[ad_1] Another new feature, Memoji, lets you create an animated digital version of yourself. It’s a lot like Animoji, which were introduced in iOS 11 for the iPhone X, and can mimic your facial expressions using the front-facing camera on your iPhone X. It’s not supported by devices that don’t have Face ID. A new…
[ad_1] iOS 12 could be summed up in one feature: speed. The rest is just a footnote, especially when you compare iOS 12 to iOS 11. You may remember that iOS 11 was filled with many new features, especially on the iPad. But it was also the buggiest release to date. Even the Calculator app…
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to benefits for parents, working at Facebook is about as family-friendly as you get. Parking for expectant mothers. “Baby cash” of $4,000 to cover expenses. Subsidized day care costs. And the four months of paid leave at the social media giant is among the longest offered in the…
[ad_1] Apple‘s AirPower charger hasn’t launched because it’s facing overheating issues, according to two separate reports. Last year, during its 2017 iPhone event, Apple announced AirPower. It looked promising, since it’s supposed to wirelessly charge an Apple Watch, an iPhone and AirPods all at the same time. But a year later, Apple still hasn’t provided…
[ad_1] Creator of open-source software Linux, Linus Torvalds, is taking time off and apologizing for his “unprofessional and uncalled for” behavior, Torvalds said in an email to members of the Linux community Sunday. “I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and…
[ad_1] Marc Benioff, the chief executive of the software company Salesforce, and his wife, Lynne, said on Sunday that they had agreed to buy Time magazine from Meredith Corporation for $190 million in cash. Mr. Benioff answered several questions about the deal by text message on Sunday night. Lightly edited excerpts follow. Q. This would…
[ad_1] Google has the hard data to direct why it approves changes. But its process of choosing experiments in the first place is less straightforward. Google listens to user feedback, including from big, ugly screw-ups, like when people discovered that Google was linking a white supremacist website as the first result for “Did the Holocaust…
[ad_1] A multi-month investigation by Sweden’s Medical Products Agency into a number of unwanted pregnancies among users of ‘digital contraception’ app Natural Cycles has been closed after the startup agreed to clarify the risk of the product failing. But, on the self-reported data front, the agency said it was satisfied the number of unwanted pregnancies is in…
[ad_1] Wall Street darling Micron drew two big price target cuts Monday morning, with both BMO Capital Markets and Deutsche Bank slashing forecasts and sending shares tumbling in early trading. Shares of the chipmaker fell 1.7 percent after both Deutsche’s Sidney Ho and BMO’s Ambrish Srivastava highlighted softness in the company’s memory chip pricing. “While…
[ad_1] Smartphone upstart OnePlus’s upcoming 6T flagship promises to bring changes — it’ll see it ditch the headphone jack and sport an in-screen fingerprint reader — but first there’s something else. OnePlus is developing its first smart TV. CEO Pete Lau revealed the details today, explaining that the device will mark the five-year-old company’s next step to…
[ad_1] Google Play Family Library, the feature that is designed to enable sharing of apps, games, movies, TV shows, ebooks, and audiobooks from Google Play with up to five family members, is now heading to India. Google hasn’t announced the expansion of the feature, though some users have reported about its arrival in the country.…
[ad_1] Tesla stock dipped as much as 2 percent in early trading Monday on news the Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has invested $1 billion in rival Lucid Motors. The investment will fund Lucid Motor’s 2020 commercial launch of its first electric vehicle the Lucid Air, Reuters reported. Tesla CEO Elon Musk had previously touted…
[ad_1] Zortrax has launched a new printer, the Inkspire, that prints using an LCD to create objects in high-quality resin in minutes. The printer – essentially an upgrade to traditional stereolithography (SLA) printers – uses a single frame of light to create layers of 25 microns. Most SLA printers use a laser or DLP to…
[ad_1] EU antitrust regulators will decide by October 19 whether to clear US software giant Microsoft’s $7.5 billion (roughly Rs. 54,300 crores) acquisition of privately held coding website GitHub. Microsoft, which wants to acquire the firm to reinforce its cloud computing business against rival Amazon, requested European Union approval for the deal last Friday, a filing on…
[ad_1] Heading into Monday’s fiscal first quarter earnings report following the market close, Oracle is looking for a story to tell investors that could get them excited for the future. Analysts anticipate almost no revenue growth this fiscal year, despite company executives frequently touting Oracle’s cloud business and telling investors it can deliver cheaper cloud-computing…
[ad_1] On the heels of the Getty family regaining control of Getty Images, reportedly for about $3 billion, the company is announcing a move to expand use of its images to a wider set of eyeballs. It will now work with Amazon to provide images from its catalog of 200 million digital images to populate…
[ad_1] Ivan Alvarado | Reuters The logo of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen during the 4th annual America Digital Latin American Congress of Business and Technology in Santiago, Chile, September 5, 2018. Citi Research believes Amazon should split itself up to reduce the risk of regulation and increase shareholder value. The firm reiterated its…
[ad_1] “What’s the news?” has become a familiar refrain for consumers with smart speakers, opening up a new channel for publishers but also raising concerns about the growing influence of tech platforms in media. Devices such as Amazon’s Alexa-powered speakers, Google Home and Apple HomePod are increasingly delivering news flashes and summaries, and giving users the…
[ad_1] Blockchain start-up Ripple could launch a commercial application of its cryptocurrency-focused product “in the next month or so,” an executive at the company has told CNBC. Sagar Sarbhai, head of regulatory relations for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East at Ripple, said Monday that the firm was making significant headway with its xRapid product, which…
[ad_1] Machine learning detectors deployed by major social media and online platforms to track hate speech are “brittle and easy to deceive”, a study claims. The study, led by researchers from the Aalto University in Finland, found that bad grammar and awkward spelling – intentional or not – might make toxic social media comments harder for…
[ad_1] iOS 12 is the latest of version of Apple’s signature operating system that is adored by fans across the globe. The software was first shown off at the trillion-dollar company’s developer conference in June called WWDC. Apple claims once users install iOS 12 their device will run faster than ever. The tech firm declared…
[ad_1] HP India on Monday introduced an affordable mini desktop to help students learn and collaborate in schools and educational institutions across the country. Starting at Rs. 19,990, the HP 260 G3 desktop mini will enable schools and institutes to set up or upgrade computers in their science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) labs at…
[ad_1] Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during a press conference on May 9, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. SoftBank will increase its focus on the Middle East by helping the companies it has invested in via its $100 billion Vision Fund set up in the region. During…
[ad_1] Amazon has opened an online store where shoppers can buy specifically from U.S. small and medium-sized businesses. Unveiled Monday, ‘Amazon Storefronts’ is accessible from the Amazon.com homepage and directs shoppers to nearly 20,000 American firms located across 50 states. Online customers can search for goods through 25 product categories, such as Back To School,…
[ad_1] Gboard’s glide typing feature is broken for some users on Android. The feature, as its name suggests, enables users to type words by sliding their finger on the screen instead of pressing each key. This works similar to how swipe-to-type feature comes with Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard. However, instead of enabling accurate typing through swiping…
[ad_1] iOS 12 was first revealed back in June at Apple’s yearly Developers Conference. Now, after months of waiting, this blockbuster upgrade is finally ready to be pushed out to users across the globe. iOS 12 is packed with new features including improvements to Messages, Siri and photos. There’s also the introduction of group FaceTime…
[ad_1] Every September, major Hollywood studios gather here for a film festival and to debut the movies they think will have strong claim to the industry’s top prize: the Academy Award for best picture. And this past week at the Toronto International Film Festival, there was a clear front-runner. Roma, a Spanish-language story about child-care workers…
[ad_1] A new banner ad on the Amazon India mobile app announces the availability of a new payment method called Amazon Pay EMI. It gives users instant credit, and lets them pay via EMIs using their debit cards. The company has partnered with Capital Float to let users link their debit cards to pay EMIs…
[ad_1] While Apple is busy in the last-minute preparations of iOS 12, a security researcher has shown a proof-of-concept webpage that uses CSS to crash and restart your iOS-running iPhone or iPad instantly. The same CSS-based hack reportedly also freezes a Safari window once you access it on a Mac. The 15-line Web code snippet…
[ad_1] Walmart’s Flipkart unit is in talks to buy a stake in Star India’s video streaming service Hotstar, the Mint daily reported on Monday, stepping up the e-commerce firm’s battle with Amazon.com by expanding into video content. Flipkart’s reported talks with Hotstar come at a time when there is high demand in the country for video…
[ad_1] Machines will overtake humans in terms of performing more tasks at the workplace by 2025 — but there could still be 58 million net new jobs created in the next five years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in a report on Monday. Developments in automation technologies and artificial intelligence could see 75 million…
[ad_1] Drivers for the ride-hailing company Uber are frustrated over a glitch that is keeping them from being paid immediately. The Mercury News of San Jose reports San Francisco-based Uber was still working on Saturday to fix a problem that was reported Friday. An Uber spokesperson said the company has identified an issue with its…
[ad_1] Tesla CEO and Chairman Elon Musk on Sunday said the electric vehicle maker will soon bring most collision repairs in-house — a promise he first made during the company’s annual shareholder meeting in June. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Musk blamed outside shops for taking too long to complete repairs. Specifically, Musk…
[ad_1] The founder of Salesforce, Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff, have agreed to buy Time magazine for $190 million in cash from media and marketing company, Meredith Corporation. The deal is expected to be completed within 30 days, according to a press release by Meredith. “The Benioffs are purchasing TIME personally and the…
[ad_1] Sebastian Thrun, one of the best known entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, is taking on a new challenge that’s a big shift from his work in autonomous transportation or online education: He’s working to automate sales chats. Thrun, who founded Google‘s research lab X and its autonomous car project, education start-up Udacity, and electric aircraft…
[ad_1] If the whole map is red and it’s a short ride, maybe you’d prefer taking an Uber JUMP Bike instead of an UberX. Or at least if you do end up stuck bumper-to-bumper, the warning could make you less likely to get mad mid-ride and take it out on the driver’s rating. This week…
[ad_1] A new start-up is allowing some Uber users to kill two birds with one stone: Hailing a ride while checking off their shopping lists. Cargo, a convenience store on the go, is giving Uber drivers the ability to sell items like snacks, beauty products and phone chargers from a console box located in the…
[ad_1] More than two years after his ouster from LendingClub, Renaud Laplanche still owns millions of dollars worth of stock in the company he created, even though he’s since started a rival online lender that’s rapidly growing. “I still very much believe in the company and the people who work there,” Laplanche told CNBC. For…
[ad_1] EVERTON go toe-to-toe with West Ham this afternoon and pressure appears to be on Manuel Pellegrini to obtain his first club victory so far this season. Here is Express.co.uk’s guide to streaming all the action live online. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The discovery of at least five seals that apparently died in a wayward fishing net on B.C.’s Fraser River has alarmed Vancouver Aquarium’s chief veterinarian. The net and drowned seals were found by a CBC crew on Thursday, Sept. 6, while they were producing an unrelated story on the lower Fraser River near Steveston. “Those animals…
[ad_1] Without knowing the exact structure of the fund, it’s unclear where the $2 billion will come from. If it comes straight out of Bezos’s own pocket, which many assume it will, he will be eligible for steep tax deductions. Thirty percent of the gift will be deductible if he sets up a private foundation;…
[ad_1] He started searching for communities for support. But he didn’t fit in. There were the “super spiritual woo-woo” groups, which he described as “code word for ‘you walk around with guys in white robes and smudge sticks.’” There were the antiquated men’s movements from the ’90s, which rallied around the concept that men were…
[ad_1] Long are the days of simply sending a Hallmark card to make someone feel special, so the entrepreneurs behind Potato Parcel want you to mail a potato instead. Perfect for anniversaries, birthdays, and more, Potato Parcel lets customers order a potato with a handwritten message —or a photo of someone’s face — for $4…
[ad_1] A recent Deloitte study found that 55 percent of American households subscribe to a video streaming service, up from 49 percent last year. As the cord-cutting trend continues, competition for customers grows in the increasingly crowded market, especially with Disney preparing to enter the streaming space with its own service. After hitting a record…
[ad_1] Wolverhampton Wanderers face Burnley in the first Premier League game of the day. Burnley have struggled for form this season, having lost three league games in a row. Wolves, on the other hand, have only lost once so far this season and will be looking to make it two wins on the bounce. Wolves…
[ad_1] Virgin Media has its eyes on 4K and is determined to deliver a wide-range of programming that is available to view in the best resolution possible. Last week the TV supplier announced it was launching a new new channel that will show every programme in 4K. The Virgin TV Ultra HD channel will include…
[ad_1] EE customers could be in for a serious treat with the network launching its ultimate Golden SIM for a second year. This incredible award, which looks set to launch later this week, will bring lucky EE users the chance to get a free handset every year for three years, a huge 4G data bundle, England…
[ad_1] Google Pixel 3 is highly-anticipated and could be one of the most popular smartphones of the year. The hardware is expected to be unveiled at an event scheduled by Google on October 9. A showcase is taking place in New York City and Paris simultaneously that will surely lift the lid on the new…
[ad_1] iPhone Xr radically shakes up the colour pallet of the Apple product line (Image: Apple • Getty) iPhone Xr was shown off by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, on the stage of the Steve Jobs Theatre where he detailed the features and capabilities of the new hardware. Following its reveal,…
[ad_1] Apple was the biggest newsmaker in the world this week as the company launched its new iPhone models. In line with the rumours, three models were launched at the event — a 5.8-inch OLED iPhone XS, 6.1-inch LCD iPhone XR, and 6.5-inch OLED iPhone XS Max. All three feature the design introduced with iPhone…
[ad_1] It would not be completely alien for Apple to schedule another product event before the year is over (Image: Apple • Getty) But it would not be completely alien for Apple to schedule another event before the year is over where it could detail a host of new products its most loyal fans are…
[ad_1] iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max were announced by Apple on the stage of its Steve Jobs Theatre in Cupertino on Wednesday and both come with a score of tantalising features. The new flagships from the American tech firm boast a new A12 Bionic processor that is claimed to be the “smartest and most…
[ad_1] OnePlus 6T is expected to be the direct successor to the highly-praised OnePlus 6 (Image: OnePlus • Getty) OnePlus 6T is expected to be the direct successor to the highly-praised OnePlus 6. The Chinese firm have made somewhat of a tradition of releasing more iterative “T” upgrades to its regular numbered hardware. But rumours…
[ad_1] Android smartphone fans are being warned to stay away from dozens of fake apps that can be downloaded from a number of popular digital marketplaces. Android is one of the most used pieces of software in the world, with more than two billion active devices running the Google mobile OS each month. But there…
[ad_1] Apple iOS 12 release (Image: APPLE) Apple announced its iOS 12 update back in June at its yearly WWDC developers conference it bringing a mass of useful upgrades to iPhone and iPad devices. Since it was unveiled Apple has been busy making sure it’s fully ready for a public and that date has finally…
[ad_1] Come Monday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq will try to kick-off its second positive week in a row. But it’s poised to do so without small cap tech and Chinese internet companies. According to veteran market watcher Nicholas Colas, much of Wall Street is mistakenly assuming that the technology sector’s big surge is broad-based. “It’s largely…
[ad_1] The upside is you get a new phone every 12 months. If you join the program in September, as I did, you can get the new iPhone each year when it’s released, which is why it’s more fun than signing up in other months. Because I joined the program with the iPhone 8 Plus…
[ad_1] Real Madrid are today taking on Athletic Bilbao at the San Mames Stadium as the Galacticos look to continue their perfect league start. Los Blancos have made it three wins out of three for La Liga 2018/19, with Real joint on points at the top of the table with bitter rivals Barcelona. But today’s…
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[ad_1] A Brazilian scooter start-up called Yellow raised $63 million in a series A funding round from investors like GGV Capital, Monashees Capital, Grishin Robotics and others. Yellow, which already operates bike and scooter-rental services in Brazil, intends to use the funding to expand its scooter and bike-sharing operations in Latin America. They also aim…
[ad_1] In the driver’s seat, I’m grinning like an idiot. This thing is not, by any stretch, the fastest vehicle on the road. It’s not even the fastest car available at its $105,614 price point. But few cars on sale can match it for drama, as the lack of turbochargers means that the LC 500…
[ad_1] Watford vs Manchester United LIVE STREAM Watford will surely be extremely confident heading into this evening’s tie against Jose Mourinho’s squad. The Hornets beat Tottenham 2-1 at their home ground of Vicarage Road in their last Premier League game and will be looking to similarly disrupt the ambitions of another title contender. Manchester United…
[ad_1] As the U.S. and China weigh their next steps to defuse tensions on trade, the CEO of Chinese computer giant Lenovo is calling on both countries to work out their differences. In an appearance in New York City this week, Yuanqing Yang, Lenovo’s top executive, warned that there would be no winners in a…
[ad_1] Apple may imagine a world without cords and plugs, but it’s having trouble making that vision a reality. A year after announcing AirPower, Apple’s wireless charging pad that can simultaneously charge your iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods, the company has fallen mysteriously silent on its ambition to push forward a future of wireless power…
[ad_1] Predictive shipping would be a big gamble. Facebook is betting that you won’t be upset when your new shampoo arrives at your doorstep, whether or not you actually purchased it. Facebook would be entering a new space in the shopping universe, where AI and algorithms take the decision-making out of a customer’s hands. Facebook…
[ad_1] By now you’ve probably heard of the Defense Department’s massive winner-take-all $10 billion cloud contract dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short).Star Wars references aside, this contract is huge, even by government standards.The Pentagon would like a single cloud vendor to build out its enterprise cloud, believing rightly or wrongly that…
[ad_1] Airport security lines are long and slow, in part because of all the things we have to take out of our bags before putting them through the X-ray system. But there’s a new machine that could eventually speed things up by letting you keep everything in your carry-on bag. Analogic Corporation created a scanner…
[ad_1] GOOGLE HOME MAX REVIEW FOR: Amazing sound quality • Google still one of the best smart assistants • Bluetooth enabled offers more flexibility AGAINST: Very high price • Irritating touch controls • Needs a music subscription to get the most from it Google is turning the volume up to 11 with its new Max…
[ad_1] Google Maps is the American tech giant’s solution to navigation and is used by over a billion people across the globe. The software is not only incredibly handy but very accessible too. That’s because it is available on desktops, smartphones and tablets, meaning it can be used anywhere. And Google has consistently rolled out…
[ad_1] Google has released the latest beta version of Chrome 70 with touch-sensitive web authentication for Android and Mac devices, adding an extra layer of security to the browser. “Mac’s Touch ID and Android’s fingerprint sensor would allow developers to access biometric authenticators,” Google wrote in a blog post this week. The Chrome 70 beta version comes…
[ad_1] When Apple debuted the Series 4 it simultaneously made the Series 3 cheaper than ever (Image: Apple • Getty) Design Apple Watch Series 4 brings the biggest change to the wearable line ever. That’s because the smartwatch has an OLED screen that is over 30 percent larger than previous Apple Watch models. And Apple…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is reportedly working to bring the Swipe to Reply feature to its Android app. The messaging app has had an eventful 2018 as it has been launching and testing new features with high frequency. The WhatsApp iPhone app already has the Swipe to Reply feature, which seems set to be making its way…
[ad_1] While it sounds simple enough to get scientists to collaborate, it requires years of planning to get it working. That was certainly the case with Biohub, which represents an experiment of sorts to find out whether the Bay Area’s three biggest academic powerhouses — UC Berkeley, Stanford and UC San Francisco — could make…
[ad_1] Using a new forecasting method, a team of researchers calculated that Hurricane Florence, a “monster” storm that made landfall early Friday morning in North Carolina, is set to bring 50 per cent more rain to coastal areas than it would have without the influence of climate change. The team from Stony Brook University, Lawrence Berkeley…
[ad_1] The collapse of Lehman Brothers 10 years ago wasn’t just a reckoning for the financial system — it was an epiphany for coders and entrepreneurs who thought they could do better. Lehman’s shuttering not only stunned nervous bankers, investors and savers. It sent shockwaves throughout the global economy; a symbolic fall from grace for…
[ad_1] Google Pixel 3 is anticipated by fans across the globe and is expected to introduce a number of new features while also addressing criticisms its predecessors faced. Pixel 3 is expected to come in two varieties; one is anticipated to tout a 5.5-inch display while the other has been predicted to boast an OLED…
[ad_1] Netflix fans are being warned about an e-mail being sent by cybercriminals which tries to scam them out of their sign in details. Netflix is one of the biggest streaming services around and has become a household name thanks to its hugely popular high production shows. Hits like Stranger Things, Orange Is The New…
[ad_1] Apple has just revealed its new 2018 iPhone line-up and these are officially the biggest and most powerful smartphones the US technology firm has ever created. Called the iPhone Xs and Xs Max, the latest flagship devices offer faster processing power, improved cameras and far better battery life. However, one of the biggest upgrades…
[ad_1] iPhone Xr was shown off on the stage of the Steve Jobs Theatre by Phil Schiller and it brings the all-screen design first introduced by the iPhone X last year but at a cheaper price point than ever before. The phone features a 6.1-inch LCD panel that boasts a resolution of 1792×828 and a…
[ad_1] HomePod is Apple’s smart speaker that released at the start of the year and delivers incredible audio. That’s thanks to its seven-tweeter array and high-excursion woofer that seamlessly combine to output clear sound. HomePod has a host of unique technologies inside; most notably the hardware can identify when it is placed near a wall…
[ad_1] Apple macOS Mojave release (Image: APPLE) Apple’s new macOS Mojave update was announced back in June at the firm’s WWDC developers conference. This major software upgrade will bring a swathe of changes to Apple’s laptop and desktop PCs with features including a new Dark Mode, Dynamic Desktop and more apps available on this popular…
[ad_1] If you’re wanting to see what the new OnePlus 6T has in store there may not be too long to wait. The Chinese smartphone firm usually announces its T model in the second half of the year and, despite some rumours suggesting the 6T is coming early in 2019, it seems we may get a…
[ad_1] With millions of users across the globe, Kodi is one of the most popular online TV players on the market. Kodi itself is safe to use and totally legal. However, one reason why its usage continues to grow is its ability to view premium content for free via so-called add-ons. It’s these add-ons that…
[ad_1] With Apple recently announcing that its wearable is the most popular watch in the world, it seems this digital revolution is finally in full swing. The US technology giant is so convinced about its timepiece it has just announced a fully updated and refreshed Apple Watch that will go on sale later this month. The…
[ad_1] It’s been a busy week for Apple with the firm releasing three new iPhones called the iPhone Xs, Xs Max and Xr. Whilst the cheaper iPhone Xr won’t be available for another month the iPhone Xs and Max can both be pre-ordered from today. These new flagships come packed with a swathe of new…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump has been tough on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the past, but the economy needs a company as strong as Amazon, D.A. Davidson’s Tom Forte told CNBC on Friday. “I would argue that Washington, including President Trump, needs Amazon to continue to succeed. If you think about the second headquarters, we…
[ad_1] A week ago Dave Morton left Tesla, where he spent just one month, to become chief financial officer of Anaplan. Now he’s preparing for an IPO. Anaplan, which makes cloud-based business planning software, filed its prospectus with the SEC on Friday. It joins a crop of enterprise software companies to hit the public markets…
[ad_1] Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Tesla and CEO Elon Musk flew largely under the radar this week — a notable reprieve from a slew of stock-moving headlines during the last month — and shares of the automaker gained 12 percent across the five days of trading. It makes for Tesla’s…
[ad_1] It might be Apple’s most expensive smartphone ever but it seems the high price isn’t putting people off buying one. This huge 6.5-inch device was announced earlier this week with the phone available to pre-order from today. Prices start from £1,099 and rise to a whopping £1,499 for the ultimate 512GB version. However, those…
[ad_1] The future of Canada’s first protected marine area is now even more secure after Shell Canada gave up its offshore exploration rights to 50,000 square kilometres along the B.C. coast. The company’s rights overlapped with about one-third of the recently designated Scott Islands Marine National Wildlife Area, which conserves a vital marine environment for…
[ad_1] I only wanted one thing out of 2018’s iPhone event: a new iPhone SE. In failing to provide it Apple seems to have quietly put the model out to pasture — and for this I curse them eternally. Because it was the best phone the company ever made. If you were one of the…
[ad_1] Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Google’s GV, and Kleiner Perkins. The startup ran out of money after trying to manufacture its own hardware that couldn’t compete with drone giants like China’s DJI. A source…
[ad_1] Tech companies may have an advantage when it comes to assessing credit worthiness and keeping costs low, at least in the case of Square. The digital payment company, whose stock is up a whopping 229 percent in the past year, launched Square Capital in 2014 to issue small business loans that average in size…
[ad_1] Together with Microsoft, Adobe is leveraging artificial intelligence to push deeper into customer relationship management and create a “brand-new category and industry,” Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, told CNBC on Friday. “That’s where the Adobe and Microsoft partnership is so valuable, because … we think we are actually creating a brand-new category and industry, which…
[ad_1] The reaction to the unveiling of a new generation of iPhones this week was “lackluster” compared to prior new smart phone announcements, which could bode poorly for Apple‘s stock, according to a data firm which tracks social media sentiment and market behavior. The tracking of thousands of social media posts pointed to a marked…
[ad_1] An international team of scientists is in Newfoundland to gather fog samples from the province’s notorious rain, drizzle and fog in order to better understand the weather element. The project, called C-Fog and led by the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, is a collaboration of Canadian and U.S. universities, the military in each country and other…
[ad_1] David McNew | Getty Images A spacesuit designed for use on the Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen during a media tour of SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory on August 13, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX said it has signed the first private moon traveler, with some changes to its original game plan. The big…
[ad_1] Drivers of new Mercedes-Benz A-Class vehicles will soon be able to talk to their cars. And the cars will respond. Ask the car to turn on the heads-up display or for sports scores. Say you’re hungry and it will suggest restaurants. The new in-vehicle assistant utilizes local and cloud data to provide drivers plenty…
[ad_1] The “Queen of the Internet” will soon have her own investment firm. Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins, plans to depart the firm later this year to start a new investment fund, Kleiner said. The venture firm had hired Ms. Meeker, a former Wall Street analyst known as the Queen of the…
[ad_1] Elvie, a Berlin-based startup known best for its connected Kegel trainer is jumping into the breast pump business with a new $480 hands-free system you can slip into your bra. Even with all the innovation in baby gear, breast pumps have mostly sucked (pun intended) for new moms for the past half a century.…
[ad_1] Photo-messaging app Snapchat is expanding its “Our Story” feature to about 20 media partners to enable them to crowd-source images and videos for their own “Snap Stories”. “Our Story” feature collects snaps submitted by Snapchatters from around the globe about a place, an event or a topic from different points-of-view and presents them as…
[ad_1] Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters A booth of Micron Technology at an industrial fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Credit Suisse believes the recent dip in Micron shares is a good buying opportunity. The firm reiterated its outperform rating for Micron shares, citing the company’s attractive valuation. “While it’s often futile to fight negative momentum – we…
[ad_1] 3D Hubs, like MakeXYZ, was a community-based 3D printing service that let anyone with a printer sell their prints online. Founded in the heyday of the 3D printing revolution, the service let thousands of makers gather a little cash for making and mailing prints on their home 3D printers. Now, however, the company has…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Thursday announced the acquisition of an AI-focused firm called Lobe for an undisclosed amount and share. Lobe helps developers apply deep learning and AI models quickly, without the need of writing code, into tools they are developing. As a part of Microsoft, Lobe aims to leverage the tech giant’s AI research, global…
[ad_1] Intel isn’t making enough processor chips to meet demand and that will be a problem for PC sales this holiday quarter, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm estimates the Intel processor and chipset shortage will hurt fourth-quarter PC shipments by 5 percent to 7 percent. “Our conversations with PC vendors indicate that the shortage,…
[ad_1] Nvidia’s recently unveiled GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card has seen its first benchmark results leaked online, showing some very impressive performance. Nvidia’s latest 2000 series GPUs were announced last month, and the RTX 2080 is said to go on sale starting September 20. The new GPUs are based on an architecture codenamed Turing and…
[ad_1] David McNew | Getty Images A spacesuit designed for use on the Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen during a media tour of SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory on August 13, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. Elon Musk’s space transportation company SpaceX said it has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the moon…
[ad_1] The DelFly is a super light, super agile robot that flies like a real insect. By using a quad-wing flapping system, this odd little bot can flit, hover, and land like a fruit fly. Part of a research project at the Delft University of Technology, this is the latest version of the DelFly and…
[ad_1] Gboard’s ‘Minis’, the feature that is designed to transform your selfie into multiple stickers, is rolling out to Android users. Google announced the arrival of Minis on Gboard last month and following the formal announcement, the feature debuted on iOS. It is touted to use a combination of machine learning, neural networks, and artist…
[ad_1] Tyrone Siu | Reuters Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang attends an event during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan May 30, 2017. Needham believes Nvidia’s leadership in artificial intelligence hardware and software makes it uniquely positioned to usher in the next wave of computing. Analyst Rajvindra Gill hiked his price target…
[ad_1] A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47pm from Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. An observer takes note of all three details, opens a phone app and enters the information into three designated fields. Fourteen minutes later and 100 kilometres away, Abdel Razzaq sees the…
[ad_1] Employees and managers shouldn’t be too cavelier about their workers these days. Wage growth and low unemployment are fueling confidence and the amount of job openings are at record highs. Add to that the amount of workers that left positions voluntarily, or the “quits” rate, hit 3.6 million, according to the Bureau of Labor…
[ad_1] Remember 3D Touch? Unless you’re a power iOS user you probably don’t. Or, well, you’d rather not. It’s been clear for some time now that the technology Apple lauded at its 2015 unveiling as the “next generation of multi-touch” most certainly wasn’t. For the mainstream iPhone user it’s just that annoying thing that gets…
[ad_1] It’s been a busy week for AliveCor. The Qualcomm-backed start-up’s claim to fame is its tiny electrocardiogram, which tucks into a custom Apple Watch band and screens for atrial fibrillation, a leading cause of strokes. It also recruited a prominent CEO in Vic Gundotra, the former senior vice president of engineering at Google. Earlier…
[ad_1] Space researchers in Cartwright have declared the first round of their scientific testing, involving shooting an artillery canon straight up into the sky, a success. “Phase 1 was to test the launcher and all the associated equipment, the ground equipment, for the first time firing,” said Richard Graf, the CEO of Startfire Scientific Inc. “We…
[ad_1] The Danish supreme court on Thursday ratified fines given to four Uber drivers for operating illegally, paving the way for similar fines on a further 1,500 drivers. The four taxi drivers, one of whom was fined DKK 486,500 ($78,060), were charged with failing to have permits and for violating a law introduced to combat Uber…
[ad_1] One of the three young black bears that had been rescued last year from a public washroom in Banff National Park and later released into the wild appears to have been eaten by a grizzly bear. Conservation officers found the yearling’s carcass after her GPS collar “switched to mortality mode” on Aug. 28 due…
[ad_1] Samsung on Wednesday announced a collaboration with Google for the latter’s Rich Communication Services (RCS) on Android. The collaboration involves the integration of Android Messages and Samsung Messages to work together and offer features including the ability to chat over Wi-Fi networks, create rich group chats, see typing indicators and read receipts, and share…
[ad_1] Whale watching can be hit or miss. This trip was definitely “hit.” A whale-watching tour boat and a humpback whale collided off the coast of Nova Scotia last week. Neither the whale nor any of the passengers were injured. Video of the encounter was posted on social media by David Mulder, one of the passengers. It…
[ad_1] Germany’s highest court has postponed a decision on whether YouTube is liable for violations of intellectual property rights on its video platform in order to seek the opinion of European Union judges, a process expected to take one to two years. The lawsuit, which concerns illegally uploaded songs by the British singer Sarah Brightman, was…
[ad_1] Marlene Awaad | Bloomberg | Getty Images An attendee inspects a P20 Pro smartphone, manufactured by Huawei Technologies Co., during its unveiling in Paris, France, on Tuesday, March 21, 2018. The smartphone market is slowing, users are holding onto their devices for longer and some manufacturers are feeling the heat. The response from technology…
[ad_1] Facebook-owned Instagram is rolling out a new “prompt feature” that would pop-up if users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services or look to buy drugs illegally on the platform using certain hashtags such as “opioid”, the media has reported. “Instagram says people are using hashtags to find addiction support and…
[ad_1] No one will emerge as a winner if the ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China escalate into a full-blown global trade war, one of Europe’s leading industrialists warned on Friday. With a strong growth average around the globe, the fundamentals of business remain “pretty good,” and the trade tension is becoming…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies is spending millions of dollars in Toronto to open an engineering hub and expand its self-driving car operations, the strongest indication yet that the company is not retreating from autonomous vehicle development despite recent setbacks. Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Thursday that Uber will invest more than $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,000…
[ad_1] Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re exploring why our communities are at a turning point and how we can recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. Not so long ago, pretty much all baby food came in jars, pet food came in cans and boxes, and frozen…
[ad_1] YouTube Kids is getting a new “Older” profile meant for children aged between 8-12 years Google’s video-sharing platform YouTube on Thursday announced certain new improvements for YouTube Kids, the company’s app focused on providing video content targeted towards minor viewers. Firstly, YouTube Kids is getting a new parental control feature that will allow users…
[ad_1] Indonesia’s largest ride-hailing, payments and services company, Go-Jek, plans to expand its presence across more markets in Southeast Asia in the near future, according to its president. After officially launching its services in Vietnam earlier this week, Go-Jek is building up its operations in Thailand and working with regulators in Singapore and the Philippines,…
[ad_1] This week, Lenovo launched new Legion desktop gaming PCs in addition to a refresh of its existing Legion Y530 and Y730 gaming laptops in India, weeks after the products were unveiled at IFA 2018, the Lenovo Legion India launch is an interesting move due to the mix of products on offer. Most PC makers…
[ad_1] Efforts to save the 3½-year-old killer whale J50 are failing. The emaciated whale is a member of the endangered southern resident orca population and has been injected with antibiotics and de-worming medication, but its condition is still grave. Now experts are considering capturing the whale in a further effort to diagnose and treat its condition. But…
[ad_1] Researchers have discovered a security flaw that is said to put nearly all modern computers at risk for data theft. The newly-found vulnerability apparently enables a malicious party to carry out an attack on a computer that they can access physically. Within minutes, the attackers can reportedly move past the security layers of a…
[ad_1] Rare, mummified remains of two ice age animals — a caribou calf and a wolf pup — have been dug up from the permafrost by gold miners near Dawson City, Yukon. The two animal specimens, both carbon-dated to more than 50,000 years old, are remarkably well-preserved, with fur, skin and muscle tissue still intact. …
[ad_1] Spotify is increasingly attracting viewers as well as listeners to its free music streaming service and is finding new ways to target adverts and podcasts at customers, its head of global advertising sales told Reuters. The Swedish company, which has risen 39 percent in value since it floated in New York in April, is…
[ad_1] An ailing killer whale calf that scientists have been trying to treat since August has died, scientists believe. Ken Balcomb, head of the Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island in Washington state, said research teams declared the three-year-old female, known as J50, dead on Thursday evening. J50 had not been spotted since last Friday. Scientists became concerned for the southern…
[ad_1] Alphabet CEO Larry Page has largely checked out from work at the internet giant and is instead spending more time on his private Caribbean island, a report by Bloomberg Businessweek says. Page’s absence was widely noted last week when a seat set for a Google executive at a congressional hearing remained empty, while Facebook…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Larry Page, CEO of Google’s parent, Alphabet. Alphabet‘s CEO Larry Page envisioned a system of tubes that would propel bicyclists with gas to shorten the commute from San Francisco to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, according to a new report by Bloomberg Businessweek. The project,…
[ad_1] Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos arrives for the premiere of ‘The Post’ on December 14, 2017. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos offered some new insight into how he views his ownership of The Washington Post on Thursday, writing that his stewardship helps “support…American democracy.” The views were expressed in…
[ad_1] Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper said Facebook’s stock looks inexpensive at its current price and that the fund has not reduced its holding. “It’s kinda cheap in this market for the growth rate. So we’re still holding on as big as we were,” Tepper told CNBC’s Scott Wapner on Thursday. “It’s not the Cambridge Analytica…
[ad_1] Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper is a big believer in Micron. The investor said Thursday on CNBC’s “Halftime Report” that he’s still “very, very long” the chipmaker’s shares. “The demand side is going to be good for a long time. Servers, cloud and if you have smart cars. I mean there is just a great…
[ad_1] Online search provider Baidu — referred to as the Google of China — has been expanding aggressively into cutting edge technology such as artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. The Chines tech titan is one of the largest internet companies in the world with a strong user base, thanks in no small part to China’s…
[ad_1] Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the new Amazon Spheres opening event at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 29, 2018. Envision a world where attending Princeton University costs you about two quarters and staying in one of the most luxurious hotels in Dubai for a…
[ad_1] The so-called Internet of Things (IoT) and big data will drive demand in the semiconductor space and the growth cycle will be very different from previous phases, according to the CEO of Tokyo Electron. The Japanese company makes the equipment needed to produce semiconductors, and boasts a market cap of about $23.83 billion. “As…
[ad_1] MC Wellons, CNBC Jeff Bezos in the audience before his speech at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on September 13, 2018. If you were hoping to hear the winner of Amazon‘s second headquarters Thursday, try next time. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the decision for the winner of the company’s second headquarters will…
[ad_1] Many of you have questions about Apple's new health tech upgrades, so we attempted to answer them. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Akhtar has not updated his LinkedIn page to reflect his new role. Apple declined to comment on the hire. Apple has added more than 40 people to its health clinics in the past three months to help it serve employees at the company’s headquarters. These include nurses, doctors and care navigators. Akhtar is the…
[ad_1] The news that Nintendo would be adding NES games to the Switch as part of its paid online service had a mixed reception, but the company has made up for this controversial decision by releasing wireless NES controllers to play those games with. At $60 they’re a bit steep, but come on. You know…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer explains why Apple's sustained innovation is what keeps driving its stock higher. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Drone maker AeroVironment, Inc. is making its way into what many see as the next frontier in connectivity: 5G. In a joint venture with tech-forward Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Corp., AeroVironment plans to “pursue the business of 5G and IoT” — the internet of things — “globally,” AeroVironment President and CEO Wahid Nawabi told CNBC…
[ad_1] Apple’s latest model of its Apple Watch, complete with new health features ostensibly targeting the aging population, could be the company’s key to unlocking an even larger customer base, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “If you get the watch, you’re going to get the phone. That’s the way it works,” the “Mad Money” host…
[ad_1] Standard Cognition’s approach is different. It relies exclusively on the ceiling cameras and artificial intelligence software to figure out what you are buying. The cameras document shoppers’ movements, speed, stride length and gaze. The store knows when I glance at a poster and for how long. It knows if I slowed down, grabbed a…
[ad_1] Shares of Advanced Micro Devices posted their worst day since July on Thursday as the popular semiconductor stock appeared to take a breather. AMD’s stock sank 5.3 percent by the closing bell, finishing the day at $30.48, well below recent 12-year highs. The shares, which opened the day higher, rose more than 7 percent…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos is better known for building the e-commerce empire of Amazon than his entrepreneurial work at rocket-builder Blue Origin – but Morgan Stanley says that may change. “We believe investors may want to pay far more attention to another emerging force for the advancement of efforts in Space that has both the will…
[ad_1] Stryker shares will rise on strong sales from its surgical implant and instrument products, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm reiterated its overweight rating for Stryker shares, predicting the medical technology company will report earnings above expectations next year. “We see multiple top-line drivers [for Stryker], including new product launches in multiple businesses (Knees,…
[ad_1] Google’s head fraud-fighter wants you to know you might be a much more valuable target than you think. Scammers target people regardless of how prominent they are, said Mark Risher, who oversees the company’s initiatives to protect Gmail and other Google properties against hostile cyber-attacks. “It could just be a case of mistaken identity…
[ad_1] Ever heard of “wale [sic] walnut ranch dressing” as a pizza topping? No? That’s probably because pizza-making AI made it up. A group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found a way to demonstrate that robots and humans will have a peaceable future — and they’re doing it with pizza. Monday, MIT…
[ad_1] Adobe could be shopping for another piece of the digital marketing puzzle, as reports surfaced today that the company might be in talks with Vista Equity Partners to buy Marketo, a company the private equity firm purchased in May 2016 for $1.8 billion in cash. Reuters was first to report the rumor. While the…
[ad_1] Lobe The Lobe team, along with Microsoft’s Umesh Madan, left; Gaz Iqbal, second from left; Kevin Scott, second from right; and Jaron Lanier, right. Microsoft on Thursday said it has acquired Lobe, a small San Francisco start-up that focuses on making it easy to train and deploy artificial intelligence models. Terms weren’t disclosed. Like Amazon,…
[ad_1] If you’re looking for a smart display that’s powered by the Google Assistant, you now have two choices: the Lenovo Smart Display and the JBL Link View. Lenovo was first out of the gate with its surprisingly stylish gadget, but it also left room for improvement. JBL, given its heritage as an audio company, is…
[ad_1] The iPhone 7 starts at $449, and its big-screen cousin, the iPhone 7 Plus, starts at $549. Those are solid prices for phones that were state-of-the-art two years ago and are still really good. The Plus is a particularly good deal if you want a large-screen phone without paying over $1,000 for the Max.…
[ad_1] Adobe Systems, the maker of image-editing software Photoshop, is in negotiations to buy Marketo, a privately held cloud-based marketing software company, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would boost Adobe’s cloud-based software offerings as it takes on larger peers Microsoft and Oracle. Marketo offers business-to-business marketing applications that would compliment Adobe’s…
[ad_1] YouTube Kids’ latest update is giving parents more control over what their kids watch. Following a change earlier this year that allowed parents to limit viewing options to human-reviewed channels, YouTube today is adding another feature that will give parents the ability to explicitly whitelist every channel or video they want to be available…
[ad_1] Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder, venture capitalist and Facebook board member who gained national attention for his support of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is blaming Silicon Valley’s liberalism on higher education. “It’s probably the most educated part of the country in terms of how much time people spent in college,” Thiel said on Wednesday’s…
[ad_1] Shu Zhang | Reuters Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016. Facebook will start fact-checking images and videos, the company said Thursday, expanding its review efforts to posts that are traditionally harder…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos has launched a $2 billion “Day One Fund” to help homeless families and create preschools, the Amazon CEO announced Thursday. “MacKenzie and I share a belief in the potential for hard work from anyone to serve others,” Bezos said in a tweet. The fund will launch with a $2 billion commitment, split…
[ad_1] In the 1990s when the web was young, companies like Yahoo, created directories of web pages to help make them more discoverable. Hacera wants to bring that same idea to blockchain, and today it announced the launch of the Hacera Network Registry. CEO Jonathan Levi says that blockchains being established today risk being isolated because…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday praised Apple‘s newly unveiled iPhones, calling the smartphones much more enticing than the models released last year. “I found this one to be a breakthrough,” said Cramer, whose charitable trust owns shares of Apple. Apple showcased the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max at its event in Cupertino, California,…
[ad_1] Sometimes fake news lives inside of Facebook as photos and videos designed to propel misinformation campaigns, instead of off-site on news articles that can generate their own ad revenue. To combat these politically rather than financially-motivated meddlers, Facebook has to be able to detect fake news inside of images and the audio that accompanies…
[ad_1] Cloud services — where our data, apps and computing power are all being managed in servers owned by others, many miles from where we are sitting — have taken off like a rocket in the decade with the rise of smaller devices, but in the business world, hybrid solutions — mixing cloud with on-premise…
[ad_1] Google is set to shut down its alternate mailing app, Inbox by Gmail, in March 2019, giving users time to shift to the traditional Gmail by then, the company has said in a blog post. Launched in 2014, Inbox by Gmail was introduced as an innovative new email app that lived alongside Gmail and…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Apple, speaks about the the new Apple Watch Series 4 at an Apple Inc product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, September 12, 2018. The Swiss watch industry faces an increased threat from a new Apple Watch able to detect…
[ad_1] Rent-a-room giant Airbnb on Wednesday accused the Paris official seeking to ban the service in the city of electioneering and insisted it enjoys widespread support in the French capital. The city’s housing chief Ian Brossat said last week he would seek to outlaw the service in central Paris because operations like were forcing out…
[ad_1] But the eSIM option could open new business models for Apple, according to analysts. “The eSIM will be controlled by Apple and it can dictate which carriers to partner with, support and show relative mobile plans,” Neil Shah, research director at Counterpoint Research, told CNBC by email on Thursday. “So Apple can be the…
[ad_1] Themed collections of user generated content chosen by news publishers for viewing on and off Snapchat are the teen social network’s next great hope for relevance. Today Snap launches Curated Our Stories with the help of 20 partners like CNN, Cosmopolitan, Lad Bible, and NowThis. Instead of sifting through and selecting submissions to Our…
[ad_1] Six major Web companies and Internet-service providers, including AT&T, Twitter, and Alphabet’s Google, will detail their consumer data privacy practices to a US Senate panel on Sept. 26, according to a congressional statement on Wednesday. The Senate hearing will give the six technology-related companies, which also include Amazon.com, Apple, and Charter Communications, “an opportunity to…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Steve Mollenkopf, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc., holds the new Snapdragon 835 chip during a keynote at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm said on Thursday it would buy back about $16 billion of its common stock as…
[ad_1] “Apple launched two new OLED iPhones as well as a new 6.1″ LCD iPhone (XR). Pricing for XS Max starts at $1,099, XS at $999 and XR at $749, all for the lowest storage configurations. Apple added a 512GB storage option for the OLED models, which takes the high-end ASP to $1,449/$1,349 for the…
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world. He has spent most of the rest of the year apologizing for not recognizing the problem earlier. On Wednesday, Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, published a roughly 3,300-word blog post cataloging all the steps…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The new Apple iPhone XR is displayed during an Apple special event at the Steve Jobs Theatre on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California. Goldman Sachs is reducing its earnings forecast for Apple due to the smartphone maker’s new lineup of iPhones. The firm lowered its fiscal 2019 earnings…
[ad_1] Leading environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the Ontario government over the cancellation of the province’s cap-and-trade program. Lawyers for Ecojustice, in conjunction with the uOttawa-Ecojustice Environmental Law Clinic, filed the suit on behalf of Greenpeace Canada, according to a news release issued Tuesday afternoon. The suit aims to halt the regulation, approved in July, which…
[ad_1] Forty farmers on P.E.I. delayed their first cut of hay this summer on 400 hectares or 1,000 acres across the Island to protect grassland birds, including a threatened species called the bobolink. Grassland birds create their nests on the ground in tall grass fields. We have a lot more interest than we have funds…
[ad_1] Hurricane Florence, a powerful Category 4 hurricane poised to strengthen over the next 24 hours, is expected to make landfall somewhere between North and South Carolina by late Thursday. As with any hurricane, Florence will be a dangerous storm. But weather forecasters are particularly concerned about Florence due to a handful of factors. Here’s why. Slow-moving storm Hurricane…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Twitter/ Sean Hoffman The warning from Microsoft may not appear in the final Windows 10 October 2018 Update Microsoft latest Insider Preview build of Windows 10 is warning users they try to install Google Chrome or any other Web browser. Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are two of the most popular browsers, and…
[ad_1] The Justice Department has quietly launched an artificial intelligence experiment as the Trudeau government prepares to use such sophisticated software to help make decisions in cases involving immigration, pension benefits and taxes. The 18-month pilot project, which involves the Canada Revenue Agency, was started even though the government has yet to establish clear ethical…
[ad_1] Learn-to-code startup Kano, whose products aim to turn kids into digital makers, has taken the wraps off the latest incarnation of its build-it-yourself computer kit. With the new flagship Kano is doubling down on touch interactions — urging kids to “make your own tablet”. The Computer Kit Touch packs a 10.1″ HD touchscreen, along with Kano’s now…
[ad_1] An unusual visitor has been hanging out in the St. Lawrence River for the past three years: A narwhal, more than 1,000 kilometres south of its usual range. But the lone narwhal is not alone — it appears he has been adopted by a band of belugas. The narwhal — thought to be a juvenile male because…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he’s trying his damnedest to fix Facebook before it breaks democracy. Tonight he posted a 3,260-word battle plan for fighting election interference. Amidst drilling through Facebook’s strategy and progress, he slips in several notable passages revealing his own philosophy. Zuckerberg has cast off his premature skepticism and is…
[ad_1] Large amounts of dust from Asian deserts could be contributing to the warming of Arctic sea surfaces, but satellites are misreading these temperatures as being colder than they are. That’s according to a recent study published in Scientific Reports by Ron Vincent, an associate professor in the department of physics and space science at…
[ad_1] Ken Pearce throttles back on his outboard motor, his boat slowing as it cuts through the waters of the lower Fraser River near Steveston, B.C. He’s spotted a half-dozen seals swimming in a side channel. “They’ve fed on the rising tide and now they’re coming in to soak up the sun and snooze,” he…
[ad_1] The urgency to help ailing orca J50 has officials in the United States and Canada considering a radical plan to capture the young animal, so it can receive hands-on veterinary care. “Our focused objective is that J50 survive in the wild and ultimately contribute to the survival of the endangered southern resident killer whale population,” said…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., speaks at an Apple event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California. The iPhone XS offers a new processor for faster performance, storage space up to 512 GB, improved display…
[ad_1] U.S. stocks are already in the throes of a rolling bear market and could be paralyzed for the next several years as earnings growth decelerates, Morgan Stanley’s chief equity strategist, Michael Wilson, said in a note. Wilson said he expects the S&P 500 to trade in range between 2,400 and 3,000 for the next…
[ad_1] Brave, a privacy-focused web browser set up by Silicon Valley engineering guru Brendan Eich, filed privacy complaints in Britain and Ireland that could become a test case against search company Google and other digital advertising firms. The petitioners say they want to trigger an article in the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…
[ad_1] Jeff Fager, executive producer of “60 Minutes,” is leaving CBS immediately because he violated company policy, the broadcaster announced Wednesday. The company said the departure of the former chairman of CBS News was “not directly related” to an investigation into alleged sexual harassment. However, CBS found he violated company policy, but did not disclose…
[ad_1] Verizon’s head of media and advertising Tim Armstrong will leave at the end of the year, the company announced Wednesday. CNBC reported Armstrong was in talks to leave as of Sept. 7. Armstrong came to Verizon in 2015 as part of the acquisition of AOL, where he was CEO. The company later bought Yahoo…
[ad_1] Nvidia today announced its new GPU for machine learning and inferencing in the data center. The new Tesla T4 GPUs (where the ‘T’ stands for Nvidia’s new Turing architecture) are the successors to the current batch of P4 GPUs that virtually every major cloud computing provider now offers. Google, Nvidia said, will be among…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Apple, speaks about the the new Apple Watch Series 4 at an Apple Inc product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, September 12, 2018. For starters, doctors could be overwhelmed by healthy patients with Apple Watches rushing to the emergency…
[ad_1] Another Tesla executive is leaving the company, the electric car maker confirmed Wednesday. Vice president of worldwide finance Justin McAnear will leave Tesla to become chief financial officer at an unnamed firm. It is the latest departure for Tesla which has seen tremendous turnover in its ranks as it struggles to grow into a…
[ad_1] Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 4 during its news conference Wednesday. It’s a considerable step up from even last year’s model, and you might want to consider it even if you have a relatively recent version. There are two models, a smaller version and a larger version, but the screens are 30 percent…
[ad_1] Hurricane forecasts have traditionally focused on predicting a storm’s track and intensity. The track and size of the storm determine which areas may be hit. To do so, forecasters use models – essentially software programs, often run on large computers. Unfortunately, no single forecast model is consistently better than other models at making these…
[ad_1] Apple introduced an array of new products and software updates at its big keynote event Wednesday, including three new iPhones and the latest iteration of the Apple Watch. “Apple is very good at making the biggest, most expensive phones look really attractive,” CNET Editor-in-Chief Lindsey Turrentine told CNBC on Wednesday. “I heard there were…
[ad_1] For the last six months, CNBC’s Jim Cramer has been backing the “cloud kings,” his favorite cloud-computing stocks that represent one of the market’s most popular secular growth stories. But the cloud kings aren’t right for everybody. The underlying companies — like Salesforce.com and Adobe, to name a few — are already huge, meaning…
[ad_1] Apple announced a more affordable version of the iPhone X today called the iPhone XR. The starting price is $749. The XR features Face ID and a high-powered processor, just like the X. But it costs less than last year’s model thanks to features like its cheaper LCD display, aluminum body and single-lens camera.…
[ad_1] Apple always drops a few whoppers at its events, and the iPhone XS announcement today was no exception. And nowhere were they more blatant than in the introduction of the devices’ “new” camera features. No one doubts that iPhones take great pictures, so why bother lying about it? My guess is they can’t help…
[ad_1] The large screen of the iPhone XS Max may have stolen the show at Apple‘s product launch, but the lower-price-point iPhone XR is the unsung hero of the day, analysts say. “The real product, I think, is going to be this R version,” Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster said on CNBC’s “Fast Money.” “I think…
[ad_1] The resurrection in shares of Turtle Beach, a high-end headset maker whose products are popular with video gamers, stunned even CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “How do you go from $2 to $22 in nine months?” the “Mad Money” host wondered on Wednesday. “Simple: this rally is all about the rise of these insanely popular battle-royale…
[ad_1] The mid-range iPhone Xs starts at the same $999 price as last year’s iPhone X, and is functionally similar. But last year, the X was the top of the line, the luxury model. This year, Apple is selling the iPhone Xs Max with a 6.5-inch screen, which starts at $1,099 and goes all the…
[ad_1] Today at a special event at Apple’s headquarters, Apple’s COO Jeff Williams unveiled the next generation Apple Watch. It’s thinner, faster and has a larger screen than previous generations. But that’s to be expected. The Apple Watch Series 4 is packed with several features that use the built-in heart monitor for medical purposes. The…
[ad_1] A video published on Breitbart News on Wednesday shows top executives at Google and its parent company, Alphabet, responding in dismay to President Trump’s election at an all-hands meeting shortly after the election in 2016. In the hour-long video, execs including co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as Google CEO Sundar Pichai,…
[ad_1] Apple today formally introduced the next generation of Apple Watch devices, the Series 4. Alongside the new devices, the company announced the updated watchOS 5 mobile operating system will ship on September 17. The new version of watchOS was first shown off at this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, where flagship features like the…
[ad_1] Screen size and operating speed could stimulate Apple‘s lagging iPhone replacement cycle, but with growing services revenue, that may not be quite so important anymore, BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk told CNBC on Wednesday. “The 5 trillion [operations] per second in the new A12 chip — when someone buys this phone, it’s going to operate…
[ad_1] There are many reasons why dual-SIM capabilities make sense. And that’s why many Android smartphones let you insert two SIM cards. Apple is entering the world of dual-SIM capabilities with a physical SIM tray and an eSIM for most of the world, and two physical SIM cards in China. You won’t be able to…
[ad_1] HQ Trivia is aiming to attract more players following a slight decline in downloads with a new, large prize. The company announced today it has bagged Target to sponsor to sponsor a special Emmy-themed game featuring its biggest-ever single winner prize of $100,000. The game will air on Monday, September 17 at 9 PM ET,…
[ad_1] Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the Fun Kid Racing app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked to make sure it was in the family section of the Google Play store and rated as age-appropriate. The game, which lets children race cartoon cars with animal drivers, has been downloaded millions of times. Until last month,…
[ad_1] Apple just announced a new budget iPhone to along with the iPhone Xs. It brings many of the goodies found on the new and expensive iPhone XR but for less and it’s available in a variety of colors. The iPhone XR and XR are similar but there are key differences. Though they’re similar in…
[ad_1] Snapchat’s sagging share price is making it tough to retain talent. Bobby Lo, founder and CEO of mobile search app Vurb that Snap Inc acquired for $114.5 million two years ago is leaving day-to-day operations at the company. That means Lo cut out early on his four-year retention package vesting schedule, which was likely…
[ad_1] Apple at its September 12 launch event – which saw the unveiling of the iPhone XS family, the iPhone XR, and the Apple Watch Series 4 – announced the release date for iOS 12 and macOS 11.4 Mojave. Apple said the the iOS 12 update will become from September 17, while the macOS 10.14…
[ad_1] Both phones feel really fast, noticeably so over my iPhone X. I’m running the iOS 12 public preview, which also speeds things up, but the A12 Bionic chip offers another 30 percent performance boost. I like the cameras, too. Portrait Mode on the iPhone X is stellar, but with the new phones you can…
[ad_1] XS is the normal one. XR is the cheap one. XS Max is the big one. That’s a good start to understanding Apple’s confusing naming scheme for its new line of iPhones. Apparently jealous of Android’s fragmentation, Apple decided it needed three different models, three different storage sizes, and nine different colors. You can…
[ad_1] With the launch of the new Gmail, the writing was on the wall, but today Google made it official: Inbox by Gmail, the company’s experimental email client for Gmail, will shut down at the end of March 2019. Google says it’s making this change to put its focus “solely on Gmail.” While that makes…
[ad_1] Apple’s new devices will be powered by upgraded silicon for artificial intelligence that should, among other things, help you take higher-quality photos and videos. The company said on Wednesday at its product showcase that the enhanced chips will be embedded in the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. Apple is showing its…
[ad_1] Apple just announced the latest iPhone and Apple Watch and these are the first promo videos for the devices. As usual, Jony Ive, Apple’s Chief Design Officer, narrates the videos as the camera pans over the different features and aspects of the new products. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Even if you don’t plan on buying a new iPhone, you’ll be able to get a bunch of new features next week. Apple plans on releasing iOS 12, the next major version of iOS, on Tuesday, September 17th. As always, iOS 12 will be available as a free download. If your iPhone or iPad…
[ad_1] Shanghai-based Directive Games showed off Galaga AR at the Apple iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max event. Employees from the studio presented a multiplayer Galaga battle that had slick effects and visuals made possible with the new A12 Bionic chip and ARKit 2 tech from Apple. Galaga AR will be a part of what’s…
[ad_1] Apple just revealed its two newest iPhones at its annual product launch on Wednesday at the new Steve Jobs Theater. The unveiling comes just a month after Apple hit a market cap of $1 trillion on August 2, becoming the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach the historic record. More than 40 years…
[ad_1] Apple just unveiled brand new phones. The iPhone Xs and Xs Max are the two new flagship devices, replacing the iPhone X. The iPhone Xr is replacing the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus with Face ID and an edge-to-edge design. And maybe you were waiting for this press conference to buy a new…
[ad_1] … it was nice pressing you. Well, at least some of the thousands and thousands of times. Apple has finally abandoned a feature that’s been a staple of its smartphones since the very start, over a decade ago: A physical home button. The trio of almost-all-screen iPhones unboxed today at its Cupertino HQ go…
[ad_1] At the iPhone Xs and Xs Max event, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard took to the stage to show off The Elder Scrolls: Blades. The latest entry in the long-running Elder Scrolls franchise, Blades will utilise the processing capabilities to deliver console quality visuals for greater immersion Howard said. A live gameplay trailer showed off…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, introduces the new Apple watch at an Apple product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, September 12, 2018. Apple has a new demographic in mind for its new Apple Watch: your parents. On Wednesday, at its product showcase in Cupertino, California,…
[ad_1] Unsurprisingly, Apple today announced its newest generation of iPhones. And with that, it also announced its new chips: the A12 Bionic. What makes the A12 Bionic stand out is that it’s built using a 7nm process. While it’s hard to compare these numbers given that every chip manufacturer seems to have its own way…
[ad_1] Another year, another set of brand spankin’ new iPhones. But this year, little has been left to the imagination as leaks have continued to spring up over the course of the past few months. Today, however, the new iPhone becomes official. Apple has introduced a new models of the premium iPhone, the iPhone Xs,…
[ad_1] Activision Blizzard may have another huge esports business on its hands. Jefferies reiterated its buy rating for Activision Blizzard shares, predicting its “Call of Duty” battle royale mode will become a big success. On Monday the game publisher rolled out the beta test of its “Blackout” battle royale game mode in its upcoming “Call…
[ad_1] Apple just unveiled an updated Apple Watch. And this year’s new Watch is all about the display. Thanks to thinner bezels and a slightly bigger casing, you’ll see more on your screen. “Apple Watch isn’t just the number one smart watch, it’s the number one watch in the world period,” Apple CEO Tim Cook…
[ad_1] Apple just announced a new Watch called Apple Watch Series 4. The new Apple Watch comes with a larger screen and a round face, giving it the biggest facelift since its launch in 2014. The company said the screen is over 30 percent bigger, but the device itself has become thinner. The new watch…
[ad_1] Google’s alleged practice of recording location data about Android device owners even when they believe they have opted out of such tracking has sparked an investigation in Arizona, where the state’s attorney general could potentially levy a hefty fine against the search giant. The probe, initiated by Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich and confirmed…
[ad_1] A spill of diluted bitumen would put the survival of young salmon at risk even if the fish end up in clean water following exposure to the oil product, says new research from the University of Guelph. Researchers said they made the conclusions after exposing four groups of sockeye salmon eggs to four different amounts of…
[ad_1] The FDA is giving makers of e-cigarettes sixty days to come up with a more effective, forceful plan to combat underage use of the products. FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb is yet again moving the goal posts for e-cig companies. He now considers underage use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) an epidemic, forcing…
[ad_1] American software giant Adobe on Wednesday announced the release of new video-based features that are expected to arrive on the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps, mainly – Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe After Effects. The new updates include Mesh Sculpting tools in After Effects, better audio in the Essential Sound panel…
[ad_1] The stock was down 10 percent shortly after the opening bell Wednesday morning. Snap, which operates a camera-based phone application that allows people to share photos and short videos, has proved a tough investment for many since its initial public offering in March 2017. Since the IPO, Snap’s stock is down nearly 60 percent,…
[ad_1] Nintendo has communicated quite a lot on its new online service. And the company just shared the last missing piece of information — the service will launch on September 18th. For the first time, Nintendo will launch a subscription service to access online services. It’ll cost $20 per year, $3.99 per month or $7.99…
[ad_1] FameBit allows content creators and brands to connect for collaborations Google has finally introduced the FameBit by YouTube marketing app for Android users. The app allows YouTube content creators and influencers to connect with brands for sponsored content, and essentially make some extra money. FameBit has been around for quite some time on the…
[ad_1] Viacom CEO Bob Bakish said on CNBC on Wednesday he does think “scale is valuable,” but he repeatedly pivoted on questions about whether a CBS merger is any more likely since Les Moonves was ousted at the network. In a “Squawk on the Street” interview, after an address to the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference,…
[ad_1] Google has secured a bit more buy in from Samsung for a next generation text messaging standard it’s long been promoting. The Android OS maker’s hope for Rich Communication Services (RCS), which upgrades what SMS can offer to support richer comms and content swapping, can provide its fragmented Android ecosystem with a way to offer comparably…
[ad_1] Media player app Plex has announced that it will shut down its Plex Cloud service by the end of November, specifically, on November 30, citing high cost of maintaining numerous servers using the service. Plex is supported widely across platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, NAS devices; and its clients are available on Windows, Web,…
[ad_1] AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Wednesday if Netflix is the Walmart of direct-to-consumer streaming, AT&T-owned HBO is the Tiffany. “HBO is a very very unique asset,” Stephenson said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. “I think of Netflix kind of as the Walmart of [subscription video on-demand services]. HBO is kind of the Tiffany.”…
[ad_1] As we enter new-gadget buying season, spare a moment to meet the people who end up handling your old stuff. Isauro Flores-Hernandez, who takes apart used smartphones and tablets for a living, keeps thick gloves, metal tongs and a red fireproof bin by his desk here at Cascade Asset Management, an electronics scrap processor.…
[ad_1] Shares of Discovery jumped nearly 7 percent Wednesday after the media company announced it partnered with Hulu. Through the partnership, Hulu gains the exclusive streaming rights for thousands of episodes of Discovery shows like “Deadliest Catch,” “Say Yes to the Dress,” “Naked and Afraid” and cooking competition “Chopped.” The deal also includes a tie-up…
[ad_1] Gooooood morning, Cupertino. Today’s the big event at Apple HQ. 2018’s been a slow year for Apple hardware (including a complete no-show at WWDC a few months back). As ever, we’ll be on-hand to help make sense of all of the news as it breaks, and you can follow along with our handy liveblog…
[ad_1] Facebook, at its core, is designed to show things to its users that they will share, like, and click. And that very same design is what helped the platform become so good at spreading hoaxes and misinformation: A good hoax shows you what you want to believe, true or not. And we share things…
[ad_1] Semiconductor stocks are dropping Wednesday after Goldman Sachs warned about deteriorating memory chip demand. The firm lowered its rating to neutral from buy for shares of memory chipmaker Micron. “We see incrementally weaker demand datapoints combined with accelerating supply growth” in the fourth quarter and in the first half of next year, the firm’s…
[ad_1] Researchers at the University of Maryland are adapting the techniques used by birds and bugs to teach drones how to fly through small holes at high speeds. The drone requires only a few sensing shots to define the opening and lets a larger drone fly through an irregularly shaped hole with no training. Nitin…
[ad_1] Sisense, a company that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, announced an $80 million Series E investment today led by Insight Venture Partners. They also announced that Zack Urlocker, former COO at Duo Security and Zendesk, has joined the organization’s board of directors. The company has attracted a prestigious list…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Rafay Baloch URL bar spoofing allows website addresses to be spoofed in Safari for iOS and Microsoft’s Edge browser A security researcher claims to have discovered an issue that can leave URLs to be spoofed in Safari for iOS and Microsoft Edge browser for Windows 10. While Microsoft has fixed the bug,…
[ad_1] Billionaire Richard Branson is pushing business leaders to embrace the idea of flexible work arrangements, claiming that with today’s cutting-edge technology, there is no reason people can’t work less hours and be equally — if not more — effective. Hard work is key, but enjoying what you do and having fun is just as…
[ad_1] We’re just hours away from Apple’s big iPhone event and it looks like the company may have leaked its own news. AllThings.how spotted the names of future Apple products on Apple’s own website. According to AllThings.how, Apple updated the product sidemap file minutes before taking the Apple Store down to add the new product…
[ad_1] The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial EU copyright law that hands more power to news and record companies against Internet giants like Google and Facebook. Backing the draft were traditional media, in urgent search of revenue at a time when web users shun newspapers and TV and advertising revenue is syphoned away…
[ad_1] All eyes in the tech world are on Apple, which is expected to unveil three new iPhone models on Wednesday at its annual product launch. Not all investors are fazed by the hotly anticipated event. Mark Newton, president and founder of Newton Advisors, sees a sharp pullback in Apple’s near future. “Apple still looks…
[ad_1] Gboard is now testing a new feature that makes search smarter, offering users contextual content results based on what they type. The ‘G’ logo that sits on the top left of Gboard app, transforms into different icons to let you know that there is other relevant content that you can use instead of the…
[ad_1] Scott Mlyn | CNBC Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO, Micron Technology, Goldman Sachs downgraded Micron to neutral from buy on Wednesday, sending the shares tumbling in premarket trading and further exasperating a violent sell-off in memory chip stocks this month. The investment bank’s analyst Mark Delaney cited “incremental weakness in both DRAM and NAND fundamentals per…
[ad_1] After training its artificial intelligence (AI) system for eyecare and cardiology, Microsoft India on Tuesday announced their partnership with SRL Diagnostics to expand the “AI Network for Healthcare” to pathology to detect cancer. The collaboration will help improve the quality of digital pathology for population screening by bringing together Microsoft’s Azure and AI innovations…
[ad_1] European parliamentarians have passed a controversial overhaul of copyright law that could force tech giants to install filters that prevent copyright-protected content from being uploaded. Lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, voted on Wednesday in favor of the European Union’s revamped directive, which is aimed at bringing the bloc’s rules on copyright into the 21st century.…
[ad_1] Asus has launched the Intel Optane Memory equipped VivoBook X510 laptop in India Asus on Wednesday announced the launch of Vivobook 15 X510 equipped with Intel Optane memory in India. It is a Windows 10 laptop powered by the eighth generation Intel Core i5 processor. The VivoBook 15 X510 features 4GB of RAM and…
[ad_1] An alleged Pixel 3 XL unit has been shown touting an all-screen design that featured a notch (Image: Getty) Google Pixel 3 is one of the most highly-anticipated Android phones of the year. That is because the device is expected to build upon everything its predecessors did well while also introducing brand new features…
[ad_1] New iPads are expected to be announced by Apple later this year – the company has scheduled a hardware event for tomorrow, September 12, where it could show off the latest models of the lauded tablet. And the iPad Pro has been rumoured to be set for quite a substantial upgrade. Prior reports from…
[ad_1] India’s top digital payments firm, Paytm, is betting on its local expertise and a deep pool of backers to fuel business growth and fight off global rivals in a rapidly growing market, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Paytm, which started in 2010, became a household name in the country after a ban on…
[ad_1] All eyes will be on Apple today as the US technology firm reveals its new range of iPhones. This is expected to be another huge announcement with a host of devices likely to be unveiled at the Steve Jobs Theatre in Cupertino. Along with the iPhone upgrades, there could be plenty of surprises. So,…
[ad_1] Apple has removed cyber-security firm Trend Micro’s apps from the Mac App Store after reports of it ‘stealing user data’ and sending it to unidentified servers came to light. Initially, the firm stated that all of these allegations were false, and later apologised for the whole matter at hand. The company says that its…
[ad_1] Apple Watch fans could be in for a treat tonight as the tech behemoth takes to the stage of the Steve Jobs Theatre on its Cupertino campus at 6pm UK time. The new wearable has been predicted by many to be called the Apple Watch Series 4 and rumours indicate it could bring the…
[ad_1] The European Commission will propose new laws on Wednesday giving Google, Facebook, Twitter and other Internet companies one hour to remove extremist content or face fines. The Commission told such companies in March that they had three months to show they were removing extremist content more rapidly or face legislation forcing them to do…
[ad_1] Attention exhausted parents: The next time your toddler starts making strange noises or babbling about Paw Patrol, try to strike up a conversation — it could make a big difference later, researchers say. A study published this week in Pediatrics found that toddlers with parents who spend lots of time listening and chatting with them…
[ad_1] Tencent Holdings, which has lost some $200 billion (roughly Rs. 14.5 lakh crores) in market value this year, is facing fresh criticism from analysts and investors unnerved by regulatory roadblocks, a fuzzy overseas strategy and growing debt. The gaming and social media firm is one of a number of Chinese Internet companies whose prospects…
[ad_1] Apple is set to show off its next generation of iPhone X at the Steve Jobs Theatre in Cupertino this evening and rumours suggest it may unveil more than one device. In fact, the tech giant has been predicted to be planning the grand debut of three new iPhone models. The first is presumed…
[ad_1] Apple is holding a keynote today on its new and shiny campus in Cupertino, and the company is expected to unveil new iPhones, an updated Apple Watch and maybe some other things. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Paris), you’ll be able to watch…
[ad_1] There’s just a matter of hours until Apple finally reveals its refreshed and fully rebooted new iPhones. The US technology giant is expected to unveil its latest and greatest devices at an event in Cupertino tonight. Things get underway at the Steve Jobs Theatre from 6pm BST and expect some huge iPhone news to…
[ad_1] U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy blasted Google in a tweet on Tuesday, accusing the tech giant of giving a “silent donation” to a left-wing group to stop President Donald Trump, and for allegedly working with China and Russia to censor the internet. The Republican official said an “invite will be on its way”…
[ad_1] If you’re after a good TV or broadband deal now is a very good time to shop around. Sky and Virgin Media have both announced new savings which can cut the price of your bill or even include the gift of a free TV. The TV and broadband suppliers have also announced new services…
[ad_1] “In fact, we are projecting by about 2020, we’ll be at about a billion views here in (Asia Pacific) alone,” he said. “That strength has actually led to a lot of inbound inquiries and outbound inquires where we have had partners want to come work with us to extend their reach.” That projection will…
[ad_1] The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Tuesday dismissed reports of hacking of Aadhaar enrolment software as “completely incorrect and irresponsible” and said some vested interests were deliberately trying to create confusion among people. The denial came after an investigation by HuffPost India revealed that the Aadhaar database, which contains the biometrics and…
[ad_1] Two particular parts of the directive have attracted the most criticism from pro-internet freedom activists. One is Article 13. This section calls on internet giants to take “appropriate and proportionate” measures to prevent user-generated content that infringes a rightsholder’s copyright. This part of the law has come under heavy criticism over concerns that tech…
[ad_1] Google Tuesday attacked efforts by France’s privacy watchdog to globalise the so-called right to forgotten, telling European Union judges that the regulator “is out on a limb.” In a hearing at the EU Court of Justice, Google said extending the scope of the right all over the world was “completely unenvisagable.” Such a step…
[ad_1] A heat wave earlier this summer caused some major melting of a glacier in Yukon, and one glaciologist says that could have repercussions for waterways and wildlife. In late July, Mauri Pelto was looking at satellite images of the Lowell Glacier in Kluane National Park when he spotted an enormous “snow swamp” — formed when meltwater mixes with snow to…
[ad_1] Two Calgary researchers have uncovered the remains of a Scottish whaling ship that crashed on a reef on the east coast of Baffin Island 116 years ago. At least 200 British whaling ships were lost in Canada’s Arctic waters but this is believed to be the first of the shipwrecks to be found. With a drone,…
[ad_1] This summer’s heat wave in Atlantic Canada was reflected in sea surface temperatures from southern Nova Scotia to northern Newfoundland. In much of the region, ocean temperatures at the surface last month were two to three degrees higher than the 20-year average, according to data from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. “It’s getting up to…
[ad_1] The Great Lakes are getting hotter, seeing a rise in some parts of three degrees. Aaron Fisk, a professor with the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor, spoke with the CBC’s Julianne Hazlewood about why temperatures are on the rise and what that means for the Great Lakes and the things that live in it. You…
[ad_1] Juul looks like a sleek USB flash drive, its flavor pods are packed with nicotine and it is the latest trend in e-cigarettes. In the past year, San Francisco-based Juul Labs has rapidly overtaken the U.S. e-cigarette market. Sales have skyrocketed nearly 800 percent, helping Juul capture a 71 percent of share of the…
[ad_1] A good day for Apple would usually be a good day for chip stocks. But semiconductor stocks headed south, as Apple gained Tuesday, the day ahead of its much anticipated iPhone announcement. Apple was up 2.5 percent at $223.85, but the VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF was down 1.3 percent and the iShares PHLX Semiconductor…
[ad_1] Elon Musk‘s “self-destructive” behavior is a major concern for Tesla shareholders, and perhaps the board should put the CEO on a short medical leave, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “I’m worried about the guy,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “Medical leave is fine. I think the board puts him on medical leave.…
[ad_1] Amazon Business, the company’s marketplace that sells business supplies to corporate buyers, is on pace to generate more than $10 billion in sales volume this year, a significant milestone for a service that officially launched just three years ago. Amazon revealed the new sales projection in a blog post Tuesday, highlighting the fact that…
[ad_1] Amazon’s public cloud could be bound for space. The cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services, has been looking to hire people for an initiative involving space and satellite systems, though the company has never publicly discussed such a project. On Tuesday the website This Just In, which covers Amazon, published a report after spotting two…
[ad_1] While many of the market’s semiconductor stocks slid into Tuesday’s close, CNBC’s Jim Cramer noticed one key player prevail: the stock of Advanced Micro Devices, which has rallied an astounding 192 percent just in 2018. “Many of the semiconductor stocks were down today, but not this one,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Why? End…
[ad_1] While many of the market’s semiconductor stocks slid into Tuesday’s close, CNBC’s Jim Cramer noticed one key player prevail: the stock of Advanced Micro Devices, which has rallied an astounding 192 percent just in 2018. “Many of the semiconductor stocks were down today, but not this one,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Why? End…
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images John Legere, chief executive officer and president of T-Mobile US Inc., left, listens as Marcelo Claure, chief executive officer of Sprint Corp., speaks during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, April 30, 2018. The Federal…
[ad_1] Ether hit a new low for the year on Tuesday, extending what’s been a brutal nine months for the world’s second largest cryptocurrency. The digital asset’s price dropped 7 percent bringing its total decline for the year to more than 76 percent, according to data from CoinDesk. The cryptocurrency fell to a low of…
[ad_1] A cryptocurrency founder’s effort to dismiss a federal case against him by arguing that cryptocurrencies he created were not securities for the purpose of criminal law was shot down by a judge in Brooklyn, New York Tuesday. A key part of defendant Maksim Zaslavkiy’s argument was that current laws around crypto are “unconstitutionally vague.”…
[ad_1] Marty Melville | AFP | Getty Images Visitors stand next to a high altitude WiFi internet hub, a Google Project Loon balloon, on display at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, on June 16, 2013. Alphabet‘s Project Loon just passed a big test in its plan to beam internet to Earth from…
[ad_1] Want ice cream delivered, but don’t want to interrupt your picnic, dog-walking business or calorie-offsetting 5-K run? General Mills Inc.’s Häagen-Dazs unit might have what you need. The Golden Valley-based company is testing a system in the United Kingdom that delivers Häagen-Dazs ice cream through a combination of Facebook Messenger chatbots and geotagging technology…
[ad_1] Apple made a big bet last year that it could convince you to spend $1,000 or more on a new iPhone. It sounded like a crazy move after people spent 10 years spending $650 or so on a new device, but Apple’s gamble worked. The iPhone X, which starts at $999 and goes all…
[ad_1] The sophisticated head-tracking system like the one built into the iPhone X may have been intended for AR and security purposes, but it may also turn out to be very useful for people with disabilities. A proof of concept app from an eBay intern shows how someone with very little motor function can navigate…
[ad_1] Twilio, a company best known for supplying a communications APIs for developers has a product called Twilio Flex for building sophisticated customer service applications on top of Twilio’s APIs. Today, it announced it was acquiring Ytica (pronounced Why-tica) to provide an operational and analytical layer on top of the customer service solution. The companies…
[ad_1] Just as Netflix has amped up investment in content creation, Walmart will continue investing in brands, said Andy Dunn, CEO and co-founder of Walmart-owned online clothier Bonobos. “If you want to win, you’ve got to own great brands,” Dunn said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.” “It’s kind of like what Netflix did. They started…
[ad_1] This mage was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus on the Landsat 7 satellite on September 12, 2001, at about 11:30 a.m. EST. New York City on Sept. 12, 2001. NASA Astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American on the International Space Station at the time of the attacks, and in the days…
[ad_1] A recent user survey sent out by Dropbox confirms the company is considering the addition of an electronic signature feature to its Dropbox Professional product, which it refers to simply as “E-Signature from Dropbox.” The point of the survey is to solicit feedback about how likely users are to use such a product, how…
[ad_1] Elon Musk is “as lucid and capable as he has ever been,” SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said at a satellite conference in Paris, Bloomberg News reported. “[He] is a brilliant man,” Shotwell said, according to the report. “I wish people would not focus on triviality.” Musk remains firmly in the public eye…
[ad_1] If you had a cup of delicious coffee this morning, there’s a good chance those beans came from Colombia, which has famously been growing and selling them for centuries. But the country hasn’t produced any coffee makers — until now, anyway. The FrankOne is a clever device that puts a versatile vacuum-extraction technique in…
[ad_1] New 5G networks are coming and big companies are spending big bucks to roll them out. Ericsson is going to be providing T-Mobile with its latest 5G new radio hardware and 3GPP for a cool $3.5 billion. As it moves from LTE Advanced networks to 5G, T-Mobile said it will use the Ericsson portfolio…
[ad_1] Anaxi‘s mission is to bring more transparency to the software development process. The tool, which is now live for iOS, with web and Android versions planned for the near future, connects to GitHub to give you actionable insights about the state of your projects and manage your projects and issues. Support for Atlassian’s Jira…
[ad_1] The vast majority of Amazon Prime members who have health insurance told Deutsche Bank that they would be willing to purchase prescription drugs on the online retailer’s website. According to the brokerage’s recent study, 85 percent of insured Prime members would be comfortable buying drugs straight from Amazon.com, posing a huge opportunity for the…
[ad_1] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted AliveCor the designation of ‘breakthrough device’ for it’s ability to detect a rare but dangerous blood condition called hyperkalemia without taking any blood from the patient. Hyperkalemia is a medical term describing elevated potassium levels in the blood and is usually found in those with kidney…
[ad_1] Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the new Amazon Spheres opening event at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 29, 2018. Amazon.com Inc. has joined the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, a move that further cements the company’s presence in a region that is on the short…
[ad_1] In an unusual open letter to investors, the CEO of e-commerce turned crypto company Overstock outlined reasons for shareholders not to worry that he recently dumped 10 percent of his shares. “I’ve cashed in 1/10 of my chips (most of it, to reinvest next to you),” Overstock Founder and CEO Patrick Byrne said in…
[ad_1] Rosenblatt Securities is getting more bullish on AMD shares because of the chipmaker’s opportunity for growth in the data center market. The firm raised its price target to $40 from $30 for shares of Advanced Micro Devices, citing its process manufacturing lead versus Nvidia. The new forecast represents 34 percent upside to Monday’s closing…
[ad_1] In a world where large hyperscale companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud, it would seem foolhardy for a startup to try to carve out a space, but Packet has an alternative customized cloud vision, and investors have taken notice. Today, the company announced a $25 million Series B led by…
[ad_1] We’ve all been there. You’re hot. She’s cold. Temperature wars happen in the office, at home, in the car — anywhere really. There are even studies about it. But help may be on the way in the form of a new device called Embr Wave, a personal thermostat that you wear on your wrist.…
[ad_1] Earlier this summer, Tinder began testing a new feature that surfaces a curated list of your best potential matches, called “Top Picks.” The feature, which is only available to paying subscribers on Tinder Gold, is now available worldwide, Tinder says. Top Picks had also quietly launched in the U.S. and U.K. last week following…
[ad_1] When Apple Watch was first released in 2015, it came with a built-in basic heart rate monitor. That pushed Apple into the health care sector, as users started reaching out to the company with stories about how the device had saved their life. As the company’s COO Jeff Williams told CNBC in 2017, “We’ve…
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians pass in front of Snap Inc. signage displayed on the exterior of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York, U.S., on Thursday, March 2, 2017. The big dip in Snap’s stock is a great buying opportunity, according…
[ad_1] In a world where large hyperscale companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud, it would seem foolhardy for a startup to try and carve out a space, but Packet has an alternative customized cloud vision, and investors have taken notice. Today, the company announced a $30 million Series B led by…
[ad_1] Rebecca Messina will be tasked with bringing Uber's global marketing teams together, the company said in an online statement. "My focus has always been on three things: people, growth and brands." [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Last month Tesla introduced a limited edition smartphone charger. Even though it was overpriced and slow, the charger quickly sold out. Now Tesla says the charger will soon be available again and at a lower price. The charger features 6,000mAh of juice and 5W of wireless output charging and 7.5W through USB. The first time…
[ad_1] PUBG Mobile 0.8.0 update will be available for users starting September 12 PUBG Corporation on Tuesday announced the patch notes for latest update for PUBG Mobile on Android and iOS. This update brings the much-awaited new Sanhok map to users on both platforms, apart from several customisable pick-up settings, achievements, clans, anti-cheating measures, progress…
[ad_1] Russia is now much closer to China than the U.S., the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund told CNBC Tuesday, with a strategic partnership between Russian firms and Alibaba the latest example of their strengthening ties. “Frankly we do much more with China generally, we believe in integration, we believe in working together, President…
[ad_1] One of Tesla’s biggest advocates is giving up on his positive view of the carmaker’s stock because of CEO Elon Musk’s controversial behavior. Nomura Instinet lowered its rating to neutral from buy for Tesla shares, citing concerns Musk’s actions may hurt the company’s brand. “We have been one of the most bullish on TSLA…
[ad_1] Apple Watch Series 4 is highly anticipated and is expected to build upon everything the Series 3 did right while also introducing new features of its own. And the new device has been rumoured to tout an all-new redesign this year. Notable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously declared the Series 4 will boast a screen…
[ad_1] Alibaba’s Jack Ma speaks to Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the RDIF, at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok, Russia. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba signed a new strategic partnership with a number of Russian firms Tuesday, which will form a new e-commerce platform and utilize Russia’s own payments system. The deal — signed at…
[ad_1] Yuriko Nakao | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Tesla will scrap some paint options for the firm’s luxury electric cars on Wednesday to ease the manufacturing process, CEO Elon Musk said. The carmaker is ditching two colors — “obsidian black” and “metallic silver” — but both…
[ad_1] Aadhaar data security – a hot topic since the introduction of the framework back in 2009 – is once again in the news. A three-month-long investigation claims to have uncovered a software patch that compromises the security of the data stored in Aadhaar identity database. The patch, which isn’t developed formally by the Unique…
[ad_1] Cisco might have to deal with the fallout from an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China by passing on higher prices to its customers, the company’s chairman and CEO told CNBC on Tuesday. “The tariffs that are suggested are across a lot of our core networking products, so it’s fairly significant,” Chuck…
[ad_1] Google News will load videos on YouTube Go app to save data Google on Monday introduced several data-saving features for its News app, keeping in mind consumers with low and capped bandwidth, including those with Android (Go edition) devices Google News gets mainly four new features to load content in a manner that will…
[ad_1] As the eastern United States prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Florence, experts are warning that the storm may be the strongest to hit the region in decades and could pack a deadly punch. Hurricane Florence — which formed as a tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 31 — is currently a Category 4 on the…
[ad_1] Food delivery provider FreshMenu started operations in India back in 2014, and has since been selling its products on its own platform as well as through aggregator apps like Zomato, Swiggy, and UberEATS. A report has now surfaced online that claims FreshMenu had a massive data breach back in 2016; a breach that exposed…
[ad_1] Facebook will face similar issues as it enters live sports streaming, he continued. The social network recently won the rights to show Premier League matches in certain Southeast Asian countries and La Liga matches in India for free — a development that highlights how digital platforms are increasingly eating into linear television’s business. “Facebook…
[ad_1] Virgin Media customers who own a 4K Ultra HD TV could be in for a treat. The broadband and TV supplier has just announced it’s launching a brand-new channel that is dedicated to showing every programme in 4K. This new service will go live on September 17 and will be free for Virgin TV…
[ad_1] Snap, the parent of Snapchat messaging, said on Monday Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan will step down, the latest top-level exit amid pressure to stem a drop in users following a controversial redesign of the app. Khan, 41, whose last day has not been determined, was named to the role in 2015 and played…
[ad_1] Nearly a decade after winning millions of government dollars in support, a project with the seemingly contradictory goals of trapping greenhouse gas and boosting oil output is poised to bring a new dimension to the Alberta oilpatch. In August, Enhance Energy announced it has enlisted Wolf Midstream as a partner on its long-awaited Alberta…
[ad_1] After much anticipation, WhatsApp for Jio Phone has officially arrived. The app, which was initially planned to debut on KaiOS-based Jio Phone on August 15, is now rolling out through the JioStore. WhatsApp on late Monday confirmed the latest release and said that the app will be rolled out for all Jio Phone users…
[ad_1] Ropes and fishing gear wrapped around a humpback whale discovered in the Bay of Fundy “very likely” played a role in the animal’s death, says the director of the Marine Animal Response Society. Tonya Wimmer was part of a team on a Canadian Coast Guard boat that located the whale Saturday evening, floating in…
[ad_1] HP, the largest maker of personal computers, is making a big push into the manufacturing industry with its first printer that can churn out 3D metal parts. HP is unveiling the Metal Jet printer, and some early customers, at a manufacturing trade show in Chicago on Monday. Engineering firm GKN is using the printers…
[ad_1] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says an attempt to inject a sickly orca whale with an deworming medicine has failed. In an update on Saturday, NOAA confirmed the whale, designated J50, was seen swimming almost a kilometre behind the rest of her family, known as J-Pod. The organization says that her condition did not appear to…
[ad_1] Google is going to Europe’s top court in its legal fight against an order requiring it to extend “right to be forgotten” rules to its search engines globally. The technology giant is set for a showdown at the European Union Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday with France’s data privacy regulator over an…
[ad_1] The semiconductor sector is due for a significant decline soon — with or without the brewing trade war between the U.S. and China, a tech analyst from CLSA said. The ongoing tariff battle between the two economic powerhouses has had some impact on demand but there are already warning signs of an impending slowdown,…
[ad_1] International animal-rights group PETA has traditionally been known for focusing its attention on land-based animals, but marine animals are increasingly in the group’s crosshairs, which will likely mean more light shone on the Canadian seafood industry. The group’s latest target is a seafood shell recycling plant in Richibucto, N.B. Last month, CBC News reported that…
[ad_1] SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning at 12:45 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, after rain and cloudy weather delayed the launch by over an hour. The rocket was carrying Canada’s Telstar 18 Vantage communication satellite. It was deployed approximately 32 minutes after lift off, according to SpaceX. Successful deployment of Telstar 18 VANTAGE…
[ad_1] Apple will kick off a blitz of new products this week, ending a year of minor updates and setting the technology giant up for a potentially strong holiday quarter. Through the rest of 2018, the world’s most valuable public company will launch three new iPhones, revamped iPad Pros, Apple Watches with larger screens, a…
[ad_1] There were 29 tornadoes across the Canadian Prairies this summer, with Saskatchewan registering the most, but the one in Alonsa, Man., caused the most damage. So far. “These numbers are still preliminary as our summer severe weather team has a few more things to go through and we have had a tornado in October before,…
[ad_1] In Taiwan, camera lens-maker Largan Precision slid nearly 8 percent, Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, fell 3.4 percent, while assembler Pegatron dropped nearly 4 percent. Taiwan’s ASE Technology, which counts Apple as one of its top clients, fell 2.9 percent. Chien Bor-yi, an analyst at Taipei-based Cathay Futures Consultant, said Apple’s…
[ad_1] Snap’s chief strategy officer, Imran Khan, is leaving after three years with the company. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Khan will continue in his role for an interim period before stepping down “to assist with an effective transition of his duties and responsibilities.” No date has been set…
[ad_1] Apple is poised to enter the world of video streaming and has bought the rights to two films, according to a report on entertainment website Deadline. It bought worldwide rights to “The Elephant Queen,” a documentary directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble. The movie features Athena the elephant leading her…
[ad_1] Departing CBS CEO Leslie Moonves could walk away from the media empire empty-handed, veteran media analyst Porter Bibb predicted Monday. Bibb, a tech and media analyst with more than 40 years of experience on Wall Street, said Moonves will not receive the $100 million exit package the board is considering if allegations reported by…
[ad_1] Amazon Prime subscribers will more than double to 275 million in a decade, estimates Citigroup, which raised its price target on the stock Monday after a deep-dive analysis into the subscription service of the internet retailing juggernaut. Citi analysts concluded that Wall Street does not appreciate the full value of the platform, projecting that…
[ad_1] Sonos stock fell as much as 15 percent in extended hours on Monday, erasing a trading-day gain of 13 percent, after the company reported earnings for the third quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended on June 30. Here’s how the company did its its first earnings report: Earnings: Loss of 45 cents…
[ad_1] Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. Mark Zuckerberg owes Bill Gates a big debt of gratitude: The Microsoft co-founder told Zuckerberg to learn from Gates’…
[ad_1] Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that’s not enough anymore. If you want to truly know the customer behind the interaction, you need a customer system of record to go with the customer service component. To fill that need, Zendesk announced it was acquiring Base, a startup that…
[ad_1] The best scenario is for Musk to stay at Tesla, but something has to change. It seems the core problem for Musk and Tesla is that he’s surrounded by people unwilling or unable to stand up to him, as can easily happen with powerful people. At worst, this appears to be true of his…
[ad_1] AliveCor, a Silicon Valley start-up that develops technology to monitor people’s heart health, on Monday received “breakthrough device” designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for developing a new way to detect high blood potassium levels without requiring any blood. AliveCor worked with doctors at the Mayo Clinic, which is also an investor…
[ad_1] Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Following a pair of bullish reports from Baird and Bernstein analysts, Tesla shares rose more than 8 percent on Monday afternoon. Tesla stock closed at $263.24 Friday, and reached $285.50 on Monday afternoon. “We think the [Tesla] setup in sentiment looks relatively favorable for the…
[ad_1] O’Grady’s comments add to recent buzz about the feasibility of a shorter workweek. Serial entrepreneur Richard Branson said advances in technology mean that workplaces can reconsider the traditional five-day work week. “Ideas such as driverless cars and drones are becoming a reality, and machines will be used for more and more jobs in the…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s love for ancient Roman emperor Augustus Caesar offers some insights how he views being a leader. “You have all these good and bad and complex figures,” Zuckerberg said during an interview with the New Yorker. “I think Augustus is one of the most fascinating. Basically, through a really harsh approach,…
[ad_1] Like most media companies, CBS owns a variety of assets, including the CBS TV network, Showtime, a production studio, some digital assets, a stake in the CW network, owned-and-operated local TV stations and some other cable channels. It’s a jewel for a large company that wants content, such as AT&T. CBS owns the rights…
[ad_1] Alex Brandon | AP Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Monday, June 19, 2017, in Washington. The comment came a day after the company’s letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer was…
[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk capped off his summer of erratic behavior Thursday night by smoking pot during an almost three-hour interview on the Joe Rogan podcast. The rebel CEO persona Musk’s been cultivating in recent months isn’t doing him, or the company’s stock, any favors, executive leadership consultants say. And there’s evidence that some…
[ad_1] Wednesday is Apple’s big product release day, where analysts expect the company to release the next edition of the iPhone. While the usual upgrades to the screen, CPU, and storage are expected as always, one major lingering question is how the company is going to handle 5G, the next-generation telecommunications standard. The conventional wisdom…
[ad_1] Dozens of global companies are now recognizing the importance of reversing what I have coined “virtual distance” in the workplace — the detachment that happens when conversations occur through smart devices, and when devices distort context and mediate our relationships. This detachment directly impacts productivity and performance, but by using analytics, virtual distance can…
[ad_1] New research from one of AMD’s biggest critics shows the chipmaker is gaining share in three key markets. Susquehanna Financial Group released its latest PC-SIGnals report for the third-quarter, which revealed rising share for Advanced Micro Device’s chips in the desktop PC, laptop and graphics card markets. “AMD is the winner of 3Q18 PC-SIGnals!…
[ad_1] False rumors forwarded on WhatsApp have led angry mobs to murder strangers in India, but the Facebook-owned chat app is still racing to add users in the country. Today it launched a feature phone version of WhatsApp for JioPhone 1 and 2’s KaiOS, which are designed to support 22 of India’s vast array of…
[ad_1] Intel today is announcing another acquisition as it continues to pick up talent and IP to bolster its next generation of computing chips beyond legacy PCs. The company has acquired NetSpeed Systems, a startup that makes system-on-chip (SoC) design tools and interconnect fabric intellectual property (IP). The company will be joining Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group,…
[ad_1] Amazon has another milestone in its sights. And this time, Walmart’s in the crosshairs. The e-commerce giant will be the No. 1 seller of apparel in the U.S. in 2018, according to Wells Fargo, which raised its price target on the Seattle-based retailer Monday following new analysis into its clothing segment. The e-commerce behemoth’s…
[ad_1] New Relic CEO Lew Cirne was feeling a bit nostalgic last week when he called to discuss the announcements for the company’s FutureStack conference taking place tomorrow in San Francisco. It had been 10 years since he first spoke to TechCrunch about his monitoring tool. A lot has changed in a decade including what his…
[ad_1] Leslie Moonves made more than $650 million dollars in total annual compensation throughout his tenure as CEO of CBS Corporation. Now, as he departs the company following sexual misconduct allegations, he could leave with $0 in severance after working for the company for 23 years. Moonves resigned as CEO of CBS on Sunday evening…
[ad_1] A few days ago, I interviewed Ken Kocienda at TechCrunch Disrupt SF — he just released a book called Creative Selection. After working at Apple during some of the company’s best years, Kocienda looks back at what makes Apple such a special place. The book in particular starts with a demo. Kocienda is invited…
[ad_1] The comment came a day after the company’s letter to U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer was revealed, which said Trump’s proposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of imported Chinese goods would affect the Apple Watch, AirPods, Mac mini and Apple Pencil. Bank of America Merrill Lynch said Apple may respond to Trump’s pressure by…
[ad_1] We’re used to kids caving to peer pressure — yet parents, too, can fall victim to the “everyone else is doing it” mentality when they’re on social media. Financial advice website Credit Karma reached out to its members who are parents to learn more about their biggest struggles. The survey revealed intense feelings of…
[ad_1] For years, marketers have been trying to optimize the online shopping experience to better understand their customers and deliver more customized interactions that ultimately drive more sales. Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate that, and today Adobe announced enhancements to Adobe Target and Adobe Experience Manager that attempt to deliver at least partly on…
[ad_1] The PUBG Mobile 0.8.0 update has a release date. After being teased by the official PUBG Mobile account on Twitter last week, it has finally been revealed to be available from September 12 for Android and iOS. With it comes new vehicles like the Muscle Car, weapons such as the QBZ rifle, and of course…
[ad_1] On Monday, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Loup Ventures published notes discussing how Trump’s proposed $200 billion tariffs on China will affect Apple. The tariffs may force Apple to raise the prices some of its products in the U.S., including the Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and Beats headphones, in order to recoup lost…
[ad_1] The Boring Company just posted a video on Twitter showing its latest digging machine can be controlled by an Xbox One controller. Because, if you’re going to dig holes, why not make it a bit of fun? Software makes it easy to map PC controls to an Xbox pad. Instead of developing and fabricating…
[ad_1] Your Phone app allows you to view, send, and receive SMS from your Android phone on your Windows 10 PC Redmond, Washington giant Microsoft last week announced the release of its latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17755 to all Windows Insiders who are part of the Fast ring. New features in the update…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) takes a picture with David Casarez (R) who just purchased the new iPhone X at an Apple Store on November 3, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. The most affordable new iPhone that Apple announces on Wednesday might be named the iPhone Xr, according to…
[ad_1] Tesla shares have been under pressure lately amid key departures from the company’s management team, as well as CEO Elon Musk‘s erratic behavior. Tesla is down more than 25 percent over the past month and has dropped 15.5 percent this year. On Friday, Tesla announced Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton had resigned. Morton —…
[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. The U.S. securities watchdog has halted trading in two cryptocurrency-related products because of confusion over the nature of the financial products. The securities, Bitcoin Tracker One and…
[ad_1] Tesla shares got burned last week in a sell-off that took its stock down 13 percent and cemented its position in bear market territory. Mark Tepper, president and CEO of Strategic Wealth Partners, warns investors to steer clear of the embattled carmaker. “I wouldn’t touch this thing with a 10-foot pole. Right now this…
[ad_1] TeamViewer, a global software provider for IoT, connectivity, monitoring, support and team collaboration, on Monday announced the availability of its Tensor enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform in India. Built on TeamViewer’s infrastructure and software, Tensor introduces a set of new enterprise-class functionalities including comprehensive reporting logs, advanced authentication management as well as mass deployment capabilities,…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6T is expected to be the Chinese manufacturer’s forthcoming smartphone that has been predicted to build upon everything the OnePlus 6 did well when it released back in May. OnePlus has made a tradition of releasing more iterative “T” upgrades to its regular numbered devices. And the OnePlus 6T is expected to…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is easily among the most popular apps in India, but did you know it can help you track trains live check your PNR status too? Of course, there are other ways to check your PNR status as well as track live train status online – the NTES app by IRCTC can help with…
[ad_1] If you are in desperate need of an iPhone upgrade now is a very good time. Apple looks all set to release its next generation of iPhone devices on Wednesday which will come packed with bigger features and much more power. In fact, we’re expecting to see Apple reveal its largest iPhone ever with…
[ad_1] Eoin Noonan | Sportsfile | Getty Images Kristo Kaarmann, Co-Founder & CEO, TransferWise, on Centre Stage during day one of MoneyConf 2018 at the RDS Arena in Dublin. (Photo By Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile via Getty Images) TransferWise, one of Europe’s largest financial technology (fintech) start-ups, said Monday it was profitable for the second year in…
[ad_1] The iPhone X was shown off by Apple last September and released in November the same year. The device touted an incredible new design that was not only futuristic but also extremely functional and intuitive. And it appears this flagship still has a huge lead over its Android rivals, even with new iPhones expected…
[ad_1] Fast-growing digital bank N26 isn’t only winning over consumers, it’s winning over more and more of Germany’s labor force. From its inception in 2013, the lender has garnered lots of attention, not only from renowned investors like Tencent Holdings Limited and Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures; but also LinkedIn, who has crowned the challenger bank…
[ad_1] Google’s in-house startup incubator Area 120 has introduced a travel guide website called Touring Bird that lists tours, attractions and activities for travellers and tourists in popular travel destinations. Area 120 is a workshop for the tech giant’s experimental products. So far, the site provides information about 20 cities that include New Delhi, Prague,…
[ad_1] Entrepreneur Andrew Yang is running for U.S. president, and he’s made the robot revolution a central pillar of his election campaign for the 2020 race. Yang is the founder of Venture for America, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs create jobs, and he was previously the CEO of education firm Manhattan Prep. A Democrat, he…
[ad_1] The rumour mill has been abuzz for weeks that Apple was planning to enter the magazine distribution business with its own curated subscription service. Now a report claims the company is talking to some of the biggest newspapers in the US about adding their stories to Texture – the magazine app Apple acquired in…
[ad_1] Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma shared an important lesson in leadership when he decided to step down as chairman of Alibaba, the e-commerce company he created. The tech titan revealed Monday that he has started the process of “passing the Alibaba torch” to current chief executive officer Daniel Zhang, who is due to take over…
[ad_1] Dear Alibaba customers, Aliren, and shareholders, Today, as we mark the 19th anniversary of Alibaba, I am excited to share some news with you:with the approval of our board of directors, one year from today on September 10, 2019 which also falls on Alibaba’s 20th anniversary, Group CEO Daniel Zhang will succeed me as…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images Leslie ‘Les’ Moonves, president and chief executive officer of CBS Corporation, attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 11, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS CEO Leslie Moonves is leaving his post following numerous allegations of sexual misconduct that spanned much of his career, the company…
[ad_1] Marty Schwartz says he has “one lazy student” to thank for his online music career. Schwartz, who teaches guitar in San Diego, said that in 2005 that student came in for a lesson and for a third straight week couldn’t play the tune he was supposed to be learning. “I flipped open the camera…
[ad_1] An Alaska company says changing ice conditions in the North Slope area have allowed it to make a bulk fuel delivery to Prudhoe Bay by barge for the first time. KTUU-TV reported Thursday that Colville Inc. says that the single trip carried 8 million litres of fuel. The fuel took 70 hours to unload before it…
[ad_1] Contrary to previous reports, Alibaba‘s Jack Ma may not done with the company he founded just yet. On Sunday, The South China Morning Post quoted an Alibaba spokesman saying that a published report by The New York Times declaring that Ma planned to retire was factually inaccurate, and taken out of context. The Times…
[ad_1] There’s an inherent upside to the plug-in electric life: you get the ability to operate an alternative-fuel vehicle without range anxiety. When your 47 miles are up and the battery is flat, you can still cruise for hundreds of miles without having to stop. And since it then functions similarly to a conventional hybrid,…
[ad_1] Xiaomi made the biggest headline this week, with the launch of the Redmi 6 series in India. The company brought three smartphones to the country, the Redmi 6, Redmi 6 Pro, and Redmi 6A. The smartphones will be made available to buy in that order as well – the Redmi 6 goes on sale…
[ad_1] The new Apple iPhone looks set to be revealed later this week (Image: APPLE) There’s just a few more days to go until Apple reveals the next chapter in the life of its iconic iPhone. This refreshed and rebooted device looks set to be revealed at a major event on September 12 with Apple…
[ad_1] Microsoft views Amazon’s entry into new business areas as a great opportunity to steal cloud customers. During an appearance at Citi’s Global Technology Conference in New York on Thursday, Judson Althoff, the executive vice president heading up Microsoft’s worldwide commercial business group, pointed to trust as one reason that Microsoft’s public cloud is growing…
[ad_1] Sky has just announced another money-saving offer and this could be one of their best and biggest to date. The new deal has been released on Sky’s website with it giving customers the chance to grab a full sports and entertainment package plus Broadband Unlimited for just £53 per month. That’s a saving of…
[ad_1] Google Pixel 3 (Image: GETTY • GOOGLE) Google Pixel 3 is one of the most highly-anticipated Android flagships of the year. That is because the device is expected to build upon everything the Pixel 2 did well whilst also addressing areas that were criticised. Google recently sent out invitations to a hardware event on October…
[ad_1] Xiaomi made the biggest headline this week, with the launch of the Redmi 6 series in India. The company brought three smartphones to the country, the Redmi 6, Redmi 6 Pro, and Redmi 6A. The smartphones will be made available to buy in that order as well – the Redmi 6 goes on sale…
[ad_1] Huawei P20 Pro vs Mate 20 Pro (Image: HUAWEI) Huawei P20 Pro took the smartphone market by storm when it launched; the device touted an incredibly distinct Twilight colour that was hugely popular with fans and packed top-of-the-line specs. The device boasted a 6.1-inch AMOLED panel and was powered by a Hisilicon Kirin 970…
[ad_1] MotoGP 2018 continues today with the latest instalment of an explosive season so far about to take place at the Misano Grand Prix. Last time out the MotoGP was a washout with the race called off on safety grounds following heavy rain at the iconic circuit. The race cancellation means Marc Marquez still leads…
[ad_1] Apple iOS 12 update will arrive later this month (Image: APPLE) All eyes will be on Cupertino next week with Apple holding a major launch event on Wednesday, September 12. This major keynote is expected to reveal plenty of upgraded devices including updated iPhones, new Apple Watch and a refresh to the popular iPad…
[ad_1] Apple’s new iPad is expected to be announced later this year; the company has announced a hardware event for September 12 that is presumed to showcase the future of its iPhone and Apple Watch line. It is also likely its AirPower accessory will be displayed at its Cupertino campus on the same day. But…
[ad_1] Dyson V10 review FOR – Incredible power without a cord • Easy to use • Bigger chamber means less emptying • Plenty of attachments help clean your home AGAINST – No changeable battery • Design means it doesn’t stand up • Expensive Dyson has been busting the dust for over 25 years and now it wants to make this…
[ad_1] Google Maps is the tech giant’s solution to navigation and is available on smartphones and desktops. The application is renowned for its ease of use and wide array of functionality. Google regularly issues Maps with updates that range from dramatic overhauls to more subtle modifications. The tech giant recently changed how its users viewed…
[ad_1] Chrome users received a major update last week with the popular Google browser getting a new look and a swathe of new features. The upgraded design, which is available now, offers a more curvaceous appearance which is aimed at making the browser more simple to use. Along with this refreshed appearance, there’s also new…
[ad_1] The CEO and chairman of Riot BlockChain has resigned in the wake of unrelated charges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against him for alleged fraud in connection with other companies. John O’Rourke who has been the company’s CEO since November 3, has been replaced by Chris Ensey and the new chairman…
[ad_1] The U.S. should not see a proposed European levy on internet giants as an attack against the country, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told CNBC on Saturday — but took the opportunity to chide America on its trade war. A European Commission proposal would impose a 3 percent tax on big companies like…
[ad_1] To get to their next trillion dollars, Apple and Amazon are realizing that they can’t ignore opportunities in the health sector. But to get that right, they need to focus on the things they’re good at. Amazon is focusing on its area of expertise: the supply chain. The company bought PillPack, an internet pharmacy,…
[ad_1] Engineers will deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. The 600-metre-long floating boom will be towed Saturday from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island…
[ad_1] Source: Unsplash for Verasity Blockchain-based media companies like Verasity are compensating users, creators and advertisers with cryptocurrency. The Internet is increasingly popular for users looking for free and convenient content. However, major downsides like demonetization, data privacy and fraudulent activity have shaken both consumers and content providers. Now, a growing number of companies are creating…
[ad_1] Complicating matters more so, tech employees throughout the left-leaning Silicon Valley have moved from apathy to activism in the past few years. In recent months thousands of tech workers from top companies, including Google, Salesforce, Amazon and Microsoft, have led large-scale internal rebellions against their employers over contracts with the government. Employee outrage has…
[ad_1] When Merrin Peterson started her master’s degree in physics at Université de Montréal last year, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d discover a brand new exoplanet in such a short time. “It was very thrilling,” she said. “My supervisor likes to call it my planet, because I wrote the paper and I did the most work…
[ad_1] Consumers routinely pay hundreds of dollars (or $1000 at the top end) for smartphones with increasingly advanced photo capabilities. So is $48,000 for a digital camera asking too much? Sweden-based Hasselblad, the maker of luxury cameras that easily cost four figures, doesn’t believe so. The latest iteration of its multi-shot camera, called the H6D-400c…
[ad_1] Tor Browser has now debuted on Android and is available in alpha through Google Play. The fresh development comes a long time after The Tor Project brought its proxy app Orbot and the standalone Orbot-powered Web browser Orfox. Unlike a traditional Web browser, Tor Browser by default blocks your identity while browsing the Web.…
[ad_1] As many as two dozen iOS apps have been spotted sending location history of users to data monetisation firms, according to a report by mobile VPN GuardianApp’s maker, Sudo Security Group. The list of apps that includes titles such as ASKfm, Classifieds 2.0 Marketplace, Homes.com, and Tapatalk are claimed to collect data points such…
[ad_1] A year after the population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales suffered devastating losses, Canadian officials say measures taken this season to protect the species have worked. With the summer fishing season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence drawing to a close, the federal Fisheries Department confirmed Friday that not one whale has…
[ad_1] The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now twice the size of Texas and contains 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup is an ambitious non-profit committed to removing it, and on Saturday it launches its first system out to sea from the San Francisco Bay. Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat…
[ad_1] American video-sharing website YouTube has acquired the award-winning documentary on the work of Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi and will bring the Indian activist’s sustained efforts to end child labour to a global audience. The Price of Free, directed by Derek Doneen and produced by American film and television personality Davis Guggenheim, follows Satyarthi and…
[ad_1] Jon McNeill, president of global sales and service, left in February after 2 years. McNeill moved to ride-hailing company Lyft where he’s served as chief operating officer since February. Eric Branderiz, chief accounting officer, left in March after a year and a half, citing only “personal reasons.” He is now the chief financial officer…
[ad_1] Fortnite for Android has surpassed the milestone of 15 million installs less than a month after its formal release, according to developer Epic Games. The battle royale game that is currently in an invite-only stage is also claimed to have managed to attract more than 23 million players on Android platform. The team at…
[ad_1] An abundance of squishy, transparent sea creatures is delighting both terrestrial residents and marine visitors to Brier Island, N.S., these days. Salps — invertebrate animals that move, breathe and eat by pumping water through their plastic-bag-like bodies — have been appearing en masse in the water and on the beach for the past few…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is used by an estimated 1.5billion people – it is widely-considered to be the most popular messaging service in the world. The client is renowned for its simple interface and easy-to-use functionality. And the Facebook-owned company regularly issues updates that add a ton of new features. The most recent addition to WhatsApp changes…
[ad_1] We’re now just days away from finding out what’s in store for the next generation of iPhone devices. Apple will reveal all during a major keynote event at its Cupertino headquarters in California on September 12. Although not confirmed, it seems three new iPhones could be unveiled with faster speeds, better cameras and long-lasting…
[ad_1] Apple has pulled Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store. The app, which was the top paid utility app on the App Store and was designed to “prevent malware and malicious files from infecting” Mac devices, was spotted sending user data to a server in China without explicitly gaining consent from users. Security researchers…
[ad_1] Apple Watch Series 4 is highly anticipated from fans and will surely refine everything its predecessors achieved while also offering its own unique features. While Apple’s forthcoming showcase is expected to focus on iPhone first and foremost, many have predicted the new wearable will also make an appearance. With that said, if the trillion-dollar…
[ad_1] Apple is predicted by many to lift the lid on three new iPhone models this year. The first is presumed to be a direct successor to the current iPhone X that will retain the same 5.8-inch screen size that has become hugely popular with fans. But the hardware is expected to severely upgrade its…
[ad_1] Kuo has also reportedly said that Apple will include up to 512GB of storage in the iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max — twice what any current iPhone offers — stainless steel frames, Apple’s new A12 processor, dual 12-megapixel cameras for portrait pictures and three color options (black, white and gold). The iPhone Xs…
[ad_1] If your ageing MacBook is desperate need of being replaced now is a good time to upgrade. Apple recently announced a big refresh to its MacBook Pro range with these latest laptops offering more power, an improved keyboard and True Tone display. Express.co.uk recently reviewed the all-new MacBook Pro saying: “We’re huge fans of…
[ad_1] Microsoft has sent out invites for an event that is scheduled for October 2. The event, which is taking place in New York, is expected to be the place where the company’s new Surface devices are likely to debut. The Redmond company could upgrade its existing Surface notebooks by launching newer versions of the…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6 is widely regarded as one of the best mid-range smartphones money can buy. This device was launched earlier this year with it featuring a 6.3-inch edge-to-edge display, dual-lens camera and all-glass design. There’s also a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor tucked under the hood and up to 8GB of RAM. Although…
[ad_1] Android Pie was only released last month but already fans of the Google mobile OS are finding out about what could be coming with its successor. Android 9 brought with it digital wellbeing features, better notifications and a promise to extend battery life for devices. It became available to download for Google Pixel devices…
[ad_1] Apple said on Friday that it had banned from its App Store the Infowars app belonging to popular US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after finding that it had violated the company’s rules against “objectionable content”. The move makes Apple the latest tech company or social media platform to take action against Jones, a deeply…
[ad_1] Apple is widely expected to unveil a direct successor to the current iPhone X that could be called the iPhone Xs at its forthcoming event on September 12. The device is presumed to boast the same 5.8-inch OLED display present in the company’s current flagship. However, it will surely come with revamped internals and…
[ad_1] A “wide range” of Apple products including the Apple Watch would be affected by proposed US tariffs on Chinese goods, the company told US trade officials, but gave no sign of an impact on its iPhone cash cow. Apple did not disclose specific revenues for most of the affected products, but of those the…
[ad_1] Google Pixel 3 is one of the most highly-anticipated smartphones of the year. The device is expected to build upon everything its predecessors were praised for while also addressing fan concerns. The Pixel 2 XL in particular was criticised for producing a blue tint on its OLED display when looked at from certain angles.…
[ad_1] Photos It was way out of its element, but by the end, everyone was rooting for the black bear that wandered into Ottawa’s ByWard Market Thursday. CBC News · Posted: Sep 06, 2018 11:58 AM ET | Last Updated: September 6 It was way out of its element, but by the end of its…
[ad_1] The Canadian government is under the spotlight for its handling of B.C.’s endangered southern resident killer whales, but the federal minister responsible for oceans says environmentalists are missing the big picture when it comes to protecting the species. Six conservation groups filed a lawsuit in Federal Court on Wednesday, arguing the government should have…
[ad_1] The Insurance Corporation of B.C. (ICBC) — the province’s main auto insurance provider — is wading through some 2,500 insurance claims after two transport trucks leaving the Teck lead smelter leaked sulphuric acid earlier this year on the main highway through Trail, B.C. Among the dozens of reported writeoffs are the City of Trail’s year-old fire truck and and…
[ad_1] Scientists say an emaciated and endangered killer whale that’s been swimming in waters off the West Coast has parasitic worms. Michael Milstein of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in an email that biologists are standing by to deliver a dart with deworming medication to J50. The young orca is part of a group that…
[ad_1] Verizon’s head of media and advertising Tim Armstrong is in talks to leave the company, sources tell CNBC. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news Friday morning, citing people close to the situation. Armstrong came to Verizon in 2015 to help try to combine the company’s acquisitions of AOL and Yahoo into a…
[ad_1] Amazon has poached Project Runway’s Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn for a new fashion show, according to several news outlets including The Hollywood Reporter. The two Project Runway stars have been connected to the show for all of the series’ 16 seasons, the Hollywood Reporter said, and will help create an “untitled global fashion…
[ad_1] Apple‘s brand power can help the technology giant cope with some of the pain of the trade war, D.A. Davidson senior research analyst Tom Forte told CNBC on Friday. “To the extent that the tariffs increase the price of their products to consumers … I would argue they could offset that to the extent…
[ad_1] In an exclusive interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Houzz co-founder and CEO Adi Tatarko said that the trends her company’s market research department have been tracking in the space were “actually unbelievable.” On the homeowners’ side, “the level of consumer confidence is at a high since 2000, so everybody’s expecting this year to continue…
[ad_1] Tesla announced that chief accounting officer Dave Morton was leaving the company after less than a month on Friday. Now CNBC has learned from several people familiar that Morton is becoming chief financial officer at Anaplan, a business software company that wants to go public. The company sent an e-mail announcing its new hire…
[ad_1] Alibaba started as an online marketplace for businesses to sell their products to other businesses. But it did not take off until it began the Taobao marketplace in 2003, which merchants used to sell goods directly to consumers. Alibaba later rolled out Alipay, an online payment service, to facilitate transactions in a country where…
[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk‘s personal saga is “ugly and uncomfortable” and could scare away even loyal investors, Tesla bear Nancy Tengler told CNBC on Friday. “Look, you’ve got executives leaving, he doesn’t have a lot of backup, there’s not a succession plan. He’s super busy and exhausted, but he has time to do this…
[ad_1] The U.S. Air Force has begun looking into Elon Musk apparently smoking weed on a podcast, a source at the military branch told CNBC on Friday. Musk’s SpaceX provides services for the Air Force, with multiple high-value contracts. Marijuana use is prohibited for someone with a government security clearance, Fox Business reported, and is…
[ad_1] Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images US electric car maker Tesla Vice President Jerome Guillen poses at the Paris Auto Show on the last press day on October 3, 2014. The Paris Auto show opens to the public on Saturday. Tesla announced Friday that Jerome Guillen has been promoted to president of its…
[ad_1] Piper Jaffray is optimistic over Apple’s upcoming lineup of iPhones. The firm reiterated its overweight rating for Apple shares, predicting the smartphone maker will sell more iPhones in its next fiscal year than the Street currently expects. Apple is widely-expected to announce new iPhones of varying sizes on Sept. 12. A broader spectrum of…
[ad_1] Zach Gibson | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump, right, speaks as Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., listens during the American Technology Council roundtable hosted at the White House in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump’s proposed China tariff list covers a wide range of Apple products, the tech giant said…
[ad_1] Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, Inc. Goldman Sachs raised its price target on Apple stock all the way to $240 per share from $200 per share on Thursday, admitting they got the stock completely wrong this summer as it rallied to a $1 trillion valuation.…
[ad_1] While the Adidas Futurecraft 4D shoes are cool looking sneakers, the story behind those shoes is even more interesting. The sportswear company has partnered with Carbon to design a new kind of sneakers. Behind the Futurecraft 4D, you can find a process that is not that new — 3D printing. Many companies promised an…
[ad_1] Sponsorships and media rights still promise revenue for esports amid concerns that Riot Games is cutting its “League of Legends” budget, says Steve Arhancet, co-CEO and owner of Team Liquid, a top esports team. “We kind of see the ecosystem where there’s substantial revenue still being earned within the space,” Arhancet said Thursday on…
[ad_1] Tesla‘s now former chief accounting officer Dave Morton quit the company after concluding CEO Elon Musk wasn’t interested in accounting details around a potential take-private transaction, according to a person familiar with the matter who has spoken to Morton in recent days. Morton resigned September 4, according to a company filing released on Friday.…
[ad_1] Robert Chapman believes Tesla shares are extremely overvalued and will drop precipitously. Chapman downplayed concerns over CEO Elon Musk’s erratic behavior, instead focused on the carmaker’s financials for his bearish view. “I actually don’t think you should short it on his [Musk] judgement. I think he is a fascinating businessman, probably the most incredible…
[ad_1] “It will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman cognition,” Musk said. “Anyone who wants.” Rogan asked how much different these cyborg humans would be than regular humans, and how radically improved they might be. “How much smarter are you with a phone or computer or without? You’re vastly smarter, actually,” Musk said. “You…
[ad_1] Tesla’s skeptics have called into question the state of the company’s financial position. It lost nearly $2 billion last year, and through the first two quarters this year it has burned through about $1.8 billion in cash after capital investments. The company had $2.2 billion in cash at the end of the June quarter.…
[ad_1] Elon Musk’s public marijuana consumption could be a hit to his professional career. The Tesla CEO appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on Thursday night, where he discussed a wide range of topics including his tweeting behavior, his Boring Company’s flamethrowers, and “neuralink” devices that could connect brains to computers. He also sipped…
[ad_1] In a new development, the popular PlayerUnknown’s Battleground (PUBG) mobile game has managed to achieve three million players in the United States. According to the latest data from analytics platform App Ape, the PUBG Mobile game has crossed the three million mark in US, with majority of its downloads coming from Android. This comes…
[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk‘s marijuana “stunt” during a live interview was ill-advised and casts serious doubts about his ability to run the electric automaker, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. “[This is] the behavior of a man who should not be running a public company,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” Late Thursday night,…
[ad_1] Spider-Man is out now for the PS4. For many it will probably be their first experience of playing a superhero game on current generation consoles since the Batman Arkham series. And though the Spider-Man games have existed on every platform since the Atari 2600 — developed by companies such as Call of Duty hitmaker…
[ad_1] Social stocks have been rocked this week after Facebook and Twitter execs got a grilling from Congress, sparking worries over increased regulation. Over the past week, Snap and Facebook have fallen by 7 percent, and Twitter by 11 percent. One of those stocks could be setting up for its second act, said Boris Schlossberg,…
[ad_1] The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Tim Armstrong is in talks to leave Verizon as soon as next month. Armstrong heads up the carrier giant’s digital and advertising division, Oath (formerly AOL, prior to the Yahoo acquisition and the subsequent merger of the two units). Oath also happens to be TechCrunch’s parent, of…
[ad_1] Blog Compass is listed as open beta on Google Play with a file size of 5.1MB Google on Friday announced the release of its latest Android app in India, Blog Compass. This new app aims to provide a one-stop shop for bloggers in the country, meant to help them track visitor information, engage readers,…
[ad_1] Shares of Tesla plunged more than 9 percent Friday after news of a pair of C-suite executive resignations and a bizarre video showing CEO Elon Musk smoking pot on a podcast, capping a tumultuous month since Musk launched the company into controversy with a take-private tweet. The stock opened Friday’s session at $260.10 before…
[ad_1] Google Play version 11.6.15 was found to contain a few lines of code that tip a forthcoming loyalty programme or rewards programme called Play Points. This is designed to bring points that can be used to purchase some special in-app items or simply Google Play credit. The latest move is apparently a part of…
[ad_1] Tesla‘s HR boss Gaby Toledano will not return from the leave of absence she took last month, Bloomberg reports. Toledano would be the second high-level executive to resign from the company this week. Chief accounting officer Dave Morton announced in a filing Friday that he had left the company this past Tuesday after only…
[ad_1] Microsoft seems to have realised that its twice-per-year update cadence has been an issue for businesses. The company has now announced that it will be extending the support cycle for enterprises running Office, Windows 7, and Windows 10 to help them “shift to a modern desktop.” Meanwhile, Microsoft is also stepping up its Windows…
[ad_1] Tesla‘s chief accounting officer, Dave Morton, resigned from the company after just a month on the job, the company said in an 8K filing. Morton said he resigned because of “the level of public attention placed on the company.” “Since I joined Tesla on August 6, the level of public attention placed on the…
[ad_1] TP-Link, a popular networking product manufacturer, has launched its new Archer C5400X gaming router. The C5400X MU-MIMO Tri-Band Gaming Router is claimed to be designed to deliver strong and reliable Wi-Fi for heavy-bandwidth gaming and 4K video streaming, and it also comes with support for Amazon Alexa. Equipped with TP-Link HomeCare, the Archer C5400X…
[ad_1] Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters A booth of Micron Technology at an industrial fair in Frankfurt, Germany. The recent dip in Micron’s stock is a great buying opportunity, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm reiterated its buy rating for Micron shares, predicting strong financial results for the memory chipmaker. On Thursday Micron…
[ad_1] On a gently rolling sea outside historic Lunenburg harbour in Nova Scotia, what looks like a fancy butterfly net is skimming the ocean surface. Researchers on board a Boston Whaler are collecting tiny pieces of plastic smaller than a grain of rice. “Almost every sieve, we find plastic,” says Ariel Smith, project co-ordinator with the Bluenose…
[ad_1] Instagram has built ‘A Parent’s Guide’, which it calls a new resource focusing on privacy, interactions and time management for parents who have teenage children using the platform. “We’ve included the basics of our app and description of our tools, plus a discussion guide for how parents and guardians can have an open conversation…
[ad_1] Huawei P20 Pro has been very well received since it arrived on the smartphone market. In fact, the Chinese tech giant recently declared both it and the regular P20 have sold over 10million units combined. In a statement, the company said: “Huawei today announced that it has sold 10 million units of Huawei P20…
[ad_1] Amazon stock has been on a tear this year, briefly hitting a $1 trillion market cap on Tuesday, Sept. 4. It became the second U.S. company to do so, behind Apple. Amazon was valued at $955.1 billion as of market close on Thursday. That makes it worth more than 21 other major retailers, combined…
[ad_1] One97 Communications, that owns the brand Paytm, India’s largest digital payments company has announced its partnership with Visa, to enable Visa credit card payments across banks on the Paytm App. The platform has also integrated BHIM UPI as a source of pulling funds for the customer to pay for credit card bill payments thereby…
[ad_1] “Is that a joint? Or is it a cigar?” Musk asked Rogan before being told it was a cigarette containing marijuana, which is legal in California, and tobacco. Asked whether he had tried it before, the entrepreneur said: “Yeah, I think I tried one once.” “You probably can’t because of stockholders,” Rogan said, to…
[ad_1] The Toronto International Film Festival launched on Thursday with a Netflix production – the first time any major movie showcase has opened on a release not intended for theatres. Cannes, the world’s largest film festival, issued a decree earlier this year banning movies from competition that do not have a theatrical release in France.…
[ad_1] Technology giant Tencent is teaming up with Chinese start-up Luckin Coffee to take on China’s growing coffee-drinking market, the South China Morning Post reported. China’s local market for coffee products is worth about 100 billion yuan ($14.62 billion), with instant coffee accounting for 72 percent and freshly brewed coffee making up 18 percent, according…
[ad_1] It’s no surprise that PUBG Mobile is one of the most popular games on Android and iOS in India right now. To capitalise on this, PUBG Mobile publisher Tencent has announced India’s first official PUBG Mobile tournament called the PUBG Mobile Campus Championship 2018. Tencent will be partnering with smartphone brand Oppo to discover…
[ad_1] If politicians were better at science, tech companies could probably innovate better, according to Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO appeared on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast called “The Joe Rogan Experience” late Thursday where he spoke on a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence (AI). “You know, I wish politicians were better at science.…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Business Insider Twitter’s new Web redesign brings a Bookmarks tab Twitter is looking to redesign its Web interface, and has started testing out the new design with a few users. The new interface brings the ability to bookmark pages, a new data-saver mode has been added, and a night mode toggle has…
[ad_1] Samsung’s all-new Galaxy Watch is finally going on sale today with the device offering a new look and plenty of extra features. This latest wearable arrives in two sizes including 42 and 46mm models and there’s three colour options to choose from. All of the Galaxy Watch styles feature improved fitness tracking, more power…
[ad_1] At Google IO 2018, the search giant had announced a Digital Wellbeing initiative to help users understand their digital habits and curb device addiction. This Digital Wellbeing app was launched last month, and is currently available in Beta Preview and can only be used by Pixel smartphone owners. Meanwhile, Google has updated Digital Wellbeing…
[ad_1] With less than a week until Apple’s big keynote, the new iPhone rumours are coming thick and fast. Although nothing has yet been confirmed, all signs point to a trio of new smartphones being unveiled at the Apple Park HQ on Wednesday, September 12. Invites were recently sent out to media showing a gold…
[ad_1] After becoming infamous for helping the controversial British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica harvest tens of millions of Facebook users’ profiles, a psychology researcher with the social networking giant has left the company, the media reported. A Facebook spokesperson declined to explain when or why the researcher, Joseph Chancellor, had left the company, or…
[ad_1] Amazon has seen huge success with its popular Fire tablets and that’s probably no surprise considering they offer good performance and decent features at a relatively low price. Now there’s another handheld device arriving from the online retail giant with the launch of the all-new Fire HD 8. From a quick glance, there’s not…
[ad_1] Friends had warned Yasmine Mustafa about the dangers of touring South America solo. She came home with a notepad full of scary traveller tales and the seeds of a safety invention. Meet “Athena” – a one-press button that summons help when danger looms, part of a growing market in portable, panic-attack devices tailored for…
[ad_1] After months of rumours, endless leaks and plenty of speculation we finally know when Google will unveil its new Pixel 3 smartphone. The US technology giant has just sent out invites to media with an event scheduled for Tuesday, October 9. Although there’s no mention of the Pixel 3 on the message, this is…
[ad_1] Google Podcasts made its official debut back in June this year coupled with certain AI-based recommendations. Now, the company’s second attempt at an experimental podcast curation app, Google Shortwave was spotted late last month. A report has since surfaced that gives us the first look at the details of Google Shortwave, which is a…
[ad_1] A Parks Canada archaeology team is boating towards the graves of the Franklin expedition ships, more than 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, hoping to uncover more secrets from the ill-fated mission. Parks Canada’s team of nine underwater archeologists will arrive on site by Friday and spend the next two weeks exploring the…
[ad_1] The US government on Thursday charged and sanctioned a North Korean man in the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack and the 2014 cyberassault on Sony Corp, US officials said. The charges, part of a strategy by the US government to deter future cyber-attacks by naming and shaming the alleged perpetrators, also alleged that the North Korean hacker…
[ad_1] The first Canadian astronaut set to head to the International Space Station since Chris Hadfield is in the final stretch. If all goes as planned, on Dec. 20, David Saint-Jacques, along with NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, will be on the way to the ISS as Expedition Crew 58/59. The three-person crew…
[ad_1] The EU on Thursday approved US tech giant Apple’s plan to buy leading song-recognition app Shazam, saying the move would not reduce choice for music streaming consumers. The bloc launched a detailed probe into the deal with London-based Shazam, worth a reported $400 million (roughly Rs. 2,800 crores), in April, at the request of…
[ad_1] Twitter is permanently banning right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars show for abusive behaviour. Twitter says Jones won’t be able to create new accounts on Twitter or take over any existing ones. Twitter says Jones posted a video on Wednesday that is in violation of the company’s policy against “abusive behaviour.” The video…
[ad_1] Apple plans to create an online tool for police to formally request data about its users and to assemble a team to train police about what data can and cannot be obtained from the iPhone maker, according to a company letter seen by Reuters. The letter, dated September 4, was from Apple General Counsel…
[ad_1] Players are often seen wearing Beats headphones as they warm up, while hip-hop and basketball are increasingly linked. “Basketball, music, and style speak as one voice: Julius Erving became a style icon, Allen Iverson cemented hip hop’s place on and off the court and LeBron James is breaking new music every day,” said Luke…
[ad_1] Searching for a job can be nerve-racking at any age, especially if you are an older job seeker and over 50. But if you share the same skills as a younger candidate, there should be no difference between what their experience and your well-seasoned career can bring to an organization. But unfortunately, ageism is…
[ad_1] Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California on Monday, June 4, 2018. Apple is free to complete its purchase of music identification app Shazam, EU regulators said Thursday, in a boost for Apple’s…
[ad_1] Netflix can expect strong growth ahead, fueled by happy customers and content dominance, according to Jay Hoag, venture capitalist and Netflix board member. “The wealth of content, the breadth of content, it’s just — you’d have to quit your job to watch all that’s on Netflix,” Hoag said on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.” While a…
[ad_1] Knowing what’s going on in your warehouses and facilities is of course critical to many industries, but regular inspections take time, money, and personnel. Why not use drones? Vtrus uses computer vision to let a compact drone not just safely navigate indoor environments but create detailed 3D maps of them for inspectors and workers…
[ad_1] Apple, which is expected to unveil the latest generation of iPhone on Sept. 12, has gradually increased the price of its phones as sales volumes plateau, introducing new, high-end technologies to draw from its loyal user base. The 41.3 million iPhones shipped during the third quarter was practically unchanged from the year-ago period, but…
[ad_1] Facebook shares have taken a massive hit recently, and one technical analyst is betting on more trouble ahead. Shares of the social media company fell nearly 3 percent on Thursday, bringing its quarter-to-date losses to a whopping 16 percent; that places Facebook on track for its largest quarterly loss since 2012, when it lost…
[ad_1] Unbound founders Polly Rodriguez and Sarah Jayne Kinney have long and varied careers. Rodriguez worked for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill on Capitol Hill before heading to Deloitte Consulting and dating startup Grouper. Kinney was a graduate of University of Cincinnati worked at Puma and then at Esquire and O, Oprah’s magazine. She worked shooting products…
[ad_1] The professional football season officially kicks off Thursday, and with it comes debate about head injuries. One company that’s trying to make a difference is Seattle startup Vicis. Vicis makes helmets that it says reduce the severity of head impacts. The Vicis Zero1 helmet’s outer shell acts like a car bumper because it flexes…
[ad_1] Elon Musk isn’t the only Tesla executive with a start-up on the side. Tesla CTO Jeffrey B. Straubel, known as JB, recently registered Redwood Materials — his stealthy recycling venture — to do business in the state of Nevada, CNBC has learned from a filing. Redwood Materials’ chief financial officer, Andrew Stevenson, also posted…
[ad_1] Facebook is looking for a “head of business development & partnerships” for blockchain at its Silicon Valley headquarters. Qualifications include at least 15 years of dealmaking experience for someone who can “lead, grow and mentor a global team of experienced business development professionals.” It’s the company’s sixth — and most revealing — job post…
[ad_1] He noted that at any given time, a typical stock will have three types of shareholders: mutual funds, hedge funds and index funds. Mutual funds, which pool together and invest money from individual and institutional investors, tend to be “overweight” tech stocks, meaning that they own more tech-related holdings than are in their benchmark,…
[ad_1] Less than a day after its search function crashed, Amazon is experiencing outages across its systems that manage accounting for marketplace sellers. Multiple sellers told CNBC on Thursday that the back-end system for tracking orders and sales has been down since Wednesday afternoon. Although it’s still recording customer orders, sellers are unable to access…
[ad_1] Now valued at $5.6 billion, zero-fee stock trading app and cryptocurrency exchange Robinhood is starting preparations to go public. Just a year and a half ago, it was still largely under the radar. But then it raised a $110 million Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation in April 2017 and then just a…
[ad_1] Often mistakenly called “Ripple,” XRP has fared the worst of the top cryptocurrencies. It’s trading around 30 cents Thursday after climbing to $3.77 in January. Ripple is a fintech company that focuses on global payments, and holds the majority of XRP the cryptocurrency. XRP is a cryptocurrency, independent of the company, that can be…
[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alex Jones of Infowars, conducts a news conference outside a Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee hearing in Dirksen Building where Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, and Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, were testifying on the influence of foreign operations on social media on September 5, 2018. Twitter has permanently banned…
[ad_1] Okta stock jumped as high as 17 percent in extended trading after the company reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter of its 2019 fiscal year, which ended on July 31. The company will hold a conference call with analysts to discuss the results at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s how the company did:…
[ad_1] Think about the last piece of technology you bought that didn’t work as expected. What did you do? Return it? Give it away? Put it in a drawer with its sad digital cousins? Most likely the stakes accompanying your poor experience were low, and you simply chalked it up to the cost of being…
[ad_1] As a speaker I often find myself mumbling into a microphone with little thought about the sound system powering it. While most PAs are massive affairs requiring a soundboard operator and lots of wiring, I’ve also had to hoot into portable PAs, a practice I rarely relish. But who was I to judge the…
[ad_1] As our global economy increasingly comes to run on technology-enabled rails and every company becomes a tech company, demand for high-quality software engineers is at an all-time high. A recent study from Stripe and Harris Poll found that 61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer talent is a threat to the success…
[ad_1] Ether was the star cryptocurrency last year, way outperforming its predecessor bitcoin. But 2018 has been a different story. The world’s second largest digital asset is down 76 percent this year and can’t seem to catch a break. Investor patience is wearing thin — mainstream adoption isn’t here yet, folks can now short the…
[ad_1] Warehouse managers can glean suggestions from GreyOrange’s software about how to optimize everything within a facility, including how they may want to reallocate people and reorganize products ahead of a big holiday shopping season or sale, for example. Mithril Capital co-founder Ajay Royan, who is now a board member at GreyOrange, told CNBC: “This…
[ad_1] PagerDuty, the popular service that helps businesses monitor their tech stacks, manage incidents and alert engineers when things go sideways, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series D round at a valuation of $1.3 billion. With this, PagerDuty, which was founded in 2009, has now raised well over $170 million. The…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence in use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Shares of Twitter shed another 6 percent Thursday, adding to the stock’s 6 percent dip Wednesday, during CEO…
[ad_1] A 170 percent run-up this year has swept Advanced Micro Devices to the top of the tech sector and the broader S&P 500. One technician said AMD could be due for a breather, while another semi stock could soon rally. “AMD has had quite a run. I love it long term but I do…
[ad_1] Ellenbogen told CNBC that he knew the product well because he hears of so many companies, start-ups in particular, that use it as a key piece of their infrastructure. It’s part of a menu of providers that start-ups use to launch a company: They typically use Amazon Web Services for core infrastructure, add some…
[ad_1] Microsoft wants to make life easier for enterprise customers. Starting today, it is committing to fix any custom applications that may break as a result of updates to Windows 10 or the Office 365 product suite. Most large companies have a series of custom applications that play a crucial role inside their organizations. When…
[ad_1] Facebook is suing BlackBerry for patent infringement, escalating the legal battle between the two companies over protected technology. In a 118-page complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Facebook accused BlackBerry of stealing its voice messaging technology, among other patented processes. Facebook is seeking unspecified damages for infringement of six patents. BlackBerry didn’t immediately respond…
[ad_1] Political scandal and the backlash against major tech companies are an impending threat to American equities, the CEO of an asset management firm has warned, advising investors to short the U.S. market despite record highs. Gillaume Touze of Quadra Capital Partners does not hold the mainstream view on booming tech stocks, many of which…
[ad_1] In a move aimed at upping standards across biometric user verification systems, the industry consortium, Fido Alliance, has launched a certification program for biometrics systems. “The goal of the Biometric Certification Component Program is to provide a framework for the certification of biometric subsystems that can in turn be integrated into FIDO Certified authenticators,” it writes on…
[ad_1] Google Photos has received a design overhaul that brings Material Theme elements. The updated Google Photos (version 4.0) is rolling out for Android devices. In addition to revamped icons and Google Sans font that are part of the latest Material Theme, the new version brings more white space throughout the interface. The updated Google…
[ad_1] Morgan Stanley is doubling down on its pessimist view for semiconductor stocks, driving the whole sector lower Thursday. “Memory markets have worsened in recent weeks. For DRAM [memory chip], demand is weakening, inventory and pricing pressures are building, and vendors are struggling to move bits,” analyst Shawn Kim said in a note to clients…
[ad_1] The US Department of Justice and state attorneys general will meet this month to discuss concerns that social media platforms are “intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas,” the department said on Wednesday. Its statement did not name Facebook and Twitter, whose executives testified in Congress on Wednesday, but the firms have been harshly criticised by…
[ad_1] Snap continued to sink Thursday, falling below $10 for the first time and hitting an all-time low for the third straight day. Shares fell more than 2 percent in morning trading to $9.84. The dip puts Snap on pace for its seventh straight day of losses. It has already shed 9 percent this week.…
[ad_1] Mumbai-based m.Paani and Gurugram-based Aye Finance have been listed in 10 companies selected globally by Google for its flagship development acceleration programme “Launchpad Studio”. The “Launchpad Studio” programme brings top machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based startups from across the world and experts from Silicon Valley under the guidance of Google researchers, engineers,…
[ad_1] A group of Whole Foods employees are trying to unionize to address concerns they have over the culture and compensation since Amazon bought the grocery chain last year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Whole Foods reportedly stopped granting stock options to lower-level employees after Amazon’s acquisition last year. The group reportedly plans to…
[ad_1] AMD has taken the wraps off a new low-cost Athlon CPU for entry-level users. The new model, named AMD Athlon 200GE, features integrated AMD Radeon Vega graphics and slots in below the existing Ryzen 3 series. Although it has been given the legacy Athlon name, this new CPU is based on the same Zen…
[ad_1] Amazon announced a new version of the $80 Fire HD 8 tablet on Thursday. The new model offers many of the same hardware specs as last year’s model, which means you don’t need to upgrade if you already own one. Like the 2017 edition, the Fire HD 8 has an 8-inch 1280 x 800…
[ad_1] Dreamforce, Salesforce’s massive customer conference is coming later this month to San Francisco, but the news is starting already well ahead of the event. Today, the company announced updates to its core Sales Cloud with an emphasis toward automation and integration. For starters, the company wants to simplify inside phone sales, giving the team…
[ad_1] Apple late last month updated its official jobs portal with a new vacancy for a ‘Senior Systems Neuroscientist’ as part of the Cupertino giant’s Technology Development team situated in Santa Clara, California, United States. The job listing suggests that Apple is “looking for a neuroscientist who is passionate about the study of the brain…
[ad_1] Chinese gaming giant Tencent is set to bring about identification checks for one of its hugely popular mobile titles to limit the playtime of younger users, as it faces heightened pressure from domestic regulators. The firm said on its official WeChat account Thursday that it would launch a registration system for “Honor of Kings,”…
[ad_1] Nine shortlisted augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) start-ups under the India Innovation Hub Accelerator Programme of T-Hub and Facebook on Wednesday showcased their technologies. The three-month accelerator programme concluded with the Demo Day. The programme provided them an opportunity to work and scale up under the aegis of Facebook, with direct access…
[ad_1] Mirror is the brainchild of Brynn Putnam, a former professional ballerina and owner of a chain of boutique fitness studios in Manhattan. Putnam says the idea came to her because she was finding it increasingly difficult to find time to work out. “I had a child, and even though I was the owner of…
[ad_1] Lenovo launched an innovative ultraportable laptop a couple of years ago called the Yoga Book. It replaced the physical keyboard with a digitiser for taking notes, which doubled up as a touch keyboard when needed. While it did have a relatively reasonable price tag, the Intel Atom processor severely limited its ability to be…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies on Thursday said it would launch a taxi-hailing app for taxis operating in Nagoya, as the US firm tries to expand its foothold in a country where it has been blocked from offering its own ridesharing service. The US firm said it was working with Fuji Taxi Group, which has been operating for more…
[ad_1] Galaxy S10 is expected to follow tradition by being announced and released at the start of next year. And Samsung has been rumoured to be planning substantial upgrades for the hardware. A recent report from The Investor, that cited an “industry source”, emphasised the Galaxy S10 will come in three variants and will all…
[ad_1] Google released a new paper written by its own user-experience researchers that delves into the reasons why we can’t put down our phones – and starts to explore what companies can do about it. It also calls on the technology industry to reexamine the way it ties engagement to success, noting that capturing people’s…
[ad_1] Apple is widely-expected to unveil a series of new iPhone models at a hardware event on September 12. Three iPhone models have been rumoured for release this year; one is said to be a direct successor to the current iPhone X that could be called the iPhone XS. And the Cupertino-based firm could also…
[ad_1] After Chrome’s big tenth anniversary update, Mozilla has released Firefox version 62 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android users. Significant changes include a new dark theme for macOS Mojave users on dark mode, improved scrolling performance for Android users, and variable fonts for desktop users enabling the ability to create typography with a single…
[ad_1] Chrome is now 10 years old and to celebrate Google has pushed out a big new update. The major upgrade went live earlier today with one of the biggest changes arriving in the form of a refreshed look. This new design includes more rounded shapes, new icons and a new colour palette. Google says…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Thursday launched the Microsoft Indian Language Speech Corpus package that brings conversational and phrasal speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil, and Gujarati languages. Claimed to be the largest publicly available Indian language speech dataset, the data package also includes audio and corresponding transcripts. It is essentially aimed at helping researchers…
[ad_1] The smartphone wars continue to hot up with mobile operators desperately vying for your business. All of the big networks have announced major changes in recent weeks with EE even revealing earlier today that it is launching a new plan which allows customers to upgrade their phone for free whenever they like. Vodafone has…
[ad_1] Cab aggregator platform Olacabs this week announced the integration of Foodpanda in its mobile app. The integration introduces a Foodpanda logo with ‘Snacks’ label on the left-most part of the bottom tab on the Ola app, next to the Ola Share icon. Currently, we’re only seeing it on iPhone – with Android users yet…
[ad_1] If you want to better understand how an app or a service plans to use your personal information, its privacy policy is often a good place to start. But a recent study found there can be a gap between what’s described in that privacy policy, and what the app actually collects and shares. An…
[ad_1] The release date of The Elder Scrolls: Blades has seemingly slipped by nearly three months – it is now “expected” to be out on December 1, as per its App Store page – though Bethesda claims it’s not a delay. The publisher notes that the previous date – September 7 – was simply a…
[ad_1] A program to prevent the extinction of Atlantic salmon in the inner Bay of Fundy has helped maintain numbers in a few rivers but after 15 years, efforts to rebuild the stock have failed and non-native genes have mixed into the population, according to a federal report. The review by Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the near-total loss of…
[ad_1] Taxi-hailing company Uber on Wednesday claimed that its air taxi can cut travel time in a congested city like Mumbai by 90 percent. It had named Dallas and Los Angeles in the US as the first two cities for the commercial launch of its aerial taxi service by 2023 and has been on the…
[ad_1] Last Monday, Shelan Faith of Saskatoon received a letter from a stranger. Moments later she burst into tears. The author had never met Faith but had a surprising amount of information about her and her home — what she looked like, people who had rung her doorbell and what the inside of her child’s bedroom looked…
[ad_1] Lenovo ThinkPad E480 features a 14-inch display and up to eighth-generation Intel Core processors Lenovo has expanded its ThinkPad E range of notebooks in India by launching the ThinkPad E480. Targeted at small and medium businesses (SMBs) and startups, the new notebook model is powered by the eighth-generation Intel Core processor and come with…
[ad_1] According to Carmakal, a service like TOR is a useful tool for many users to bypass state censorship and crackdowns on the internet. With it, he said, they can communicate with the free world without any repercussions. The service is also used by journalists and law enforcement, he said. Still, the term dark web…
[ad_1] Uber is aiming to boost driver and passenger safety in an effort to rebuild trust in the brand. The ride-hailing company has created a feature on its app to reach out to passengers and drivers if it detects an accident or unplanned stop. Drivers will also have access to a hands-free feature to pick…
[ad_1] A warning is in effect in Banff National Park after a wolf approached campers in a busy campground. Parks Canada ecologist Jesse Whittington said the warning on the Bow Valley Parkway, which runs between Banff and Lake Louise, was issued this week because a collared wolf entered the Castle Mountain campground at night on…
[ad_1] YouTube for Android is now widely rolling out the anticipated Dark theme. The feature that is designed to reduce strain on the eyes while navigating the app and search new videos especially under low light was initially pushed to some Android users in late July. It also notably debuted on iOS in March months…
[ad_1] In October 2017, scientists announced the observation of a spectacular cosmic event: the merger of two extremely dense stars 130 million light-years away, the first ever to be seen. Now, using radio telescopes, scientists have discovered a narrow jet of particles from that event moving at nearly the speed of light, travelling through interstellar…
[ad_1] Along with taking a toll on the environment, disposable menstrual products and diapers take a toll on the wallet — creating a budgetary burden for those already struggling to make ends meet. Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough is looking to kill two birds with one stone by launching a two-year pilot project that could save families…
[ad_1] Wall Street expected Amazon shares to rise about 15 percent over the next year (as of Aug. 3, the day after Apple hit $1 trillion) — but it rose more than 10 percent in the past month, soaring past the milestone. Microsoft is a bit behind and will not likely surpass $1 trillion over…
[ad_1] [The stream is slated to start at 9:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Tech giants are appearing before Congress again Wednesday to address online election meddling and their efforts to fight abuse on social platforms. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump accused social networks of interfering in the 2016 presidential election and November’s midterm elections. Trump told online conservative publication The Daily Caller he thinks big tech firms “already have” intervened in the midterms, and said Facebook and Google intervened in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary…
[ad_1] Meanwhile, a small park on its campus is used to try out autonomous vehicles. During CNBC’s visit, staff tested a combination of vehicles, including passenger cars, 14-passenger buses and logistics vehicles that could eventually deliver packages. This week, Baidu announced it will work with BYD — China’s leading electric car maker, which is backed…
[ad_1] Sen. Richard Burr told CNBC on Wednesday the federal government and Big Tech need come together to thwart the kind of election meddling that plagued social media platforms during the 2016 presidential campaign. Yet he also noted the need to protect people’s First Amendment rights. “We’ve had a partnership over the last few months…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Thomas Kurian, Oracle’s president of product development, speats at Oracle’s 2013 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Thomas Kurian, one of the top executives at Oracle, is taking time away from the company for an unspecified period of time, the company has told CNBC. “He’s taking some…
[ad_1] Forethought, a 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant, has a modern vision for enterprise search that uses AI to surface the content that matters most in the context of work. Its first use case involves customer service, but it has a broader ambition to work across the enterprise. The startup takes a bit of an…
[ad_1] Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tom Reilly, chief executive officer of Cloudera Inc. Cloudera stock soared 10 percent in extended trading Wednesday after the company posted a smaller-than-expected loss for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2019. Here’s how the company did compared with Wall Street estimates: Earnings: loss of 8…
[ad_1] The company, which has raised more than $780 million in venture capital from Alphabet and many other backers, has gone back and forth over the years about offering more extensive genetic testing technology. In 2016, 23andMe dismissed its team of scientists working on next-generation sequencing. At that time, its CEO Anne Wojcicki told BuzzFeed…
[ad_1] MIRROR is the brainchild of Brynn Putnam, a former professional ballerina and the owner of a chain of boutique fitness studios in Manhattan. Putnam says the idea for MIRROR came to her because she was finding it increasingly difficult to find time to work out. “I had a child and even though I was…
[ad_1] McCarthyFinch sounds a bit like a law firm — and with good reason. The startup has developed an AI as a Service platform aimed at the legal profession. This week, it’s competing in the 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco. The company began life as a project at a leading New Zealand law…
[ad_1] Technology giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Google are using the wrong approach in policing their social platforms, cybersecurity expert Raj Goel told CNBC on Wednesday. “They’re still taking a technical approach to a social problem. In software, bugs are accepted. You have a bug, no big deal, we’ll fix it in the next…
[ad_1] Meet PoLTE, a Dallas-based startup that wants to make location-tracking more efficient. Thanks to PoLTE’s software solution, logistics and shipment companies can much more easily track packages and goods. The startup is participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF. If you want to use a connected device to track a package, you currently…
[ad_1] Meet Stealthy a new messaging app that leverages Blockstack’s decentralized application platform to build a messaging app. The company is participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF and launching its app on iOS and Android today. On the surface, Stealthy works like many messaging apps out there. But it gets interesting once you…
[ad_1] Google‘s absence at Wednesday’s Senate hearing shows big technology has become bigger than Washington, D.C., said Scott Galloway, professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “Why did Google not find time to send a senior executive to testify at the request of elected senators? One reason: 93. They have a 93 percent…
[ad_1] Billy H.C. Kwok | Bloomberg | Getty Images Richard Liu, founder and chief executive officer of JD.com. Shares of Chinese e-retailer JD.com plunged 11 percent on Wednesday, dropping for a second straight day, after CEO Richard Liu was arrested last week in Minneapolis after rape allegations. The Minneapolis police department said on Tuesday that…
[ad_1] AMD shares were up 3.7 percent Wednesday. The chipmaker is seen beating Intel to market with a more advanced chip. Intel has said its 10 nanometer chips will be released for holiday 2019, delayed from a plan to roll them out earlier. But AMD is expected to have its 7 nanometer next-generation server chips…
[ad_1] Rugged smartphones, the kind of devices that business can give to their employees who work in harsh environments, are a bit of a specialty market. Few consumers, after all, choose their smartphones based on how well they survive six-foot drops. But there is definitely a market there, and IDC currently expects that the market…
[ad_1] Leading Democratic Sen. Mark Warner on Wednesday sharply criticized Google’s absence from the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media’s role in protecting elections from misinformation and disinformation. Warner, who is the ranking Democrat on the committee, which has been conducting a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, said there was clear…
[ad_1] Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, has unveiled its IPO filing after confidentially submitting paperwork to the SEC in June. The company will be the latest in a line of enterprise SaaS businesses to hit the public markets in 2018. Headquartered in Mountain…
[ad_1] It’s been a volatile few months for Facebook shares, and one strategist says the stock is in a precarious position in the middle of an important week for the company. The social network’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about election-related manipulation on the platform ahead…
[ad_1] After two years operating in stealth, Mint .com founder Aaron Patzer’s new startup Vital Software is open for business. Patzer made the announcement Wednesday while on the Next Stage at Disrupt SF. Patzer’s company, which he co-founded with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University, is an enterprise software business that aims to make emergency…
[ad_1] Joan Cros Garcia | Corbis | Getty Images Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix Inc Pressure from a key technical indicator could be why Netflix shares are falling, according to a chart analyst. Netflix shares are down 4.2 percent Wednesday. Bespoke Investment Group told its clients Netflix’s inability to stay over an important…
[ad_1] Jason Redmond | Getty Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, tours the facility at the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, in Seattle, Washington on January 29, 2018. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ criticism of Amazon peaked Wednesday as he and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced legislation to tax corporations for every dollar that their…
[ad_1] Elastic, a software developer that helps companies embed search functions in their apps, is gearing up for an IPO, joining a crop of subscription software businesses to hit the public markets this year. The company said in its prospectus on Wednesday that it plans to debut on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker…
[ad_1] U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with state attorneys general to discuss concerns that tech companies “may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms,” the Department of Justice said in a statement Wednesday. The proposed meeting between the country’s top prosecutor and state officials lends legitimacy…
[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Facebook’s year of scandals is driving young users away from the platform, according to a Pew survey. Pew surveyed more than 3,400 U.S.…
[ad_1] InfoWars boss and far-right media personality Alex Jones ranted in the halls of Congress just before leading executives of social media giants began testimony Wednesday. The notorious conspiracy monger – who has argued that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were an “inside job” and that school shootings were staged – blasted lawmakers for…
[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Twitter shares dropped more than 6 percent Wednesday during CEO Jack Dorsey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on meddling in…
[ad_1] AnchorFree, a maker of a popular virtual private networking app, has raised $275 million in a new round of funding, the company announced Wednesday. The Redwood City, Calif.-based app maker’s flagship app Hotspot Shield ranks as one of the most popular VPN apps on the market. The app, based on a freemium model, allows users…
[ad_1] Bradshaw said that Trump’s comments turned attention away from some of the more hard-hitting issues surrounding big tech. These include the fear that social media platforms were manipulated by foreign actors to meddle in elections, the distribution of fake news and other misinformation, and the data-driven microtargeting of voters with political advertising. “Social media…
[ad_1] Food-ordering app Zomato has announced that it has acquired TongueStun, a Bangalore-based startup. TongueStun is the leader in the corporate cafeteria sector, and currently has its footprints in six cities – Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, and Gurgaon/Noida. The startup has a large pool of clientele, including IBM, Accenture, Ernst & Young, Sony, Genpact,…
[ad_1] While the committee wouldn’t accept Google’s counsel in lieu of Page or Pichai, Walker submitted testimony anyway and will be in Washington this week taking meetings and giving briefings, according to a Tuesday blog post. The testimony outlined Google’s new guidelines for political ad disclosures and states that Google continues to remove bad actors,…
[ad_1] Snapchat isn’t revealing sales numbers of version 2 of its Spectacles camera sunglasses, but at least they’re not getting left in a drawer as much as the V1s. The company tells me V2 owners are capturing 40 percent more Snaps than people with V1s. And today, Snapchat is launching two new black-rimmed hipster styles…
[ad_1] Google Maps for iOS has received an update, and it brings along two new features – a new Events section and a new elevation chart in directions. Google Maps version 4.57 for iOS includes a new ‘Events’ section in the Explore tab, showing all the events happening around your location. It also shows the…
[ad_1] Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the new Amazon Spheres opening event at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 29, 2018. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made his first major political donation. Bezos donated $10 million to the With Honor Fund, a nonpartisan super PAC that…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Twitter/ Henny Roggy Google Search may soon get this ‘Relevant History’ feature Google is reportedly testing a new feature in Search that shows results from a user’s personal browsing history. The tech giant is said to be working on a new section in mobile search results that shows sites that users have…
[ad_1] So tilted is the ship of stocks toward tech that the index keepers at Standard & Poor’s are about to rearrange the deck chairs to make it seem more balanced. A new communication services sector is being created to capture the old telecom group as well as Old Media and digital-media names including Alphabet,…
[ad_1] A long time after competing against Snapchat, Instagram is now said to be building a dedicated shopping app that may be called IG Shopping. The latest revelation comes amid the testing of a shopping feature on Instagram Stories that is aimed to expand shopping on the photo-sharing platform. Shopping is indeed one of the…
[ad_1] Invesco’s Kristina Hooper is confident September will build on August’s all-time stock market gains — even though it’s historically known as the year’s worst month for the major averages. However, that’s where the record run may end. According to Hooper on CNBC’s “Futures Now,” a correction could hit stocks as soon as next month.…
[ad_1] Wunder Mobility, the Hamburg-based startup that provides a range of mobility services, from carpooling to electric scooter rentals, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The round was led by KCK Group, with participation from previous backer Blumberg Capital and other non-disclosed investors. The German company says the investment will be used to…
[ad_1] Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing Technology Co said on Wednesday it will spend CNY 140 million ($20.5 million) to improve its customer service after the recent murder of a passenger by her Didi driver exposed safety issues at the firm. Didi founder Cheng Wei made the comments in a speech to government regulators who visited the…
[ad_1] Elon Musk has once again attacked a British man who helped rescue a boys’ soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, calling him a “child rapist”. The Tesla chief executive has launched a third attack on cave diver Vernon Unsworth, who called Musk’s idea to rescue the trapped boys and their coach…
[ad_1] The Galaxy Note 9 was announced at the start of August and touted a wealth of new features that make it the most capable device from Samsung around. In addition to touting a lush 6.4-inch display, the phone also comes packing a Snapdragon 845 or Exynos 9810 processor depending on the region. This is…
[ad_1] Google’s App Selfie feature in Arts & Culture app matches your face to a piece of art Art Selfie, the museum selfie match feature in Google’s Arts & Culture app, is now available globally. Google had added the museum selfie match feature to the Arts & Culture app back in January but the ‘Art…
[ad_1] Samsung announced its new Galaxy Watch last month with this device offering a refreshed design and a swathe of new features including a 7-day battery life. The Galaxy Watch officially goes on sale this Friday but a new report suggests it has some serious catching up to do if it wants to take on…
[ad_1] Ahead of the launch of new iPhones next week, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted that in-display fingerprint sensor technology would not be part of the devices anytime soon. In-display fingerprint scanner is an unlock and operation technology for smartphones with thin bezels and high screen-to-body ratios, incorporated by integrating biometric authentication into…
[ad_1] After being pulled up by the government to take concrete steps to stop the spread of misinformation and fake news on its platform, Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday said it has launched the second phase of its radio ad campaign in the country to create awareness and empower users. The first phase of the educational…
[ad_1] Google Chrome is widely-considered to be the most popular internet browser in the world. The client gives users a variety of functionality thanks to its vast array of extensions and its clever method of storing vital information such as passwords. And now Google has started to roll out the highly-anticipated redesign for Chrome that…
[ad_1] We’ve often felt that Lenovo is missing out on a huge market by not selling its professional ThinkPad laptops more widely in India and at more reasonable prices. While many models are available in retail, offices that buy in bulk get better prices and more choices when it comes to features and specifications. That…
[ad_1] Outlook was shown touting a brand new look back in September last year by Microsoft that promised to radically overhaul the app. But now users are able to access to the highly-anticipated upgrade with the click of switch. In a blog post detailing the new change, Microsoft insisted the new version of Outlook brings…
[ad_1] Hotmail accounts are a staple to modern life, supplying people with easy-to-use no-nonsense email accounts. Tech giants Microsoft are responsible for running the service and for creating similarly popular Microsoft Outlook. Combined, the two services are at 760million worldwide users, as Outlook.com is on 400 million and Hotmail 360 million. Microsoft has reworked both…
[ad_1] Skype allows you to save the recorded calls in MP4 format With a view to making things difficult for Google Duo and Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft has upgraded Skype by adding the eagerly anticipated call recording functionality. The new development is a part of the latest version of Skype and available on all supported platforms…
[ad_1] In commemoration of Chrome’s 10-year anniversary, Google has updated the browser with a new look, and has introduced many improvements. The revamp brings along a Material Theme and nifty features across platforms. It comes with more rounded shapes, new icons and a new light colour palette. The Chrome 69 build also brings better password…
[ad_1] Apple Watch Series 4 is widely-presumed to be announced at the American tech giant’s upcoming hardware event on September 12. The trillion-dollar company recently invited media outlets to the Steve Jobs Theatre in Cupertino where new iPhones are also expected to be shown off. Apple Watch Series 4 is expected to improve upon everything…
[ad_1] Apple has a major event planned for next Wednesday and it’s likely to be all about the iPhone. September always brings a refresh to this popular device and, with a keynote planned for September 12, it seems almost certain some updated call makers from the US technology firm are inbound. Although not confirmed it…
[ad_1] Amazon India on Tuesday surprised Indian customers by launching its shopping experience in Hindi on Mobile Web and the Android app. Apart from scoring a point over its rival Flipkart, the move will help the company reach the next 100 million customers in the country. Platforms such as OLX and Quickr enabled the Hindi…
[ad_1] Permafrost that’s thawing deep under some Arctic lakes is speeding up climate warming. That’s according to a recent study led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, published earlier this month in Nature Communications. Researchers looked at the “abrupt thaw” of permafrost beneath more than 300 thermokarst lakes in Alaska and Siberia over the last decade,…
[ad_1] Russia on Tuesday said it has officially warned US Internet giant Google against “meddling” in next Sunday’s local elections by hosting opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s videos calling for mass protests. Representatives of Russia’s electoral commission, the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the state Internet watchdog at a meeting alleged Navalny uses Google’s services to disseminate illegal…
[ad_1] A young, sickly killer whale that scientists have been fighting to save has been spotted alive, after being declared missing by researchers on Monday. The Center for Whale Research said that three-year-old orca known as J-50 and her group became separated from the main pod for two days, somewhere in the Strait of Juan de…
[ad_1] Biologists administered what they believe is a full dose of antibiotics to an emaciated killer whale in the waters off British Columbia on Tuesday. Michael Millstein, who is with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Portland, Ore., says the female southern resident killer whale known as J-50 was spotted Monday and researchers were able to…
[ad_1] Alex Karp grew up in a liberal household and considers himself a progressive. He voted for Hillary Clinton, and he lives and works in Silicon Valley. Yet Mr. Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, has found himself increasingly at odds with his peers in the technology industry as it publicly distances itself from the…
[ad_1] In an important move for inclusion in the gaming community, the Xbox Adaptive Controller, created for gamers with mobility issues, is now on sale. The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) also announced today that it has acquired the Xbox Adaptive Controller for display in its Rapid Response gallery dedicated to current events and pop…
[ad_1] Chinese internet giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent — nicknamed the BATs — are the “gateway” to the world’s second-largest economy, global investor Dan Arbess told CNBC on Tuesday. “Regardless of what happens in trade, the best idea that I’ve got right now, as a stock idea, is the BATs: the Chinese equities, Baidu, Alibaba,…
[ad_1] Jack Dorsey is set to tell Congress this week Twitter “does not use political ideology to make any decisions,” according to prepared written testimony posted Tuesday by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. “We believe strongly in being impartial, and we strive to enforce our rules impartially,” Dorsey said in the written testimony.…
[ad_1] In an effort to attract top tech talent, Facebook is spending $1 billion to expand its Menlo Park headquarters. It just opened a new building, called MPK 21, that was designed by architect Frank Gehry and cost about $300 million. The 525,000 square-foot building will house about 3,000 employees and includes a 3.6-acre rooftop…
[ad_1] The strength of Amazon‘s high-margin cloud and advertising businesses can help the e-commerce giant sustain a valuation near $1 trillion, but there are threats to continued growth, RBC Capital’s Mark Mahaney said. “There are two major risks here with Amazon: One is regulation, and one is competition,” Mahaney said on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” Amazon…
[ad_1] Most professional money managers dread the month of October when it comes to investing, but not Jim Cramer. “Me? I can’t wait until we get to October, that’s how much I dislike September,” the host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” said Tuesday. Some of Cramer’s distaste has to do with timing. September tends to bring…
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence could contribute an additional 1.2 percent to annual gross domestic product growth for at least the next decade, according to a simulation from McKinsey Global Institute. Overall, AI could deliver $13 trillion in additional global economic activity by 2030, putting its contributions to growth on par with the introduction of other transformative…
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[ad_1] After Amazon’s market cap reached $1 trillion on Tuesday, making it the second public U.S. company to hit the milestone valuation after Apple, CNBC’s Jim Cramer floated a theory for what brought the e-commerce giant to new heights. “Here’s a perfect example of what happens when Wall Street views a company not as an…
[ad_1] Amazon just passed a $1 trillion market cap, and analysts are still telling investors to buy, buy, buy. Of the 47 analysts with ratings on Amazon, 45 (or 96 percent) say analysts should keep accumulating the shares, according to FactSet. That’s the highest ratio of buy recommendations among the 10 most valuable U.S. tech…
[ad_1] Apttus, a quote-to-cash vendor built on top of the Salesforce platform that looked to be heading toward an IPO in recent years has taken a different tack, instead being acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo today. The company did not reveal the purchase price, but said it could be ready to share more…
[ad_1] Amazon made history on Tuesday, becoming the second U.S.-listed public company to enter the $1 trillion market-cap club (Apple was first, last month). The stock surged to an all-time high, bringing its already mammoth 2018 rise to 75 percent. While shareholders have been handsomely rewarded, Amazon’s meteoric gains have one market strategist warning against…
[ad_1] Workday shares fell about 4 percent in extended trading on Tuesday, even though the cloud software company reported better-than-expected earnings for the fiscal second quarter, which ended July 31. Here are the key numbers: Earnings: 31 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 26 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Thomson…
[ad_1] Amazon has made no secret of its intention to transform itself into an AI powerhouse. It’s long dabbled in the space with its product recommendations tailored to buyers and sellers on the marketplace, but now it is exploring ways to use the technology across its many teams. Machine learning experts are now scattered across…
[ad_1] The Pansar Augmented is a Swedish smart watch that looks like a standard three-handed wristwatch. However, with the tap of a button, you can view multiple data points including weather, notifications, and even sales data from your CRM. Pansar is a Swedish watch company that uses Swiss movements and hand assembled components to add…
[ad_1] Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan have found a chief operations officer to run their new health venture. The group has hired Jack Stoddard, most recently the general manager for digital health at Comcast. Previously, he was on the founding team of Accolade, a Comcast Ventures-backed start-up that helps workers manage their health benefits.…
[ad_1] Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has released the opening statement she’ll deliver to Congress Wednesday regarding online election meddling saying, “we know we can’t stop interference by ourselves.” “We don’t have all the investigative tools the government has, and we can’t always attribute attacks or identify motives,” Sandberg plans to say, according to prepared written…
[ad_1] Now that Amazon’s market cap has reached $1 trillion, the next question is: when will its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, become a trillionaire? Amazon’s market cap soared past $1 trillion Tuesday, bringing Bezos’ net worth to more than $168 billion. His gain on Tuesday alone is around $1.8 billion based on the stock…
[ad_1] Amazon became the second $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company on Tuesday, capping a year-long surge in its stock price fueled by its ongoing, relentless push to reshape the retail industry. The value of the tech company’s stock crossed the $2,050.50 mark for the first time, after a run-up that saw the share price…
[ad_1] Traditional retailers can use experiences to fight back against Amazon‘s e-commerce dominance, Greycroft co-founder Alan Patricof told CNBC on Tuesday. “The only thing … in-store retailing has that online doesn’t have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience,” Patricof said on “Squawk Alley.” “That’s the way retailers, or new retailers,…
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[ad_1] Amazon market cap hit $1 trillion on Tuesday, becoming the second publicly traded U.S. company to reach the record valuation after Apple. Shares of the e-commerce giant rose nearly 2 percent to a high of $2,050.50 in morning trading. The stock needed a price of $2,050.27 to reach the $1 trillion mark, based on…
[ad_1] Facebook’s former security chief, Alex Stamos, is delivering a sobering warning — the U.S. is no better prepared to fight election hacking ahead of the 2018 midterm elections than it was two years ago when Russian agents hacked the 2016 presidential election, he said in an interview with CNN published Tuesday. “We have the…
[ad_1] Several analysts are becoming more optimistic about future market share gains for Advanced Micro Devices. Jefferies raised its price target to $30 from $22 for AMD shares, citing the chipmaker’s technology advantage over Intel. The firm also reiterated its buy rating on the company. Analyst Mark Lipacis said in a note to clients on…
[ad_1] The next smash-hit product by Apple, which could push the stock far above its $1 trillion market value, will probably surround augmented reality, former Apple software engineer Ken Kocienda told CNBC on Tuesday. “You can take your phone and you could point its camera at something in the world,” said Kocienda, the developer of…
[ad_1] CAIRO — When a new bout of fighting between rival militias engulfed the Libyan capital in recent days, badly shaking the fragile United Nations-backed government, some combatants picked up rifles and rocket launchers and headed into the streets. Others logged on to Facebook. As rockets rained on parts of Tripoli, hitting a hotel popular…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6 was released back in May and continues to feature some of the best specifications on an Android smartphone. The hardware touts a 6.28-inch Optic AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080×2280. OnePlus 6 is powered by a Snapdragon 845 and comes with either 6 or 8GB of RAM depending on the…
[ad_1] Mike Blake | Reuters Newly manufactured Tesla vehicles are placed on transport trailers from a large inventory of newly made vehicles in Burbank, California, August 24, 2018. Tesla’s electric car sales will suffer due to increased competition from other luxury automakers, according to Goldman Sachs. The firm resumed coverage on Tesla shares with a…
[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 shares will disappoint as governments increasingly scrutinize the company’s practices, according to MoffettNathanson. The firm lowered its rating to neutral from buy for Facebook shares, predicting…
[ad_1] Chinese restaurant review and food delivery giant Meituan-Dianping said it aims to raise up to $4.4 billion (roughly Rs. 31,400 crores) for its initial public offering in Hong Kong, despite a lukewarm response to other recent IPOs in the city. The target will see Meituan offering 480.27 million new shares at a range of…
[ad_1] Cryptocurrency bulls have been hopeful that the U.S. securities regulator will grant the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) this year — but they’ve been left disappointed by a series of rejections and postponements. Bill Barhydt, chief executive of bitcoin payment start-up Abra, said that’s because, so far, the applicants haven’t fit the financial archetype…
[ad_1] Tresorit, the Swiss-Hungarian company that provides end-to-end encrypted “file sync and sharing” for businesses, has closed €11.5 million in Series B financing. The round is led by European growth capital investor 3TS Capital Partners, alongside PortfoLion, a Central European venture capital. A number of existing investors also participated, such as Andreas Kemi, an early…
[ad_1] One worker was killed and two injured when carbon dioxide leaked at a Samsung Electronics chip plant on Tuesday, the South Korean company said. The three were found unconscious in the basement of the semiconductor factory in Suwon just south of Seoul, the firm said in a statement. A man aged 24 was pronounced…
[ad_1] Atlassian today announced the first beta of a new edition of its flagship Jira project and issue tracking tool that is meant to help ops teams handle incidents faster and more efficiently. Jira Ops integrates with tools like OpsGenie, PagerDuty, xMatters, Statuspage, Slack and others. Many teams already use these tools when their services…
[ad_1] In a first of its kind move, Amazon has rolled out Hindi language support for its Android app and mobile site users. This new language support signifies the importance of the Indian market and its large pool of customers to the e-commerce. With the addition of Hindi language support, Amazon looks to capture a…
[ad_1] Angelika Langen has been rehabilitating bears at the Northern Lights Wildlife Society in Smithers, B.C., for 27 years. But this summer proved especially difficult, after a number of animals she’d been treating died unexpectedly. With each death, she could feel her resolve crack. “That takes a huge chunk out of your heart every time,”…
[ad_1] You can now search status updates on WhatsApp for iPhone WhatsApp has rolled out a new update for iOS users that brings a couple of new features to the app. The Facebook-owned messaging app has introduced a notification extension feature and a search option for the Status tab. Now, iPhone users have access to…
[ad_1] Your next job interview may feel a lot like an audition tape. On a screen, a manager pops up in a recorded video and asks a question like: “Why do you want a career in this field?” You have 10 seconds to think, and just a minute and a half to record your response…
[ad_1] A huge pay rise, eight free trips home a year and a heavily subsidised apartment. It was a dream job offer that a Taiwanese engineer simply could not refuse. A veteran of Taiwan’s top-tier chipmakers, including United Microelectronics Corp (UMC), the engineer took up the offer from a Chinese state-backed chipmaker last year and…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Android Police Google Maps may soon get this Commute tab Google seems to be testing some new layouts and options in Google Maps. The search giant is anticipated to replace the Driving and Transit tabs that appear at the bottom of the screen, with a Commute tab. Tapping on the new option…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images DJ Koh, president and CEO of Samsung Electronics, introduces the new Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone at the Barclays Center, August 9, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Samsung will unveil a foldable smartphone later this year, the CEO of its mobile division told CNBC, amid…
[ad_1] Samsung will allow third-party developers to build apps for Bixby from later this year in a bid to boost the voice assistant’s capability, the CEO of the technology giant’s mobile division has told CNBC. The news comes after Samsung announced the Galaxy Home smart speaker last month, its answer to the Amazon Echo and…
[ad_1] Australia’s technology, construction and health care industries all provide strong employment prospects for young professionals. But if you want to land the country’s top growing job, you may just have to head back to the classroom. That’s according to new research from jobs search site Indeed, which found that teachers are seeing explosive growth…
[ad_1] Verizon doesn’t sell its mobile phones or wireless plans over Amazon. Nor does it offer Fios, its high-speed internet service. But Verizon does advertise on Amazon. On Black Friday last year, when millions of online shoppers took to Amazon in search of deals, a Verizon ad for a Google Pixel 2 phone — buy…
[ad_1] “They’ve essentially empowered very large groups that can operate secretly without much governance and oversight,” said Jennifer Grygiel, an assistant professor at Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. “There may be harms and abuses that are taking place, and they can’t see.” After The Times sent screenshots to Facebook of activity…
[ad_1] Instagram users are facing a night without access to the popular social media app as it appears to be down and not working. Problems seem to have started at around 9.45pm with hundreds of reports across the UK and parts of Europe. Independent website monitor, Down Detector, is showing a surge of issues with users…
[ad_1] When you’re primarily a storage company with enterprise aspirations, as Dropbox is, you need a layer to to help people use the content in your system beyond simple file sharing. That’s why Dropbox created Paper, to act as that missing collaboration layer. They announced some enhancements to Paper to keep people working in their…
[ad_1] Google Gmail is now the most popular emailing service available with more than one billion people logging on every day to check their emails. The next closest email provider is Hotmail’s Outlook, which is used by half a billion people. Gmail has become culturally synonymous with the future of email, with many tech-savvy professionals…
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter’s independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter and TechCrunch may earn affiliate commissions. Headphones keep us connected to our favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks. They make sure we don’t drop an important phone call. As our devices ditch the headphone…
[ad_1] Just about a month after the merger of the short-form video apps Musical.ly and TikTok, the app is introducing a new social feature, allowing users to post their reactions to the videos that they watch. Instead of text comments, these reactions will take the form of videos that are essentially superimposed on top of…
[ad_1] The service allows users to send and receive emails for free from anywhere in the world and offers refreshed anti-spam and hack protection software for users. Hotmail is connected to a slew of other services, including Windows Live ID, Skype, Xbox Live and other Microsoft services. Hotmail was updated to integrate the new Outlook…
[ad_1] The VoCore2 is a Wi-Fi capable computer with a 580 MHz CPU and 128 RAM that supports video, USB, and Ethernet. And it plays Doom. That’s right: this is a computer you can easily swallow and allow your biome flora to play a hard core FPS while you slowly digest the package. The product…
[ad_1] Windows 10 saw its last major update in April – back then Microsoft fans were treated to a ton of new functionality. One of the most notable additions was what the American tech giant dubbed Timeline. This let users to navigate specific documents and files more easily by allowing them to sweep through specific…
[ad_1] Ellen Riggins spent some of her summer tagging monarch butterflies. She says it’s all part of an effort to better understand their amazing north American migration. 6:52 Ten monarch butterflies from northwestern Ontario will begin their journey south with a souvenir from northwestern Ontario. This summer, Ellen Riggins, who lives on Dinorwic Lake, east of…
[ad_1] The SPRUCE initiative is a 20-year research project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy) The boreal forest is Canada’s first line of defence against climate change, but warming temperatures could soon put our greatest carbon sponge at risk. Black spruce, one of our country’s most common…
[ad_1] Krishna Yeshwant has experienced first-hand the many sides of the health care system. He’s a Boston-based doctor who treats patients, but also invests in start-ups that are attempting to fix some of the system’s biggest problems with the U.S. health care system through Alphabet‘s investment group GV. So we asked him to be our…
[ad_1] Richard Liu, the Chinese technology executive arrested in the United States on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct, has returned to China — where he is the No. 1 topic of conversation. Chinese news outlets and social media users were consumed on Monday by details of Mr. Liu’s arrest. His mug shot, taken by law…
[ad_1] The Nasdaq is poised to start September on a high, after its best monthly performance since the peak of the 2000 dot-com bubble. Big surges in tech names including Apple, Amazon, Cisco, and Nvidia propelled the index higher to hit records three times in the final week of the month. However, some of those…
[ad_1] Just over a year after Skype introduced a colorful, Snapchat-inspired makeover which included its own version of “stories,” the company says it’s now going to refocus on simplicity – and it’s ditching stories along the way. The redesign had been met with a lot of backlash. Skype had clearly wanted to appeal to a…
[ad_1] Apple sent out media invitations to an event at its Cupertino campus this month that is presumed to lift the lid on the next generation of iPhone. The invite sent from the tech giant did not give many hints as to what could be revealed. A gold circle with the words “gather round” was…
[ad_1] Apple has confirmed that an Apple Maps revamp is in the works, and the company’s hiring trends seems to reflect that it is looking to add some AR features in the Maps app. While the company hasn’t divulged much into details of what the new Maps app will entail, job postings related to Apple…
[ad_1] Galaxy Watch was announced alongside the Note 9 at Samsung’s Unpacked event in New York City at the start of August. The product will release in the UK later this week on September 6 and boasts a ton of new features for Android lovers to get excited about. In addition to sporting a brand…
[ad_1] With an aim to provide portable storage solution to content creators and IT professionals, Samsung on Monday introduced its first non-volatile memory (NVMe)-based solid state drive (SSD) called Portable SSD X5 in India. To recall, it was first unveiled globally last week. The Samsung Portable SSD X5 is priced at Rs. 27,999 for its…
[ad_1] A Skype redesign in June last year — when the “Highlights” feature was introduced — was mostly unpopular with users. Skype said that most people use the platform purely for calls, video chat and instant messaging. “Highlights” was very similar to “Story” features offered by competitors Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, where users can…
[ad_1] Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images DJ Koh, president of mobile communications at Samsung Electronics Co., speaks during the Samsung Unpacked product launch event in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy Note 9 in New York Thursday, banking on the larger-screen device to rejuvenate sales of a…
[ad_1] Technology is going to fundamentally transform the banking industry over the coming years, a former Barclays CEO told CNBC on Monday. Antony Jenkins, who led the British bank through a tumultuous period between 2012 and 2015, said regulatory measures imposed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis had made the global financial system…
[ad_1] Logitech sub-brand Ultimate Ears has redesigned its app for UE Boom speakers. While the new version brings an all-new design that eases the experience, it removes Amazon Alexa integration that debuted in August last year. The updated app called Boom & Megaboom by Ultimate Ears also ditches the functionality to set alarms on supported…
[ad_1] Skype version 8.29 is available for Android, iOS, OS X, Linux, and Windows Skype has undergone a much needed redesign yet again, this time retracting on mistakes, and going back in time to bring a simple and navigation-friendly design. It has removed the Highlights feature introduced last year, and is bringing back a simple…
[ad_1] Mark Barlet vividly remembers an evening in 2004 when his friend Stephanie Walker was unable to join in on their regular online games of EverQuest II. “She was crying because that night, her mousing hand decided it wasn’t going to work,” he told CBC Radio’s Day 6. “Multiple sclerosis kind of said, ‘Not today.’ And she…
[ad_1] In a new development, Apple has now made it mandatory for all apps listed on the App Store to provide a link to its privacy policy in its metadata. This announcement was made by the Cupertino giant via Apple Store Connect to all its developers. The company states that all existing apps that do…
[ad_1] Peer-to-peer lending platform Funding Circle announced plans for an initial public offering (IPO) on Monday. The British start-up, which connects small and medium-sized businesses to investors, said it was looking to raise around £300 million ($387.4 million) by issuing new shares. Funding Circle’s potential listing would happen on the London Stock Exchange. Heartland A/S,…
[ad_1] VMware, one of the largest enterprise software companies, says it has no problem with the demand by the Indian government to localise the servers used by big service providers to store users’ data. The $7.9 billion revenue company, which has tied up with Amazon to offer Public Cloud services on its Cloud arm Amazon…
[ad_1] Microsoft has quietly ended its Surface Plus financing program about a year after it launched. In a message on its site, the company said it stopped taking new enrollments on August 31 “after much thought and consideration.” The change does not affect existing customers, however, who will still be covered by their current financing…
[ad_1] Google is removing over 100 scam advertisements every second for violating its policies and will soon implement a verification programme to further weed out bad actors from its platform. After The Wall Street Journal reported that scammers were purchasing search ads and “masquerading as authorised service agents for companies such as Apple“, Google said…
[ad_1] A massive fire raced through Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items, ranging from archeological finds to historical memorabilia. The destruction of the building, once a palace for emperors that had fallen into disrepair, was an “incalculable loss for Brazil,” President…
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[ad_1] Facebook may be a latecomer to the streaming video market, but the company thinks it can generate money by making it more social. “Video has always been social, even before the internet, when everybody was watching the same few channels,” said Fidji Simo, Facebook’s head of video, in an interview. “Everyone was talking about…
[ad_1] Here’s how it often works: a person involved in a real estate transaction, such as a real estate attorney or realtor, has his or her email account compromised by malicious software, known as malware, sent by a criminal over email. Unbeknownst to the professional, the fraudster can now monitor the realtor’s emails to look…
[ad_1] The case of a mysterious mussel in Kalamalka Lake near Vernon, B.C. is reminding Okanagan boat owners of the harm the invasive species could pose if they ever reached B.C. Last week, when boat owner Randall Yakuchuk found a mussel attached to the hull of his boat, his first concern was that it was a zebra or…
[ad_1] Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images A woman stands next to signage incorporating the logo of JD.com, and the company’s mascot ‘Joy,’ at the company’s headquarters in Beijing, China. BEIJING — The billionaire chief executive of one of China’s largest online retailers was arrested Friday in Minnesota on a charge of criminal sexual…
[ad_1] The same goes for viewers, with Supercell aiming to craft a mobile viewing experience that doesn’t emulate the more PC-based broadcasts usually seen in esports. “The one thing we learned last year [is that] most of our viewers are watching on mobile,” said Tim Ebner, Supercell’s head of esports. “That makes sense because we’re…
[ad_1] Celtic vs Rangers LIVE STREAM TEAM NEWS • CELTIC • Gordon, Lustig, Boyata, Ajer, Tierney, Ntcham, Brown, Forrest, Rogic, McGregor, Edouard RANGERS • McGregor, Tavernier, Katic, Goldson, Barisic, Jack, Ejaria, Kent, Arfield, Morelos, Lafferty Celtic and Rangers will lock horns in one of football’s most famous fixtures – the Old Firm derby – at Celtic…
[ad_1] Watford v Tottenham Hotspur LIVE STREAM Mauricio Pochettino’s side will surely be heading into today’s away game full of confidence after beating Manchester United at Old Trafford 3-0 last weekend. Lucas Moura proved instrumental in the match and will surely be hoping to replicate such a performance. Following last weekend’s victory football expert Tim…
[ad_1] The heart of Sanders’ claim is that Amazon doesn’t pay its lower-level employees a fair wage, while Bezos is the richest person in the world. It’s an issue that all Americans can understand, particularly as the wealth gap between the haves and have-nots continues to widen. Trump’s criticisms, by contrast, are more obscure and…
[ad_1] The Chinese tech giant released the flagship Android device back in March to huge critical acclaim. Express.co.uk awarded the Huawei P20 Pro top marks as we lauded the “stunning flagship.” And the critical acclaim has also been mirrored by commercial success with Huawei revealing some big sales numbers for the P20 Pro. In the…
[ad_1] After last weekend’s dominance at Spa, Ferrari are once again looking strong as they lineup first and second on the grid at Monza. Kimi Raikkonen pulled off one of his best ever qualifying performances to take a stunning pole position with his teammate, Sebastian Vettel, just behind. This Ferrari performance leaves Lewis Hamilton in…
[ad_1] Home-help robots will be as common as owning a car (Image: GETTY) “The main difference in the house of the future will be that you don’t see any ‘boxes’. Homes will look like houses from the 1950s. You don’t need the hi-fi stack or the video recorder or the satellite receiver. You will just…
[ad_1] There could be a refreshed and rebooted set of iPhones launching very soon. Apple will unveil its latest and greatest devices on September 12 with the US technology firm recently sending out invites to a major keynote at its Cupertino HQ. Although not confirmed, it seems three new iPhones could be unveiled next month…
[ad_1] Sky has cut the price of one of its most popular bundles and has revealed more 4K Ultra HD is coming to the Q platform this month. The new deal, which ends on September 6, offers Sky TV with Cinema, Kids and HD for just £30 a month – saving £180 over the 18-month contract. Along…
[ad_1] Apple introduced AirPods back in September 2016 and delivered a truly wireless listening experience. The buds came in a case that also acted as the primary method of charging. And thanks to the W1 chip inside the product, it meant connecting them to an iPhone was incredibly easy. But it appears a new version…
[ad_1] The Amazon Echo is an extremely capable speaker that comes in a variety of models. The device plays host to the tech giant’s lauded Alexa virtual assistant that is capable of answering questions and performing a manner of tasks. The second generation of the Amazon Echo was released last year and boasted a brand…
[ad_1] Welcome back to another edition of the Gadgets 360 weekly recap, with all the top stories of the week from the world of technology. While the Redmi 5 series continues to go strong, Xiaomi is planning to bring its successor to the Indian market as early as next week. The popular Chinese brand has…
[ad_1] Alex Stamos, formerly chief security officer at Facebook, formally stepped down in August following earlier rumors of his departure and an internal memo to staff. In the memo — reported by Buzzfeed news — Stamos said a re-organization of his team left him eyeing a transition: I initiated the discussion of changing the structure…
[ad_1] Yes I am very late to this. But I am also very annoyed so I am adding my voice to the now sustained chorus of complaints about Apple’s redesigned Mac keyboard: How very much it sucks. Truly, madly, deeply. This is the keyboard that Apple “completely redesigned” in 2015, in its quest for size…
[ad_1] Google Assistant, the digital bot powering Google’s Home smart speakers and available as an app for Android and iOS phones, is supposed to feel like a “cool librarian.” That’s according to Ryan Germick, who leads the team responsible for shaping the product’s personality. In the past few years, all the major tech companies have…
[ad_1] Tesla has reportedly been searching for years for a No. 2 to ease CEO Elon Musk’s workload, even approaching Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg at one point. Executive recruiters and industry analysts agree Musk needs help. Musk’s erratic behavior on Twitter has reportedly drawn a federal securities investigation and put Musk himself at…
[ad_1] Google Chrome is the undisputed reigning champion of the internet browser market. In the first eight months of 2018 Google Chrome had a staggering 62.79 per cent chunk of the internet browser market, according to NetMarketShare. Its nearest rival, the ageing Internet Explorer, had a 11.76 per cent share with Firefox behind on 10.23…
[ad_1] Manchester City will be looking to return to winning ways against a Newcastle team in need of three points. The omens are good for City manager Pep Guardiola, whose team have gone 21 games without losing a Premier League match to the Magpies. Influential midfielder Kevin de Bruyne remains on the sidelines for City,…
[ad_1] Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage during the presentation of new Google hardware in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2016. When the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence holds its next hearing on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it will hear from two of the top executives…
[ad_1] Liverpool will face Leicester City at the King Power Stadium this afternoon as the Premier League leaders look to continue their blistering start. Jurgen Klopp’s side have won the three games they’ve played so far in the 2018/19 Premier League season and are yet to concede a goal. While Leicester City, after losing on…
[ad_1] China will conduct comprehensive inspections on all ride-hailing service companies, the transport ministry said on Friday, after a driver from dominant firm Didi Chuxing murdered a 20-year-old passenger this month. The inspections, starting from September 5, will cover all ride-hailing service platforms nationwide, the ministry said in a statement. Didi said it welcomed the…
[ad_1] The UE BOOM and MEGABOOM are two of the best portable Bluetooth speakers you can buy but now they are getting even better. Ultimate Ears has just announced the launch of the new BOOM 3 and MEGABOOM 3 which not only sound and look better but also arrive at a much cheaper price. In…
[ad_1] Apple’s next hardware event will be on September 12 (Image: Apple • Getty) New iPhone X 2018 Apple sent out media invitations to an event on September 12 that is presumed to host a score of hardware announcements. Rumours have suggested the American tech giant will lift the lid on three new iPhone models…
[ad_1] Sony Xperia XZ2 v Xperia XZ3 (Image: SONY) Sony Xperia fans are being treated to another new smartphone with the launch of the refreshed and rebooted Xperia XZ3. This shiny new flagship has just been unveiled at the IFA technology show in Berlin with it offering a number of upgrades over its XZ2 predecessor.…
[ad_1] Apple is expected to show off three new iPhone models at a hardware event on September 12. Rumours have suggested one variant will be a direct successor to the current iPhone X while a second will retain an all-screen design but feature a monstrous 6.5-inch display. The third device is said to be a…
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[ad_1] Apple’s new iPhone X looks set to be unveiled very soon. After months of speculation and endless rumours, we finally know the date when the US technology firm will lift the lid on its next-generation of devices. Invites have just been sent out to the world’s media with the major keynote event taking place…
[ad_1] The revamped Sony Xperia XZ3 is now official with the Japanese technology firm lifting the lid on its latest flagship at the IFA technology show in Berlin. Although this latest device may look pretty similar to its XZ2 predecessor, there’s some decent upgrades including a truly stunning display. Sony has used its vast TV…
[ad_1] Skullcandy has always been an odd brand. Aimed at a younger, hipper audience, the headphones always featured wacky graphics and a lower price point. Now, facing competition from multiple players, they’ve decided to step up their game in terms of quality and style. Their two new models, the noise-cancelling Venue and the bass-heavy Crusher…
[ad_1] If you are hoping to become one of the one billion people who are now on Facebook, look no further. Setting up an account can be done in just a few minutes, connecting you with your friends and family from around the world. Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms in…
[ad_1] Apple said that its first autonomous vehicle crash in California occurred last week. The accident during an autonomous driving test took place at 2:58 p.m. Pacific time on Aug. 24, in Santa Clara, near Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. The vehicle was a Lexus RX450h (which Apple has used in its car research), according to…
[ad_1] The Lite is the first device from the Chinese firm to bear the anticipated Mate 20 name. Huawei is widely expected to introduce two more smartphones bearing the same brand; the Huawei Mate 20 and the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. The latter of which is expected to be the most premium flagship of the…
[ad_1] How to set up your iPhone Step 1 First off, you need to turn on your device. You will see “Hello” in many languages. Follow the steps to get started. You have the option to enable VoiceOver or Zoom from the Hello screen if you are blind or have low vision. Step 2 Next,…
[ad_1] Microsoft’s Hotmail, which has now been merged merged with Microsoft’s other email service Outlook, is struggling to match up to Gmail, which is currently steaming ahead in popularity as the favourite email provider. Both personal and company interests have incorporated Gmail into their correspondences, and Hotmail and Outlook have taken a back seat. Gmail…
[ad_1] Leading up to Apple‘s fall product launch, it’s time we all stopped putting so much emphasis on the success of the iPhone, analyst Brian White of Monness, Crespi, Hardt told CNBC on Friday. “I think these events are becoming more about ‘Planet Apple,’ not just about iPhones,” White said Friday on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.”…
[ad_1] Two genes associated with dreaming have been discovered in mice, according to a study published this week in Cell Reports. Researchers found that when they removed these genes (known as Chrm1 and Chrm3), the mice were incapable of experiencing REM sleep. When researchers deleted one of the genes, the mice had less REM…
[ad_1] As Amazon scores fresh all-time highs and is now just inches away from a $1 trillion market cap, some traders are betting the retail giant could hit the milestone as soon as next week. Amazon’s unrelenting dominance in the consumer space has pushed the company’s shares up 72 percent this year and it is…
[ad_1] Recently a faux Buffett twitter account sharing simple, catchy life advice had been getting a decent amount of traction, and the billionaire investor laughed that indeed, perhaps his “copycat” was doing a better job on the microblogging site than he would be doing. (As of Friday, the fake account had been disabled. “All I’m…
[ad_1] Tom Nardone and his son Mark were practically hanging off of the edge of their boat on the Detroit River this August, trying to reel in a catch they would be bragging about for weeks. “We found a tire!” recalls Mark, 11, who has spent a chunk of his summer fishing junk out of the river that stretches…
[ad_1] Big technology companies can start to fix the problems they’ve created by making the user the customer — like Netflix did, technology pioneer Jaron Lanier told CNBC on Friday. “What we have to do is change the business model so they become more like real businesses where the user is also the customer,” Lanier,…
[ad_1] An unpredictable sinkhole in a Nova Scotia park that has already swallowed up large trees and some picnic tables is now at least 38 metres in diameter. The crater began as a small indentation in Oxford and suddenly opened up Aug. 20 when the ground under it collapsed. It grew another three metres overnight Wednesday. Amy Tizzard,…
[ad_1] It’s kind of like an amazing dream coming to life. Your adorable little goldfish grows into a giant, chasing you around a pond. Only in this case, 11-year-old Luke Hebb wasn’t dreaming when he fished a 16-pound koi out of Lacombe Lake in St. Albert Wednesday morning. “I thought it was little at first, but…
[ad_1] iOS 12 beta testers have been plagued with a frustrating bug that continually pops up messages alerting them that a new iOS update is available when, in fact, it’s not. Apple has now fixed this bug, which is patched in the latest iOS 12 betas rolling out now, we understand. The bug had first…
[ad_1] Russia is experimenting with more precise technology to block individual online services after an attempt to shut down banned messaging service Telegram failed, but Moscow has yet to find a way to shut it down without hitting other traffic. Telegram, which has 200 million global users and has been popular in countries including Russia…
[ad_1] Huawei launched a speaker Friday that doubles up as an internet router and features Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, as it looks to challenge the likes of Google and Apple. It marks the first time the Chinese technology giant has entered the smart speaker space. The AI Cube looks very similar to the Google Home…
[ad_1] Microsoft at IFA 2018 announced the name of the upcoming Windows 10 update, internally known as Redstone 5. The Redmond, Washington-headquartered company Microsoft said that the next feature update to Windows will be called the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. With the update, the company wants to bring new features and enhancements to almost…
[ad_1] Hims, an e-commerce company that sells men’s health and beauty products, including treatments for erectile dysfunction and hair loss, is looking to expand into a new vertical: Women. The company has pitched potential investors on a women’s brand dubbed “Hers,” which would provide similar products to ladies, including things like treatments for hair loss,…
[ad_1] Japan’s Line said on Friday it will launch a cryptocurrency in September, as the company tries to build up a wide range of businesses using its popular messaging app as a platform. The company said the digital coin Link will be given as rewards to users of its services and could be traded with…
[ad_1] Huawei claims its new chip can help a device recognize 4,500 images a minute, more than double the capability of its previous Kirin 970. “Huawei continues to push the envelope on smartphone chipset design. The move towards seven-nanometer process technology is impressive and the focus on AI starting to deliver dividends,” Ben Wood, head…
[ad_1] Mozilla has announced some hard steps to ensure user privacy on its Firefox browser. In its latest blog, the company said that over the next few months it will be rolling out certain key features which will give users more control over their data and also improve the web performance. One of the most…
[ad_1] “Imagine a farmer by the time they wake up at 5 in the morning, his or her field is already tilled, because the machine can wake up at 2 a.m., decide it’s the right time to do it, and go pick the right implement from the garage or the barn, then till the fields,”…
[ad_1] Apple is cracking down on apps that don’t communicate to users how their personal data is used, secured or shared. In an announcement posted to developers through the App Store Connect portal, Apple says that all apps, including those still in testing, will be required to have a privacy policy as of October 3,…
[ad_1] Chinese handset maker Xiaomi on Friday announced it is migrating data of its Indian users to Cloud service providers Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure that have infrastructure in the country. “At Xiaomi, data privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. We are taking one more step towards user data security…
[ad_1] Bank of America Merrill Lynch is getting worried about the video gaming industry’s holiday selling season. The firm lowered its rating for both Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard shares to neutral from buy, citing the crowded holiday slate and competition from “Fortnite.” On Thursday, EA shares fell nearly 10 percent after the company delayed…
[ad_1] Ride-sharing provider Ola on Thursday announced a policy research and social innovation unit called Ola Mobility Institute. The think tank would initially focus on understanding the social and economic impact around mobility as a service, the climate footprint of mobility innovations, skill development and job creation, transportation-oriented urban planning and digitisation of mobility, the…
[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. Let’s get this out of the way first: There is no basis for the charge that President Trump leveled against Google…
[ad_1] Tencent Holdings’ market value slumped by around $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1.4 lakh crores) on Friday after China intensified a crackdown on online gaming citing rising levels of myopia, heightening regulatory risks for companies in the world’s biggest gaming market. China’s Ministry of Education, in a notice late on Thursday, directed the publishing regulator…
[ad_1] There are around 200 gantries in this plant, and they need to be inspected to ensure they don’t break down or break loose and fall onto the floor, equipment or people. The plant has typically done inspections during a three-week shutdown in the summer. On each of the plant’s four machine lines, a team…
[ad_1] A few months ago, Lenovo added some new models to its Ideapad series in India. Targeted at users looking for good multimedia performance in a slim and light form factor, the Ideapad 530S that we have for review today is a very interesting offering. It packs in good specifications, including a dedicated Nvidia GPU,…
[ad_1] Apple officially confirmed the announcement date for new iPhones on Thursday. The tech giant sent out press invitations for an event at its Cupertino campus that will surely show what the future holds for its smartphone line. Apple is expected to debut multiple new iPhone models this month; one is rumoured to be a…
[ad_1] Google announced its Google Home Max speaker last year but until now it had only been available in the US. However, from today that’s changing with the technology firm finally announcing its Max smart speaker is going on sale in Britain. As a reminder, this smart boom box features all the clever technology of…
[ad_1] There are just under two weeks to go until Apple’s big 2018 event, but iPhone fans may already know what the next iPhone will look like, thanks to a number of leaked images online. 9to5Mac posted a series of images of a new iPhone design, dubbed ‘iPhone XS’, as well as images of the…
[ad_1] A litter of puppies whose mother tucked them into a deep underground hideaway were recovered Monday after a two-hour dig by a team of police officers in rural Manitoba. Members of the Rivers Police Service were at a rural property for an unrelated call late Monday afternoon when the property owner approached them about…
[ad_1] India seeks greater involvement of Google in digital inclusion programmes including “Digital Village” initiative to empower millions of people in the country, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has told the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai. Prasad met Pichai at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Thursday. “Held a very meaningful meeting with @Google…
[ad_1] St. John’s biologist Holly Hogan was in the midst of a safety briefing when she and the other 161 people aboard the Akademik Ioffe felt their expedition come to a grinding halt. “The ship hit a shelf, and it was a bit like running into a brick wall. It was unexpected,” she recalled of the moment the…
[ad_1] Research scientists at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab have built a prototype touchscreen device that’s neither smartphone nor tablet but kind of both — and more besides. The device, which they’ve christened the MagicScroll, is inspired by ancient (papyrus/paper/parchment) scrolls so it takes a rolled-up, cylindrical form factor — enabled by a flexible 7.5inch…
[ad_1] Apple just sent out invites for one of the most awaited tech events globally – the 2018 iPhone launch – slated for September 12 at the company’s Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. The “Gather Round” teaser issued with the invite does not reveal much about the hardware products expected at the event, however…
[ad_1] A Nunavut hunter who survived a polar bear attack that killed one of his friends last week says the encounter started when a mother bear and her cub approached their camp. Leo Ijjangiaq, 38, says he and two other men — Laurent Junior Uttak and Darryl Kaunak — were having morning tea on Thursday when they noticed the animals. The men had left Naujaat,…
[ad_1] Over a period of seven months in 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a beautiful display of northern lights over Saturn’s north pole. Here on Earth, people experience the northern lights (southern lights in the southern hemisphere) when fast-moving particles from the sun travel along the solar wind and interact with the planet’s magnetic field. Auroras, also…
[ad_1] Google is toeing the line between helping you save time and creeping you out as it turns to machines to suggest email replies on your behalf. The customised auto-responses come in the latest version of Gmail on the web and expand on a feature already available on Android devices and iPhones. They’re just one…
[ad_1] A pair of University of Calgary students are back on Earth after taking their plastic poop project to the skies. Schulich School of Engineering student Alina Kunitskaya, and Sam Wilton-Clark, a health sciences student, were part of the team that won a gold medal in December at the International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation’s giant jamboree in Boston…
[ad_1] Google on Friday announced the first batch of 10 short-listed startups who will be part of its “Launchpad Accelerator” mentorship programme in India. The inaugural class will begin on September 10 at the Google office in Bengaluru. The startups will go through a two-week intensive mentorship boot camp, followed by customised virtual support for…
[ad_1] Just weeks after running into trouble with China’s content regulators over the release of a highly anticipated video game, tech giant Tencent is in government crosshairs once again. On Thursday, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China released a note on its plan to curb the increasing rise of eye problems…
[ad_1] Technology users got a surprise Thursday morning when their social and lifestyle apps seemingly labelled the United States’ most populous city with an anti-Semitic header. A number of people posted screenshots on Twitter showing “New York City” had been relabeled “Jewtropolis” on the Mapbox map used by companies and services such as Snapchat parent…
[ad_1] Chinese drone manufacturer EHang filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. in May, but it’s still “on a good track” to achieving profitability by the end of 2019, a company executive told CNBC on Thursday. Filing for insolvency was all part of an “internal strategic adjustment” of its corporate strategy, company Chief Financial Officer Richard…
[ad_1] Google’s Assistant is picking up the ability to speak with you in two languages without having to switch accounts. Now Google Home and Android smartphone owners will be able to speak in any two of the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. The Google Assistant will reply in the language of…
[ad_1] A new study shows that an international treaty has led to a decrease of some pollutants in Arctic wildlife. It also gives scientists a better picture of how many years of data they need to reliably detect trends in these levels. The study, called Temporal Trends in Persistent Organic Pollutants in Arctic Marine and Freshwater…
[ad_1] A family’s home in northwest Calgary has become the first in the province to be certified by the Passive House Institute — considered the gold standard for sustainable building. Ania Kania-Richmond says special energy efficient features heat her family’s nearly 2,000-square-foot home in Rocky Ridge without a furnace, despite Calgary’s frigid winters. Their home, which…
[ad_1] Microsoft said Thursday it will begin requiring US suppliers to offer employees at least 12 weeks of paid parental leave when they have or adopt children. The new policy applies to suppliers with 50 or more employees who do substantial work for the US technology giant, according to Microsoft general counsel Dev Stahlkopf. “We…
[ad_1] A NASA spacecraft that explored Pluto has spotted its next target on the outskirts of our solar system. This week NASA revealed pictures taken by New Horizons earlier this month of a tiny icy world known as Ultima Thule. New Horizons is aiming for a flyby on New Year’s Day. It will be humanity’s…
[ad_1] It’s been a summer of dramatic killer whale news — from a mother holding up her dead calf for 17 days in a gut-wrenching display of grief, to a boatload of scientists shooting a sick whale with a dart full of antibiotics. Now, B.C.’s ailing southern resident killer whale population is proving itself a wedge in…
[ad_1] CarMax shares are poised to break out because of the company’s opportunity to capture more of the used car market, according to Morgan Stanley. The firm bumped CarMax to the number one spot on its rankings of U.S. auto dealers and reiterated its overweight rating for CarMax stock. “We see [CarMax] as a best…
[ad_1] Venture capitalist Gene Munster said Thursday he questions the amount of good Facebook brings to the world. “Fundamentally [they] just don’t do a lot of good for the world,” the former long-time tech analyst and founder of Loup Ventures told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” For businesses to change the world as well as thrive, they…
[ad_1] Blockchain and cryptocurrency jobs are increasingly appealing to job seekers from more conventional sectors in Asia — even as the technology’s most famous use case struggles on the price front. Blockchain technology, which underpins cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is a digital record of transactions that cannot be altered. It has the potential to not…
[ad_1] The song is upbeat, repeating an empowering mantra, “you can’t stop me from loving myself,” and the members of the band are dancing in wildly colorful outfits. The young stars aren’t just breaking records on YouTube — BTS were the No. 1 most tweeted about musicians in the U.S. in 2017, according to data…
[ad_1] Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has expanded its Google for Jobs initiative, launched last summer, to feature a job search tool that uses AI technology. The company believes it will radically change the online job-seeking experience. Google has been criticized by a prominent U.K. lawmaker for not cooperating with Western governments to remove child abuse…
[ad_1] New Balance will put cameras around a booth in New York City to scan the streets in order to find people who look unique or different to the norm. It’s part of a marketing campaign called “Be The Exception,” according to a report on Fast Company, and people it identifies as looking different will…
[ad_1] Huang Jieli, who ran a Chinese ride-sharing business called Hitch, was invited to a wedding in March. One of her drivers was getting married to a woman who had once been his passenger. Thanks, the invitation said, for getting them hitched. Didi Chuxing, Hitch’s corporate parent and one of the world’s most successful and…
[ad_1] Weebly is part of Square now, but it continues to update as a standalone product. This week, for example, the company announced a number of new e-commerce features for the Weebly mobile app. Those features include the ability to ship and print labels, to respond to customer questions (via Facebook Messenger, which can be…
[ad_1] Driven by growth in advertising revenue and its cloud business, Amazon could double its value — to about $2 trillion — in three to five years, Baron Capital analyst Ashim Mehra told CNBC on Thursday. “When we look at three to five years, we are long-term shareholders, we think this company has the potential…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett is still a big believer in Apple. The Oracle of Omaha was asked if he bought more shares in the technology giant after the end of the June quarter. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway increased its stake in Apple by 5 percent in the second quarter, according to a 13F regulatory filing. “We bought…
[ad_1] Kuni Takahashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google Inc., gestures as he speaks during the company’s Android One smartphone launch event in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. On the morning of March 19, Jonathan Karmel, a product manager at Google,…
[ad_1] Of the big technology stocks, Apple is the most concerning, veteran technology investor Paul Meeks told CNBC on Thursday. “Of all the FAANGs, the one I am frankly most worried about is Apple,” Meeks said on “Power Lunch.” The ecosystem “is all based on the number of iPhone users, and we are seeing a…
[ad_1] Get ready for a leaked look at the new iPhone XS. 9to5Mac has gotten its hands on an image of Apple’s next generation of iPhone hardware, and the future looks pretty swanky. The leaked image showcases the new sizing of Apple’s soon-to-be-unveiled flagship bezel-less devices, which likely will have 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch screens, respectively.…
[ad_1] Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme to be available from September Lenovo has added a new member to its ThinkPad family of laptops, called the ThinkPad X1 Extreme and just as the name suggests, it aims to offer everything we know and love about ThinkPad line but with added multimedia and gaming capabilities. The ThinkPad X1…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Bird and Lime scooters sit parked in front of a building on April 17, 2018 in San Francisco, California. The city of San Francisco announced it’s granting scooter permits to small start-ups Scoot and Skip, shutting out well-funded hometown businesses including Uber, Bird, Lime and Lyft. The move comes…
[ad_1] Lenovo on Thursday introduced new devices in its Smart Home portfolio, joining the Smart Display which was launched at CES earlier this year. The new products introduced include the Lenovo Smart Plug, Smart Camera, and Smart Bulb. These smart home devices can be set up and controlled via a Lenovo Link App giving users…
[ad_1] It’s a land grab for Toys R Us market share. Walmart said Thursday it is expanding its assortment of toys by 30 percent at all brick-and-mortar locations this holiday season, and it will offer 40 percent more toys on Walmart.com. At some locations, the physical space dedicated to toys also will be larger, Walmart…
[ad_1] In addition to a leak showing off photos of the new iPhone XS models, 9to5Mac also got a hold of a photo of the upcoming Apple Watch Series 4. The new Watch, which now sports an edge-to-edge display, is expected to be revealed on September 12, at the just-announced Apple press conference, along with…
[ad_1] The growth of cloud services — with on-demand access to IT services over the Internet — has become one of the biggest evolutions in enterprise technology, but with it, so has the threat of security breaches and other cybercriminal activity. Now it appears that one of the leading companies in cloud services is looking…
[ad_1] Lenovo has become the first company in the world to announce a laptop powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform at the ongoing IFA 2018 trade show. The new Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS runs Windows 10 and supports standard Windows software. The key benefits promoted by Qualcomm and Lenovo are its 25-hour…
[ad_1] Google has been an advocate of technologies that can prevent unwanted attempts to log in to users’ accounts, and it now requires employees to use physical security keys in addition to entering their passwords. The additional layer of verification is meant to prevent cases of phishing, whereby hackers obtain personal information through fraudulent messages.…
[ad_1] Lenovo has just unveiled its latest flagship 2-in-1, the new Lenovo Yoga C930, at this year’s IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. The company has also announced a slew of products across its gaming, smart home and peripherals portfolios. Other highlights of the Yoga series are the new ultraportable dual-display Yoga Book C930…
[ad_1] Lenovo’s PC revenues rose 19.8 percent year-on-year in the three months ending June 30. It has been helped by new products in both the tablet and PC categories and new devices like the Yoga Book that appeal to a different portion of the market. The world’s second-largest PC maker also launched a premium laptop…
[ad_1] Early in his career, with Sun and then Juniper Networks, Mr. Khosla helped build the foundation of personal computing and global connectivity. But in more recent years, he has fashioned a new image as Silicon Valley’s agitator. He doesn’t golf with the other venture capitalists. He doesn’t go to the Rosewood, their luxury hotel…
[ad_1] The Google Assistant just got more useful for multilingual families. Starting today, you’ll be able to set up two languages in the Google Home app and the Assistant on your phone and Google Home will then happily react to your commands in both English and Spanish, for example. Today’s announcement doesn’t exactly come as…
[ad_1] The OpenStack Foundation today released the 18th version of its namesake open-source cloud infrastructure software. The project has had its ups and downs, but it remains the de facto standard for running and managing large private clouds. What’s been interesting to watch over the years is how the project’s releases have mirrored what’s been happening in…
[ad_1] No need to fiddle with with the settings: Google‘s smart assistant and Home speaker are now bilingual, allowing users to issue commands in two different languages interchangeably. Previously, users would have to manually switch back and forth between individual languages. It’s a thorny artificial intelligence problem that requires the Assistant to run multiple processes…
[ad_1] Tesla and its headline-stealing CEO Elon Musk had a wild August. The month began with the electric car company reporting second-quarter earnings and Musk apologizing for some recent ill-advised outbursts. But a week later, the Tesla and SpaceX founder took to the social media platform to announce that he wanted to take the company…
[ad_1] Apple is set to reveal its latest line-up of products on Sept. 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s campus, the company announced in an invitation to media. The event starts at 10 a.m. P.T. The company’s annual September event serves as the introduction to new iPhone models and upgraded gadgets before inventory…
[ad_1] There are still flaws in this new type of algorithm. One of them has to do with how the simulated faces blink – or don’t. Healthy adult humans blink somewhere between every 2 and 10 seconds, and a single blink takes between one-tenth and four-tenths of a second. That’s what would be normal to…
[ad_1] Efforts to boost sales of BlackBerry smartphones, which dominated the market a decade ago, have fallen short. TCL reported a 41 percent year-on-year decline in first quarter shipments of mobile phones and equipment. In addition to BlackBerry devices, those figures include sales of Alcatel mobile phones, which are also sold by TCL under a…
[ad_1] Microsoft will start requiring business partners and suppliers to offer paid family leave, the company said in a blog post published Thursday, expanding the scope of its support for new parents. The company’s U.S. suppliers will be required to offer a minimum of 12 weeks of paid parental leave at up to $1,000 per…
[ad_1] InVision today announced a newly expanded integration and strategic partnership with Atlassian that will let users of Confluence, Trello and Jira see and share InVision prototypes from within those programs. Atlassian’s product suite is built around making product teams faster and more efficient. These tools streamline and organize communication so developers and designers can…
[ad_1] Shares of Electronic Arts plunged more than 6 percent at market open Thursday after the gamemaker announced it is delaying the release of “Battlefield V” by a month and adjusted its full-year guidance to reflect the lower sales. The next iteration of EA’s popular Battlefield series will now launch on November 20, the company…
[ad_1] Social media star Kylie Jenner made headlines in July after Forbes magazine reported she was on track to become the youngest-ever self-made billionaire. Her company, Kylie Cosmetics, which is less than 2 years old, is already worth about $800 million, Forbes wrote. Jenner doesn’t employ hundreds of people or dish out insane sums of…
[ad_1] Online bus ticket booking platform Redbus on Thursday announced that it has joined hands with Google Maps to provide users all the necessary transport information required to travel between two cities. With this partnership, Google Maps would now be able to assist travellers with inter-city bus transport information along with the driving and train…
[ad_1] Grindr, the dating app for gay and bisexual men, is to be listed on an international stock exchange. The app’s parent, Chinese company Kunlun Group, said in a stock exchange filing to the China Securities Regulatory Commission on Wednesday that the listing will take place overseas, but where and when would depend on regulatory…
[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. Shares of Amazon edged higher in the premarket Thursday, putting the stock price on track…
[ad_1] Garmin continues to go head-to-head with Fitbit with the launch of its latest offering — the vivosmart 4 activity tracker. This sleek new wristband not only tracks steps, activities and gives you the weather but also comes with a blood oxygen sensor and will tell you how much energy you have saved up for…
[ad_1] The company attributed the fall to declining smartphone shipments. Sony has been trying to slim down its mobile portfolio in favor of profits over volumes, but it has faced increasing competition from players like Huawei, in the mid-to-high range and Apple and Samsung in the premium end of the market. Sony had just 0.6…
[ad_1] Chalk up yet another Brexit deficit: Japanese electronics firm Panasonic will be moving its European headquarters from the UK to Amsterdam in October because it’s worried about the tax implications if it stays, the Nikkei Asian Review reports. The company is concerned it could face tax liabilities if the UK shifts its corporate tax…
[ad_1] Apple has issued a firmware update for the Airport Express that brings AirPlay 2 support to the now discontinued router. With AirPlay 2 support, users will be able to use a speaker connected to the AirPort Express as part of a multi-room audio setup. Apart from multi-room audio, AirPlay 2 also promises lower latency…
[ad_1] Fred Dufour | AFP | Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. It’s not the first time Trump has criticized big tech companies. He has previously said Twitter “shadow bans” — limits the…
[ad_1] Galaxy Watch was announced alongside the Galaxy Note 9 at Samsung’s Unpacked event in New York City at the start of the month. The wearable touts a brand new design and comes in 42 and 46millimetre case sizes. One of the smartwatch’s most notable editions comes in the form of built-in network support, meaning…
[ad_1] Amazon Prime is the tech giant’s flagship subscription service that gives members access to a wide-range of benefits. In addition to receiving faster delivery options than standard Amazon customers, subscribers are also treated to Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service that offers a multitude of TV shows and movies that can be watched on demand.…
[ad_1] Chu said China was responsible for more than half of the global consumption in the chip industry, yet Chinese local suppliers meet only about 13 percent of the domestic demand. According to Chu, that means Beijing has a massive trade deficit in this space. “That’s a major concern for the government, for the economy,…
[ad_1] I like the peace of mind it gives me, knowing that it’s much harder for someone to break into my most important online accounts, like Google. On the other hand, I’m seriously worried about losing the Titan Security Key. It’s tiny, and while I can connect it to a key-chain, sometimes I accidentally misplace…
[ad_1] Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee carries shopping bags used to fill online orders at an Alibaba Hema Store in Shanghai, China. The stores double as distribution centers, where assigned employees roam around filling bags with online orders, then place them on a conveyor belt to the delivery center. Typically, customers…
[ad_1] Xiaomi sub-brand Poco earlier this month launched its first smartphone, the Poco F1 in India and other markets. Instead of running an untouched version of MIUI, the Poco F1 runs MIUI for Poco, a customised variant of the software on top of Android 8.1 Oreo. The custom Poco Launcher has now been released on…
[ad_1] Chinese wearable technology company Huami is expressing confidence as it expands globally amid the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. The wearable technology company based in California and listed on the New York Stock Exchange makes Xiaomi’s Mi Band. Huami also sells its own Amazefit fitness trackers on the global market alongside the Apple Watch and…
[ad_1] Asus on Thursday announced new laptops in its ZenBook portfolio at its Media Day event at IFA 2018. The Taiwanese company launched its latest laptops in its ZenBook series, ZenBook Flip series, and ZenBook Pro series. Powered by the latest 8th generation Intel Core processor, the new products include ZenBook 13 (UX333), ZenBook 14…
[ad_1] 8K is a new technology and has several potential stumbling blocks that could hamper its adoption. The first is cost. Japan’s Sharp already has a 70-inch 8K TV in the market which costs 11,199 euros in Europe or over $13,000. While Samsung and LG have not yet released prices for their 8K sets, analysts…
[ad_1] Tech’s “next big thing” is looking more like a “maybe in a few more years thing.” Magic Leap, a Florida start-up, has raised $2.3 billion (yes, billion) (roughly Rs. 16,300 crores) from investors on the promise it can mix computer-generated images into regular human sight. Think Pokémon Go built into glasses. Cloaked in secrecy…
[ad_1] If you’ve just bought a 4K TV look away now. Samsung is expected to reveal an all-new 8K television later today at the IFA technology show in Berlin. The Korean technology giant is already teasing fans with giant posted dotted around the event showing what might be to come. Samsung revealed a concept TV…
[ad_1] Flipkart has been seen listing new modes of payments for its customers Flipkart has been spotted listing financing options as new modes of payment, called Flipkart Finance and Flipkart Finance EMI. These options are showing up for select users only, and are ‘unavailable’ for usage as of now. The options are included when the…
[ad_1] Sony likes to announce shiny new devices at the IFA technology show in Berlin and 2018 could see another big unveiling. The Japanese technology firm is holding a major event later today where it may reveal their all-new Xperia XZ3 flagship. There’s only been a few minor leaks about this new device so little is…
[ad_1] Amazon is reportedly looking to strengthen its hold in the ever-growing digital payments space in India by acquiring Tapzo, an India-based app aggregator that allows users to cut down on installing separate apps for different use cases. Tapzo will be taken over by Amazon Pay, the company’s digital payments division, valuing the former at…
[ad_1] Bose are renowned for their noise cancellation technology that have made products like the QuietComfort 35 so popular. But it appears Panasonic and Audio-Technica are eager to draw attention away from the American audio firm with new products announced at IFA 2018. Audio-Technica has shown off a new pair of over-ear headphones it claims…
[ad_1] Canada and its “Five Eyes” intelligence allies are calling on the digital online industry to take urgent action to stop child pornographers, terrorists and violent extremists from finding a platform on the internet. After meetings in Australia, ministers from that country, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S. and U.K., issued a statement claiming the group is…
[ad_1] A pocket of warm ocean water underneath the surface of the Canada Basin could melt a significant portion of the region’s sea ice pack if it were to ascend, a new study suggests. The study, published in Science Advances by researchers from Yale University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, looked at temperatures in the Canada Basin from…
[ad_1] Amazon has added to its growing sports presence, by recruiting former ESPN Executive Vice-President Marie Donoghue to its team as vice president of sports video. The announcement comes as the online giant prepares for another season screening “Thursday Night Fooball” NFL games on its platform and as Amazon Prime members in the U.K. and…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday unblocked some additional Twitter users after a federal judge in May said preventing people from following him violated individuals constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled on May 23 that comments on the president’s account, and those of other government officials, were public forums…
[ad_1] A blockchain start-up dubbed the “world computer” has raised $102 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and crypto hedge fund Polychain Capital, among others. The start-up, Dfinity, will use the money to hire employees and fund other initiatives, founder and chief scientist Dominic Williams told CNBC. Dfinity is trying to build a decentralized cloud…
[ad_1] The desire to conquer aging is an old one. The National Institute on Aging was established by the National Institutes of Health in 1974. Nowadays it has a budget of about $2 billion. But that desire has grown stronger in the 21st century. Some of the reason is out of necessity. The U.S. population…
[ad_1] Apple has acquired a start-up focused on making lenses for augmented reality glasses, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a signal Apple has ambitions to make a wearable device that would superimpose digital information on the real world. Apple confirmed it acquired Longmont, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics. “Apple buys smaller companies from time to time, and…
[ad_1] Many leading companies are increasingly giving parents with young children more time off and adding benefits to allow working parents to balance their dual roles. The effort seems to be working: The labor force participation rate for all women with children under age 18 rose to 71 percent in 2017, up slightly from the…
[ad_1] Bobby Bank | Getty Images EDISON, NJ – NOVEMBER 13: Dennis Hof owner of the ‘Moonlite Bunny Ranch’ and Taylor Lee attend Exxotica Day 1 at New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center on November 13, 2015 in Edison, New Jersey. Much like New York purged the porn from Times Square in the 1990s, HBO…
[ad_1] Google says that it did promote President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech on its homepage in 2018, countering a video he tweeted alongside the hashtag #StopTheBias. President Trump continued his accusations about Google’s anti-conservative bias on Wednesday by tweeting a video that appeared to show how Google promoted former president Barack Obama’s…
[ad_1] Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg joined the board of SurveyMonkey in 2015, shortly after her husband and the company’s CEO, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly while on vacation in Mexico. Sandberg, who now owns 9.9 percent of the company, is giving it all to charity. “Ms. Sandberg plans to donate all shares beneficially owned by her (or…
[ad_1] SurveyMonkey, a company with software that companies can use to get input from employees, customers and others, on Wednesday filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the symbol SVMK. The company is looking to raise as much as $100 million in the deal, according to the filing. In the first half of 2018,…
[ad_1] Amazon just got a little closer to $1 trillion on Wednesday. The e-commerce company rallied after Morgan Stanley became the biggest bull on the Street with its $2,500 price target. Wednesday’s surge added around $32 billion to Amazon’s market cap, putting it less than $30 billion from the $1 trillion level Apple crossed for…
[ad_1] For Amazon, this isn’t the first controversy to flare up over workplace diversity. Last year, a transgender employee in Kentucky’s warehouse filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming workplace discrimination and pay inequality. Roy Price, the former chief of Amazon Studios, also stepped down after being accused of sexual harassment. Earlier this year, a group…
[ad_1] Salesforce shares fell 2 percent Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected revenue for the second quarter of its 2019 fiscal year, which ended on July 31. Executives will discuss the results with analysts on a conference call at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s how Salesforce performed: Earnings: 71 cents per share, excluding certain items.…
[ad_1] Google is making a mistake by not sending CEO Sundar Pichai to testify in front of a Senate committee about election interference, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., told CNBC on Wednesday. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is holding a hearing next week to address the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election…
[ad_1] The U.S. is better prepared to deal with foreign election meddling this November, but the threats may also get worse, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., told CNBC on Wednesday. With midterms just a couple of months away, there has been concern over a repeat of the foreign interference seen in the 2016 presidential election. “Absolutely…
[ad_1] Rather than inviting heavier scrutiny, President Donald Trump‘s accusations that Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet‘s Google are biased may actually protect those companies from regulation, experts say. “In a strange way, the president’s attacks on big tech inoculate them from regulation,” NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.”…
[ad_1] How do search engines decide how to rank news-related results? It’s a top-of-mind question since President Donald Trump accused Google of prioritizing negative coverage from left-leaning outlets on Tuesday , an indictment that appeared to be based on an unscientific report by a conservative news site. Google also denied it uses political bias in…
[ad_1] Advanced Micro Devices is having a bad case of deja vu. A massive 139 percent rally this year has pushed AMD’s stock to its most overbought since before even the dot-com bubble, a peak before its shares crashed. One trader says it could burst again. “It’s had this great run but I do think…
[ad_1] Venture capitalist and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel has made his first six-figure splash in the 2018 midterm election cycle, according to newly posted Federal Election Commission records. The RNC saw Thiel, a billionaire philanthropist who has been conspicuously silent throughout the runup to the congressional midterm elections, give $101,700 to its cause in July.…
[ad_1] The interconnectedness of the cloud has allowed us to share content widely with people inside and outside the organization and across different applications, but that ability has created a problem of its own, a kind of digital fragmentation. How do you track how that piece of content is being used across a range of…
[ad_1] Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, tours the facility at the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, in Seattle, Washington on January 29, 2018. Shares of Amazon rose nearly 2 percent Wednesday after a price target boost from Morgan Stanley, and it’s driving the Nasdaq 100…
[ad_1] Sonos is doubling down on the custom in-home audio market with new products and partnerships. The company today announced a new version of the Sonos Amp and a partnership with Sonance that will result in three architectural speakers — in-wall, in-ceiling and outdoor — that Sonos says will gain additional functionality when paired with…
[ad_1] Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be split over three years and are meant to cover…
[ad_1] Yuriko Nakao | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Elon Musk’s tweets may have him in legal hot water. Vernon Unsworth, a British cave explorer who was assisting in the rescue of a Thai youth soccer team trapped in a cave in July, is preparing a civil…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A sign is posted outside of the PayPal headquarters on April 9, 2018 in San Jose, California. PayPal shares will rise due to the strength of its core payment platform, according to Jefferies. The firm reiterates its buy rating for PayPal shares, predicting it will grow faster than the…
[ad_1] Sinemia continues its campaign to take advantage of MoviePass’ high-profile struggles and win over the better-known movie ticket subscription service’s customers. Today, it announced a new plan priced at $9.99 per month. MoviePass, after all, recently announced that it would be keeping its monthly subscription price at $9.95, but limiting subscribers to three movies…
[ad_1] Nintendo’s first original Android and iOS game is called Dragalia Lost. Announced earlier in the year, the company finally revealed a release date this week. The Dragalia Lost release date is September 27. It will be available in the US, Japan, Hong Kong, and Macau on that date. Other regions should follow soon after.…
[ad_1] “It’s certainly hard to fight the stock,” said Matt Maley, equity strategist at Miller Tabak, Tuesday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation,” noting that his firm reiterated its bullish call on the stock in May as it broke out to new highs. Over the past three months, Apple has surged 17 percent in the second-best Dow…
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[ad_1] Surprise, the AirPort Express isn’t dead! While Apple stopped selling AirPort products back in April, the company is still updating the firmware of the once beloved AirPort Express. This firmware update is quite significant as it adds support for AirPlay 2 and the Home app. In other words, you can now plug speakers to…
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding “fair media” coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without providing evidence or giving details of action he might take. Trump’s attack against the Alphabet unit follows a string of grievances against technology companies, including social media Twitter and…
[ad_1] Perhaps the most visible example is Calico, short for the California Life Company, a spin-out from Google launched in 2013 and funded with $1.5 billion to study the causes of aging and what to do about them. “People in Silicon Valley look at problems as solvable, with enough time and enough steps,” said Kevin…
[ad_1] Netflix is by far the biggest name in the video streaming market, with over 130 million members. It has achieved that position for several reasons, by producing a series of acclaimed and hit original shows, first from the US and then from all around the world since its worldwide expansion in 2016; and providing…
[ad_1] Federal and provincial government staff are raising concerns about the potential impact on health and the environment of a proposed spaceport on the southeastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, with one staffer warning the project could result in ecological harm that would take centuries to repair. Government staff made submissions to Nova Scotia’s Environment Department in…
[ad_1] Wear OS, Google’s smartphone operating system that was once called Android Wear, is getting a new look today. Google says the overall idea here is to give you quicker access to information and more proactive help. In line with the Google Fit redesign, Wear OS now also provides you with the same kind of…
[ad_1] Alphabet’s Google said on Tuesday it is partnering with a handful of Indian banks to bring quick loans to the masses, as it aims to woo tens of millions of new Internet users in the country to its digital payments services. At an annual Google event in New Delhi, Caesar Sengupta, the Vice-President of Google’s…
[ad_1] The accelerating success of Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, spells big upside for stakeholders, according to Morgan Stanley. The bank raised its price target for the tech titan to $1,515, the highest forecast of any Wall Street brokerage and implying more than 20 percent upside over the next 12 months. For analyst Brian Nowak,…
[ad_1] Xiaomi is all set to unveil its Mi Pay digital payments platform in India, if a new report is to be believed. Launched initially in China in 2016, Mi Pay is said to arrive in India powered by the Indian government’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in an attempt to take on the likes of…
[ad_1] Yahoo is scanning people’s email for information to sell to advertisers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The tech giant scans more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for information about what people have bought, such as receipts from department stores or automotive loan companies, the Journal reported Tuesday. Executives at…
[ad_1] Cloudian, a company that specializes in helping businesses store petabytes of data, today announced that it has raised a $94 million Series E funding round. Investors in this round, which is one of the largest we have seen for a storage vendor, include Digital Alpha, Fidelity Eight Roads, Goldman Sachs, INCJ, JPIC (Japan Post Investment Corporation),…
[ad_1] After being asked by the central government to take steps to stop the spread of disinformation on its platform, WhatsApp on Wednesday roped in New Delhi-based non-profit Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) to create awareness among its users about the need to verify information. “Our goal is to help keep people safe by creating greater…
[ad_1] Morgan Stanley is getting more bullish on Amazon shares even after its stunning gains so far this year. The firm reiterated its overweight rating and increased its price target for Amazon shares to $2,500 from $1,850, representing 29 percent upside to Tuesday’s close. It is the highest target out of the 41 analysts who…
[ad_1] Amazon.com, looking for ways to offer more films on its streaming service, has held discussions with at least two major Hollywood studios about options that could include co-financing movies in exchange for certain online rights, according to people familiar with the matter. The company held exploratory talks with executives at Sony Corp.’s studio division…
[ad_1] Apple is widely presumed to debut three new iPhone models next month. Express.co.uk has predicted a hardware event will take place at Apple’s Cupertino campus on September 12 that will reveal all. The first new smartphone is said to be a direct successor to the current iPhone X, meaning it will retain the same…
[ad_1] China’s dominant ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing Technology Co said on Tuesday it would prioritise safety over growth as a measure of success after a 20-year-old passenger was murdered by her Didi driver last week. The case sparked outrage on social media and concerns over safety issues in the fast-growing ride-hailing sector in China, prompting Didi…
[ad_1] With the discovery of two dinosaur fossils in China, scientists think they have found the 70-million-year “missing link” between markedly different dinosaurs from the late Jurassic and the upper Cretaceous periods. The two species, called Bannykus and Xiyunykus, were members of the alvarezsaurid group of dinosaurs, insectivores that had short arms and small hands with one enlarged finger. But they came from…
[ad_1] Ahead of IFA 2018, Dell on Wednesday launched a slew of devices expanding its Inspiron, XPS, and Vostro portfolio. It has also launched its first Inspiron Chromebook, a new Dell 27 USB-C Ultrathin Monitor, and a line of SE monitors for catering to everyday computing needs. While some products are made available immediately, some…
[ad_1] Over the weekend, Chinese social media erupted with posts echoing the “Delete Uber” movement. This time, the heat was on China’s dominant ride hailing company, Didi Chuxing. A woman was allegedly raped and killed Friday by a driver for Didi’s carpooling service in eastern China. The company’s apparent failure to respond promptly to the…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Tuesday announced the introduction of newer capabilities that will arrive on its apps over the next few weeks and months. These include native video and audio transcription support on Microsoft’s OneDrive and SharePoint, AI-based audio, video, and image recognition and extraction in OneDrive and SharePoint, and a new intelligent files view on…
[ad_1] Elon Musk has revived the controversy over comments he made in July about a British spelunker involved in the Thai cave rescue mission. The Tesla chief executive said in a tweet late Tuesday that it was “strange” that cave diver Vernon Unsworth had not sued him for calling Unsworth a “pedo guy” on Twitter.…
[ad_1] Photo-messaging app Snapchat is the most preferred social networking platform among US teenagers, surpassing the user base of Facebook and Instagram in that age-category, says a new study. In 2018, 16.4 million 12 to 17-year-olds are likely to use Snapchat, compared with 12.8 million for Instagram, according to the analysis by market research company…
[ad_1] While Ofo and Mobike have a heavy presence in China’s top cities, Hellobike is trying to take market share in the country’s smaller, more rural cities. The start-up says it is present in 300 Chinese cities and claims that users take around 20 million rides on their bicycles daily. He explained the decision to…
[ad_1] Samsung has launched a new portable X-series NVMe-based SSD featuring Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. Said to be the company’s first NVMe-based portable solid state drive (SSD), the Samsung Portable SSD X5 is aimed at content creators and IT professionals. The Portable SSD X5 comes in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB variants. Thanks to Thunderbolt 3 connectivity…
[ad_1] There’s no question that Samsung has a hit on its hands with the new Galaxy Note 9. This latest device comes packed with a swathe of new features and an immense amount of power. In fact, tucked under the glass and metal body is a new processor, 4,000mAh battery and up to 512GB of…
[ad_1] Verizon’s Oath, owner of Yahoo and AOL, is reportedly scanning emails to sell rich data to advertisers. The company is pitching this data to advertisers, as it includes a rich pool full of information on buying habits, customer interests, and other consumer product related matters. Oath reportedly is pitching data from almost 200 million…
[ad_1] O2 says it wants to “shake up the old habits of the mobile industry” by launching a new way for customers to pay for their smartphone. The service, which launches today, allows O2 pay monthly users to tailor their plans to suit what they actually need and can afford to pay. This means anyone…
[ad_1] Human rights groups and other advocacy organisations Tuesday urged Google to abandon any plans to craft a censored version of its search engine that could pass muster with regulators in China. A reported Dragonfly project, which Google has not publicly confirmed, “would represent an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights,” argued a letter…
[ad_1] Despite huge improvements to battery technology, smartphones not lasting a day is something many owners still face on regular basis. Luckily, it seems Apple could be about to help extend battery life on its all-new iPhone X. This device looks set to launch in the next few weeks and it could feature an improved A12…
[ad_1] The Telegram encrypted messenger app said Tuesday said it would cooperate with investigators in terror probes when ordered by courts, except in Russia where it is locked in an ongoing battle with authorities. The company founded by Russian Pavel Durov has refused to provide authorities in the country with a way to read its…
[ad_1] Apple has been widely rumoured to launch three new iPhones in September; one will be a direct successor to the current iPhone X while another will keep the same aesthetic but come in a much bigger size. The third device is said to be a cheaper iPhone model that will forgo some premium features…
[ad_1] In a new development, Facebook apparently removed all cross-posted tweets from its site temporarily. All the tweets that users had shared on Facebook, with the cross-posting option, were no longer showing up in memories, and the comments and likes associated with that post had disappeared. Facebook acknowledged the issue, and said that it was…
[ad_1] Blockchain technology offers the promise of more efficient and accurate processes because of how it works. And for governments that is exciting given the amount of data that they hold on citizens and how they are pushing to digitize much of that. Nations are also responsible for a massive amount of record-keeping which could…
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump stepped up attacks on big tech firms Tuesday, warning Facebook, Google and Twitter to be “careful,” hours after slamming what he called “rigged” Internet search results. Trump offered no details on what if any actions he might take, but a top White House aide suggested the administration may look at…
[ad_1] With Amazon’s Echo continuing to dominate it seems Bose now wants a slice of the smart speaker market. The audio experts have just announced the launch of their new Bose Home Speaker 500 which not only includes powerful sound but also has Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant baked in. This means the new wireless speaker…
[ad_1] While iPhone sales seem to be facing strong headwinds in India, Apple seems to be having better luck promoting Indian talent on its services like Apple Music and the App Store. “Hundreds” of Indian artists have gained popularity on Apple Music through its efforts like Hear it Here First (HIHF) and New Artist Spotlight.…
[ad_1] Tesla Motors Canada has won its case against the Ontario government over electric vehicle rebates. “We’re pleased with the Court’s decision to strike down the [Ontario government’s] transition plan as unfair and unlawful,” a Tesla representative said in a statement Monday night. Ontario Superior Court Judge Frederick Myers ruled Monday that the provincial government’s decision…
[ad_1] Instagram on Tuesday set out to thwart duplicity with an option to authenticate high-profile accounts at the Facebook-owned image or video sharing social network. Blue badges displayed at Instagram accounts will indicate holders have gone through a verification process that includes providing photos of identity documentation, according to chief technology officer Mike Krieger. “Keeping…
[ad_1] As the director of the University of Calgary’s Running Injury Clinic, Reed Ferber noticed something way back in 2009. “Runners were using wearable technology — the Nike chip was the first type of wearable technology. They were not going on their runs if they forgot their device at home,” Ferber said. “So [I realized]…
[ad_1] For decades, scientists have predicted that B.C. would experience longer, more intense wildfire seasons as the climate warms. But the destruction of the last two years is still a bit surprising. According to Chilliwack fire ecologist Robert Gray, the scale of the wildfire emergencies we’ve lived through in 2017 and 2018 wasn’t expected for…
[ad_1] Investigators are on their way to Kugaaruk, Nunavut, after a passenger boat ran aground in the area. On Aug. 24, the passenger vessel Akademik Ioffe ran aground in the western Gulf of Boothia. The 162 passengers, including tourists, scientists, Canadians and international passengers, have all been brought to safety and the boat has been refloated. Transportation…
[ad_1] Microsoft today announced a couple of AI-centric updates for OneDrive and SharePoint users with an Office 365 subscription that bring more of the company’s machine learning smarts to its file storage services. All of these features will launch at some point later this year. With the company’s Ignite conference in Orlando coming up next…
[ad_1] Scientists who are trying to treat an ailing killer whale off the Washington state coast are looking at injecting the animal with a second dose of antibiotics and a deworming drug. For the past few weeks, the endangered female orca known as J-50 has been at the centre of an international rescue effort. She was…
[ad_1] In another sign of the growing clout of Chinese technology giants, many local banks are looking to the firms for help rather than build their own in-house services. It’s not that banks in the world’s second-largest economy are at risk of being replaced or disrupted. Rather, they are under pressure to work closely with…
[ad_1] The activity is a rare sign of organized dissent within Facebook over the company’s largely liberal workplace culture. While the new group is just a sliver of Facebook’s work force of more than 25,000, the company’s workers have in the past appeared less inclined than their peers at other tech companies to challenge leadership,…
[ad_1] Best Buy shares tumbled is Tuesday’s premarket even though the electronics retailer reported second-quarter earnings and sales that topped analysts’ expectations. The company also raised its full-year profit outlook, building on its strong performance during the first six months of the year. Still, the retailer’s stock fell more than 6 percent in early trading,…
[ad_1] Box shares dropped as much as 6 percent after the company reported earnings for the second quarter of its 2019 fiscal year and offered slightly weak guidance for the third quarter. Here’s how Box did in its second quarter, which ended July 31: Earnings: Loss of 5 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs.…
[ad_1] About half of Californians working in the gig economy are struggling with poverty and a majority of the residents say the American Dream is harder to achieve in their state than elsewhere in the United States, according to a survey released Tuesday. Nearly one in 10 adult residents of California currently work in the…
[ad_1] Raters measure the authoritativeness, expertise and the trustworthiness of the sources that appear in search results. Google suggests that raters consider recommendations from professional societies and experts to determine a page’s authority. Examples of high-quality news sources include ones that have won Pulitzer Prizes, that clearly label advertising as such, and that garner positive…
[ad_1] “If you have ever watched smoke billowing from a wildfire, ash erupting from a volcano, or dust blowing in the wind, you have seen aerosols,” says a blog post accompanying the image. Indeed: In the top left corner of the visualization, which represents the particles of the Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday, August 23, the…
[ad_1] A group of U.S. and Canadian regulators could put a big dent in the cryptocurrency fundraising boom. The North American Securities Administrators Association said Tuesday it had expanded the number of investigations into initial coin offerings to 200 after starting “operation crypto sweep” in May with 70 active cases. In an ICO, coins or…
[ad_1] Almost exactly a year after kicking off its 8th Generation Core lineup, Intel has made the unusual move of announcing a second family of CPUs based on a refreshed architecture, but under the same 8th Gen umbrella. The new CPUs will fill out Intel’s 15W portfolio for Ultrabooks, internally known as the U-series. There’s…
[ad_1] Bloomberg | Getty Images Antonio Neri, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, speaks at the 2017 HP Discover 2017 conference in Las Vegas. Hewlett Packard Enterprise stock rose on Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended on July 31. The company will hold a…
[ad_1] Elon Musk was up early on Saturday. He departed Los Angeles, where he runs SpaceX, his private rocket venture, and flew north in his white Gulfstream jet. Stopping in Silicon Valley, he picked up two engineers from Tesla, his electric-car company. They flew on to Reno, Nev., where they spent the day at Tesla’s…
[ad_1] Alphabet‘s self-driving cars are annoying their neighbors in Chandler, Arizona. More than a dozen locals who work near Waymo’s ofice gave The Information the same unequivocal assessment of the cars, which reportedly struggle to cross a T-intersection there: “I hate them.” One woman said that she almost hit one of the company’s minivans because…
[ad_1] Despite Toogood’s bearish thoughts on Tesla’s auto manufacturing abilities, the analyst said there was “hope” for the firm in its self-driving technology. “The only bit that has got hope is the autonomous driving,” Toogood said, adding, “(but) the idea to compete on a platform basis with cars; it’s losing money every time it sells…
[ad_1] Locuri de munca in strainatate — or “jobs abroad” in Romanian — is one of several widely followed Facebook pages that target workers from eastern Europe with adverts for jobs in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and France. The page’s profile picture shows a woman in a shower cap carrying a pallet of strawberries;…
[ad_1] Christie Hemm Klok | The New York Times Instagram’s founders, Kevin Systrom, left, and Mike Krieger, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., April 24, 2017. Instagram, now with 700 million users, resembles Facebook in 2009 to 2012, when it went from being something people used occasionally to something they use every day.…
[ad_1] “We started talking to vendors and found a lot of excitement around solving and addressing these problems,” said Guy Mordecai, Facebook product lead for Express Wi-Fi. “What got us primarily excited that this is actually great that a) we could improve the experience b) leverage staff to get involved in markets c) it creates…
[ad_1] “The impact of the rise in the prices of Google Maps APIs is huge. We [would] either like to switch off our website or find an other solution,” says Petri Karjalainen of Naturist BnB, an accommodation booking platform for naturists. “We are definitely not going to continue with Google Maps. Our revenue can not…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Technicians work on machinery at the Applied Materials facility in Santa Clara, California. Applied Materials’ profitability is near its peak and will not rise from current levels, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm lowered its rating to neutral from buy for the semiconductor…
[ad_1] Android One is one of a handful of Google projects aimed at helping the mobile operating system run better on entry level devices. As such, those handsets that qualify for the program are generally pretty middling, at best. But LG’s G7 One bucks the trend, with some specs that wouldn’t be out of place…
[ad_1] Thousands of Chinese users have pledged to delete the country’s most popular ride-hailing app after another woman was allegedly murdered while using its Hitch car-pooling service. Didi Chuxing came under fire from netizens, state media and regulators alike over the weekend after the customer was allegedly killed despite an earlier passenger complaining about the…
[ad_1] SoftBank senior managing partner Deep Nishar said he spent months researching the genome sequencing space before deciding to cut his first life sciences check to 10x in spring 2016. In his view, it’s a complement to the most powerful public company in the space, Illumina. While Illumina makes the machines that interpret DNA and…
[ad_1] At I/O 2016, Google unveiled its own voice assistant Google Assistant, and made it available in Allo chat app and the Google Home smart speaker initially. It is now available on most Android phones out there, and is regularly updated with more features. India has been a priority for Google since the start, and…
[ad_1] Kidney dialysis machines are bulky and expensive, and haven’t changed much in decades. But a company called Outset Medical has been working on an upgrade so that someday soon patients will be able to get lifesaving treatment at home rather than at the hospital. Outset’s technology works through a combination of software and sensors…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Android Police Facebook has listed about 17 notification options you can toggle on or off. In a new development, Facebook has finally introduced support for Android notification channels. This support was launched by Google with Android Oreo, and it basically allows users to decide which notifications they should receive from a specific…
[ad_1] Yet despite the position gaining in popularity — there are 16,000 listings on LinkedIn for chief of staff jobs — there’s still no one direct route or a specific career path for it. “There’s no class to take to become a chief of staff,” said Parris. Some people, like Berardi, have worked with the…
[ad_1] “You can’t hack what isn’t there,” Very Good Security co-founder Mahmoud Abdelkader tells me. His startup assumes the liability of storing sensitive data for other companies, substituting dummy credit card or Social Security numbers for the real ones. Then when the data needs to be moved or operated on, VGS injects the original info…
[ad_1] Adobe on Tuesday announced that its UX design software Adobe XD is opening up its platform to allow users to customise their design tools with the help of third-party, community-created plugins. Using the opened up Adobe XD APIs, developers now have the ability to build new features and capabilities atop Adobe XD. The American…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Google rolled out a series of search tools Monday to help military veterans find better jobs after returning to civilian life, the company said in a blog post. Former…
[ad_1] Google has announced that the Duo app is getting video calling support for Android tablets and even the iPad. The video calling app’s latest update brings tablet support, and the update is rolling out to all Android tablet and iPad users over the next few days. A few months ago, select Android tablet users…
[ad_1] “I was infuriated beyond belief because everyone told me that it was an impossible car to work on” he said. They were wrong. “When I opened it up, I find out that it’s the easiest car I’ve ever worked on. Easiest device I’ve ever worked on. They built a Lego car. It’s like putting…
[ad_1] The 2018 edition of the Google for India event was held in New Delhi on Tuesday. The fourth edition for this India-exclusive event saw a number of announcements including new features and a rebranding for Google Tez, Project Navlekha, and new capabilities for Google Go. Apart from all this, the tech giant also announced…
[ad_1] Tech companies rely heavily on H-1B visas to hire foreign talent. In 2017, Amazon, Microsoft, Accenture, IBM and Deloitte were in the top 20 employers hiring H-1B visa holders. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, has said that his company may be forced to move jobs out of the U.S. if work…
[ad_1] At Gamescom 2018 last week, Nvidia lifted the lid on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080, and GeForce RTX 2070 with a release date of September 20. The GeForce RTX series is based on an architecture codenamed Turing that merges conventional graphics rasterisation, real-time ray tracing, AI, and compute power for…
[ad_1] Bernd von Jutrczenka | dpa | picture alliance | Getty Images Donald Trump, President of The United States, speaks at a press conference at the end of the NATO summit, July 12, 2018. President Donald Trump accused Google of altering search results to prioritize negative coverage and left-leaning outlets on Tuesday. Trump said in…
[ad_1] Uber said on Monday it would appeal a ruling by a labour court in Brazil in favour of a driver who demanded to be considered an employee of the ride-hailing app, whose labour model views drivers as independent contractors. The ruling, however, will not be implemented until all appeals have been made, the judge…
[ad_1] Mark Groden has always looked to the sky. He grew up in the Midwest, and his family moved 13 times. “That meant a large part of my childhood was sitting in the back seat of a car looking out the window, just very frustrated with the state of transportation,” said Groden, CEO and founder…
[ad_1] Another analyst has Huawei overtaking Apple in the global smartphone rankings for the second quarter this year. The latest figures from Gartner put Huawei ahead on sales to end users in Q2. Overall, Gartner says sales of smartphones to end users grew 2% in the quarter, to reach 374 million units. The analyst pegs the…
[ad_1] Update to the latest version of Gboard to get Minis stickers feature. Google has introduced AI-powered custom emoji stickers on Gboard, enabling users to create lookalike emojis to use and share with their friends. Calling them ‘Minis’ stickers, these new personalised selfie stickers are made from your selfie photo. To recall, they were first…
[ad_1] The world’s best Tennis stars are battling it out in New York for the US Open which, this year, is being broadcast live on Amazon Prime. Amazon secured the broadcasting rights from Sky Sports last year and will be streaming matches online. New York marks the final destination for major Tennis tournaments in 2018,…
[ad_1] Even Google knows its products are addictive. As part of its efforts to promote a digital wellbeing, Google has decided it will show you the amount of time you spend binge-watching on YouTube, a feature that’s rolling out globally on both Android and iOS versions of the app from Monday. In its blog post…
[ad_1] At its annual Google for India event on Tuesday, the technology giant announced several key Next Billion Users initiatives relevant to the Indian market. Google, at the event, showcased its efforts in the country and provided a look at all the new features that have been developed with Indian users in mind. While the…
[ad_1] The Pixel 3 looks set to be one of the most exciting phones of 2018. Google is rumoured to be refreshing its own-brand phone with a faster processor, better camera and new all-screen design. Recently leaked images have shown a the larger XL sporting a giant edge-to-edge screen and small notch at the top…
[ad_1] E-commerce giant Amazon on Tuesday announced the introduction of bill payments facility, powered by its Amazon Pay platform in India. This will allow Amazon.in users to pay their electricity, landline, broadband, gas, and postpaid bills for more than 100 billers including BSES, Tata Power, BESCOM, BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance Jio, ACT Fibernet, Hathway, IGL,…
[ad_1] A boxing bout between YouTube celebrities Logan Paul and KSI has appalled aficionados of the noble art but left the two protagonists laughing all the way to the bank. More than 15,000 fans crowded into Britain’s Manchester Arena on Saturday to watch boxing novices Paul and KSI – real name Olatunji Olajide – clamber…
[ad_1] Billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer is betting his money on U.S. and Chinese technology companies in the next ten years and would rather see cooperation between the world’s two largest economies instead of “outright competition.” Breyer, who is the founder and CEO of Breyer Capital and an early investor in Facebook, told CNBC that…
[ad_1] Google claims that over 1.2 million small businesses in India are already using Google Tez. Google Tez will now be rebranded to Google Pay, the company announced at the 2018 edition of the Google for India event held in New Delhi on Tuesday. Rich interactions are coming to Google Pay, and Google aims to…
[ad_1] A new ride-hailing app that caters to women by allowing both drivers and riders to choose their preferred gender of the person who will be sharing their vehicle is on its way to the District and – who knows? – maybe even the Supreme Court. The new service, Safr, is built on the idea…
[ad_1] Uber is teaming up with Toyota to build self-driving cars for its ride-hailing service after its efforts to do it alone were derailed by a fatal collision and allegations of high-tech theft. Toyota, based in Japan, is also investing $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,500 crores) in Uber as part of the alliance announced Monday.…
[ad_1] Berkshire Hathaway invested Rs. 25 billion ($356 million) in the Indian company behind digital payments firm Paytm, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal, in a foray by the conglomerate into India and the financial payments industry. Billionaire Chairman Warren Buffett’s assistant, Debbie Bosanek, confirmed Berkshire’s investment in India’s One97 Communications in an email.…
[ad_1] The launch of Patanjali Ayurved’s WhatsApp-rival Kimbho app is in limbo as it missed the official roll-out date on Monday. “We will announce new date of official launch asap,” Patanjali Ayurved Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna, who earlier this month declared the August 27 launch date, said in a tweet on Monday. The “swadeshi” app…
[ad_1] A bewildering array of digital payment businesses from global names like Facebook’s WhatsApp to Google are in a slugfest to win Indian users. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has acquired a stake in the company behind payments leader Paytm, people familiar with the matter said this week. Other big-name players are expanding in India’s digital…
[ad_1] Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images A sign that reads, ‘Spread Love Not Hate!!,’ calling for an end to gun violence as the gaming community deals with the aftermath of a shooting during a Madden 19 video game tournament which killed 3 people including the gunman on Aug. 27, 2018. Video…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is used by an estimated 1.5billion people, making it the world’s most popular messaging service. The Facebook-owned chat client is renowned for its easy to use interface, end-to-end encryption and group chat features. But in November the service is introducing two huge changes that will affect all Android users. WhatsApp allows Android owners…
[ad_1] The competition was seen as an ideal way to mark the centenary of the RAF, which was formed on April 1, 1918, while the First World War was still raging. Among the vast portfolio of dramatic images is a spectacular selfie by RAF photographer Corporal Tim Laurence in a Hawk T2 as he banked,…
[ad_1] Terra Nova National Park is hoping hundreds of metres of fencing will protect stunted trees from hungry moose. The park has constructed an eight-hectare moose exclosure, and has planted thousands of balsam fir seedlings inside, in an attempt to regenerate a forest in an open meadow that’s been hit hard by big moose appetites.…
[ad_1] A Lakehead University associate professor has helped shed new light on what, exactly, happened to the members of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 expedition to the Arctic. For years, the speculation has been that lead poisoning played a major role in the deaths of the expedition’s members. However, the new research suggests that wasn’t the case.…
[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk should not step down, but the board should really consider regulating Musk’s Twitter use and appointing Musk a “No. 2,” Jim Press, former COO and president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., told CNBC on Monday. “Twitter helps instantly communicate, so there are some advantages to it, but it needs to…
[ad_1] A team of researchers has come a little closer to solving the mystery of how light exerts force on matter, which has been puzzling scientists for hundreds of years. A team including Kenneth Chau, an associate professor of engineering at the University of British Columbia’s Kelowna campus, recently published a three-year study on the topic, which involved tuning in to the…
[ad_1] Facebook said Monday that it is banning Myanmar’s powerful military chief and 19 other individuals and organizations from its site to prevent the spread of hate and misinformation. The social media giant was heavily criticized for permitting itself to be used to inflame ethnic and religious conflict in the country, particularly against minority Rohingya…
[ad_1] David McNew | AFP | Getty Images Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils large utility scale home batteries at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, April 30, 2015. Wall Street is making the case for an Apple–Tesla investment, and the automaker’s decision to stay public might force Tesla to make a deal, venture…
[ad_1] Advanced Micro Devices is the hottest stock of the year. It’s the best performer on the S&P 500 for 2018 by a mile. Its 146 percent surge since January is far better than the second-best S&P 500 performer, Abiomed, which has increased 105 percent. One technician sees the possibility of a move back to…
[ad_1] Microsoft just turned the Xbox into a subscription service and will sell it like Apple sells iPhones. Here’s how it works: You can pick either a Microsoft Xbox One S or the more powerful Xbox One X. Instead of buying it outright, however, as you might typically have with any other game console, you’ll…
[ad_1] The British ambassador to the United States is taking a road trip this week across the Midwestern states in a borrowed electric Jaguar to meet with states that are maintaining high clean energy standards even as the Trump administration rolls back federal environmental rules. “You have to be encouraged by the number of U.S.…
[ad_1] Shares of chipmaker AMD rose more than 6 percent Monday, trading at a 12-year high. That extends last week’s momentum for a third straight day of strong returns. On Friday, shares closed up 7.6 percent after a positive analyst outlook. That followed a 6.7-percent gain Thursday after Rosenblatt Securities raised its price target for…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump‘s trade triumph got off to an awkward start Monday. After a week of mostly bad news for the president, the White House scheduled an on-camera announcement of a trade agreement with Mexico that moves the neighbors closer to replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement. As part of the press event,…
[ad_1] Toyota is eyeing a $500 million investment in ride-hailing giant Uber at an eye-popping valuation of $72 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. That’s a significant jump from Uber’s most recently stated valuation of $62 billion, based on a self-reported tender offer from the end of the first quarter. The company lost $659…
[ad_1] VMware is hosting its VMworld customer conference in Las Vegas this week, and to get things going it announced that its acquiring Boston-based CloudHealth Technologies. They did not disclose the terms of the deal, but Reuters is reporting the price is $500 million. CloudHealth provides VMware with a crucial multi-cloud management platform that works…
[ad_1] Source: Kamenev | Wikipedia Commons 3D printed gun, “The Liberator”. A U.S. judge in Seattle has blocked the Trump administration from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceable 3D guns. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia had sought an injunction to stop a settlement that the government had reached…
[ad_1] Tesla shares dropped Monday following CEO Elon Musk‘s Friday night reversal on taking the electric car company private. “I think it’s still true that the company should be a private company,” Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster told CNBC on Monday. “That said, it’s just simply not in the cards and sets up what I think…
[ad_1] Amazon Web Services has emerged as a dominant force in cloud computing by hosting other companies’ technology infrastructure in its massive data centers. But AWS is also rolling out services for companies who do it the old way. On Monday, Amazon and VMware introduced a version of Amazon’s cloud-based database management software that’s meant…
[ad_1] Calm, the meditation app valued at $250m, is pursuing acquisitions and considering entering retail as part of its quest to become “the Nike of the mind”. The San Francisco-based start-up wants to become a flagship brand for mindfulness, inspired by the sportswear maker and the Virgin conglomerate. The Calm app includes guided daily 10-minute…
[ad_1] Apple will announce three new iPhones during its press event next month, according to Bloomberg. Apple has yet to announce the date when it will unveil its new phones, though it typically does so in early September. The company is reportedly planning to launch three new iPhone models, including one with a 6.5-inch display,…
[ad_1] Microsoft published a news item announcing Xbox All Access on the Xbox blog and then unpublished it. But multiple news outlets spotted the article before Microsoft could take the post down. So now that the cat is out of the bag, it looks like Microsoft’s new hardware and software subscription is real. There have…
[ad_1] Elon Musk‘s hubris after his now-infamous tweet about possibly taking Tesla private could come back to haunt him with regulators, former Securities and Exchange Commission official Teresa Goody told CNBC on Monday. The Tesla co-founder and CEO abandoned the idea late Friday, just weeks after he took to Twitter on Aug. 7, writing he’s…
[ad_1] Kamen and his wife Jill, both founders of the Kamen Brain Tumor Foundation, are committed to the promise of precision medicine. Their foundation recently provided funding to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to continue its research on immunotherapy — testing chemotherapy agents in the lab beforehand to see if they can cross the blood-brain barrier.…
[ad_1] Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat has reportedly joined hands with third-party service TuneMoji to allow users to post musical Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs) to a personal chat as well as to their Stories. TuneMoji shows a searchable gallery of GIFs which users would be able to set to different licensed songs and sounds from which…
[ad_1] “The supposed ‘Photonic Lightfield Chips’ are just waveguides paired with reflective sequential-color LCOS displays and LED illumination, the same technology everyone else has been using for years, including Microsoft in their last-gen HoloLens,” Luckey wrote. Luckey also said Magic Leap’s LuminOS, the software that powers the Magic Leap One, is just a customized version…
[ad_1] A new report from Bloomberg confirms previous rumors and lines up with Ming-Chi Kuo’s original report from November 2017. It sounds likely that Apple is going to introduce three new phones in September — an updated iPhone X, a bigger phone and a successor to the iPhone 8 with the iPhone X design. The…
[ad_1] The original Apple 1 computer, which is still fully functional, is set to go on sale in September and could fetch more than $300,000 (roughly Rs. 2.1 crores), the media reported. Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the 1970s, the rare computer is being auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction and is one…
[ad_1] Gmail received a huge redesign back in April and introduced a host of new functions that radically altered how the client worked. In addition to bringing a new “confidential mode”, Gmail also received a design refresh that made the app look more modern than ever. But by far one of the most useful new…