US shuts down biggest torrents site KickassTorrents, arrests owner after Apple hands over his personal details
With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass 5, claims 0.6mm thick glass will not break 80% of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters
Glassmaker Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass, the chemically strengthened super glass that dozens of consumer electronics makers use in their devices.
A preview of the RNC speech by Peter Thiel, the eccentric investor who is unlike anyone else in tech
The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech. — Okay, I will just say what pretty much everyone in tech thinks, even if they never seem to be able to say it out loud …
Google Cloud Platform debuts 2 machine learning APIs in beta: a natural language API that lets devs perform sentiment & syntax analysis, and a Cloud Speech API
The Natural Language API enables sentiment and syntax analysis, as well as entity recognition.
Apple fixes Stagefright-like vulnerability, which allows attackers to compromise devices via a malicious image, in latest updates to iOS, OS X, tvOS, watchOS
RCE flaw exploitable via image files affects many products — Apple has fixed five issues in OS X and iOS that pose …
Lenovo's Moto Z and Moto Z Force Droids to launch on Verizon July 28, for $624 and $720
The latest Droids are near. Verizon and Lenovo today announced that the Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid will launch on the leading US carrier on July 28th — a week from today.
IDC: Smartwatch shipments fall for the first time; Apple only company in top 5 to decline
The smartwatch market has hit its first bump, and it's all Apple's fault. Vendors shipped a total of 3.5 million smartphones worldwide last quarter. This Q2 2016 figure is down 32 percent …
How Skype is transitioning from a legacy P2P infrastructure to a new mobile-friendly, cloud-based solution this year
Good news for those stung by Skype weirdness and reliability issues over the past several months: The problems have been caused by a transition to a more modern …
The French National Data Protection Commission serves notice to Microsoft for Windows 10 privacy failings, gives company three months to comply
Strict online privacy laws in the EU continue to bedevil American tech companies. Latest to catch flak is Microsoft, over a handful of objections from a French data protection agency.
Sprinklr raises $105M Series F led by Temasek, at a valuation of $1.8B, for its social media management software
Marketing software startup Sprinklr, which last year declared it had topped $100 million in revenue, has raised another $105 million to fuel international growth and, if the occasion arises, to make m...
Periscope adds “Replay Highlights” automatic trailers for broadcasts, ability to view Periscope feeds within embedded Tweets
There are hundreds of millions of live and replay broadcasts on Periscope, and more get added everyday. We're introducing three new features today …
Facebook Live to double broadcast length to four hours, offer fullscreen streaming and ability to temporarily hide comments and reactions during broadcast
Facebook has begun rolling out several updates to its livestreaming capability this week. People and Page administrators will now be able …
Airbnb hires former Attorney General Eric Holder to help “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy”
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Google Maps adds more ways to add missing places and suggest edits to existing information
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Intel Q2 misses on sales of $13.5B, beats on EPS of $0.59 as it hunkers on with restructuring
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Mining is underway for a new Ethereum blockchain, following a hard fork that refunds ether to original investors of the hacked DAO
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SwiftKey debuts emoji prediction keyboard Swiftmoji, its first product since the Microsoft acquisition
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China Bans Highway Testing of Autonomous Cars Pending Regulation
Tech Roundup Andrew Krok / CNET : China pumps the brakes on autonomous-car testing for now Mark Lelinwalla / TechCrunch : China pumping brakes on highway testing of autonomous cars Chris Merriman / In...
eBay slightly beats Q2 estimates on revenues of $2.2B and earnings of $437M, announces $2.5B share buyback
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Qualcomm Q3 revenues up 3.6% YoY to $6.04B, net income rises to $1.4B from $1.18B a year ago
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Google says DeepMind-powered AI has improved its datacenters' power usage efficiency by 15%
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Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online appointment scheduling
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Zenith research: global internet ad spending will overtake TV in 2017, with 36% of market share versus TV's 35%
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.