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If you own the Sony Xperia X Performance smartphone — which hit U.S. shelves in July — you would be pleased to learn that the handset is now receiving a software update that fixes the niggling accelerometer issue. As promised, Sony has now pushed out a software update which resolves the accelerometer issue. Some handset owners were also facing issues with the responsiveness of the screen rotation functionality, the […]

Conflicted Care When Dr. Rosecrans worked briefly at the Navy’s hospital at Guantánamo as a young psychiatrist in 1999, it was a sleepy assignment. She saw only a few outpatients each week, and there was no psychiatric ward on the base, which was being downsized. But after Al Qaeda’s 2001 terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent American-led invasion of Afghanistan, detainees began […]

Splash has long been viewed as a useless move in the Pokémon universe, and for good reason. When Splash is used, absolutely nothing happens — the move does not deal any damage, nor does it cause any status effects. However, that is seemingly going to change for Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, with Splash to become possibly one of the best moves in the games. Understanding Z-Moves In Pokémon […]

Before he was elected to be the next US president, Donald Trump had garnered the support of just one prominent billionaire in Silicon Valley: billionaire Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Facebook board member. The US technology industry had been shocked that one veteran from the Valley, which prides itself on liberal values, had supported, funded and even spoken for Mr Trump at his convention — and […]

Top retailer Best Buy has announced its Black Friday deals for 2016, and they include discounts on some of today’s hottest technology items, including PS4 and Xbox One bundles, a $199 49″ Toshiba 4K HDTV and more. The retailer has also announced its official store hours for Black Friday, including those for Thanksgiving Day and the weekend following Black Friday. Most of the nation’s largest retailers, have […]

Donald Trump has appointed Mike Pence, his running mate, to head his transition team as he prepares to start naming people to fill top posts in his administration. Mr Trump also appointed four members of his family, including his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, along with the financiers Anthony Scaramucci and Steven Mnuchin. The team will also include Stephen Bannon, his campaign chief executive, Reince […]

By Heather Somerville | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO The fledgling drone industry is in the throes of change as weak consumer demand and falling prices drive startups to shift their focus to specialized business applications. 3D Robotics – an early drone startup that raised more than$125 million from investors – has seen its consumer business all but crash. This week, it unveiled a new commercial strategy, announcing […]

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By Dustin Volz | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON More than 40 international business and technology organizations representing hundreds of companies on Friday expressed “deep concerns” to the Chinese government about a new cyber security law they said would likely increase the separation between China and the rest of the world economy. Beijing on Monday adopted a cyber security law it called necessary to counter growing threats of hacking and […]

By Tim Baysinger Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said it was able to deliver more viewers than promised to advertisers on a U.S. election night livestream, good news for the microblogging site as it tries to ward off growing competition for ad dollars from Snapchat and Instagram. Twitter partnered with BuzzFeed to host an election night broadcast on Tuesday and attracted major advertisers, including Paramount Pictures, Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) […]

By Dustin Volz Facebook Inc said on Friday it would no longer allow certain advertisers to exclude racial or ethnic groups when placing ads on its service, following criticism that the practice was discriminatory. The move comes amid growing scrutiny of how the world’s largest online social media network’s policies and algorithms shape what content appears in a user’s news feed. The unexpected victory of Donald Trump […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it’s a “crazy idea” to think that his social network helped deliver Donald Trump the White House by also delivering fake news stories to its millions of U.S. users. “Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea,” Zuckerberg said during a Q&A on Thursday. “Voters make decisions based on their […]

For an American public that relies on data for everything from where to find the best taco to the likely victor in a baseball game, Election Day offered a jarring wake-up: The data was wrong. Donald Trump’s stunning electoral win came despite prognosticators’ overwhelming insistence he would lose. And it has forced many to question not just political polling, but other facets of life that are being […]

By Yashaswini Swamynathan U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Friday as investors tailored their portfolios to benefit from president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed policies. The decline on Nasdaq futures was more pronounced. Facebook (FB.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Netflix (NFLX.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) were off more than 1 percent in premarket trading, indicating that Thursday’s selloff in the technology sector was likely to continue. Investors also appeared to be […]

Ever since Microsoft launched the first Surface device, the company has been pushing to get creative apps in the Windows Store in hopes to have creators switch from the Mac to Windows. So far, the company has been doing a decent job, and the latest app to cross over is Affinity Photo. The app began life on Mac OS X, but now it’s coming to Windows 10. […]

Xbox One may already be cementing its position as the best-selling console in the United States after consistently beating PlayStation 4 in the past four months. This is considered the longest Xbox One dominance in the history of the consoles’ rivalry since they were both launched in November 2013. Xbox One October Sales The information is based on data gathered by The NPD Group and GfK Entertainment […]

Findings of a new study now offer a hint on how the universe will eventually come to an end. The scenario involves dark energy causing the universe to rip itself apart until such time that there will be nothing left. What Is Dark Energy? Dark energy is an unseen force believed to accelerate the expansion of the universe. Study researcher Mariam Bouhmadi-López, from the Technical University of Lisbon […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been relatively quiet on the topic of his own personal political inclination in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But the unprecedented win of Republican candidate Donald Trump after such a tumultuous campaign has now prompted Cook to address his employees and the entire company in an effort to unite the people. How To Conduct Business After 2016 U.S. Elections […]

The Android 7.1-based CyanogenMod 14.1 (CM14.1) nightlies have landed. Technically, CM14.1, the latest version of the community-built Android distribution was already launched a few days ago with an experimental build roll out for the OnePlus 3. Now, more devices can get a taste of CyanogenMod 14.1 as handful of nightly builds get pushed out. In a blog post Tuesday, Nov. 8, CyanogenMod project founder Steve Kondik announced […]

Representatives from Breakthrough Listen launched Nov. 7 the Parkes Radio Telescope, a $100 million project that had been going on for a decade, in the attempt to seek extraterrestrial life. The telescope is currently looking for proof in the vicinity of Proxima Centauri after the discovery of a possibly habitable planet in August 2016. Humanity’s interest in discovering alien life has gained traction along with the technological […]

Apple will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of iPhones in 2017. The company is said to skip the iPhone 7s name and call its anniversary model iPhone 8. The rumor mill of the next iPhone has already started and undoubtedly it will be an upgraded version of the current-gen iPhone 7. Here is a comparison of Apple’s current and upcoming flagship smartphone. Design Rumors claim that Apple […]

With retailers like Best Buy and GameStop not offering preorders for Nintendo’s NES Classic console, the battle to find one on its November 11 launch day has become all the more competitive. Many gamers are looking to Amazon for a chance to snag one of the retro consoles, and now we have more details on exactly when the machines will go on sale. Go ahead and set […]

Staples is looking to cash in on some Black Friday 2016, and it aims to do that with some smashing deals. Folks who are looking to pick up a new Surface laptop and or other Windows 10 devices should be pleased by what Staples is offering. We know of what Staples is planning because of a recently leaked advertisement. From what we can tell, these deals are more […]

The model numbers for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S8 series and Galaxy Note 8 have leaked. According to a reliable source, the SM-G950 and SM-G955 will make up the Galaxy S8 series, while SM-N950 has been reserved for the Galaxy Note 8. Samsung and wireless carriers who sold the Galaxy Note 7 have been urging Note 7 owners to exchange the defective smartphone, but as we saw in […]

UAE. Middle East businesses embracing digital transformations in order to gain business advantage and drive innovation are being warned to place digital trust and cyber security at the heart of such change. The advice has been issued by two new senior experts in IT, digital transformation and cyber security appointed by PA Consulting Group Middle East and North Africa as part of an aggressive recruitment phase to […]

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