BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Thursday it had cleared Western Digital’s planned acquisition of SanDisk after concluding that the takeover would not harm competition in the data storage market in Europe. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Drones have been banned from flying within 32 miles of American Football’s Super Bowl, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said. read more >>> Source : BBC
Several companies were hit by hours of system warnings after GPS satellites broadcasted the wrong time, according to time-monitoring company Chronos. read more >>> Source : BBC
Words can hurt, even the well-meaning ones. Studies have shown that our perception of aging impacts just how well we handle it, and that the subtleties of our language matter. As such, we’d like to stomp out these phrases that demean older people — whether they are meant as compliments or not: 1. When a […]
Alphabet Inc said Wednesday its self-driving car project will expand testing to Kirkland, Washington later this month. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Microsoft has taken its messaging platform for connected things out of public preview. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
BEIJING (Reuters) – Hackers in China attempted to access over 20 million active accounts on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s Taobao e-commerce website using Alibaba’s own cloud computing service, according to a state media report posted on the Internet regulator’s website. read more >>> Source : Reuters
A United Nations panel has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been “arbitrarily detained,” the BBC reported on Thursday. No comment was immediately available from the United Nations in Geneva, where the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has been considering a request by Assange for a ruling. Assange, 44, is wanted in Sweden […]
Research has suggested that nearly half of those using dating websites or apps have been scammed or spammed. read more >>> Source : BBC
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday it is experiencing computer failure across several systems and temporarily cannot accept many taxpayer returns. “Several of our systems are not currently operating, including our modernized e-file system and a number of other related systems,” the IRS said in a statement. “A number of taxpayer and tax […]
Revolut, a start-up that lets vacationers spend money abroad at market foreign exchange rates has raised $4.8 million in funding. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Troubled Japanese tech giant Sharp has chosen Foxconn Technology Group’s rescue plan over a local fund in a deal worth over 600 billion yen ($5 billion), Japanese media is reporting. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that he will leave the Ecuadorian embassy if the verdict of a UN investigation goes against him. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
The European Central Bank is planning to allow customers to link their mobile number or email address to their bank accounts to reduce complications related to payment transfers. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
SYDNEY, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, on Friday and accept arrest if a UN panel investigating his case rules against him, he said in a statement on Thursday posted on the Wikileaks Twitter […]
Personal technology has come a long way over the past 25 years. Computers aren’t just for nerds and gamers anymore. Put-near everyone has a smartphone of some kind, which means they also have access to everything from a camera (for still photography and video) to a music player to hundreds of thousands of apps. Here’s […]
(Reuters) – Google parent Alphabet Inc said Amit Singhal, the longtime chief of its Internet search business, will leave the company and be replaced by the head of the technology giant’s artificial intelligence business. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Seoul activists plan to take to the streets in a very 21st century way after South Korea refused to allow anti-government protesters to demonstrate outside the presidential palace. Members of Amnesty International Korea plan to call for greater freedom of speech and freedom of assembly by holding what they call a “ghost rally” on Feb. […]
South Korea’s telecommunications operator cited losses resulting from its stake in affiliate SK Hynix, and looks to expand as a media platform business to generate profit. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
(Reuters) – Activist investor Starboard Value LP disclosed a stake of about 7 percent in Marvell Technology Group on Wednesday, saying the U.S. chipmaker’s shares were “undervalued”. read more >>> Source : Reuters
By now you’ve read 10 lists of the top 10 tech trends to watch for this year. Many touched on the focuses for investors and founders for the coming year. But what about the creatives and consumers? Digital is dominated by the millennials so I felt it was only right to identify the trends that […]
HTC believes its move into the virtual reality and connected devices market will help improve results, where for 4Q15 the company reported operating loss of NT$4.1 billion. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
The New South Wales government has added fine payments to its Service NSW app, allowing citizens to view and pay infringements via their smartphone. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc said on Wednesday it was buying Jasper Technologies Inc, a startup that connects devices like cars and medical devices to the Internet, for $1.4 billion in cash and equity awards, its largest acquisition since 2013. read more >>> Source : Reuters
This By Ben Guarino Call smart guns what you will — personalized, child-proof, safer — but don’t call them science fiction. Thanks to advancements in radio-frequency identification and the ubiquity of fingerprint scanners, smart guns have cleared the technology barrier. The only obstacle left is cultural. The gun industry, ever wary of change but, more […]
Peering over the top of my smartphone I caught my daughter doing something incredible but heart-breaking. Perhaps not incredible in the sense you would imagine, she never did anything otherworldly or precociously brilliant beyond her tender years. No, it was incredible because she was competing for my attention. She was literally banging her drum louder […]
(Reuters) – General Growth Properties Inc said on Wednesday that a statement concerning Amazon.com Inc made by its chief executive, Sandeep Mathrani, was not intended to represent Amazon’s plans. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Designs for passenger pods that could travel through airless tubes have been revealed by a group of MIT engineers. read more >>> Source : BBC
Value investor Bill Miller reveals why Twitter has great potential at $16 in an interview with CNBC. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc said Wednesday its self-driving car project will expand testing to Kirkland, Washington later this month, the third city where it is testing autonomous vehicles. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Three of the children of late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi take the makers of Call of Duty to court over his depiction in the video game. read more >>> Source : BBC
Expanded Slough data center operations will help IT decision leaders “meet mission critical business objectives,” it said. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Europe’s cybersecurity agency details the biggest threats. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU data protection authorities welcomed on Wednesday an agreement between the United States and the European Union on transferring data, but said they still needed information to assess whether it answered privacy concerns. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Twitter rolls out a new homepage designed to engage people who have not logged in to the website. read more >>> Source : BBC
Microsoft plans to integrate predictive technology with its own Word Flow software and other products. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
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Malwarebytes says it will take about a month to deploy a patch to fix vulnerabilities found by Google’s Project Zero bug hunters. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Microsoft is recalling more than two million power cords sold with Surface tablets worldwide after 56 reports of them overheating and emitting flames. read more >>> Source : BBC
Microsoft has acquired Swiftkey, a London-based artificial intelligence (AI) start-up that makes a predictive keyboard for smartphones. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
The decision is ‘conducive’ for the growth and survival of startups in the country, according to the governor of the Reserve Bank of India. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
CEOs of Samsung affiliates have attended a lecture on the future of smart and driverless cars by Myoungho Sunwoo, a South Korean authority on the matter. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
NBN Co will not reavel to Senators how much FttN or FttDP will be rolled out in Australia, citing commercial in confidence. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
BEIJING (Reuters) – Once China’s biggest peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, Ezubao collected 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) in less than two years from more than 900,000 investors through savvy marketing and the promise of big returns. read more >>> Source : Reuters
The internet company Yahoo is cutting its workforce by about 15% in an attempt to improve its profitability. read more >>> Source : BBC