Google will one day be able to drive a car for you. It can help you compose your e-mails and finish your thoughts now, automatically. And now, in a spooky view of the future, it can even make phone calls on your behalf. Google’s display of artificial intelligence and what computers are now capable of this week […]

A little over two and a half hours into Microsoft’s Build conference this week in Seattle, I tuned out the live coding session, taking place on stage in a downtown convention center crammed with 6,000 software developers, and started playing a game in my head. It was sort of like Where’s Waldo. Except I was thinking “Where’s […]

The world’s leading blockchain asset financial services provider to host first Blockchain Festival in Vietnam Vietnam — May 10, 2018 — Huobi.Pro, the world’s fourth largest digital asset exchange, announced today the agenda and speakers for the 2018 Blockchain Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on May 24-25. Hosted by Huobi.Pro, the two-day Blockchain Festival will feature more than […]

So you don’t have to worry so much about phishing — at least if websites support the new technology. With Mozilla’s release of Firefox 60 on Wednesday, web browsers will start letting you log into websites without a password — an important change in authentication technology that could help curtail costly phishing attacks. Firefox 60 supports technology called Web Authentication, […]

It might be a hybrid of digital and quartz timekeeping. Ever since Google rebranded Android Wear as Wear OS, there’s been a lingering question: when would there be a new smartwatch to spearhead Google’s wearable revival? Apparently, the answer is “soon.” An FCC filing has revealed an LG-made Wear OS device that may just tout some unique features. For […]

How big is BMW’s new X7 sport activity vehicle? The auto maker isn’t saying exactly, but here’s a clue: I drove 250 kilometres through South Carolina tucked into the middle of a convoy of camouflaged X7s following a small red lead vehicle that I blithely believed to be an X4 – i.e. BMW’s compact sport activity coupe. Only […]

Facebook doesn’t think hookups are meaningful and doesn’t want you to date your friends — but it’s known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long-term partners. At least that’s the takeaway from a new dating feature the social networking giant is launching because, well, why not? […]

Apple today admitted that some iPhone 7 and 7 Plus models running iOS 11.3 or later may have a bug that disables the microphone during phone calls, MacRumors spotted through a leaked document. The few users with the affected devices may see their speaker button grayed-out when making calls or video chatting through FaceTime. The issue seems […]

Twitter on Thursday issued a security alert recommending its 336 million users change their passwords, the result of an apparent bug that caused some codes to be stored unprotected on an internal log.  The company revealed the issue in a post to its official blog and a tweets from Twitter Support. CEO Jack Dorsey and Twitter’s official account retweeted the […]

In the race to continue building more sophisticated AI deep learning models, Facebook has a secret weapon: billions of images on Instagram. In research the company is presenting today at F8, Facebook details how it took what amounted to billions of public Instagram photos that had been annotated by users with hashtags and used that data […]