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Microsoft on Wednesday announced an agreement to acquireSwiftKey, whose software keyboard and SDK are used on more than 300 million Android and iOS devices SwiftKey's technology aligns with Microsoft's vision for more personal computing experiences that "anticipate our needs versus responding to our commands, and directly supports our ambition to r...
A team from MIT won the best overall design award in the first round of the Hyperloop pod design contest, held last weekend at Texas A&M University. About 120 teams participated in the event ...
IBM on Monday announced new capabilities for its Connections business social network platform The functions will let users do the following:...
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University on Monday released a report that questions the so-called "going dark" phenomenon The U.S. government and its surveillance and law enforcement agencies have been calling for an end to encryption because they say it lets terrorists communicate and plan with impunity and is responsible fo...
T-Mobile's Binge On streaming video service violates Net neutrality rules, according to a report authored by Barbara van Schewick, director of The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School The Binge On service, says the report, is problematic for the following reasons: ...
Movidius on Wednesday announced that it's working with Google to put deep learning on mobile devices Google will source Movidius' latest flagship chip -- the MA2450 -- and software development environment, and will contribute to Movidius' neural network technology road map in return....
Research at Google on Wednesday announced that AlphaGo has become the first computer software system to beat a human at the ancient game of Go There are more possible positions in Go than there are the number of atoms in the universe, and it has a googol (that's 1 followed by 100 zeroes) more positions than chess, noted Google DeepMind researchers ...
Project Decibel on Wednesday announcedStarry, a company that promises easy broadband Internet access at speeds of up to 1 GB with no caps Starry will deploy what it says is the world's first millimeter wave band for consumer Internet communications....
Sprint plans to lay off about 2,500 employees, including five vice presidents, according to news reports this week About 2,000 of the cuts are in customer service....
Apple's Safari browser has been crashing on Macs and iOS devices when users launch a search through its address bar, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday OS X and iOS users worldwide have been affected, according to The Verge, which confirmed the problem on several iOS devices and at least one OS X machine....
In the runup to the release of Apple's Q1 2016 earnings report Tuesday, one of the big unanswered questions was whether the iPhone could maintain its sales momentum Q1 2015 iPhone sales hit a record 74.5 million units, and it's possible the latest quarter's shipments may not equal -- let alone exceed -- that mark....
AOL on Monday announced that it has agreed to purchaseAlephD as it ramps up efforts to boost its key assets: its global content brands, millennial-focused over-the-top content, original video content, and programmatic advertising platforms AlephD's algorithms focus on publisher analytics and price floor optimization. They let publishers control and...
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, last week announced a new program that aims to build a connection between the human brain and the digital world To achieve the goals of the Neural Engineering System Design program, DARPA has invited proposals to design, build, demonstrate, and validate a human-computer interfac...
Samsung on Monday began a global rollout of the latest versions of its Gear S2 Classic smartwatch, hitting China first There are two models in the Gear S2 Classic New Edition line -- one with 18K rose gold plating and the other with a platinum finish....
California State AssemblymanJim Cooper last week introduced a bill seeking to ban the sale of smartphones that include unbreakable encryption The bill would require smartphones made on or after Jan. 1, 2017, and sold in California to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by their manufacturers or OS providers....
A coalition of 59 organizations on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calling on him to get cracking on privacy protection rules for consumers The groups include consumer advocates such asConsumer Watchdog and theChicago Consumer Coalition as well as theCenter for Democracy and Technology and theAm...
Brave Software, helmed by Brendan Eich, who cofounded Mozilla and created the JavaScript programming language, on Tuesday released the 0.7 developer version of its Brave browser. Brave is an open source project that promises to block Internet greed and ugliness, while improving speed and protecting privacy. Basically, it blocks ads containing pix...
Google Chrome users soon will get faster Web access through theBrotli open source compression algorithm, Google Web Performance Engineer Ilya Grigorik said Tuesday It has been rolled out to the M49 release of Chrome in Canary, which is designed for devs. It's not clear when Brotli will surface for other users of the Chrome browser....
Tens of millions of Linux PCs and servers, as well as 66 percent of all Android mobile devices, are vulnerable to a zero-day flaw that could allow users with lower-level privileges to gain root access, according to Perception Point, which announced its discovery last week The local privilege escalation vulnerability, which affects Linux Kernel v3.8
Bot fraud will cost digital advertisers US$7.2 billion worldwide this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association of National Advertisers For the "2015 Bot Baseline" report, 49 ANA members deployed detection tags from White Ops on their digital ads to measure bot fraud over 61 days, from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30....
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