[ad_1] Valve has quietly updated the Steam page for the Steam Link. The message says that Valve is discontinuing the Steam Link. The device will become unavailable once all units have been sold. When Valve introduced the Steam Link in 2015, your TV setup was completely different. Google, Amazon and Apple just released Android TV,…
[ad_1] If your family is like mine, chances are you might find yourselves split up over the holidays. Some folks are on one coast and maybe some family members are traveling out of the country. Normally, you might video chat with individual families or people separately, but, now you can Group FaceTime with (almost) everyone…
[ad_1] Christophe Morin/IP3 | Getty Images News | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc. attends the Viva Tech start-up and technology gathering at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France. Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet are both down for the year. While…
[ad_1] Wall Street strategist Tom Lee told CNBC he remains bullish on bitcoin and bets on a recovery soon despite prices of the world’s largest cryptocurrency falling to their lowest levels in more than year on Tuesday. Last week, Lee cut his year-end bitcoin target to $15,000 from $25,000. In Tuesday’s CNBC interview, he stood…
[ad_1] In a statement emailed to CNBC Tuesday, Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin slammed Airbnb’s decision as “discriminatory” and called on the company to overturn the move. Levin said it was “a disgraceful and miserable decision, and a disgraceful surrender by the company.” The tourism minister also told CNBC he had ordered his office to…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos named 24 organizations that will receive a collective $97.5 million in grants for their work to help the homeless population, the Amazon CEO announced Tuesday. The announcement comes one week after Amazon’s HQ2 decision launched fears around displacement of affordable housing in the two locations it plans to move — Long Island…
[ad_1] Goldman Sachs now sees Apple’s earnings per year for calendar year 2019 at $13.40, roughly in line with the company’s last three years next-twelve-month average. The Cupertino, California-based Apple has cut production orders in recent weeks for all three iPhones launched in September, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The company stunned many…
[ad_1] Goldman Sachs slashed its Apple price target on Tuesday. The firm said in a note there is a “weakness in demand for Apple’s products in China and other emerging markets,” as well as a disappointing reception for the iPhone XR model. Facebook shares have slid 40 percent from their highs, as the company has…
[ad_1] The market for over-the-top (OTT) content, which is video content that is delivered over the Internet as an alternative to traditional media, will reach $5 billion (roughly Rs. 35,700 crores) in India by 2023, from $0.5 billion in 2018, according to a new report on Tuesday. This revenue growth is being driven by rising affluence,…
[ad_1] London has been called the financial technology (fintech) capital of the world. Consultancy KPMG found $16 billion was invested in the United Kingdom’s fintech market in the first six months of the year, outpacing China and the United States. London alone is home to 80 percent of the country’s estimated 1,600 fintech companies, according…
[ad_1] Earlier in September this year, Microsoft announced that Skype calling support was soon coming to Alexa devices. Now, Microsoft has finally introduced that support, and users of compatible Alexa devices like the Amazon Echo range can now ask the voice assistant to make calls via Skype through a simple voice command. Apart from making…
[ad_1] Amazon Echo is a hugely-popular device that comes in a number of models. The standard Amazon Echo is available in charcoal, heather grey, sandstone and walnut finishes. However, a stunning PRODUCT(RED) edition of the product is currently available to pre-order that will release on December 5. Amazon Echo comes with Alexa, the firm’s virtual…
[ad_1] Some cryptocurrrency analysts pointed to Securities and Exchange Commission enforcements against multiple cryptocurrency projects last week for the precipitous drop this week. The SEC announced its first civil penalties against cryptocurrency founders on Friday as part of a wide regulatory and legal crackdown on abuses and outright fraud in the industry. Others pointed to…
[ad_1] iPhone X was Apple’s top-tier flagship last year and introduced a radical redesign to the product line. The hardware comes with an all-screen design and a notch at the top housing the American tech giant’s Face ID system. Moreover, the device also comes with a dual-camera system that is incredibly capable and Apple’s A11…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 sales take place both online and in physical retail stores (Image: Getty) Black Friday 2018 will take place this Friday, November 23, where a host of items will be cut in price. The retail phenomenon occurs every year and sees myriad shoppers vying for the best discounts. Black Friday 2018 sales…
[ad_1] The Black Friday deals just keep on coming. Earlier today, EE and Virgin Media both announced fresh deals and now Three Mobile has revealed its big savings. The mobile network has slashed prices across a number of devices and also released the ultimate deal for those wanting data. Three says that all of its…
[ad_1] Google Photos for iOS now comes with a dedicated Depth slider to let you adjust background blur Google Photos for iOS has received an update that lets you adjust the background blur of your portrait photos, using the Depth slider. This depth editing feature was previously available on Google Pixel 3, Pixel 3, and…
[ad_1] Home-renting company Airbnb said on Monday it would remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move Israel called a “wretched capitulation” to boycotters and Palestinians hailed as a step towards peace. The decision, affecting some 200 listings, would take effect in the coming days, Airbnb said. Israel captured the West…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 officially begins in just a few days time but many retailers have already started cutting prices. Sky, BT and Virgin Media have all announced early sales with money off mobiles, TV and broadband. Now EE has revealed a fresh swathe of offers which include reductions on Apple’s iPhone, Samsung Galaxy and…
[ad_1] In Japan, shares of conglomerate Softbank declined by 4.77 percent while Nintendo dropped 5.02 percent. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix also fell on the back of a report from the Financial Times that Chinese authorities have alleged “massive evidence” of antitrust violations by the two chipmakers and Micron Technology. The report also…
[ad_1] Several users in the US and Europe late on Monday, and on Tuesday, reported that Facebook Messenger was not working for them. According to DownDetector.com, a portal that tracks when outages happen in the digital world, thousands of Messenger users were unable to receive messages, log in and connect to server. The outage began…
[ad_1] Google may shut down its Google News service in the European Union (EU) if a proposed “link tax” for using news stories comes into force in member countries, The Guardian reported. According to the new copyright directive, adopted by the European Parliament on September 12, tech giants must pay for work of artists and…
[ad_1] India’s ride-hailing company Ola on Monday announced the launch of its services across south-west England. The Bangalore-headquartered company, which describes itself as one of the world’s largest ride-hailing platforms, had unveiled its UK market entry plans recently starting with Wales. Now people in and around the city of Bristol can book rides on the…
[ad_1] John Lewis’ Black Friday 2018 sale has discounted numerous Apple products (Image: Apple • Getty) Apple recently debuted its new iPad Pro that boasts an all-screen design and comes touting a new A12X processor that offers blisteringly quick performance across iOS 12. However, other iPad models are also extremely capable and are now more…
[ad_1] Xiaomi is diversifying into a new range of phones as the Chinese smartphone maker announced impressive growth with its latest financials. The company announced it will take over selfie app maker Meitu’s smartphone business to go after new demographics, particularly women, while it lodged impressive 49 percent revenue growth in Q3. Xiaomi posted a net profit…
[ad_1] Galaxy S10 is expected to present a radical divergence from Samsung’s previous S-line of devices. Instead of introducing a number of incremental improvements, like the Galaxy S9 did from the S8, the S10 is anticipated to tout a substantial redesign both internally and externally. And it appears the South Korean tech giant could also…
[ad_1] If you make it free, they will come. Parks Canada’s free entry program for the country’s 150th birthday saw Canadians and other visitors flock to national parks and historic sites in record numbers. An extra 2.5 million visitors poured through the gates in 2017. In the first eight months of 2018, the number of…
[ad_1] When a Mi’kmaq hunter shoots a moose in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, the meat feeds children, hides are used in clothing, and there’s one fewer ungulate damaging the park’s vulnerable forest. However, some citizens question whether an average taxpayer price tag of slightly over $7,900 per animal has been justified. More than 120…
[ad_1] On an old-fashioned paper map, Mount Seymour’s Dog Mountain trail is a fairly easy hike to find. So why do so many people keep getting lost trying to find it? It may have something to do with hikers using smartphone maps to navigate trails. A search and rescue volunteer is raising the alarm about what he calls a dangerous…
[ad_1] Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is famous for using advanced, statistical analysis and software to gain a competitive edge in recruiting and to make up for his team’s limited payroll relative to the rest of the league. Beane, who was portrayed in “Moneyball,” Michael Lewis’ 2003 book, told CNBC’s Julia…
[ad_1] Drone delivery really only seems practical for two things: take-out and organ transplants. Both are relatively light and also extremely time sensitive. Well, experiments in flying a kidney around Baltimore in a refrigerated box have yielded positive results — which also seems promising for getting your pad thai to you in good kit. The…
[ad_1] The FAANG stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet — have fallen steadily over the last 6 weeks as the companies delivered disappointing earnings and mixed forecasts. Facebook in particular has been hard hit during this round of selling, falling to a new low for the year after a raft of negative…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (l) and Fiat Chrysler chairman John Elkann walk the grounds at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 12, 2018. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a new “shadow” adviser, a role that’s highly coveted inside…
[ad_1] To manage a growing used car business, Tesla is relying on outside firms, including Manheim and Adesa, according to two people familiar with the situation. These businesses help move and manage used cars, putting them through inspections, reconditioning and sales to wholesale customers. As it has ramped up vehicle production and sales, Tesla has…
[ad_1] The market sell-off is is crushing cloud stocks. Salesforce had its worst day since February 2016, plunging 8.7 percent on Monday to $121.01, leading a swoon in shares of companies that sell subscription software. Workday fell 7.6 percent, ServiceNow dropped 8.4 percent and Atlassian fell 8.7 percent. A number of cloud stocks plummeted more…
[ad_1] The joint health care venture by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan has hired a well-known health insurance exec who specializes in analyzing data to improve patient health. The group has scooped up Dana Gelb Safran, formerly a chief performance measurement and improvement officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachussetts, CNBC has learned.…
[ad_1] Technology stocks were hit hard on Monday, with some of the biggest U.S. companies leading losses across the sector. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 3 percent as it continued a 6-week slide. The index was led lower by Facebook, Apple, and Nvidia. Facebook’s stock hit its lowest level since February 2017 on Monday. Facebook…
[ad_1] Louis Ascui | Fairfax Media | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square Shares of payments company Square dropped 10 percent Monday as major tech stocks struggled to find footing. Square‘s stock fell 10 percent to roughly $63 after, bringing its one-month losses to 14 percent. Shares of the San Francisco-based company, run by…
[ad_1] Back in September, Microsoft announced a virtual desktop solution that lets customers run Office 365 and Windows 10 in the cloud. They mentioned several partners in the announcement who were working on solutions with them. One of those was FSLogix, a Georgia virtual desktop startup. Today, Microsoft announced it has acquired FSLogix. It did…
[ad_1] Thanks to science fiction, and the activities of private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, the prospect of humans in deep space seems closer than ever. While many people entertain the idea of traveling the universe, the concept is rosy but the dangers are sometimes downplayed. It raises the question of whether popular culture…
[ad_1] Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images A Chinese couple use their smartphones in a street in Beijing on May 29, 2016. There’s an Apple iPhone trick that people started talking about recently, and it’s really useful for editing blocks of text after you begin typing. The feature has been available since iOS 12…
[ad_1] According to Amazon’s Alexa terms of use, Amazon collects most of what you speak to Alexa. That includes any interactions with Alexa, the location of the product that Alexa is running on, and your voice instructions. Specifically, Amazon says this: Your messages, communication requests (e.g., “Alexa, call Mom”), and related instructions are “Alexa interactions,”…
[ad_1] About 8,000 light-years from Earth lies a star system unlike any astronomers have ever seen. And within that star system lies a ticking bomb: a large star that could one day produce one of the most powerful explosions in the universe, known as a gamma-ray burst. Gamma-ray bursts have been observed in other galaxies,…
[ad_1] Instagram is fighting back against automated apps people use to leave spammy comments or follow then unfollow others in hopes of growing their audience. Today Instagram is removing inauthentic follows, Likes, and comments that violate its policies from people’s accounts who use these apps; sending them a warning to change their password to cut…
[ad_1] Facebook is facing a mountain of problems. The social media giant’s stock fell nearly 5 percent on Monday, hitting its lowest level since February 2017, as the social media company came under fire after a damaging report about its top management in The New York Times. Facebook is poised to close its third straight…
[ad_1] Comedian Steve Carell, hosting NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, trolled President Donald Trump and Amazon‘s plan to split its new headquarters between New York City and Northern Virginia. The 56-year-old Carell portrayed Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in a sketch, saying some people have speculated whether the e-commerce giant was taking…
[ad_1] The world’s largest cryptocurrency dropped to its lowest level in more than a year on Monday. Bitcoin hit a low of $4,951.47, bringing its losses to more than 21 percent in the past seven days and more than 62 percent this year, according to data from CoinDesk. The digital currency began stumbling last week…
[ad_1] Chinese regulators approved Disney’s proposed acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox assets Monday, CNBC has learned, sending each company’s stock higher. Shares of Disney rose roughly 1 percent, after initially trading lower Monday morning. Shares of Fox rose 3 percent. The deal still needs regulatory approval from several countries, but the unconditional Chinese approval marks…
[ad_1] Nvidia continued to slide as much as 8 percent Monday before settling down around 6.5 percent. The chip-maker fell as much as 19 percent Friday after missing on revenue and guidance in its third-quarter 2019 earnings report. Nvidia was just one of several tech stocks that dipped Monday, including the FAANG stocks, some of…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s stock would rise if Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg resigned or was ousted, CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued on Monday. Cramer was discussing a new report in the Wall Street Journal, which described Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as causing “unprecedented turmoil” at the social network amid scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica scandal…
[ad_1] The Carbo is a new electric bike that weighs a mere 27 pounds and can pep up your morning commute. Created by the Montreal-based team that successfully shipped the Veco, this crowdfunded electric bike can collapse for travel and can go 40 miles with pedal assist and 28 miles on full automatic. Early birds…
[ad_1] Genies is emerging as the top competitor to Snapchat’s wildly popular Bitmoji as Facebook, Apple, and Google have been slow to get serious about personalized avatars. Over one million people have customized dozens of traits to build a realistic digital lookalike of themselves from over a million possible permutations. When Genies launched a year…
[ad_1] Earlier this year, with Facebook facing public scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica scandal and subsequent public disclosures, CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed the blame on second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Zuckerberg told Sandberg as much, the report says, in a conversation that rattled Facebook’s chief operating officer. Sandberg,…
[ad_1] Aiming to address the challenge of misinformation during the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly polls, WhatsApp on Monday conducted training for community leaders in Jaipur, in partnership with the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), the Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform said. The education workshop encouraged WhatsApp users to see themselves as “agents of change” by addressing socio-behavioural change…
[ad_1] The new year won’t wipe the slate clean for tech companies, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Benioff addressed issues facing Silicon Valley in a wide-ranging interview with journalist Kara Swisher that aired Sunday on MSNBC. When asked if tech could “redeem itself in 2019,” Benioff answered, “No.” “I think that these problems are…
[ad_1] Instagram has reported to a few of its users that their password information may have been compromised due to a bug in the new ‘Download Your Data’ tool. Instagram has confirmed that the URL shared while using the tool included the user’s password information as well, something that should not be the case. If…
[ad_1] Men, not women, are expected to be the big spenders this holiday season. Males are expected to head to the malls and browse the web, spending more than they have in the past, because they have more to choose from, and they’re not afraid to open up their wallets a little wider — for…
[ad_1] Windows 10 October 2018 Update appears to have once again run into hot water – this time, with Apple. To recall, Microsoft last week announced the resumption of the rollout of its Windows 10 October 2018 Update (aka version 1809) starting with commercial customers. The company had suspended the update after numerous bugs began…
[ad_1] ARis Oikonomou | AFP | Getty Images Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, speaks in Brussels, on October 24, 2018. Shares of Apple fell in the premarket Monday after a report said the tech giant has cut down on iPhone production orders. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation, that Apple…
[ad_1] Amazon last week with the India availability of the Fire TV Stick 4K, new Alexa Voice Remote, Echo Sub, and new Kindle Paperwhite in India also announced that a much-awaited feature was finally available here as well. Owners of both an Amazon Echo speaker (or another Alexa device) and a Fire TV Stick in India…
[ad_1] “We are looking into a number of businesses right now in this area,” said James Kohm, assistant director of enforcement at the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “It’s an area that’s rife with problems right now.” The agency says it has settled cases against 12 companies for more than $400 million, with two additional…
[ad_1] Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi said on Monday it swung to a net profit in the third quarter, beating analyst estimates, driven by robust sales in India and Europe. Profit for the three months through September reached CNY 2.48 billion ($357.23 million or around Rs. 2,560 crores), versus an CNY 11 billion (roughly Rs. 11,300…
[ad_1] “I wasn’t asking to pay in Bitcoin!” Plastiq CEO and co-founder Eliot Buchanan recalls with a laugh. “I went to pay part of my tuition at Harvard and I was told that they didn’t (and never would) accept credit card. It was inconvenient and seemed odd. Credit cards had been around for 50 years.”…
[ad_1] One of China’s biggest financial conglomerates announced its first venture into continental Europe on Monday. Ping An Insurance Group’s Global Voyager Investment Fund is leading the latest funding round worth 41.5 million euros ($47 million) for Finleap, a Berlin-based financial technology (fintech) company. Finleap provides technology to build digital solutions in Europe’s banking, insurance…
[ad_1] Apple has started deleting all WhatsApp Sticker apps from the App Store as these apps have found to be violating the company’s guidelines for developers, according to WABetaInfo — a fan website that tracks upcoming WhatsApp features. WABetaInfo says that the reasons Apple is taking this decision to remove WhatsApp Sticker apps is that…
[ad_1] Following its partnership with Amazon to integrate their two Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered assistants Alexa with Cortana, Microsoft has now started selling Amazon’s Echo devices in its retail stores. Amazon’s Echo Dot and Echo devices are available online and in Microsoft Stores in the US, The Verge reported on Saturday. Microsoft introduced Cortana on Windows…
[ad_1] Technology, automation, disruption. They’re the words of the moment and they all seem to suggest one thing: The future jobs market is far from certain. Estimates from the World Economic Forum predict that over the next four years, 75 million jobs will be displaced and 133 million new ones created globally as a result…
[ad_1] American rapper 2 Milly wishes to pursue legal action against Fortnite, for stealing and profiting off his signature dance move, ‘Milly Rock’, which brought viral fame for the Brooklyn-based artist and his crew over three years ago. The developers at Epic Games routinely lift from popular culture for its dance emotes — available via…
[ad_1] The launch of an Apple store on the Champs Elysees in Paris was greeted Sunday by a protest against the US multinational’s controversial fiscal practices. Activists from the tax campaign group Attac gathered on the celebrated boulevard, wearing coloured wigs and party hats, throwing confetti and chanting: “Apple, pay your taxes!” The group had…
[ad_1] Microsoft has launched a new app called Emoji8 that allows users to compare their own facial expressions to emojis and get evaluated with scores. “Emoji8 uses Windows Machine Learning (ML) to evaluate your facial expressions while you imitate a random selection of emojis. You can play on the app even when you don’t have…
[ad_1] The official Black Friday 2018 sales begin later this week but there’s already plenty of deals available right now. Argos, Currys and Amazon have all announced early savings and now John Lewis has revealed its big Black Friday sales event. The famous retailer has slashed prices across a range of products including money off TVs,…
[ad_1] Google is planning to launch a new feature that will enable users to leave in search results comments that could be seen by others, a help document tipped. While the feature has not yet gone live, an official Google help document has described how it would work, the Search Engine Journal reported on Saturday.…
[ad_1] Two years ago, Google and Temasek issued a report that said the region’s internet economy was expected to grow to $200 billion by 2025, primarily driven by growth in e-commerce. However, there was also a concern that there would not be enough money available for Southeast Asia’s tech economy to realize its potential, according…
[ad_1] ARis Oikonomou | AFP | Getty Images Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, speaks in Brussels, on October 24, 2018. Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t name names when he spoke out against the privacy practices of big tech companies during a keynote speech in Brussels last month. But he didn’t have to. “We shouldn’t sugarcoat…
[ad_1] Artifacts, sacred objects and the remains of ancestors will soon be returned to Rainy River First Nations from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, where they have been stored for more than 30 years. The Anishinaabe community in Northwestern Ontario is home to one of the largest known concentrations of burial mounds, located…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images An image of Mickey Mouse, the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company, is displayed outside the Disney Store in Times Square in New York City. Walt Disney entered a multi-year games development partnership with leading mobile gaming company Jam City, continuing the Mouse House’s foray into gaming and…
[ad_1] Redwood Meadows is now the first municipality in Alberta and one of just a few in Canada to divert disposable diapers from its landfill. The townsite launched its partnership with Calgary-based Soiled Diapers Composting Service on Nov. 12. Coun. Mike Decore said there’s a ton of demand. “We are quite a young community. We have a…
[ad_1] The Mustang Bullitt also offers magnetic suspension, equipped on our $51,385 tester. Using iron filings in the dampers that respond to electromagnets coiled around them, the suspension can adjust its stiffness 1,000 times per second as you go around corners to keep the car flat and stable. That, combined with direct and quick steering,…
[ad_1] Diane Greene announced on Friday that she was stepping down after three years running Google’s cloud business. She will stay on until the first of the year to help her successor, Thomas Kurian in the transition. He left Oracle at the end of September after more than 20 years with the company, and is charged with making…
[ad_1] Melissa Coppola might fit many people’s stereotype of unemployable art students: a 31-year old pianist and graduate student at the University of Michigan. But that would discount Coppola — and big changes at colleges that are making more artists into entrepreneurs, overhauling arts programs to teach entrepreneurial skills that grads need to thrive in…
[ad_1] Now TV has already started offering Black Friday deals with huge discounts on 12-month passes. The Sky-owned contract-free TV service has slashed the cost of its Sky Cinema, Sky Sports and Entertainment passes ready for Black Friday. Here are the best deals on offer from Now TV. Now TV has kicked started its Black…
[ad_1] Katsoudas invited Burden to join her for a panel discussion about mental health at Cisco Beat, a monthly company meeting that can include up to 15,000 or more employees connecting remotely. Burden also shared her story on an internal forum and got almost 50 comments and more than two dozen emails. Her colleagues began…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 may be a few days away, but that hasn’t stopped retailers from slashing the prices of products early. This includes internet retailer Amazon, which has cut the prices of some of its most popular Echo devices. If you’re in the market for a home assistant, you can grab a first-generation Amazon…
[ad_1] It takes a certain amount of willpower to start a company, but even more so when you’re taking money out of your future wedding to start it. For Steve and Angela Watts of Slyde Handboards, it seemed like a no-brainer. After racking up credit card debt, the couple met a dead-end in their body…
[ad_1] There are three very good offers available right now for Sky TV customers. With Black Friday 2018 just a few days away there’s a swathe of deals that have just been launched that even include the chance to grab a 4K TV for free. Sky announced this incredible giveaway last week and it continues…
[ad_1] MotoGP is entering the final round of the 2018 season, as the riders travel to Valencia for the season finale. After an eventful qualifying round, Maverick Vinales managed to secure pole position for Yamaha for the Valencia Grand Prix. Alex Rins enters the race in second, ahead of Andrea Dovizioso, Danilo Petrucci and champion Marc…
[ad_1] Currys Black Friday 2018 sale has cut the prices of products across both its online and physical outlets. Everything from 4K televisions to coffee machines are involved in the retailer’s Black Tag deals that commenced on Friday. Most importantly, all the products discounted are protected by Currys’ price promise. This means if you find…
[ad_1] Despite revealing a swathe of smartphone deals via its Virgin Mobile brand, Virgin Media is yet to announce its official Black Friday bargains. These ultimate offers are likely to be revealed later this week but, if you can’t wait that long, there is still a decent deal to be grabbed. Virgin has been running…
[ad_1] Galaxy S9 and S9+ released back in March and boast copious flagship features that make it appealing to Android fans. Both devices come with a signature Samsung AMOLED display and have minimal bezels on both the top and bottom. In fact, the Galaxy S9 and S9+ are two of the few top-tier flagship smartphones…
[ad_1] Galaxy Note 9 debuted back in August and comes packing a colossal 6.4-inch AMOLED display with vibrant colours and excellent viewing angles. The device also comes with a gargantuan 4,000mAh battery that can easily deliver all-day life. Moreover, the Note 9’s signature S Pen also received a noticeable upgrade with the Note 9. The…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and is a hugely-popular messaging service. In fact, WhatsApp is more popular than Facebook Messenger in terms of monthly users, according to figures by Statista. The chatting app is regularly updated by the tech company, meaning features are constantly being introduced and refined. WABetaInfo, a publication renowned for investigating…
[ad_1] It’s a video that looks convincing — former U.S. president Barack Obama speaking directly to a camera and calling current U.S. President Donald Trump “a total and complete dipshit.” But it never actually happened. The video was produced and voiced by director Jordan Peele and Buzzfeed to warn people of an emerging technology that…
[ad_1] Android 9 Pie debuted back in August and has since landed on a swathe of smartphones running the operating system. The new software grants access to huge new features such as Adaptive Battery that harnesses the power of machine learning to improve device life overall. Moreover, gesture controls are also prominent and Google has…
[ad_1] There’s no question that Chrome still dominates when it comes to web browsers. Google’s software has been installed over two billion times and recent stats suggest it now has a 53 percent share of the market. Although this way of accessing the web is hugely popular a new feature from Moziila’s Firefox could make…
[ad_1] Last year, 12,812 hectares of B.C. forest was sprayed with the herbicide glyphosate. It’s an annual event — a mass extermination of broadleaf trees mandated by the province. The eradication of trees like aspen and birch on regenerating forest stands is meant to make room for more commercially valuable conifer species like pine and…
[ad_1] Although black and white television is ancient history for most tech-savvy consumers, more than 7,000 households in the UK still use the monochromatic TV set. The UK’s licensing body, TV Licensing, revealed that curious fact last week, underscoring that despite the overwhelming migration to streaming and high-definition TV units, a small subset of consumers…
[ad_1] Ireland host New Zealand in tonight’s blockbuster Autumn International from Dublin. The All Blacks travel to the Aviva stadium for an intriguing match that’s too close to call. Ireland are the Grand Slam champions, but New Zealand are three-time World Cup winners and the number one ranked team in the world. And Ireland don’t…
[ad_1] Taking pictures on your smartphone in the dark is usually a lousy experience. The photos often come out dull, discolored, or blurry, unless you use a flash, in which case you’re stuck with an artificial shininess and red eyes. Without a tripod and the know-how to manually adjust your phone’s camera settings, capturing a…
[ad_1] Comcast Ventures had seen enough. Years of researching business models, seeing their own portfolio’s performance and watching digital media startups struggle had made an impression. For 2018, the venture capital firm made a decision: it would no longer put money behind advertising-driven media companies no longer made sense. “Starting an ad-supported business is really,…
[ad_1] WhatsApp already ruined Snapchat’s growth once. WhatsApp Status, its clone of Snapchat Stories, now has 450 million daily active users compared to Snapchat’s 188 million. That’s despite its 24-hour disappearing slideshows missing tons of features including augmented reality selfie masks, animated GIFs, or personalized avatars like Bitmoji. A good enough version of Stories conveniently…
[ad_1] The product costs $1500 up front, plus a $40 monthly subscription for unlimited live and on-demand classes. The business model is very similar to Peloton, the in-home spinning bike. But with MIRROR there is no bike, which opens up the exercises to be more body-weight focused. The most popular categories include yoga, pilates, boxing,…
[ad_1] According to a new report from Thurott, Microsoft has been working on a new console in the Xbox One family. This cheaper model could play regular Xbox One games, but there would be no Blu-Ray drive. This move would lower the price of the entry-level Xbox One. An Xbox One S officially starts at…
[ad_1] Apple has not run a Black Friday event in the past, instead the brand chooses to offer customers vouchers with certain purchases, so this year they may run something similar. However Apple products available at other retailers such as Amazon, Currys and John Lewis are reducing prices ahead of Black Friday. Here are the…
[ad_1] England are back in action again this weekend as they face Japan in the Autumn Internationals. Despite a tough year, the home side have had a better end to 2018 with a win against South Africa and narrow, one point, loss to New Zealand last weekend. Now they face Japan in game most will…
[ad_1] The duly-named Sport variant is extremely subtle thanks to its all-black design (Image: Express Newspapers) HUAWEI WATCH GT REVIEW • £199 (as tested) FOR – Subtle but functional design • Incredible battery life • Vibrant 1.39-inch AMOLED display • Applaudable fitness tracking AGAINST – Lacking the most fundamental smartwatch features • Huawei’s own software…
[ad_1] Audio Technica ATH M50x BT (Image: EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS) Audio Technica ATH M50x BT • £179 PROS – Great balanced sound • Relatively affordable • Good battery life CONS – Not the prettiest • Can be uncomfortable after long periods of use • Voice assistant is inconsistent Audio Technica managed to attain a cult following when it…
[ad_1] A load of space station supplies rocketed into orbit from Virginia on Saturday, the second shipment in two days. Northrop Grumman launched its Antares rocket from Wallops Island before dawn, delighting chilly early-bird observers along the Atlantic coast. The Russian Space Agency launched its own load of supplies to the International Space Station on…
[ad_1] The Galaxy S9 is facing some stiff competition right now. Huawei is giving Samsung a serious headache with the launch of its brilliant P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro flagships. If that wasn’t bad enough there’s now the arrival of more mid-range devices that offer flagship specs at a much lower price. A good…
[ad_1] There’s not long to wait until the big Black Friday bonanza gets underway. However, all the major retailers, including Amazon and Currys, have now released their early offers. Now Argos is joining the party with its own set of savings which are available from today. FIND THE ARGOS BLACK FRIDAY DEALS WEBSITE HERE There’s…
[ad_1] Google could pay upwards of $110 million, without subsidies, to buy large swaths of land in San Jose, according to a new city document detailing its negotiations with the company on its plan to build a mega-campus 15 miles south of its headquarters. The plan describes sites that cover around 21 acres, some owned…
[ad_1] Google touts itself as having the best technology for sophisticated machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads. The company also created the Kubernetes technology for virtual containers, which enables developers to easily move around code between machines and clouds. But when it comes to the big storage and core computing contracts, numerous industry experts, venture…
[ad_1] Southern California Edison told CNBC this week it has installed fire-monitoring cameras in Orange County and plans to put more across its service territory in Southern California. The unit of Edison International is also under scrutiny for its possible role in connection with another major wildfire, the deadly Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and…
[ad_1] The breakdown in shares of Nvidia is a prime example of why investors should never fall in love with a stock, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday as shares of the chipmaker hovered near their 52-week lows. The stock plunged as much as 19 percent after Nvidia’s third-quarter earnings report, which missed revenue estimates. Management’s…
[ad_1] Currys Black Friday 2018 sale commenced last week with a cavalcade of products seeing their costs cut. But now the outlet is upping the ante ahead of Black Friday itself by introducing Black Tag deals on even more items. Most importantly, all the products discounted are protected by Currys’ price promise, meaning the retailer…
[ad_1] Gamers have spent an estimated $135 billion on games in 2018, according to Newzoo. But it isn’t just the big-name gaming companies that are making tons of cash — the gamers are, too. Gaming enthusiasts have turned playing video games into a full-time job that can earn some of them millions of dollars before…
[ad_1] Channing Dungey, the president of ABC Entertainment, has resigned. Karey Burke, the head of original programming for Freeform, has been chosen to head the company. She will be responsible for all development, programming, casting, marketing, business and scheduling for ABC prime time and late-night. Dungey was the first African American to lead a U.S.…
[ad_1] Verily, Alphabet‘s life sciences arm, has paused work on its so-called “smart lens” program, which was aiming to put tiny sensors on contact lenses to measure blood sugar levels in tears. If it worked, the lenses could help diabetics track their glucose levels in real time and in less invasive ways than the traditional…
[ad_1] The Securities and Exchange Commission announced its first civil penalties on Friday against crypto founders who failed to register new coin offerings, part of a bigger regulatory and legal crackdown aimed at abuses and outright fraud in the growing digital currency industry. The SEC said it settled separate cases with start-ups companies Airfox and…
[ad_1] Management guru Jeffrey Sonnenfeld on Friday called for a leadership shake up at Facebook, slamming COO Sheryl Sandberg after her denial of a New York Times report that she ignored Russian activity on the social network and thwarted investigations. Sandberg should “probably should be replaced,” said Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies at…
[ad_1] Wall Street’s best-known cryptocurrency bull just cut his bitcoin price target nearly in half. Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, lowered his year-end target to $15,000 from $25,000 — still well above where the cryptocurrency was trading on Friday. A key driver was bitcoin’s “break-even” point, the level at which mining costs match…
[ad_1] Several U.S senators on Friday pressed Facebook for answers related to claims the company hired contractors to “retaliate against or spread intentionally inflammatory information about their critics,” according to a letter addressed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “We are gravely concerned by recent reports indicating that your company used contractors to retaliate against or…
[ad_1] Stoop is looking to provide readers with what CEO Tim Raybould described as “a healthier information diet.” To do that, it’s launched an iOS and Android app where you can browse through different newsletters based on category, and when you find one you like, it will direct you to the standard subscription page. If…
[ad_1] Technology stocks were hurt by a “challenging earnings season” last month but that’s created a window of opportunity in both Amazon and Facebook, J. P. Morgan internet analyst Doug Anmuth tells CNBC. The two tech giants are Anmuth’s top picks for the coming year. “Amazon obviously took its lumps in [the third quarter] after…
[ad_1] Diane Greene announced in a blog post today that she would be stepping down as CEO of Google Cloud and will be helping transition former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over early next year. Greene took over the position almost exactly three years ago when Google bought Bebop, the startup she was running.…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Volkswagen logo is displayed at Serramonte Volkswagen on November 18, 2016 in Colma, California. Volkswagen announced it’s to spend 44 billion euros ($50 billion) on new plants, electric cars, autonomous driving and mobility services. The war chest is to be spent in the four years between 2019 and…
[ad_1] Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google’s cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian. Google said on Friday that Kurian is joining Google Cloud on Nov. 26, and will take over the leadership role in early 2019. Greene will remain CEO of the…
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[ad_1] Airbnb is one of the big anticipated IPOs of next year and it’s finally giving the public a taste of its revenue for the first time in its ten year history. The home-sharing startup recognized “substantially more” than $1 billion in revenue in the third quarter, according to a memo to be publicly released…
[ad_1] Chipmaker Nvidia was a major beneficiary of the crypto-boom last year. But by now, the party is over and the hangover is starting to set in. In its disappointing earnings report Thursday, Nvidia executives outlined a drop in revenue for the current quarter based on lack of demand for its gaming cards. Cryptocurrency mining…
[ad_1] Yana Paskova | The Washington Post | Getty Images Long Island City, New York, where Amazon will place one of their new headquarter locations, as seen through the Queensboro Bridge on November 13, 2018. “And the truth is, heavy rain has already increased by 50 percent in the Northeast. So we can expect that…
[ad_1] Prince William criticized social media firms for failing to take action to prevent wide-spread issues such as cyber bullying and misinformation campaigns. In a speech delivered at the BBC on Thursday, the Duke of Cambridge said the sector had allowed “misinformation and conspiracy to pollute the public sphere.” “The tools that we use to…
[ad_1] Netflix and chill from afar? Facebook Messenger is now internally testing simultaneous co-viewing of videos. That means you and your favorite people could watch a synchronized video over group chat on your respective devices while discussing or joking about it. This “Watch Videos Together” feature could make you spend more time on Facebook Messenger…
[ad_1] “A wood structure will combust almost immediately. And studies show that once a wood structure has 4 or 5 percent of the building on fire, it becomes a total loss because there’s no stopping the fire,” said Ken Calligar, CEO of RSG 3-D, the company that’s bringing the panel to the U.S. for mass…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., holds a Nvidia Volta 125 Teraflops per second (TFLOPS) Tensor Core as he speaks during an event at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. Nvidia shares…
[ad_1] The new Final Cut Pro X update brings third-party apps and services directly within the editing interface Apple has introduced third-party workflow extensions and a host of new features for professional video creators in its update to Final Cut Pro X – its professional video-editing programme. The Final Cut Pro X update, now available…
[ad_1] Founded in 2013, Alector is viewed as one of the more ambitious bets in the biotech world. It is looking to cure Alzheimer’s disease, which is a holy grail in the biotech industry, as so many promising efforts have failed. There is currently no cure for the disease, which affects 5 million Americans. Alector’s…
[ad_1] BlackBerry raised its bets on artificial intelligence and cyber-security on Friday with the $1.4 billion (roughly Rs. 10,063 crores) purchase of California-based machine-learning specialists Cylance. The Canadian technology company, which dominated the smartphone market a decade ago, has shifted to selling software to manage mobile devices, as well as emerging areas like autonomous cars.…
[ad_1] Amazon’s Black Friday 10-day sale is now underway with the online retailer announcing a swathe of savings. The discounts began at midnight with the offers expected to continue until November 25. Some of the biggest savings to be found are on Amazon’s own-brand devices with the Echo smart speakers, Fire TV Stick and tablets…
[ad_1] The Black Friday phenomenon is an American import which has transformed into a fortnight long £10billion bargain bonanza in the UK. Today marks the start of Amazon’s Black Friday Deals Week, which Amazon confirms will feature at least 50 “deals of the day.” And Amazon’s discount deals will last through next week, ending on…
[ad_1] Sony Xperia XZ3 was the first device from the firm to come pre-installed with Android 9 Pie when it released at the start of October. Since then, the XZ Premium, XZ1 and XZ1 Compact have all received Google’s latest and greatest operating system in addition to the XZ2 and XZ2 Compact. However, it appears…
[ad_1] YouTube is about to crown a new king. T-Series, one of India’s largest record labels, will become the most-subscribed channel on the world’s most popular video site in the next couple weeks. At the beginning of the year, the company had 30 million fans, fewer than half of the following for No. 1 PewDiePie, the Swedish…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 falls November 23, meaning the countdown to the UK’s busiest shopping day of the year has begun. Last year saw carnage at the checkouts and queues stretching around the block. So what can shoppers expect to see at Tesco on Black Friday 2018? Tesco has remained tight-lipped about this year’s Black…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 falls on November 23 and is followed up by Cyber Monday on November 26. This means technology is set to see some serious price cuts. Currys PC World is one of the UK’s leading tech suppliers and is beginning the annual bargain bonanza early. Currys PC World predicts canny customers will…
[ad_1] Virgin Media has stated it “strongly disagrees” with the conclusion reached by Ofcom (Image: Getty • Virgin) Virgin Media has been fined £7million while EE has been hit with a staggering £6.3million charge. Ofcom explained such a conclusion was reached after it carried out an investigation into early exit charges from both providers. The…
[ad_1] This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.) This week: Do you know your smartphone’s carbon footprint? You should Green investing is a feel-good moneymaker Wind-solar power just reached a…
[ad_1] “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Scientists and journalists alike were reminded of that oft-quoted phrase by famed cosmologist Carl Sagan when authors of a study published in Nature admitted this week that they needed to issue a correction. The study was widely covered by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, BBC and…
[ad_1] Nintendo is gambling that it can sell millions of Switch consoles this holiday season by introducing new Pokemon games that interact with the free-to-play mobile hit Pokemon Go, as well as a new character that resembles a hex nut. Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee go on sale Friday globally, the first titles…
[ad_1] Google Pixel 3 released at the start of the month and boasts a cavalcade of flagship features that make it appealing for Android enthusiasts. Pixel 3 comes with a 5.5-inch display while the Pixel 3 XL boasts a 6.3-inch panel. Both feature P-OLED technology, meaning content appears vibrant and viewing angles are sublime. Pixel…
[ad_1] In 2012, McKinsey Global Institute discovered that the typical high-skilled worker spends 28 percent of their working week handling email-related tasks. If you find that you’re looking over your emails incessantly and it’s distracting you from completing tasks, one approach is batch processing. “Check it two or three times a day. So, you set…
[ad_1] As with any new technology, terms can enter people’s vernacular before they are fully understood. “We should also always be really careful I think about the use of the term AI, and in this context you don’t want to suggest that this anchor is actually exhibiting any intelligence, because it’s not, it’s just like…
[ad_1] Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday night responded to a New York Times report that described how the company ignored and then tried to conceal Russia’s use of the social network to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election. In a Facebook post, Sandberg acknowledged that she and founder Mark Zuckerberg were “too slow”…
[ad_1] Galaxy S10 is the presumed name given to Samsung’s next flagship smartphone. Just like other Galaxy S-line devices it is expected the S10 will be announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC), an annual technology show that takes place in Barcelona every year, before its official release. Unlike the Galaxy S9, it has been rumoured…
[ad_1] Microsoft has announced to acquire a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and bot development company Xoxco for an undisclosed sum. Texas-based Xoxco has been paving the way in conversational AI since 2013 and was responsible for the creation of Howdy, the first commercially available bot for Slack that helps schedule meetings. “It also developed Botkit…
[ad_1] Huawei CEO Richard Yu gives a press conference to present the new Huawei Balong 5G01, a 3GPP 5G commercial chipset on February 25, 2018 in Barcelona, on the eve of the inauguration of the Mobile World Congress (MWC). Earlier this year, six top U.S. intelligence officials warned American consumers not to buy Huawei phones.…
[ad_1] Currys Black Friday 2018 has seen everything from televisions to household appliances slashed in cost and the retailer has insisted it will host “Black Tag” deals in the build-up to the big day. Explaining its Black Friday plans, Currys said: “You’ll be pleased to know that we’ll have Black Tag deals running in the…
[ad_1] Windows 10 October 2018 Update was initially released on October 2 during a Microsoft hardware event in New York City. However, following its initial debut, a number of users reported issues concerning unexpected file deletion. This resulted in Microsoft pausing the delivery of the new Windows 10 version until it had fixed the issues…
[ad_1] A conservation area in British Columbia’s southeast mountains is being expanded by almost 8,000 hectares with the help of federal and provincial government contributions totalling $14.6 million. The Darkwoods Conservation Area, located along Kootenay Lake between Nelson and Creston, provides habitat for 40 species at risk, including grizzly bear, wolverine, mountain caribou and whitebark…
[ad_1] The wildfire situation in California is now the deadliest in the state’s history, with at least 50 people killed, more than 100 missing or unaccounted for and the town of Paradise almost entirely destroyed. But the footage coming out of affected communities tells an unexpected story, says a U.S. fire expert — one that could have lessons…
[ad_1] Back in October, Justin Wheler, Executive Director of Regulatory and Compliance at Alberta Climate Change, told a symposium at the University of Alberta that if year to date trends hold, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity generation in the province are expected to decline by a net eight megatonnes for this calendar year. To put this in perspective, that is a three per…
[ad_1] Newfoundland and Labrador is in the throes of the “most intense storm” on the planet, according to a meteorologist in Gander. Wild, whipping winds gusting upwards of 130 km/h are causing huge waves, delays, cancellations and closures across the province. “[It’s] not fun to be out in, or drive anywhere in,” said Tabea Fiechter, a meteorologist with the weather office in…
[ad_1] Hundreds of sea lions have descended upon the waters of Cowichan Bay off the east coast of southern Vancouver Island this fall. And while they return to this area every year to grab some grub and lounge about, their sheer numbers have taken many locals and tourists by surprise. Simon Pidcock, owner of Ocean EcoVentures in Cowichan Bay,…
[ad_1] The brutal Saskatchewan windchill didn’t seem to bother the donkey and the horse as they picked away at a bale of hay on a small farm northwest of Regina. You’d never know the pair had only lived together for a couple weeks, or that they saved each other’s lives. At a small farm, northwest of Regina, a grey…
[ad_1] I like E3 . I really do. But it’s also monumentally dumb: game companies spending millions to show off essentially faked content to an increasingly jaded audience. And it’s increasingly out of step with how the gaming industry works. So it should come as no surprise that Sony will be skipping the show more…
[ad_1] When newlywed Akihiko Kondo returns from work at a middle school in a Tokyo suburb, he is greeted by the love of his life, who lights up — literally — in welcome. His wife, Hatsune Miku, is not flesh and blood but a computer-generated hologram. Her ethereal existence did not stop Kondo, 35, from strengthening his commitment to her…
[ad_1] Crosley, makers of the “good enough” record players you see in Urban Outfitters and Target, have turned their retro novelty eye on the next obvious format: cassettes. These two new decks from the company have all the latest features from 1985, but also a handful of modern conveniences. Let’s get one thing clear at…
[ad_1] Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that’s so different from other living things that it doesn’t fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms. Two species of the microscopic organisms, called hemimastigotes, were found in dirt collected on a whim during a…
[ad_1] The FCC’s space-focused meeting today had actions taken on SpaceX satellites and orbital debris reduction, but the decision most likely to affect users has to do with Galileo . No, not the astronomer — the global positioning satellite constellation put in place by the E.U. over the last few years. It’s now legal for…
[ad_1] [The stream is slated to start at 3:46 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] SpaceX is ready to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Thursday as it tries to put a large communications satellite in orbit for Qatar-based Es’hailSat. This mission…
[ad_1] Uber announced today at the 2018 Uber Open Summit that it was joining the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member, making a firm commitment to using and contributing to open-source tools. Uber CTO Thuan Pham sees the Linux Foundation as a place for companies like his to nurture and develop open-source projects. “Open source…
[ad_1] Microsoft has developed open-source software for crafting artificial intelligence models. But in recent months, the company has changed course, opting to work more closely with Facebook and contribute to the development of Facebook’s own flavor of free AI software. Microsoft hasn’t made a big deal about the change. But it reflects a willingness to…
[ad_1] Nvidia stock fell as much as 16 percent Thursday after the company reported earnings for the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year, which ended on Oct. 28. Executives will discuss the results with analysts on a conference call at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $1.84 per share, excluding…
[ad_1] Apple has entered a multi-year agreement with entertainment company A24 to create produce films for the company, sources familiar with the agreement told CNBC. The movie deal comes as Apple is ramping up its foray into original content. The company plans to give away free movies and TV shows to device owners sometime next…
[ad_1] It’s been 14 years since Mark Shuttleworth first founded and funded Canonical and the Ubuntu project. At the time, it was mostly a Linux distribution. Today, it’s a major enterprise player that offers a variety of products and services. Throughout the years, Shuttleworth self-funded the project and never showed much interest in taking outside…
[ad_1] Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, participates in an event hosted by the Air Force Association September 19, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. Just days before Amazon announced the big winners of its HQ2 sweepstakes, CEO Jeff Bezos had…
[ad_1] As large organizations grapple with adopting modern work practices without throwing out all of their legacy software, a company that works with them is making an acquisition that it hopes will help with that process. Citrix today is announcing that it has acquired Sapho, a startup that develops “micro apps” for legacy software so that…
[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said the company will establish an independent body to oversee user appeals of content removal, one day after a bombshell report…
[ad_1] Christophe Morin/IP3 | Getty Images News | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc. attends the Viva Tech start-up and technology gathering at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France. Facebook on Thursday released its latest report on the removal of harmful content…
[ad_1] Chesnot | Getty Images Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to participants during the Viva Technologie show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France. Facebook’s board said Thursday it pushed CEO Mark Zuckerberg and second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg to “move faster” on investigating Russian interference on the…
[ad_1] FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has revealed his plans to combat underage use of e-cigs and nicotine, which has grown 78 percent among high school students from 2017 to 2018. The commissioner today announced a plan that would remove all flavored electronic nicotine delivery system products — with the exception of tobacco, mint, menthol, or…
[ad_1] Walmart has been making huge investments to boost its online shopping operations, but it’s still “trying desperately to catch up,” former Target Vice Chairman Gerald Storch told CNBC on Thursday. “If Walmart had made the kind of investments they’re making today, there would have been no Amazon,” Storch said on “Squawk Alley.” For example,…
[ad_1] David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management sold its Apple position since end of the third quarter, according to sources familiar matter. The stake was just a small trading position, the sources said; Appaloosa’s 13-F filing released this week showed a new position in Apple of 100,000 shares worth just $22.3 million by the end of the…
[ad_1] Longtime investor Paul Meeks believes it could take months until the Nasdaq stages a sustainable comeback. Meeks, who ran the world’s biggest tech fund for Merrill Lynch during the dot-com boom and subsequent collapse, predicts the correction gripping the tech-heavy index will only get deeper due a particularly hard-hit group of stocks, which doesn’t…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday mocked what he called a belief on Wall Street that Apple‘s stock is one more negative analyst note away from being finished for good. Wall Street analysts, who have recently been peppering Apple’s stock with downgrades, are concerned the tech giant will suffer declines in iPhone unit sales over…
[ad_1] The Raspberry Pi Foundation just announced a brand new model. The Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ is basically a flagship Raspberry Pi on a smaller printed circuit board, with a few compromises. It costs $25, or $10 less than the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. The lineup is getting slightly confusing but bear with…
[ad_1] The market for RPA — Robotic Process Automation — is getting a hat trick of news this week: Automation Anywhere has today announced that it has raised $300 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. This funding, which values Automation Anywhere at $2.6 billion post-money, is an extension to the Series A the company announced…
[ad_1] The president of George Soros’ foundation blasted Facebook executives over allegations that the company had funded a Republican-opposition research firm to discredit Soros in part by leveraging anti-Semitic sentiment toward the billionaire liberal donor. The New York Times initially reported the allegations Wednesday evening as part of an investigation into Facebook’s handling of data…
[ad_1] At least four Apple suppliers have cut their revenue forecasts this week, fueling speculation that Apple is scaling back manufacturing of the iPhone. Apple said earlier this month it would stop reporting individual unit sales and revenue figures for the iPhone, leading some to speculate that the company has something to hide. Reports that…
[ad_1] We hear so much about managing the customer relationship, but companies have to manage the products they sell too. Propel, a Santa Clara startup, is taking a modern cloud approach to the problem, and today it landed an $18 million Series B investment. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners. Previous investors Cloud…
[ad_1] YouTube Premium, the paid streaming subscription service, and YouTube Music Premium is being rolled out to seven new countries, taking the services to 25 and 21 global markets, respectively. Initially launched in June and formerly known as “YouTube Red“, YouTube Premium gives users access to advertisement-free video streaming. The new countries are Chile, Colombia,…
[ad_1] Ford is road testing its autonomous vehicles in partnership with the city of Miami, as the legacy automaker hopes to capitalize on the emerging technology in ride-share and business delivery. The automaker has been testing a Ford Fusion equipped with autonomous vehicle tech, or AV, in Miami since February. It chose the city because…
[ad_1] As I write this, I’m somewhere in Asia, with a bag full of assorted cables and devices. I’ve gotten better at packing light, but I’ve still got a ways to go. Certainly there’s something to be said for those products that can pull double duty — take the new Huawei phone or most recent…
[ad_1] Indian start-up Oyo, backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group, said on Thursday it had appointed former IndiGo airline president Aditya Ghosh as chief executive officer of its hotels business in South Asia. Oyo, which has presence in more than 500 cities across India, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, UAE and the United Kingdom, recently introduced homes…
[ad_1] Rocket Lab’s year began with reaching orbit, and the company has not slowed down since. The company doubled its global workforce to 330 employees, with Spice joining as CFO earlier this year after nearly 20 years in the semiconductor industry. He has done about 60 acquisitions in his career, which Spice said is one…
[ad_1] Docker and Mulesoft have announced a broad deal to sell products together and integrate their platforms. As part of it, Docker is getting an investment from Salesforce, the CRM giant that acquired Mulesoft for $6.5 billion last spring. Salesforce is not disclosing the size of the stake it’s taking in Docker, but it is…
[ad_1] AMD is introducing a new mid-range GPU, the Radeon RX590, in order to captialise on demand from users looking to upgrade but not spend too much. The Radeon RX590 is not based on a new architecture, but instead a refresh of the current mainstream Polaris architecture. It is AMD’s first GPU to be manufactured…
[ad_1] There’s a lot to like about the iPad Pro. (There are 11-inch and 12.9-inch models. I tested the former.) Both models ditch the home button and use Face ID. That means, like Apple’s newest iPhones, it’ll unlock in a split second right when you look at it. The home button is gone and there’s…
[ad_1] Raspberry Pi 3’s Model A+ sports a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core processor Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ has been launched a trimmed down version of the powerful Pi 3 Model B+. The successor to the original Raspberry Pi 1 Model A+, this comes is a cheaper variant of the Pi 3 Model B+. They are…
[ad_1] JIJI PRESS | AFP | Getty Images Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, the deputy chief of the government’s cyber security strategy office has provoked astonishment by admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life. In a stunning admission, Japan’s new minister in charge of cybersecurity has admitted that he has never used a…
[ad_1] The Activity feature on Instagram is aimed to offer well-being of the users Instagram is now rolling out its own Your Activity feature that would track how much time users spend on the app. The feature, which lies inside the “hamburger” icon on the upper right corner of your profile page, includes tools for…
[ad_1] Apple shares are now 3 percent below the 200-day moving average, a level it broke on Tuesday. “I do see a tremendous amount of support down at $182,” Baruch said. “If we can get back above that 200-day moving average, remain constructive on that path, I think $204 to $207 could be in the…
[ad_1] It has never been easier to launch a satellite into space. But EnduroSat wants to make it even easier by making CubeSats more affordable thanks to a unique platform. That’s why I’m excited to announce that EnduroSat CEO Raycho Raychev is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin to talk about his platform. Many industries have…
[ad_1] The European Union needs to stand up to President Donald Trump and push through a digital tax on tech companies, France’s finance minister said Thursday. In an on-stage discussion with CNBC’s Karen Tso at the Women’s Forum Global Meeting in Paris, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said EU countries must overcome their differences…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: TechCrunch Facebook Messenger to allow users to delete sent messages After deleting CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s messages from several recipients’ inboxes without any intimation in April this year, Facebook faced a lot of backlash from users across regions regarding transparency. To soothe people’s anger, Facebook had then confirmed that it will roll out…
[ad_1] 2018 has been a lot of things but one word seems to sum it up best: toxic. At least that’s according to Oxford Dictionaries’ official word of the year selection. The British publisher said “toxic” beat out other expressions including “techlash” and “gaslighting” thanks to the “sheer scope of its application.” “In 2018, toxic…
[ad_1] If data is the new oil, you might think of apps are the cars that need it to move. Now, a startup that has built a platform to let everyone — not just those with technical expertise — make and drive their own “cars” has raised a significant round of funding to grow its…
[ad_1] In 2017, Google rolled out a new feature that let users in a few regions to message businesses from Business Profiles on Google. Now, the same feature is coming to Google Maps. Users will now be able to see their messages with the businesses they connect with via Business Profiles within the Google Maps…
[ad_1] OnePlus continues to shake-up the smartphone market with it offering feature-packed devices at a fraction of the cost of its rival flagships. The latest OnePlus 6T comes flaunting a stunning 6.4-inch display, dual-lens camera and fast Qualcomm processor. There’s also an embedded fingerprint scanner under the screen and this refreshed phone includes a larger…
[ad_1] YouTube is about to crown a new king. T-Series, one of India’s largest record labels, will become the most-subscribed channel on the world’s most popular video site in the next couple weeks. At the beginning of the year, the company had 30 million fans, fewer than half of the following for No. 1 PewDiePie, the…
[ad_1] Currys Black Friday 2018 sale started last week and features a number of appealing offers. The outlet has already detailed its Black Friday plans ahead of the highly-anticipated event. Currys will be offering Black Tag deals ahead of November 23 across its retail stores and online shop, meaning customers can take advantage of savings…
[ad_1] On the evening of September 26, Bailey Richardson logged in to Instagram for the last time. “The time has come for me to delete my Instagram,” she wrote to her 20,000 followers, using her white pants as a canvas. “Thanks for all the kindnesses over the years.” Richardson’s decision isn’t novel: 68 percent of Americans…
[ad_1] The Black Friday phenomenon has become a traditional start to the Christmas shopping season. Black Friday sees retailers unveil their biggest discounts of the year. Think of it a little like the Boxing Day sales in the UK. Vodafone remain at the forefront of the mobile phone retailers. Vodafone customers can look forward to…
[ad_1] Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday felicitated the six winning teams, including three from India, of the first India-Singapore Hackathon, a platform for the youth of the two countries to harness and showcase their innovations. The top six teams, three each from India and Singapore, participated in a 36-hour long Hackathon Grande Finale here.…
[ad_1] Twitter is rolling out an update for iOS users in the US where they can see tweets they care about the most in the search tab via new “sections”. Currently, the Twitter search tab in the iOS app offers a vertically scrolling list of trending topics. The users can now move horizontally to view…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 starts in just over a week but Amazon is kicking things off early this year. Its official Black Friday sale event begins tomorrow with a 10-day event continuing until November 25. Amazon is boasting that this will be its “biggest ever” Black Friday sale with thousands of deals on the latest…
[ad_1] French hardware startup Netatmo got acquired by the biggest manufacturer of switches and sockets in the world, Legrand. Terms of the deal are undisclosed. Legrand and Netatmo already collaborated together on some products. Back in 2017, the company announced that it would work with industrial groups to connect everything in your home, starting with…
[ad_1] A Japanese minister in charge of cyber-security has provoked astonishment by admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life, and appearing confused by the concept of a USB drive. Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, is the deputy chief of the government’s cyber-security strategy office and also the minister in charge of the Olympic…
[ad_1] India’s prime minister has shown that inspiration can come from all directions: Narendra Modi says he looks to the likes of Facebook and Twitter as an inspiration for his own goals. Modi said the success of such platforms have set the bar for the speed and extent to which technology can change people’s lives.…
[ad_1] Sad news for anyone into giant robots: Google is closing down Schaft, its secretive unit that develops bipedal robots aimed at helping out in disaster efforts and generally looking badass. The news was first reported by Nikkei, but Google confirmed to TechCrunch that the business will be shuttered. It said it is helping staff find new…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies said on Wednesday that growth in bookings for its ride-hailing and delivery services rose 6 percent in the latest quarter, the third quarter in a row that growth has remained in the single digits after double-digit growth for all of last year. The San Francisco-based firm lost $1.07 billion (roughly Rs. 7,700…
[ad_1] Switzerland has launched an investigation into a number of its financial companies, including big banks like Credit Suisse and UBS. WEKO, the country’s competition watchdog, said Thursday that it will investigate some of the biggest financial firms for a suspected boycott of mobile payment solutions such as Apple Pay and Samsung. The list of…
[ad_1] Tencent beat third-quarter profit forecasts on Wednesday but gave no update on a regulatory block in China, the world’s largest gaming market, that has damaged its core business. China has imposed tougher rules on the gaming industry, including a halt to new game approvals as part of a regulatory overhaul and calls to tackle…
[ad_1] Sony has had another stellar year with numerous flagships launching in 2018 including the new XZ3 which arrived in the autumn. This phone packs a stunning 6.1-inch OLED display, wireless charging and striking design. You can buy the XZ3 for £699 with contract prices starting from around £28.99 per month. If that sounds a little…
[ad_1] London's AI sector saw a 200 percent venture capital funding increase between 2015 and 2017. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Galaxy S9 released back in March and was certainly more of an iterative upgrade than a substantial reimagining of flagship hardware. That is because the device retained extremely similar aesthetics to the Galaxy S8. However, the S9 did introduce a few design changes, such as moving its fingerprint reader below its camera module, to…
[ad_1] The Amazon Echo has just received a major update (Image: AMAZON) Echo owners can now make these popular devices a little more personal with a new update that’s just been released in the UK today. Amazon has announced that users can now access the Alexa Skill Blueprints which offer a wide variety of personalised…
[ad_1] Netflix is testing a mobile-only subscription plan in Malaysia priced at roughly half its current basic plan in the country, the global leader in video streaming said on Wednesday. Netflix’s mobile only plan costs just MYR 17 ($4.05 or roughly Rs. 292) a month, compared to its Basic plan which costs MYR 33 ($7.87…
[ad_1] Huawei P20 Pro released back in April and was instantly recognisable for its Twilight colour and triple-camera system. The gradient finish on the P20 Pro changed colour depending on where the light was hitting it and was hugely popular amongst Android enthusiasts. Moreover, Huawei P20 Pro’s trio of snappers allowed it to capture incredible…
[ad_1] Snapchat’s parent company Snap said Wednesday US officials are looking into how forthright the company was with aspiring investors prior to its stock market debut last year. Snap has been responding to subpoenas and request for information from the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission, a spokesperson said in response to an…
[ad_1] Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL went on sale earlier this year with both devices offering a faster processor, refreshed design and extras such as wireless charging. The larger XL also received a new edge-to-edge display which now covers more area across the front of the phone. The already brilliant Pixel camera was also…
[ad_1] Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum announced plans on Wednesday to create a “Dawn of Life” gallery that will tell the story of the earliest life on Earth. The Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life, which would be the first of its kind in North America, will contain a collection of fossils from across Canada. ROM officials say the…
[ad_1] As of 10:12 a.m. HK/SIN (9:12 p.m. ET Wednesday), Ether had a higher market cap of $18,646,767,074, compared with XRP’s $18,590,683,419, according to data from Coinmarketcap.com. This was corroborated by data from Coindesk as of 10:14 a.m. HK/SIN (9:14 p.m. ET Wednesday), which showed XRP having a higher market cap of $18.15 billion, versus…
[ad_1] Huawei is working on its own voice assistant that works outside of China, potentially pitting it against software produced by Google and Amazon. In China, Huawei has its own voice assistant called Xiaoyi which operates in its smart speaker called the AI Cube and its smartphones. But it is only for the Chinese market.…
[ad_1] Snap’s Snapchat messaging app has posted disappointing user growth since the company’s $3.4 billion IPO, and despite above-expectations sales growth and narrowing losses, its shares have tumbled. They closed at $6.71 on Tuesday, down from their initial offering price of $17. The company described the lawsuit as “meritless” and said its pre-IPO disclosures were…
[ad_1] Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom speaks at Facebook’s corporate headquarters during a media event in Menlo Park, California on June 20, 2013, where Facebook announced the introduction of video for Instagram. Instagram co-founder and former CEO Kevin Systrom said it is important for the future of the world…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer’s job is to keep in touch with what’s hot and what’s not on Wall Street and to help investors make sense of the stock market’s swings. And recently, technology play Twilio has really impressed the CNBC host. “Some companies are so incredibly well-run that they can triumph even when the Wall Street…
[ad_1] Things may be looking up for U.S.-China trade relations, which in turn is good for networking hardware colossus Cisco Systems, Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins told CNBC on Wednesday. “We’re beginning to hear some positive sound bytes around this,” Robbins told Jim Cramer in an exclusive “Mad Money” interview. “I’m optimistic that we’ll get…
[ad_1] SAP’s $8 billion acquisition of SurveyMonkey competitor Qualtrics has breathed new life into the survey software space, Zander Lurie, the CEO of SurveyMonkey parent SVMK Inc., told CNBC on Wednesday. “SAP’s a big company, and I think this $8 billion acquisition validated just how big this category is,” Lurie told CNBC’s Jim Cramer in…
[ad_1] Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 5, 2018. Facebook expanded its relationship with a Washington-based public relations firm last year that wrote dozens of articles critical of rivals Google and Apple and pushed the idea that liberal financier George Soros was…
[ad_1] Uber’s losses ticked up to nearly $1 billion during the third quarter and annualized growth is continuing to slow, according to the private company’s self-reported financials for Q3. The news comes ahead of the company’s anticipated IPO next year, which some bankers are saying could value the company at $120 billion, well over its…
[ad_1] Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TechCrunch reported seven months ago. Now for the first time, Facebook Messenger users will get the power to unsend too so they can remove their sent messages from the recipient’s inbox. Messages can only be unsent for the first ten minutes after they’re delivered so that…
[ad_1] When Oracle filed a protest in August with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI RFP process was unfair, it probably had little chance of succeeding. Today, the GAO turned away the protest. The JEDI contract has been set up as a winner-take-all affair. With $10 billion on the table, there…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett famously used to avoid technology stocks. Now he seems to have embraced them. Berkshire Hathaway reported a 41.4 million share stake of computing giant Oracle as of the end of September, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Buffett’s conglomerate also has been building a substantial stake in Apple for the last…
[ad_1] Cisco stock rose slightly after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. Executives will discuss the results with analysts on a conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: 75 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 72 cents per share as…
[ad_1] Facebook employee morale is down after a turbulent year for the company, according to the reported findings of an internal survey. Among employees, 52 percent said they were optimistic about Facebook’s future, which is down from 84 percent a year ago, according to the Wall Street Journal, which on Wednesday reported the October findings…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Josh Harder, Democratic U.S. Representative candidate from California, smiles during a campaign rally with former U.S. President Barack Obama, not pictured, in Anaheim, California, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. Democrat Josh Harder, a former venture capitalist, is the apparent winner of California’s 10th Congressional District…
[ad_1] PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesn’t receive a fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software companies receive. In fact, though it counts as customers heavyweight companies like Capital One, Spotify and Netflix; it employs 500 employees; and it has five offices around the world,…
[ad_1] Many of Apple‘s latest iPhones, including the iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR, support a camera mode called “Portrait.” You’ve probably heard people talk about it: it’s what lets you use your iPhone to take fancy professional-looking pictures with in-focus subjects and blurred backgrounds…
[ad_1] SurveyMonkey stock shot up nearly 15 percent Wednesday, a day after the company reported solid earnings for its first quarter as a public company and a growing enterprise user base. The shares climbed as much as 19 percent to $13.45 in midday trading, after initially jumping just 3 percent Tuesday evening in after-hours trading…
[ad_1] Travel continues to be one of the biggest verticals online, projected to be worth over $1 trillion by 2022, and today a startup that helps travel-related businesses connect the dots between their products and would-be customers is raising a large round of funding to capitalise on that. Sojern, a company that works with businesses…
[ad_1] Following the news that Snap has been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Justice Department for allegedly misleading investors in its IPO, short-seller Andrew Left was bullish on Snap stock, saying he was surprised shares didn’t dip lower on the news. “I own Snap. It’s so beaten down, you have a…
[ad_1] Astropad’s Luna Display isn’t just for your MacBook. It turns out that you can take advantage of that tiny little red dongle to turn your iPad into your one and only Mac Mini display. The Luna Display was designed to extend your laptop display. Many desktop users who travel tend to feel limited with…
[ad_1] A wave of security startups have built solutions for enterprises that are meeting the challenges of “consumerization”, where IT organizations are tasked with securing a range of devices and apps — some brought in by employees, not issued by IT — that are on the organization’s networks. Today, a startup based out of Israel…
[ad_1] Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff compared using Facebook to a deadly cigarette addiction in a wide-ranging interview with Recode editor Kara Swisher. The interview is set to air on MSNBC on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Google Assistant, the voice-driven AI that sits inside Google Home (plus Android phones, newer Nest cameras and a bunch of other devices) and awaits your “Hey, Google” commands, is already pretty clever. That doesn’t mean it can’t learn a few new tricks. In a quick press briefing this week, Google told us a couple…
[ad_1] UiPath, a startup that works in the growing area of RPA, or robotic process automation — where AI-based software is used to help businesses run repetitive or mundane back-office tasks, to free up humans to tackle more sophisticated work — has raised money for the third time this year. The company is today announcing…
[ad_1] Google’s most awaited camera feature – Night Sight – is finally rolling out to the Pixel 3, Pixel 2 and Pixel smartphones. The feature is now available in the Google Camera app, after an update. If you own a Pixel smartphone, then simply head to the Goole Play store and look for an update…
[ad_1] The iPad maker is morphing from a business propelled by the volume of devices it ships into one that stresses luxury products and software sales. That evolution has been marked by shockwaves for much of the technology space, with several of Apple’s largest semiconductor suppliers noting marked declines in order volume. Apple shares dropped…
[ad_1] Apple recently unveiled a bunch of new products during a press event in New York. But the company also quietly shared a press release with new configurations for the 15-inch MacBook Pro. Customers can now get a MacBook Pro with an AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 or Vega 20 graphics processing unit. Before this…
[ad_1] It’s not always easy to do the right thing or to make ethical decisions in a complex business environment. People get lost inside large organizations and group think can overwhelm even normally ethical individuals. Converscent has created a platform to help, and today it announced a new benchmarking dashboard to allow companies to measure…
[ad_1] Google teased a new night mode feature, dubbed Night Sight, during the launch of the Pixel 3 (Review), which promised seemingly huge improvements in low-light photo quality. Now, the company is officially rolling out this feature for its entire range of Pixel smartphones. Unofficially, Night Sight has been out in the wild for a few weeks,…
[ad_1] Yu Chun Christopher Wong | S3studio | Getty Images A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is seen on September 04 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Bitcoin’s moment of relative stability ended abruptly Wednesday. The world’s largest cryptocurrency hit its lowest level of the year, falling as much as 9 percent to a…
[ad_1] ServiceTitan, a startup out of Glendale, CA that has built a software platform for home services businesses — in areas like air conditioning, plumbing and electrical repairs — to manage their work, has raised $165 million in what it claims is the “largest software raise in Southern California history.” (That distinction might be specifically…
[ad_1] What is the largest factor that is fueling remote work globally? As a World Economic Forum member and recent co-chair of the Future Council on Education, Gender and Work, I have the honor of participating in conversations about what the WEF calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The first two revolutions were about mass production.…
[ad_1] If you’re planning on picking up some cool new smart device for a loved one this holiday season, it might be worth your while to check whether it’s one of the good ones or not. Not just in the quality of the camera or step tracking, but the security and privacy practices of the…
[ad_1] Disney has the best brand in streaming video, according to Liberty Media Chairman John Malone, but it lacks the established customers of streaming incumbents like Netflix and Amazon. “They have great brand, there’s no question, and they really know the entertainment business,” Malone told CNBC’s David Faber Wednesday. “What they don’t have is a…
[ad_1] Two years after launching the original Hover, Zero Zero Robotics has returned for the sequel. In spite of landing a $25 million Series A back in 2016, the startup is going to the crowdfunding well on this one, launching a $100K Kickstarter campaign to launch the latest version of the self-flying drone. Hover 2, which…
[ad_1] The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the Centre’s response on a plea for removal of vulgar and sexually explicit content from online platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and others. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V. Kameswar Rao listed the matter for further hearing on February 8. The petition…
[ad_1] Amazon lost out on a chance for its own dedicated train car to deliver products throughout the city of Atlanta. Newly-released details of the city’s pitch to host Amazon’s second headquarters show the city offered to “explore the possibility of adding an Amazon-dedicated car to the MARTA train,” the city’s mass transit system. The…
[ad_1] Uber’s new loyalty program incentivizes you not to check Lyft or the local competitor. Riders earn points for all the money they spend on Uber and Uber Eats that score them $5 credits, upgrades to nicer cars, access to premium support, and even flexible cancellations that waive the fee if they rebook within 15…
[ad_1] Ridesharing rewards are here. Uber announced Wednesday its first consumer-facing loyalty program called Uber Rewards that will offer users dedicated phone support, complimentary upgrades and access to the highest-rated drivers. The program will begin in nine cities and launch for all U.S. riders over the next few months. Users earn points for eligible dollars…
[ad_1] Microsoft has been all in on AI this year, and in the build versus buy equation, the company has been leaning heavily toward buying. This morning, the company announced its intent to acquire Xoxco, an Austin-based software developer with a focus on bot design, making it the fourth AI-related company Microsoft has purchased this…
[ad_1] Do you need a microwave you can talk to? You probably don’t. But if you’re fascinated with the smart home and using your voice to control everything, even down to warming up a cup of coffee, then sure, the Amazon Basics Microwave works well. College kids would probably love it, if you need ideas…
[ad_1] Some health care advocates fear that wearables are designed for the “worried well,” the young and healthy population that can afford smartwatches and gym memberships. But this program is designed to be accessible to a broad population, and not just the super fit and healthy, a UnitedHealth spokesman told CNBC. “It’s not marathon running,”…
[ad_1] While WhatsApp is busy in enhancing stickers on its platform by adding a dedicated search feature and the ability to create custom stickers, the instant messaging app is rumoured to bring an ability to let users share their contact information via a QR code. This sounds similar to the Nametag feature available on Instagram…
[ad_1] Apple shares were downgraded on Wednesday by a Guggenheim Partners analyst who predicted a 5 percent decline in iPhone units sold in 2019. The firm also said rising prices would not be enough to offset that decline in sales. Also on Wednesday, UBS cut its Apple iPhone sales estimates and stock price target, citing…
[ad_1] Photo-messaging app Snapchat has introduced two new features – Friendship Profiles and Bitmoji Stories in an attempt to make the app more interactive and fun. With Friendship Profiles, Snapchat would hold content like images, videos, messages and links that users have saved in Chat with a friend or a group of friends, the company…
[ad_1] Central banks should consider issuing digital currencies as money faces a “historic turning point,” according to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. In a speech at the Singapore Fintech Festival on Wednesday, Lagarde highlighted the changing nature of money as demand for physical cash decreases around the world. She said central banks have a role…
[ad_1] Mobile gaming company Jam City is announcing a multi-year deal to create mobile games based on Pixar and Walt Disney Animation characters and films. As part of the agreement, Jam City is taking over development of the match-three puzzle game Disney Emoji Blitz, which launched in 2016. Jam City says that everyone at Disney’s Glendale…
[ad_1] Imagine coating an expensive part with a layer of diamond dust the width of a human hair, capturing its light pattern as a unique identifier, then storing that identifier in a traditional database or on the blockchain. That’s precisely what Dust Identity, a Boston-based startup is trying to do, and today it got $2.3…
[ad_1] Galaxy S10 is the presumed name given to the Galaxy S9’s successor. Samsung has made a tradition of announcing its S-line of flagship products at Mobile World Congress (MWC), a technology show that takes place in Barcelona annually, and the Galaxy S10 is expected to be no different. A recent report from Bloomberg, citing…
[ad_1] Robert Sabuda makes mechanical books – pop up books with mechanical features that make them move and change while you read them – and he’s made it to the top of the New York Times best seller list multiple times. Now he’s taking on a new challenge: rebuilding and selling a version of Leonardo…
[ad_1] Hotmail forever changed the way we communicate when it introduced the concept of free email access in 1996. Hotmail was recently integrated into Microsoft’s Outlook.com service, giving the interface an improved new look. Although people can no longer create new Hotmail accounts, they can continue to use the email service. How to sign in…
[ad_1] Truecaller may already be a familiar name, but many of you probably don’t know that it’s slowly becoming a significant messaging app. That’s why I’m excited to announce that Truecaller co-founder and CEO Alan Mamedi will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. Truecaller first started as a call screening app. Some countries are more…
[ad_1] G-Technology is a relatively new and unknown name in the storage industry, though it’s been around for a while in international markets. It had its beginnings as a specialised storage vendor targeting creative professionals, particularly those who use Apple’s Mac ecosystem. The company was acquired by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), which itself is now…
[ad_1] There’s good news for OnePlus fans who have not yet made the jump to new OnePlus 6T. The Chinese smartphone firm has just announced that the limited edition Thunder Purple model is coming to the UK. This colourful phone now joins Midnight Black and Mirror Black in the lineup. Those wanting something a little…
[ad_1] Huawei Mate 20 Pro released back in October and touts a cavalcade of flagship features that has made it incredibly appealing to Android fans. Just like the P20 Pro, the hardware’s headline act is its triple-camera setup capable of capturing gorgeous shots. However, Mate 20 Pro diverges slightly from the P20 Pro by replacing…
[ad_1] After a delay of more than a month, Microsoft has finally begun rolling out Windows 10 October 2018 Update, after being hit by bugs that caused the company to pull the update offline. To recall, Microsoft had pulled the Windows 10 October 2018 Update after reports the update was deleting data of users. It…
[ad_1] Windows 10 October 2018 Update was initially released by Microsoft on October 2 during a hardware event focusing on its Surface line of products. However, shortly after its release a number of users insisted they were experiencing problems that caused some of their precious files to be deleted without warning. In response to the…
[ad_1] Spotify, the world’s most popular paid music streaming service, officially launched in the Middle East and North Africa on Tuesday. The company said services would now be available in 13 Arab markets, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Morocco but not Libya, Iraq, Syria, or Yemen. Spotify has been unofficially available…
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is “a big help, not a hindrance,” according to a Salesforce executive. “AI is not gonna replace people,” Peter Schwartz, senior vice president of strategic planning at Salesforce, told CNBC on Tuesday at the Singapore FinTech Festival. On the flip side, Schwartz added: “It’s going to make people far more capable.” Instead…
[ad_1] Intel has launched the next version of its Neural Compute Stick, a simple USB device that the company says can greatly accelerate AI processing and deep learning inference on consumer PCs. It is aimed at use cases where neural networks need to be deployed without a connection to cloud-based computing resources. The new Neural…
[ad_1] The Black Friday bargains just keep on coming with Sky now joining the price-cut party. The satellite TV firm has just announced its first Black Friday deal with customers able to get a 4K UHD TV, worth £399, for free, This offer is available to those signing up to the firm’s limited edition Black…
[ad_1] As journalists, we spend a lot of time transcribing audio recordings into text that is then used for articles. We’re not the only ones with this problem though – academics and researchers, students, and even people who attend a lot of meetings and need to keep everything organised would have ended up with a…
[ad_1] The next generation of mobile networks is one step closer today with EE announcing it will begin rolling out 5G next year. This new technology will not only allow customers to download files and content much faster but also give more people better access at one time. 5G is set to transform the way…
[ad_1] Argos has already confirmed that it is joining this year’s Black Friday price cuts. The store has a dedicated Black Friday web page on its shopping site which currently states: “Oh man, Black Friday is going to be amazing this year. “We’re so excited. We’d tell you all about our deals, but we can’t…
[ad_1] The P20 Pro has been one of the biggest surprises of 2018. Huawei unveiled this flagship earlier this year with it featuring a stunning 6.1-inch OLED Full View edge-to-edge screen, all-glass design and fast processor. The Chinese technology firm also managed to squeeze a huge 4,000mAh battery inside this device and pack a triple…
[ad_1] Technology companies that catapulted Wall Street to glorious heights have seen shares tumble on investor concerns that the days of stellar profits are waning. Since their most recent peaks, Amazon lost 18.5 percent, Apple 17 percent, Netflix 23 percent, and Google-parent Alphabet 14 percent. And the tumble came after Amazon was briefly valued, based…
[ad_1] A new weather station is transmitting weather data from the Haines Pass — something that could potentially save lives, according to the Yukon Avalanche Association. The station, installed on Oct. 28., is located just north of Three Guardsmen Mountain, in B.C. It records wind speed, precipitation and other data, which will allow for more accurate forecasting in the pass.…
[ad_1] An Ontario tech start-up thinks it has the foresight to succeed where giant international technology companies have stumbled. Using North Inc.’s glasses, called Focals, people will be able to interact with Amazon’s digital helper, Alexa. They’ll also be able to connect to their phones using Bluetooth and check various phone apps. such as the weather … without blocking the…
[ad_1] Indeed, India has enacted several policies and initiatives to promote digital technologies. One example is Aadhar — a biometric digital identity program rolled out throughout the country, which the prime minister claimed on Wednesday had a database of more than a billion people. Many government programs require the biometric identity number to distribute welfare…
[ad_1] Eric Jing, CEO of Ant Financial, said the company thinks of itself as a technology firm, and that Alipay was its starting point to show what could be done with tech. “Ant Financial, from day one, we are positioned as a tech company. But previously we just wanted to make sure we are really…
[ad_1] Would-be fathers have long been advised to wear boxer shorts and avoid hot tubs, to avoid too much heat damaging their reproductive chances. Now it turns out the same effect — but caused by stronger heat waves driven by climate change — may be behind huge declines in insect numbers, scientists said in a study published…
[ad_1] Google Maps has become the gold standard for finding your way around strange areas, particularly if you’re on foot or using public transit. But if you’re sitting in traffic on your way to work every day, it’s time to quit Google Maps and move over to Waze. Waze, which is owned by Google, has…
[ad_1] Rick Loomis | Getty Images Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses the crowd gathered at La Boom night club in Queens on November 6, 2018 in New York City. With her win against Republican Anthony Pappas, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress. Democratic Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who will represent parts of Queens and the Bronx…
[ad_1] The company plans to resume sales to retailers that adopt the company’s new age restrictions and verification system. Juul is also banning sales to anyone under 21, even in states where the legal age is lower. Additionally, Burns said the company will more intensely police individual retailers by increasing its secret shopper visits from…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Richard Yu, chief executive officer of Huawei Technologies Co., holds the Mate 10 Pro smartphone while speaking during the company’s keynote event at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Huawei is working on augmented reality (AR)…
[ad_1] In an uncertain investing environment, CNBC’s Jim Cramer likes to highlight “the best of the best” of the “slowdown plays,” or stocks that do well in a weaker economy. So, on Tuesday, the “Mad Money” host profiled the turnaround at Bausch Health Companies, the drugmaker formerly known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Under the leadership of…
[ad_1] As Amazon dubbed not one, but two East Coast locations as its new headquarters Tuesday morning, cities in the middle of country lost a chance at becoming an emerging tech market. Dallas Mayor Michael Rawlings told CNBC Tuesday he was disappointed his city wasn’t selected, but was not entirely surprised by Amazon’s choice. “I…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer is tired of seeing negative Wall Street coverage suffocate the stocks of Apple and FANG, his acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet. “Perhaps the most maligned” of them all is Apple, shares of which fell below their 200-day moving average on Tuesday as they dragged on the broader…
[ad_1] Stock markets could continue to slow down now that the major tech giants leading the bull have lost momentum, Bleakley Advisory Group’s Peter Boockvar told CNBC on Tuesday. “Collectively, there’s no question that [the FAANG] trade is dead,” the chief investment officer said on “Closing Bell.” FAANG, a term coined by CNBC’s Jim Cramer,…
[ad_1] I’m calling it — this is the best deal of this year’s Black Friday season, for gamers anyway. It’s amazing. It’s spectacular. Sony is selling a PlayStation 4 Slim with the new Spider-Man game for $199. That’s way too little money. The 1TB PS4 slim currently retails for $300, and that used to be…
[ad_1] Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft and one its top stockholders, said this week that he’d be unloading his shares if the company tried to move away from its Windows franchise. Microsoft split up its Windows group earlier this year, putting some of the business into the unit that develops the Azure cloud…
[ad_1] SurveyMonkey reported a year-over-year revenue jump of 18 percent when it reported its first earnings report as a public company after the market close Tuesday. Here’s how the company did compared with previous reports: Loss per share: 1 cent vs. 2 cents in the year-ago quarter Revenue: $65.2 million vs. $55.3 million in the…
[ad_1] Facebook Lasso has a steep uphill climb ahead as it hopes to chase the musical video app it cloned, China’s TikTok (which merged with Musically). Lasso lets you overlay popular songs on 15-second clips of you lip syncing, dancing, or just being silly — kind of like Vine with a soundtrack. It’s off to…
[ad_1] DeepMind, the Alphabet subsidiary focused on health and AI, announced in a company blog post on Tuesday that its health group will be absorbed by Google. That news comes just days after Google disclosed plans to form a new, centralized health unit at its Silicon Valley, California headquarters led by David Feinberg, a physician…
[ad_1] The Gigafactory's expansion since opening in July 2016 has been critical to Tesla's growth. This year, the automaker is on track to sell 170,000 vehicles, a jump of more than 59 percent compared to last year. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Among the Facebook and Instagram accounts that were linked to Russian trolls ahead of the U.S. midterm elections this month, one on Instagram had more than 600,000 U.S. followers, Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday. A Russian troll farm was tied to more than 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts before they were…
[ad_1] Technologist Steve Wozniak told CNBC on Tuesday he had once hoped that Apple would build the first self-driving car. But the Apple co-founder said, “I do not believe in auto driving cars” at this point. “I don’t really believe it’s quite possible yet” that cars will be able to drive themselves without a steering…
[ad_1] Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A flag flies outside the Citigroup building in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. Citigroup is rolling out the red carpet for Amazon‘s move to the New York City area by moving more than 1,000 employees out of its Queens office tower to accommodate…
[ad_1] The chief of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division said Tuesday that political considerations do not impact the department’s work. The comments come a day after President Donald Trump suggested Comcast could face increased scrutiny for alleged anti-competitive behavior. “I think it’s great that we have such a debate about free markets and the…
[ad_1] Google’s Project Fi wireless service is getting a major update today that introduces an optional always-on VPN service and a smarter way to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular connections. By default, Fi already uses a VPN service to protect users when they connect to the roughly two million supported Wi-Fi hotspots. Now, Google is…
[ad_1] The head of Walmart‘s Indian venture Flipkart Group, Binny Bansal, has resigned following a internal probe into “serious personal misconduct,” Walmart said on Tuesday, and two people familiar with the matter said it involved an accusation of sexual assault. The departure of Bansal, 37, one of India’s new generation of young, tech-savvy billionaires, is…
[ad_1] Zendesk has always been strongly focused on customer service in the cloud. They began to look at this more broadly in September when they purchased Base to move into sales automation and CRM. Today, the company announced Zendesk Sunshine, a new platform for creating customer-focused applications on top of Zendesk’s toolset. All of this…
[ad_1] Cloud customer-support software company Zendesk on Tuesday announced a new tool for salespeople and a compatible system for developing custom applications. The moves could help Zendesk compete for important deals against archrival Salesforce, as well as Microsoft. Salesforce tried and failed to buy Zendesk around 2011, CNBC previously reported. It bought another customer service…
[ad_1] The big news today is that — finally — we have Amazon’s selection of cities for its dual second headquarters (Northern Virginia and NYC). Then some notes on China. But first, semiconductors and open sourcing analysis. We are experimenting with new content forms at TechCrunch. This is a rough draft of something new –…
[ad_1] Alphabet’s DeepMind, the UK-based health and artificial intelligence company, is merging part of its business back into Google. CNBC has learned that DeepMind’s health subsidiary is moving under the newly-formed Google Health led by former Geisinger CEO David Feinberg. The moves are part of a broader strategy to increase collaboration and communication among Alphabet’s…
[ad_1] WeWork has picked up another $3 billion in financing from SoftBank Corp, not to be confused with SoftBank Vision Fund. The deal comes in the form of a warrant, allowing SoftBank to pay $3 billion for the opportunity to buy shares before September 2019 at a price of $110 or higher, ultimately valuing WeWork…
[ad_1] Amazon will receive $573 million in performance-based incentives for its investment in National Landing in Arlington, Virginia. That number includes a workforce cash grant worth up to $550 million from the Commonwealth of Virginia based on the 25,000 jobs Amazon plans to create there. The company said average wages will also be $150,000 in…
[ad_1] Cognigo, a startup that aims to use AI and machine learning to help enterprises protect their data and stay in compliance with regulations like GDPR, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A round. The round was led by Israel-based crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, with participation from privacy company Prosegur and State…
[ad_1] Nvidia’s earnings report — specifically its forecast for the current quarter — is likely to disappoint Wall Street this week, claims Susquehanna’s Christopher Rolland, but he’s upgrading the stock anyway. “To be clear, this is not a call on NVIDIA’s quarter… in fact, we think the odds are substantial that management’s guidance will miss…
[ad_1] The e-commerce giant confirmed it plans to split its new headquarters, dubbed HQ2, between the two cities, ending a year-long courtship by cities and metropolitan areas across North America. Amazon originally said it would spend $5 billion and employ 50,000 workers in the winning area — though recent reports suggested the company would split…
[ad_1] Snapchat is doubling down on its biggest differentiator by turning its personalized avatar Bitmoji into a revenue stream and a new source of content. Snapchat is launching a Bitmoji merchandise store you can customize with you and your friends’ cartoonified faces, Bitmoji Stories comic strips featuring you and friends’ avatars in fun scenes, and…
[ad_1] Today’s leaders know we can no longer separate one from the other, because the work we do is such a big part of our identity. “The reality is that work is such a big part of your life that it doesn’t make sense to think of “work” and “life” as two separate things that…
[ad_1] Today, Real Estate Technology Ventures (RET) Ventures announced the final close of $108 million for its first fund. RET focuses on early-stage investments in companies that are primarily looking to disrupt the North American multifamily rental industry, with the firm boasting a roster of LPs made up of some of the largest property owners…
[ad_1] Aiming to bring next 100 million users to its Prime Membership from India, Amazon Prime Video on Tuesday announced it has added a Hindi language user interface (UI) to its search, navigation and customer support. The Hindi language support will be available on the Amazon Prime Video app and on PrimeVideo.com. “As Prime Video’s…
[ad_1] Bank of America Merrill Lynch lowered the firm’s rating of Best Buy to neutral from buy on slowing growth and risk to key products. “We continue to see [Best Buy] as one of the highest quality hardline names but after several years of outsized growth and likely less opportunity for big beat and raise…
[ad_1] WhatsApp – the world’s most popular instant messaging app – confirmed its prior announcement that, as of Monday, November 12, Android users who have not backed up their data and chats on Google Drive for over a year will lose their older backups. Owned by tech giant Facebook, WhatsApp had reached an agreement with…
[ad_1] It’s the same message Smith gave to SAP CEO Bill McDermott and then to his 2,000 employees over a whirlwind weekend that saw Qualtrics pivot from a planned IPO to a blockbuster acquisition — the second-biggest in SAP’s history. Smith and McDermott spoke with CNBC on Monday from a hotel in downtown San Francisco,…
[ad_1] Visual China Group | Getty Images Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook attends China Development Forum (CDF) 2018 at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 24, 2018 in Beijing, China. China Development Forum (CDF) 2018 is hosted by the Development Research Center of the State Council of China on March 24-26 in Beijing. Goldman Sachs…
[ad_1] Microsoft Surface Go LTE variant uses a Qualcomm X16 modem to enable high-speed data access Microsoft Surface Go, the affordable 2-in-1 Windows device that was launched in July in a Wi-Fi only model, has now received an LTE variant. The Surface Go LTE variant is currently available for pre-orders with a price tag of…
[ad_1] Black Friday may be just over a week away but that’s not stopping some of the UK’s biggest retailers starting their sales early. Amazon has already announced that it is running a 10-day sale which will start on November 16 and run until November 25. Now Currys has begun slashing prices with the retailer adding…
[ad_1] Canada’s political parties have a privacy problem — and with less than a year to go until the next federal election, it’s more critical than ever that Canadians start asking hard questions about how they’re handling personal data, says the United Kingdom’s information commissioner. “The way political parties acquire information on individuals should be transparent,” said Elizabeth…
[ad_1] Photo-messaging app Snapchat’s Vice President of content Nick Bell has stepped down from his position without any specific reasoning, after five years of serving the company. “I am leaving Snap to take some time off to recharge before deciding on my next adventure. I will be transitioning out of the role between now and…
[ad_1] Europe's tech sector bounced back after dropping nearly 4 percent on Monday, as stocks recovered from a U.S. equities sell-off led by Apple. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] This simple spreadsheet of machine learning foibles may not look like much but it’s a fascinating exploration of how machines “think.” The list, compiled by researcher Victoria Krakovna, describes various situations in which robots followed the spirit and the letter of the law at the same time. For example, in the video below a…
[ad_1] In a fillip to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s big future plans for the Indian market, Apple has appointed Ashish Chowdhary, Chief Customer Operations Officer at Nokia Networks, as its India operation head, the Cupertino-based iPhone maker said on Tuesday. A veteran at Nokia, Chowdhary will take over as Apple India head from January next…
[ad_1] Climate change isn’t the only thing that will be heating up cities in the future — urbanization hikes temperatures too. A new study led by a University of Guelph researcher looks at how climate change will affect urban and rural areas differently, finding both good news and bad news. The good news, according to the study…
[ad_1] Canada’s showpiece satellite project has been hit with another launch delay, five years after the first of three spacecraft was scheduled for orbit. The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is now set to be launched from a California air force base sometime between Feb. 18 and Feb. 24, 2019. It’s the fifth such delay since the $1…
[ad_1] Brendan McDermid | Reuters Trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) as the Dow Jones Industrial Average crosses 24,000, in New York, U.S., November 30, 2017. “The tech sector has been valued under this expectation that, again, trees are going to grow to the sky, and we’re…
[ad_1] Apple at its October hardware event last month announced the launch of the new MacBook Air and Mac mini models in its PC lineup. Much like the current MacBook Pro and iMac Pro range, these two devices also sport the company’s T2 Security Chip on the MacBook Air helps in hands-free Siri control as…
[ad_1] Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Canada’s most popular herbicide, Roundup. The decision comes after a coalition of environmental groups claimed Health Canada relied on studies that were secretly influenced by agrochemical giant Monsanto,…
[ad_1] Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday announced that it has selected 20 research teams worldwide – including experts from India and those of Indian origin – who will work towards how misinformation spreads and what additional steps the mobile messaging platform could take to curb fake news. Shakuntala Banaji from London School of Economics and Political…
[ad_1] A long-simmering dispute over wild rice led people from local First Nations and lakeside communities to pack a community hall in the Kawartha Lakes area of Ontario last week. A Curve Lake First Nation man has been seeding and harvesting wild rice from Pigeon Lake over the past few decades but lake residents say…
[ad_1] Ontario’s beech trees are slowly being consumed by a disease that’s been on a steady march through the province for decades, experts say. Beech bark disease comes as a two-part attack. First, a small insect burrows into the tree. Then a fungus takes over, slowly rotting the tree and causing it to die. “After the insect has moved through,…
[ad_1] Forty years after researchers from Halifax helped drill a hole nearly two kilometres into the ground in rural Iceland, locals still remember the project, not so much for its geological findings, but for the spout of hot water it unexpectedly unleashed — and the midnight hot tub parties it brought to their isolated fishing…
[ad_1] Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app is compatible with devices running at least Android 5.0 Lollipop or iOS 10.3 Cloudflare has now brought its privacy-focused DNS service 1.1.1.1 to Android and iOS users. The service, which initially arrived in the form of a Web offering back in April, is aimed to offer a secured Web browsing experience…
[ad_1] FRONT BURNER Sidewalk Toronto is being touted as the next-step in city development, but critics are concerned about issues related to privacy, intellectual property rights and data collection. Sidewalk Labs wants to build pedestrian bridges, floating barges and outdoor projection screens in Quayside. (Sidewalk Labs) Listen to the full episode25:03 CBC technology reporter Matthew…
[ad_1] In an effort to reduce landfill waste, and also brew tasty beverages, a southern Vancouver Island project is using old bread to make beer. “Doesn’t really matter which continent you’re on, there’s a huge amount of bread being overproduced, and a lot of it ends up in a landfill,” said John Stewart of Refresh Cowichan, a project…
[ad_1] Gboard for Android has received an artificial intelligence (AI) backed update that brings the ability to suggest you with appropriate emoji characters, GIFs, and stickers based on your conversation. Google was spotted testing the new update with a small group of users back in September. It essentially makes it faster and easier to share…
[ad_1] There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn’t yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking. The proposed plan — which is to go to public hearings in Iqaluit on Tuesday — says that growing bear numbers…
[ad_1] An internet diversion that rerouted data traffic through Russia and China disrupted several Google services on Monday, including search and cloud-hosting services. Service interruptions lasted for nearly two hours and ended about 5:30pm EST (4am IST), network service companies said. In addition to Russian and Chinese telecommunications companies, a Nigerian internet provider was also involved.…
[ad_1] Alessandra Nicolaescu, a fifth-grader at École Saint-Marc in Montreal’s Rosemont neighbourhood, was “beast hunting,” collecting small critters in a large fabric funnel from the green alleyway behind her school, when she found it. “I saw a spider. I really wanted a spider!” she recalled. When she eagerly showed her discovery to Pierre Paquin, an arachnologist who was guiding the children through…
[ad_1] A new report says there are just 411 North Atlantic right whales left of the rapidly declining species, in what scientists are calling a “significant drop” in the population. On Friday, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium released its 2018 report card for the endangered whales, which lists fishing-gear entanglements and whale strikes as the leading…
[ad_1] Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group at the SoftBank World 2018 event in Tokyo, Japan. SoftBank Group’s domestic telecoms unit on Monday received approval to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in an initial public offering (IPO) worth 2.4 trillion yen ($21.04 billion),…
[ad_1] The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 602 points on Monday after a big decline in Apple shares, a rise in the U.S. dollar and lingering worries about global trade weighed on investor sentiment. Monday’s losses bring the Dow’s decline over the past two sessions to 804 points; it closed at 25,387.18. The tech-heavy Nasdaq…
[ad_1] Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, participates in an event hosted by the Air Force Association September 19, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. Retail giant Amazon will have its two new headquarters in New York City and Northern Virginia,…
[ad_1] Amazon is on the cusp of revealing the location of its hotly anticipated second headquarters. While the location — or locations — of the so-called HQ2 has yet been revealed, the expansion is set to usher in a new era of growth at the tech giant as it seeks to expand its workforce by…
[ad_1] Well-known Apple analyst, TF International Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo, cut his forecast for iPhone XR shipments by 30 million units in a research note issued Monday. The iPhone XR is Apple’s most affordable new iPhone and was released in October. “We have reduced our iPhone XR shipment estimation from 100mn units to 70mn during the…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer explains why it's only a matter of time before investors come around on Alphabet. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Apple will sell fewer iPhones in the fourth quarter and cause “a ripple effect throughout the supply chain,” AlphaOne Capital Partners founding partner Dan Niles told CNBC on Monday. His prediction followed a report that Lumentum, a facial recognition and augmented reality parts supplier for the tech giant, lowered its outlook because “one of…
[ad_1] Some consolidation and subsequent divestment are in play in the worlds of imaging and voice recognition. Today, Kofax and Nuance announced that Kofax would be acquiring Nuance’s imaging division, for $400 million in cash. The deal, which had been rumoured in recent days, is expected to close in Q1 2019. The acquisition is a notable…
[ad_1] The executive in charge of Snapchat’s media efforts, including Discover, is leaving the company. Snap’s vice president of content Nick Bell announced on Monday he is leaving the company. Over the last five years, Bell led efforts to build out Snapchat’s media vertical Discover, as well as its Live video division. He also led…
[ad_1] Amazon’s Alexa may be in ten thousand different devices now, but they all have one other thing in common: they’re new. So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timers and do metric-imperial conversions without pulling out our phones, Grain Design is retrofitting these fabulous…
[ad_1] SAP CEO Bill McDermott was jacked up today about his company’s $8 billion Qualtrics acquisition over the weekend. You would expect no less for such a big deal. McDermott believes that the data that Qualtrics provides could bridge the gap between his company’s operational data and customer data wherever that resides. The idea behind…
[ad_1] Third, the market would benefit if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged that he was “winning the war against inflation,” Cramer argued. Ideally, that would happen at Federal Open Market Committee meeting in December, at which the central bank is widely expected to raise interest rates again, he said. Reiterating that he supports one…
[ad_1] Eventbrite‘s first earnings report on Monday could draw the interest of one particular company: Square. That’s because Square owns a small ownership stake in Eventbrite that more than doubled in value over the past year. Square disclosed in a public filing last week that the $25 million investment it made in Eventbrite last year…
[ad_1] Matt McClain | The Washington Post | Getty Images Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Limiting the use of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat directly leads to reductions in loneliness and depression, according to a recent study published by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is titled “No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 25: Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell, October 25, 2018 in New York City. The market is boxed in due to the problems with global growth and…
[ad_1] Facebook shares closed at their lowest price in 19 months, and have now plunged 35 percent from their peak in July. The stock fell 2.4 percent on Monday, to $141.55, the lowest close since April 17, 2018, when it closed at $140.96. Facebook fell along with the broader market on Monday, sparked by an…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, smiles during a demonstration of the newly released Apple products following the launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, September 12, 2018. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An Apple analyst cuts iPhone shipment estimates based on weak supplier guidance,…
[ad_1] Erika Goldring | Getty Images Stan Lee at Wizard World Comic Con, January 6, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Stan Lee, one of the masterminds of the Marvel Comics universe, has died at 95. Lee was the creator of dozens of now-iconic comic-book heroes, including Spider-Man, X-Men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and Black…
[ad_1] Advanced Micro Devices, the year’s best-performing technology stock, is getting pummeled as the entire tech sector takes a nosedive. Shares of AMD tumbled as much as 11 percent on Monday to a low of $18.80, the biggest decliner among the 66 companies in the S&P 500 tech index. The index as a whole dropped…
[ad_1] Shares of Comcast slipped Monday after President Donald Trump alleged in a tweet the company “routinely violates antitrust laws.” The stock was down roughly 1 percent immediately following the tweet, amid overall market declines Monday. “American Cable Association has big problems with Comcast. They say that Comcast routinely violates Antitrust Laws. ‘These guys are…
[ad_1] Apple and other big tech names need to recover for the overall stock market to rebound, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “FAANG cannot keep rolling over,” Cramer said on “Fast Money: Halftime Report.” (FAANG, a term coined by Cramer, stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google-parent Alphabet.) The tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street…
[ad_1] Amazon shares dipped into bear market territory Monday as the e-commerce giant added to a 20 percent decline from all-time highs reached back in September. At Monday’s low of $1,630.01 per share, the stock had fallen 20.5 percent from an intraday high of $2,050 per share hit on Sept. 4, 2018. Amazon, which topped…
[ad_1] Semiconductor producer Skyworks Solutions was downgraded at Citigroup on Monday in light of Apple’s weaker-than-expected iPhone XR outlook and softer smartphone demand in China. “We are downgrading Skyworks Solutions to neutral from buy post the earnings season based on broad smartphone weakness observation in China and disappointing iPhone XR unit sales, which will likely…
[ad_1] Black Friday may be still be 10 days away, but shopping season started early in the enterprise this year. We have seen acquisitions totaling almost $50 billion in the last couple of months alone, topped by the mega $34 billion IBM-Red Hat deal two weeks ago. What exactly is going on here? While not every…
[ad_1] Shares of SAP fell on Monday after the company announced it was buying U.S. survey software maker Qualtrics for $8 billion. The German software giant said Sunday it would acquire Qualtrics in an all-cash deal that has already gained approval by the boards of both companies, as well as Qualtrics’ shareholders. SAP’s share price…
[ad_1] In a statement, Lumentum President and CEO Alan Lowe said, “We recently received a request from one of our largest Industrial and Consumer customers for laser diodes for 3D sensing to materially reduce shipments to them during our fiscal second quarter for previously placed orders that were originally scheduled for delivery during the quarter.”…
[ad_1] Silicon Valley is battling a new report of anti-conservative culture, fanning the flames of an already-intensifying debate. A weekend report by the Wall Street Journal on the 2017 firing of Facebook executive Palmer Luckey claims the Oculus co-founder was forced out for factors relating to his political leanings and online support for Donald Trump…
[ad_1] The lowest-tier Pacifica Hybrid is the Touring Plus, which starts at $39,995. The gas-powered Touring Plus is $32,595. If you pay more than $7,500 in taxes each year, though, the real-world cost of the Hybrid is $32,495 after you take your tax credit. So for $100 less, you get more power, better efficiency and…
[ad_1] SurveyMonkey is set to open nearly 6 percent higher Monday following news that its chief rival, Qualtrics, was acquired prior to a planned IPO. SAP announced Sunday that it will acquire the survey software company for $8 billion in cash. It said the deal has been approved by both boards and Qualtrics shareholders. Qualtrics…
[ad_1] According to a patent application continuation filed in 2017 and published recently, Sony may have tentative plans to build out a touchscreen-equipped PlayStation controller. Whether the value added from having a touchscreen right on the controller will be worth the added cost is not yet clear. Right now, PlayStation controllers have a touch-enabled center…
[ad_1] Cyber security, energy price shocks and failure of national governance are among the biggest threats to business in 2018, according to research published Monday. The World Economic Forum (WEF) spoke to more than 12,000 executives around the world about what they considered to be the biggest risks to doing businesses, ranging across political, societal…
[ad_1] It seems that Sunday has become a popular day to announce large deals involving enterprise companies. IBM announced the $34 billion Red Hat deal two weeks ago. SAP announced its intent to buy Qualtrics for $8 billion last night, and Vista Equity Partners got into the act too, announcing a deal to buy Apptio…
[ad_1] For kids growing up in today’s cashless society, the piggy bank is going virtual. Father of two Roland Hall turned to a British startup’s digital pocket money app because his kids were still too young to get bank cards from traditional banks. With prepaid debit cards linked to the app, Hall’s kids, aged 8…
[ad_1] Though they aren’t yet saying which sectors will get scrutiny first, several stand out as especially exposed to risk from a cybersecurity crisis: The defense-industrial industry, financial sector, health care and critical infrastructure operators like energy, water, waste management and first responders all are considered high-risk categories. Risks related to cyberattacks today aren’t as…
[ad_1] Virgin Hyperloop One, one of the best-known players developing the high-speed transportation technology, is attracting “big interest” from Saudi investors, the company’s newly appointed chairman said Monday. “There is a big interest in Hyperloop in Saudi Arabia,” Ahmed bin Sulayem told CNBC’s Dan Murphy in an interview Monday. “I think when the right time…
[ad_1] Apple at its October 2018 event unveiled a few new products – including a much-needed upgrade to its Mac mini small form factor computer. The new Mac mini offers all of the good stuff that a purist computer user wants – plenty of hardware ports including a 3.5mm headphone jack and an HDMI port…
[ad_1] If you are after a smartphone deal now is a very good time to grab one. Some of the year’s best phones have been dropped in price in recent weeks making these flagships much more affordable. Two of the very latest offers, which are available right now, included lower prices on the Samsung Galaxy…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 falls on November 23 and is the best time to bag a bargain before the Christmas rush. The discount day is more popular than ever in the UK, with increasing numbers of retailers taking part. The UK’s overall spending during last year’s sales weekend was up 11.7 percent from £1.39 billion,…
[ad_1] Black Friday has become the bargain bonanza of the year and now unofficially marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. Prices will be slashed for 24 hours, to persuade shoppers to splash the cash. This year’s Black Friday falls on Friday, November 23. But the sale is set to continue throughout the weekend…
[ad_1] Black Friday is a day of discount deals and its popularity among both stores and shoppers shows no signs of abating. More retailers took part than ever last year, which also saw increasing numbers of customers splashing the cash. When is Black Friday 2018? Black Friday is an annual shopping extravaganza. The tradition started…
[ad_1] Ceph is an open source technology for distributed storage that gets very little public attention but that provides the underlying storage services for many of the world’s largest container and OpenStack deployments. It’s used by financial institutions like Bloomberg and Fidelity, cloud service providers like Rackspace and Linode, telcos like Deutsche Telekom, car manufacturers…
[ad_1] In three years, the Uber Eats restaurant food delivery service has grown from an experiment to serving much of the US and major cities worldwide. By year’s end, the ride-hailing company says it will cover 70 percent of the US population and be in 243 metro areas, mainly by expanding into smaller cities. It’s already in…
[ad_1] The figures provided by the Chinese firm did not provide details on what kind of iPhones were purchased. Huawei, China’s largest smartphone maker by market share, recently overtook Apple to move to second place globally. It was the second-highest-selling vendor on Alibaba’s platforms during Singles Day. Xiaomi, followed. Samsung, which has been weak in…
[ad_1] You might have received plenty of WhatsApp stickers as Diwali greetings last week. There are tonnes of third-party sticker packs that have recently emerged on Google Play and tens of official stickers come preloaded. But since searching for new stickers on WhatsApp isn’t as easy as searching a sticker on its competing apps, the…
[ad_1] The Asia Pacific region is a key growth driver for Australia’s largest airline Qantas, its CEO said on Monday. Qantas has increased its capacity in the region partly because more tourists from Asia are heading to Australia, Alan Joyce told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “Ten years ago, when I took over as CEO, we had…
[ad_1] Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba may have recorded its slowest ever annual growth rate for its Singles Day shopping extravaganza this year, but a large online retailer in Southeast Asia that is majority-owned by Alibaba said it witnessed accelerating growth during the event. Southeast Asia is at the “beginning of the journey” and still witnessing…
[ad_1] Facebook has launched a video app called Lasso that enables users to make and share short-format videos with filters and special effects. The app can be considered a Facebook version of the TikTok app that has become quite popular in the past year. Bowen Pan, a product manager at Facebook, tweeted the launch on…
[ad_1] Just a few years ago, Li Mengqi could not have imagined shopping on her own. Someone needed to always keep her company to say aloud what was in front of her, who’s been blind since birth. When smartphones with text-to-speech machines for the visually impaired arrived, she immediately bought an iPhone. “Though it was…
[ad_1] Screenshot | Microsoft live stream Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and SAP CEO Bill McDermott announce the Open Data Initiative at Microsoft’s 2018 Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida. Legacy tech companies have been scooping up smaller cloud and software providers in massive deals throughout 2018. The consolidation comes as older enterprise…
[ad_1] Daniel Roland | AFP | Getty Images Bill McDermott, CEO of German software giant SAP, addresses the media during the company’s annual financial statement at it’s headquarters in Walldorf near Heidelberg, southern Germany, on January 24, 2017. SAP is acquiring Qualtrics for $8 billion, snapping up the survey software company just before its planned…
[ad_1] To offset the creepiness of having Facebook’s camera and microphone in your house, its new Portal video chat gadget needs best-in-class software. Its hardware is remarkably well done, plus Messenger and the photo frame feature work great. But its third-party app platform was pretty skimpy when the device launched this week. Facebook is increasingly…
[ad_1] Galaxy S9 released back in March and touts a number of great features that make it appealing for fans of Google’s operating system. The flagship comes with a 5.8-inch AMOLED display that boasts Samsung’s signature curved edges. Moreover, the hardware is a rare top-tier device that does not feature a notch. Instead, the Galaxy…
[ad_1] Formula One is back with Lewis Hamilton starting his first race weekend as a five-time world champion. The F1 legend secured his fifth world championship, to move equal with Juan Manuel Fangio, in Mexico at the end of last month. And with the drivers’ title wrapped up attention now shifts towards the constructors’ title…
[ad_1] Android smartphone users are being warned after a series of dangerous security risks were uncovered by Google. Android is one of the most used pieces of software in the world, with more than two billion active devices running Google’s mobile OS every month. But the leading OS has been subject to a number of…
[ad_1] Rocket Lab put seven spacecraft in orbit on Saturday with its first commercial launch, as the company grew its lead in the burgeoning small rocket industry. Delayed from this past spring, the “It’s Business Time” launch marks the beginning of Rocket Lab’s acceleration toward launching at a weekly rate. The rocket builder reached orbit…
[ad_1] Barcelona will take on Real Betis at the Nou Camp this afternoon as they look to strengthen their lead at the top of La Liga. The Spanish giants began the day at the top of La Liga with a three point gap on second-placed Espanyol. It remains to be seen if Barca star Lionel…
[ad_1] Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro was shown off by the firm on Thursday, November 8, and seems set to launch a radical challenge to the OnePlus 6. That is because the Mi 8 Pro is not only launching with the same £499 price tag as its Chinese rival, but it also comes with an array…
[ad_1] Combing the aisles for natural frosting isn’t exactly a piece of cake, and “Shark Tank’s” Heather Saffer of Dollop Gourmet can tell you that from experience. After wandering through dozens of grocery stores, Saffer soon realized a healthier alternative to the decadent spread didn’t exist, and she was most certainly fit for the job.…
[ad_1] Chelsea have the opportunity to climb to first place in current league standings this afternoon, although it could be short-lived. The London club currently have 27 points but are surpassed by Manchester City that have 29. But because the Blues are playing their weekend game earlier than their Premier League rivals, they could surpass…
[ad_1] Google Chrome is the American tech giant’s browser that is hugely-popular. Chrome is regularly updated by Google, with new numbered versions of the client arriving roughly every six weeks. Before it introduces new iterations, Google typically details forthcoming features for the browser ahead of an official rollout. Google has insisted version 71 of Chrome,…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is the most popular chatting client in the world, beating the likes of Facebook Messenger and WeChat in terms of sheer monthly users. And the application is regularly updated by the company, meaning fresh additions and tweaks are constantly being introduced. WABetaInfo, a publication renowned for digging through WhatsApp beta and alpha code…
[ad_1] Liverpool could go back to the top of the Premier League table with a win against Fulham in the early kick-off. Liverpool will be confident of getting all three points against a Fulham side rooted to the bottom of the table. And with their title rivals still to play, a win for the Reds…
[ad_1] Black Friday falls on the fourth Thursday in November and notoriously marks the beginning of Christmas shopping for many. This year it falls on Friday, November 23 and this day will see retailers offer deals, and customers rush to shops to snap them up in time for Christmas. Amazon famously offers huge savings for…
[ad_1] Alibaba smashed through its Singles Day sales record, with several hours still remaining in one of the world's largest shopping events. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Google Maps regularly receives new features from the American tech giant, providing users with improved functionality overall. But before it rolls out new tools, Google typically tests them on a limited number of users. Android Police has insisted a “tipster” got in contact with the publication who emphasised they had seen new options appearing…
[ad_1] Huawei Mate 20 Pro released last month and has taken the smartphone market by storm thanks to its score of compelling features. Mate 20 Pro builds on the triple-camera foundation laid by the P20 Pro earlier this year but ups the ante thanks to its new wide-angle lens. This allows the Huawei flagship to…
[ad_1] Android is a mobile and tablet operating system developed by Google. And the software is hugely-popular, running on almost every phone in the world that is not manufactured by Apple Inc. In addition to substantial numbered updates, Google also regularly improves the Android experience for users by introducing new features in addition to stability…
[ad_1] Amazon Black Friday 2018 sale will start on Friday, November 26 and run until November 25. During the highly-anticipated event the outlet will offer customers “Deals of the Day” that will slash the cost of home items, beauty products, electronics, toys and more. But that’s not all, Amazon will also feature what the retailer…
[ad_1] Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba promises that this year’s annual Singles’ Day this Sunday will be the “largest-ever in terms of scale and reach.” The holiday, which started as a day for unmarried Chinese to buy gifts for themselves, has become the biggest single shopping event in the world. Consumers bought a record $25.3 billion…
[ad_1] Halfords is billed as a one-stop shop for bikes brands, quality car parts, and accessories and the latest travelling equipment. Halfords is already offering Black Friday discounts online this year, as well as in-store. The Halfords site has a dedicated Black Friday section and an exclusive Black Friday competition. Halfords is perhaps best known…
[ad_1] Notable alumns include co-founder David He, an MIT researcher who went on to become the technical lead at Alphabet‘s health tech group, Verily, bringing at least three top engineers with him. His labmate on the academic project, Eric Winokur, did not join Quanttus but went on to join Apple as an engineer behind the…
[ad_1] England vs New Zealand LIVE STREAM UPDATE FOUR: Players have paused for a minute’s silence as a symbol of Remembrance Day. UPDATE THREE: Rain is pouring at Twickenham ahead of this afternoon’s matchup. The players are currently in the tunnel and will shortly head out. UPDATE TWO: England will take on the All Blacks…
[ad_1] Tottenham will face off against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park in the Premier League this afternoon. Tottenham are coming off the back of a dramatic victory in the Champions League midweek. Spurs came from behind to beat PSV 2-1 at Wembley with Harry Kane scoring a late double. While Crystal Palace go into today’s…
[ad_1] The potential 16-digit credit card combinations provide far more account numbers than could ever be used, according to Cris Poor, a mathematics professor at Fordham University. Poor says the 16-digit card numbers have 10 quadrillion possibilities. By comparison, the world population is a mere 6 billion. “So each person in the world could have…
[ad_1] Kieran Gibbs | ESPAT Media | Getty Images Scenes from an esports tournament in London in September 2018. The event is called FaceIt Major London. Newzoo projects that the esports industry will rake in over $1 billion in revenue by 2020, and mobile esports revenues will take a bigger slice of that pie over…
[ad_1] A group of computer science students at Memorial University are hoping to use computers and artificial intelligence to generate some jigs and reels. Zach Northcott and Caleb Graves, two of the six students working on the project, say they’re using a type of neural network called a general adversarial network, or GAN — a project they’re…
[ad_1] For young couples, major relationship milestones used to look something like a borrowed letterman jacket or a shiny key to an apartment — a show of trust and commitment, and a means to say, what’s mine is yours. Younger millennials and Gen Z teens, more tech-savvy and less privacy-keen than generations before, have kept…
[ad_1] The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the least churchgoing population in the United States. According to the Barna Research Group, 61% of residents do not attend church. But there’s a group of religious leaders and savvy businesspeople out to change that. The Exponential Conference recently came to the Bay Area for the…
[ad_1] While Elon Musk’s Tesla electric crossover Model Y may grab the most headlines, General Motors‘ Buick brand unveiled its Enspire crossover at this year’s Beijing Auto Show. The company, which is popular in China, has designed a 550-horsepower electric motor that will let the Enspire reach 60 mph in just 4 seconds, faster than…
[ad_1] Galaxy S10 is expected to succeed the Galaxy S9 and is presumed to be unveiled by Samsung at the start of next year. Samsung has made a tradition of showing off the next-generation of its S-line flagships at Mobile World Congress (MWC), a technology show that takes place in Barcelona annually, and the Galaxy…
[ad_1] Apple Inc. disclosed a pair of issues affecting two of its more popular products: the iPhone X and the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant said Friday the screen on some iPhone X units doesn’t respond or responds intermittently when touched. The company also said some units could have displays that react…
[ad_1] Cardiff City will be hopeful of picking up all three points in today’s early kick-off against Brighton & Hove Albion. Neil Warnock’s side start the day in the relegation zone, having only won a single Premier League game all season. But with the game taking place on home soil, the Bluebirds will be confident…
[ad_1] Third-party software apps that allow you to order food from a restaurant and have it delivered to your home are gaining popularity: sales are now over $2 billion annually and growth is about 15 per cent each year, according to research group NPD. They’re changing the face of the food and beverage industry and while the…
[ad_1] Android is Google’s smartphone operating system that is hugely-popular. In fact, it is the software running on most phones around the globe that are not produced by Apple Inc. Google unveiled its newest version of Android, 9 Pie, back in August that introduced a number of handy new features. One of the most notable…
[ad_1] Windows 10 has a number of functions that make it appealing to users, such as its high-degree of customisability. And the Microsoft operating system comes with its own virtual assistant, named Cortana, that is able to perform a variety of functions. The helper can set numerous reminders based on time, location or photos to…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 is coming soon with major retailers set to slash prices on top tech and gadgets. Amazon has already revealed when its sales will be starting with the online retailer launching a bumper 10 days of offers. The deals will kick off on November 16 through till November 25 – the day…
[ad_1] Amazon on Friday said it would carry more Apple products globally in time for the holiday shopping season, as the technology rivals put aside past differences to boost sales. In coming weeks, the world’s biggest online retailer will sell the latest editions of Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and other devices in the United States, Europe,…
[ad_1] Tony Bellew will go toe-to-toe with Oleksandr Usyk at the Manchester Arena this evening. Bellew is coming off the back of his second win in a row against David Haye earlier this year. And tonight the Liverpudlian has the chance to make history and become the first Briton to hold four world titles in…
[ad_1] Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL released on November 1 and bring a number of flagship features to the table that will surely make them appealing to Android fans. Both devices come with glass rear panels, allowing them to wirelessly charge. Moreover, bezels on the front of each phone have been radically reduced.…
[ad_1] Sky TV is yet to announce if it will launch any big Black Friday savings later this month. This big day of blockbuster sales takes place on November 23 with many of the UK’s biggest retailers expected to slash prices ahead of Christmas. Although there’s no word on a Sky Black Friday sale there is an…
[ad_1] Curry PC World has already started to discuss its plans for Black Friday 2018. The outlet has announced it will “have Black Tag deals running in the lead up to the big day” and emphasised such offers will include “many major television brands”. Furthermore, Currys has already heavily hinted customers should expect huge discounts…
[ad_1] Eight months after bringing in a $40 million Series D, Moogsoft‘s co-founder and chief executive officer Phil Tee confirmed to TechCrunch that the IT incident management startup had shed 18 percent of its workforce, or just over 30 employees. The layoffs took place at the end of October; shortly after, Moogsoft announced two executive…
[ad_1] The idea that social media can be harmful to our mental and emotional well-being is not a new one, but little has been done by researchers to directly measure the effect; surveys and correlative studies are at best suggestive. A new experimental study out of Penn State, however, directly links more social media use…
[ad_1] Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Facebook on Friday became the latest tech company to end a policy of requiring employees to…
[ad_1] It was a down day for big tech. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook — the five most valuable U.S. tech companies — lost a combined $75 billion in market value on Friday. They led a 1.7 percent drop in the S&P 500 tech index and a similar slide in the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Amazon…
[ad_1] Google is moving forward quickly with its newly-formed health organization led by former Geisigner CEO David Feinberg. Before Feinberg officially starts next year, the company has named an interim CEO: Linus Upson, the former engineering lead for Google Chrome and now an engineering head at Verily, the Alphabet subsidiary focused on life sciences. That…
[ad_1] INSTAGRAM DOWN – UPDATE ONE: Instagram is once again experiencing issues, with users of the Facebook-owned social network reporting problems for the second day in a row. Down Detector has registered hundreds of reports of Instagram down today (Friday November 9), with the issues peaking at almost 600 reports. Out of those reported issues,…
[ad_1] Huawei Mate 20 Pro boasts a number of tantalising features that makes it a noteworthy upgrade from the P20 Pro. Although both devices come with a triple-camera system, the Mate 20 Pro ditches the P20 Pro’s monochrome sensor in favour of a wide-angle lens. This allows the Mate 20 Pro to fit more objects…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6T has been getting plenty of attention in recent weeks with this £499 flagship killer offering a premium experience for under £500. Our recent OnePlus 6T review confirmed just how good this mid-range call maker is but this fabulous phone is about to get some serious competition from another Chinese rival. Xiaomi…
[ad_1] J.P. Morgan’s strategy goes further than jockeying for lead left. Namburi and Michael Millman, co-head of equity capital markets, also want to make more money for the bank when it’s second on an IPO. In pitching venture investors and later-stage start-ups, J.P. Morgan bankers are showing that when they work as the second bookrunner,…
[ad_1] In a new agreement between tech giants Amazon and Apple, shoppers will soon see a selection of the latest Apple products on the e-commerce behemoth, Amazon told CNBC in statement. The agreement means the latest Apple products like the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max will be available on Amazon. Amazon and Apple have…
[ad_1] Rael, a feminine care start-up, raised $17.5 million in Series A financing, led by Mirae Asset and GS Retail Fund. The online retailer sells period products made from organic cotton and beauty products specifically made for women who are menstruating. Rael has raised $20.4 million to date. Intel Capital led a $16 million Series…
[ad_1] This week, I’ve tried to do something new at TechCrunch with this experimental column — getting obsessed about a topic broadly in tech and writing a continuous stream of thoughts and analysis about it. With my research consultant and contributor Arman Tabatabai, we’ve covered two topics: Form Ds, the filing that startups usually submit…
[ad_1] Saurabh Ambulkar, a management professor at Northeastern University, said this points to Amazon’s broader goal of becoming a “one-stop shop” in the supply chain that covers everything from storage and shipping to last-mile delivery to the customers. Doing so provides more control and visibility for Amazon, while giving better prices and convenience to the…
[ad_1] Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL were first shown off by Google on October 9. Both devices improve upon everything the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL did right in a number of ways. For starters, both phones have an improved design that allows for wireless charging thanks to rear glass panels. Moreover, Pixel…
[ad_1] LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 580 million users, took a big step into professional development and education when it acquired Lynda.com for $1.5 billion and used it as the anchor for LinkedIn Learning. Now, with 13,000 courses on the platform, LinkedIn is announcing two new developments to get…
[ad_1] Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann said Thursday he plans on launching a successor to his once hugely popular video-looping app next year. Hofmann said in a tweet that the new app would be called Byte, and that the aim is for the platform to be launched in spring 2019. Tweet When asked by one Twitter…
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Yelp Inc. signage is displayed on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Yelp cratered more than 30 percent Friday, a day after releasing third quarter earnings that revealed advertisers are abandoning the site and denting revenue. The company…
[ad_1] Black Friday giveaways have become a tradition for online sneaker marketplace GOAT. Today it’s announcing the details of this year’s campaign, which will be its first to incorporate augmented reality. Director of Communications Liz Goodno described this as “the largest digital sneaker event of the year.” The company says it will be offering more…
[ad_1] Tech unicorn Taxify is chipping away at Uber’s dominance in the European ride-hailing market – and its CEO predicts massive growth ahead. The Estonian ride-hailing company valued at $1 billion has 15 million users and 500,000 drivers worldwide, split evenly between Europe and Africa. In an interview with CNBC at the Web Summit tech…
[ad_1] Sprint Corp. has been slowing traffic to Microsoft Corp.’s Internet-based video chat service Skype, according to new findings from an ongoing study by Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts. More than 100,000 consumers have used the researchers’ Wehe smartphone app to test Internet connections. Information from those tests are aggregated and analysed by the…
[ad_1] Tesla is among the most-shorted stocks in the U.S., and has a high level of debt, and ever after a profitable quarter has never been able to sustain profitability. Critics say that it needs to develop its manufacturing and logistical capabilities greatly before it will ever live up to the hype of its hefty…
[ad_1] Google already published the Android Security Year in Review detailing the open source platform’s trends, new features and enhancements. Now, the tech giant has announced that it will also publish the Android Ecosystem Security Report on a quarterly basis. This report details its efforts to reduce Potentially Harmful Application (PHA) rates on devices and…
[ad_1] Billionaire Ron Baron, a major Tesla shareholder, told CNBC on Friday that Elon Musk doesn’t need “adult supervision.” “Are you kidding me? When all of a sudden you have this success? He could have retired when he was 30, 32 when he made $150 million, he chose to put all that money into SpaceX…
[ad_1] Tesla‘s board just got new leadership. The appointment of longtime board member Robyn Denholm to chairwoman sent shares higher on Thursday. The stock move briefly boosted share prices to levels seen before CEO Elon Musk infamously tweeted that he had “funding secured” to take the company private at $420 a share. The unfounded post…
[ad_1] Epic Games’ Fortnite is an extremely popular game that hit mobile devices earlier this year, and was bought to Nintendo Switch back in June. Now, just after its release in South Korea, a report has surfaced that the game enjoys 8.3 million concurrent players. This is an increase from the 3.4 million global concurrent…
[ad_1] David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella smiles during the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle on May 10, 2017. Microsoft‘s cloud business has won a marquee deal from one of the country’s best-known retailers. The company said Friday that it signed a five-year deal with Gap to make Microsoft…
[ad_1] Beijing police Thursday briefly detained two students who were part of a group protesting alleged worker exploitation outside an Apple store, according to one of the demonstrators. The group was protesting in response to allegations made last month that one of the US company’s suppliers was exploiting student workers in southwest China. The two…
[ad_1] A TV anchor has joined a Chinese news agency, but with a twist: he isn’t human. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) anchor, a move it claims to be a world first. “English AI Anchor” debuted Thursday at the World Internet Conference in the country’s eastern Zhejiang Province. Modeled…
[ad_1] Singles Day — celebrated on Nov. 11 — has become a massive online retail, bringing in more than the online sales of Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. Alibaba turned the holiday into the annual shopping event in a bid to boost sales on its e-commerce platform. Last year, it generated a whopping $25…
[ad_1] Web users are being drawn into a relationship with the Internet that resembles gambling addicts using slot machines, the head of non-profit tech company Mozilla said Thursday. Mitchell Baker told the Web Summit in Lisbon how “…the biggest uses, the biggest companies, the biggest commercial uses, are built-in systems that look like addictions. “It’s…
[ad_1] Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 were Samsung’s top-tier devices last year. Both severely reduced bezels from their predecessors, offering a more futuristic-looking device. Galaxy S8 arrived with a 5.8-inch AMOLED display while the Galaxy Note 8 came with a gargantuan 6.3-inch AMOLED panel. And the flagship duo were powered by either Samsung’s own…
[ad_1] The Satanic Temple sued Netflix and Warner Bros Entertainment on Thursday, seeking more than $50 million (GBP 38.3 million) for their alleged unauthorised use of a statue of the goat-headed deity Baphomet in the series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. In a complaint filed with the US District Court, the plaintiff, whose stated mission includes encouraging benevolence…
[ad_1] Despite headlines like, “NASA asteroid WARNING: Three giant asteroids to pass Earth THIS SATURDAY,” and “CLOSE APPROACH’ Nasa asteroid ALERT as three space rocks set to skim past Earth on Saturday afternoon,” there is absolutely no need to panic. In fact, NASA has not warned or alerted anyone to any asteroid threats. While it is…
[ad_1] Chrome 71 to start warning users about sites that provide insufficient billing information Google is working hard on improving the end user experience of Chrome users, and it is planning to block abusive ads on pages starting with Chrome 71. Now, the company has announced that it will also start warning users of sites…
[ad_1] For those who’ve been paying attention, Facebook’s growth appears to be slowing. It’s not clear why, but one theory is that we’re reaching a saturation point, particularly in North America. Basically, everyone has already signed up for an account. Facebook is literally running out of new people to bring aboard. This is a problem…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Twitter/Dom Hoffman Vine app’s successor will be called Byte Vine, the short-form video looping app was acquired by Twitter in 2012, was converted into a pared-down camera app last year, after Twitter decided that it didn’t want to invest more money into it. The app enjoyed many loyal fans, who then moved…
[ad_1] Police in the Montreal-area are warning parents about online predators using the popular video game Fortnite to lure minors into a sextortion scheme. Four cases have been reported in the past few weeks, according to police. In three of those cases, minors were threatened, and in one, the victim sent personal photos to the…
[ad_1] While the new MacBook Air has just hit stores, folks at iFixit have come up with their teardown coverage to show the repairability of the new MacBook model. The teardown highlights that the MacBook Air 2018 has a Butterfly-switch keyboard similar to the new MacBook Pro – with a thin silicone barrier to resist…
[ad_1] To Canadian fisheries scientist Luc Comeau, the humble blue mussel is more than a bivalve — it’s a bio sentinel. “If something is strange in the environment, they will behave strangely,” says Comeau, a scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Comeau is part of an international effort that is using sophisticated sensors to…
[ad_1] Google has highlighted that the Files Go app has so far been used by users across the globe Just a week after spotting its presence through a beta version, the Files Go app has now officially been rebranded to Files by Google. The search giant announced the rebranding of the Files Go app through…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg is ready to play matchmaker for Canadians. His company Facebook Inc. will aim to make its social media platform’s users more than just friends with a new dating feature that will mark its North American launch in Canada on Thursday. Facebook Dating, which was previously piloted in Colombia, operates with users creating…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for iOS beta version 2.18.102 is publicly available While WhatsApp for Android has a thriving beta community, and the Windows Phone version has also made its beta version available public since a few years, the social app has been restrictive about who uses WhatsApp for iOS beta version. However, that has now changed,…
[ad_1] Matthias Doering | Bloomberg | Getty Images An Alipay digital payment app logo and smartphone sit on a desktop at the Wirecard AG headquarters in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Alipay, the payments app operated by Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial, has struck a partnership with European soccer governing body UEFA, the two…
[ad_1] Networking gear maker Cisco Systems said on Thursday it is teaming with Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services to offer software tools that would make it easier for Cisco’s customers to use Amazon’s data centres to run their business applications. The move is part of a push at Cisco, one of the biggest suppliers of the routers…
[ad_1] Terms like “all natural” or “artisanal” are often used on food packages but can be confusing for consumers. Now, new phrases like “clean” or “clean label” are trending in food marketing, but what it means isn’t so clean cut. The tagline on ads for coffee chain Second Cup says their products are “Now Clean”…
[ad_1] U.S. telecom equipment maker CommScope said on Thursday it would buy set-top box maker Arris in a $7.4 billion deal to bulk up its business ahead of the global roll-out of 5G. Arris shares jumped more than 10 percent Thursday on the news. The offer price of $31.75 per share represents a premium of…
[ad_1] The Amazon Alexa app is now available on Windows 10 PCs through the official Microsoft Store. While all Windows 10 PC users in US, UK, and Germany can install the app on their devices, only compatible PCs can use the hands-free features of Alexa. Using the hands-free feature, as on mobile and smart speakers,…
[ad_1] Facebook hasn’t found its place in hardware, but it’s getting closer. Unlike Apple, Amazon or even Google, Facebook has struggled to find a hardware product with mass appeal. It has a niche virtual reality business with Oculus VR. And, it partnered with HTC in 2013 to launch a phone that ultimately flopped. Now, Facebook…
[ad_1] Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images Neil Shen, founding partner of Sequoia Capital China. WUZHEN, China — The head of Sequoia Capital’s China affiliate said Thursday there are still big opportunities for growth in the country’s digital economy, contrary to many concerns about a slowdown. “As an investment firm enthusiastically participating in China’s…
[ad_1] Roku shares fell 22 percent Thursday, their worst drop since the company had its IPO in September 2017, even though the company beat third-quarter earnings estimates on the top and bottom lines. One key metric that fell below expectations was platform revenue, which encompasses streaming advertising. Platform advertising is shaping up to be an…
[ad_1] Tesla‘s newly appointed chairwoman Robyn Denholm will bring business expertise to the helm of the company’s board and serve as a crucial counterbalance to CEO Elon Musk, even if she isn’t the most exciting pick, analysts and experts told CNBC Thursday. Denholm is the Chief Financial Officer at Australian telecom company Telstra, where she…
[ad_1] Facebook took down more than 12 million pieces of terrorist content on its social network between April and September, the company disclosed on Thursday. Facebook defines terrorist content as posts that praise, endorse or represent ISIS, al-Qaeda and their affiliate groups. The removal of the terrorist content is part of an on-going effort by…
[ad_1] Shares of Yelp tanked more than 28 percent Thursday after the company announced its third quarter earnings report. The company reported revenue of $241 million for the quarter, just shy of analyst projections of $245 million. It also adjusted fourth quarter revenue guidance due to slower new account growth. “We do not believe there…
[ad_1] Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+ and launch in late 2019, CEO Bob Iger announced on the company’s earnings call Thursday. The company announced in August 2017 it would pull all its movies from Netflix in 2019, and start its own streaming offering for its past titles. Disney also purchased Fox for…
[ad_1] Disney is taking a $157 million write-down on its investment in Vice Media, the company announced in its fourth-quarter earnings report Thursday. Disney had originally invested a reported $400 million in 2015 at a valuation between $4 billion and $4.5 billion, sources told the Wall Street Journal at the time. This was in addition…
[ad_1] Amazon Web Services, the e-commerce firm’s cloud arm, is, however, larger than its Chinese rival. AWS raked in $6.68 billion in sales in the third quarter. Amazon’s success may bode well for Alibaba: “At present cloud services in Alibaba are in investment mode, and are not profitable. As their cloud services build scale they…
[ad_1] Amazon’s next big move could be taking on the giants of the delivery industry, RBC Capital Markets’ Mark Mahaney told CNBC on Thursday. “There’s another investment cycle coming, and I bet you it’s around shipping and them actually coming out and directly competing with FedEx and UPS,” the lead internet analyst said on “Power…
[ad_1] SpaceX’s planned communication satellite constellation, known as Starlink, will now be targeting a much lower orbit than originally planned, at least for over a thousand of the satellites, the company revealed in an FCC filing. The move should help mitigate orbital debris and provide better signal for the company’s terrestrial users as well. Starlink…
[ad_1] Alibaba's first Singles Day event in 2009 raked in gross merchandise value of $7.8 million. In 2017, the same event brought in more than $25 billion. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Activision Blizzard shares plunged 10 percent in after-hours trading after reporting its third straight quarterly decline in monthly active users. The video game company, which owns the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft franchises, reported 345 million monthly active users, down from 352 million in the previous quarter. The video game company reported…
[ad_1] Earlier this year, Alibaba announced that Zhang would move into the role as chairman of the board in September 2019. Zhang said that had been planned “for a long time.” “He tried to convince me to accept this, and we had several times a conversation, but I understand why he decided this, it’s all…
[ad_1] Google has selected Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg to define a strategy to coordinate its moves into the $3 trillion health care sector, according to a person familiar with the matter. The search has been underway for months, according to several people familiar with the search process. Artificial intelligence head Jeff Dean has been…
[ad_1] Photographers are tricky to get gifts for because every one of them has preferences they may already have spent years indulging. But we have blind spots, we photographers. We will spend thousands on lenses but never buy a proper camera bag, or properly back up our shots, or splurge for a gadget that makes…
[ad_1] Dropbox shares rose more than 8 percent on Thursday after the maker of collaboration software reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. The company will hold a conference call with analysts at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Here are the key numbers: Earnings: 11 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 6 cents per share as expected by…
[ad_1] Getty Images Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger walks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) before ringing the opening bell, November 27, 2017 in New York City. The Walt Disney Company is scheduled to report fourth-quarter and full-year earnings after the bell Thursday. Here’s…
[ad_1] Plantronics Inc, a U.S. manufacturer of Bluetooth earpieces and gaming headsets, is exploring options that include a potential sale of the company after attracting takeover interest, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The company’s stock was briefly halted due to volatility. It opened up more than 2 percent after trading resumed A…
[ad_1] Netflix and Warner Bros. are feeling the wrath of satanists. The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Brothers for $150 million, saying the companies infringed on its copyrights, violated its trademark, and caused injury to its business reputation, according to court documents filed on Thursday in a New York district court. At the…
[ad_1] Google CEO Sundar Pichai offered a new justification for the company’s exploration of a censored version of its search engine for people in China: it already censors information elsewhere. In a New York Times interview published Thursday, Pichai compared Europe’s “right to be forgotten laws” to censorship when asked about launching a search product…
[ad_1] Google today announced that Chrome will soon get a new feature that aims to stop mobile subscription scams. Those are the kind of sites that ask you for your phone number and that then, unbeknownst to you, sign you up for a mobile subscription that’s billed through your carrier. Starting with the launch of…
[ad_1] The app feels pretty bare-bones. You can ask for sports scores or random trivia questions. For example, I asked Alexa for the capital of Pennsylvania. The feature doesn’t let you launch movies or videos tied to Amazon Prime. Still, it’s convenient to have Alexa right at my fingertips, especially since I use Alexa a…
[ad_1] Today, Google Cloud announced Kubeflow pipelines and AI Hub, two tools designed to help data scientists put to work across their organizations the models they create. Rajen Sheth, director of product management for Google Cloud’s AI and ML products, says that the company recognized that data scientists too often build models that never get…
[ad_1] Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google employees hold signs during a walkout to protest how the tech giant handled sexual misconduct in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Google CEO Sundar Pichai just sent a memo to employees detailing changes to its sexual harassment and misconduct policies in the…
[ad_1] Abbyy has been around for a long time helping companies with scanning and workflow tools, but like many older vendors it has been looking for ways to extend its traditional business model. One way to do that is by teaming up with robotics process automation companies like UIPath. Today, the company announced it has…
[ad_1] Despite blockchain’s corporate buzz this year, the technology can be tricky to get exposure to as an investor, unless you’re buying bitcoin. To give clients some less controversial options, J.P. Morgan named three public companies who are potential long-term winners in the emerging technology. The firm predicted software companies will use blockchain in a…
[ad_1] Datacoral aims to make it easier for enterprises to build data products by abstracting away all of the complex infrastructure to organize and process data. The company today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A financing round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Social Capital, which also led its…
[ad_1] After much anticipation and the emergence of a bunch of patent filings, Samsung at the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC 2018) in San Francisco, California formally unveiled a foldable smartphone form factor that is based on an Infinity Flex Display. The South Korean giant at its annual developer conference also unveiled its all-new interface design…
[ad_1] Investors should concentrate and then capitalize on the year-end bounce in technology stocks, Fundstrat technical strategist Robert Sluymer told CNBC. “You’ve seen a wash out on the technology trade. It rebounds. It leads the market higher in the year end,” he predicted on “Fast Money” Wednesday. Sluymer points to stocks like Microsoft, Apple, and…
[ad_1] The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is planning a major expansion in New York City. The newspaper reported Wednesday that the company plans to add space for more than 12,000 additional New York workers. The Journal cited anonymous people familiar with the plans. The paper said Google has New York real estate deals…
[ad_1] The number of fake news accounts was "significantly higher" in this year's midterm elections than in the 2016 presidential election and it's only set to grow by 2020, according to the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) top software engineer. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] I’ll admit that I’ve been caught up in the Bose hype. I’ve worn qBoseSony WH-1000XM3, a pair of wireless/wired cans that truly give everything else I’ve tried a bad name. These $349 headphones come with a USB cable, audio cable, international audio adapter, and a compact case that holds the whole thing in a…
[ad_1] Microsoft is testing a “to-do” feature on Word that would enable users to come back to a document, view a list of their remaining to-dos, navigate to the right spot and fill-in additional information including images and charts to complete the document without confusion. “The new capabilities to Word would help users create and…
[ad_1] Tesla shares rose after Macquarie estimated the electric automaker may qualify to join the benchmark S&P 500 index as early as the second quarter of 2019. “TSLA checks off all the boxes for inclusion except aggregate GAAP profitability over trailing 12 months; we forecast this box to be checked in 2Q19,” Macquarie analyst Maynard…
[ad_1] There’s a new Sony PS4 Pro and it’s much quieter than the original. Right now, it’s only available in a Red Dead Redemption bundle but eventually, it will likely be available as a standalone product, too. The new CUH-7200 version reportedly dropped the console’s noise from 50 decibles to 44 decibels though as EuroGamer…
[ad_1] Public databases that shine a light on online political ads – launched by Facebook and Google before Tuesday’s US elections – offer the public the first broad view of how quickly the companies yank advertisements that break their rules. The databases also provided campaigns unprecedented insight into opponents’ online marketing, enabling them to capitalise on…
[ad_1] “Creativity is an attribute of people that is hard to fully quantify,” John Smith, an IBM Research fellow who worked on the project tells CNBC Make It. “It requires some kind of leap of thought, imagination or inspiration that is not easily reproducible in machines.” That’s because artificial intelligence is good at analyzing information…
[ad_1] It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps, which if exploited could have given an attacker unfettered access to a drone owner’s account. The vulnerability, revealed Thursday by researchers at security firm Check Point, would have given an attacker complete access…
[ad_1] EU governments are divided over a plan to tax big internet firms like Google and Facebook on their turnover, fearing retaliation from the United States, and could delay its application until a global deal is reached, top officials said on Tuesday. Under a proposal from the EU’s executive Commission in March, EU states would…
[ad_1] Brittany Ho, a customer advocacy specialist in Hootsuite’s Vancouver office, participated in the stretch program a year ago because she wanted to learn more about other parts of the company. When she stretched from her role on the customer team to corporate development, Ho worked on a project to help decrease bias in the…
[ad_1] “Who am I going to be worried about? Oh Facebook seeing? No, I’m not worried about Facebook seeing. They’re going to look at my great art collection and say they want to come steal it? No, I never really thought about it.” That’s my 72-year-old mother Sally Constine’s response to whether she’s worried about…
[ad_1] Google Duo first unveiled data rewards for users in Philippines back in September, and now, it has rolled out cash rewards for its users in India. According to a support page, users from India making their first call on Google Duo can earn cash rewards directly in Google Pay. Google also states that when…
[ad_1] More than half of the 27,000 civil aircraft in Canada aren’t equipped with a modern device that could save lives by allowing search and rescue crews to more easily find potential crash survivors, according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Modern emergency locator transmitters, or ELTs, emit radio distress calls that can be picked up…
[ad_1] Forget swiping through endless profiles. Dating apps are using artificial intelligence to suggest where to go on a first date, recommend what to say and even find a partner who looks like your favourite celebrity. Until recently smartphone dating apps – such as Tinder which lets you see in real time who is available and…
[ad_1] Amazon Web Services and Cisco announced on Thursday that they’re teaming up on a product that will allow developers to build applications in the cloud or in traditional data centers while making it easier for them to move between the two. It’s Cisco’s latest effort to create hybrid options for customers that want to…
[ad_1] China should have a more prominent role in shaping the future of the global Internet, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in remarks that underscored how battle lines for control of the web have hardened amid a biting trade war with the United States. The official opening of the World Internet Conference, which last…
[ad_1] Two weeks after Tim Campos started as chief information officer of Facebook in 2010, Mark Zuckerberg summoned him to his office for an urgent meeting. “I thought we were going to have a strategic meeting,” Campos told CNBC. Once there, Campos says, he met with Zuckerberg’s executive assistant, Anikka Goodman, who lambasted the company’s…
[ad_1] Instagram has been spotted testing Hindi support. The new development could help the Facebook-owned company expand its presence in India, which is already the biggest market for the social networking giant that has over 241 million monthly active Indian users. The Hindi-focused treatment is not just limited to the core Instagram experience but is…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6T was announced by the Shenzhen-based giant on October 29 and brings a number of notable tweaks that improve upon everything the OnePlus 6 did right. The OnePlus 6T comes with a 6.41-inch AMOLED display that outputs content at a 1080p resolution. The panel is slightly larger than the 6.28-inch screen present on…
[ad_1] LaCie USB Type-C portable SSD is up for pre-order in the US LaCie has expanded its portfolio to launch a new USB Type-C portable SSD in the US market. The device comes in varied storage variants, going up to 2TB, and the price starts from $115 (roughly Rs. 8,300). The SSD’s big highlight is…
[ad_1] Galaxy Note 9 arrived back in August and boasts a wealth of premium features. Note 9 builds on everything its predecessor, the Galaxy Note 8, did right by increasing the size of its screen, battery and improving its camera. Moreover, the Note 9 also came with an improved processor that offered faster performance across…
[ad_1] Apple’s mobile video editing and sharing app Clips has received its latest software version 2.0.5 that brings 6 new Selfie Scenes including one based on Disney Pixar’s Incredibles 2, improvements with the new A12 Bionic chip, three new filters, and a lot more. Additionally, GarageBand on iOS has received its latest update, while iMovie,…
[ad_1] Android is Google’s operating system that is used for both mobile devices and tablets. In fact, most smartphones that are not manufactured by Apple Inc run Android. Google recently released the newest version of its software, Android 9 Pie, that brings a number of notable improvements. One of the most poignant of these is…
[ad_1] Google is reportedly planning to add two more smartphones to its Pixel lineup. Handsets with codenames ‘Bonito’ and ‘Sargo’ have been spotted within the code of the latest ARCore APK. As of now, there is no official information that these are upcoming smartphones from Google, but their fish-based codenames suggest that this could be…
[ad_1] Galaxy S9 was released back in March and boasts a number of great features that make it appealing to Android fans. The hardware comes with a 5.8-inch AMOLED display that boasts an incredibly-high density of 570 pixels-per-inch. Moreover, the hardware differentiates itself from a number of its rivals by coming without a notch at…
[ad_1] Microsoft’s Head of digital Assistant Cortana is leaving the company by the end of the year, as Cortana has moved from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) research division into the Experiences and Devices group. First reported by ZDNet on Tuesday, Javier Soltero, Vice President of Cortana, confirmed his departure in a tweet posted to his…
[ad_1] It’s an annual event near the Skokomish River in northwest Washington state — salmon, flitting across a flooded rural highway, trying to make their way to upstream spawning grounds. Aaron Dufault, a salmon policy analyst with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, believes it’s been happening for decades. “That river is a little flashy so…
[ad_1] Giving another reason to use its cloud service over the competition, Dropbox has now launched Extensions. This new offering is defined as “a series of new integrations” that is designed to help enterprise users and professionals have a unified platform to start different workflows – without leaving Dropbox. The company has tied up with…
[ad_1] The 2016 U.S. election may be the most famous instance of bots being used to sway public opinion on a vote, but it looks like savvy programmers were also attempting to change perceptions of Calgary’s Olympic bid. City council’s Olympic assessment committee heard Tuesday that nearly half the responses to an online poll on whether Calgary…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is constantly working on bringing new features, and some of them are already in test in beta, including vacation mode and even the private reply feature. Now, the social messaging app is testing the ability to preview forwards before sending them. This means that users will get one more step before forwarding a…
[ad_1] In a predicament that would surely elicit sympathy from Little Miss Muffet, 50 federal government employees were frightened away from their Ottawa office building not once, but twice, after someone spotted a potentially dangerous spider. In June, managers at 2300 St. Laurent Blvd., a Shared Services Canada building, sent employees home for two days after someone spotted…
[ad_1] Google has announced an In-app Updates API to provide faster app updates on Android Google is enabling users to have up-to-date Android apps all the time – without making any efforts to download them by visiting Google Play. The new experience comes from an In-app Updates API that is currently in testing with early…
[ad_1] Not all cats hate water, evidently, as illustrated by a lynx Tony Moyles captured on video that he thinks swam 550 to 650 metres across Gander Lake on Saturday. The big cat wasted no time making itself scarce when it reached land, but definitely looked tired, Moyles told CBC Newfoundland Morning. “I more or less just went by…
[ad_1] Xiaomi has introduced two new baseline Mi Notebook Air variant with Intel’s 8th generation Core i3 processors. While one of these models has a 13.3-inch display, the other has a larger 15.6-inch panel. Key highlights of the new Mi Notebook Air models include the 8th Gen Core i3 processor, up to 8GB of RAM,…
[ad_1] Many companies have cut down on using paper, or scrapped it altogether, choosing to share their records digitally or online, and now one Ontario government ministry is joining them. The Treasury Board Secretariat will not go completely paperless, but it is cutting out paper for its meetings and briefings, at a projected savings of…
[ad_1] Facebook is planning to roll out a new update to Messenger that will allow users to delete sent messages from chat threads within 10 minutes of sending. A Twitter user spotted the feature listed as “coming soon” in the release notes for version 191.0 of Messenger’s iOS client, The Verge reported on Wednesday. “Coming…
[ad_1] Keeping a family of birds free from danger on the grounds of a major Ottawa festival this summer came with a nearly $4,000 price tag, according to documents released to Parliament Monday. The killdeer nest became a major issue in June because the birds had settled in right where the Ottawa Bluesfest main stage was…
[ad_1] The OnePlus Switch app can migrate your contacts, text messages, photos, and other data from an iPhone OnePlus Switch was launched back in January this year as a solution for transferring all your smartphone data from other Android handsets to a OnePlus smartphone. The app, available on Google Play, could transfer a user’s contacts,…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters A parking lot of predominantly new Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles is seen in Richmond, California, U.S. June 22, 2018. On Wednesday night, Tesla announced Robyn Denholm has taken Elon Musk’s place as chair of the company’s board. She is also leaving her role as CFO and Head of Strategy…
[ad_1] Tightening its control over popular anonymous chat apps, the Russian government has approved regulations that would identify users by their cellphone numbers. The measures signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev are part of Russia’s moves to clamp down on smartphone messenger services, such as Telegram, that authorities claim are used by criminals and…
[ad_1] Netflix is on a mission to expand its audience across Asia, and the country set to account for the bulk of that growth is India — not China. Asia’s young and increasingly digital population presents an “incredible opportunity” to ramp up the company’s international subscribers, Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos told CNBC on…
[ad_1] Disruption in Asia as result of the U.S.-China trade war is inevitable, Marro said. Countries in the region that are heavily dependent on shipments to China — such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore — are prone to “feel a bit of the pain in the short term,” he added. “China is a major…
[ad_1] Financial technology has reached a tipping point for China’s Ping An Technology and future growth in that area is set to be exponential, according to CEO Ericson Chan. Years of investment and research into fintech is paying off, Chan told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday. “I think we are just hitting a tipping point…
[ad_1] Software engineer Samee Alam was ready to take the big leap and buy an iPhone in this week’s Diwali festival sales, but at the last minute he opted for cheaper Chinese competitor OnePlus instead. Alam, 27, spends hours on his phone watching shows, surfing and shopping, making him the perfect target for Apple Inc…
[ad_1] Scientists have used one of the most reliable methods of dating to determine that a painting of a cattle-like animal found in a cave on the island of Borneo is at least 40,000 years old, making it the earliest known work of figurative art. Deep in the mountains of the province of East Kalimantan are…
[ad_1] CDK Global on Wednesday named Brian Krzanich as its new chief executive officer and president, more than four months after he resigned from the top job at Intel following a probe that found he had a consensual relationship with an employee. IT and digital marketing solutions provider CDK Global’s current CEO Brian MacDonald will…
[ad_1] Tony Avelar | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a request to discuss fake news and data privacy in front of government officials from the U.K. and Canada, officials from those countries said in a signed letter Wednesday. Three more countries are…
[ad_1] The former leader of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, has told an audience in Lisbon that there is still time to stop a Brexit that will only either be “pointless or painful.” Britain is due to leave the European Union in less than five months, although negotiators representing Britain and the EU have so…
[ad_1] Tech giant Google is planning to expand its office space in New York City, potentially allowing the company to significantly increase staffing in the city, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. People familiar with the matter told the Journal that Google is nearing a deal to buy or lease a planned…
[ad_1] Twilio surged more than 35 percent Wednesday after crushing third-quarter expectations on earnings, revenue and guidance. The cloud software company has already more than tripled in value since its this year. Twilio grew its revenue 68 percent compared to last year, it said in a statement. The company reported revenue of $168.9 million compared…
[ad_1] Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images US President Donald Trump speaks during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on November 7, 2018. President Trump said on Wednesday that he’s open to working across the aisle with Democrats to regulate social media. In a lengthy…
[ad_1] If CNBC’s Jim Cramer knows one thing about the United States Congress, it’s that “a house divided against itself can produce some amazing profits” for investors, he said one day after the 2018 midterm elections. On Tuesday, the Democratic Party regained control in the House of Representatives, while the Republican Party maintained its majority…
[ad_1] The stocks of cloud companies like New Relic and Twilio are ripe for buying after a brutal series of October sell-offs, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday. October was the worst month for the broader technology sector since the depths of the financial crisis, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite seeing its most drastic drop since…
[ad_1] If CNBC’s Jim Cramer knows one thing about the United States Congress, it’s that “a house divided against itself can produce some amazing profits” for investors, he said one day after the 2018 midterm elections. On Tuesday, the Democratic Party regained control in the House of Representatives, while the Republican Party maintained its majority…
[ad_1] Let me just say that I love the idea of a folding phone/tablet device. I was a Courier fanboy when Microsoft floated that intriguing but abortive concept device, and I’m all for unique form factors and things that bend. But Samsung’s first real shot at a folding device is inexplicable and probably dead on…
[ad_1] Take-Two Interactive reported earnings for its 2019 fiscal second quarter after the bell on Wednesday. The company is known best for developing popular videogames like “Red Dead Redemption” and “Grand Theft Auto” as the parent company of Rockstar Games and 2K. The stock was up over 2.5 percent after the bell. Here are the…
[ad_1] Shares of Roku plunged as much as 12 percent in extended trading Wednesday despite beating on both the top and bottom lines in its third-quarter earnings. Shares eased off shortly after the report to trade roughly 10 percent lower than Wednesday’s close of $58.86 Here’s how the company did compared with what Wall Street…
[ad_1] Comcast plans to roll out a new product for broadband-only subscribers that will allow customers to aggregate certain streaming apps, including Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube, with a voice-activated remote — a response to the ongoing challenge of navigating video between a variety of sources, according to people familiar with the matter. The product,…
[ad_1] Although it appears that Facebook managed misinformation more effectively than in 2016, we won’t know for sure until researchers, academics and cyber security experts can gauge the full impact. That could take months — recall that Facebook didn’t start talking about Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election via until September 2017. Meanwhile, the…
[ad_1] As audiences increasingly cut the cord, Roku is seizing its opportunity as an ad-friendly streaming video platform. Roku is in current talks with media companies to include their content in its app instead of leaving it in their own separate apps, according to five advertising, technology and media executives who had talked with the…
[ad_1] Samsung just announced a phone that can fold in half. It’s a compelling form factor that may one day allow us to carry phones that fit snugly in our pockets, but that can then be unfolded to reveal a larger screen, like a tablet. The phone, which doesn’t have a final name or design…
[ad_1] Netflix’s internal hackathons have consistently produced fun and often silly hacks, from that “Netflixtendo” hack a few years ago that let you run Netflix on the original NES to the more recent “audiobook mode” that turned Netflix series into old school radio shows by way of Audio Descriptions. This year’s hackathon doesn’t disappoint either,…
[ad_1] Billionaire investor Ray Dalio said investors had priced in the outcome of a divided Congress in the midterm elections, but believes that politics is now playing a greater role in financial markets across the globe. “We’re in a world now where politics and choices made have a much bigger effect on the markets,” Dalio…
[ad_1] Salesforce CEO and billionaire Marc Benioff is working to solve the homeless problem in San Francisco, and he wants to improve the city’s transportation system too. To do it, Benioff asked Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk for help from his infrastructure building business, The Boring Company. Benioff tweeted the request on Tuesday, saying…
[ad_1] Xilinx has hired Barclays to advise on a bid to acquire Mellanox after approaching the chipmaker with an offer, according to people familiar with the matter, continuing a trend of consolidation in the semiconductor industry. A deal isn’t imminent and may not come together, said the people, who asked not to be named because…
[ad_1] DevOps platform CircleCI today announced a new partner program that will open up its platform and allow third-party tools to integrate with it. In addition, the company is launching Orbs, which it describes as “the world’s first package manager designed specifically for configuration of software delivery automation.” Fresh off its $31 million funding round…
[ad_1] Match Group shares plunged 18 percent on Wednesday after the company gave fourth-quarter revenue guidance that missed estimates, and spooked investors. The company, which owns several dating services including Tinder and Match.com, said after the bell on Tuesday that it expects revenue between $440 million and $450 million for the quarter that ends in…
[ad_1] Etsy stock soared more than 24.8 percent Wednesday as the company raised its annual revenue forecast and beat on quarterly earnings Tuesday. The company now expects its full-year revenue to be between $596 million and $600 million, up from its previous guidance of $587 million to $596 million. It also announced a $200 million…
[ad_1] Tinder has never really shaken its reputation among consumers as a “hook up” app, instead of one designed for more serious dating. Now, it seems Tinder is planning to embrace its status as the default app for younger users who aren’t ready to settle down. According to Match Group CEO Mandy Ginsberg, speaking to investors…
[ad_1] DTKUTOO | iStock / 360 | Getty Images A magnified image of the MRSA bacteria. The “superbug” is poised to kill 30,000 Americans per year by 2050. Antimicrobial resistance is a large and growing problem, with the potential for enormous health and economic consequences for the United States and the rest of the world.…
[ad_1] Earlier this year, Zillow launched a new strategy of buying and selling homes directly to users, expanding its offerings beyond real estate brokers. The company in August bought a mortgage lender to assist with sales. The new business segment appears to be taking off, posting quarterly revenue of $11 billion, compared with company expectations…
[ad_1] Spotify’s ad-supported tier has long been one of the service’s differentiators. Naturally, the model’s not nearly as feature rich as its paid counterpart, though the company’s removing one of those key distinctions as this morning. In a press release, the company notes that free users will soon be able to stream music through Spotify Connect-sporting…
[ad_1] The U.S. is looking with fresh eyes at Europe’s antitrust rules, according to the EU’s competition commissioner. At a press conference at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday, Margrethe Vestager said the U.S. has a “renewed deeper interest and curiosity as to what we are doing in Europe” on antitrust and tech…
[ad_1] Visual China Group | Getty Images Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook attends China Development Forum (CDF) 2018 at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 24, 2018 in Beijing, China. China Development Forum (CDF) 2018 is hosted by the Development Research Center of the State Council of China on March 24-26 in Beijing. Apple is…
[ad_1] Facebook blocked more than 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts with potential ties to a so-called Russian “troll farm” ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, the company said Wednesday. The firm said it received a tip-off from law enforcement about the accounts, which it says may be linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA), one…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff speaks at the grand opening of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco in May 2018. The controversial San Francisco “homelessness tax” that divided the tech industry passed, according to poll tallies Tuesday night. Proposition C will increase gross receipts taxes for companies…
[ad_1] Microsoft wants to work with Congress to establish cybersecurity measures for civilians, the company’s president told CNBC Wednesday. Speaking to CNBC at the 2018 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Brad Smith said Microsoft wanted to address the “fundamental question” of safeguarding the population against cyber threats — but he said the outcome of the…
[ad_1] The 5G revolution is picking up pace with all of the UK’s major mobile networks announcing their plans for super fast technology. 5G looks set to replace the current 4G signal and will offer download speeds of around 1Gbps which is 600 times faster than the UK average. Although there’s been plenty of talk…
[ad_1] The OPPO RX17 Pro comes with a triple-camera system (Image: Express Newspapers) Design and display The OPPO RX17 Pro is immediately distinguishable for its frosted blue and purple finish the Chinese company is dubbing “Radiant Mist”. Such a tone is reminiscent of the Twilight colour from Huawei that first debuted on the P20 Pro…
[ad_1] Samsung’s Developers Conference begins later today and it could offer a first look at one of the most exciting smartphones in years. There’s been plenty of talk of the Korean firm’s plans to unveil a foldable device and it appears a launch could be imminent. The CEO of Samsung’s mobile division, DJ Koh, previously…
[ad_1] Apple MacBook Air review (Image: EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS) MacBook Air 2018 review PROS • Stunning design makes it more portable than ever • A Retina display finally on an Air • Good battery life • Touch ID fingerprint scanner CONS • High price • USB-C ports are both on one side • Butterfly keyboard won’t suit everyone Ever since…
[ad_1] Elon Musk could have saved himself some trouble by taking Tesla private, according to early investor and prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper. In an interview with CNBC at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon on Tuesday, Draper said Elon Musk made a “human” mistake when he tweeted he had secured funding to…
[ad_1] Two years after AMD first unveiled the brand new Zen CPU architecture that would catapult it back into the high-performance PC and server CPU markets, the company has revealed details of the next-generation Zen 2 architecture that will succeed it. With a focus on Epyc chips for servers, AMD now hopes to surpass the…
[ad_1] Blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrency bitcoin, has been recommended and theorized for uses across a broad spectrum of sectors and countries. Now, one Southeast Asian city-state is putting the tech to work in reshaping its energy industry. In Singapore, companies can buy and sell so-called renewable energy certificates (RECs) that represent a unit of…
[ad_1] Google Chrome is the Mountain View firm’s internet browser that is hugely-popular. In fact, Google Chrome is considered to be the most popular internet browser around on both desktops and smartphones. Chrome is regularly updated by Google, meaning new features are consistently being added. Google recently announced a new addition to Chrome that will…
[ad_1] The Samsung Galaxy S10 is the presumed name given to the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus’ successor. The hardware has been heavily rumoured to come with a radical redesign that will minimise bezels and move its fingerprint reader underneath the display. A recent report from Bloomberg insisted Samsung will launch three versions of the…
[ad_1] Liverpool vs Red Star Belgrade LIVE STREAM Liverpool are currently top of their Champions League group after having won two of their first three games. Jurgen Klopp’s squad currently have six points but find group rivals Napoli nipping at their heels with five. And Klopp has admitted securing a victory tonight would “massively” help…
[ad_1] OPPO unveiled its RX17 Pro smartphone in the illustrious city of Milan, Italy, and was keen to discuss its capabilities. The RX17 Pro comes equipped with a 6.4-inch AMOLED panel that displays content at a 1080p resolution. And the RX17 Pro boasts a laudable 91.5 percent screen-to-body ratio, meaning bezels have been radically reduced.…
[ad_1] Waves of Change is a CBC series exploring the single-use plastic we’re discarding, and why we need to clean up our act. You can be part of the community discussion by joining our Facebook group. Halifax restaurateur Bill Pratt is still waiting for a two-year supply of biodegradable paper straws he ordered three…
[ad_1] Researchers aim to limit the amount of mercury in the ecosystem in the Northwest Territories by removing contaminated fish from lakes, leaving young, healthy fish to grow mercury-free. The University of Waterloo, Environment Canada and the Dehcho First Nations are leading this work, dubbing Sanguez Lake, near Jean Marie River, N.W.T. as the test site for the project. Heidi Swanson, the lead researcher…
[ad_1] Archeologists in Quebec City have discovered the first fortifications built in 1693 to protect New France from a major attack, in what is considered the first reinforced palisade of that era. The discovery was made by an archeological firm, Ruralys, that was overseeing renovation work on a building on Sainte-Ursule street, after a worker found a…
[ad_1] Tony Avelar | Bloomberg | Getty Images Symantec headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has approached Symantec to express interest in acquiring the U.S. cybersecurity software company, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Shares of Symantec soared 15 percent in mid-morning trading Tuesday. There is no certainty that…
[ad_1] Amazon‘s first-ever printed holiday shopping catalog is here. Amazon is shipping a holiday toy catalog, titled “A Holiday of Play,” to millions of customers starting this month, the company’s spokesperson confirmed in an email to CNBC. “Amazon is excited to offer a new way for customers to shop for toys this holiday season,” Amazon…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer is such a passionate supporter of the stock of Apple that, sometimes, even he knows it’s worth getting a second opinion. So, on Tuesday, he got technician Carolyn Boroden’s take. After inspecting Apple’s charts, Boroden, who runs FibonacciQueen.com and is Cramer’s colleague at RealMoney.com, came out “cautiously optimistic” on the stock’s…
[ad_1] Investors “have to look at the overall economy” and not focus so much on President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel imports when considering whether to invest in Nucor, the country’s largest steel producer, its CEO told CNBC on Tuesday. “We hear a lot of talk about the tariffs and, certainly, the tariffs are playing…
[ad_1] Alphabet is convening employees from across its various health units, including life-sciences R&D unit Verily and health-focused artificial intelligence project Google Brain, for an invitation-only two-day conference at the company’s Sunnyvale campus. The event showcases Alphabet’s growing interest in the space. It’s also one of the first times that Alphabet has organized a big…
[ad_1] Few things in the world of technology can really ever be said to be “done,” and certainly exoskeletons are not among their number. They exist, but they are all works in progress, expensive, heavy, and limited. So it’s great to see this team working continuously on their TWIICE robotic wearable, improving it immensely with…
[ad_1] The Department of Homeland Security has been preparing for today for more than a year. They’ve held cyber disaster practice runs, worked hand-in-hand with local precincts and tried to calm fears about hacking voting machines. (Which, by the way, is easy to pull off in a staged test environment at a cybersecurity conference, but…
[ad_1] Getty Images Twilio Inc. founder and CEO Jeff Lawson (C, in glasses) reacts after ringing the opening bell to celebrate Twilio’s initial public offering, at the New York Stock Exchange, June 23, 2016 in New York City. Twilio shares jumped more than 12 percent on Tuesday after the cloud software company reported third-quarter results…
[ad_1] The holiday season is here again, touting all sorts of kids’ toys that pledge to pack ‘STEM smarts’ in the box, not just the usual battery-based fun. Educational playthings are nothing new, of course. But, in recent years, long time toymakers and a flurry of new market entrants have piggybacked on the popularity of…
[ad_1] Apple‘s move to ax device unit sales from future earnings reports is not “all that troubling” as the tech giant builds on its services segment and long-term goals, portfolio manager Timothy Lesko told CNBC on Tuesday. “In order to do that, they really need to stop focusing so much on iPhone and focus on…
[ad_1] Watchmaker Jaquet Droz makes luxury watches that cost more than some San Francisco apartments. Now, however, they’ve decided to go “downmarket” with their Sports Watch chronograph, a handmade watch that is designed for both work and play. The watch is a standard chronograph with big date, a complication that displays the date as two…
[ad_1] Telecoms infrastructure company CommScope is nearing a deal to buy complementary telecom gear provider Arris for more than $31 a share, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal would give CommScope more scale with a more diversified product base, while it would provide an exit for Arris as fewer customers watch traditional…
[ad_1] Microsoft’s corporate vice president in charge of the Cortana virtual assistant, Javier Soltero, is leaving the company. The news was originally reported by ZDNet. While Cortana is embedded into the Windows 10 operating system and is available on smartphones, tablets and smart speakers, the assistant remains less popular than Apple’s Siri and drives fewer…
[ad_1] At Annistown Elementary School in Snellville, Georgia, issues with voter check-in service ExpressPoll delayed the opening of a voting precinct and forced the use of paper ballots, according to reporting from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. At another Snellville polling location, this one at Anderson Livsey Elementary, NBC confirmed that long lines had formed because some…
[ad_1] Historically, Long Island City was home to warehouses, strip clubs, dive bars and other seedy venues. But today, much of that has been torn down and replaced by high-rise luxury apartment buildings. My apartment building, which is located in the still-developing Court Square area of Long Island City, is surrounded by some of the…
[ad_1] Both of these ride-hailing companies are making it easier for voters to get to the polls with free or discounted rides. To get $10 off a ride to the polls with Uber, enter promo code VOTE2018 in the latest version of the app by going to Menu, then Payment, then Add Promo Code. You…
[ad_1] Like a kid shooting spitballs, designer Beer Holthuis has figured out that sopping wet paper is the best material for making mischief. His 3D printer, a primitive RepRap clone that literally squirts out huge lines of paper pulp, is designed to allow artists and designers to create more sustainable 3D objects. According to 3DPrint.com,…
[ad_1] Photomath just raised a $6 million funding round from Goodwater Capital with Learn Capital also participating. Photomath has created a hugely successful mobile app for iOS and Android with 100 million downloads so far. Photomath first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt London back in 2014. The company was working on text recognition technology. Photomath was…
[ad_1] Yves Herman | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers a keynote during the European Union’s privacy conference at the EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium October 24, 2018. When Apple launched iOS 12 in September, it also introduced a new application that gives Siri new powers. It’s a new app called “Shortcuts.” You can use…
[ad_1] AMD shares rose about 8 percent on Tuesday after the semiconductor company said Amazon’s cloud unit would start using its Epyc data center chips to deliver services to third-party customers. The announcement was made by AMD CEO Lisa Su at the AMD Next Horizon event in San Francisco. Amazon Web Services is the world’s…
[ad_1] U.S. electric truck maker Nikola Motor unveiled the third version of its hydrogen-powered electric semitrailer truck on Tuesday, which it says will be aimed at European customers. The Nikola Tre — tre meaning “three” in Norwegian — will be the “first European zero-emission commercial truck,” Trevor Milton, the firm’s founder and chief executive, said…
[ad_1] Disney‘s $71.3-billion offer to buy Twenty-First Century Fox‘s entertainment assets won approval from the European Commission on Tuesday, subject to Disney selling interests in factual TV channels in Europe. The EU competition regulator said in a statement that Disney had committed to divest its interests in channels including History and Lifetime in the European…
[ad_1] The Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) Saint John has launched a harbour seal monitoring program that could include using drones and satellite tagging to find out more about the mammals and their activities in the area. Graeme Stewart-Robertson, the group’s executive director, says the program has been a long time coming, with “a lot of information gaps” to…
[ad_1] French startup Lydia is launching an insurance product for your mobile phone. For €4.29 per month ($4.89), you can insure your phone from the Lydia app. Lydia is one of the most popular peer-to-peer payment apps in Europe with 1.5 million users. Think about it as a sort of Venmo or Square Cash for…
[ad_1] Amazon has finally launched Audible, its audiobooks subscription service, in India. Price starts at just Rs. 199 per month (roughly $2.70) and Audible is offering a 30-day free trial to all users, with many users also seeing a 90-day free trial option with a credit towards three free audiobooks. An Audible India subscription claims…
[ad_1] Islamic State, the jihadist group that once held control of large parts of Iraq and Syria, is still “very much a problem” as it continues to pump out terror content online, a European security official has said. Julian King, the EU’s commissioner for the security union, said Tuesday that, although the Islamist militant organization…
[ad_1] Online travel giant Booking Holdings spent upwards of $1 billion on Google ads in the past quarter, according to its earnings report and analyst estimates. Booking, which owns Europe’s Booking.com and U.S. businesses including Priceline and Kayak, said on Monday that it shelled out $1.3 billion on “performance marketing” in the quarter, up from…
[ad_1] Every day, there are around 650,000 emergency service callouts via 911 for medical, police and fire assistance in the US; and by their nature these are some of the most urgent communications that we will ever make. But ironically in the age of smartphones, connected things and the internet, these 911 calls are also…
[ad_1] Four years ago Tuesday, Microsoft closed its $2.5 billion acquisition of Mojang, developer of the video game Minecraft. It was Satya Nadella’s first multibillion-dollar deal since taking over as CEO in February 2014. As it turns out, Minecraft had more to offer Microsoft than just a wildly popular game with 91 million monthly active…
[ad_1] The updated Google Camera on the latest Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL has been lauded by reviewers, and the announced Night Sight mode has especially impressed many users. The tech giant detailed the feature at its Pixel event in October, but hasn’t rolled it out to Pixel phones yet. However, the APK version…
[ad_1] This column originally ran on Medium on Sept. 17, 2018. Apple’s new watch sounds like a win for anyone interested in their heart health. It will notify wearers of a slow or irregular heart rhythm, and it can take a basic electrocardiogram (ECG), a recording of the electrical activity of the heart. During Apple’s…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has had a pretty busy year, and we are not just talking about the fake news menace. Apart from taking several measures to curb the spread of fake news on its platform, WhatsApp has introduced a bunch of features on its platform recently — group video and voice calling, stickers support, and even…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6T is now officially available to buy in the UK and this mid-range phone has one huge advantage. This is the first time fans of the Chinese smartphone brand can purchase the phone through numerous UK stores and mobile networks. In fact you can pick one up from oneplus.com, EE, O2, Vodafone,…
[ad_1] Christmas holiday retail sales in the U.S. are expected to climb above the $1 trillion mark for the first time this year, on the back of low unemployment, solid income growth and higher consumer confidence, according to a study released Tuesday. Total retail sales in the U.S. will hit $1.002 trillion during the holiday…
[ad_1] Facebook has admitted it failed to prevent its social media platform being used to incite violence in Myanmar. An independent report commissioned by the tech giant was published Tuesday, finding that Facebook had been misused in a way that contributed to human rights abuses in the country. “A minority of users (in Myanmar) are…
[ad_1] France said Tuesday it is prepared to delay an EU-wide tax on high-tech giants in order to save a proposal that faces opposition from Ireland and Nordic countries. Paris has been urging its European Union partners to impose a new tax to ensure that global tech platforms like Facebook and Google pay their fair…
[ad_1] The new Air finally has a much sharper “Retina” display, which has been available on MacBook Pro since 2012 and the MacBook since 2015. This is the display Air fans have been clamoring for. Text is sharp when I’m reading the news, movies look great and it gets nice and bright. It’s also plenty…
[ad_1] Tech stocks have been hit over the past month – but one CEO of a newly-public tech company isn’t worried about the recent volatility. In a CNBC interview at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon on Tuesday, SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie said he is confident his company, which went public at the end of…
[ad_1] During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build and run containerised, Kubernetes-based architectures: it has acquired Heptio, a startup out of Seattle that was co-founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, who were two of the three people who co-created Kubernetes back at…
[ad_1] When the results of today’s U.S. midterm elections are tallied, people will have a clearer sense of how the American people really feel about the current administration. Or at least, how they feel based on the information they’ve read leading up to the election — not all of which was factual. Alas, it’s not…
[ad_1] Internet browser provider Opera announced a strategic investment of $30 million (roughly Rs. 219 crores) into US-based music and entertainment company – StarMaker – to accelerate growth and explore shared opportunities for both the enterprises, an official statement said on Tuesday. With an engaged user base in India, Indonesia and the Middle East, StarMaker lets…
[ad_1] France will not rest until its plan for an EU-wide digital tax gets approved before the end of the year, the country’s finance minister said Tuesday. The French government has pushed for a new levy on internet giants, such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, in order to make these firms pay what they…
[ad_1] The US Supreme Court on Monday refused a request by the Trump administration and the telecommunications industry to wipe away a lower court decision that had upheld Obama-era net neutrality rules aimed at ensuring a free and open Internet, though the justices’ action does not undo the 2017 repeal of the policy. The high court…
[ad_1] Huawei Mate 20 Pro released last month and brings a number of laudable flagship features to the table. In addition to packing a colossal 4,200mAh battery, the hardware also comes with a gorgeous 6.39-inch AMOLED display at a resolution of 1440×3120 and comes pre-installed with Android 9 Pie. But the Mate 20 Pro’s headline…
[ad_1] A scrap among European Union countries over a proposed tax on tech giants is set to resume on Tuesday, when finance ministers try to strike a balance between luring business and addressing popular discontent about companies not paying their fair share. Finance ministers meeting in Brussels will try to push forward a legislative proposal…
[ad_1] BigPay is a part of AirAsia’s strategy to develop new businesses that can generate additional income for the airline as it weathers through market headwinds. Other projects include the development of an e-logistics platform called RedCargo, according to Fernandes. “We are now in this big digital adventure, which we think will add a lot…
[ad_1] Apple iPad Pro 2018 review (Image: EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS) Apple iPad 2018 review • From £799 PROS – Gorgeous design • Stunning edge-to-edge display • Blistering performance • Good battery life • Improved accessories CONS – Price can get very high • Old accessories don’t work • Face ID placement can cause issues It’s been a hugely busy year in…
[ad_1] In an apparent jibe against rivals Google and Facebook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said the company doesn’t use customers’ personal data for profit unlike some other firms. In an interview with The Times on Monday, Nadella said the company “had chosen not to squeeze the last drop of revenue from the troves of…
[ad_1] Google Maps is hugely popular and harnessed by users across the globe. The software is renowned for its futuristic functions such as Street View that offer incredibly detailed glimpses into different areas. Google Maps is regularly updated by the American tech giant, meaning new features are always arriving. But the software has been rivalled…
[ad_1] Bloomberg | Getty Images Daniel Zhang, chief executive officer of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., speaks during a news conference in Shanghai, China. SHANGHAI, China — E-commerce giant Alibaba announced Tuesday it plans to help global businesses sell $200 billion in goods to China in the next five years. A day earlier, Chinese President Xi…
[ad_1] The federal government is continuing to study Silicon Valley giants for potential violations of antitrust law, according to President Donald Trump, in his latest criticism of the embattled tech industry. “I am in charge,” he said in an interview with Axios that aired Sunday on HBO. “I am definitely in charge, and we are…
[ad_1] Huawei P20 Pro arrived back in March and delivered a number of noteworthy features for fans. The smartphone came with a gorgeous 6.1-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080×2240 and a density of 408 pixels-per-inch. And it delivered a huge 4,000mAh battery that allowed for all-day life. But P20 Pro’s triple-camera system was…
[ad_1] Facebook announced Monday evening that it had blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The company said U.S. law enforcement notified Facebook on Sunday of the accounts’ online activity, saying they believed the accounts “may be linked to foreign entities.”…
[ad_1] Automation will be a major driver for industries in the future, so companies will need both robots and a gamut of related manufacturing technologies, according to the chairman of multinational tech firm ABB. Last month, the company announced that it will invest $150 million to build an advanced robotics factory in Shanghai where robots…
[ad_1] Amazon Echo is a hugely-popular smart device that harnesses the power of a virtual assistant named Alexa to perform actions and answer questions. The retail giant’s line of Echo products was recently bolstered by the debut of a third-generation Echo Dot and an all-new Echo Plus speaker. The revised Echo Dot looks more stylish…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has rolled out several improvements and upgrades to the messaging platform in recent months. These include the introduction of group video, a Silent Mode, stickers support, and even a payments option. And measures have also been made to tackle the spectre of fake news on the platform. The latest feature should also prove…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is a popular messaging platform, with an incredible 1.5 billion monthly active users. The app frequently improves the service with updates – the latest of which is Private Reply. As the name suggests, WhatsApp Private Reply allows users to privately reply to messages received in a group chat. Users could previously only write…
[ad_1] Scientists in central Newfoundland are having great success with a thoroughbred breeding program. It’s not, as you might guess, about race horses or show dogs. These guys are producing super … trees. Ever since Barry Linehan, who manages the provincial government’s Centre for Agriculture and Forestry Development in Wooddale, was in school, he dreamed…
[ad_1] Most people are familiar with the ever-popular capelin or cod, but get up close and personal with three fish with creepy names and faces only a mother (fish?) could love. Jane Adey, host of The Broadcast, got a peek in a Department of Fisheries and Oceans lab in St. John’s. Northern sea devil The deep sea…
[ad_1] A researcher says ecological collapse of Toronto’s vast ravine system has started because of invasive species but one way to save the narrow forested areas would be to form a large public-private partnership. Eric Davies, a University of Toronto forest ecology PhD student, said native species — plants, mammals, birds, insects — are disappearing from Toronto’s ravines at…
[ad_1] Retailers are under pressure to raise wages as they compete against other industries for entry-level candidates. Even before Amazon announced it was raising its minimum pay, wages were rising in retail. The annual median base pay for a cashier jumped to $28,237 in October, a 5.4 percent jump over the previous year, according to…
[ad_1] High consumer confidence could drive shoppers out of the house and into brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season, former longtime department store executive Jan Rogers Kniffen told CNBC on Monday. In turn, that could put a dent in Amazon‘s fourth-quarter sales, he added. “When the consumer is happy or feels good, they’re more likely to…
[ad_1] Seemingly every industry is finding ways to use drones in some way or another, but deep underground it’s a different story. In the confines of a mine or pipeline, with no GPS and little or no light, off-the-shelf drones are helpless — but an Australian startup called Emesent is giving them the spatial awareness…
[ad_1] Wall Street veteran Jeff Saut suggests investors could do well buying shares in technology, financials, health-care and energy names regardless of Tuesday’s midterm election results. “I think some of the tech stocks have been sold off enough; some of the FAANG stocks down 15 [or] 20 percent,” the chief investment strategist at Raymond James…
[ad_1] When Cox, a cybersecurity expert, first tried to describe the technology challenges of people stuck in violent domestic situations, he ran into a problem. People in his profession couldn’t imagine a victim of keyloggers or spyware — common malicious software associated with cybercriminals — living with the perpetrator 24/7, and hadn’t thought about how…
[ad_1] Crystal City locals were not especially surprised when The Washington Post reported Saturday that Amazon is in advanced planning stages of placing a new headquarters in the neighborhood, which is part of Northern Virginia city Arlington. For the better part of a year, Arlington-based real estate agent Eli Tucker has been telling his clients…
[ad_1] Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’Shares ETFs and an investor on “Shark Tank,” told CNBC on Monday he dumped Apple stock within “seconds” of the tech giant’s announcement last week that it would stop revealing device unit sales. “Don’t ever tell me on a call, I don’t care who you are, what I should know…
[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., listens during an Economic Club of Washington discussion in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Amazon will split its new headquarters, dubbed HQ2, between two cities, a source tells the Wall Street Journal. The new…
[ad_1] Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. Facebook on Monday said it would not allow President Trump’s reelection campaign to run advertisements urging Americans to vote for Republicans to stop thousands of immigrants from crossing the U.S.…
[ad_1] As the tech wreck rages on, one top technician says Oracle could rise above the carnage. The classic cloud stock has had a turbulent year and is now down around 8 percent from its all-time closing high of $52.97 in March. However, Carter Worth, head of technical analysis at Cornerstone Macro, says there’s something…
[ad_1] The internet today isn’t what Tim Berners-Lee pictured when he invented the World Wide Web nearly three decades ago. Speaking to CNBC at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon Monday, Berners-Lee said the web is “at a tipping point” as it faces threats like market concentration, data breaches and so-called “fake news.” “For…
[ad_1] Instagram is considering offering collaborative School Stories that only a certain school’s students can see or contribute to. And to make sure these Stories wouldn’t become bullying cesspools, Instagram’s code shows a warning that “School stories are manually reviewed to make sure the community is safe.” School Stories could create a fun space for…
[ad_1] Ronen Tivony | NurPhoto | Getty Images Supporters of net neutrality protest outside a Federal Building in Los Angeles, California on November 28, 2017. In a setback for industry groups, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would not take up challenges to Obama-era “net neutrality” regulations that barred internet service providers…
[ad_1] For Elon Musk, the difference between a “manageable” work schedule and an “insane” one is somewhere between 80 and 120 hours of work per week. “You’re gonna go a little bonkers if you work 120 hours a week,” Musk told Recode’s Kara Swisher in an interview on Wednesday at Tesla’s Palo Alto, California headquarters.…
[ad_1] Waves of Change is a CBC series exploring the single-use plastic we’re discarding, and why we need to clean up our act. You can be part of the community discussion by joining our Facebook group. Customers of a zero-waste shop and café in Halifax are discovering an unintentional benefit of cutting down on their plastic consumption:…
[ad_1] The ozone layer that shields life from cancer-causing solar rays is recovering at a rate of one to three per cent per decade, reversing years of dangerous depletion caused by the release of harmful chemicals, a UN study said on Monday. The four-yearly review of the Montreal Protocol, a 1987 ban on man-made gases that…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday was skeptical of a report in Japan’s Nikkei newspaper that said demand for Apple‘s iPhone XR appears to be disappointing. The paper earlier Monday quoted sources as saying the Cupertino, California-based tech company has told suppliers Foxconn and Pegatron to stop preparing additional production lines. “This is complete nonsense,”…
[ad_1] Researchers at Radboud University have found critical security flaws in several popular Crucial and Samsung solid state drives (SSDs), which they say can be easily exploited to recover encrypted data without knowing the password. The researchers, who detailed their findings in a new paper out Monday, reverse engineered the firmware of several drives to…
[ad_1] IBM CEO Ginni Rometty bought $3 million worth of the company’s stock, according to an SEC disclosure filed Monday and a company statement. The stock purchases come just one week after IBM announced a $34 billion proposed acquisition of open-source software distributor Red Hat. Roughly $1 million of the shares were bought on the…
[ad_1] Lindsey Wasson | Reuters An employee works on picking order items from inventory shelves at the Amazon fulfillment center in Kent, Washington, October 24, 2018. Amazon.com said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart and other rivals…
[ad_1] Students at Oregon State University dressed up their bipedal robot, Cassie, in a delightful AT-ST costume. This robot, which everyone said looked like one of the Empire’s two-legged walkers, anyway, can now zap both Rebels and Ewoks in a deadly battle to take control of the forest city of Corvallis. The robot, as you…
[ad_1] One Wall Street brokerage just did an about-face on Netflix, telling clients the the stock’s 27 percent decline from its July high represents an attractive buying opportunity. In a rare move, Buckingham Research raised its rating two notches to buy from underperform for Netflix shares, saying that while it was previously cautious on its…
[ad_1] Apple App Store is celebrating Diwali 2018 with app offers Diwali 2018 is just around the corner and Apple has announced offers and exclusive in-app elements for certain featured apps on its App Store. The offers on the iOS App Store has been categorised for apps and games that include the likes of Canva,…
[ad_1] Source: Apple Philip W. Schiller, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing of Apple, speaks about the the new Apple iPhone XR at an Apple Inc product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, September 12, 2018. Apple has told its smartphone assemblers Foxconn and Pegatron to halt plans for additional production lines…
[ad_1] Folks at WhatsApp have had a pretty busy year, with many big features and improvements. Apart from taking several measures to curb the spread of fake news on its platform, WhatsApp introduced group video and voice calling, stickers support, and even payments option this year. We take a spin down memory lane to recap…
[ad_1] Apple’s stock was downgraded for a second time in two trading days in light of softer expectations for iPhone production and shipments. Rosenblatt Securities cut its rating on the largest public company in the U.S. to neutral from buy, telling clients that it will be difficult for the Cupertino, California-based Apple to offset weaker…
[ad_1] The official Virat Kohli app is compatible with devices running at least Android 5.0 Lollipop or iOS 10 Cricket icon Virat Kohli turned 30 on Monday. But alongside celebrating his birthday, Kohli’s fans have another reason the cheer – it’s his first-ever official mobile app. The app, called the Virat Kohli Official App on…
[ad_1] Technology stocks have sunk around 10 percent in just one month. For investors burned by the trade, one top technician says the group is still safe to own. Mark Newton, president of Newton Advisors, said he’s not backing away from tech stocks, or some of the most popular names in the group. “Technically, we’ve…
[ad_1] Laptop users have been focused for a very long time on whether the iPad Pro is going to be forced upon them as a replacement device. Depending on who you believe, Apple included, it has at one point been considered that, or a pure tablet with functions to be decided completely by the app…
[ad_1] Globally, India ranks 12th when it comes to the dangers associated with surfing the web, according to a new report from Russia-based global cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab. About a third of Internet users in the country were attacked by web-borne threats between the July-September period of this year, the report said. “It is known…
[ad_1] Rex Curry | Reuters Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO of Amazon, speaks at the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Forum on Leadership in Dallas, Texas, U.S., April 20, 2018. President Donald Trump said his administration is looking into antitrust violations against Amazon, Facebook and Google parent Alphabet. In an interview with Axios that aired…
[ad_1] More than seven months after a self-driving Uber SUV killed a pedestrian in Arizona, the company on Friday released safety reports that detail broad technological and management failings and describe efforts since the tragedy to address them. The findings reveal shortcomings at the core of Uber’s driverless technology itself, which relies on cameras and…
[ad_1] Reid Hoffman knows a thing or two about picking winners. The billionaire investor co-founded LinkedIn, and made early bets on companies like Airbnb and Facebook. He’s also one of Silicon Valley’s multi-hyphenates: a partner at VC firm Greylock, author of best-selling books and host of the popular “Masters of Scale” podcast. Given that he’s…
[ad_1] Three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Delhi developed an Android app to measure the alarming pollution levels in the National Capital Region (NCR), the US-based Marconi Society, which awarded them with a prize, said on Monday. “The three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth have developed the application using smartphone camera images to…
[ad_1] Amazon Black Friday Sale will run from November 16 to November 25, during which a deluge of products will have their prices slashed. As part of the Black Friday event, Amazon will offer “Deals of the Day” throughout that will see dramatic price cuts on “must-have electronics, toys and fashion to sports, beauty, home…
[ad_1] Alessandro Di Ciommo | NurPhoto | Getty Images Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son speaks during a joint announcement with Toyota Motor Corp. to make new venture to develop mobility services in Tokyo, Japan, 04 October 2018. SoftBank’s chief executive broke his silence over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Monday, saying…
[ad_1] Later this week the all-new iPad Pro 2018 will arrive in Apple Stores with it offering some radical upgrades over its predecessors. This new device has been given a total design refresh with it now featuring a fully edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display which covers almost the entire front of the tablet. Using this new…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6 released back in May and was critically-acclaimed for the deluge of flagship features it introduced at an affordable price point. The hardware came with Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 845 chipset that was joined by either 6GB or 8GB of RAM. OnePlus 6 also came with a 16-megapixel main and 20-megapixel secondary…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Android Police Google app’s latest update brings along an unusual bug The latest update of the Google app has brought along a weird bug related to location notification. Apparently, after you update the Google app to the latest version 8.39.6.21, the smartphone constantly starts showing that the location is being accessed in…
[ad_1] Credit Karma, one of the world’s most valuable financial technology (fintech) companies, is buying U.K. credit scoring service Noddle from TransUnion to make its first expansion beyond North America. The deal, announced Monday, will see Noddle’s more than 35 employees in the English cities of London and Leeds join Credit Karma. The San Francisco-based…
[ad_1] Nearly eight months after one of its autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian, Uber wants to resume testing on public roads. The company has filed an application on with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to test in Pittsburgh, and it has issued a lengthy safety report pledging to put two human…
[ad_1] The newly-announced mobile title Diablo Immortal will require players to be always online, Blizzard has confirmed. Video gaming news website VG247 reports that Diablo Immortal lead game designer Wyatt Cheng said the game “would not allow you to” play offline, in an interview at BlizzCon 2018. Given multiplayer is crucial to Diablo Immortal, that’s…
[ad_1] Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who also is the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate, released a statement on Sunday calling for an FBI investigation into what his office called a “failed” attempt to breach voter rolls. In making his claim, Kemp cited unusual activity on the state’s “My Voter Page,” which provides residents information about…
[ad_1] Google‘s Owlchemy Labs is experimenting with ARcore to take its games to the next level — by taking players on a virtual getaway. “Vacation Simulator” — a follow up to the lab’s hit game, “Job Simulator” — is set in the year 2060. The premise involves robots (the same ones who stole most of…
[ad_1] Toby Cosgrove has a new job. After decades running one of the world’s most famous hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, he’s helping one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent technology companies figure out how to sell its technology and services into health care. Cosgrove announced earlier this year that he’s taking a position at Google as an…
[ad_1] Most of those improvements are being driven by automation, with robots and machines handling a greater amount of warehouse work, Dhanorkar said. Amazon, which spent $775 million on robotics company Kiva Systems in 2012, reportedly has over 100,000 robots in its fulfillment centers around the world. Mark May, an analyst at Citigroup, wrote in…
[ad_1] Chelsea will take on Crystal Palace in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge as the Blues look to continue their unbeaten start to the season. The London side have not lost a league game under new boss Maurizio Sarri and could be joint on points with current leaders Liverpool with a win. However, both…
[ad_1] Huawei has had a stellar year. The P20 Pro was regarded as one of the best phones of 2018 and things just got even better with the launch of the new Mate 20 Pro. This device comes packed with features including a blisteringly fast processor, giant 4,200mAh battery and a triple rear camera. Huawei…
[ad_1] Android smartphone users are being warned about dozens of apps discovered on the Google Play Store that are loaded with dangerous malware. Android is one of the most used pieces of software in the world, with more than two billion active devices running Google’s mobile OS every month. And the go-to place for downloading…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is the most popular messaging service in the world, according to Statista. The market and consumer data site has insisted WhatsApp surpasses Facebook Messenger and WeChat in terms of monthly users. Since it launched on both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store, WhatsApp has remained an ad free service. Although the…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6T review (Image: EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS) ONEPLUS 6T REVIEW • FROM £499 PROS • Stunning display • Fingerprint scanner back where it belongs • Unbelievably low price CONS • Slippy design makes it a little scary to hold • No wireless charging or waterproofing • Headphone port is no more Six months after OnePlus shook the Android smartphone world they are doing…
[ad_1] Google Chrome users are being warned about a new security threat which could leave your computer filled with malware. Google Chrome is without a doubt the most popular internet browser in the world right now. NetMarketShare stats for the first ten months of 2018 give the search engine giant’s browser a huge 63.61 per…
[ad_1] There’s some good news for both Sky and Virgin Media customers with more content and cheaper prices both available right now. Sky TV announced last week that Netflix is now available to Sky Q customers with users of this service able to access extra content via a new Netflix app. Along with this way…
[ad_1] McCombs said that demand for high-line trucks has grown with each new and more expensive model Ford has added to the F-Series line-up. And even with the arrival of the Super Duty Limited last year, she said, the carmaker may not have hit the limits. Every month, at least one buyer adds enough aftermarket…
[ad_1] Barcelona will face off against Rayo Vallecano at the Campo de Futbol de Vallecas in La Liga tonight. La Liga leaders Barcelona are playing a side that started the weekend right near the bottom of the table in 19th. But Barca will know the dangers of facing off against the minnows of Spanish football,…
[ad_1] Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream. According to two sources, Facebook reorganized its AR and VR team this week from a divisional structure focused around products to a functional structure focused around technology areas of expertise. While no one was laid off,…
[ad_1] Tottenham and Wolves will both be hoping to return to winning ways when they face each other in the Premier League this evening. After a decent start to life in the Premier League, Wolverhampton Wanderers have lost their last two games. Tottenham, on the other hand, have made a strong start to the season,…
[ad_1] The Chinese tech giant have enjoyed a stellar year with both the P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro getting rave reviews. Express.co.uk awarded five out of five ratings to both handsets, and Android fans are unable to go wrong whichever Huawei device they choose. The Mate 20 Pro released at the end of last…
[ad_1] Collective bargaining hasn’t traditionally had a place in Silicon Valley. Unions are nearly non-existent for white-collar tech workers, who typically enjoy large salaries, cushy perks and plenty of career mobility thanks to their high-demand skills. Wendy Liu, the economics editor of UK-based publication “New Socialist” and a former Google employee, says that the protests…
[ad_1] Google’s Gmail is available on desktops in addition to iOS and Android operating systems. This hugely popular service is regularly updated by Google, bringing new features and tweaks for users. One of the latest changes arrives on iOS devices with the email client now allowing users easier access to their multiple accounts. Previously, users had…
[ad_1] Brooks Kraft | Getty Images Google employees arriving after bicycling to work at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. With many tech companies enjoying worldwide prominence, and with fodders to match, some headquarters have now become architectural wonders in their own right. Even company offices that aren’t architecturally gifted, have drawn wide interest for…
[ad_1] The first 5G phones are set to start arriving next year. Motorola plans to bring next-gen connectivity via a Mod for the Z3, and companies like LG and OnePlus have promised to deliver the tech baked into handsets at some point in 2019. iPhone users, on the other hand, may have to wait a…
[ad_1] Two sperm whales spotted near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, are a sign of underlying shifts in the High Arctic ecosystem, according to a scientist who saw the pair when out with an Inuit guide at the end of September. The group was out at Eclipse Sound, about ten minutes by boat outside of the community, when…
[ad_1] For voters freaking out over the midterm elections and the rest of the increasingly polarized American political scene, there’s an app for that. Headspace, a meditation app, earlier this week began offering a “Politics Pack,” comprised of meditation resources “designed to help you breathe, de-stress and reset.” The app can be downloaded for free.…
[ad_1] Amazon is in the advanced stages of placing its second headquarters in Northern Virginia, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, as the retail giant closes in on a self-imposed deadline to make the closely watched decision. The Post reported that Amazon has held detailed discussions about the possibility of opening its second outpost in…
[ad_1] Type 1 diabetes is a disease that affects more than 1.2 million Americans. I’m one of them. It’s a disease that impairs the body’s ability to produce the hormone insulin, which normally comes from the pancreas. So insulin has to be injected. Managing blood sugars can be very difficult, and patients use a pump…
[ad_1] If you’re a young investor, your rate of return typically matters less than your savings rate, said James Sweeney, a certified financial planner and founder of Switchpoint Financial Planning in Lehi, Utah. He provided an example: If you’re 30 with $20,000 invested, whether you earn a 10 percent or a 5 percent return will…
[ad_1] Netflix has tonnes of great TV shows and movies available for streaming – but sometimes it’s tough to know what you’re in the mood for. Scrolling endlessly through Netflix trying to find that hot boxset to watch or hidden gem movie is something most subscribers will know all to well. But now there’s a…
[ad_1] Apple MacBook Air 2018 release (Image: APPLE) Apple has finally given its iconic MacBook Air a massive revamp. This hugely popular laptop hasn’t seen any significant design tweaks since it was first launched in 2008 but that’s changing. This all-new portable PC goes on sale next week with it featuring a new look, more…
[ad_1] Bournemouth could temporarily climb to fourth if they beat Manchester United at the Vitality Stadium this afternoon. The Cherries have made their best start to a Premier League season, and could overtake Arsenal and Tottenham with a win. Manchester United have made an indifferent start to the season, but could go level on points…
[ad_1] When chemical engineer Sophia He was recruited to Dalhousie University’s agriculture school five years ago, she began to brainstorm with local farmers about how leftover organic material could be turned into useful products. One day, she got a call from one of them wondering about used coffee grounds. So she dispatched a student to a…
[ad_1] The Lenovo Smart Display houses a 0.75-inch 10W full range speaker (Image: Lenovo) LENOVO SMART DISPLAY REVIEW • £229.99 (as tested) FOR – Vibrant 10.1-inch screen • Excellent microphone array for voice detection • Unique recipe feature • Minimalist but premium design • Myriad smart features thanks to the Google Assistant AGAINST – Bezels…
[ad_1] Black Friday 2018 has come early with TalkTalk setting one of its big deals live right now. Up until November 29 those looking to save big on broadband can take advantage of two TalkTalk offers. TalkTalk’s Faster Fibre broadband offers average download speeds of 36Mb and usually costs £33.50 a month. But for Black…
[ad_1] Samsung has had another high-quality year with the South Korean tech giant releasing some very impressive flagships. In 2018 Samsung has already launched the Galaxy S9, S9+ and Note 9 – all critically acclaimed Android devices. However, it’s believed that the South Korean tech giant could have one more surprise up its sleeve. Samsung has…
[ad_1] After months of leaks, rumours and excitement the OnePlus 6T is finally going on sale next week. This stunning new phone officially arrives in stores from November 6 with it offering flagship specs at a fraction of the cost of its Android rivals. For just £499 the OnePlus 6T comes packed with a fast…
[ad_1] Twice a year, most Canadians change the time of their clocks by an hour. We “fall back,” as we’ll do this Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2 a.m. And a few months later, on March 10, 2019, we’ll “spring forward.” We know that the time shift helps us make the most of light in the morning and…
[ad_1] Huawei Mate 20 Pro was officially unveiled in London on October 16 and boasts some of the best specifications on an Android smartphone. The device comes packed with a 6.39-inch AMOLED display in addition to a triple-camera setup on its rear and a huge 4,200mAh battery. Express.co.uk recently reviewed the Mate 20 Pro awarding…
[ad_1] Netflix and its “on-demand” service has irrevocably changed how we expect our content to be delivered. But users sometimes suspect they are not offered everything available. The recommended content on your Netflix account arrives via algorithms analysing your viewing history. But this can leave would-be-viewers scrolling endlessly through Netflix, without getting closer to making…
[ad_1] Netflix and its on-demand service has proved spectacularly popular with consumers. The streaming service hit an incredible 117.6 million subscribers globally in the last quarter. Among the myriad of options Netflix offers is the Continue Watching option, which saves where you are in a show, allowing users to pick up where they left off.…
[ad_1] Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, and Snapchat allows its 180 million users to photograph the world around them in fresh and fun ways. Photos can be augmented to alter selfies and landscapes alike with hundreds of stickers and even emojis, which can then be shared via social media. After you…
[ad_1] The research arm of the Vancouver Aquarium is ringing alarm bells about the future of B.C.’s coastal waters, saying current plans for dealing with climate change and other human-caused disturbances fall short of what’s needed. A new report from the Coastal Ocean Research Institute breaks down the current state of B.C.’s ocean waters. It…
[ad_1] Hello, fellow traveller. This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.) This week: Organic waste is the (mushy) gift that keeps on giving How cities can protect themselves from climate…
[ad_1] Savvy algorithms are learning to drive our cars, to detect cancer faster and can already beat the world’s best chess player. But there are concerns about whether or not the programmers building these algorithms are still in control of their creations. In 2016, a flash crash caused the British pound to lose nearly six…
[ad_1] Scientists launched a vast project on Thursday to map the genetic code of all 1.5 million known species of complex life on Earth, aiming to complete the work within a decade. They described the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) as “the next moonshot for biology” after the Human Genome Project, a 13-year $3.9 billion Cdn endeavor…
[ad_1] Caribou are about to disappear completely from the contiguous United States — and the B.C. government is to blame. In a desperate measure to try to save the mountain caribou’s most southerly herds, provincial biologists are about to purposely relocate the last remaining animals that range into the states south of B.C. Large caribou populations still…
[ad_1] Cybersecurity firm Symantec beat analysts’ estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday, easing investor concerns following three consecutive quarters of disappointing results and forecast cuts. Symantec shares jumped more than 8 percent in extended trade following the announcement. The stock ended up 3.2 percent at $18.73. “This was a big step in the…
[ad_1] Few companies have the capacity to take on Foursquare, a location discovery platform that leverages its massive database to provide users with personalized recommendations, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck said Friday. “Other than Google and Facebook, we are the Switzerland,” Glueck said in an exclusive “Mad Money” interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “We are the…
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. Cramer wants investors to be prepared for the week ahead after days of news-driven swings in the stock market. “This market punishes you for having…
[ad_1] Digital card game Hearthstone gets a brand new expansion in Rastakhan’s Rumble. Announced at BlizzCon 2018, it takes the game to Gurubashi Arena and is steeped in lore regarding trolls, their loa (ancient spirits worshipped by trolls in Hearthstone), the titular Rastakhan — king of trolls, and introduces new gameplay mechanics that reward flashy play…
[ad_1] Apple’s management may have botched the way it announced a change to its earnings reporting, but investors shouldn’t give up on the company’s stock, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. In the announcement, the iPhone maker said it would stop breaking down the sales results for its individual products. “My advice now is to let…
[ad_1] An investigation into the allegations against Moonves and the culture of CBS by two law firms, Covington & Burling and Debevoise & Plimpton, continue. However, CBS said affiliate and subscription fees revenue which includes revenue from cable and satellite TV operators and online streaming providers, including its own All Access offering fell 12 percent…
[ad_1] Twilio co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson has had a charmed 2018. Even after the recent stock market slump, shares of his cloud software company have tripled in value this year, bolstering Lawson’s net worth by hundreds of millions of dollars. But while it’s been a good year for Twilio, whose technology powers text and…
[ad_1] You probably don’t know how much it should cost to get your home’s windows washed, yard landscaped, or countertops replaced. But Setter does. The startup pairs you with a home improvement concierge familiar with all the vendors, prices, and common screwups that plague these jobs. Setter finds the best contractors across handiwork, plumbing, electrical,…
[ad_1] Diablo Immortal for Android and iOS was announced at BlizzCon 2018. It takes the action role-playing franchise to smaller screens for the first time. Diablo Immortal is being developed by Blizzard in collaboration with NetEase, the studio behind PUBG clone Rules of Survival. In terms of series lore, it takes place between Diablo 2…
[ad_1] LinkedIn’s co-founder Reid Hoffman took a risk on the networking platform after being told it “would never work.” “Starting a company is jumping off a cliff and assembling the airplane on the way down,” he told CNBC’s “The Brave Ones.” “And what you’re realizing after you’ve jumped off this cliff, after you’ve said, ‘hey,…
[ad_1] Tesla expects to spend up to $6 billion on factories and equipment over the next two years as it ramps up production and develops new vehicles, the company said in a regulatory filing Friday. The electric car maker said it expects to spend just under $2.5 billion in capital investments for 2018 and $2.5…
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[ad_1] The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department are investigating Tesla’s Model 3 production projections, the company said in a regulatory filing Friday. The filing confirms much of an Oct. 26 article in The Wall Street Journal that said FBIagents were looking at whether Tesla misled investors about production of its Model 3 sedans.…
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[ad_1] Amazon has reduced the number of temporary hires it needs this holiday shopping season as the company turns to more robots, Citi analyst Mark May told CNBC Friday. “We’ve seen an acceleration in the use of robots within their fulfillment centers and that has corresponded with fewer and fewer workers that they’re hiring around…
[ad_1] Semiconductor stocks took a hit Friday amid a sweeping technology rout, but were still on track for their best week in more than two years. Some market watchers say there are a few select stocks that could be worth a buy if investors are cautious about putting fresh money to work. “These chips are…
[ad_1] Amazon, one of the world’s largest companies, has transformed the face of commerce in part because it has managed to at once to be “The Everything Store” but still with a route into its sea of products that, for most users, surfaces what they might most want to see (and importantly buy or consume).…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday issued a sharp rebuke of analysts who cover Apple for slamming the tech giant over its decision not to break out device sales anymore. “‘The analyst community,’” Cramer said on CNBC using air quotes with his fingers, “there’s a community I want to live in,” he added, sarcastically. “It…
[ad_1] Bumble and Match’s ongoing legal battles are continuing today. According to a statement released by Match Group this morning, Bumble is dropping its $400 million lawsuit against Match, which had claimed Match fraudulently obtained trade secrets during acquisition talks. However, Bumble is preparing to refile its suit at the state level, we’re hearing. If…
[ad_1] Sales of iPhones have been relatively flat for the last several quarters. On Thursday, Apple said it sold 46.89 million iPhones last quarter, up just 0.4 percent from the year-ago quarter. Then Apple hit investors with a big surprise — the company said it would stop reporting iPhone sales moving forward. The announcement rattled…
[ad_1] Getty Images Streaming player menu screen featuring Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu, and Redbox Instant. British lawmakers have called on the government to curb the “threat” of internet giants to the U.K.’s public service broadcasters (PSBs). The Guardian newspaper published a letter Friday to Jeremy Wright, the U.K. minister for digital, culture, media and sport,…
[ad_1] As Amazon continues to assess the 20 locations on its shortlist for its second headquarters ahead of its self-imposed year-end deadline, CEO Jeff Bezos said that the decision is ultimately one you make “with your heart.” In an on-stage interview in New York Thursday with journalist and author Walter Isaacson, Bezos did not leave…
[ad_1] Put away the Jolt, Blizzard is limiting the time gamers will be able to play the World of Warcraft: Classic demo. Basically, after playing for an hour, players will be logged off and will have to wait 60 minutes before resuming for another hour. The goal is to ensure a mass of players do…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Elon Musk said he doesn’t plan to change much about his Twitter habits, even after a settlement with the SEC caused him and Tesla to pay $20 million and for Musk to step down as the…
[ad_1] Apple is preparing to launch a new way for its customers to track election results. The company, on 8 PM ET on November 6, will swap out the existing Midterm Elections section in the Apple News app, and replace it with a new Election Night section instead. This section will also replace Apple News’…
[ad_1] Yuriko Nakao | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Elon Musk is serious about plans for a Tesla pickup truck, and says it’s going to look like something out of the sci-fi movie “Blade Runner.” Musk announced plans for a Tesla pickup truck as far back as…
[ad_1] Facebook is back in the limelight with another alleged data breach, and this time users’ personal messages shared on the platform are claimed to have been compromised. A report by BBC cites the perpetrators themselves to say almost 81,000 users’ personal messages are published and compromised on the Internet, and hackers are looking to…
[ad_1] Imagine an insect that can alight along a pipeline to sniff out gas leaks, swoop beneath plants to detect pests and disease, and slip into tiny spaces to find disaster survivors. Now imagine holding a laser that can control its every move. With the rapid advances in drone technology spanning the 20th century, it…
[ad_1] The Zortrax Apoller, a Smart Vapor Smoothing device that uses solvents to smooth the surface of 3D-printed objects. The resulting products look like they are injection molded and all of the little lines associated with FDM printing will disappear. The system uses a microwave-like chamber that can hold multiple parts at once. The chamber…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Billboard Shazam now has an additional Instagram Stories sharing option within the iOS app Instagram has been pushing music-related features in the recent past, and now it has further integrated its third-party app integration with Shazam support. Users of the Shazam app can now share content as Instagram Stories. If users have…
[ad_1] Apple is set to open more than 6 percent lower Friday after the company delivered a strong earnings report but surprised investors with a major shake-up of its quarterly reporting structure and light guidance for the holiday quarter. The stock traded as low as $207 in extended trading Thursday after the report — briefly…
[ad_1] Facebook will allow anyone to freely download and use the same artificial intelligence tools it used to make key improvements to the social network’s video and notification features as well as its Messenger messaging app. The software, which Facebook calls Horizon, will be available on the code repository GitHub starting Thursday, the company said…
[ad_1] Zume Pizza, a start-up that uses robots to make pizza, has reportedly received $375 million of backing from the tech investment firm SoftBank. The California company announced the cash injection in a securities filing. The investor identity was not revealed in the filing, but the Wall Street Journal has been the first to report…
[ad_1] New Files app branding is visible through its icon and app launcher page Google’s Files Go, the app which was initially designed for Android Go devices, has now been transformed into ‘Files’ app. The updated app has also included a redesigned interface that is based on Material Theme aesthetics. The app is initially rolling…
[ad_1] Apple’s stock sank Friday after the company said it missed iPhone shipment estimates and provided guidance for its first fiscal quarter that fell short of analyst expectations. But Wall Street analysts told clients on Friday they were concerned about management’s decision to stop breaking apart iPhone unit sales, an insight some investors used to…
[ad_1] Spotify sent its shares tumbling as much as 10 percent on Thursday after the world’s most popular paid music streaming service said it would continue to sacrifice profit margins to generate future growth. The Swedish company came close to making its first-ever operating profit in the third quarter, years ahead of schedule, which the…
[ad_1] Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) have designed and booted up India’s first microprocessor, Shakti, which could be used in mobile computing and other devices. According to IIT-M, the Shakti microprocessor can be used in low-power wireless systems and networking systems besides reducing reliance on imported microprocessors in communication and defence sectors.…
[ad_1] Walking Dead viewers are gearing up for the hugely anticipated episode 5 of season 9. The unmissable instalment of the zombie epic will see Rick Grimes – who has been on the show since episode one – make his dramatic Walking Dead exit. How Rick departs the Walking Dead remains to be seen, but…
[ad_1] A couple of quarters after setting a new first-half record in India, Apple saw flat growth in the country in the company’s fourth fiscal quarter, CEO Tim Cook revealed on Thursday. The executive, while speaking with analysts in a conference call for the fiscal fourth quarter, said that he was a “big believer” in…
[ad_1] Tesla “probably would not” take money from Saudi Arabia in the wake of the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Chief Executive Elon Musk said. Musk and his electric car manufacturer hit headlines in August after the billionaire put out a tweet saying that he was considering taking the firm private at $420 per…
[ad_1] Alibaba and SoftBank-backed Paytm on Friday said it witnessed 600 percent growth in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in the last six months. One97 Communications, that owns the brand Paytm in India, said the platform registered over 179 million UPI transactions in October. “It is encouraging to see the widespread adoption of Paytm…
[ad_1] Sky TV customers are in for a treat this November with Netflix and more Ultra HD 4K content arriving on the platform from today. The satellite TV firm’s joint venture with Netflix sees the two services side-by-side for the very first time with shows from both companies available in one place. Sky has officially…
[ad_1] A super-computer at the International Space Station aims to bring “cloud” computing to astronauts in space and speed up their ability to run data analysis in orbit, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise said Thursday. A SpaceX cargo capsule delivered the equipment, known as The Spaceborne Computer, to the space station in August 2017. After more than a…
[ad_1] Three Mobile customers should soon see much faster speeds when using their smartphones. The mobile network has just announced a new 4G technology called ‘carrier aggregation’ which it says will improve mobile internet speeds by between 15 and 33 percent. This upgrade works by instantly responding to mobile internet use in real-time. This means…
[ad_1] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on technology companies to defend users’ privacy as human right, urging firms and governments to collectively work together to protect the most vulnerable section in society. Speaking at an event “Future Decoded” on Thursday, Nadella applauded the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as first step towards securing…
[ad_1] Bargain hunters have one of the biggest days of the year ahead with Black Friday kicking off later this month. The official date for this money-saving extravaganza is November 23 but expect plenty of bargains to become available throughout the month. Last year saw huge savings on a range of technology with TVs, tablets,…
[ad_1] Last week, Niantic announced that Pokemon Go is getting a new feature called Adventure Sync that essentially counts steps of users even in the background, and syncs with health apps on Android and iOS to allow for measurement of data. At the time of announcement, the company said that it would roll out worldwide…
[ad_1] The federal government wants to create new ocean sanctuaries off the British Columbia coast as part of an additional $61.5 million it is spending to protect endangered killer whales. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Wednesday the government wants to establish new areas of critical habitat off the west coast of Vancouver Island for southern…
[ad_1] The third edition of Amazon’s Great Indian Festival Sale 2018 is now live as we countdown to Diwali this year. Tagged the ‘Diwali Special’ sale, Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale will be held between November 2 and November 5. The Amazon sale sees several discounts, bundled offers, exchange discounts, and cashback schemes across categories…
[ad_1] Some dinosaurs laid coloured, speckled and spotted eggs boasting exquisite hues of blue and brown, scientists said on Thursday, in a discovery that scrambles the notion that such exceptional traits originated with birds. An analysis of 12 fossilized dinosaur eggshells from Europe, Asia, North America and South America detected the same two pigments present…
[ad_1] Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn sued Dell Technologies, claiming the company has refused to provide basic information about its proposed plan to return to public markets by buying up shares of DVMT. The complaint filed Wednesday in Delaware Chancery court seeks judge’s order requiring Dell to allow Icahn to inspect and copy its books…
[ad_1] Shares of the The New York Times jumped Thursday after the company reported third-quarter earnings that beat on the top and bottom lines. The company also reported more than 3 million digital-only subscriptions and 4 million total subscriptions as of the end of the quarter. Here’s how the company did compared with what Wall…
[ad_1] OnePlus smartphone users will no longer be able to use the Oxygen Updater app to download updates on their handsets. The Oxygen Updater app on Google Play is a useful app for OnePlus smartphone owners who want be on the latest OxygenOS versions. The Android app essentially pulls OxygenOS updates from OnePlus’ servers before…
[ad_1] Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple launch event in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., October 30, 2018. Apple’s decision to make major changes to its reporting structure from the next quarter — and stop reporting the break-down on unit sales — is a “defining moment” in…
[ad_1] California-based start-up Royole has beaten major players Huawei and Samsung in launching what it claims is the world’s first foldable smartphone. Unveiled Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, the FlexPai mobile phone was made available to consumers in a flash sale on Thursday. Priced from 8,999 to 12,999 yuan ($1,295.49 to $1,871.33), the company…
[ad_1] First Apple took away the headphone jack on its iPhones. Then it took away the home button. And now, it has taken away a closely watched performance metric that it has disclosed to investors for 20 years. The Cupertino, California-based company on Thursday said that it will stop reporting unit sales data for its…
[ad_1] Shares of Fitbit ended the day up more than 25 percent Thursday after the company beat estimates on earnings and revenue. San Francisco-based Fitbit surpassed expectations for a 1-cent loss per share in the third quarter, reporting earnings of 4 cents per share. The wearables company beat on revenue as well, reporting $394 million…
[ad_1] Apple on Thursday warned that sales for the crucial holiday quarter would likely miss Wall Street expectations, which Chief Executive Tim Cook blamed on weakness in emerging markets and foreign exchange costs. The disappointing forecast by the world’s most valuable technology company helped send shares down as much as 7 percent, taking roughly $70 billion…
[ad_1] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella voiced his support for privacy as a “human right” and called on tech companies to protect users from cyber threats in a keynote address Thursday. Speaking at the Microsoft Future Decoded conference in London, Nadella said the tech industry and governments need to collectively consider the unintended consequences of every…
[ad_1] Apple shares fell as much as 5 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday after reporting quarterly earnings. While the company’s reported earnings per share and revenue beat analysts’ expectations, its iPhone sales fell short of estimates. Prior to its report, the options market expressed Apple stock’s implied move was around 5 percent in either…
[ad_1] Apple reported earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter Thursday that beat Wall Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines. It also locked in a strategy of boosting prices to offset slowing sales — posting an eye-popping average selling price for the iPhone during the key September quarter. But shares of Apple fell…
[ad_1] Snap CEO Evan Spiegel vowed Thursday that his company will remain independent five years from now. “Will Snap be an independent company?” asked CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. “Yes, sir,” answered Spiegel, speaking before an audience at the annual DealBook conference in New York. “We have a real belief in what were trying to accomplish,…
[ad_1] Apple sold 46.89 million iPhones during the quarter ended Sept. 30. This company revealed the number in its earnings report Thursday. Analysts were looking for 47.5 million iPhones during the quarter, according to StreetAccount and FactSet. But Apple is proving the average selling price (ASP) of each iPhone is more important. Apple’s iPhone ASP…
[ad_1] On a day when Google employees across the globe walked out of offices to protest the company’s workplace culture around sexual harassment, CEO Sundar Pichai responded to criticism on stage at The New York Times DealBook conference. “There’s anger and frustration within the company,” Pichai said on stage Thursday. “We all feel it. I…
[ad_1] Apple briefly fell below its $1 trillion market cap after hours on Thursday after reporting its fourth quarter earnings. The stock was down on weak guidance and slipped even further after the company reported it would no longer report iPhone, iPad and Mac unit sales. It bounced around after hours, remaining below the $1…
[ad_1] Tech investor and Republican donor Peter Thiel said Silicon Valley has “jumped the shark” and there won’t be many more breakthrough consumer internet companies. “With respect to consumer internet, which has been the big area in tech for 25 years, it’s been the single area that’s dominated all others, perhaps there aren’t as many…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer is not backing down from his “own Apple, don’t trade it” maxim despite the stock’s drop after earnings, in which the iPhone maker said it would stop providing results for its individual products. “I am sure there are people who will just say, ‘You know what? I have to panic and…
[ad_1] The continuing die-off of the world’s coral reefs is a depressing reminder of the reality of climate change, but it’s also something we can actively push back on. Conservationists have a new tool to do so with LarvalBot, an underwater robot platform that may greatly accelerate efforts to re-seed old corals with healthy new…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer is not backing down from his “own Apple, don’t trade it” maxim despite the stock’s drop after earnings, in which the iPhone maker said it would stop providing results for its individual products. “I am sure there are people who will just say, ‘You know what? I have to panic and…
[ad_1] ARis Oikonomou | AFP | Getty Images Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc talks at the Debating Ethics event at the European Parliament in Brussels on October 24, 2018. Just as tech stocks began to turn around from their worst month since the 2008 recession, Apple dragged down the Nasdaq after hour, as it…
[ad_1] Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple launch event in the Brooklyn borough of New York, October 30, 2018. Apple will stop reporting how many iPhones, Macs and iPads it sells each quarter, beginning with the December quarter, Apple CFO Luca Maestri said on the company’s earnings call Thursday.…
[ad_1] GoPro stock is currently down 15% in after-hours trading and is falling after reporting its third quarter earnings. The company saw revenues dive 13%.3 percent. Overall GoPro reported a net loss of $27.1 million, or 19 cents per share, in the quarter that ended on Sept. 30. Is compared with a profit of $14.7…
[ad_1] Instagram hopes dollars from long-tail of small businesses and social media stars can help it pull its weight in the Facebook family. A new ad type called “Promote” for Stories allows Instagram business pages to show their ephemeral slideshows to more users without doing much work. Admins can choose to auto-target users similar to…
[ad_1] Illumina, the company that makes the machines that sequence the vast majority of human genomes, is buying a smaller competitor called Pacific Biosciences for $1.2 billion. That’s the largest ever deal that Illumina has made in more than 20 years, according to Forbes. The move puts Illumina in a position to continue to dominate…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 12, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Apple now has $237.1 billion in cash on hand the company reported in its fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday. It now has about $6 billion less…
[ad_1] Roku’s stock presents a compelling buying opportunity, according to Wedbush Securities, which upgraded the video streaming company to outperform from neutral on Thursday. Analyst Michael Pachter told clients in a note that the recent pullback in the company’s shares offered savvy investors a good entry point. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] More than 50 companies representing over $2.4 trillion in annual revenue took a stand Thursday for legal protections for transgender people following a report that the Trump administration is considering limiting the definition of gender to birth anatomy. Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are among the companies spanning tech, consumer products and financial services…
[ad_1] Asana, the platform where people can create and track the progress of work projects, made its name originally as a place where individuals and smaller teams can create and track the progress of a specific project. Now, as the startup courts bigger organizations among its 50,000 paying organizations and millions of (paying and free)…
[ad_1] In the early 1990s, Young says, Red Hat was the only company offering open-source software, as larger competitors like Oracle, Microsoft, and even IBM, were reluctant to relinquish the valuable source code to clients. “I’m an old typewriter sales guy,” Young says. “I like selling things my customers can’t get anywhere else.” In 1993,…
[ad_1] Walmart is giving augmented reality a shot. The retailer today announced the launch of a new AR scanning tool in its iPhone application which will help customers with product comparisons. However, unlike a typical barcode scanner meant only to compare prices on one item at a time, Walmart’s AR scanner can be panned about…
[ad_1] Foursquare, the former location-based social network turned enterprise location data platform, has today announced a new partnership with TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor will be using Foursquare’s Pilgrim SDK, launched in March 2017, to help the platform better serve users with contextually relevant, real-time information based on their location. Alongside the 13 billion check-ins accumulated on Foursquare’s…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump isn’t having much of an impact on The New York Times’ growth, CEO Mark Thompson told CNBC on Thursday. The paper is a frequent target of the president, who has called it “fake news.” “The Trump bump, that initial surge after the election, is actually largely over,” Thompson said on “Power…
[ad_1] Dearest Martha, I write to you from the cold wastes of Earth on the first day of the New Year, 2023, the third year of war, and so close to your own child’s decanting date that it pains me to think on thee. The machines have been unkind to this planet and I hope…
[ad_1] The past decade in retail has been the golden age of direct-to-consumer (D2C) and digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs) that use the internet to communicate with customers, execute transactions, handle distribution and offer better economics. But as small independent startups have scaled into unicorn territory and as countless brands have saturated digital channels, customer acquisition…
[ad_1] It’s the moment of truth for Apple as the trillion-dollar tech giant gears up to report its latest quarterly earnings. Apple shares are up nearly 30 nearly percent this year, and have held up relatively well amid the recent tech downdraft. According to Dan Nathan of RiskReversal.com, options traders are betting shares of the…
[ad_1] CEO of New Fox Lachlan Murdoch put an end to speculation on Thursday that Megyn Kelly would return to Fox News after her show on NBC was canceled. “I’m a big fan of Megyn’s. I like her a lot. We didn’t want her to leave Fox when she did,” Murdoch said at The New…
[ad_1] As car and tech companies continue to make inroads on vehicles and services to build autonomous driving systems, a startup that is creating high-definition maps to help these vehicles move around has quietly picked up a significant round of funding. DeepMap — a Palo Alto startup co-founded by James Wu and Mark Wheeler, who…
[ad_1] The world’s largest asset manager is not launching an exchange traded fund for cryptocurrency — at least not until the industry grows up a bit. “I wouldn’t say never, when it’s legitimate, yes,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said at the New York Times Dealbook Conference in Manhattan Thursday. The Securities and Exchange Comission has…
[ad_1] HashiCorp, the company that has made hay developing open source tools for managing cloud infrastructure, obviously has a pretty hefty commercial business going too. Today the company announced an enormous $100 million round on a Unicorn valuation of $1.9 billion. The round was led by IVP, whose investments include AppDynamics, Slack and Snap. New…
[ad_1] A blowout quarter from Apple could save the broader stock market, which saw the Dow plunge more than 5 percent and the S&P 500 nearly 7 percent last month, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “I don’t want to put too much pressure on Tim Cook, but holy cow,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the…
[ad_1] Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform that is designed to simplify much of the processing to get to querying and application building faster. As for the funding, it includes $3 million in seed money they got when they…
[ad_1] Twitter accounts linked to what has been called a Russian “troll farm” engaged in influence operations to stir division over Islam in the U.K., a new study has found. Research by British social policy think tank Demos found that the vast majority of tweets from these operations, which were sent in the six months…
[ad_1] Last year, Defakto released the limited edition Stille Nacht (Silent Night) in collaboration with artist Friederike Bellman. The watch featured a hand-painted star field throughout the dial. Now, the independent German watchmaker is back with the successor to the original: the Mitternacht (or in English, the Midnight). It’s even better than the original. Like…
[ad_1] It’s been a big year for open-source software. Microsoft bought GitHub. IBM bought Red Hat. Elastic went public. Cloudera and Hortonworks merged. Now another open-source company is getting a big vote of confidence. Start-up HashiCorp announced Thursday that investors have joined in on $100 million funding round valuing the company at $1.9 billion. HashiCorp…
[ad_1] Sonos today announced that Google Assistant will not be available on its products until at least 2019. The service was supposed to launch in 2018 but the company said in a blog posting it needs a bit more time. Additional information about timing will be released in early 2019, Sonos says. Eager customers can…
[ad_1] The recent stock market pullback resulted more from overvalued technology stocks than it did from worries over President Donald Trump‘s tariffs, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Thursday. “I think a lot of the big, big tech stocks, the FANG stocks, got pretty toppy, and they were due for a correction,” Kudlow said…
[ad_1] Continuing with its firm stance on traceability, the government Wednesday stated that it has not sought decryption of WhatsApp messages but instead wants the location and identity of those misusing the platform to spread fake news that provokes violence. IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who met WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels, also asserted that…
[ad_1] Spoke, a startup that wants to simplify the way companies add and process help desk tickets using artificial intelligence underpinnings, announced it has enhanced its AI engine to allow for more complex queries. The company founders were working at Google after a previous startup had been sold to the search giant when they encountered…
[ad_1] Catherine Wood, a money manager specializing in technology stocks, told CNBC on Thursday her investment firm sold shares of Apple in its “best ideas” fund to buy tech names that suffered much more in the October plunge. “We think the sell-off was overdone” in the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Nvidia, and Illumina, all of…
[ad_1] iBall Phantom SSD is touted to deliver up to 10 times faster boot-up time over conventional hard drives iBall on Thursday entered into the growing market of solid state drive (SSD) by launching its first, high-speed SSD called ‘Phantom’. The new 2.5-inch SSD comes in 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB storage options and is equipped…
[ad_1] Bitcoin prices continue to drag lower this year as retail interest fizzles. But institutional investors seem to be picking up that slack, and led the world’s largest digital currency investment firm to notch record inflows this year. New York- based Grayscale, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, brought in $81.1 million in total investments…
[ad_1] Last year, HPE successfully built and installed a supercomputer on the International Space Station that could withstand the rigors of being in space. Today, the company announced that it is making that computer available for earth-based developers and scientists to conduct experiments. Mark Fernandez, who has the lofty title of America’s HPC Technology Officer…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it will compensate former and current workers of its South Korean chip and display factories who have serious work-related illnesses, after a mediation panel advocated the compensation. The move will put an end to the years-long dispute between the world’s top memory chipmaker and an advocacy group representing sickened…
[ad_1] It’s been a huge month for smartphone launches with the new Pixel 3 and Mate 20 Pro just two of many devices landing in stores. Both of these phones offer some significant updates with the Pixel 3 arriving with a refreshed design, more power and improved camera. The Mate 20 also brings some radical…
[ad_1] Late last month, BT announced the appointment of Worldpay boss Philip Jansen as its new chief executive. Jansen is due to replace Patterson on January 1 2019, following a brief handover period. In June, Patterson announced he would stepping down as CEO on the back of an investor backlash after the company unveiled plans…
[ad_1] Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market in what could be the company’s last private fundraise. The round was led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital with participation from existing investors Creandum, Eight…
[ad_1] Apple has raised prices of its Mac computers in India. The revision, which was carried out alongside the MacBook Air and Mac mini launch earlier this week, sees a price hike of up to Rs. 61,800 for the lineup. All models have been affected, namely, the 12-inch MacBook, old 13-inch MacBook Air, 13 and…
[ad_1] Stephanie Keith | Getty Images Tim Cook, CEO of Apple laughs while Lana Del Rey (with iPad) takes a photo during a launch event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 30, 2018 in New York City. October was a punishing month for technology stocks, but as Apple prepares to report fiscal fourth-quarter…
[ad_1] Hundreds of Google engineers and other workers worldwide are expected to walk off the job Thursday to protest the company’s handling of executives accused of sexual misconduct. Walkouts were planned for 11:10 a.m. across different time zones, beginning in Asian countries. Protesters and supporters were posting photos and messages under the hashtag “googlewalkout.” We, Google employees and…
[ad_1] The team of forthcoming film Thugs of Hindostan has joined hands with Google Maps in India, where superstar Aamir Khan’s character from the film – Firangi – will be guiding commuters with directions. “As people gear up for Diwali and to watch Thugs Of Hindostan, we wanted to do our bit by making their…
[ad_1] Apple has held talks with iHeartMedia to take a stake in the US radio company, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The discussions between the two companies remain at a preliminary stage and no deal has been agreed, the report said, citing sources. iHeartMedia is hoping the iPhone maker will take…
[ad_1] Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of the World Wide Web told Reuters. The digital revolution has spawned a handful of US-based technology companies since the 1990s that now…
[ad_1] Volvo Cars and Chinese internet giant Baidu have teamed up to develop and mass product self-driving electric cars in China, the two firms said in an official statement Thursday. The Swedish carmaker, which is owned by Chinese auto manufacturer Geely, will offer its expertise in advanced technologies in the auto industry, while Baidu provides…
[ad_1] WhatsApp’s Private Reply feature enables a personal chat with another user in a group WhatsApp has started to roll out an update for its Android beta app that brings a new feature called Private Reply. The new functionality that allows users to privately send messages to a participant in a group without letting others…
[ad_1] When Ferial Nijem moved into a smart home equipped with the latest in modern technology, she had no idea she was walking into what would become a living nightmare. At the hands of an ex-partner, Nijem experienced what she calls “tech abuse.” “If anybody would walk into this situation, they would think they were…
[ad_1] Twitter is testing a home-screen button to help its 326 million users switch the order of the tweets they see, the social network announced on Thursday. The micro-blogging platform said a small number of iOS users will soon see a button on the home screen that allows them to switch between a display of…
[ad_1] Thursday’s action follows more than a year of turbulence and organizing at parent company Alphabet. Lack of diversity is a problem across the tech industry, but Google has been at the center of public attention since last August when an employee’s internal memo attributing women’s under-representation in the tech industry to gender differences went…
[ad_1] The third instalment of Flipkart’s festive season sale is now live. Flipkart’s Big Diwali sale commenced on 9pm October 31 for Flipkart Plus users and 12am on November 1 for all users. It ends on November 5. The sale mostly carries forward all of the popular deals from the last two instalments including discounts…
[ad_1] Apple is exploring a tie-up with the largest U.S. radio group, iHeartMedia, to try and boost its streaming service, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Talks between the two companies are at a preliminary stage and no deal has been agreed, according to people with knowledge, the FT said. The newspaper added that a…
[ad_1] Google on Thursday announced its smart speaker Home will now be able to respond in Hindi with uniquely Indian contexts. Already available on smartphones in Hindi, people can now talk to Google Assistant smart speaker in the language, the company said in a statement. To note, this is just the official announcement, as Google…
[ad_1] Japan’s anti-trust authorities will probe whether tech giants such as Google and Amazon are using their market-leader positions to exploit contractors or obstruct competition, the country’s fair trade chief said Thursday. In an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, the head of Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) said the investigation would take place next…
[ad_1] Anthony Kwan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Simon Loong, founder and chief executive officer of WeLab, speaks during the Rise conference in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. One of China’s major mobile lending platforms, WeLab, plans to diversify its services to meet the changing needs of its customers as they enter into…
[ad_1] Huawei Mate 20 Pro was officially shown off by the tech giant earlier this month and comes backing a score of flagship features. The device flaunts a 6.39-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1440×3120 and a density of 538 pixels-per-inch. And Mate 20 Pro is fitted with Huawei’s latest and greatest processor under…
[ad_1] With almost every smartphone now ditching the headphone port, it seems more of us are adopting a wireless future. Bluetooth headphones have exploded in popularity and now Audio Technica is cutting the cord of one of its most popular products. The Japanese firm has just announced the launch of the new ATH-M50xBT – a…
[ad_1] The social media giant’s CEO Jack Dorsey was last week quoted by The Telegraph as saying he “wasn’t a fan of the heart-shaped button” and he “would be getting rid of it soon.” The news spread quickly and led to consternation among the Twitterati. Some users announced how the Like button allowed expressions of…
[ad_1] The far-right group the Proud Boys and its founder, Gavin McInnes, have been banned from Facebook and Instagram because of policies against hate groups. The move follows the arrest of several people after Proud Boy members clashed with anti-fascist protesters in Manhattan on Oct. 12, following a speech by McInnes. McInnes called the ban censorship…
[ad_1] Twitter is digging one of its most important new features out of its settings and putting it within easy reach. Twitter is now testing with a small number of iOS users a homescreen button that lets you instantly switch from its algorithmic timeline that shows the best tweets first but out of order to…
[ad_1] The tech sector certainly wasn’t alone in October. Eight of the 10 subgroups of the S&P 500 fell, led by energy and consumer discretionary stocks, which dropped more than the tech group. The broader S&P 500 declined 6.9 percent, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 5.1 percent. But tech has an outsize impact…
[ad_1] Chamath Palihapitiya, one of Silicon Valley’s most outspoken tech investors, doubled down on calling the venture capital and tech start-up economy a Ponzi scheme on Wednesday. In a letter released by Social Capital, his venture firm, Palihapitiya wrote that “the dynamics we’ve entered is, in many ways, creating a dangerous, high stakes Ponzi scheme”…
[ad_1] Influcencer marketing could get a lot more accountable if Snapchat’s PR firm wins this lawsuit. Snapchat hoped that social media stars promoting v2 of its Spectacles camera sunglasses on its biggest competitor could boost interest after it only sold 220,000 of v1 and had to take a $40 million write-off. Instead Snap comes off…
[ad_1] Sometimes, CNBC’s Jim Cramer wishes FANG, the acronym he uses to talk about the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet, had never been created. “I never thought I’d say this, but I rue the day we created this silly thing,” the “Mad Money” host said one day after Facebook’s third-quarter earnings…
[ad_1] Robots just want to get things done, but it’s frustrating when their rigid bodies simply don’t allow them to do so. Solution: bodies that can be reconfigured on the fly! Sure, it’s probably bad news for humanity in the long run, but in the meantime it makes for fascinating research. A team of graduate…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6T was unveiled on Monday, October 29, and comes packing a number of improvements over its predecessor, the OnePlus 6. OnePlus 6T is immediately distinguishable thanks to its teardrop-shaped notch that sits at the top of its 6.41-inch AMOLED screen. The panel represents a slight increase in size from the OnePlus 6…
[ad_1] Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope have discovered that our galaxy was involved in a cosmic merger 10 billion years ago. The Milky Way is believed to have formed more than 13 billion years ago. But shortly thereafter — shortly in cosmic terms, at least — another galaxy slammed into it,…
[ad_1] Fitbit shares soared as much as 13 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company beat earnings and revenue expectations for the third quarter. The fitness tracker manufacturer reported earnings of 4 cents per share, while analysts had expected a loss of one cent per share. The company reported $394 million in revenue…
[ad_1] Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming service where viewers watch other people play video games, has outgrown its niche roots to the point that 1 million people on average are using it at any given time. The broader category of esports has blossomed into an international phenomenon, with research firm Newzoo predicting the market will…
[ad_1] On September 28, the day that Facebook disclosed a security breach impacting millions of its users, the head of the company’s upstart enterprise business reached out to Walmart, a top customer, to assure it that its data had not been exposed. Walmart is a customer of Workplace by Facebook, a work version of the…
[ad_1] Titan could put an end to stock market FOMO. The app chooses the best 20 stocks by scraping top hedge fund data, adds some shorts based on your personal risk profile and puts your money to work. No worrying about market fluctuations or constantly rebalancing your portfolio. You don’t have do anything, but can…
[ad_1] Google Maps boasts plenty of great Easter Eggs and hidden features, and one of these will prove very useful on Halloween 2018. During this spooky time of year, plenty of kids will be off with their friends trick-or-treating. And for parents who won’t be accompanying their children Google Maps offers a very useful feature…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., smiles during a news conference at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saved around $128 million thanks to fortunately timed sales of his own company’s stock. Facebook share prices fell to new lows…
[ad_1] Investors are getting friendly with Facebook again. Shares of the social media giant climbed more than 5 percent in Wednesday trading on the back of its earnings report Tuesday evening. The move was also giving a boost to its fellow FANG stocks and the broader tech sector. Here’s what market experts had to say…
[ad_1] The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Waymo, take the wheel: Self-driving cars go fully driverless on California roads The Alphabet-owned company has been testing on public roads…
[ad_1] If you were thinking of treating yourself to a new MacBook Air in the next few days you’d be wise to wait. Despite a number of deals offering decent discounts on this hugely popular machine, there is a major upgrade which arrives in stores next week. And don’t think this is just a faster…
[ad_1] In 2015 Switzerland was fucked. This blunt belief, grunted out by Apple’s Jony Ive and repeated by the media as a death knell for the watch industry, seemed to define a sad truth: that the Swiss watch was dead and Apple pulled the trigger. Now, three years and four Apple Watches later, was Ive…
[ad_1] Last year, the top subscription video apps like Netflix and Hulu raked in a combined $781 million, and that trend is showing no sign of slowing down in 2018. In the third quarter of 2018, U.S. consumers spent an estimated $329 million in the top 10 subscription video-on-demand apps across the App Store and…
[ad_1] Windows 10 is the computer operating system created by Microsoft that recently saw its latest version, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, released to users. However, shortly after its debut, a number of fans insisted they had experienced instances of unexpected file deletion. This prompted Microsoft to pause the roll-out of the Windows 10…
[ad_1] The future of work won’t be about degrees. More and more, it’ll be about skills. And no one school, whether it be Harvard, General Assembly or Udacity, can ever insulate us from the unpredictability of technological progression and disruption. As a leader of a technology company and former head of engineering, I’ve hired many…
[ad_1] With Apple’s AirPower still missing in action, the Apple accessory ecosystem has been attempting to fill the need with similar products. Some of these third party products are better than others, and the new Base Station from Nomad looks to be the best of them all. The Base Station does two things. One, it…
[ad_1] For many people starting a business, quitting their full-time job to pursue their side hustle is a commitment some aren’t willing to take. But for the co-founders behind Tipsy Elves, the leap of faith was a risk well worth taking. After dazzling the Sharks with their fun holiday sweaters on Season 5 of “Shark…
[ad_1] This is clever. Made by HyperDrive, the USB-C Hub slips onto an Apple USB-C power adapter and adds two USB 3.0 ports. That’s all. I love it and it addresses a major shortcoming of Apple’s current notebook lineup. Apple ditched full size USB ports in favor of the versatile USB-C. It makes sense on…
[ad_1] Siri Shortcuts is Apple’s latest mobile app, first released with the iOS 12 software update. Now, with iOS 12.1 rolling out globally, the Siri Shortcuts app has also received an update in the form of version 2.1. This version of the Siri Shortcuts app now comes with several additions including shortcuts for checking the…
[ad_1] ReutersTV | Reuters Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg answers questions about the improper use of millions of users’ data by a political consultancy, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, in this still image taken from Reuters TV May 22, 2018 [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Clearing the air on Facebook’s monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service’s Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company is going to put advertisements in its “Status” feature. “We are going to be putting ads in ‘Status’. That is going to be primary monetisation mode for the company as well as…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Shares of Facebook were popping Wednesday after a mixed third quarter report and a candid earnings call with traditionally tight-lipped executives. The stock gained more than 6 percent in the first few minutes of trading, adding to…
[ad_1] WhatsApp introduced the highly anticipated stickers option for its Android and iOS users last week. While the stickers option is live with iOS version 2.18.100, some Android stable users aren’t seeing it yet with latest version 2.18.327. In any case, WhatsApp has confirmed that all users will get stickers over the coming weeks, allowing…
[ad_1] The many big companies disrupted by blockchain have now made it a priority to harness this technology. As is typically the case when faced with disruption, large companies are seeking to defend their territory by adopting the very tool that threatens them. With blockchain there’s a lot at stake. The global market for blockchain-related…
[ad_1] WhatsApp on Wednesday announced a tie-up with Invest India to promote Indian startups and said it would organise a startup challenge in the country with the aim to invest in the top five participants of the competition. “WhatsApp will invest quarter of a million dollars as seed funding to the top 5 winners of…
[ad_1] A spokesperson for SoFi disagreed that it misleads borrowers. “We have always been committed to giving our current and prospective members clear and complete information with which to make smart financial choices, and are pleased to have this matter resolved,” the spokesperson wrote in an email. Outstanding student loan debt in the U.S. has…
[ad_1] Security advocate Jerry Gamblin has posted a set of instructions – essentially basic lines of XML – that can easily pull important information off of the Google Home Hub and, in some cases, temporarily brick the device. The Home Hub, which is essentially an Android tablet attached to a speaker, is designed to act…
[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. Facebook’s stock jumped before the opening bell Wednesday after the social media giant reported earnings that easily topped Wall Street…
[ad_1] The 12-inch MacBook now matches colour options of the new MacBook Air Apple’s New York event on Tuesday was all about the new MacBook Air, Mac mini, and iPad Pro models, with company executives describing how better and powerful the upgrades are. However, Apple silently announced an update to the MacBook Pro range that…
[ad_1] Mt. Gox put bitcoin on the map — but not in a way some would have hoped. The Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange launched in 2010 and three years later was handling roughly 70 percent of all cryptocurrency transactions in the world. The site was founded by Jed McCaleb, who later went on to found crypto…
[ad_1] IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty has staked her legacy on a $33 billion acquisition designed to save the century-old company from irrelevancy in a business led by younger tech giants like Amazon.com. In the second-largest deal in industry history, IBM is buying Red Hat, a seller of software and services based on the…
[ad_1] Mary Catherine Wellons | CNBC Mary Barra, CEO, General Motors General Motors is scheduled to report earnings before the bell on Wednesday in a quarter marked by a trade war that’s raised material and other costs across the industry. Here is what Wall Street expects: • Adjusted earnings per share: $1.25 • Revenue: $34.8…
[ad_1] Technology company chiefs have warned that a digital services tax proposed by the European Union would hinder innovation and hurt economic growth. In a letter to finance ministers of the 28-nation European Union, leaders of 16 tech companies including Spotify, Booking.com and Zalando say the proposed tax would undermine the EU’s goal of a…
[ad_1] If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your iPad there’s some good news as a new fully refreshed iPad Pro has just been revealed by Apple. This latest product features some of the biggest changes yet to this popular tablet including a fully edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display which covers almost the entire front of iPad.…
[ad_1] Google Maps is hugely-popular and harnessed by millions of users around the world. It is available on Android, iOS and desktops with Google regularly updating each with new features. This month Google Maps has delivered a number of substantial improvements that have refined user experiences. Recently it was announced Google Maps would display the…
[ad_1] Celebrate Halloween with Google by visiting Google’s homepage and you are in for a very special treat. Google updated it’s Google Doodle today to celebrate Halloween 2018 with an interactive game. Great Ghost Duel is a fun multiplayer affair that pits you against others Google users. This year’s Halloween Doodle follows Momo the cat on…
[ad_1] The refreshed Samsung Galaxy Watch went on sale in September with it offering a new look and improved fitness features. This wearable is now able to detect up to 40 exercises and will automatically track your daily workouts. It is also water resistant up to 50 metres, meaning even swimmers can put the new device to…
[ad_1] The ability to view all Gmail messages in a single tab is now available for G Suite users The Gmail app on iOS has now received an update that makes managing multiple accounts easier. The update now adds a new “All Inboxes” tab to allow users to view the entire list of emails from…
[ad_1] A farm outside of Kamloops, B.C. is trying to make its operation 100 per cent waste-free. Its secret? Bugs. Anastasia and Aras Balali Moghaddam, owners and farmers at Caspian Acres in the Cherry Creek area west of Kamloops have launched a pilot project that uses black soldier flies to feed some of their animals. This is an alternative to buying food…
[ad_1] Gboard now has a new Emoji Minis sticker pack Google introduced Minis personalised selfie stickers for Gboard a while back, and it has now fine-tuned it to introduce one more sticker pack. Gboard Minis can now recreate your face in a range of emoji-style expressions as well, which means that you can create mini…
[ad_1] This is the first time Maurice Lamothe and Nicole Leblanc have ever seen a white moose, let alone two. They spotted the white moose and calf while travelling on highway 101, just 15 minutes from the town of Foleyet. Lamothe says he’s heard about the protected animal before but has never seen one in person, even though…
[ad_1] Apple has detailed a new security feature that will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone. The newly released MacBook Air and Mac mini, that the company unveiled at its New York event on Tuesday, feature the Apple T2 Security Chip inbuilt. Apple has now revealed that the chip will ensure the MacBook Air’s…
[ad_1] New research is digging in to why fracking causes earthquakes in some areas but not in others. A paper published Monday in Geophysical Research Letters suggests the likelihood of an artificial earthquake is heavily influenced by how stable the ground was before the energy industry showed up. “Some places appear to be particularly responsive to [artificially-]occurring earthquakes while…
[ad_1] Apple has detailed a new security feature that will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone. The newly released MacBook Air and Mac mini, that the company unveiled at its New York event on Tuesday, feature the Apple T2 Security Chip inbuilt, which will disconnect their microphones at a hardware level when users close…
[ad_1] Hour-long lineups have often snaked out the door since Blue Heron Creamery opened its doors in East Vancouver in February. For five hours every Saturday, the store’s devotees wrestle crowds to have their pick of 25 varieties of vegan cheeses, plus yogurts and butters, which are made using bases of cashew, almond and coconut milk. …
[ad_1] Uber is appealing a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers at the U.K.’s Court of Appeal, the second-highest court in the land. The appeal relates to a 2016 employment tribunal ruling that Uber drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were working for the company, meaning they should be entitled to a…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics on Wednesday posted record quarterly operating and net profits for the July-September period as solid demand for its memory chips cushioned the fallout from slowing smartphone sales – but warned of tougher times ahead. The South Korean tech giant – the world’s top maker of smartphones and memory chips – has recovered from…
[ad_1] Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images Robin Li, chief executive officer of Baidu Inc. Ford and Chinese internet giant Baidu announced a tie-up Wednesday that will see the two firms jointly test self-driving vehicles in China for two years. The initiative will see the two companies collaborate on the development and testing of…
[ad_1] James Patterson, the prolific writer who holds a record for the most No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, says “you’ve never seen anything like” the new book he has released for free via Facebook Messenger. “It’s just so different,” he said on “Squawk Box” Tuesday morning. Conceding that “people don’t read like they used…
[ad_1] Free delivery. A membership fee. It’s not Amazon Prime, though it sounds like it. CVS is piloting a program in Boston that includes free delivery on most prescriptions and online purchases, access to a pharmacist helpline, a 20 percent discount on all CVS-branded products and a monthly $10 coupon. Called CarePass, a membership costs…
[ad_1] Even once ShopBack settled on a winning idea, however, the team continued to adapt the model to respond to users. To get started, they designed and launched a test site — then known as ShopMoolah — in just 24 hours to gauge response before investing heavily. That’s much like the way Jeff Bezos launched…
[ad_1] The latest blockbuster video game just made entertainment history on its opening weekend, its publisher said Tuesday. Rockstar Games’ “Red Dead Redemption 2” skyrocketed to a $725 million worldwide retail consumer sales during its first three days. The studio’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, said in a release that the game had achieved “the single-biggest…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an internal email on Tuesday condoning an employee protest planned for Thursday in the wake of…
[ad_1] “I just think that this is the future,” Zuckerberg said when talking about the Stories feature that Facebook copied from Snapchat and introduced across its numerous apps. With Stories, users share full-screen photos or videos with their friends or followers that disappear after a day, rather than sticking around permanently. “People want to share…
[ad_1] In the pantheon of watches there are a few that stand out. Looking for your first automatic watch? Pick up a Seiko Orange Monster. Looking for a piece with a little history? The Omega Speedmaster is your man. Looking for an entry-level Swiss diver that won’t break the bank? Tissot’s Seastar has always had…
[ad_1] SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Samsung Electronics logo is displayed in a window at the company’s Seocho office building in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it recorded an operating profit of 17.57 trillion won (about $15.5 billion) for the quarter ending in September. That was in line with…
[ad_1] The project is currently being referred to as “Building X,” according to the report. Facebook has not yet applied for building permits, but a project schedule sent to the city shows that the company hopes to demolish existing buildings on the allotted land as soon as May, according to the report. Despite its scandals…
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is changing business fast and many U.K. companies can’t keep up. A new report Wednesday found that 41 percent of British companies surveyed said their business models will cease to exist in the next five years thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). The research, conducted by Microsoft, surveyed more than 5,000 business leaders…
[ad_1] One of the Alphabet executives accused of sexual misconduct in a bombshell New York Times’ report resigned on Tuesday. Richard DeVaul, a director at Alphabet’s research lab X, left without an exit package, CNBC confirmed. Axios first reported the news. DeVaul was one of several current and former Google or Alphabet executives whose inappropriate…
[ad_1] Digital ordering is paying off for Panera Bread. The soup and sandwich chain is slated to pass $2 billion in annualized digital sales this year, double that of last year, its CEO Blaine Hurst said at CNBC’s Productivity@Work event in New York City Tuesday. Panera, which was sold to JAB Holdings in 2017 for…
[ad_1] eBay shares jumped as much as 5 percent in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company exceeded Wall Street’s estimates in its third-quarter earnings report. The company reported earnings of 56 cents per share, while analysts expected 54 cents per share. Revenue came in at $2.65 billion for the quarter, in line with estimates.…
[ad_1] The News Feed won’t sustain Facebook forever, and that’s scaring investors. Today on Facebook’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg stressed that sharing is shifting to private chat, where people send 100 billion messages per day on Facebook’s family of apps, and Stories, where he says people share 1 billion of these slideshows per day (though…
[ad_1] As Facebook eyes its messaging apps Messenger and WhatsApp to drive future growth, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is focused on a company that isn’t even in the social media space: Apple. “Our biggest competitor by far is iMessage,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on an earnings call on Tuesday with investors, referring to the messaging service…
[ad_1] Let’s start with a basic premise that the vast majority of the world’s workloads remain in private data centers. Cloud infrastructure vendors are working hard to shift those workloads, but technology always moves a lot slower than we think. That is the lens through which many cloud companies operate. The idea that you operate…
[ad_1] Apple’s New York event on Tuesday saw the launch of the new MacBook Air, which hadn’t seen a refresh in design since 2010, with the last spec-bump announced at last year’s WWDC. The all-new MacBook Air features a Retina display, a first for the series and a feature that’s long been anticipated. Another highlight feature is…
[ad_1] Jeffrey Katzenberg is drawing inspiration from Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” as he puts together his new short-form video company, Quibi. Speaking alongside Quibi CEO Meg Whitman on Tuesday at Axios’ Smarter Faster Revolution event, Katzenberg said that after reading Brown’s mystery thriller, a light bulb went off in his mind about media…
[ad_1] Apart from unveiling new iPad Pro models, an all-new MacBook Air, Apple used its New York event on Tuesday to also launch an all-new Mac mini. As was the case with the case with the MacBook Air, the Mac mini hadn’t seen a design refresh in years — since 2014 to be precise. Apple says the…
[ad_1] Despite the European decline, Facebook was able to grow its total number of daily active users to 1.5 billion, up from 1.47 billion last quarter. The company also managed to grow its revenue for the U.S. and Canada market, reporting revenue of $6.67 billion for the geography, up 7 percent from Q2. This continued…
[ad_1] Apple (NASDAQ: APPL) has had a great 2018. Even as the other FAANG stocks slumped, the trillion-dollar electronics company has continually satisfied Wall Street with quarter-over-quarter revenue growth. But will Apple’s momentum continue after it reports its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday? The consensus, so far, is yes. Apple is expected to post revenue of $61.43 billion (earnings per…
[ad_1] Last summer, Google introduced its own take on Bitmoji with the launch of “Mini” stickers in its keyboard app, Gboard, which leverage machine learning to create illustrated stickers based on your selfie. Today, Google is expanding the Mini Stickers with the launch of what it calls “Emoji Minis” – meaning, emoji-sized stickers that look…
[ad_1] Some investors are of the mind that Facebook‘s severe decline has gotten so bad, it might be good. The social media giant is set to report quarterly earnings on Tuesday after the bell, and Miller Tabak equity strategist Matt Maley said in an interview on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” that he’s gone from negative to…
[ad_1] Over the past two years, the notch move from anomaly to fact of life, and no company has proven itself more pro-notch than Google. From its embrace of #notchlife in Android Pie to the downright gigantic one found up top on the Pixel 3 XL, Google’s really notchin’ it up. In fact, as noted…
[ad_1] Investors are awaiting to see if Facebook’s warnings about a slow down in revenue growth rates will impact the company’s latest earnings. Facebook is expected to report its third-quarter earnings after bell on Tuesday. Here’s what analysts expect: Estimated earnings per share (EPS): $1.47, per Refinitv Estimated revenue: $13.78 billion, per Refinitiv Estimated daily…
[ad_1] Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company founder Elon Musk. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has purchased around $10 million worth of additional shares in the electric car maker and plans to buy another $20 million as soon as next week, according to a filing on Tuesday. Musk previously…
[ad_1] Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple unveils a new Apple iPad Pro in Brooklyn, New York, October 30, 2018. I prefer the 11-inch model of the two, which feels about the same as last year’s 10.5-inch model in my hand, but has a nice extra bit of screen to look at. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro has…
[ad_1] On Tuesday, Apple finally gave the MacBook Air a big upgrade. I only spent a few minutes with it, but I already think it’s the Apple laptop that most people will probably buy. By size, it fits right between the regular MacBook and the MacBook Pro. In cost, it’s cheaper than both. It starts…
[ad_1] MacBook Air fans aren’t hard to find. Although I admit to being a bit skeptical at its introduction, the laptop grew from an underpowered runt to an underappreciated workhorse over the years. But the design has hardly changed in the decade (!) since it came out — at least until today’s Apple event, when…
[ad_1] Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook unveils new iPads in New York on Oct. 30, 2018. Apple is doing everything it can to position the iPad as the PC killer. CEO Tim Cook said at an event in New York on Tuesday that Apple has now sold more…
[ad_1] This is a public service announcement. The latest and greatest iPad, namely the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, will cost you $2,227 to buy in its best configuration and with the basic accessories that make it worth having in the first place. Plus tax, of course. I’m not making a value judgment here, just stating the…
[ad_1] Amazon started its third straight day of losses Tuesday, dropping as much as 3 percent in early trading. It was down about 25 percent for the month of October as of Tuesday morning. The stock been on a steady decline since Thursday when it missed revenue estimates and delivered disappointing fourth-quarter guidance. October has…
[ad_1] The headphone jack is missing from the latest versions of the iPad Pro. It’s gone. Dead. Worse yet, the headphones that come with the iPhone will not work either. Apple ditched Lightning for USB-C. Instead, Apple is selling a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle for $9. The latest iPad Pro models follows the trend lines…
[ad_1] Cockroach Lab’s open source SQL database, CockroachDB, has been making inroads since it launched last year, but as any open source technology matures, in order to move deeper into markets it has to move beyond technical early adopters to a more generalized audience. To help achieve that, the company announced a new CockroachDB managed…
[ad_1] Just after his famous keynote address in 2007, Steve Jobs sat down with CNBC to explain Apple’s new product, the iPhone: “I think the iPhone may really change the whole phone industry. And I think give us something that’s vastly more powerful, in terms of making phone calls and keeping all your contacts on…
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[ad_1] Bitcoin’s value has dropped drastically this year, but the value of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is skyrocketing in the opposite direction. The San Francisco-based company announced a $300 million fundraising round Tuesday which puts Coinbase’s new valuation at $8 billion and makes it one of the most highly valued in the U.S. The deal marks…
[ad_1] Lightning had a good run, but it’s time to switch everything to USB-C. Apple finally dropped the Lightning port with the new iPad Pro. And it’s much more versatile than Lightning. For instance, you can plug a 5K display to your iPad Pro and show some video on the external display. It’s still unclear…
[ad_1] All-new Mac mini starts at $799 (roughly Rs. 58,800), and is up for pre-orders today Apple at its October 30 event in New York, apart from unveiling the all-new MacBook Air, also launched all-new Mac mini. As was the case with the case with the MacBook Air, the Mac mini hasn’t seen a design…
[ad_1] “5G technology will underpin the communications that Australians rely on every day, from our health systems and the potential applications of remote surgery, to self-driving cars and through to the operation of our power and water supply. The stakes could not be higher,” Burgess said. “Historically, we have protected the sensitive information and functions…
[ad_1] Apple is borrowing some ideas from the competition with the second-generation Apple Pencil. The most exciting thing is that you won’t lose it in your backpack anymore as it uses magnets just like your smart cover. You can attach it to the tablet and it won’t get in the way if you’re using it…
[ad_1] Apple’s October 30 event saw the launch of the new MacBook Air, which hasn’t seen a refresh in design since 2010. It received a specifications refresh in 2017, and here we are in 2018, with a design refresh. The all-new MacBook Air features a Retina display – a first for the series, and long…
[ad_1] “My goal is to automate warehouses in America and make a lot of success stories there,” said Diankov. “But will people value that, and are there enough people with expertise to do it? That’s why we started in Japan.” Mujin’s plan is to move away from customization for every client and standardize a complete…
[ad_1] During its press event in Brooklyn, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared some numbers on the Mac in particular. The active install base of all Macs is currently 100 million. “People love the Mac and they use it to create all kinds of amazing things every day,” Cook said. Obviously this number is much smaller…
[ad_1] Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, June 4, 2018. Apple is about to kick off its latest product event held in Brooklyn on Tuesday. The company is expected to announce new iPad Pros, a new MacBook Air and…
[ad_1] Apple’s second big event of 2018 is being held in New York and it will begin at 7.30 pm IST. We expect the company to launch new iPads and Macs, and perhaps one or two surprises. This event is expected to showcase new versions of certain Apple products such as the Mac Mini, whose…
[ad_1] Adyen, the Dutch firm that processes payments for the likes of Facebook and Uber, has expanded to Canada and signed up a host of new firms to its client roster. The company announced Tuesday that it has added Adidas, Dollar Shave Club, Busbud and Canada Goose to its line-up of customers as part of…
[ad_1] Content delivery network Akamai is up as much as 11 percent in premarket trading after crushing earnings. Akamai reported quarterly revenue of $670 million compared to $664 million analysts expected, according to Refinitiv. It also beat estimates on earnings per share by 11 cents, reporting 94 cents per share. Akamai’s technology allows for speedier…
[ad_1] Redmond giant Microsoft has now removed a fake Bing ad that claimed to be a Chrome download link, but was instead a deceptive one that perhaps installed malware on to your device. This fake link was the top result when users search for keywords like ‘download Chrome’ on the Edge browser. The link takes…
[ad_1] Virgin Media was ranked bottom among 12 of the UK’s “biggest broadband providers” by Which? in its latest survey. The outlet insisted Virgin Media customers were “most likely to have experienced a problem with their broadband service over the last 12 months”. It added issues have plagued seven in 10 people overall from the…
[ad_1] UPDATE ONE: As of 11.30am, Barclays online banking is still down and experiencing problems. Barclays’ status page still insists customers may have issues using the functionality. ORIGINAL STORY: Barclays has acknowledged people “might have a problem logging in” to its online banking service at this time. A number of customers have taken to Twitter…
[ad_1] Taiwanese consumer electronics company Asus on Tuesday launched its lightweight Windows 10 laptops – VivoBook S15 (S530) and VivoBook S14 (S430) in India at a starting price of Rs. 69,990 and Rs. 54,990, respectively. The former will be available from Asus exclusive stores from November 15, while the latter is exclusive to Flipkart and…