BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook is expected to praise new European privacy rules and to voice the company’s support for strong laws in Europe and the United States to protect the use of data, according… Continue Reading
Uber Eats, the food delivery service operated and offered through the ride-hailing service, is planning to expand its operation by the end of this year. The company is currently valued at $20 billion, Eater reported. The company currently offers the… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) announced on Monday it will tap debt markets for a second time this year, aiming to raise another $2 billion as the streaming video pioneer invests heavily in production of original shows and content acquisition… Continue Reading
With all the focus on Facebook’s (FB) slowing user growth and calls for the end of its dominance, I finally gave in and decided to look into it myself. After all, from a personal perspective, I’m not the best person… Continue Reading
Last year Amazon achieved holiday shopping conversion rates of 5.6% on mobile and 17.8% on desktop, massively outperforming rivals such as Walmart, Target, eBay, and others. This year, the company appears poised to do it again. The holiday Thanksgiving weekend… Continue Reading
Amazon Alexa isn’t self-aware—yet—but starting today the voice-enabled assistant will start being at least a little less oblivious about its surroundings. That’s because Amazon has begun rolling out a ‘Whisper Mode’ to its Echo smart speakers, which can detect when… Continue Reading
IT’S A DISCLAIMER FAMILIAR TO ANY INVESTOR, but it’s perhaps truer now than ever: Past performance is no guarantee of future success. Technological changes have accelerated the rate of competition: New challengers are rising faster than ever, and incumbent leaders… Continue Reading
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is scouting for land in central Mexico for a fourth distribution center in the country, sources said, aiming at a bigger slice of the burgeoning e-commerce market in Latin America’s second-largest economy. FILE PHOTO:… Continue Reading
Despite the flashy social media campaigns and glamorous photos, being an entrepreneur is anything but a pristine endeavor. In fact, being an entrepreneur can often times zap all your energy, leaving you with nothing left in the tank. The beginning of… Continue Reading
You’ve almost certainly heard about blockchain–one of the popular versions of blockchain is cryptocurrency giant Bitcoin. You may even have a vague idea how it works. But why is it so important? Why should you care? Those are tricky questions to answer. Blockchain technology… Continue Reading
Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. This has been a long time in the making and periodically predicted since at least 2014. The stock, pre-market on Monday, is at $0.35 per share. Third-quarter revenue was a $508 million loss… Continue Reading
Determining whether cancer has spread, or metastasized, from the primary site to nearby lymph nodes is a difficult, time-intensive task for pathologists. Google AI has developed a promising algorithm to evaluate lymph node biopsies in breast cancer patients, and it’s… Continue Reading
In the spring of 2017, Urmila Mahadev found herself in what most graduate students would consider a pretty sweet position. She had just solved a major problem in quantum computation, the study of computers that derive their power from the… Continue Reading
In 1670 an astronomer discovered a strange-shaped cloud in the sky. Upon further study over the next centuries, astronomers came around to the idea that CK Vulpeculae is the result of two stars colliding, although what types of stars crashed,… Continue Reading
At this time of the week, we usually like to scour the web for great prices on our favorite headphones or gaming consoles. But this is a special occasion: REI’s End of Season sale started yesterday, and will continue through… Continue Reading
Her name is Bear 409—Beadnose to her fans—and she had been crowned Katmai National Park’s Fattest Bear of 2018. On Tuesday, she edged out her competition, Bear 747—an ursidae so rutund his belly nearly scrapes the ground—by 4,000 votes in… Continue Reading
First Man is a rare bird. It’s a big, adventure movie that goes from the flats of the Mojave Desert to the surface of the moon; and it’s a deft, thoughtful film about overcoming grief. It’s got wrenching performances, and… Continue Reading
Cars kill people. More than 37,000 over the course of 2017—what would statistically be considered a ‘good year.’ Big tech has a solution: Have the cars drive themselves, free of the distractions, drunkenness, and other human foibles. Flood the roads… Continue Reading
Last month, I heard Jill Lepore give a talk about These Truths, her single-volume history of America from the 15th century through the 2016 presidential election. She got her biggest laugh when she made fun of WIRED for predicting in… Continue Reading
Google just announced it has come up with new way to thwart telemarketers–heck, to completely destroy their business model. It’s brilliantly simple, and it seems like it will actually work. Here’s how Google’s solution works–introduced at its hardware event in… Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in discussions to buy a majority stake in U.S. shared office space provider WeWork Cos, a source said, potentially doubling down on one of its biggest bets on a… Continue Reading
Whether you hate the idea of traveling or you actually look forward to it, it’s hard to deny that travel can sabotage your productivity–at least temporarily. It takes hours of planning and coordination to prepare for some trips, and hours… Continue Reading
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. The disappointment was crushing. Especially after the preparation. Adam and Heather Halkuff have five children, two of whom have autism. They wanted to take… Continue Reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) said on Monday it would partner with U.S. movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer to create content for its video-on-demand service, Vudu, which the retailer bought eight years ago. FILE PHOTO: Walmart signage is… Continue Reading
The Renault Ez-Ultimo brings the high-end glitz to the show this year. Just because cities of the future may prioritize ride sharing over private cars doesn’t mean you should have to slum it on the way to opening night at… Continue Reading
When Linux’s sysadmin graybeards got their start, they all used the shell to manage systems. Years later, they also used system administration programs such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)‘s Red Hat Satellite and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)‘s YaST.… Continue Reading
A major report from Bloomberg on Thursday describes an infiltration of the hardware supply chain, allegedly orchestrated by the Chinese military, that reaches an unprecedented geopolitical scope and scale—and may be a manifestation of the tech industry’s worst fears. If… Continue Reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s Elon Musk on Thursday mocked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, just hours after a federal judge ordered him and the regulator to justify their securities fraud settlement, which let Musk remain chief executive.… Continue Reading
Today, there’s no shortage of inspirational material to help lift you through the day–heck, even the hour. Google ‘inspirational quotes’ and you get over 900M results. The difference, however, is what you do with that new-found inspiration and how you… Continue Reading
Remember big data? The once unavoidable buzzword has become just another sector of the enterprise software industry that is already showing signs of maturing. Case in point, the $5.2 billion merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks. The merger’s announcement put some… Continue Reading