A Ten-Minute Silent Song Is Soaring Up the iTunes Charts
For some vehicles, when an iPhone is plugged into the car’s USB port music playback begins automatically, and it always starts in alphabetical order at the top of the user’s iTunes library. Because of...
View ArticleNew Haven high schoolers develop tech skills in summer robotics internship
NEW HAVEN >> Following five grueling weeks of developing a cost-effective robotics kit, 15 aspiring entrepreneurs presented and defended their product before investors. Later this month, they...
View ArticleA Wall Street analyst’s ‘hot mic’ upstaged Snapchat’s CEO and stole the show
A Wall Street analyst upstaged Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on the company’s second-quarter earnings call thanks to a classic “hot mic” snafu. It happened toward the end of Snap’s hourlong call on Thursday,...
View ArticleSnap confirms that it paid $213 million to buy Zenly and $135 million for Placed
Snap Inc. has confirmed the price tags for its acquisitions of Zenly and Placed. The Snapchat maker paid $213 million in cash for Zenly in May and $135 million for Placed in July, according to...
View ArticleMilitary tech could be Amazon’s secret to cheap, non-refrigerated food
Amazon is using everything at its disposal to take on the grocery and food delivery business. The online retailer purchased Whole Foods Market in June for $13.7 billion, announced new meal-prep boxes...
View ArticleFCC faces backlash for saying Americans might not need fast home Internet
American Internet users are telling the Federal Communications Commission that mobile broadband is not a full replacement for fast home Internet service. This week, the FCC kicked off its annual...
View ArticleIoT Technology Innovations in Healthcare
Kameshwar Eranki discusses the trends, opportunities, disruptive technologies, market players, who is owning what, hot areas of investments and future trends of IoT in healthcare. Jasper Sonnevelt...
View ArticleWhy attend Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa 2017?
The 3rd edition of Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa (#HISA2017 … Delegates attending this event will include CxOs, administrators, heads of technology, policy makers and key stakeholders from public...
View ArticleSurgical Innovations Group Plc SUN Medical Equipment Deals and Alliances...
Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in...
View ArticleSurgical Innovations Group ( SUN )
Surgical Innovations Group plc (AIM: SUN), the designer and manufacturer of innovative medical technology for minimally invasive surgery, announces that it will release its half year results for the...
View ArticleTrump signs $3.9B VA healthcare spending boost into law
Aug. 12 (UPI) –President Donald Trump signed a large spending bill Saturday aimed at reforming the Veterans Healthcare Administration, fulfilling a central promise from his campaign. The bill, VA...
View ArticleUber investor Shervin Pishevar petitions Benchmark to step down from board...
Shortly after a group of Uber shareholders asked Benchmark to relinquish its spot on Uber’s board of directors, Sherpa Capital’s Shervin Pishevar is petitioning Benchmark via Change.org to remove...
View ArticlePM Update: Storms to exit D.C. region by 11 p.m. or so, sunny skies for Sunday
**Severe thunderstorm watch for southern and southeastern areas until 11 p.m.** 9:15 p.m. update: The severe thunderstorm warning for our eastern suburbs has expired as the worst of the storms push...
View ArticleSnap is still struggling to add new users
Snap Inc just dropped its second-ever quarterly earnings report, and the picture is as bleak as expected. The young company continues to struggle to grow its pool of users, despite adding new features...
View ArticleHTC’s U11 will support Bluetooth 5.0 when Android O arrives
HTC’s U11 surprised us when we reviewed it — most of the company’s phones have been hit-or-miss for a few years now. But the U11 is a solid Android option, and HTC just announced it’ll be a little more...
View ArticleElon Musk’s $1 billion AI startup made a surprise appearance at a $24 million...
Dendi (far left) and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman (right) talk it out ahead of the first match. Screenshot/YouTube Computers have already beaten the world’s best humans at classic games like chess and Go....
View ArticleFacebook has been secretly testing a photo app in China — it’s called...
Mark Zuckerberg standing on the Great Wall of China in March 2016. Facebook Facebook has finally managed to sneak into China. The social network has been secretly testing a photo sharing app called...
View ArticleAmazon is refunding purchases of unverifiable eclipse eyewear
Amazon is issuing refunds for those who’ve purchased possibly fake solar eclipse glasses on the site in anticipation of this summer’s big solar eclipse event. A lot of folks have been gearing up for...
View ArticleResearchers report >4,000 apps that secretly record audio and steal logs
A single threat actor has aggressively bombarded Android users with more than 4,000 spyware apps since February, and in at least three cases the actor snuck the apps into Google’s official Play Market,...
View ArticleA bot just defeated one of the world’s best video gamers
An artificial intelligence program just annihilated its human competition at a world championship video game contest. The AI win stunned the gaming community, because bots are generally considered...
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