Amazon and Microsoft partner to let Alexa summon Cortana, and vice versa, by year's end
In an unusual partnership, Amazon and Microsoft are working together to extend the abilities of their voice-controlled digital assistants. — SEATTLE — The crowded pack of voice-controlled digital as...
Amazon now lets Echo play music across multiple rooms, debuts API to let Alexa control music on third-party connected speakers
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Dara Khosrowshahi is officially Uber CEO, according to an email from company's board to employees; Travis Kalanick says he “couldn't be happier”
Uber's board of directors this evening sent an email to company employees, saying that it voted unanimously to name current Expedia boss Dara Khosrowshahi as its next CEO.
Sources detail Uber CEO process: Immelt withdrew early, Whitman overplayed her hand by negotiating for more control, then board went decisively to Khosrowshahi
SAN FRANCISCO — By last Friday afternoon, most of Uber's eight directors had gathered in San Francisco for a board meeting.
Sources: next high-end iPhone model to have a software bar with new gesture controls to replace home button, an iPad-like app dock, redesigned multitasking
Premium device is said to come with new gesture controls to replace home button, taller screen with rounded corners.
Over 21M comments have been submitted to FCC on its proposed neutrality roll-back as it closes submissions, although many are duplicates or created by spambots
The FCC has received nearly 22m comments on “Restoring Internet Freedom” with just hours left before the window for public feedback closes on Wednesday
Asus unveils 13.9mm thick ZenBook Flip 14 with discrete Nvidia graphics weighing 3.08 pounds; all Flip laptops updated with Intel's latest quad-core processors
If you need a very light convertible or laptop and still want to do some light gaming or video editing, the latest ASUS ZenBook Flip and VivoBook models may do the trick.
Acer launches fanless Switch 7 hybrid tablet with discrete Nvidia graphics and Intel's 8th-generation Core i7 processor, available in December for $1,699
Acer's Switch 5 tablet wasn't something to write home about. The kickstand was clever, but what else was there to lure you away from, say, a Surface Pro?
Google Assistant coming to new speakers from Anker, Mobvoi, and Panasonic, will be integrated with LG home appliances
Earlier today, at German consumer electronics and appliances show IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in Berlin, Google announced that the Google Assistant will be coming to new smart speakers and ho...
Interview with Alexa executives on the digital assistant's personality, history, and smart home capabilities
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Sources: DoJ opens preliminary probe into whether Uber executives breached Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; Uber says it's working with DoJ on the probe
Justice Department opens preliminary probe into whether managers at ride-sharing firm breached Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Dara Khosrowshahi's email to Expedia employees expresses optimism about his new role as Uber CEO but acknowledges that he's scared
Dara Khosrowshahi, the longtime Expedia CEO, emailed employees of the travel giant this evening as news broke that he had accepted Uber's offer to be its next chief executive.
Concerns raised after New America Foundation, a think tank funded by Google, fired Barry Lynn, a scholar who praised EU's antitrust fine against Google
WASHINGTON — In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June …
Apple, continuing its fight with media partners, will likely only succeed with TV when it brings its original shows to market
4K movies? Sure. But that's not where Apple wanted to be in 2017. — Here's a head fake of a story: Apple and Hollywood studios are wrangling over pricing for …
Researcher uncovers open server with 711M email addresses and other credentials, including passwords and email server info, used by a spambot to send malware
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Okta adds two-factor authentication for all single sign-on customers, strengthens security features for its cloud-based Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication
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WhatsApp pilots verifying businesses, indicated by adding green check mark, and code analysis shows work on standalone app for companies to chat with customers
and might have a whole new app in the works Khari Johnson / VentureBeat : WhatsApp is verifying business accounts Faisal Ahmed / Neowin : WhatsApp has started giving verified badges to business accoun...
Preview of six AR apps coming to iOS 11 using ARKit, from GIPHY, Walking Dead, Ikea, Food Network, and more, and thoughts on AR controls and other conventions
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Instagram adds ability to post landscape or portrait photos to albums
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Skype previews Interviews feature in browser for testing candidates with a real-time code editor that supports seven programming languages
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Kik raises $50M through private sale of its Kin token to institutional investors and plans to raise $75M more in ICO
Jonathan Keane / CoinDesk :
YouTube gets a redesign, including easier access to navigation tabs, new Library and Account tabs, variable speed playback on mobile, and a new logo
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Intel unveils Xeon-W CPUs for workstations, with up to 18 cores and peak turbo clock speed of 4.5GHz coming in Q4
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Apple accepts WeChat Pay in China's App Store, Apple Music after accepting Alipay; Apple Pay hovers at 1% share; paid subs to Music, iCloud up 12% last 90 days
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Google says it's sharing a plan to comply with EU shopping search demands today; the search giant had initially said it “respectfully disagreed” with the ruling
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Analysis of 100+ products at Whole Foods in Princeton, NJ shows avg. price has dropped just ~1% since merger, with 78% of item prices unchanged from last week
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Taiwanese AI startup Appier, which makes tools to aid marketing decisions, raises $33M Series C from SoftBank, Line, others to grow engineering team, R&D, more
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Sources: Whisper loses board members, including Roelof Botha of Sequoia and Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed, as co-founders try to plan a buyout of early investors
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