, women and celebrities included. You show yourself…
[ad_1] Dropbox was off to the races on its first day as a public company. After pricing above the range at $21 per share, raising $756 million, Dropbox kicked off its first day soaring to $31.60, and closing the day at $28.48. This is up almost 36%. It’s surely a sign of public investor enthusiasm…
[ad_1] The best way to secure your team’s support is to win their hearts and minds. A good leader takes action — consistent action. The notion of servant leadership is grossly underrated and ignored by many. This means the leader exists to serve those under him. In contrast, traditional leadership is a top-down pyramid where…
[ad_1] The vastness that makes the Amazon rainforest so diverse and fertile also makes it extremely difficult to protect. Rainforest Connection is a project started back in 2014 that used solar powered second-hand phones as listening stations that could alert authorities to sounds of illegal logging. And applying machine learning has supercharged the network’s capabilities.…
[ad_1] Still, the $9 billion, which could be split among DVMT, Dell and VMware shareholders via an exchange ratio, may need to be skewed toward VMware shareholders who are otherwise reluctant to approve a larger, more diversified combined company saddled with debt and lower-growth hardware. Earlier this week, T. Rowe Price, the largest institutional VMware…
[ad_1] In honor of Dropbox‘s long-awaited IPO, an early investor unearthed a decade-old memento: Two checks made out to Dropbox co-founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, the year they founded the cloud storage company. The checks represent the very first investments that helped get Dropbox off the ground. Jessica Livingston, co-founder of seed stage investment…
[ad_1] Cambridge Analytica may have used Facebook’s data to influence your political opinions. But why does least-liked tech company Facebook have all this data about its users in the first place? Let’s put aside Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook products for a minute. Facebook has built the world’s biggest social network. But that’s not what…
[ad_1] Rebecca Buckman Contributor Rebecca Buckman is the vice president of marketing and communications at Battery Ventures in Menlo Park, CA. She previously was an editor and writer with The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. If there’s one thing I learned from my time as both a journalist at The Wall Street Journal and Forbes and, now, advising a…
[ad_1] As Dropbox soared in its stock market debut on Friday, shares of cloud software rival Box went the other way, plunging 7 percent. The two companies have been competing for over a decade in the market of cloud file storage, with both benefiting from the rapid move to mobile devices and the need to…
[ad_1] Pivotal Software — which counts Dell as its majority stockholder — revealed a prospectus on Friday with its plans to go public. The company helps software developers streamline the process of modernizing apps for the cloud. – Net loss: $163.5 million in the latest fiscal year, narrower than the loss of $232.9 million in…
[ad_1] The tax software companies disagree. The report’s method was narrow and cannot come to a conclusion about a company’s security, said Matt Gause, of FreeTaxUSA. “The Global Cyber Alliance report only tells part of the security story,” Gause said, describing the other protective measures it takes. He said those include DomainKeys Identified Mail or…
[ad_1] The twitter rant started with Musk, CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, making fun of home-speaker maker Sonos for pulling its ads from Facebook and Instagram for a week. Wow, a whole week. Risky … Then Musk went on to respond to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton’s tweet asking users to delete Facebook, a call…
[ad_1] Dropbox, after more than a decade, finally went public this morning — and the stock soared more than 40% in its initial trading, making it a marquee success for one of the original Web 2.0 companies (at least for now). While we still have to wait for the dust to settle, it’s been a…
[ad_1] Facebook stores almost every single interaction you’ve had with the social network since you joined, including every time you’ve logged in, ads you’ve clicked, events you’ve been invited to, a list of the people you follow, your friends, your hometown, every time you’ve sent or received a message, every single status update and more.…
[ad_1] Delta Air Lines is exploring the possibility of outfitting some of its employees with “wearable robotics.” The Atlanta-based airline said Thursday it’s joined the Exoskeleton Technical Advisory Group (X-TAG) that will think about the best ways to bring full-body, powered industrial exoskeleton systems to the workforce. Led by Sarcos Robotics, other X-TAG members include…
[ad_1] Cloud storage provider Dropbox jumped more than 40 percent in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq Friday, opening at a price of $29. The company listed its $756 million IPO under the trading symbol “DBX” and priced its 36 million shares at $21 Thursday, above the expected range of $18 to $20.…
[ad_1] The Korn Ferry recruiter said there is a huge movement to fill these positions but there is also ambiguity about the responsibilities of the positions because it’s an emerging field. “We’re a successful enough company that we can employ 15,000 people to work on security and all of the different forms of community [operations],”…
[ad_1] But there’s a big difference between learning and experimenting, and putting your financial health at risk by using borrowed money to invest in a digital currency that could not exist in a few months. “If you invest the student loans in cryptocurrency and lose money, you will still owe the student loans,” said Mark…
[ad_1] Congress on Friday formally asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify about what happened with the Cambridge Analytica data scandal — and what Facebook is doing to protect user data and privacy. In a letter from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent on Friday — which handles consumer protection, data security and…
[ad_1] The advanced universal remote market is not a very crowded market. In fact, for a while now, Logitech’s Harmony line has been pretty much the only game in town. Newcomer NEEO wants to upset that monopoly with its new NEEO Remote and NEEO Brain combo ($369), which is a system that can connect just…
[ad_1] I’m worried. As we all know, Facebook has a massive scandal on its hands with the Cambridge Analytica data leak. It’s not clear the company knows what actually happened or how to handle it. There’s a tremendous amount of untapped anger out there heading Facebook’s way (what we’ve seen so far is just the…
[ad_1] China‘s response to President Donald Trump‘s tariffs was so swift that it was actually quite embarrassing for the United States, according to CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Earlier Friday, China announced plans for reciprocal tariffs on 128 U.S. products, including pork, wine, fruit, and steel. It came a day after Trump’s announcement of tariffs on up…
[ad_1] President of Wells Fargo Investment Institute analyst Darrell Cronk shared his market and economic outlook – as well as potential areas to invest – in an exclusive interview for CNBC PRO with Mike Santoli. Cronk said that given technology’s strong performance over the last year, investors may be better suited sticking with other cyclical…
[ad_1] Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Zhao Changpeng, chief executive officer of Binance Japan’s Financial Services Agency issued a warning Friday to major cryptocurrency exchange Binance for operating without registration in the country. Hong Kong-based Binance was operating in Japan through the internet without a license for a virtual currency exchange, according to…
[ad_1] Dutch football great Ruud Gullit has urged Chelsea and other Premier League clubs to embrace the “new era” by establishing eSports teams to boost their profile and widen their global fanbases. The former AC Milan star has set up Team Gullit, the first independent FIFA eSports academy, with three players and is set to…
[ad_1] The roadshow’s first stop is Los Angeles, with one of the country’s most vibrant and diverse start-up scenes, at the intersection of technology, media and fashion. Home to CNBC Disruptor graduates Snap and Dollar Shave Club, more than $20 billion has flowed into the southern California start-ups since 2010, according to PitchBook. That makes…
[ad_1] According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple could be unveiling a new version of its entry-level iPad at its event next week. The company is holding a press event on March 27 in Chicago. And the only thing that we know is that the event is going to be focused on the education…
[ad_1] Google has announced that users in the US would be able to send or request money from the contacts on their Android device or iPhone just by giving Google Assistant a voice command that starts with “Hey Google”. “You can ask your Google Assistant to pay your friends back with Google Pay. You can…
[ad_1] “We continue to strongly believe that given the primarily services nature of traditional FANG names, and very internationally distributed from a revenue perspective, that Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google/Alphabet are ‘primarily insulated’ from tariff worries and a potential retaliatory trade war with China. Ultimately, the bark is much worse than the bite,” Daniel Ives,…
[ad_1] Are Tinder and Bumble essentially the same dating app? That’s the question at the heart of a lawsuit that Tinder has filed this month against its dating-app competitor Bumble, alleging that Bumble has copied Tinder’s “card- swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise,” creating a “Tinder-clone.” Much like the arguments in every relationship, this spat is not…
[ad_1] Apple plans to come out with a radically different iPhone design within two years, according to a top Wall Street firm. Bank of America Merrill Lynch said the smartphone maker is working with its Asian partners on a foldable phone. “We expect the iPhones this fall to be largely unchanged for the OLED versions…
[ad_1] Photo-sharing app Snapchat has rolled out a new feature called Map Explore that will make it easier for users to find events and see friends’ updates on Snap Map. Snap said the travel and location updates will automatically appear on user’s Snap Map when friends opt to share their location, The Verge reported on Thursday.…
[ad_1] The demand for WhatsApp on Jio Phone nearly killed the startup Browserling earlier this year Jio Phone may finally be getting WhatsApp support, sooner than most people expected. While the Jio Phone runs on KaiOS, which does not offer support for WhatsApp, the social media giant has reportedly been spotted working on a KaiOS version of…
[ad_1] Sky customers have a chance to save more money with the satellite TV firm announcing fresh offers from today. This latest reduction saves £5 per month off the price of the Sky Entertainment pack, which includes Sky Cinema channels and a free HD upgrade. The offer lasts until Tuesday and now costs £30 per…
[ad_1] Windows 10 users look set to get some good news in the coming months. Microsoft has just announced that it’s finally ending the nightmare of updating this popular operating system with install times expected to plummet. Upgrading Windows 10 software has often been a laborious task especially as it can mean a users’ PC…
[ad_1] Messaging app Telegram has announced that it has racked up 200 million monthly active users on its platform. While the MAU mark of 200 million is a big landmark, Telegram still lags a long way behind Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp which boasts of over 1.5 billion monthly active users. Notably, with the announcement, Telegram…
[ad_1] Currently, e-commerce penetration in the region is still only 2 percent, he said. Aside from capital injection, Sathirathai said the Chinese companies are also bringing know-how such as their tech and data analytics. That contribution might help with two key problems in Asia: Payments and logistics. The payment mode used in Southeast Asia is…
[ad_1] Google has updated its Files Go app with a faster search experience. The app has also made it easy for Android users to locate duplicate files before their removal. The update comes weeks after the search giant integrated Google Drive backup support to the Files Go app. The lightweight app that’s meant to help…
[ad_1] Jun Sato | Getty Images Petronas Lubricants International CEO Giuseppe D’Arrigo at Makuhari Messe on January 12, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. D’Arrigo said the company currently has “very high cash flow” and is “meeting our financial targets” so extra funds are not required, but he would not discount any sort of funding initiative in…
[ad_1] Instagram on Thursday introduced some major changes to its user feed. Based on user feedback on its algorithm-based feed, Instagram is making changes to show more posts closer to the chronological order. This means the Facebook-owned photo-sharing application will begin to surface newer posts at the top of the feed. Additionally, the user feed…
[ad_1] Apple Watch owners now have some new straps to choose from with the US technology firm announcing its latest spring collection. These designs include Woven Nylon bands with a fresh stripe that alternates white with colour and exclusive Nike bands that colour-match with the latest Nike running shoes. There’s also an update to the…
[ad_1] Cloud data service Dropbox set a share price of $21 (roughly Rs. 1,370) for its Nasdaq market debut, a higher bar than expected that values the startup at some $8 billion (roughly Rs. 52,000 crores). Shares in the San Francisco-based technology firm are to begin trading with ring of the bell opening the market…
[ad_1] OnePlus has announced a new promotion for the Spring Equinox. The Chinese smartphone start-up has dropped the price of its Priority Shipping package by 50 per cent. Priority Shipping promises to deliver your new OnePlus handset within three working days. OnePlus says, “90 per cent of priority orders are sent out from our warehouse…
[ad_1] Google will be handing-out Google Home Mini smart speakers in a series of pop-up events across London this month. Starting from March 22nd, Google will hold a series of events across the capital city to promote its AI-powered speaker. Since the diminutive Google Home speaker is about the size of a donut, each of…
[ad_1] Netflix is turning its back on Gotham. The hugely-successful typeface was used in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. It is also used by Coca Cola, Saturday Night Live, Tribeca Film Festival and fashion magazine GQ. But spiralling licensing costs have forced streaming company Netflix too look elsewhere for its signature typeface. As a result,…
[ad_1] The successor to the iPhone X, nicknamed either iPhone XI or iPhone X2 by tipsters, is purportedly scheduled to start production very soon. According to DigiTimes, Apple will kickstart a trial production of the all-new smartphone to ensure a high yield rate of 3D sensor modules. The Cupertino-based company wants to eliminate the bottlenecks…
[ad_1] Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is now almost a year old and its price seems to be dropping by the day. Amazon has already cut this flagship down to under £550 and now it’s been reduced even further by the online retail giant. This latest deal means you can pick up this award-winning device for just…
[ad_1] Virgin Media customers can now download movies, games and TV shows at much faster speeds thanks to the company’s latest upgrade. The broadband supplier has just announced it’s rolling out a new 350Mbps service which will allow customers to download a 5GB movie file in matter of minutes. Speaking about the launch Anthony Vollmer,…
[ad_1] A Canadian mathematician has been awarded the Abel Prize — often referred to as the Nobel prize of mathematics, for a theory 50 years in the making. Robert Langlands, 81, who was born in New Westminster, B.C., was awarded the prize for developing what the Abel Prize citation describes as a “grand unified theory of mathematics.” The Abel…
[ad_1] New technologies employing brute force as well as artificial volcanic action are being developed to better seal thousands of inactive oil and gas wells in Canada that are leaking methane, a greenhouse gas with an outsized impact on global warming. The technology is advancing as federal and provincial governments embrace new goals to cut…
[ad_1] It’s time to “warrior up,” stop polluting the planet and give water the same rights and protections as human beings. That’s the message Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old Canadian, delivered personally to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. “Many people don’t think water is alive or has a spirit,” the Anishinaabe girl from Wikwemikong First Nation told the…
[ad_1] This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. It took five years, but the results of an investigation by the Information Commissioner of Canada were released and the verdict is in:…
[ad_1] Facebook users may flee the company’s social media platform because of rising negative sentiment, according to one top Wall Street firm. CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented Wednesday on the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, posting a statement online and giving interviews to several news organizations. The social media executive said he would be open to more…
[ad_1] Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg apologized for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal in an interview with CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Thursday and said the fallout is likely to bring greater regulation for the social media giant. “Mark [Zuckerberg] has said, ‘It’s not a question of if regulation, it’s a question of what type,’” Sandberg said.…
[ad_1] Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary thinks Facebook will weather its data scandal and come out more profitable. “I bet in two months, after all this blows over, their cash flows will be up, not down, because there’s nowhere else to go,” the celebrity entrepreneur said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” Thanks to the 2.2 billion…
[ad_1] Tapas Media has its own platform for digital comics — but like a lot of publishers, CEO Chang Kim has ambitions beyond the comics world. Comixology is the big name in digital comics. The company, which was acquired by Amazon in 2014, is focused on selling print comics from major publishers in web- and…
[ad_1] “Today, 200 million hours will be spent by women and girls walking to collect water,” says White, speaking to CNBC. “People are paying up to 25 percent of their income just to get dubious quality water that they can bring back to their home.” Women and children spend 258 M hours every day collecting…
[ad_1] Investment manager Ross Gerber thinks Facebook is in deep trouble after the Cambridge Analytica data leak. On CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Gerber argued that “social media has peaked” and predicted that “daily active users in the North American region in Facebook will decline in this quarter, and will continue to decline, and the fact that…
[ad_1] After the Dow Jones industrial average’s 700-point plunge on Thursday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer knew he had to determine the causes of the sell-off for investors. The main issue seemed to be President Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs on Chinese goods, which spooked companies that do business in the People’s Republic. While the “Mad Money”…
[ad_1] Right-wing political strategist Steve Bannon said Thursday that he did not know about Cambridge Analytica’s data mining from Facebook, marking the first time the former top White House strategist and Trump campaign boss spoke publicly about the scandal. What happened there, Bannon said, is between Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and “the professor” – meaning Aleksandr…
[ad_1] Being a neophyte in the world of woodworking — I’ve made a shabby but sturdy shed — I can appreciate the value of a good partner who can help measure, cut, hold stuff, and generally be a second pair of hands. The usual drawback with humans is you have to pay them or feed…
[ad_1] Divya Narendra, co-founder of Harvard Connection, the service that was a forerunner to Facebook, does not think Facebook is responsible for Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of data. “There’s a long chain of logic from accessing this data to swaying an election,” Narendra told CNBC during an exclusive interview on “Fast Money Halftime Report” on Thursday.…
[ad_1] Dropbox is pricing above the range it originally set ahead of its public listing tomorrow, handing the company a valuation inching ever-closer to its original $10 billion valuation, according to a report by CNBC. Dropbox earlier this week said it would price its initial public offering in a range between $18 and $20 per…
[ad_1] Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Facebook ads for the Trump campaign, is accused of improperly gaining access to 50 million profiles before the 2016 election. Cambridge Analytica has called the allegations “false” and on Tuesday the board suspended CEO Alexander Nix. Zuckerberg, who broke his silence on the scandal in a Facebook post Wednesday,…
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[ad_1] A person who uses virtual reality is, often willingly, being controlled to far greater extents than were ever possible before. Everything a person sees and hears – and perhaps even feels or smells – is totally created by another person. That surrender brings both promise and peril. Perhaps in carefully constructed virtual worlds, people…
[ad_1] Despite being a necessity for life, clean, drinkable water can be extremely hard to come by in some places where war has destroyed infrastructure or climate change has dried up rivers and aquifers. The Water Abundance XPRIZE is up for grabs to teams who can suck fresh water straight out of the air, and…
[ad_1] Bitcoin failed to hold above $9,000 on Thursday after reports of increased scrutiny on cryptocurrencies by Japanese regulators. The cryptocurrency hit a low of $8,495.10 and was trading 3 percent lower near $8,600 as of 11:42 a.m. ET, according to CoinDesk’s bitcoin price index. Bitcoin has struggled to recover the $9,000 level after tumbling…
[ad_1] The craze over the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies isn’t just limited to traders. It’s also spread to college campuses nationwide. Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, MIT and Stanford are just a few of the elite universities offering courses in cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the technology underlying them. “Blockchains have created a sea change in…
[ad_1] Cryptocurrency eos, which was criticized by HBO’s John Oliver in a recent segment on investment fraud, is making a double-digit comeback this week as investors bet on more user adoption. Eos was the only one of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies trading higher over the last 24 hours as of Thursday afternoon, according to CoinMarketCap.…
[ad_1] For the most part, agencies are skeptical many people are going to leave Facebook — or at least enough to make a difference for advertisers. The public’s attention span is fleeting, noted one executive, and even massive data breaches that affected Yahoo, which included 3 billion accounts, and Equifax — 147.9 million accounts –…
[ad_1] When I arrived at the Parker Palm Springs hotel where the conference was held, three separate conference workers tried to carry my bag. In my room, the lights were dimmed, a cheese plate was waiting, and an Amazon Echo was playing bossa nova. A note said to keep the Echo. (I didn’t.) Atop a…
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[ad_1] More than seven years after IBM Watson beat a couple of human Jeopardy champions, the company has continued to make hay with the brand. Watson, at its core, is simply an artificial intelligence engine and while that’s not trivial by any means, neither is it the personified intelligence that their TV commercials would have…
[ad_1] Amazon has filed a patent for a delivery drone that responds when you call or wave at it. The patent was spotted by GeekWire and the concept drone is designed to recognize human gestures, and then respond accordingly. Gestures the drone would recognize include, for example, waving arms, pointing, the flashing of lights, and…
[ad_1] WHETHER IBM IS STAYING WITHIN U.S. age laws as it cuts from and adds to its workforce turns largely on how and why the company chooses individuals to be eliminated. While executives say they never target older workers, internal company documents and interviews suggest otherwise. Consider, for example, a planning presentation that former IBM…
[ad_1] After news of the Facebook data scandal, it’s probably a good idea for all of us to do a Facebook audit and see who our friends are. We’ve probably all collected hundreds, if not thousands, over the years. It’s important to trust the people you’re friends with, too, since their friend list is shared…
[ad_1] A team of scientists and engineers from the University of Texas at Austin may have figured out a fast and accurate way to diagnose tumors using a pen-sized device. The MasSpec Pen can detect cancer of the breast, thyroid, lung, ovaries and brain with 96.5 percent accuracy, based on an initial test of over…
[ad_1] The surging popularity of Epic Games’ “Fortnite” will spur other major gaming publishers to add “battle royale” modes to their major franchises, according to one Wall Street firm. “Fortnite” is one of the hottest pop culture phenomenons right now, attracting rap stars, top Twitch streamers and gamers alike. The title is surging online. Google…
[ad_1] Instagram isn’t quite bringing back the chronological feed but it will show more new posts and stop suddenly bumping you to the top of the feed while you’re scrolling. “With these changes, your feed will feel more fresh, and you won’t miss the moments you care about” Instagram writes. It should be more coherent…
[ad_1] Here is an interesting twist: GitLab, which in many ways competes with GitHub as a shared code repository service for teams, is bringing its continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) features to GitHub. The new service is launching today as part of GitLab’s hosted service. It will remain free to developers until March 22, 2019.…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s head of news partnerships Campbell Brown said if the company threatened to sue The Guardian last week, it was a mistake. Brown spoke at the Financial Times’ Future of News Conference in New York City on Thursday morning regarding the mistakes that Facebook has made and where the company is going from here.…
[ad_1] Facebook is vulnerable to a user revolt and a government crackdown in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, historian and prolific author Niall Ferguson told CNBC on Thursday. “Over a five-year time horizon, it’s hard to see that its business model is going to survive intact. Because the core of the business…
[ad_1] Jack Taylor | Getty Images The London headquarters of Cambridge Analytica stands on New Oxford Street in central London on March 20, 2018 in London, England. British authorities are seeking a court order to search the offices of the data mining and political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. The company allegedly used the information of…
[ad_1] It’s Spring and that means it’s time for Basel, the definitive international watch show. Around this time every year all of your favorite brands – and brands you’ve never heard of – launch unique timepieces that cost more than a few dozen Honda Accords and look like something made by a Doctor Manhattan during…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s top executives have lost public trust to handle the social media company’s data leak fallout, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “If we trusted [Mark Zuckerberg], we wouldn’t need to speak with him,” said Cramer, whose charitable trust owns shares of Facebook. CEO Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and Facebook board’s “have to recognize that…
[ad_1] In finance the objectives are well defined, for example, investor protection, market manipulation, knowing who is paying you and why, and data protection. Compliance is verifiable after the fact as long as the regulators have access to the right data and sufficient time for analysis. While KYC starts to follow the money, it doesn’t…
[ad_1] Huawei can’t catch a break in the States. Just at the company was set to announce a big carrier deal at CES, AT&T reportedly switch gears last minute. Now, a week before the company is set reveal its next big flagship at an event in Paris, Best Buy is reportedly planning to stop sales…
[ad_1] Here are four reasons AT&T may be better off if U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon rules in favor of the government and blocks the Time Warner deal. Pay TV is shrinking. Doubling-down on content to support DirecTV may not matter if the entire pay-TV business is in irreversible secular decline. Even if HBO…
[ad_1] GoPro is today announcing a multi-year deal with Jabil that aims to put GoPro technology in everything from police body cameras to video conferencing solutions. Through this agreement, Jabil will use GoPro’s design and intellectual property for use in approved third-party devices. This is the first time GoPro is letting other manufacturers build products…
[ad_1] Breaking five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a “major breach of trust,” admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm. “I am really sorry that happened,” Zuckerberg said of the scandal involving data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook…
[ad_1] Presented without comment: the cutest Alexa video available on the Internet today featuring Lauren eLL, her Dad, and Grandma. It has it all – laughs, cursing, and Hillary-bashing and Lauren even posted a reaction video showing the real life Nanna and Dad watching themselves as confused cartoons. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Streaming giant Netflix has created its own typeface, just like other tech companies have done. Netflix Sans is the name of the bespoke font, while Apple‘s is called San Francisco, introduced at its developer conference in 2015. Samsung announced SamsungOne in July 2016. Why? Because it will save Netflix marketing dollars, as using fonts…
[ad_1] Samsung has a new smartphone out, the Galaxy S9 (and S9+). It’s the latest flagship from one of the top smartphone makers in the world, but this year’s version has a lot in common with last year’s model, at least on the surface. The big focus (lol) this year was on the camera, and…
[ad_1] When Cloudflare acquired Neumob, a mobile performance startup last fall, it was a sign that the company wanted to move beyond web performance into helping mobile app developers understand what’s happening at the network level. Today, the company introduced Cloudflare Mobile SDK, a free tool which could help developers understand network-level performance problems. Cloudflare’s…
[ad_1] Facebook users who are worried about protecting their personal information in the wake of the alleged privacy breach by Cambridge Analytica have a few options at their disposal. The U.K. data firm has denied any wrongdoing and Facebook has said that, while none of the information leaked was the result of a data breach,…
[ad_1] Officials from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans stationed in Heart’s Delight are still hoping the winds will shift and allow a pack of dolphins to escape the town’s harbour before its too late. Seven dolphins are currently trapped in the frigid waters, blocked in near the shore by heavy ice. They’ve been in the area since…
[ad_1] Australian startup Ansarada, which provides tools for companies preparing for a major transaction, will expand in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa after raising an $18 million Series A. The funding was led by Ellerston Capital, with participation from Tempus Partners, Belay Capital and Australian Ethical Investments. A noteworthy detail about…
[ad_1] When Antje Springman and Dennis Minty spotted something huddled under the honeysuckle shrub outside their home along a river bank in Conception Bay North, they thought it was one of their chickens in distress. Springman went out to investigate and discovered a very different type of bird — a Great Cormorant, a black seabird about the size of a goose, commonly called…
[ad_1] GETTY If you want to stop Facebook collecting data, but don’t deleting your entire account Facebook users who want to restrict the amount of data gathered by the social network should follow these simple steps. Mark Zuckerberg’s hugely-successful social network has come under fire following the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based political firm…
[ad_1] Peter Macdiarmid | Getty Images Sir Tim Berners-Lee inventor of the World Wide Web waves to photographers as he arrives at Guildhall to receive an Honorary Freedom of the City of London award on September 24, 2014 in London, England. The Facebook data scandal is a “serious moment” for the future of the internet,…
[ad_1] Google has rolled out the latest Chrome 66 beta update on Windows and Android. Available for download in the beta channel, Chrome 66 brings several new user-focused functions such as restriction on media auto playback and reduction in browser crashes on Windows, and adds features like Chrome Home Duplex and a new Modern Design tab…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called users who handed their data over to him as “dumb f***s”. The damning comments were made in a series of Instant Messages (IMs) sent while Zuckerberg was studying at Harvard. Facebook billionaire Zuckerberg, commonly known as Zuck to friends and colleagues, confirmed the authenticity of the leaked exchanges in…
[ad_1] A long time after providing the Driving Do-Not-Disturb feature exclusively on the Pixel 2 family, Google is now expanding the use cases of its driving-detection technology by releasing a Transition API. The new API is aimed to enable third-party app developers to integrate driving-detection features into their creations. The Pixel-exclusive feature, which was spotted…
[ad_1] GETTY • FACEBOOK Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the incident, which saw 50 million users’ data breached Facebook is trying to weather an ever-growing scandal around user data and privacy. The California-based social network has come under fire following the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based political firm hired by Trump for the 2016…
[ad_1] Jio Phone may finally be getting WhatsApp support, sooner than most people expected. While the Jio Phone runs on KaiOS, which does not offer support for WhatsApp, the social media giant has reportedly been spotted working on a KaiOS version of the app, which will bring the support for Jio Phone users. The Jio Phone, Reliance Jio’s…
[ad_1] Following revelations of the data breach, the hashtag #DeleteFacebook circulated online. Even Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, a company that Facebook bought for $19 billion in 2014, tweeted the hashtag. Analysts have been concerned about the knock-on effect the fiasco would have on user numbers, but Zuckerberg said that he had not seen…
[ad_1] YouTube has announced it is making a movie in-house to be released in theatres, in a development seen as a step towards the model of new-media innovator Amazon. Vulture Club, which is in post-production, stars Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking, Thelma and Louise) as an emergency room nurse whose son is been kidnapped by…
[ad_1] As the world maritime body prepares to consider a Canadian proposal to mitigate the risks of heavy fuel oil pollution in the Arctic, Ottawa is trying to water down a plan by Finland for an outright ban of the highly polluting fuel — used by most ships plying the rapidly warming Arctic. The International…
[ad_1] Apple’s next splashy product announcement won’t be from its new campus in Cupertino, California. It will be from a magnet high school on the north side of Chicago – a signal that Apple isn’t ready to let go of the education market it once dominated. Apple has not said what products will be introduced…
[ad_1] Indigenous communities, environmental groups and other concerned citizens who monitor toxic waste are increasingly concerned about the dumping of radioactive matter and other contaminants into the Ottawa River from an inactive nuclear reactor northwest of the capital. A scientific report released in February details the dumping of thousands of litres of water contaminated with radioactive tritium, PCBs and other toxins…
[ad_1] BlackBerry and Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said on Thursday they reached a licencing agreement to use the Canadian company’s software in the luxury car brand’s next-generation electric vehicles. BlackBerry will provide its infotainment and security software to JLR, in the Canadian firm’s latest licensing deal for its autonomous-driving technology after similar agreements with Qualcomm,…
[ad_1] This story is part of our series Water at Risk, which looks at some of the risks to the water supply facing parts of Canada, South Africa and the Middle East. Read more stories in the series. As conservationists and organizations around the globe mark World Water Day Thursday, some scientists are warning that Canada is not immune to water shortages and…
[ad_1] Netflix has launched a public bug bounty programme, which means you can now earn money for pointing out security flaws within the streaming service. Previously, Netflix had a responsible vulnerability disclosure programme since 2013, and then expanded to a private bug bounty option in late 2016. The highest payout so far has been $15,000…
[ad_1] The livestock industry is a global sustainability crisis that many overlook, according to a start-up focused on tackling climate change and global food insecurity. “I think when we talk about urgent, the most pressing global crisis when it comes to sustainability, [the] livestock industry is most probably the most overlooked industry that people do…
[ad_1] Reliance Jio’s 4G VoLTE-enabled feature phone, the Jio Phone, may finally get WhatsApp support. While the Jio Phone runs on KaiOS, which does not offer support for WhatsApp, the social media giant has reportedly been spotted working on a KaiOS version, which will bring the support for Jio Phone users. The Jio Phone had…
[ad_1] U.K.-based financial technology start-up Revolut has a new product aimed at tackling online card fraud. The mobile-only banking service has unveiled a “disposable” virtual card that wipes a user’s card details and introduces new details each time they make a payment. Usually when people make an online payment, they enter card details which online…
[ad_1] With the digital payment space growing manifold in India, Microsoft is soon enabling digital payments services in its enterprise social network app Kaizala in the country. Payment integration – via third-party mobile payment infrastructure – in Kaizala will enable users to quickly send or receive money without having to leave the Kaizala mobile application.…
[ad_1] Investors should see February’s market jitters as a wake-up call that some risks still exist in an otherwise strong economy, according to Credit Suisse’s global chief investment officer. Speaking to CNBC at the bank’s Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong, he said: “The jitters of February was a little bit of a wake-up call.…
[ad_1] One year after a United Nations agency warned about the environmental health of Canada’s largest national park, First Nations and environmental groups say not enough has been done to respond. They say the federal government isn’t taking the threats to Wood Buffalo National Park seriously. “The urgency doesn’t seem to be as strong as we…
[ad_1] Collaboration software provider Slack Technologies is building a safety engineering team that will develop methods to help reduce the disruptions that have been more frequent on Slack’s service than rival systems, the company told Reuters. Recurring outages have prevented Slack users from connecting with its service as the fast-growing startup competes against the likes of…
[ad_1] Saheli Roy Choudhury | CNBC Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro comes in two colors, mocha brown and midnight blue. Best Buy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics retailer, will cut ties with China’s Huawei Technologies, a person familiar with the matter said, amid heightened scrutiny on Chinese tech firms in the United States. Best Buy will…
[ad_1] Instagram on Thursday announced the introduction of hashtag and profile links in the bio section. Instagram biographies are where users introduce themselves to their “followers” and to the world and they have a space of 150 characters to do it. Previously, you could only add text and not a proper link in your Instagram…
[ad_1] Marine mammal expert Regina Eisert thought minke whales were a little boring until she captured some striking footage of one swimming underwater near Antarctica. Now she thinks they’re beautiful. Eisert said the whales look similar from the surface but that she gained a new appreciation for their individuality after seeing the markings on one…
[ad_1] At present, China lags U.S. in every area of AI development — hardware, research and algorithm, and industry commercialization — except big data, according to a recent Oxford University report. “I’m not saying Chinese companies are better than American companies, I’m not saying Chinese engineers are better than American engineers. What will make China…
[ad_1] The cost of doing business has to come down before e-commerce companies can succeed in India in the long run, according to the chief executive of a large retail group in the country. Food and grocery businesses still find it difficult to move online while consumer durable, electronics and technology sellers have made the…
[ad_1] Shares of China’s Tencent Holdings fell as much as 4.6 percent on Thursday after the Hong Kong-listed internet giant’s results announced a day earlier showed that revenue missed estimates and it warned that planned investments may hurt margins. Tencent shares fell to as low as 441.4 Hong Kong dollars ($56.26) in early trading. The…
[ad_1] A NASA astronaut with ties to Canada blasted off for the International Space Station today on a visit that will last nearly six months. Andrew “Drew” Feustel, who has dual Canada-U.S. citizenship, blasted off at 1:44 p.m. ET Wednesday with fellow NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. U.S. astronaut Andrew Feustel, member of the…
[ad_1] Marine scientists in B.C. have for the first time seen a killer whale drown a baby of the same species. The researchers watched the orca infanticide as it unfolded off the northeastern coast of Vancouver Island on Dec. 2, 2016, and published their findings in the journal Nature this week. Cetacean ecologist Jared Towers remembers heading out…
[ad_1] Zhang’s comments echo those made by China’s Premier Li Keqiang at the end of the country’s National People’s Congress, an annual parliamentary convocation, earlier this week. “We will fully open up the manufacturing sector, with no mandatory technology transfers allowed, and we will protect intellectual property,” Li told a press conference wrapping up the…
[ad_1] The data scientist at the center of Facebook’s data controversy says the company knew he passed information to Cambridge Analytica, and called Facebook’s side of the story a “fabrication.” Those claims came in an email obtained by Bloomberg that University of Cambridge data scientist Aleksandr Kogan had written to university colleagues. Kogan confirmed to…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has not seen a “meaningful number of people” deleting their accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, he told The New York Times on Wednesday evening. Facebook has been under fire after reports in The Observer and The New York Times said London-based firm Cambridge Analytica had…
[ad_1] Chris Wylie, the Canadian data scientist who revealed information about how Cambridge Analytica gathered data about Facebook users, tells CBC News that he wants to testify in the U.S. and the U.K. about social media’s threat to elections and democratic institutions. Accepting invitation to testify before US House Intelligence Committee, US House Judiciary Committee…
[ad_1] Canada’s wireless providers are preparing for an update to the National Public Alerting System that will force smartphones to sound an ominous alarm when an emergency alert is triggered. In case of emergencies including Amber Alerts, forest fires, natural disasters, terrorist attacks or severe weather, officials will be able to send a localized alert…
[ad_1] Facebook’s latest privacy scandal, involving Trump campaign consultants who allegedly stole data on tens of millions of users in order to influence elections, has some people reconsidering their relationship status with the social network. There’s just one problem: There isn’t much of anywhere else to go. Facebook has weathered many such blow-ups before and…
[ad_1] Police in Tempe, Arizona, released footage of a deadly accident on March 18 involving an autonomous vehicle and a pedestrian. The vehicle was operated by Uber, and the video shows the vehicle’s safety driver apparently looking down in the moments before the collision. An investigation is ongoing. Here’s the video from the Tempe police:…
[ad_1] While not definitively saying yes, Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “open” to testifying before members of Congress regarding Facebook’s recent privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. The data firm, which worked for President Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign before the 2016 election, is now embroiled in an ongoing controversy about how it collected user data from…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on CNN on Wednesday evening that he was “really sorry” about the company’s “major breach of trust,” elaborating on the statement he posted to his Facebook page earlier on Wednesday addressing the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. People had criticized Zuckerberg on social media for not explicitly apologizing in his…
[ad_1] O’Shea reiterated his $86 price target on Activision Blizzard shares, representing 20.5 percent upside to Tuesday’s close. Activision Blizzard stock is down more than 10 percent since its high on March 12 through Tuesday, wiping out $6.3 billion of shareholder value. “Fortnite” is one of the hottest pop culture phenomenons right now, attracting rap…
[ad_1] The Tempe, Arizona police department have released a video showing the moments before the fatal crash that involved Uber’s self-driving car. The video includes the view of the street from the Uber and a view of minder behind the wheel of the autonomous Uber. Warning: This video is disturbing. Tempe Police Vehicular Crimes Unit…
[ad_1] For the visually impaired, there are lots of accessibility options if you want to browse the web — screen readers, podcast versions of articles and so on. But it can still be a pain to keep up with your favorite publications the way sighted app users do. BrailleVoice is a project that puts the…
[ad_1] Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Philip Hammond, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, speaks at the delayed annual Mansion House speech, usually delivered at the annual Bankers and Merchants dinner, at Mansion House in London, U.K., on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Britain has unveiled a task force that will examine both the risks…
[ad_1] MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory unveiled a soft, robotic fish that can swim alongside real fish to help study aquatic life. “SoFi” can swim at depths of 50 feet for up to 40 minutes, and it is capable of controlling its own buoyancy. Two hydraulic pumps flex the tail and it can…
[ad_1] Altimeter Capital Management CEO and founder Brad Gerstner is one of many on Wall Street who thinks Facebook’s latest scandal is no big deal. He called Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg “one of the best management teams in global technology” and recommends buying the stock. “I take issue with this idea…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer explains why a Facebook scandal shouldn't reflect poorly on its big-cap companions in the technology space. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Twitter Inc. logo is seen behind a phone displaying the company’s mobile application. The blue badge with white tick is the sign that an account is verified. Twitter’s chief information security officer is leaving the company, sources familiar with the matter have told The Verge. Michael…
[ad_1] Microbiome pills, gambling for one-on-one video games, and potential cancer cures were the highlights from legendary startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Winter 2018 Demo Day 2. You can read about all 64 startups that launched on Day 1 in verticals like biotech and robotics, our picks for the top 7 companies from Day 1, and our full coverage…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out on Wednesday days of silence amid a firestorm of privacy concerns and government probes following reports of massive data mishandling. Research firm Cambridge Analytica is accused of improperly gaining access to the personal data of 50 million Facebook users, and the social media network is dealing with the…
[ad_1] They’d been going up even before the MuleSoft deal, with companies like Aconex, Callidus and CommerceHub selling at a 40 percent higher EV-to-sales multiple than what LinkedIn and Marketo sold for in 2016, according to Zukin. A number of cloud software companies rallied on Tuesday after chatter of the deal leaked out. Box rose…
[ad_1] It’s moved beyond tradition and into the realm of meme that Apple manages to dominate the news cycle around major industry events, all while not actually participating in said events. CES rolls around and every story is about HomeKit or its competitors; another tech giant has a conference and the news is that Apple…
[ad_1] A global backlash against technology stocks such as Facebook is coming, which could hurt the broader market, one strategist says. “Four forces are coming together to potentially burst the data/platform bubble,” Bilal Hafeez, global head of G-10 FX strategy at Nomura, said in a Tuesday report. “The bubble you didn’t know about could be…
[ad_1] Uber appeared set to hire Assaf Ronen, the former vice president of Amazon’s voice and natural user interface shopping, to lead its products — but it looks like that isn’t going to happen due to a discrepancy in his working history, according to Recode. Uber discovered a discrepancy related to his tenure at Amazon,…
[ad_1] Facebook is to blame for the data scandal that has engulfed the social media giant, U.K. lawmaker Damian Collins told CNBC on Wednesday. “This is Facebook’s responsibility,” he said on “Closing Bell.” Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Facebook ads for the Trump campaign, is accused of improperly gaining access to 50 million profiles before…
[ad_1] Steve Marcus | Reuters A man walks through light rain in front of the Hey Google booth under construction at the Las Vegas Convention Center in preparation for the 2018 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 8, 2018. Alphabet subsidiary Google is getting into the blockchain space to compete with start-ups in the emerging…
[ad_1] Facebook has responded to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, saying it will prevent further misuse by enacting restrictions on the use of personal data. The company said in a post on Wednesday it was enacting six main initiatives to prevent companies from having access to people’s personal data without their authorization. The initiatives include:…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence Wednesday on the Cambridge Analytica data scandal that’s plagued the social media giant in recent days and slashed stock value. “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Zuckerberg said in a statement posted to his Facebook…
[ad_1] Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Daniel Ek, chief executive officer and co-founder of Spotify AB. Since Snap’s IPO a year ago, there’s been a dearth of new offerings to entice millennials. That’s about to change with Spotify and Dropbox slated to soon start trading, and a service for young investors is gearing…
[ad_1] Elon Musk raised a significant chunk of money for his tunnel boring venture, the aptly named Boring Company, via sales of a heavily marked up ‘flamethrower’ with Boring Co. branding. Those pre-sales are all concluded, but now people who put down cash to reserve one are finding out when they can get their flame…
[ad_1] Famed investor Bill Miller is still a believer in Facebook. “This too will pass,” he said in an email to CNBC’s Scott Wapner. The stock’s valuation is “too cheap.” Tweet Link The investor did not comment on whether he is buying more shares in the social media giant. He confirmed his firm still owns…
[ad_1] Omega has just announced a new version of their iconic Moonwatch, the chronograph that was worn most notably by Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon. Their new model, the Dark Side of the Moon Apollo 8, features the traditional Moonwatch design with a few unique tweaks. The has an exhibition back –…
[ad_1] In 2016, Dropbox made a big announcement when it turned free cash flow positive — an important metric that shows a company has a strong financial position. But Dropbox’s milestone may have been, in part, overstated with the help of some financial engineering. A closer look at its financial statement shows the online storage…
[ad_1] MuleSoft’s other top venture backers are also notching big wins, even though they trimmed their stakes after the lockup expired. Lightspeed Venture Partners was MuleSoft’s biggest investor at the time of the IPO, with 19.3 million shares. According to its latest SEC filing, the firm has cut its holdings by 36 percent and now…
[ad_1] Amy E. Price | Getty Images | SXSW Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX speaks onstage during SXSW at Austin Convention Center on March 10, 2018 in Austin, Texas. Tesla shareholders approved a new and unprecedented compensation package for CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday. The plan could see Musk taking home more than $50 billion…
[ad_1] At the Game Developers Conference 2018 (GDC 2018) Microsoft and Nvidia announced initiatives to ensure upcoming games are as true to reality as they can be with a technique known as ray tracing. Ray tracing is a method of generating an image with a computer by ‘tracing’ the path of light as pixels and…
[ad_1] Ben Wilson Photography | Advertising Week Europe Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s SVP ads and commerce (left) with Matt Brittin, its president, business and operations EMEA “We deploy(ed) a legally-binding contract to the blockchain that records all the fees, all of the suppliers that are allowed to be involved in this chain of events,” said Oliver…
[ad_1] Clari — a startup that has built a predictive sales tool that provides just-in-time assistance for sales people close deals and for those who work in the bigger chain of command to monitor the progress of the sales operation — is capitalising on the big boom in interest for all things AI in the business…
[ad_1] U.S. history is filled with stories of people sharing their thoughts in the public square. If interested, a passerby could come and listen, sharing in the experience of the narrative. By combining psychographic profiling, analysis of big data and ad micro-targeting, public discourse in the U.S. has entered a new era. What used to…
[ad_1] Tesla shareholders have approved by a wide margin a proposal to award chairman and CEO Elon Musk a multi-billion-dollar stock option grant that supporters say will align him with shareholders and potentially greatly increase the company’s value, a source at the meeting told CNBC. The grant gives Musk $2.6 billion in stock options in…
[ad_1] IBM has unveiled a new blockchain product that lets start-ups and developers build their own distributed ledger projects. The service is a cheaper alternative to Big Blue’s current enterprise plan for firms looking to develop blockchain applications. Blockchain, otherwise known as distributed ledger technology, is a massive distributed database that maintains a growing record…
[ad_1] As more people use voice assistants, we’re moving toward a future where our household devices can be controlled by talking to them. “Voice technology has got significantly better, and it’s the way we normally communicate,” said Ecobee president and CEO Stuart Lombard. “It’s the way we’re communicating now. I don’t have to get my…
[ad_1] Dropbox said it would be increasing its IPO price range – the range which it will sell its shares for its initial public offering — from $16-$18 per share to $18-$20 per share and giving the company a valuation that could reach close to $8 billion, according to an updated filing with the Securities…
[ad_1] Popular shooter Fortnite removed friendly fire. This feature allows users to shoot their own team mates. While present in the game initially, it was removed to combat in-game toxicity Fortnite developer Epic Games said. Fortnite is currently playable on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and iOS with an Android version of the game in the…
[ad_1] That, and machinery may work more effectively, but it also breaks. “One of the biggest challenges right now is we need to make sure that we maintenance the machinery all the time, you know, there’s there’s all kinds of little things that can happen,” says Comito. Part of Huang’s mission as CEO is to…
[ad_1] Apple has unveiled new Apple Watch bands for spring. Bands include Woven Nylon bands direct from Apple, Nike bands, and Hermès bands. Long story short, there are a bunch of new colors and styles. The Woven Nylon bands focus on stripes, alternating white with another color (Black Stripe, Blue Stripe, Gray Stripe and Pink…
[ad_1] Egypt suspended the licences of ride-hailing companies Uber and Careem on Tuesday, in a court ruling after taxi drivers sought to shut down the two firms’ operations in the country, judicial sources said. Forty two Egyptian taxi drivers filed a lawsuit a year ago against US-based Uber and its Dubai-based competitor Careem, arguing they…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey predicts bitcoin will be the single currency of the internet in the near future, according to The Times in London. “The world ultimately will have a single currency, the internet…
[ad_1] In this modern world, some days it can feel like everything is out of your grasp. So take stock on those thing that you can control. Like Messenger, Facebook’s increasingly feature-rich offshoot app, which now sports admin privileges for group chats. The new feature is rolling out this week, giving users the ability to…
[ad_1] Facebook Messenger has received a bunch of new features to enhance your group chat experience. There are admin privileges as well as joinable links and real-time voice and video chats support within groups to make users stick to group conversations on Messenger. These new updates are also aimed to uplift the last year’s record…
[ad_1] On Tuesday, a report said the Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica violated a consent decree the tech company signed with the agency. Additionally, Zuckerberg was summoned by British lawmakers to give evidence related to the company’s links to Cambridge Analytica. “Zuck is…
[ad_1] Cloud storage firm Dropbox raised the price range for its initial public offering by $2 on Wednesday as investors bid strongly for the first big tech IPO this year ahead of final pricing expected on Thursday. The company now expects the offering to be priced between $18 and $20 per share, of $16 to…
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. The ‘gig economy.’ Robotics. How we work, where we work – the very definition of work itself — are undergoing radical transformation. To help make sense of this new world, CNBC is proud to announce the launch of a new editorial franchise and event series called @Work: Tech, Transformation and…
[ad_1] Google Maps for iOS has been updated to version 4.47, which has brought a nifty feature that will likely find many takers. The updated Maps app now shows users average wait times at more than a million restaurants around the globe, and allows them to search and sort through reviews of a place. Interestingly,…
[ad_1] Investors should buy Facebook shares because the company’s profit growth will remain robust after the data leak scandal, according to a Wall Street firm. KeyBanc Capital Markets reiterated its overweight rating for Facebook shares, saying the social media giant’s stock is now extremely undervalued. “The firestorm of news headlines, and Facebook’s poor navigation of…
[ad_1] Microsoft announced the spring update to its Power BI and Power Apps platform today with a significant enhancement, a new common data service that enables companies to build data-based applications from a variety of data sources. This is part of a wider strategy that is designed to remove some of the complexity associated with…
[ad_1] Xiaomi has released the Mi Store app for iOS device users. With the Mi Store app, Xiaomi promises to offer an intuitive interface to search, browse and purchase any Mi products. This essentially means that even if you are using an iPhone, you can still buy products from Xiaomi via the app. It includes…
[ad_1] Tech giants including Google, Amazon and Facebook could soon faced higher taxes in Europe. The European Commission — the executive arm of the European Union (EU) — unveiled plans Wednesday to tax companies where they actually generate business, rather than where they are headquartered. The proposed changes to how digital businesses are taxed could…
[ad_1] Airtel has announced that 1 million feature phone users on its network now pay for the Truecaller ID feature that informs them of the caller’s identity even without a data connection. Announced in March last year and rolled out a month later, the service is available for both prepaid and postpaid subscribers of Airtel…
[ad_1] If you’re hopeful that Facebook‘s shareholders will rise up and force change in the way the social media company manages itself, or even force change in management, forget about it. Founder Mark Zuckerberg has assured that won’t happen. That’s because Zuckerberg owns the majority of the voting rights to the company. Facebook’s Class B…
[ad_1] Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg plans to make a statement on the data breach fiasco in the next 24 hours, Axios reported Wednesday. The news site said that Zuckerberg’s remarks would aim to rebuild trust and that he wanted to say something meaningful rather than pushing out a comment quickly. The Facebook CEO has…
[ad_1] Facebook shares fell over 2 percent in pre-market trade Wednesday, marking the third straight day of declines for the social media giant as the fallout from the data breach scandal continues. Nearly $50 billion of market capitalization, or value, has been wiped off Facebook’s stock since Monday. On the weekend, media reports outlined how…
[ad_1] TransferWise will book another year of profit in its latest fiscal year, the online money transfer start-up’s financial chief told CNBC on Tuesday. The London-based firm reported revenues of £67 million ($94 million) in the year ended March 31, 2017, more than double the previous year. It made an adjusted operating profit of £2…
[ad_1] Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the popular Telegram messenger app must provide the country’s security services with encryption keys to read users’ messaging data, agencies reported. Media watchdog Roskomnadzor instructed Telegram to “provide the FSB with the necessary information to decode electronic messages received, transmitted, or being sent” within 15 days, it said…
[ad_1] Cambridge Analytica is in the midst of a media firestorm after allegations of psychological manipulation, entrapment techniques and fake news campaigns. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said patches are on the way for recently revealed flaws in some of its chips that could allow hackers to take over computers. AMD expressed confidence that chip vulnerabilities made public last week by Israeli-based security firm CTS Labs could be fixed with firmware patches and updated software that…
[ad_1] A Canadian data expert who set off an international uproar over the alleged leak of private Facebook user data lost his job years ago in the office of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, in large part because he was pushing a nascent form of the controversial data-harvesting technique, says a former senior party insider.…
[ad_1] Google’s sister company Jigsaw has launched an open-source virtual private network (VPN) called Outline. The Alphabet-owned incubator, known for technologies focussing on human rights, is now offering a software that enables users to set up VPN on a physical server as well as via a cloud service provider. Outline is said to be a…
[ad_1] Canada’s lucrative snow crab fishery in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence has had its certification as an environmentally sustainable fishery suspended. The London-based Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) announced Tuesday it was suspending the certification — a stamp of approval for consumers — because the fishery has been linked to North Atlantic right whale deaths. Twelve of…
[ad_1] The City of Medicine Hat has agreed to supply electricity and lease land to a Toronto-based cryptocurrency mining company in a deal that will see $100 million in construction spending in the southern Alberta city. The city will provide electric energy capacity of about 42 megawatts to Hut 8 Mining Corp., which will construct bitcoin…
[ad_1] Amazon India on Wednesday kicked-off another round of Samsung Carnival sale to offer discounts on mobile phones, TVs, home appliances, and storage devices. The sale, which will run until March 24, includes various Galaxy A, Galaxy J, and Galaxy On series handsets as well as premium offerings such as the Galaxy Note models. It…
[ad_1] Canada’s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Facebook after a series of media reports alleged that private online information belonging to millions of Americans was obtained by a company working on U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign. “We have received a complaint against Facebook in relation to allegations involving Cambridge Analytica and have…
[ad_1] Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data centre in Switzerland to address Western government concerns that Russia exploits its anti-virus software to spy on customers, according to internal documents seen by Reuters. Kaspersky is setting up the centre in response to actions in the United States, Britain and Lithuania last year to stop…
[ad_1] One of the ways GCOX says it seeks to connect celebrities with their fans is by providing a platform for the famous to create “personal cryptocurrencies” and manage that new token’s initial coin offering (ICO). With enough coins on the marketplace, the platform could become “the world’s first authoritative popularity index,” the company claims.…
[ad_1] YouTube has announced that smartphone users will soon be able to start a new live stream directly from the camera app of their smartphones. In coming months, YouTube plans to roll out a dedicated live stream feature within the camera app in select mobile devices from Asus, LG, Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung. This will…
[ad_1] Amid growing concern that some of the world’s largest and most influential tech companies are failing to adequately protect users from the misuse of their platforms, Google is doubling down on its own efforts to curb the spread of misinformation and false news. The company said on Tuesday that it was introducing a slew…
[ad_1] Sidewalk Labs “hadn’t foreseen” how fiercely Canadians would demand that their data be retained within the country when it first sought out to design a “people first” high-tech neighbourhood in east Toronto, says one of the local leaders working with the start-up, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet. It was announced in…
[ad_1] “The insiders use Rule 10b5-1 to sell on a regular basis. There are trading plans that they adopt and then they sell shares in a methodological manner,” said Ben Silverman, director of research at InsiderScore. “I don’t see a connection between the insider selling and the news that has come out in the last…
[ad_1] Chris Carlson | AP A vehicle goes by the scene of Sunday’s fatality where a pedestrian was stuck by an Uber vehicle in autonomous mode, in Tempe, Ariz., March 19, 2018. Toyota said on Tuesday it will pause autonomous vehicle testing following an accident in which an Uber Technologies self-driving vehicle struck and killed…
[ad_1] Creating art, once regarded as an economically challenging profession, is now a sustainable career choice thanks to social media, according to Malaysian artist Red Hong Yi. Budding and professional artists can now represent, market and brand themselves on Facebook, Instagram and Alphabet’s YouTube instead of relying on agents and physical gallery spaces, Hong told…
[ad_1] When all you have is a finger everything looks like a button . But what happens if you’re unable to press buttons or, more likely, we begin using robots and other tools to interact with the real world? That’s what researchers at Aalto University, Finland, and KAIST, South Korea wanted to find out when…
[ad_1] Japan is offering $940 million to fund space start-ups in a new push to grow the industry, the government announced Tuesday at an event in Tokyo. The funds will be made available through investments and loans over the next five years, as part of a government-led initiative to double Japan’s more than $11 billion…
[ad_1] Venture capitalist Peter Thiel is backing a new football league to rival the NFL, the league said Tuesday. The Alliance of American Football, backed in part by Thiel’s Founders Fund and set to kick off in February 2019, claims to offer increased player safety and a more convenient fan experience, with the aid of…
[ad_1] Facebook is handling the Cambridge Analytica public relations disaster all wrong, according to New York University professor of marketing Scott Galloway. And Galloway has some advice for CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg: address, acknowledge and overcorrect. “When you’re the CEO of a company that assembled a community as vast as Christianity ……
[ad_1] Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters A booth of Micron Technology at an industrial fair in Frankfurt, Germany. One Wall Street firm is getting more bullish on Micron shares, even after the stock’s stunning performance so far this year. Credit Suisse raised its price target to $70 from $60 for the chipmaker’s shares, representing 16 percent…
[ad_1] Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said he wasn’t sure how true some of the claims were about a data analytics firm and its influence on the U.S. presidential election. Cambridge Analytica — a firm publicly associated with President Donald Trump’s campaign — is said to have collected private informationfrom Facebook profiles…
[ad_1] Tesla shares skid into another bear market, and there’s more pain to come as the automaker enters a critical phase in its history, says one market watcher. “There’s been tons of pressure on the name in what many considered to be a make-or-break year for the company,” Michael Bapis, partner and managing director at…
[ad_1] Biotech, robotics, and fintech startups took the spotlight today at Y Combinator’s 26th Demo Day. This batch features 141 total companies from 23 countries, with presentations spread over two days. The house was packed at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum with wealthy investors forced to stand in the back or sit on the floor.…
[ad_1] The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica claimed his company ran all the digital operations for the Trump campaign, according to a new report from UK’s Channel 4. The new article and video were posted Tuesday afternoon. The CEO, Alexander Nix, was suspended with immediate effect, the company said. In the video posted by Channel…
[ad_1] Microbiome therapeutics, Photoshop for augmented reality, and cancer treatments were some of the ideas presented at Day 2 of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Winter 2018 Demo Day. YC is increasingly using its massive class size (141 startups this time around) to fund especially risky frontier technology and biotech moonshots, while tempering the portfolio with…
[ad_1] Lee, who was the chief equity strategist at J.P. Morgan before co-founding Fundstrat, said his firm has an indicator to measure alt-coins, which is “the percent that have tripled over 90 days.” On Jan. 13, the indicator hit 78 percent, “which is normally a top,” he said. “In January, we thought you need to…
[ad_1] Bitcoin prices recovered above $9,000 after regulators had “productive” discussions on cryptocurrency at a G-20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday. “The spirit of the discussion was very productive, and I agree that everybody left very pleased,” governor of the Central Bank of Argentina, Federico Sturzenegger,…
[ad_1] Cambridge Analytica, which markets itself as providing consumer research, targeted advertising and over data-related services, deceptively obtained data from Facebook users. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Travis Kalanick, the former Uber CEO who was shown the door in June last year amid a series of major controversies, has already found his next leading role following his announcement of a new investment fund just weeks ago. Kalanick said on Twitter that his fund would be investing $150 million to take a…
[ad_1] Her comments come as Facebook continues to face heat from reports that conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to data from 50 million Facebook profiles before the 2016 presidential election. Facebook shares were down for the second day in a row Tuesday. The social media giant has maintained that the mishandling of…
[ad_1] There is now a heavy-lifting, water-spraying drone by Aerones that will make power washing and deicing wind turbines a lot easier. The task was previously done manually, but these drones turn it into a one-person job with a remote control. And the uses for the drone go far beyond wind turbines. The company plans…
[ad_1] Amid the turmoil of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton on Tuesday told his Twitter followers to delete Facebook. @brianacton tweet “It is time. #deletefacebook,” he wrote on the social media platform. Acton only has 42 Twitter followers, but it’s the sentiment that counts. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $16 billion in…
[ad_1] Robert Galbraith | Reuters Travis Kalanick, CEO of UBER Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has found his new job. The controversial Silicon Valley entrepreneur is joining a startup called City Storage Systems that focuses on repurposing real estate assets. Kalanick, who will be CEO, invested $150 million into the 15-person startup, according to a…
[ad_1] But Jim Scheinman — founding managing partner of Maven Ventures, which invests in consumer, mobile and internet sectors — said driverless cars will save lives, reduce traffic and improve the efficiency of society. “People who can’t drive today: … the blind, … the elderly who live into the 80s, 90s, 100s,” and others will…
[ad_1] Paul Marotta | Getty Images Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Harvard University at its 2017 366th Commencement Exercises on May 25, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sonnenfeld criticized Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg for not publicly addressing the allegations. They reportedly plan to remain silent until…
[ad_1] The Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve, the first for new Fed chair Jerome Powell, was Cramer’s opportunity No. 1. Cramer argued that Powell has to say that the economy is strong, but not too strong — just healthy enough to create a lot of jobs. He also said the new…
[ad_1] The biggest challenge facing the development of autonomous cars is not money or technology, but legal and ethical concerns, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas told CNBC on Tuesday. Autonomous vehicles stand to deliver trillions of dollars in value over time, Jonas said on “Squawk Alley.” It is an increasingly common view that such vehicles…
[ad_1] Salesforce today announced that it intends to buy MuleSoft in a deal valued at a whopping $6.5 billion. That’s not the selling price, but the amount the company has been valued at based on stocks, bonds and cash on hand. The exact price was not available yet, but the company did indicate it was…
[ad_1] Salesforce announced an agreement on Tuesday to buy Mulesoft in an enterprise technology merger that would value Mulesoft at $6.5 billion. Salesforce will pay $44.89 per share for Mulesoft, a 36 percent premium — each Mulesoft share will equal $36 in cash and 0.0711 shares of Salesforce common stock, the companies said. The deal…
[ad_1] Spotify is committed to spending close to half a billion dollars on Google’s public cloud services over the next three years, the music streaming service disclosed on Tuesday. According to its updated share sale prospectus, Spotify signed a deal earlier this year to spend a minimum of approximately 365 million euros ($447 million) on…
[ad_1] Amazon has passed Alphabet and now trails just Apple among the list of the world’s most valuable companies. The e-commerce giant rose 2.7 percent on Tuesday lifting its stock market value to $768 billion. Alphabet, the parent of Google, fell 0.4 percent and is now valued at $762.5 billion. While the U.S. tech mega-caps…
[ad_1] Tesla shareholders will vote Wednesday on whether to approve a multibillion-dollar performance-based pay package for Chairman and CEO Elon Musk. Some shareholders have come out in favor of the new package, but two major advisory firms recommend shareholders reject the proposal. Musk has recused himself from the vote, as has his brother Kimbal, who…
[ad_1] Facebook released a statement Tuesday saying “the entire company is outraged” that data from 50 million accounts was allegedly deceptively used by political data firm Cambridge Analytica. Although CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg have yet to speak publicly about the allegations, the social media company is expected to share more…
[ad_1] Nearly three years after launching what seemed destined to be a hostile takeover bid for video game publisher Ubisoft, Vivendi has decided to sell off its holdings in the company. The French media conglomerate and Ubisoft have reached an agreement that will see Vivendi sell its 27.3 percent stake in the company for just…
[ad_1] When humanity’s back is against the wall and the robots have us cornered I’d say I’m all for whanging a few with a baseball bat. However, until then, we must be kind to our mechanical brethren and this robotic tortoise will help our kids learn that robot abuse is a bad idea. Researchers at…
[ad_1] Autonomous cargo shipping, voice games and a camera that fits in a catheter were amongst the most impressive startups that launched yesterday at the Y Combinator Winter 2018 Demo Day 1. You can read about all 64 startups that launched in verticals like biotech and robotics, and check back later for our full coverage…
[ad_1] Oracle announced its quarterly earnings last night, detailing that its cloud business grew 32 percent to $1.6 billion in the quarter. That might sound good at first blush, but it’s part of three straight quarters of reduced growth — a fact that had investors jittery over night. It didn’t get better throughout the day…
[ad_1] If you’ve ever opened an app and selected the option to “log in with Facebook” instead of creating a new account, chances are that the people or company behind that app know a lot about you. According to Facebook, each app that you log into will get your gender, networks you belong to, username,…
[ad_1] Microsoft today announced the next version of Windows Server, which launches later this year under the not completely unexpected moniker of “Windows Server 2019.” Developers and operations teams that want to get access to the bits can now get the first preview build through Microsoft’s Insider Program. This next version comes with plenty of…
[ad_1] Larry French | Getty Images for Thurgood Marshall College Fund CEO of Twitter and Square Jack Dorsey accepts the award for CEO of the Year onstage during the Thurgood Marshall College Fund 28th Annual Awards Gala at Washington Hilton on November 21, 2016 in Washington, DC. Shares of Twitter and Snap fell on Tuesday,…
[ad_1] One day after Uber suspended its autonomous-drive test programs on public roads following a fatal accident in Arizona, Toyota Motor has also decided it will suspend tests of driverless cars on public streets in the U.S. “Because we feel the incident may have an emotional effect on our test drivers, we have decided to…
[ad_1] Albertsons is going to launch a digital marketplace for small or young brands, the owner of the Safeway and Von’s grocery chains, announced on Tuesday. The effort comes as retailers more and more are looking to data to help guide their buying decisions. It also as comes grocers increasingly focus on the local or…
[ad_1] Saturday Night Live is on it. The show came up with a hilarious skit last May about Amazon’s Echo voice assistant partnering with the AARP, a group that represents the interests of people over 50, for a new “silver” device that responds to any name remotely close to Alexa. Now CNBC has learned that…
[ad_1] Sequoia, the venture capital firm known for early bets on everything from Apple and Google to WhatsApp and Dropbox, is setting a high bar to get into its upcoming global growth fund: $250 million. That’s the minimum check size required for limited partners to participate in the fund, which is aiming to raise up…
[ad_1] Macy’s aims to grow its private-label and private-brands business to represent 40 percent of the retailer’s overall merchandise mix, according to CEO Jeff Gennette. The lofty goal is part of Macy’s overall turnaround plans, to get back to positive same-store sales. As of last June, the amount of private and exclusive brands at Macy’s…
[ad_1] Game controller compatibility is a labyrinthine nightmare most of the time: Some controllers work with some platforms some of the time, but it’s very hard to keep track of how and when. 8bitdo’s latest accessory adds some simplicity to the mix, enabling use of Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch controllers with Switch,…
[ad_1] AR-enabled shopping is expanding again today. This time, online furniture retailer Wayfair is introducing an augmented reality feature in its mobile app for Android that will allow customers to visualize furniture in their own home ahead of purchase, just by holding up their smartphone. The feature, called “View in Room 3D,” was previously available…
[ad_1] After previously investing in Mulesoft, it looks like Salesforce may finish off the deal and is in advanced talks to acquire the data management software provider altogether, according to a report from Reuters this morning. Mulesoft works with companies to bring together different sources of data like varying APIs. That’s important for companies that have…
[ad_1] For investors, it appears doing your homework does trump dumb luck. Hedge funds that frequently accessed SEC filings like annual reports posted better-than-average returns in the following month compared to non-users, according to a new academic study. The working paper from Rice University finds that funds accessing one or more SEC filings in a…
[ad_1] One of the better 360-degree cameras out there just got a lot better: The Insta360 One, a standalone 4K 360 camera with a built-in iPhone or Android hardware connector now supports FlowState onboard stabilization. This provides much better automatic stabilization than the Insta360 One supported at launch, and enables a bunch of new editing…
[ad_1] With little fuss or fanfare, Cleo, the London-based startup that offers an AI-powered chatbot as a replacement for your banking apps, has begun quietly offering its service to U.S. customers. Just 21 days in, I understand the U.K. fintech is already signing up 1,000 users across the pond per day. Described as an “alpha…
[ad_1] Subscribe with Google will make it easier for readers to pay for content from news organizations that have agreed to partner with the company. FT.com, The Washington Post, and McClatchy Company publications including the Miami Herald are among the 17 launch partners. The company is also testing a “Propensity to Subscribe” feature using its…
[ad_1] Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston regularly recruits from a local organization called Operation A.B.L.E., which provides job opportunities for older individuals. Megan Bradley, the director of recruitment services, said snowbird retirees can pick up work when they return in the spring through a temporary agency owned by the hospital, BulFinch Temporary Services. A retiree…
[ad_1] The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica violated a consent decree the tech company signed with the agency in 2011, Bloomberg reported Monday. The probe follows a weekend of turmoil for the social media giant. Reports this weekend said the research…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are reportedly planning to stay quiet on Cambridge Analytica until after Facebook’s internal review of the scandal that rocked the social media giant in recent days, according to a report from Bloomberg. Tech insiders, lawmakers and even Facebook employees have called for input from Facebook’s highest executives. But it…
[ad_1] Another huge financing round is coming in for an AI company today, this time for a startup called Mythic getting a fresh $40 million as it appears massive deals are closing left and right in the sector. Mythic particularly focuses on the inference side of AI operations — basically making the calculation on the…
[ad_1] Love is beautiful… Perhaps a little more so when someone finds it without putting much of an effort. But can it blossom even from an innocent WhatsApp message sent to a wrong number? Michael Evangelou from Colliers Wood in south London would say ‘yes’. Evangelou, 44, sent a message, which read “Girls Trip”, to…
[ad_1] Facebook shares may have taken a big hit as questions mount over how the social network treats user data, but the company still has a stock market value of over half a trillion dollars, more than Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and McDonald’s combined. On CNBC Tuesday morning, as Facebook stock remained under pressure in the premarket…
[ad_1] Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has announced a partnership with cab hailing firm Ola to enable passengers to book an Ola on the IRCTC website and app. Through this partnership, passengers will now be able to book from a wide range of Ola services such as Ola Micro, Ola Mini, Prime Play,…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO British lawmakers called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday to give evidence related to the company’s links to political analysis firm Cambridge Analytica. Media reports published by the U.K. newspaper The Observer and The New York Times on the weekend outlined how 50 million Facebook…
[ad_1] Countering Samsung’s recent development, Irvine, California-based Nimbus Data has now launched the ExaDrive DC100 as the new world’s largest-capacity solid state drive (SSD) with 100 terabytes (TB) of storage space. The new SSD drive is touted to offer more than three times the capacity of its closest competitor and draws 85 percent less power…
[ad_1] Wall Street is downplaying the risks to Facebook shares resulting from a potential credibility crisis after Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of the social media company’s users’ data. “Despite these negative headlines and increased concerns around user data and regulatory risk, we do not believe Facebook’s business is currently being impacted,” J.P. Morgan analyst Doug…
[ad_1] The media firestorm surrounding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica comes after Britain’s Channel 4 News carried out an undercover investigation into the London-based political data firm. Undercover filming appeared to show senior executives suggesting the firm could use sex workers, bribes, ex-spies and fake news to help candidates win votes around the world. The Channel…
[ad_1] Walmart is bringing FedEx shops for printing, packing and shipping into 500 of its U.S. stores, adding to the number of services it offers customers in its race against Amazon. Walmart and FedEx have been testing the arrangement in roughly 50 locations across North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas and Colorado. Following a…
[ad_1] The U.K.’s data protection watchdog ordered Facebook to stand down Monday when auditors hired by the social network visited the offices of a political analytics company accused of wrongly harvesting the data of millions of its users. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) told the tech giant, which was planning to investigate Cambridge Analytica’s servers…
[ad_1] A U.S. judge on Monday rejected BlackBerry’s request to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it inflated its stock price and defrauded shareholders by painting a misleadingly positive picture of sales prospects for its BlackBerry 10 smartphones. While an earlier version of the case was dismissed in March 2015, Chief Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S.…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies should be classified as the same type of transportation as limousines and tour buses, a California regulator said on Monday in a proposal that could change how the ride-hailing company is regulated in its home state. A commissioner for the California Public Utilities Commission, who had been tasked with investigating and formulating a…
[ad_1] Flipkart has returned with its Grand Gadget Days sale, and is offering a plethora of deals on mobiles, laptops, tablets, gaming hardware, and audio accessories. Additionally, there are offers on personal grooming gadgets as well. However, the e-commerce website has not revealed the duration of the sale. Under the Grand Gadgets Sale, Flipkart is…
[ad_1] French startup Lydia announces two new things today. First, the company is launching a financial hub with multiple new products. Second, Lydia is announcing a new premium subscription to access those new features. “Today, we’re lucky enough to have you here to announce you the biggest thing we’ve done since Lydia’s launch,” co-founder and…
[ad_1] Apple’s iPhone X went on sale last November and it seems this flagship smartphone is about to get a big refresh. According to technology tipster Ben Geskin, Apple may be about to release an updated “Blush Gold” version of its iPhone X. This top-end smartphone is currently only available in Silver or Space Grey…
[ad_1] PUBG mobile now available for Android and iOS PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now available on both Android and iOS in India, the US, and other countries. The game, colloquially known as PUBG (pronounced pub-gee), is free-to-play though you’re looking at a sizeable download of nearly 900MB. It has been developed by Tencent Games, which also…
[ad_1] Within the tech sector, Garthwaite said he likes cybersecurity, gaming and software companies. The tech sector held up well in the broad-based sell-off earlier this year, and when bold yields rose, Garthwaite said. Tech companies have healthy cash flow on their balance sheets because they’re under-leveraged. “For all of it, the valuation is not…
[ad_1] Most Android phones will have to wait until 2019 to duplicate the 3D sensing feature behind Apple’s Face ID security, three major parts producers have told Reuters, handicapping Samsung and others on a technology that is set to be worth billions in revenue over the next few years. The development of new features for…
[ad_1] About 1.5 million Indians drive for Uber, Ola and other ride-sharing companies. On Monday, many of them refused to work. Thousands of workers participated in the countrywide strike, crippling traffic and creating massive headaches for commuters. The drivers say they have no other choice: They’re simply not making enough money to survive. Many can’t…
[ad_1] Creators in the entertainment, gaming and media industries must figure out what kind of content their audiences want or risk losing them, an industry veteran warned. Because of the internet, people are getting used to the idea that they can choose the kind of content they want to consume, so they’re less interested in…
[ad_1] I uploaded a photo of my cat to Facebook. She’s adorable and deserves many likes. But if I got those likes, I wouldn’t know about them without a little work. I’ve installed an extension, the “Demetricator,” that blocks all metrics on Facebook from my view. With the Demectricator running, that enticing little red number…
[ad_1] DocuSign is gearing up to go public in the next six months, sources tell TechCrunch. The company, which pioneered the e-signature, has now filed confidentially, we are hearing. Like Dropbox, which is finally going public this week, San Francisco-based DocuSign has been an anticipated IPO for several years now. It’s raised over $500 million since…
[ad_1] Former rivals BlackBerry and Microsoft have announced they were collaborating to offer enterprises a solution that integrates the latter’s expertise in mobility and security with Microsoft’s Cloud and productivity apps. Through this partnership, the tech titans have collaborated on a first-of-its-kind solution – BlackBerry Enterprise “BRIDGE”. “We saw a need for a hyper-secure way…
[ad_1] Media companies can keep worrying about cord cutting. Deloitte found in its 12th annual digital media trends survey that the percentage of American households that subscribe to a streaming service has grown to 55 percent. Last year, the firm reported that 49 percent of households reported at least one video subscription service. Kevin Westcott,…
[ad_1] We’ve seen a variety of interesting SSDs pass through the Gadgets 360 lab over the past few months – most of them in the form of high-end PCIe or M.2 cards, some with heatsinks, and some promising incredible speed. That doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about mainstream SATA SSDs though. These serve the value end…
[ad_1] SAMSUNG Samsung Galaxy Note 8 users should check their Settings menu for the new update Samsung has started to roll-out its Android 8.0 Oreo upgrade to last year’s flagship smartphone, Galaxy Note 8. According to reports, the update is now available to users in France, with the new software expected to roll-out to other…
[ad_1] Samsung Galaxy S9 is more durable than both the Galaxy S8 range, and Apple’s flagship smartphone, iPhone X. That’s music to the ears of Samsung fans, who were dealt a blow last year when SquareTrade’s infamous drop test concluded that no smartphone had ever performed worse than the Galaxy S8. With the Galaxy S9, the…
[ad_1] Google Maps for Android has been spotted with the ability to let users add shortcuts from a selection of as many as 14 quick actions, including nearby food, malls, metro stations, and directions to home and work. The new feature is reportedly live for select users in India with Google Maps app version 9.72.2.…
[ad_1] Big brands have to reestablish trust with consumers on data safety, futurist Chris Riddell told CNBC at Credit Suisse’s annual Asian Investment Conference on Tuesday. Riddell, who describes his job title as “fundamentally seeing how technology is changing humanity,” said the world is currently experiencing a severe “trust crisis.” “People now are more willing…
[ad_1] Apple and IBM may seem like an odd couple, but the two companies have been working closely together for several years now. That has involved IBM sharing its enterprise expertise with Apple and Apple sharing its design sense with IBM. The companies have actually built hundreds of enterprise apps running on iOS devices. Today, they…
[ad_1] An Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, police said on Monday, marking the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle and a potential blow to the technology expected to transform transportation. The ride services company said it was suspending North American tests of its self-driving vehicles, which are…
[ad_1] Microsoft will test a new Windows 10 feature that would see users forced to use its Edge web browser under certain circumstances. Users could soon see links clicked in the Mail app launch Microsoft Edge – even when a rival web browser is set as the default browser on their PC. It’s a change…
[ad_1] Samsung will drop its built-in Movie Maker app when Android P launches later this year. The South Korean technology firm has warned users the app will “no longer be provided” when the Android P update arrives. Samsung has preinstalled its Movie Maker application for years. The software allows Galaxy owners to quickly edit footage…
[ad_1] Streaming content online has become hugely popular in recent years but some users may be putting themselves at risk. Although many services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, offer a safe environment to view online content there’s many streaming sites that could be rife with hidden dangers. According to new research from Carnegie Mellon…
[ad_1] Vancouver is now set to host a major international video game tournament this summer after organizers pulled the International Dota 2 Championships tournament out of its former home in Seattle. Dota 2 is a team-based multiplayer online battle game that has more than 10 million active players across the globe. In a blog post, the game’s Bellevue, Wash.-based developer announced the switch…
[ad_1] Dene elder Roy Ladouceur’s voice grows quiet as his eyes settle on a cellphone photo of a bison slaughtered by poachers. The animal from the Ronald Lake herd, which grazes in the boreal forest between Fort McMurray and the northern Alberta community of Fort Chipewyan, has been decapitated, its body left to waste away in…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t yet found the words needed to calm the market after the disastrous Cambridge Analytica story that broke Friday continues to pick up steam. Facebook shares plunged 6.8 percent on Monday and another 1.5 percent…
[ad_1] The same Russian online troll farm that meddled in the U.S. presidential election has also taken swipes at Canadian targets, including the country’s oil infrastructure and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Evidence is embedded in data made publicly available through investigations in the United States, where congressional probes have been examining Russian information campaigns following…
[ad_1] Those shares are still worth about $68.5 billion. Despite his losses, Zuckerberg is still the fourth richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, according to Bloomberg. With Monday’s plunge, Facebook shares are down about 2.6 percent year-to-date. The stock pared losses slightly during Monday trading. Cambridge Analytica made…
[ad_1] The “extraordinary” performance of growth stocks over the past year doesn’t mean those names are slowing down anytime soon, according to Goldman Sachs. David Kostin, Goldman’s chief U.S. equity strategist, told clients to stick with names in health care and consumer discretionary and resist jumping into value stocks. Top picks included Micron, Netflix and…
[ad_1] Color is looking to add a new test to its line of genetic testing, this time focusing on hereditary factors that may affect a person’s chance for being prone to cardiovascular complications like arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy. Called the heart health test, Color’s new test looks to isolate the genes that can be partially responsible…
[ad_1] Gaming is going mainstream, according to professional gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. And thanks to the strategic acquisition of live-streaming video game platform Twitch Interactive, Amazon stands profit from it. “I think that Amazon made an incredible play with the Twitch purchase,” Blevins said on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.” “Twitch is just obviously on the up-and-up…
[ad_1] Facebook shares plummeted Monday, breaking below a key psychological and technical level, and now it faces a bigger test. The stock fell hard after weekend reports that a political data analytics firm gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users. Analysts said the stock was holding above the lows of its recent trading…
[ad_1] The retail real estate market has been plagued by store closures within the past few years, including those from Best Buy, Walmart‘s Sam’s Club division and Toys R Us, most recently. Landlords are looking for solutions to lure shoppers back to their properties. More alliances with tech are being proposed as one solution at…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos kicked off Amazon‘s annual robotics conference with a scene straight out of a science-fiction movie. Amazon began its annual invite-only MARS conference on Monday. The conference is dedicated to machine learning, home automation, robotics and space exploration. Bezos posted a photo on Twitter posing with the dog-like Boston Dynamics robot, and wrote,…
[ad_1] Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s vice president of marketing, says that the company is “outraged and beyond disturbed” by the bombshell reports this weekend that firm Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million people. “If the allegations are true, this is an incredible violation of everything that we stand for,” Everson added in response to…
[ad_1] Facebook Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos is reportedly leaving after disagreements over how the social media network should handle the spread of disinformation, the New York Times reported. Stamos has been a vocal advocate for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook and for increasing corporate responsibility in the tech world. Stamos tweeted…
[ad_1] During CES, the single piece of electronics I spent the most time with, apart from my laptop and camera, was a Mattel Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game handheld. This decades-old device held the attention of John Biggs and myself through quite a few drinks as we navigated its arcane interface (eventually slaying the…
[ad_1] Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., left, and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc. On Monday, Facebook said it has hired a firm to conduct a “comprehensive audit” of Cambridge Analytica and the whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, who set off the firestorm. It suspended Cambridge Analytica from the site…
[ad_1] According to The Observer, Wylie’s position as a political strategist with advanced data science skills allowed him to score a British Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa, a U.K. work visa granted to only 200 people yearly. Before becoming Cambridge Analytica’s head of research, The Observer reported Wylie “had no clue that he was walking…
[ad_1] John Bazemore | AP A tract of land known to locals as The Gulch is shown Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, in Atlanta. As Atlanta vies to entice Amazon to build its second headquarters on the site, local leaders are studying a proposal to build a $5 billion project with more than three times the…
[ad_1] Bitcoin prices recovered above $8,500 Monday as global regulators took a tempered approach to cryptocurrency regulation ahead of the G-20 meeting Tuesday. The Financial Stability Board, a global watchdog that runs financial regulation for G-20 economies, took a cautious tone in a letter to members Sunday, responding to calls from some countries to crack…
[ad_1] Oracle stock fell as much as 4 percent on Monday after the company released mixed results for the third quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended on February 28. * Earnings: Excluding certain items, 83 cents per share vs. 72 cents expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. * Revenue: $9.77 billion vs.…
[ad_1] Brendan McDermid | Reuters John Chen, CEO, Blackberry BlackBerry shares rose about 5 percent after hours on Monday after announcing a new deal with Microsoft. The company said it will partner with Microsoft to provide a secure environment for Microsoft Office apps like Excel, PowerPoint or Word. The product will help business users access…
[ad_1] A self-driving vehicle made by Uber has struck and killed a pedestrian. It’s the first such incident and will certainly be scrutinized like no other autonomous vehicle interaction in the past. But on the face of it it’s hard to understand how, short of a total system failure, this could happen when the entire…
[ad_1] Ninja first confirmed to a Forbes contributor he was making more than $500,000 a month streaming “Fortnite” on Twitch. The gamer said a lot of his income is derived from Amazon Prime subscribers, who are allowed to donate to his Twitch channel, and his 5 million subscribers on YouTube. Twitch is a live streaming…
[ad_1] IBM is hard at work on the problem of ubiquitous computing, and its approach, understandably enough, is to make a computer small enough that you might mistake it for a grain of sand. Eventually these omnipresent tiny computers could help authenticate products, track medications, and more. Look closely at the image above and you’ll…
[ad_1] Instagram’s next big Stories feature could let you compliment or trash talk other people’s feed posts, or embed a “see post” button to promote your own. A TechCrunch reader sent us these screenshots of the new feature, which Instagram confirmed to us is appearing to a small subset of users. “We’re always testing ways…
[ad_1] Cambridge Analytica said Monday whistleblower Christopher Wylie is “misrepresenting himself and the company” in weekend reports alleging massive mishandling of Facebook user data. “Cambridge Analytica strongly denies the claims recently made by the New York Times, the Guardian and Channel 4 News,” the conservative research firm said in a statement. “The company’s detailed responses…
[ad_1] Executives at Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on digital ads for President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, were caught on camera suggesting that the firm could use sex workers, bribes, ex-spies and fake news to help candidates win votes around the world, a new investigation has revealed. The U.K.-based firm is…
[ad_1] There are plenty of choices out there if you want to learn a new language, but if you’re in Europe, chances are you’ve given Babbel a shot. The app, which started back in 2007 on the web, is celebrating its 10th birthday by expanding to the U.S. — a unique country that has proven…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The silhouette of Drew Houston, chief executive officer and co-founder of Dropbox Inc., is seen walking on stage during an event in San Francisco. Cloud storage company Dropbox’s initial public offering was oversubscribed, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday, indicating healthy demand for…
[ad_1] Facebook has hired a firm to conduct a “comprehensive audit” of Cambridge Analytica and the whistleblower who set off a weekend firestorm for the social media giant, the company said Monday. “We are moving aggressively to determine the accuracy of these claims. We remain committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people’s information,”…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump revealed his new plan to combat the opioid crisis on Monday in New Hampshire, a state hard-hit by painkiller and heroin addiction and overdose in recent years. The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference in…
[ad_1] Getty Images (L-R) Vice President and General Counsel for Facebook Colin Stretch, General Counsel for Twitter Sean Edgett, and Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Google Kent Walker are sworn in during a hearing before the Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee November 1, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A top official at…
[ad_1] Stifel’s Scott Devitt believes Facebook will face more government scrutiny after Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of the company’s users’ data. “Regulation in every industry is ultimately bad. And the internet companies broadly have had 20 years of lack of regulation, we’re heading into a new world as it relates to regulation,” he said Monday…
[ad_1] Over the weekend, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reported that Apple has apparently built out a microLED display laboratory in California for testing and manufacturing small batches of the next-generation screen technology, presumably for its iPhone and other devices. Apple had previously acquired microLED startup LuxVue in 2014. The news of a secret research lab…
[ad_1] There’s an unearthly market blooming in the Brazilian jungle. Aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin, along with small rocket builder Vector, have expressed interest in launching from an old rocket complex on Brazil’s Atlantic coast. The Alcantara base sits about 140 miles south of the Earth’s equator, making it a prime location for launching…
[ad_1] Facebook users are “finally starting to recognize that this is not the fun and games, innocent place they thought it was,” tech investor Roger McNamee said Monday. The social media giant is coming off a rough weekend, after reports late Friday of a massive mishandling of data by conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica —…
[ad_1] Facebook is eager to displace YouTube and Patreon in order to become the home of online content creators, so it’s testing a bunch of new ways for them to earn money and connect with fans. Facebook’s dedicated Creator app that launched in November on iOS will come to Android soon, and it’s also starting a…
[ad_1] Adriano Machado | Reuters The chief executive of Uber Technologies, Dara Khosrowshahi. Uber is temporarily halting self-driving car tests in all locations after a deadly accident. Programs in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Toronto will be paused after a woman was hit and killed overnight walking across the street in Tempe, Arizona. “Our hearts…
[ad_1] Bitcoin is behaving a lot like how the Nasdaq did during the dot-com bubble nearly 20 years ago, but the timeline is unfolding much faster, according to research published by Morgan Stanley Monday. The Nasdaq in 2000 and modern-day bitcoin both rallied 250 to 280 percent in their most “exuberant” periods ahead of bear…
[ad_1] Facebook is making it easier for video creators to make money on its platform, further luring them away from competitors like YouTube. The company announced in a blog post on Monday that it’s rolling out a paid subscription feature and ways for advertisers find sponsorship opportunities for its creators over the next few months.…
[ad_1] DigitasLBi vice president and group director of paid social Jeanne Bright gives an example. Say a person was looking at jackets on Nordstrom from their mobile phone while they were logged into the Facebook app. Then they open their computer to Facebook and sees ad from Nordstrom. “They are able to get a ping…
[ad_1] Tesla’s troubles manufacturing the Model 3 are far from over, according to a top Wall Street firm. Goldman analyst David Tamberrino reaffirmed his sell rating for Tesla shares, predicting Model 3 deliveries will come in below expectations. “We believe the company is tracking below its 2018 Model S/X guidance of approx. 100k units (an…
[ad_1] Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat has emphasized on eight-consecutive earnings calls that the umbrella company’s biggest head count growth has been in cloud, and that investment seems to be paying off: Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on last month’s earnings call that G Suite and Google public cloud now bring in more than $1 billion…
[ad_1] Pinterest is looking to continue to increase its portfolio of ads, though sometimes that can take a little while to see the light of day — and that includes a new-ish tool called Shopping Ads that’s slowly getting opened to more developers. Getting new ad formats is important for a smaller company looking to…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday his charitable trust sold shares of Facebook in light of the tech giant’s latest controversy over the use of its social media data. Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street” the negative Facebook headlines make investors “sick” of the stock, adding there’s some sentiment on Wall Street that Facebook…
[ad_1] Action cameras are a gadget that mostly cater to a person’s wish to see themselves in a certain way: Most people aren’t skiing off mountains or cliff diving most of the time, but they aspire to. The issue with most action cameras, though, is that even when you actually do something cool, you still…
[ad_1] Autonomous vehicles are increasingly becoming the shiny object in Silicon Valley. But the opportunity doesn’t just extend to cars driving around the streets of a major metropolitan area, and Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan hope to take it somewhere a little less obvious: the middle of an orchard. Cafiero and Donnellan are building an autonomously-driven…
[ad_1] The Asus ZenBook Flip S UX370UA convertible laptop with ultra-thin and lightweight design has been launched in the Indian market. Priced at Rs. 1,30,990, the new ZenBook Flip S UX370UA laptop will be available at retail outlets across the country. It comes with Gen 8 Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB LPDDR3 RAM, weighs…
[ad_1] Walmart is bringing Handy’s installation and assembly services to more than 2,000 of its 5,000 U.S. stores, the companies announced Monday. The service, available in 45 states, will offer Handy’s help in putting together televisions and furniture. Walmart shoppers can buy the option at checkout and schedule an appointment with Handy from 7 a.m.…
[ad_1] Carlo Allegri | Reuters President Donald Trump appears on stage at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 29, 2017. There may be a bias issue when former President Barack Obama is praised for using data to enhance his social media strategy and Donald Trump is not, crisis management expert Eric Dezenhall told CNBC…
[ad_1] Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s alerting users. Senator Amy…
[ad_1] Alphabet’s Google routinely fields product queries from millions of shoppers. Now it wants to take a cut of their purchases, too. The U.S. technology company is teaming up with retailers including Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Costco Wholesale, and Ulta Beauty. Under a new program, retailers can list their products on Google Search, as well…
[ad_1] The big data leak scandal over Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of Facebook users’ data will increase regulatory scrutiny over the social media giant’s practices, according to an analyst at a small research firm. On Friday night, Facebook announced that the company had suspended political analytics research firm Cambridge Analytica, suggesting it had not been…
[ad_1] Android P, the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, will seemingly block apps built for Android 4.1 and lower. Earlier this month, Google rolled out the Android P Developer Preview, and it looks like it will start blocking applications that are too old. As per latest reports, app developers will now be required…
[ad_1] The next stop on Salman’s trip is likely New York City, where the crown prince is expected to hold meetings on Wall Street and potentially with a group of American CEOs, according to sources. Saudi Arabia is trying to attract foreign capital to the kingdom, but an anti-corruption crackdown that swept up influential Saudis…
[ad_1] Most of us have hundreds or thousands of photos, documents, songs, and/ or movies spread out across our phones, PCs, and assorted online services. Consolidating everything and backing it all up is a pain, and things often get forgotten about or lost. WD wants to automate all of that and give home users a…
[ad_1] Shares of a software company that bought assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) toppled more than 50 percent on Monday after the company cut its revenue forecast and its chief executive resigned. U.K.-based Micro Focus International said it now expects revenue to fall anywhere between 6 and 9 percent for the twelve months ending…
[ad_1] Facebook shares fell over 3 percent in pre-market trade Monday after reports that Cambridge Analytica mined the data of over 50 million users of the social network without their permission. Cambridge Analytica worked on Facebook ads for President Donald Trump during the 2016 election. It was initially funded by conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and…
[ad_1] Women are increasingly more reliant on the internet to make purchases, while men still prefer bricks and mortar, according to a new survey from First Insight. The survey found that men are less likely to use Amazon to shop for the best price. Fewer men also subscribe to Amazon Prime, and fewer embrace mobile…
[ad_1] Ongoing tensions between the U.S. and China are unlikely to hinder the world’s second-largest economy from moving ahead quickly with 5G mobile networks in its domestic market, an analyst told CNBC. The fifth generation (hence the 5G name) of mobile networks aims to provide faster data speeds and more bandwidth to carry ever-growing levels…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for Android has been updated with a couple of new group-focused features. There is the ability to let users add a description to a group. This debuted on the beta versions for WhatsApp for Android and Windows Phone. The app also includes an option to enable searching of group participants directly from the Group…
[ad_1] Mondly, an app that helps you learn new languages, is launching an augmented reality based learning tool in its app. The augmented reality (AR) learning experience, dubbed MondlyAR, is launching now on the Mondly Android app on Google Play and will be available on iOS by the end of this month, the company says.…
[ad_1] Uber faces fierce competition across the globe. The controversial tech company has lost billions of dollars over the past few years amid its attempts to gain users and penetrate major markets: Last year it lost $4.5 billion — and $2.8 billion the year before. Softbank, which has invested billions of dollars in many ride-sharing…
[ad_1] Some of Nexon’s well-known titles include MapleStory and Dungeon&Fighter — the latter of which is very popular in China, according to Mahoney. He said that advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning can help the gaming industry keep players returning. “The topic of balance between different players is very important,” he said. “If we’re…
[ad_1] Intel Corp. said Thursday new computer chips designed to address vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this year would be shipped in the second half of 2018. Chief executive Brian Krzanich said the new chips would guard against hardware flaws dubbed Meltdown and Spectre which could leave millions of computing device vulnerable to hackers. Krzanich said the…
[ad_1] The mass production of electric vehicles is the next big investment opportunity in green technology, the chief executive of a private equity fund said on Monday. “Solar technology has been there for a long time. China has gotten wholeheartedly into it, reduced the cost to a ridiculous level right now to break even on…
[ad_1] Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Monday it would invest an additional $2 billion in Southeast Asian online retailer Lazada as part of its continued push into the region. Last year, Alibaba increased its stake in the Singapore-based firm from 51 percent to 83 percent with an additional billion-dollar investment. Alibaba acquired control of Lazada…
[ad_1] Bargain hunters could be in luck as Amazon begins it big Easter sale today. The offers began at midnight and will continue until March 26 with big savings on a range of gagets, gifts, games, fashion and accessories. Amazon currently has a unique Easter sales page on its website where customers can find all…
[ad_1] ChinaFotoPress | Getty Images Cars at the end of National Day Holiday on October 6, 2015 in Beijing, China. “I think everything is changing. As you know, Jack Ma mentioned about ‘new retail.’ I think the ‘new retail’ concept works well for SouChe,” Yuan said, adding that the company has connected more than 100,000…
[ad_1] Getty Images The new iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPhone 8S are displayed during an Apple special event at the Steve Jobs Theatre on the Apple Park campus on September 12, 2017 in Cupertino, California. Shares of several Apple suppliers traded sharply lower in Asia Monday morning trade following a report from Bloomberg that…
[ad_1] Macy’s wants to make checking out at its stores less of a hassle. The company will roll out a mobile checkout option, powered by its mobile app, to all full-line Macy’s stores by the end of 2018, CEO Jeff Gennette said Sunday at the ShopTalk conference in Las Vegas. The company is also adding…
[ad_1] Meanwhile, Facebook executives are not exactly sending a reassuring message to investors by unloading their shares at a rapid clip. Last summer, after Zuckerberg’s plan to create another class of stock to solidify his control of the company foundered, he announced he’d begin selling off up to 75 million shares (about 18 percent of…
[ad_1] Meanwhile, Facebook executives are not exactly sending a reassuring message to investors by unloading their shares at a rapid clip. Last summer, after Zuckerberg’s plan to create another class of stock to solidify his control of the company foundered, he announced he’d begin selling off up to 75 million shares (about 18 percent of…
[ad_1] Facebook said on Sunday it was conducting a “comprehensive internal and external review” to determine if the personal data of 50 million users that was reported to be misused by a political consultant for the Donald Trump presidential campaign still existed. The company said in a statement that it was trying to determine the…
[ad_1] Democrats have a 10-point lead over Republicans when it comes to voter preferences for which party should control Congress, according to the results of the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, in spite of President Donald Trump’s own numbers inching higher. Fifty percent of registered voters said they’d prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress in the…
[ad_1] When you get a new car, and you’re feeling like a star, the first thing you’re probably going to do is ghost ride it. This is where the Owl camera can come in. I’ve been testing Owl, an always-on, two-way camera that records everything that’s happening inside and outside of your car all day, every day…
[ad_1] Blair-Goldensohn expects more locations to join. A day after the product launched, a co-worker told him that the transit authority in an Argentine city had expressed interest. “Just having it out in the world is the best way to move the product forward, both in terms of getting feedback from users, from transit authorities…
[ad_1] At an annual fashion tech cocktail hour which had been previously dominated by women, Saxon noticed for the first time male investors attending the event. It was great news for Tot Squad because she often found the male investors she pitched would say they didn’t deal with these childcare issues, and would have to…
[ad_1] Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who revealed the role played by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica in obtaining data from Facebook users, said on Sunday he was blocked by the social media network. On Twitter, Wylie claimed his account was suspended after he spoke up about his role in an alleged scheme to secretly hold…
[ad_1] Apple iPhone and iPad users need to be aware of a scam e-mail that threatens their Apple ID could be blocked if they don’t respond within 24 hours. Apple users need to be aware of a convincing looking e-mail that threatens their login for iTunes, iCloud and the App Store could be disabled. The…
[ad_1] Chelsea will be hoping to avoid going out of two cup competitions in the same week. The Blues travel to the King Power stadium, where Leicester City are looking to inflict further misery on Antonio Conte’s team. Chelsea are without David Luiz and Ross Barkley, while Thibaut Courtois is left out in favour of Willy Caballero. Willian, Morata…
[ad_1] Love them ❤️or hate them ?, emojis are everywhere, spreading through our texts, social media posts, and emails. They’re in our inboxes ?, on the big screen ?, and even being used as evidence ? in courtrooms. Don’t let the cuteness of the pixel-sized peaches ?, smiley faces ?, and clapping hands ? fool…
[ad_1] A Calgary Zoo ecologist has helped develop new guidelines to protect frogs, salamanders and other amphibians impacted by human development on the prairies. “Amphibians are really sensitive because their skin will absorb all kinds of environmental contaminants or toxins,” said Leah Randall, a population ecologist with the centre for conservation research at the Calgary…
[ad_1] There’s always a new restrictive diet making its way across Silicon Valley. One of the more popular fads these days is the Whole30 diet, which involves cutting out grains, beans, alcohol, sugar, peanuts and dairy for 30 days. On the menu: fresh meat, fish, veggies and eggs. The diet originally took off on Instagram,…
[ad_1] Rumours have been rife for weeks that Apple is planning to unveil a new range of iPads and it seems a launch of these updated tablets could be imminent. The US technology firm has just sent out invites to a major even in Chicago on March 27 and this could be a perfect time…
[ad_1] Android fans have been warned after an “aggressive” form of malware was found to have infected almost five million devices. The malicious software has been dubbed RottenSys and it disguises itself as a tool to help manage Wi-Fi connections. But instead of doing that, the malware asks for sensitive Android permissions like silent download…
[ad_1] Google Chrome fans are being put on alert after an extension from the Chrome Web Store was found to have an extension that could compromise their laptop. Google Chrome is without a doubt the most popular internet browser in the world right now. Latest NetMarketShare stats for the first two months of 2018 give…
[ad_1] Samsung’s Galaxy S8 has just been superseded by the all-new Galaxy S9 and that means the discounts are flooding in. There’s already been plenty of price cuts in recent months but the latest deal from Amazon has to be one of the best and lowest to date. The online retailer has just slashed the…
[ad_1] Fans of WhatsApp should be on alert for another scam which has begun doing the rounds. This latest fake message, which appears to come from Heineken, suggests users can win free beer by following a link to an official website. Once clicked it not only tries to get hold of personal details but also…
[ad_1] Kodi add-on users are being called upon after popular repository TVAddons was dealt a big blow. Last month, a court reversed a decision that had gone in favour of TVAddons after the Kodi add-on repository was targeted by copyright holders. And now TVAddons has started an online fundraising page asking supporters to help them…
[ad_1] Samsung Galaxy S9+ is the South Korean company’s all-new flagship smartphone. The next-generation boasts top-of the-line specs, including a Qualcomm SnapDragon 845 chipset. The 5.8-inch Galaxy S9 boasts 4GB of RAM, while the 6.2-inch Galaxy S9+ packs 6GB of RAM. Likewise, the £999 iPhone X is powered by the Apple’s flagship 2.39 GHz A11…
[ad_1] This story is part of our series Water at Risk, which looks at Cape Town’s drought and some potential risks to the water supply facing parts of Canada and the Middle East. Read more stories in the series. Inside a high-tech control room that looks ripped from the pages of a spy thriller, specialists train their eyes on a wall of…
[ad_1] Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images A man walks past a sign for Baidu Inc. at the entrance to the Baidu Technology Park in Beijing, China, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. Chinese video streaming service provider iQiyi, a unit of search engine giant Baidu, has launched an initial public offering in New York…
[ad_1] Alexa just got a little smarter. Amazon has pushed an update to Alexa-enabled devices to make conversations more natural with the virtual assistant. According to technology blog CNET, Amazon Echo owners can now ask Alexa a follow-up question without saying the “Alexa” trigger word again. Before the update, Amazon Echo users had to start…
[ad_1] The more shocking something is, the more likely people are to read it. Especially when platforms have little moderation and are optimized for maximum engagement. Twitter’s well-documented spread of fake news is the poster child for this issue. The journal “Science” published a study this month looking at the pattern of the spread of…
[ad_1] The epic battle between Qualcomm and Broadcom seems to have hit a final ceasefire, with President Trump using the power of CFIUS to block the transaction this past week, ending what would have been the largest tech M&A transaction of all time. It may be all quiet on the semiconductor front, but Qualcomm and…
[ad_1] Manchester United will face-off against Brighton today. United will hope to put their premature Champions League exit behind them as they square-off against Brighton and Hove Albion in the FA Cup semi-finals today. Sevilla surprisingly dumped Manchester United out of the Champions League on Tuesday after winning 2-1 at Old Trafford. The defeat led…
[ad_1] The Massachusetts attorney general said on Saturday her office was launching an investigation after reports that Cambridge Analytica had harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign. “Massachusetts residents deserve answers immediately from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. We are launching…
