Amazon Fire TV ships today with Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, YouTube, WatchESPN, and more
Introducing Amazon Fire TV: The Easiest Way to Watch Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, WatchESPN, and More on Your Big-Screen TV — Powerful performance with 3x the processing power …
Cortana (yes!) and Many, Many Other Great Features coming in Windows Phone 8.1
Whew, what a day! What a week! I've just gotten off the stage at Build in front of 5,000 of our beloved developers talking about the future of the Windows platform. And now I'm here to tell YOU abo...
Windows 8.1 Update - important refinements to the Windows experience
As Joe mentioned here, today we're announcing two important updates to the Windows platform: Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update. With these updates, we continue to refine and improve Windows ba...
Lyft Raises $250 Million From Coatue, Alibaba, And Third Point To Expand Internationally
Lyft has officially closed a huge, $250 million round of funding that it will use to aggressively expand its on-demand ride-sharing service in the U.S. and internationally.
Spotify's new design is cleaner, darker and puts the focus on content
If you're using Spotify on the web, desktop or iOS you should notice a pretty massive change starting today. (The new look should be coming to Android “near future.") The company is launching its mo...
Reversible USB 3.1 Type-C connector shown in renderings, will be finalized in July
This is the reversible USB cable that will end your frustrations — The most abundant connector standard in technology, the Universal Serial Bus, is getting ready for its most revolutionary change ye...
Report: Apple in talks to buy 55% stake in Renesas SP display chip design unit for $479M
Apple looking to buy Japanese chipmaker — SILICON VALLEY — Apple is in talks with Japan's Renesas Electronics to take over a unit that designs chips for smartphone displays …
Wearables: one-third of consumers abandoning devices
Hundreds of Galaxy Gear smartwatches are listed on eBay barely six months after launch. Why isn't the wearable tech market taking off? — The advert was blunt: a second-hand Samsung Galaxy Gear smar...
The story of Cortana, Microsoft's Siri killer
Technically, Cortana isn't supposed to exist for at least another 500 years, but that's not stopping Microsoft from bringing her to life this week. While Apple has Siri and Google has Google Now — bo...
Inside Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab; see what Zuck saw just weeks before Oculus buy
If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality — The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
Amazon Will Now Allow Returns Using Lockers
Amazon.com has quietly rolled out a new service to let customers return unwanted merchandise using large metal lockers it has installed for deliveries in garages, convenience and grocery stores in maj...
Ubuntu to shut down Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One as storage wars heat up
Canonical, owner of the popular Linux operating system Ubuntu, today announced that it is shutting down its file-storing service Ubuntu One. — Aside from being a distraction, Canonical says the serv...
Google launches Andromeda, a software defined network underlying its cloud
For everyone saying that software-defined networking is a pipe dream, Google is about to prove you wrong. The search engine giant and cloud provider said it has made its Andromeda software-defined ne...
Box wants to let businesses control cloud encryption keys “this year”
Box CEO Aaron Levie told Ars last September that the cloud storage company is trying to build a service that would let customers store data in Box data centers but would keep encryption keys in-house.
Apple praised, Amazon shamed in Greenpeace report on clean energy
In a report that looks at the energy footprint of top IT companies, the nonprofit calls out Amazon for being among the last to embrace clean energy sources like wind and solar. — Facebook's data cen...
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana, Action Center, customizable lockscreens
At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8.1. Among the new features is a personal digital assistant named Cortana, a new Action Center …
Wearables: one-third of consumers abandoning devices
Hundreds of Galaxy Gear smartwatches are listed on eBay barely six months after launch. Why isn't the wearable tech market taking off? — The advert was blunt: a second-hand Samsung Galaxy Gear smar...
Nest's smart Thermostat is now available to buy in the UK, priced from £179
Nest, the company looking to reinvent dull-but-worthy household items such as the smoke detector, has announced that its Nest Thermostat is now finally available to buy in the UK.
Newton is the first MIPS-based mini-computer for wearables
A Chinese company has released a computer about the size of an SD card that can run a full version of Android and should make it easier to build wearable devices. — Called the Newton, the computer w...
Samsung rolls out smart home service in Korea and US to let you control appliances with an app
Samsung took the wraps off its Smart Home service at CES in January this year, and today it is rolling out the service in Korea and the US. More countries will be added throughout the year.
Apple patent describes bayonet mounts for interchangeable lenses on iPhone-like devices
Apple may use bayonet mounts for interchangeable iPhone camera lenses — Apple is investigating the use of bayonet lens mounts — one of the most common lens attachment mechanisms used in modern photo...