Google Maps adds offline navigation and search to Android app, coming soon to iOS
Navigate and search the real world ... online or off — Roughly 60 percent of the world is without Internet today, and even where online access is available, it can still be spotty.
Facebook Messenger tests Photo Magic in Australia, scanning faces in your camera roll and prompting you to send pictures to friends
Facebook's “Photo Magic” Will Prompt You To Message Your Friends Photos Of Themselves — When you take a picture of your friends, you'll get a notification to send it to them through Messenger.
Steve Jobs movie pulled from over 2K US theaters, now playing in just 421 theaters, after earnings declined 69% from the previous weekend to just $823K
Steve Jobs movie is unceremoniously dumped out of theaters — Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs movie had another disastrous showing at the box office over the weekend.
Panasonic announces Toughbook 20, a Windows 10, rugged detachable laptop, available February 2016 from $3099
Panasonic preps Toughbook 20 starting at $3,099 — Panasonic said its latest Toughbook will be available in February, feature Windows 10 Pro and weigh in at 3.9 pounds.
Consumer version of Samsung Gear VR available for preorder from Best Buy for $99.99, to be released on November 20
You can now preorder the consumer version of the Samsung Gear VR — The consumer version of Samsung's Gear VR is now available to preorder from Best Buy for $99.99.
Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords after customer list goes on sale
Dark Web market ad offering Comcast accounts in bulk — Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hash to a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not outrigh...
Siri gains Apple Music support on Apple TV, now can search and play music on latest beta
Siri has apparently gained some new functionality for Apple TV, at least on the tvOS 9.1 beta. You can now direct the remote assistant to play any song or album directly from Apple Music, even if the...
An accidental death at an unsafe Airbnb rental raises questions about liability and safety standards for the company
Living and Dying on Airbnb — My dad died in an Airbnb rental, and he's not the only one. What can the company do to improve safety? — he rope swing looked inviting.
Twitch finally adds two-factor authentication to boost live streaming platform's security
Live streaming platform Twitch has taken steps to further secure its service. The company announced that it has partnered with Authy to provide two-factor authentication to its user accounts.
Google Nexus 5X review: true successor to Nexus 5, solid GPU, but SoC and NAND need work; lack of speed improvement belies 2-year gap between releases
The Google Nexus 5X Review — Google's first hardware collaboration with LG brought us the Nexus 4.
Rackspace Q3: revenues up 11% YoY to $509M, profits up 42% YoY to $36.5M; beats analyst expectations as company closes new enterprise deals
Rackspace reports 11 percent more revenue amid hiring spree, collecting on enterprise deals — Rackspace Hosting Inc. reported a nearly 11 percent increase …
Belgian court orders Facebook to stop tracking non-registered users within 48 hours, or risk a fine of $269K a day; company says it will appeal
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H2O.ai, the company behind H20 open source platform for data scientists and developers, raises $20M Series B
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Flipkart teams up with Google to launch new mobile website that replicates its apps' features within Chrome
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CB Insights raises $10M and launches a bot for making email introductions
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US Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal of a case where police obtained cellphone tracking data without warrant
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Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in Snapchat by 25% in the third quarter
Snapchat stake marked down by investor Fidelity — Snapchat has been marked down by one of its most high-profile investors, raising further questions about the soaring valuations of private technolog...
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