Samsung unveils the rugged Galaxy S8 Active, available on AT&T for $28.34/month for 30 months; pre-orders begin August 8, full release on August 11
Samsung on Monday officially announced the Galaxy S8 Active, a more rugged version of its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone.
Former Google manager says anti-diversity manifesto author harmed Google, doesn't understand role of empathy in engineering, and deserves to be fired
You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men …
In first acquisition for the streaming giant, Netflix buys comic book publisher Millarworld, the company behind the Kingsman franchise
Comics Legend Mark Millar Joins Forces With the Leading Global Internet Entertainment Platform to Blow Minds Everywhere. — Hollywood Ca.
UK government proposes Data Protection Bill that includes new “right to be forgotten” legislation for users and fines for companies that breach users' data
Google and Facebook could face fines stretching into billions of pounds if they breach users' privacy under a new law.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says he's interested in investing in Uber or Lyft, amid reports Uber board is mulling sale of stock to SoftBank and others
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), a prolific investor in global technology startups, reported a sharp rise in quarterly profits …
How a Russian hacking team reverse-engineers slot machine pseudorandom generators, then sends agents to casinos to beat machine's odds, blackmail manufacturers
LATE LAST AUTUMN, a Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex decided he'd had enough of running his eight-year-old business.
Israeli SaaS firm ProoV announces $14M series B led by Helios and Mangrove for its proof-of-concept platform for startups and enterprise
ProoV, a startup founded by a couple of industry veterans, solves a problem the founders encountered many times over the years: how do you get the CIO …
Anonymous messaging app Kik still fails to deal adequately with child abuse on its platform, after learning about the issues more than a year ago
Soon after Raleigh, North Carolina police arrested registered sex offender Thomas Paul Keeler II in March last year, they discovered …
US Army calls for units to discontinue use of products from Chinese drone maker DJI due to “cyber vulnerabilities”
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Customer satisfaction with home and auto insurance claims has risen as insurers use more drones and AI to help inspect damage and automate decisions
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A look at Google's Ray Kurzweil-led internal group, Kona, which is responsible for neural net-powered Smart Reply feature in Gmail
RAY KURZWEIL HAS invented a few things in his time. In his teens, he built a computer that composed classical music, which won him an audience with President Lyndon B. Johnson. Tweets: @martinsfp , @...
Report details how Apple, HP, other manufacturers influence Green Electronics Council regulators to undermine green tech standards of reusability and repair
A new report says the tech industry is using its outsized influence to combat environmental product standards
Inside the world of Silicon Valley's ‘coasters’ — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work
The least-secret secret in the Valley is called “resters and vesters,” or “coasters” - which refers to engineers who get paid big bucks without doing too much work, waiting for their stock to vest. Tw...
Internal probe by South Korean spy agency shows that, under its former director, it backed an online disinformation campaign to sway SK's 2012 presidential race
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How deep-pocketed political donors invest in meme production to sway the masses, with some Dems trying to catch up by funding their own viral content studios
Imagine you're a millionaire or billionaire with strong political views and a desire to spread those views to the masses. Tweets: @mims , @patprobably , and @tonyromm Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims ...
Mozilla execs on company's recovery efforts starting with Firefox 57, past missteps that led to Firefox losing market share, a possible membership plan, more
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Samsung's Bixby excels at controlling Galaxy S8 hardware, works well with Samsung apps, but voice recognition is dodgy, and lack of cloud sync is very limiting
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica :
Delaware law that lets corporations maintain shareholder lists and other corporate records using blockchain technology went into effect this week
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Strict hacking laws, outdated government hiring rules, and a lack of incentives prevent ethical hackers from pitching in on cyber defense
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Facebook tests showing posts from local politicians in News Feed even for users not following those politicians, at most once per week
Kurt Wagner / Recode : Tweets: @mikeelgan Tweets: Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan : Before you praise this news, consider Facebook's enormous and clandestine power to decide what the public reads and knows. ...
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