While many of us are pleased with the stick or disc-shaped media dongle hanging out of the back of our regular old dumb televisions — the well-lived Chromecast — it seems that Google has plans to put those features directly in televisions. According to a scoop by Variety, a new m … | Continue reading
A newly discovered vulnerability in Nissan Leaf's NissanConnect app isn't as catastrophic as one found in Chrysler's Uconnect system this past summer, but it still could impact drivers' personal privacy and security. Researcher Troy Hunt uncovered a bug in the companion app to th … | Continue reading
What if you could catch illegal loggers before they swing the ax?Like Tom Cruise in Minority Report — arresting murderers just before they kill — the key is the technology (or weird, genetically mutated mind-readers in the case of the sci-fi thriller).SEE ALSO: Can technology sav … | Continue reading
Kesha thanked her fans and wrote about the larger societal implications of her contract dispute with former producer Dr. Luke (aka Lukasz Gottwald) in a note on Facebook this afternoon. The post is arriving in the wake of the rejection of a pivotal motion in Kesha's case, one tha … | Continue reading
Just eight days after a court ordered Apple to break security protections on an iPhone linked with the San Bernardino attacks, CEO Tim Cook is appearing on national news to plead his case to the public. Cook's interview with ABC's David Muir will air tonight, but excerpts of the … | Continue reading
Welcome back to another episode of Bullish! This time, I sat down with Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford to talk about LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) inclusivity in the workplace. Although some tech companies have released data around people of color … | Continue reading
In the United States, companies spend more than $800 billion each year on salesforce compensation, making it one of the largest marketing investments for any enterprise business. But the ways for managing this model are antiquated and time-consuming, which makes it prime for a dr … | Continue reading
Join us as we take a quick look at the Samsung Galaxy S7 vs the Samsung Galaxy Note 5! | Continue reading
Jared Kim might not be the best gamer — but he still wants to be able to share highlights from his sessions, and save them to remember them in the future. So much so that he decided to take a second crack at the premise with Forge, a new service entering beta today that helps gam … | Continue reading
A Louisiana appeals court has upheld a civil judge's ruling that New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson was mentally competent when he ousted relatives from ownership positions with his NFL and NBA clubs and appointed his third wife as his primary successor. | Continue reading
Does the latest Samsung flagship prove to be a worthy upgrade? We find out, in this quick look at the Samsung Galaxy S7 vs Galaxy S6! | Continue reading
Bitt has launched a blockchain-based version of the Barbadian dollar it hopes will appeal to the country's underbanked. | Continue reading
Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors are not intimidated by history. They know full well what lies ahead of them during the stretch run of this NBA regular season. If they continue on their current, torrid pace, they could supplant the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls as the team wit … | Continue reading
Uber announced Tuesday that it is opening a new Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, where its autonomous vehicle research operations are headquartered. The company will renovate an old locomotive roundhouse at the LTV Coke Works site in Hazelwood, along the Monongahela Ri … | Continue reading
There is no arguing that video has cemented its place as a vital tool in any communications strategy — whether it’s a full-scale marketing campaign or a simple message from your CEO. Technology company Cisco predicts video will grow from representing 64 per cent of all consumer i … | Continue reading
NASA wants to help its robot at the International Space Station see better in order to help astronauts with more tasks, so today NASA launched a $10,000 competition to find a fix. The Robonaut 2 was sent up to the ISS in 2011, where it's been assisting astronauts with simple task … | Continue reading
Content and social strategy should rarely be separated. But when you start with the most critical questions, content strategy emerges as number one. | Continue reading
Netflix has announced that its first-ever original German television series will be a "family saga with a supernatural twist" called Dark. According to Netflix, the show will time-hop between present day and 1986 as it explores the story of two missing children in a small German … | Continue reading
Tonight on ABC News, Tim Cook is talking about the ongoing war of words between Apple and the FBI.The interview, which will air during World News Tonight with David Muir at 6:30 p.m. EST, is Cook's first public interview on the topic since the news broke last week.See also: The F … | Continue reading
Xiaomi just announced its latest flagship, the Mi 5, and we got a chance to sit down with vice president Hugo Barra following the phone's introduction. Barra is the company's public face, having previously served as one of the leaders on Google's mobile team, and he exudes both t … | Continue reading
Google announced plans today to bring its lightning-fast Google Fiber service to “some apartments, condos, and affordable housing properties” in San Francisco, notably utilizing existing fiber instead of building their own fiber-optic network as they have in the past.A blog post … | Continue reading
Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has settled a lawsuit and formally apologized for assaulting show producer Oisin Tymon, the BBC reports.The BBC declined to renew Clarkson's contract last year after an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack," where Clarkson swore at and punch … | Continue reading
Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday said that complying with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would be "bad for America," and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans. | Continue reading
The US government now believes a corrupt Secret Service agent may have stolen additional bitcoins during the Silk Road investigation. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Keyboards are hot lately. Microsoft bought one earlier this month for a quarter of a billion dollars, and then released another just yesterday. Why? One reason: Keyboards are the one thing that tie all apps together. Tying things together is not a big part of one of th … | Continue reading
Google may be about to take a new approach to smart TVs. According to Variety, Google is working with Vizio to build Chromecast-like streaming into its new TVs. There would be no on-screen apps or interface — instead, you'd just be able to send streaming video and music, among ot … | Continue reading
Croatian carmaker Rimac Automobili apparently couldn't contain itself; it just pulled the digital veil off a car that the company claims is the fastest production electric vehicle in the world.It's called the Concept_One (yes, the underscore is part of the official name). Despite … | Continue reading
At least one defendant was arrested thanks to data from CMU's Tor attack, and that might just be the tip of the iceberg. | Continue reading
At Roger Lee’s last startup, he wanted to set up a 401(k) plan for his employees after they started asking for one — only to realize how frustrating and outdated the process was, which required stacks of paperwork and even faxing documents. That’s what prompted him to start Capta … | Continue reading
As specs become less of a key differentiator, design and 'extras' seem to be the way forward. The LG G5, Samsung Galaxy S7, and all the major OEMs have their own priorities for extras and design, but what's your preference? | Continue reading
Following a unanimous vote by the Chicago Public School Board of Education, computer science will become a graduation requirement for all high school students in what is the nation’s third largest school district. Starting with next school year’s class of freshmen (class of 2020) … | Continue reading
Mortal Kombat, a series so wrapped up in hidden treats and in-jokes that one became a canonical character, is still being excavated for secrets decades after release. Late last year, secret menus were discovered in the first four Mortal Kombat arcade games. This week, footage of … | Continue reading
These GDC announcements almost feel like a formality at this point, but, once again, we will be at GDC in San Francisco. This year it falls on the week of March 14th, and if you're a reader, strap in for what's typically an avalanche of game previews as all sorts of developers pi … | Continue reading
Andreessen Horowitz is announcing today that it has hired Martìn Casado — cofounder and chief executive of hot software defined networking (SDN) startup Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012 — as a general partner of the prominent venture capital firm. An … | Continue reading
Andreessen Horowitz’s team continues to grow and change. Today, the Sand Hill Road firm is announcing the appointment of its newest and ninth general partner: Martin Casado, the cofounder and CTO of Nicira and a pioneer of so-called software defined networking. In the simplest te … | Continue reading
To get us thinking about the company's next flagship smartphone, HTC has started teasing the One M10 on Twitter. | Continue reading
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — For the second straight year, Chris Bosh‘s season could be over two months early. Bosh is once again dealing with a blood clot issue, the same thing that ended his season after the All-Star break last year. He has missed the Miami Heat’s first three post-br … | Continue reading
The physical web is coming, & we're likely to see major shifts in how users engage with content & services on the internet. Here's what you'll need to know. | Continue reading
NASA has ordered five more missions from SpaceX to resupply the International Space Station, in a new deal that was signed in late December, Space News reports. That means the company will make a total of 20 cargo trips to the ISS for NASA under its original resupply contract — e … | Continue reading
In a world that’s soon to be dominated by smart cars capable of making complex decisions, or even driving themselves, security vulnerabilities that allow hackers access to these systems are sort of a worst-case scenario. Today, security researcher Troy Hunt released his findings … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Xamarin, a company that allows developers to build fully native apps across several platforms from a single shared code base.Microsoft and Xamarin have worked closely together since a global partnership was announced in 2013 to make … | Continue reading
MWC 2016: all the news, announcements and new device hands-ons from the world's largest mobile tech show, including the LG G5, Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. | Continue reading
Google is attempting to free up your hands completely by adding vocal editing and formatting controls to Docs. | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of yard sales. Mostly because I’m a big fan of stuff; especially cheap stuff that barely works. Here's what holding my own yard sale taught me about marketing. | Continue reading
Using a scooter or motorcycle to get around is one of the most popular modes of transport in Asian cities, and now the Bangkok branch of Uber has decided to add the two-wheeled vehicle to its list of optionsSEE ALSO: You can now order an Uber with Amazon EchoCalled UberMOTO, the … | Continue reading
It took a few decades, but Fire Emblem is no longer one of Nintendo’s third-stringers. Fire Emblem: Fates, the latest entry in Nintendo’s tactical fantasy role-playing game (read our review) has surpassed 300,000 copies sold in the United States in its first week, according to th … | Continue reading
In an interview with CNET, OnePlus co-founder and CEO Carl Pei announced that the OnePlus 3 is slated to arrive at the end of the second quarter. | Continue reading