U.S. law enforcement officials announced on Wednesday the indictment of two Israeli operators of a website that referred hundreds of thousands of users to underground internet marketplaces to purchase drugs, …
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Waymo, Lyft Take on Uber with Rides in Self-Driving Car
Google’s self-driving car spinoff, Waymo, is teaming up with Lyft in Arizona to attempt to lure passengers away from ride-hailing market leader Uber. The alliance announced Tuesday will allow anyone …
your ads here!Google Annual Event to Showcase New Hardware, AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to showcase much-anticipated updates to the company’s hardware lines and artificial intelligence. Google will also likely address privacy updates as concerns about data sharing …
your ads here!Google’s AI Assistant Aims to Transcend the Smart Speaker
When Google launched its now distinctive digital assistant in 2016, it was already in danger of being an also-ran. At the time, Amazon had been selling its Echo smart speaker, …
your ads here!WSJ: Google Set to Launch Privacy Tools to Limit Online Tracking
Alphabet’s Google is set to roll out a dashboard-like function in its Chrome browser to offer users more control in fending off tracking cookies, the Wall Street Journal reported on …
your ads here!Microsoft’s Offers Software Tools to Secure Elections
Microsoft announced an ambitious effort it says will make voting secure, verifiable and subject to reliable audits. Two of the three top U.S elections vendors have expressed interest in potentially …
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Virtual Reality had a fantastic year in 2016, with the release of several anticipated VR glasses, including the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. Gaming and technology fairs presented the …
your ads here!Nanotechnology Lenses Help Focus the Lighting Industry
An innovative Czech company is changing the way we think of light, by capturing and transforming it in ways that save money and generally make the world a more beautiful …
your ads here!Inflatable Robot the Future of Space and Home Robotics, Academics Say
Lightweight, cheap to make and easier to send into outer space. Academics in the U.S. are developing an inflatable robot with money from the American space agency, NASA. NASA says …
your ads here!Technology Informs Emergency Officials of Floods Beforehand
Rivers are a source of irrigation, drinking water, recreation … and flooding. Scientists say the threat of flooding will increase as the climate changes. Here in the United States, scientists …
your ads here!European, US Authorities Bust Major Darknet Site
European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares in raids in the United States, Germany and …
your ads here!30 Nations Pitch Internet Security Rules Amid Huawei Concern
Cybersecurity officials from dozens of countries on Friday proposed a set of principles to ensure the safety of next generation mobile networks amid concerns over the use of gear made …
your ads here!Vietnam Develops Own Smartphones After Decades of Contract Work
Vietnam is used to being an order taker. Companies such as Nokia and Samsung Electronics use the Southeast Asian country’s cheap labor to assemble consumer electronics for export. Those investments …
your ads here!SpaceX Admits Crew Capsule Destroyed in April Test
Nearly two weeks after a fiery explosion during a ground test of its new crew capsule, SpaceX confirmed Thursday that the vehicle was destroyed, but neither the company nor NASA, …
your ads here!Facebook Bans Several Personalities for Hate Speech
The hugely popular social media site Facebook has banned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and several others for hate speech. Facebook said Thursday that the …
your ads here!US Renews Warning to Allies on Huawei
Britain’s prime minister fired her defense minister Wednesday after finding ‘compelling evidence’ that he leaked information to journalists about a secret decision to allow China’s tech giant Huawei to participate …
your ads here!Facebook CEO Says Company Will Focus on Privacy
For years, Facebook said it wanted to be the world’s digital town square. Now Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has a more intimate vision, the digital living room, enabling private conversations …
your ads here!In Streaming Wars, Apple Says It Can Coexist With Netflix
Far from being a Netflix killer, Apple envisions its forthcoming Apple TV+ streaming service as one that could sit alongside other services that viewers buy, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook …
your ads here!Report: US Cyber Spies Unmasked Many More American Identities in 2018
U.S. cyber spies last year unmasked the identities of nearly 17,000 U.S. citizens or residents who were in contact with foreign intelligence targets, a sharp increase from previous years attributed …
your ads here!US Lawmakers Struggle to Draft Online Privacy Bill
U.S. lawmakers drafting a bill to create rules governing online privacy hope to have a discussion draft complete by late May with a Senate committee vote during the summer and …
your ads here!Dreams of Ubiquitous Social Robots Still Not Coming True
Hopes that the tech industry was on the cusp of rolling personal robots into homes are dimming now that several once-promising consumer robotics companies have shut down. The latest casualty …
your ads here!Facebook Overhauls Messaging as It Pivots to Privacy
Facebook Inc on Tuesday debuted an overhaul of its core social network and new business-focused tools, the first concrete steps in its plan to refashion itself into a private messaging …
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