Apple Watch Series 2 review: serious fitness tracker with GPS, better performance, but display not visible in direct sunlight, software glitches remain
A GPS sensor and better water resistance make the new Apple Watch a serious fitness tracker — Let's call it what it is: a fitness tracker.
Amazon Echo available for preorder in UK for £149.99 or £99 with Prime, ships Sept. 28; available in Germany by invitation for €179.99 or €129.99 with Prime
Amazon's challenger to Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now makes the leap from the US in the form of a smart home-controlling speaker
A look at the experience of riding in Uber's autonomous vehicle as pick-ups start in Pittsburgh
Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car. — The announcement comes a year …
Tim Cook favors AR over VR, suggests it may be more commercially viable because it allows users to be more “present”
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he favors augmented reality (AR) over virtual reality (VR), and suggested the emerging technology …
Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in six months, compared to Apple Music's growth of 4M in same period
In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today, the company's CEO and Founder Daniel Ek hinted that the service has hit the 40 million subscriber milestone.
New Twitter app launches on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Xbox One, brings free video content from Periscope, Vine, and partners like NFL, NBA, and Bloomberg
Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that.
Amazon restocks the Echo Dot at $49.99, down from the $89.99 launch price
We already knew it was coming -thanks to an accidental tweetAmazon posted earlier this week - but now it's official: Amazon's connected speaker Echo Dot is back in stock and at a lower price point of ...
Companies running critical Internet infrastructure are observing recent probe-like DDoS attacks at a scale that points to state actors, likely China or Russia
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet.
Sources: Pandora's new music services could launch as early as Thursday; deals set with Universal Music, Sony, and Merlin, but not yet Warner Music
Sources say it's aiming for a Thursday launch. — Pandora wants to launch two new music services, and it may be ready to do it this week.
Samsung says it will cap Note7 charging at 60% in OTA update, starting Sept. 20 in S. Korea, is in talks with telcos from 9 other countries for similar rollouts
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Forrester: AI will eliminate 6 percent of jobs in customer service, trucking, taxi industries in five years
A Forrester Research report expects intelligent agent to displace about 6-percent of positions within the next five years. — Within five years robots and so-called intelligent agents …
Alibaba's Ant Financial acquires US biometric authentication startup EyeVerify, source says for $100M
Alibaba's payments arm, Ant Financial, has acquired EyeVerify, a maker of optical recognition technology used byWells Fargo along with dozens of regional banks and credit unions across the country.
YouTube launches beta of Community, which lets creators share photos, text, more into Subscriptions feed; subs can opt-in to new post notifications
Text, still images, and GIFs are now part of the mix that the service gives creators to keep their fans engaged.
Viacom, Hasbro, and others fined $835,000 for ad tracking on children's websites
The Attorney General's investigation found that websites for Barbie, Dora the Explorer, and other popular children's brands were tracking users to serve ads. While common on the web, ad tracking is f...
Google-backed First Draft's new coalition network, which aims to help improve social media newsgathering, adds Twitter and Facebook as partners
Channel 4 News, Telegraph, New York Times, Washington Post and BuzzFeed have also signed up to network organised through Google-backed First Draft
Samsung says it will replace Note7 in US and Canada after country safety regulators end investigations, plans to offer replacements in Singapore this week
Smartphone's recall hurts consumer and investor confidence in South Korean company — Samsung Electronics Co. is facing growing consumer confusion …
EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News
Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content — EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authors
Sources: Microsoft may discontinue Band fitness device, will focus instead on its cross-platform Health service
Microsoft's Band 2 fitness device looks to be at the end of its run. The cross-platform Microsoft Health service is where Microsoft is focusing its efforts.
Israel's Cato Networks raises $30M Series B led by Greylock Partners for its cloud-based network security technology
Shlomo Kramer is well-known in the security industry as the co-founder of Check Point, arguably the world's first network security firewall vendor.
Apple says there was an issue with iOS 10 software updates impacting some devices during first hour of availability, and affected users can update via iTunes
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In another Snapchat-inspired update, Instagram lets you save to camera roll by default photos and videos you post to stories, as well as mute others' stories
Instagram has issued another Snapchat-inspired update to its app, the latest in an aggressive series since the company's big redesign in May.
Apple releases iTunes 12.5.1 with all-new Apple Music design, iOS 10 support, and Siri commands in Sierra
What's New? Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple Releases iOS 10 With Redesigned Lock Screen, New Messages Features, Third-Party Siri, and More Brian Fagioli / BetaNews : Apple ‘Swift Playgrounds’ coding a...
In letter this morning, Rothenberg asks limited partner investors to contribute working capital to keep the firm going
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SAP's corporate travel firm Concur to buy the consumer flight and hotel search site Hipmunk, which has raised $55M in funding to date
Sprint says the first three days of presales for new iPhones are up 375% vs last year; T-Mobile says the preorders are about 4x more than iPhone 6
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Nvidia debuts new AI-focused processors for data centers based on its Pascal design, says the new chips have 4x speed, 3x efficiency of previous models
Chris Duckett / ZDNet :
Microsoft Outlook's mobile app updates with some Sunrise-inspired features and design tweaks including event icons, map integration, “interesting calendars”
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Jay-Z's music streaming service Tidal posted a loss of $28M in 2015, compared to $10M in 2014
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Microsoft's Azure Service Fabric for running and managing microservices is coming to Linux
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Israel's Cyber-security start-up Claroty exits stealth, raises $32M from Bessemer Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, others
Steven Scheer / Reuters :
Airbnb Friendly Building Program lets landlords share in the revenue tenants earn through home-sharing on Airbnb as well as set custom rules for doing so
but it means you'll make less on your listing Tweets: Jordan ‘Jaws’ Novet / @jordannovet : great story from @imkialikethecar, i heard about Airbnb planning to do this last year http://twitter.com/...
How News Corp's Storyful became the agent for the creator of video of Clinton at 9/11 event, charging news orgs “a couple hundred thousand” for rights so far
Peter Kafka / Recode : Tweets: @recode , @mtfarnsworth , @markjacob16 , @pkafka , @petersterne , @librab103 , @mattdpearce and @ap . See also Mediagazer Tweets: @recode : Czech man who shot the Hilla...
Swarm debuts Swarm Perks, perks used with virtual coins obtained by checking into businesses; “tens of thousands” of perks are available at launch
10 billion birthdays, road trips … Ken Yeung / VentureBeat : Foursquare now lets you use Swarm coins to pay for perks, brings stickers to iMessage Jordan Crook / TechCrunch : Foursquare 10 puts search...
Digg raises Series C led by USA Today owner Gannett to boost its aggregation chops
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US tech firms including Facebook, Google, and Twitter urge Congress to support US govt.'s plan to give control of the Domain Naming System to ICANN on Oct. 1
Property Implications of Proposed Transition of U.S. Government Oversight … Grant Gross / PCWorld : Tech companies want ICANN transition to happen as planned Kieren McCarthy / The Register : It actual...
China's Sinovation Ventures co-founded by Google, Microsoft veteran Kai-Fu Lee raises $675M for two funds to focus on AI, enterprise software, media startups
Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal :
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