ASUS ZenBook 3: thinner, lighter, and faster than the MacBook with Core i7, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD for $1,999
How much more can ASUS shave off of the ZenBook, its flagship ultraportable? Apparently, quite a bit. The company's new ZenBook 3, announced today at Computex, clocks in at just 2 pounds and 11.9mm ...
Asus unveils Zenbo, a $599 home robot with voice command recognition, touchscreen, smart-home integrations, more; dev program in works; launch date undisclosed
Asus asuuy may be best known as the maker of laptops and phones, but on Monday it unveiled a fairly low-cost robot that can help …
ARM announces new Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU, hoping to power mobile VR in 2017
ARM, the company that designs the processor architectures used in virtually all mobile devices on the market, has used Computex Taipei 2016 to announce new products that it expects to see deployed in ...
Iran gives foreign messaging apps a year to move all data and activity linked to Iranian users onto servers inside the country
May 29 Iran has given foreign messaging apps a year to move data they hold about Iranian users onto servers inside the country, prompting privacy and security concerns on social media.
FBI raids home of security researcher who discovered unencrypted sensitive health data of 22K dental patients on an unsecured public FTP server
Someone alerts you to exposed, unencrypted patient information on your FTP server. Is the correct response to thank them profusely or try to have them charged as a criminal hacker?
How the United Arab Emirates has used foreign-supplied hacking tools to crack down on human rights activists
SAN FRANCISCO — In the last five years, Ahmed Mansoor, a human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates, has been jailed and fired from his job, along with having his passport confiscated …
Sources: Jawbone has stopped making UP fitness trackers, sold the remaining inventory to a reseller at a discount to raise cash
Jawbone has stopped making its UP fitness trackers and sold its remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, sources familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.
Sources: the Feinstein-Burr encryption bill has lost support in Congress, likely won't be introduced this year
After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies a “back door” …
Defense argues Bitcoin isn't actually money under Florida law, in what is believed to be the first money-laundering case against someone for dealing in bitcoins
Michell Espinoza is asking a judge to throw out criminal charges against him — He argues that the virtual currency is not actual money under Florida law
Some Silicon Valley luminaries, including Vinod Khosla and Jessica Livingston, express approval for Peter Thiel's tactics against Gawker
SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley's stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response …
Researchers report vulnerabilities in The DAO, an Ethereum-based organization resembling a VC fund, letting attackers freeze or steal cryptocurrency
A group of computer scientists released a paper on Friday describing a number of security vulnerabilities in a novel cryptocurrency crowdfunding project …
Report: in Q1 2016, 69% of new cellular accounts in the US came from cars, tablets, and IoT; cars accounted for 32% of new accounts versus 31% for phones
Most smartphones go to existing customers, with the real growth coming from tablets and other devices.
Sources: Jawbone is trying to sell its wireless speaker business, will focus on health and wearables
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Sources: Xbox compatible VR game slated for 2017 launch by a well-known European studio
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Pew: 62% of US adults get news on social media; 66% of Facebook, 23% of Instagram, 21% of YouTube, 19% of LinkedIn users get news there
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Inside Verizon's efforts to build a multi-billion dollar media business that can challenge new media giants like Netflix, and why it is vying to buy Yahoo
The telecom giant, which is in talks to acquire Yahoo, wants a piece of the digital content revolution. Tweets: @dangillmor . Thanks: @annelisemcgough Tweets: Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor : The telecom c...
ZTE plans to open 20 flagship stores in China and one each in Germany, Russia, and Mexico to drive sales of its smartphones and other consumer devices
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Musical.ly, with 10M DAUs and 70M registered users, is adding a streaming service called live.ly, is rumored to be raising $100M
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French finance minister rules out Google tax deal, more firms could be targeted
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Facebook plans to officially kill its video ad exchange LiveRail
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Scoop raises $5.1M seed for enterprise carpooling service led by Signia Venture Partners, joined by Index Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Workday Corporate Ventures
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : Tweets: @takescoop and @512tech Tweets: Scoop / @takescoop : .@techcrunch: “Scoop has offset roughly 500,000 commute miles and cut emissions by nearly 450k pounds of ...
Anti-abortion groups use smartphone geo-fencing to target ads directly at women in clinics
Sharona Coutts / Rewire : Tweets: @dtunkelang , @ctatplay , @csoghoian and @csoghoian Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : Super creepy. But these invasions of our privacy are inevitable when so ...
Reddit partners with VigLink to rewrite links to merchants on Reddit into affiliate links starting June 3
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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