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Photos of Fitbit‘s first “proper” smartwatch have leaked. The company is currently developing the follow-up to its Blaze Smart Fitness Watch of yesteryear, and it appears that the said device features a more evolved look of Fitbit’s Blaze line. Fitbit Higgs Specs Codenamed “Higgs,” the watch will reportedly feature specs that can hold a candle to the Apple Watch Series 2. As per Yahoo Finance, which nabbed the exclusive […]

PANAMA CITY (AFP) – The co-founder of the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal says the fallout has set off a “thriving” boom in the creation of tax shelters in the United States. Juergen Mossack, who partnered with Ramon Fonseca to create the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, said in a document obtained on Thursday (April 21) by AFP that after the Panama Papers […]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) published its first quarter financial results on Monday, meeting market expectations. However, AMD shares fell in after-hours trading. As Wall Street anticipated, the company posted a non-GAAP net loss of $38 million, or 4 cents per share, on revenue of $984 million. Revenue was up 18 percent year-over-year, largely driven by demand for Ryzen CPUs, CEO Lisa Su noted. “We are positioned for […]

The White House announced Monday that President Trump has signed an executive order establishing the American Technology Council (ATC). “Americans deserve better digital services from their Government,” the executive order reads. The council’s purpose, it says, is to promote policies that help the federal government “transform and modernize its information technology and how it uses and delivers digital services.” Chris Liddell, the White House director of strategic […]

In other words, the FEC can’t really do much to shut down these groups, even if they do have the mailing address of a state prison, as is the case with Pesce’s PAC. (Update: 10:51 a.m., April 7, 2017: The FEC on April 6 sent Pesce a letter asking him to verify the accuracy of his “Impeach the Assole” PAC filing. The letter reminds Pesce that it’s […]

(Image: stock photo) If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. In the cybersecurity world, if something is said to be “unhackable” or provides “absolute security,” you should run for the hills, because — spoiler alert — there is no such thing as “absolute” security. Anyone who tells you otherwise is stupid enough not to know, or smart enough to try to lie. Enter […]

Credit: North Carolina State University A study comparing acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software community finds that, overall, women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s – but when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. “There are a number of questions and concerns related to gender bias in computer programming, but this project was focused […]

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Apple has extended the warranty on first-generation Apple Watches that suffer from swollen battery problems to three years. Must read: iPhone 8: Here’s what we think we know about Apple’s 10th-anniversary iPhone Word of the change comes via a note sent from Apple to authorized repair centers that was subsequently forwarded to 9to5mac. There have been sporadic reports of issues where ballooning batteries can cause either the […]

The NSA announced Friday that they would stop the controversial program which sweeps up all emails and text messages which an American exchanges with someone overseas that makes reference to a real target of NSA surveillance. By way of background, if Russia’s Putin was an NSA target, and an American received an email from a Russian saying “I hate Putin”, then that American could be surveilled by […]

DUBAI // Hundreds of displaced residents of Tamweel Tower, which was badly damaged by a blaze in 2012, may finally return this Ramadan after a key document confirming completion of cladding work was submitted to the authorities.  The document signed by eight companies was submitted last week to Dubai Civil Defence stating that the installation of the new cladding complied with fire safety requirements. The 34-storey Jumeirah […]

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Scott Helme’s blog, and was reprinted to ZDNet with permission. I was recently invited to take part in some research by BBC Click, alongside Professor Alan Woodward, to analyse a device that had quite a lot of people all excited. With slick marketing, catchy tag lines and some pretty bold claims about their security, nomx claim to have cracked […]

(Image: Jason Cipriani/ZDNet) Galaxy S8 owners have taken to Samsung’s US community forums and XDA Developer forums to complain about the smartphone randomly restarting. First reported by Android Authority, complaints on the Samsung forum started a week ago, with forum member Lazazy stating: “So I picked up my Galaxy S8 and everything seems to be working well except the phone keeps restarting itself. I have had it […]

At first I ignored the offer to check out the Huawei Tripod Selfie Stick since I rarely capture front-facing photos, unless I am traveling and want to share some of my experiences with my family. However, after seeing that this $20 accessory functions as a tripod with an aluminum arm I decided to try it out. Once you open up the package, you will find a black […]

(Image: Hawking.org) It’s a pet obsession that both physicist Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Elon Musk — two people credited with pushing the boundaries of technology and science in pioneering ways — have in common: Rampaging intelligence, borne within machines, could end the human race if utilized dangerously. “I believe there is no real difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be […]

By Manuel Mogato | MANILA MANILA Southeast Asian countries took a softer stance on South China Sea disputes during a weekend summit, according to a statement issued on Sunday, which went easy on China by avoiding tacit references to its building and arming of its manmade islands. A chairman’s statement of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was released about 12 hours after the summit […]

(Image: file photo) The National Security Agency is set to stop using a highly classified program that in part collected Americans’ emails and text messages without a warrant. Details of the program were largely overlooked when it was first disclosed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. The leaks provided a small but critical window into how the US government carries out surveillance on Americans, […]

Ben Wilson from Pacific Crest thinks it’s unlikely that a new device will replace the smartphone for most purposes. Instead, it will be supplemented by AI-based services such as Amazon’s Alexa. The smartphone is just another iteration of the everyday experience that computers have been getting smaller and smaller for the past 60 years. We’ve already moved from mainframes, minicomputers, workstations, personal computers, laptops, and handhelds to […]

(Image: File photo) David Foster, VP of hardware product development at Google, has left the company six months after Google recruited him from Amazon. Foster was charged with leading development of Google’s Pixel smartphone and Home speaker. He joined Google in the days surrounding the launch of the Pixel and Pixel XL in October 2016. Amidst a bigger hardware push from Google, Foster reported to Rick Osterloh, […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased a semi truck from the company, said to be due out in September. Elon Musk on Friday released the first teaser image of Tesla’s all-electric semi truck, as the company looks to add past its growing consumer vehicle fleet. Unveiled during a TED talk given by Musk, Tesla’s teaser image doesn’t provide many clues about the semi truck’s features, other than it […]

The police are investigating threatening letters sent to four Cabinet ministers under the name of the chairman of the Sungei Road flea market’s association, The Sunday Times understands. They include Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. “The police confirm that reports have been lodged. “We are unable to comment further as investigations are ongoing,” the Singapore Police Force said in response to […]

The news these days continues to be filled with reports that traditional stores are at last being sustainably displaced by fast growing online competitors. Startups in online shopping, media, travel, financial services, sharing economy, and finally even healthcare, have either invented popular new high-growth digital categories or are in the midst of successfully re-imagining the old ones in digital native terms. In the 2000s, the digital disruption […]

(Image: Genesis Robotics) Despite major advancements in robotics and the huge potential it has to make our lives easier, robots are still mostly stuck in industrial settings. We have seen a few robots enter homes, healthcare, and other work settings, but for the most part, they are still a novelty. In order for robots to become as ubiquitous as the other technology that consumers have recently embraced, […]

What we really want: Alone time and sleep. Getty Images/iStockphoto Mother’s Day is once again upon us. I’m a mom and survey (of my mom and non-binary parent friends) says that what most of us want is more sleep and/or alone time. Equal pay and compensation for emotional labor would be great too, but please, for the love of all things holy, at least give us more […]

Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly ringing the bell at the NYSE Friday. Cloudera closed out its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange with its share price up 20 percent to $18.10. The Apache Hadoop-based software and services distributor started trading Friday morning at $17.80 a share under the ticker symbol CLDR. On Thursday evening, Cloudera priced its shares at $15, raising around $225 million […]

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