Google engineers are trying to make sure that their autonomous cars are extra cautious around children. The company explained in a "Halloween's a great time to get some extra learning done," wrote the team from Google's
When Apple announced the But getting a phone through the iPhone Upgrade Program is quite a bit different (and more difficult) from the default iPhone purchasing process Apple has been using for years. Over the past three weeks, I’ve been dealing with problems that expose one of the key issues with the program: despite all of the 21st century wizardry packed into the iPhone 6s, the Upgrade Program is still bound by 20th century rules about loan applications.
A software development kit created by Chinese Internet services company Baidu and used by thousands of Android applications contains a feature that gives attackers backdoor-like access to users' devices. The SDK is called Moplus and while it's not open to the public, it was integrated in more than 14,000 apps, of which only around 4,000 were created by Baidu, security researchers from Trend Micro said in a The company estimates that the affected apps are used by over 100 million users.
For millions of years, humans lived on Earth—playing out billions of little dramas, fighting wars, shaping the planet in our own image, and occasionally looking up into the night sky, up at a bright, white orb and thinking “What if?” In 1969, “What if?” became “When?” And according to Ubisoft, “When?” is answered by “2205” a.k.a. “When humanity finally colonizes the moon.”
T-Mobile is taking another crack at solving its connectivity problems with miniature cell towers that subscribers can install in their homes. The 4G LTE CellSpot acts like one of T-Mobile’s regular cell towers, but on a smaller scale. It operates in a range of 3,000 square feet, and allows up to 16 devices on T-Mobile’s network to connect automatically for voice calls (including This is one of three solutions T-Mobile offers to subscribers with poor connectivity at home or at work. The carrier’s Wi-Fi CellSpot can route calls and texts over a local Wi-Fi network, while a 4G LTE CellSpot Signal Booster helps amplify a weak signal inside of buildings. The new 4G LTE CellSpot doesn’t require a Wi-Fi network, nor does it need an indoor cellular signal.
Snapchat recently tweaked its At the center of concern is something we’ve seen play out again and again on social networks—namely, that Snapchat owns your content and, in a Snapchat-specfic twist, will no longer delete it from their servers, as they previously claimed. If true, it would be a pretty concerning change considering
After getting off to a speedy start, Windows 10 adoption is continuing to flatten out. In October, NetApplications estimated StatCounter, another metrics firm that measures usage share by pageviews on sample sites, estimated
Instagram got into the Halloween spirit on Saturday by giving a fright to Snapchat and Twitter. The “Watch Halloween’s best videos,” a banner notification at the top of Instagram’s mobile apps read over the weekend in the U.S. “Experience Halloween with videos from across the country.”
I thought the whole WB re-released the PC version last week and while I
Don't be befuddled by the alphabet soup of acronyms, spec charts, and feature lists you'll encounter when shopping for a new TV. This guide series explains it all in plain language.
UK police arrested a third suspect on Saturday relating to the breach at communications provider TalkTalk, which said the amount of data exposed is less than initially thought. A 20-year-old man was arrested after police executed a search warrant at an address in south Staffordshire, the Metropolitan Police The man, who was not identified, was arrested on suspicion of violations of the Computer Misuse Act and was later bailed. UK police arrested a 15-year-old boy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on Oct. 26, and a 16-year-old boy in Feltham, England, on Thursday. Both boys have been bailed.
The percentage of US adults who own a smartphone or tablet has skyrocketed in recent years, while PC ownership has held more or less steady. That’s the takeaway of a According to the survey, 68 percent of adults in the United States currently own a smartphone, up from 35 percent four years ago. Meanwhile, 45 percent own some form of tablet, up from three percent in 2010. Pew’s data shows that desktop and laptop ownership has remained more or less flat over the last decade. According to Pew, 73 percent of survey respondents currently own a desktop or laptop, compared to 71 percent in 2004. Traditional PC ownership trended slightly upward until the early part of this decade before tailing off somewhat the last two or three years.
If Hollywood wanted a script about the inexorable decline of a corporate icon, it might look to Hewlett-Packard for inspiration. Once one of Silicon Valley's most respected companies, HP officially split itself in two on Sunday, betting that the smaller parts will be nimbler and more able to reverse four years of declining sales. HP fell victim to
Fierce competition is forcing music streamers to think beyond music.