No industry or sector is immune to hacking. That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according […]
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All the news we expect from Apple’s huge developers conference
Apple CEO Tim Cook will be on hand for the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5. (Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP) Apple’s (AAPL) massive Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday, June 5 at 1 p.m. E.T., and we’re expecting a host of new announcements. These announcements will give us a view into what the company […]
HP Inc CEO says an intern helped spur ‘the birth of a new category’ in printing
When it comes to innovation, HP Inc. is no laggard. And according to President and CEO Dion Weisler, it was a high school intern that prompted his team to create the company’s new blockbuster printing device, the HP Sprocket. It started after a presentation HP’s interns deliver to company executives, when Weisler asked the 14- […]
4 apps you need for summer travel
Summer is almost here, which means it’s time to take a trip. But before you send that “out of office” email, you have to book your flights, reserve a rental car and plan an itinerary. It can be a real headache. Here are four apps that’ll make planning your trip a little bit easier. Lola […]
Uber inadvertently underpaid New York City drivers for over two years
FILE PHOTO: A man exits the Uber offices in Queens, New York, U.S., February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo More (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Tuesday it underpaid its New York City drivers for the past two-and-a-half years, an error that could cost the ride-hailing company tens of millions of dollars. Uber […]
The new Samsung Galaxy does 27 things the iPhone doesn’t
Every spring, Samsung introduces a new Galaxy phone; every fall, Apple (AAPL) counterpunches with a new iPhone. At the moment, we find ourselves in mid-cycle: Samsung has just released its Galaxy S8, and the iPhone 8 is still a summer away. The S8 is a gorgeous phone. It’s a hardware masterpiece, it’s getting rave reviews, and—hey!—so […]
How Google’s trying to make the mobile web look less ugly
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The company responsible for a large fraction of the hours we while away on the web isn’t happy with how inefficiently we spend that time on our phones. At its I/O conference here, Google (GOOG, GOOGL) touted the progress of Accelerated Mobile Pages, an ambitious initiative to remake the mobile web into a […]
Best Buy Hates That It Is Too Complicated to Buy an $800 Apple iPhone in Its Stores
https://vid.thestreet.com/p/105/sp/0/playManifest/protocol/https/entryId/0_bkb868m3/format/url/flavorParamId/35/video.mp4 Best Buy (BBY) wants to get people in and out of its stores with a pricey new Apple (AAPL) or Samsung smartphone as fast as possible. Top News: Bullfrog Gold Raises $816,000 Of Equity To Advance Its Nevada Gold Project “[We are] revamping the mobile departments in our stores and enhancing the online presence […]
Massive Leak Reveals Monster 18-core Intel Core i9-7980XE Processor: Should AMD Be Worried?
Who wants an 18-core, 36-thread desktop processor? Well, this could be on the cards in the near future as the latest rumor points at Intel not stopping at just a measly 12-cores with its imminent launch of its X299 platform and Skylake-X processors. Instead, there could be 14-core, 16-core and even 18-core processors that sit […]
These Biometric Earbuds Help Hack-proof Your Accounts
Security experts recommend enabling two-factor authentication to make your accounts as hack-proof as possible. Sometimes that means receiving one-time verification codes via a text message. Other times it might mean swiping your finger across a sensor. NEC Image: NEc NEC thinks verifying your identity is something that can be done without any extra effort on […]
You’re About To See What 1.4-Billion-Pixels Looks Like
High resolution bathymetric map of the Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico has had an incredible history, leaving scientists to puzzle over a landscape peppered with channels, canyons, domes, pockmarks, faults, and mini-basins. Now, with the recent release of a giga-pixel (1.4 billion pixel) bathymetric map of the Gulf of Mexico seafloor scientists are able to […]
Uber Quietly Drops Otto Truck Unit Name Following Trademark Spat
An Otto driverless truck at the Uber unit’s garage in San Francisco. By Alan Ohnsman and Matt Drange As Uber fights claims that it stole self-driving vehicle trade secrets from Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, the rideshare giant quietly dropped the name for its driverless truck unit, “Otto.” The change was made last month in the wake […]