(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it would consider “strategic alternatives” for its core Internet business and cut about 15 percent of its workforce, even as it continues with its plan to revamp the business and spin it off. read more >>> Source : Reuters
The visual effects supervisor behind The Walk talks about using the cloud to bring the film to life read more >>> Source : BBC
Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group has led a $793.5 million investment round for Florida-based augmented reality firm Magic Leap, with continued investment from Google and Qualcomm. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc is expected to announce on Tuesday that it is exploring “strategic alternatives” for its struggling Internet business, a person familiar with the matter said. read more >>> Source : Reuters
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(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines Inc delayed boarding for about two dozen flights on Tuesday as a result of a brief outage in its software that powers ground operations, a spokesman said. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Alec Ross, author of The Industries of the Future, spoke with HuffPost Live on Monday about the future of genetic selection. — This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will propose by the end of June stricter rules on prepaid cards and virtual currencies in a bid to reduce anonymous payments and curb the financing of terrorism, documents released on Tuesday showed. read more >>> Source : Reuters
The EU and US have agreed a new trade pact to make it easy for organisations to transfer data over the Atlantic. read more >>> Source : BBC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Microsoft Corp was recalling about 2.25 million AC power cords, less than a week after Apple Inc said it was recalling AC wall plug adapters due to a shock hazard. Microsoft has received 56 reports of the AC cords overheating and emitting flames and five reports of electrical […]
The world’s first fundraising for IPO of a company that “mines” bitcoins has raised $4.2 million — far off its target. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Fallout 4 has launched! Here, we discuss rumours regarding Fallout 4 DLC and its possible release date, along with Fallout 4’s original release date, platforms, editions and trailers. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
(Reuters) – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Microsoft Corp was recalling about 2.25 million AC power cords, less than a week after Apple Inc said it was recalling AC wall plug adapters due to a shock hazard. read more >>> Source : Reuters
BT’s broadband and phone network appears to have been experiencing issues across the UK. read more >>> Source : BBC
The last time Google was more valuable than Apple was six years ago, when both companies were worth less than $200 billion. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Can you imagine a world in which most jobs are obsolete? If not, you are most likely in for a rude awakening in the coming decades of radical shifts in employment. This is particularly true for new parents propelling the next generation of workers into an adulthood that many economists and futurists predict to be […]
(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc might win the market cap battle against Apple Inc , but will it win the war? read more >>> Source : Reuters
A smart doorbell, a connected camera, a child’s toy and a children’s watch tracker were all found to have poor security. read more >>> Source : BBC
Google boosts local SSD storage to 3TB per virtual machine and persistent disk to 64TB per virtual machine on its Cloud Compute Engine. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Phones made by Xiaomi – China’s biggest smartphone maker – were briefly on sale in the U.S. this week, but with a couple of big catches. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European and U.S. negotiators are on the brink of clinching a deal on a new transatlantic data transfer pact just in time for a meeting of European privacy regulators who were poised to start restricting companies’ ability to move data across the Atlantic, two people familiar with the talks said on Tuesday. […]
As a billion people every month are reported to be using WhatsApp, the BBC takes a look at the stories the service has enhanced and how you use it. read more >>> Source : BBC
Sales of fitness trackers and VR headsets also set for rapid growth read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Microsoft is considering locating new data centres under the sea in an effort to make them more efficient and greener. read more >>> Source : BBC
A county council took many systems offline after a ransomware attack to prevent further infections. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
(Reuters) – Swiss-based communication equipment maker TE Connectivity Ltd said it would buy medical device maker Creganna Medical Group for $895 million, expanding in the fast-growing business of supplying equipment for minimally invasive procedures. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Nintendo’s latest quarterly profit is 36% down, fuelling speculation it plans to reveal a successor to the Wii U soon. read more >>> Source : BBC
Google has fixed seven critical security vulnerabilities in its February Android update for Nexus devices. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
The makers of one of YouTube’s biggest channels have dropped plans to trademark and license a popular video format – after facing outcry from fans. read more >>> Source : BBC
Facebook-owned WhatsApp now has a billion users, a key milestone for the company as it searches for ways to monetize the service. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
AT&T has lost about 9% of their total customers in the Delray Beach, Florida, ‘IP Transition Trial’ in about a year and three months. These are customers who had a working AT&T service and who disconnected it and said — goodbye to AT&T. And in the second IP Transition Trial taking place in the rural […]
Australian telcos have provided a laundry list of problems with the government’s national security telco legislation, with some recommending complete abandonment of the plans. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc’s plans to turn around its struggling core business are set to dominate its earnings report on Tuesday, with investors keen to see if CEO Marissa Mayer will push ahead with a proposed spin-off or entertain calls for a complete sale. read more >>> Source : Reuters
A computer virus that can steal passwords is still causing headaches at one of Melbourne’s largest hospitals. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
NBN has successfully demonstrated the capabilities of its satellite services, with a customer field trial to take place later this month and commercial launch aimed for mid-April. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
As Apple is bracing for its first sales decline in 13 years and Samsung suffers stiff competition from budget Chinese brands, the smartphone industry has a dismal outlook for the first half of 2016, according to IBK Securities. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Phones made by China’s Xiaomi – the world’s third biggest smartphone maker – are going on sale in the US for the first time. read more >>> Source : BBC
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Take-Two Interactive Software Inc has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to National Basketball Association stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant in a popular video game. read more >>> Source : Reuters
EU data protection regulators are meeting to decide how to restrict data transfers in light of last year’s Safe Harbour ruling. read more >>> Source : BBC
This is the first installment of a five-part WorldPost series on the world beyond 2050. The series is adapted from the Nierenberg Prize Lecture by Lord Martin Rees in La Jolla, Calif. Part two will be published next week. For nearly 50 years, the image of the Earth, as seen by Apollo astronauts circling the […]
Australian ecommerce player Bigcommerce has partnered with eBay for eBayLINK, an online inventory system for merchants in Australia and New Zealand to automate manual listing procedures and open new sales channels. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Quickflix has reported a AU$1.7 million drop in customer receipts for the December quarter, as well as losing another 7,856 customers. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
Donald Trump keeps his friends close, at least on Twitter. He boasts almost 6 million Twitter followers, more than any other presidential candidate. But the Donald dishes out “follows” sparingly. So far, he’s bestowed the honor on only 50 accounts. More than 10 percent of the accounts Trump follows are affiliated with Fox News, Reuters […]
They say every dog has its day and thanks to photographer, Robert Stoetzel, a few lucky pups in New York City are getting just that. Every day, on the site Human + Hound, Stoetzel posts one new picture of a pooch/person pair he meets on the street along with a caption that illustrates their unique […]
Mobile messaging service WhatsApp is now used by a billion people every month, Facebook reports. read more >>> Source : BBC