Meet Rembrandt in this Samsung Gear VR experience
It’s now available for free. The best thing about VR experiences is that they can take you to fantastical places– or meet people you’ll never get to meet in real life, like Dutch master Rembrandt....
View ArticleMueller Investigation Into Russian Facebook Ads May Be a Very Big Deal
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Facebook had turned over much more information to special counsel Robert Mueller about Russian-backed advertisements during the 2016 election than the...
View ArticleThe US is taking aim at Russia’s cyber industry
Employees work at the headquarters of Kaspersky Labs in Moscow Thomson Reuters The US government is banning all federal agencies from using software developed by Kaspersky Labs, an elite Russian...
View ArticleToshiba Is Said to Aim for Final Chip Deal With Bain by Sept. 20
Toshiba’s effort faces resistance because the Bain group now includes several Western Digital competitors, including Seagate Technology Plc, Kingston Technology Co. and SK Hynix Inc., said the people,...
View ArticleFace ID on the iPhone X is ‘pretty miraculous’ and ‘just works’, says Apple...
When Craig Federighi tried to demo the iPhone X’s new Face ID feature during Apple’s special event last week, it didn’t exactly go as planned. The iPhone X didn’t unlock, and thinking quick on his...
View ArticleDid Lending Just Change for Good?
These three acts were created before the era of personal computers yet still guide bank lending today. Since the rise of marketplace lending, which began in 2006, where borrowers go through a platform...
View ArticleRoman swords unearthed at ancient cavalry barracks near Hadrian’s Wall
Roman swords are among a treasure trove of stunning artifacts found at the site of an ancient cavalry barracks in the U.K. Recent excavations at the Roman fort of Vindolanda just south of Hadrian’s...
View Article‘Crazy’ ICOs are driven by Bitcoin millionaires who need to diversify but...
Lightspeed’s Jeremy Liew and Blockchain’s Peter Smith. Getty and Tom Campbell/Blockchain LONDON — Where is all this ICO money coming from? That was the question I wanted to ask when Business Insider...
View Article‘We’ve Been Breached’: Inside the Equifax Hack
On March 8, researchers at Cisco Systems Inc. reported an online security flaw that allowed hackers to break into servers around the internet. Cisco urged users to upgrade their systems immediately...
View Article‘Our business model can keep healthcare costs lower’
KLANG: As concerns grow over the continued rise in inflation in healthcare — projected to go up by 12% this year — one player believes its “small hospital” business model can help keep costs lower....
View ArticleHow is AI disrupting financial industry
NEW YORK – Artificial intelligence (AI), along with other financial technology (fintech) innovations, are significantly changing the ways that financial business are being run, especially in the fields...
View ArticlePUBG Sets All-Time Record For Concurrent Users On Steam
Battlegrounds continues to set records. The uber-popular Hunger Games-like PC shooter recently reached more concurrent users than another other game in Steam history. The title reached 1,348,374 users...
View ArticleSlack Gets Slice of SoftBank’s $100 Billion Tech Bounty
Slack Technologies Inc. closed a $250 million funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, the company said Sunday. The financing round values the workplace chat service operator at $5.1...
View ArticleQualcomm: 5G phones by 2019
The first mass-market 5G smartphones will become commercially available by 2019, according to Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf, due to increasing demands from the consumer and business segments driving...
View ArticleGoogle debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India
After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia. The Android and search giant has launched Tez, a new mobile...
View ArticleDBS, IMDA collaborate for fintech training programme
Over 85 young professionals will be trained. DBS and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) partnered to introduce a fintech training programme under the government-led TechSkills Accelerator...
View ArticleHow Technology-driven Initiatives are Boosting Financial Inclusion
Opportunities in the financial sector are largely untapped with only little proportion of the population harnessing them. With ever-improving cutting edge technology, the unbanked are drawn to the...
View ArticleU.S. Senate to hold hearing on Republican healthcare proposal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A powerful U.S. Senate committee will hold a hearing on the latest proposed healthcare bill to overhaul Obamacare next week, the first public hearing all year on any Republican...
View ArticleShasta Ventures launches a fund to accelerate AR and VR app development
Apple and Google are ready for an augmented reality tidal wave, but what of developers? Over the past several months, the availability of ARKit and ARCore have proven there’s plenty of interest in the...
View ArticleApple Pay Cash Coming in Future Update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4
Apple today confirmed that Apple Pay Cash will be released as part of a future update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4. Coming this fall with an update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4, Apple Pay users will be able to...
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