Facebook is taking TechPrep on the road, criscrossing the country to expose more students and their parents from underserved communities to ...
Friday, 22 April 2016
Verizon warns strike could `pressure' earnings
Verizon reported a small rise in earnings Thursday, but warned that a strike with unionized workers that is now in its second week could dam...
Ex-Pets.com CEO raises new round for luxury site
Five years ago, Julie Wainwright sought to exorcise the demons of her failed late-‘90s Pets.com CEO stint by starting a company that tapped ...
FBI paid at least $1.3M to hack terrorist iPhone
The FBI paid at least $1.3 million dollars for the tool that allowed it to break into the iPhone 5 used by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Riz...
Google parent Alphabet scrutinizing 'other bets'
Google parent Alphabet is scrutinizing its "other bets," those speculative businesses that are now run separately from Google'...
Prince remembered as innovator, advocate for Black youth
Prince, the music icon who was found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis on Thursday, is being remembered in Silicon Valley as a social...
Alphabet's money-losing moonshots take shine off Google's ad business
Google parent Alphabet reported first-quarter earnings that fell short of analyst expectations as growing losses from the tech giant’s inves...
Uber to pay up to $100M in driver status suits
Uber has agreed to pay drivers in California and Massachusetts as much as $100 million to settle lawsuits in both states over whether its dr...
Five password mistakes you should avoid
There's a joke going around the Internet that says, "I changed my password to 'incorrect' so whenever I forget it the compu...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Samsung Serif Midcentury Modern Design Television First Impressions Review
Like a lot of my coworkers at Reviewed.com, I care deeply about how my television looks. Except, unlike the folks who devote their days to t...
Solar-powered plane to resume round-the-world flight
The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft will resume its around-the-world voyage early Thursday after spending nine months on the ground bec...
Apple pushes Q2 earnings news to April 26
Those interested in how Apple fared financially during the first three months of 2016 will have to wait a day. The company today said its fi...
LL Cool J, other celebs 'kickstart' HBCU hoodies reboot
With some help from family and famous friends like LL Cool J, Chris Latimer is in business for the rebirth of African American College Allia...
The Xbox 360 era is officially over
After more than 10 years, the era of the Xbox 360 is officially over. Microsoft announced Wednesday it will stop production of the video gam...
EU: Google abused mobile app market with Android
A is for Android — and for antitrust. The European Union is lobbing antitrust charges at Google for the second time in two years, this time ...
Snapchat under fire for Marley filter called blackface
Visual messaging app Snapchat app came under fire Wednesday after it released a filter critics said amounted to a digital version of blackfa...
Verizon seen as bidder to beat for Yahoo
As the sale of Yahoo's Web assets enters the second stage, one name consistently comes up as the pivotal player: Verizon. The telecommun...
Glitchy Facebook bots show tech in early stages
One of the chatbots Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg featured in his widely watched keynote is glitchy. And its developers know it. Poncho, the di...
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
4 ways to dodge cybercrime when banking, shopping on mobile phones
The nature of identity fraud is changing. With the rollout of smart chips in credit and debit cards making it more difficult to steal using ...
Yahoo keeps world guessing about its future: analysis
The news of the day was about Yahoo's latest quarterly earnings, but inquiring minds were riveted on bidding for the company's core ...
Amazon offers one-day sale on Echo
It seems like every week the Amazon Echo is in the news for one reason or another. But instead of adding new features or announcing new hard...
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