(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Congress on Thursday asked the Justice Department to clarify how a looming rule change to the government’s hacking powers could impact privacy rights of innocent Americans. The change, due to take place on December 1, would … | Continue reading
Nintendo CEO Tatsumi Kimishima has hinted that there's more to the company's upcoming console, the Switch, than it revealed in the brief video introduction last week. "By no means was that everything," Kimishima told Bloomberg, suggesting that the tablet-style core unit and detac … | Continue reading
Key Highlights ETH price attempted once again to trade higher against the US Dollar, but failed. There is one more bearish trend line formed, which is just below this week’s highlighted bearish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed via SimpleFX) of ETH/USD. As long as the pri … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, a “hub for entrepreneurship” in the center of Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh campus, was officially launched in an event attended by upwards of 600 students, alums, and professors. They’ll have even more to celeb … | Continue reading
Eight in 10 residents made a digital purchase in the previous year, and purchase frequency is up. Mobile shopping and buying are climbing sharply, too, while fewer consumers use desktop and laptop PCs for digital commerce | Continue reading
Millennials are more likely than baby boomers and Gen Xers to like the idea of drone delivery services, June 2016 research indicates. Interestingly—and at the same time not necessarily surprisingly—most boomers dislike the concept. | Continue reading
Linear TV viewing is primarily a primetime affair in China, according to January 2016 research that found most internet users watch between 6pm and 10pm locally—and very few do at any other time. That translates into a majority of internet users watching less than 3 hours o … | Continue reading
Advertisers are keen on collecting audience insight wherever possible, but as technology evolves, options exist for consumers to take them off their trail and ensure privacy. According to October research, 20% of iOS devices in the US have been opted-in to the OS’s limit ad … | Continue reading
Jeff Wellington, vice president and group publisher at Meredith Parents Network, spoke to eMarketer about what the media company is doing to connect with millennial mothers, and what makes this group of mothers unique. | Continue reading
Personal details of over half a million Red Cross blood donors has been leaked online in a mass security breach in Australia. The breach meant 550,000 citizens (out of 1.3 million available records) had private information such as their address, contact details, blood type and de … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is enjoying stronger bullish pressure that's pushing it up on a much steeper climb lately.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 10/28/2016 – Steeper Climb in Play appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We include news stories by VentureBeat staff, guest articles fro … | Continue reading
Tesla posted an appetizer of sorts for its event tomorrow, via a blog post that details Powerpack 2, the second iteration of Tesla’s commercial and utility energy storage solution. The Powerpack 2 actually started shipping quietly in September, with a brand new energy module on b … | Continue reading
With startups launching every day, the web design business is in high demand. However, if you want to make your own startup succeed when 75 percent fail, you need to make your web design business shine. Below are four crucial elements of a successful web design business. | Continue reading
Apple announced it’s new MacBook line, and as they seem to do with every major product release, they’ve dropped something people take for…Continue reading on JavaScript Scene » | Continue reading
At its “October 27 Mac event” in Cupertino today, Apple announced its 2016 MacBook Pro lineup (read our hands-on). There are three models to choose from, and it’s not a very easy decision to make. Preorders begin today, and the devices will begin shipping in a few weeks. Before y … | Continue reading
In the second Apple event in the past two month, Tim Cook ceremoniously took the stage today at Apple HQ to keep us posted on what the company has been working on. The event opened with a moving message toward making Apple technology accessible to all without too much detail on h … | Continue reading
How do you get excited about a new snack food or laundry detergent when virtual reality, artificial intelligence and autonomous cars dominate the news? It’s easy: Because consumer goods impact every facet of our lives, from our personal health and comfort to how we socialize with … | Continue reading
The MacBook Pro finally has a touchscreen — just not the one you think.With the Touch Bar, Apple pulls of a nearly perfect double backflip into the world of touch computers (without acknowledging that people would ever want to touch their displays).It's a touchscreen in a laptop, … | Continue reading
Apple unveiled a brand new Macbook Pro, featuring the revolutionary "Touch Bar" and lighter design. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Touch Bar, Macbook Pro, Apple, and Real Time | Continue reading
It's been a big 24 hours for Apple, and the good news has rippled all the way down to little old Australia. A New York City keynote address saw the brand introduce their new MacBook Pro to the world, complete with Touch Bar and a new USBC-C cord that’ll be easier than ever to tri … | Continue reading
Sony’s TV streaming service is launching today on Android TV.With today’s launch, PlayStation Vue will be available on all recent Android TV devices, including dedicated streaming boxes and TVs that have it built in. It’s a particularly notable addition for Sony, because several … | Continue reading
In an abrupt and unexpected announcement today, Vine parent company Twitter said it will discontinue the app “in the coming months.” No explanation was given for the decision made hours after a Twitter quarterly earnings call. Vine account holders will be allowed to download thei … | Continue reading
The Touch Bar is serious business. Apple’s interface guidelines warn against all kinds of fun things that developers probably started thinking about when the new MacBook Pros leaked earlier this week. No doubt some apps will find a way to be creative even under the stern eye of A … | Continue reading
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For a few years now, PC makers have been making laptops with touchscreens. Some can be folded into tablets, some not, but the trend has been prevalent enough for Microsoft to rethink its entire strategy circa Windows 7 and optimize its desktop OS to work in two different modes: d … | Continue reading
Authorities began arresting people at a Dakota Access Pipeline protest site in Morton County, North Dakota today, according to the Associated Press and the Guardian. Protesters report being pepper sprayed by authorities on a live stream hosted by Cempoalli Twenny on his Facebook … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of buying the movie rights of Ken Liu’s The Grace of Kings, Variety reports that China-based DMG Entertainment is back with a potentially bigger purchase: the movie rights to Brandon Sanderson’s massive interconnected epic fantasy Cosmere universe. Continue … | Continue reading
Apple's new MacBook Pro has introduced us to the interface power and emoji glory of the Touch Bar, but the addition of fingerprint authentication promises to change more than just the laptop's looks. SEE ALSO: Apple unveils new, thinner and lighter MacBook Pros with 'Touch Bar' a … | Continue reading
Logistics may be the name of the game when it comes to e-commerce, but the IPO market can still prove to be a fickle place for even the biggest players. Today, China’s ZTO Express, the company that provides shipping and delivery services to Alibaba among others, scored both a hit … | Continue reading
I've been an Apple fanboy since I bought my first Macintosh IIsi — complete with color CRT monitor! — secondhand from a friend at college in 1993. There followed my first color Powerbook in 1996, my cool purple plastic iMac in 1998, my 2003 Powerbook G4 (the first aluminum one, w … | Continue reading
After acquiring a tan in Maui, I'm back in action! Bit of focus on AMP this week post Google's roll out across all search results. This feels like a big opportunity and equally an invisible tax people are paying by not being optimized. If you haven't by now figured your AMP strat … | Continue reading
The Pirate Party in Iceland is not a team of seafarers with parrots on their shoulders scouring for treasure, but rather a radical political unit poised to take power in Iceland. The group was founded about four years ago by a team of alleged hackers and activists; it rose to fam … | Continue reading
More than $100,000 worth of digital currency tied to ethereum’s biggest hack has been successfully converted into bitcoin.Source | Continue reading
The new MacBook Pro, available in 13- and 15-inch versions, looks like Apple’s 12-inch MacBook. It borrows the extra-springy keyboard and the reflective Apple logo on the back. And it’s slimmer and lighter like the MacBook. But as you would expect, the Pro is beefier inside. It i … | Continue reading
Can you make a large online space where people treat each other like human beings, without sacrificing the freedom of anonymity? It’s a question that social networks like Twitter, which just decimated its workforce in a push for profitability, have been struggling to answer. But … | Continue reading
What you see before you, friends, is Apple’s brand new MacBook Pro, in the silver $1,799 configuration and space gray $1,499 variant without the cool new Touch Bar. Neither of them has an SD card slot. SD cards are those awesome things that practically every dedicated camera in t … | Continue reading
Apple debuted a new line of MacBook Pros on Thursday, and they're missing something important: a MagSafe charger designed to protect the pricey computers when you blunder into their power cords in coffee shops, in conference rooms, and in the middle of the night.SEE ALSO: Apple u … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: To launch a multiplayer game globally, you probably think you’ve got two options: migrate to the cloud or go all-in with new infrastructure. But the risk, cost, and complexity can sink you. In this VB Live event, we’ll reveal how developers can defeat the major technolog … | Continue reading
The top two tiers of Apple’s newest MacBook Pros have one hell of an eye-catching feature: a touchscreen that runs across the top of the entire keyboard. Known as “Touch Bar,” it changes dynamically depending on whatever application is being used at the time. (Example: type out a … | Continue reading
Although Apple's new laptop interface was leaked days before Thursday's event, the new Touch Bar nevertheless impressed with an array of new software-meets-hardware functions.SEE ALSO: Everyone's talking about Apple's new 'emoji bar'Offered in the new 13-inch and 15-inch versions … | Continue reading
Steep is taking a test run on the bunny hills before it makes the plunge. Ubisoft has announced two beta periods for its upcoming open-world winter sports game that’s coming out December 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Betas can help publishers and developers find bugs and … | Continue reading
Every once in a while someone in Silicon Valley brings up the possibility of living forever, or at least a really long time, but first we’re going to need to figure out a way to enjoy all those extra years. Unity Biotechnology is a startup focusing on medicines to help us do that … | Continue reading
Apple and Microsoft both announced new laptops aimed at professionals this week.Apple's got its new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros with their fancy new Touch Bars and Touch ID sensors, and Microsoft got its supercharged Surface Book i7.SEE ALSO: MacBook Pro's crazy Touch Bar puts e … | Continue reading
Apple made the MacBook Pro's new Touch Bar the star of Thursday's event. The company devoted much of the 82-minute keynote showing it off and demoing how it can be used with an array of third-party apps.But while emoji and photo filters and Dj apps all looked neat, there's one as … | Continue reading
GUEST: At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2016, Facebook’s VP of messaging products, David Marcus, admitted that chatbots got “overhyped very quickly.” And around the same time, something else very quickly changed: Chatbot pessimism became en vogue. The sudden chang … | Continue reading
One of the biggest games of the year is embracing seasonal events to get players excited all over again. Pokémon Go is back on top of the iPhone top-grossing charts in the United States after falling as low No. 10 last week, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Dev … | Continue reading
It's been brewing for a while, but the Mac vs. PC war is back. Apple and Microsoft have shared various battles over many years, in an ongoing rift over the direction of computing, but this week has marked a switch in both of their war strategies. Microsoft is now going after Appl … | Continue reading