Target unveiled a new app for its customers. But it’s not every customer that has access to it. Only about 600 of Target’s estimated 30 million weekly shoppers have been invited to download the app and participate in its purpose.…
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Tech giant Microsoft has sunk an entire data center off the coast of Scotland. The goal, it says, is to speed the transfer of data as well as to cut down on operational costs.
“For true delivery of AI, we …
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Facebook made it known to Congress that it has shared user data with fifty-two IT companies – makers of both hardware and software. The revelation was made in a document dump of more than 700 pages to the House Energy …
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Instagram is now estimated to be worth $100 billion according to a report released by Bloomberg Intelligence. That valuation would mark a 100-fold increase from the $1 billion social media giant Facebook paid for the app in 2012.
The …
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Apple has announced a new service program for MacBook and MacBook Pro users whose keyboards have been malfunctioning. The program will allow qualifying customers to get affected devices serviced and repaired for free.
The program covers keyboards where letters or …
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The New York Times is reporting that Facebook had “far-reaching data partnerships” with roughly sixty mobile phone manufacturers that allowed them to obtain private Facebook user data without their permission.
The list of device manufacturers includes Apple, Blackberry, …
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Facebook and Twitter have announced new measures aimed at combating efforts by foreign sources to interfere in U.S. elections. The moves target the kind of efforts used by Russian-linked agents in the 2016 presidential election and largely aim to increase …
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The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, urging him to halt the sale of facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies this week. The worry, according to the roughly forty civil …
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Starbucks is the most popular payment-system app according to data research firm eMarketer. The premium-coffee chain’s app was used by 20.7 million people at least once every six months last year making it the most widely-used mobile payment system. …
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Cable companies have lost about 3.4 million subscribers in the last six years according to the latest numbers from Leichtman Research Group, a firm that specializes in the analysis of the U.S. broadband, media and entertainment industries.
“The number of …
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After rolling out the Kindle and introducing the world to digital books, and establishing voice assistance with the Echo, Amazon is poised to bring about the next big thing in personal computing: home robots.
The online mega-site and tech company …
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Google assistant can now make real phone calls, and the difference between it and real-life human conversation is virtually indistinguishable.
The technology was demonstrated last week at Google I/O the tech giant’s annual developer conference.
Different from voice-recognition software that …
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The University of Toronto unveiled a 3D skin printer this week that can dispense skin tissue onto an existing wound, eventually healing it. Researchers say it is an alternative to skin-graft procedures because it allows skin to be created by …
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Ride-share heavyweight Lyft announced testing of its all-new “All-Access Plan,” which allows riders to sign up for a monthly subscription service with the company. The company says a select group of customers will receive a notification in the coming hours …
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The Trump administration is pushing for legislation that would allow law enforcement to gain access to smartphones when the owners are the subjects of criminal investigations. Tech companies, such as Apple and Google have up until now been largely resistant …
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It starts with an innocent search of the day’s headlines on YouTube. While things seem normal at first, the site eventually pulls you further and further away from mainstream content and more towards fringe content designed, above all, to …
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Controversial data research firm Cambridge Analytica announced it was shutting its doors this week. The company uses psychometrics, the study of human characteristics to predict human behavior. It’s best known for harvesting the personal information of some 87 million …
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