Category: Biz Tech

Whirlpool's acquisition of Yummly could mean access to more recipes on smart appliances, such as this Jenn-Air double wall oven.

United Airlines has some serious competition when it comes to the lousy treatment of passengers, as Delta Air kicked an entire family off a flight and threatened them with jail and foster care. Airlines recently came under heavy scrutiny after United Airlines dragged and bloodied a passenger off an overbooked flight. The whole thing was caught on camera and went viral, drawing more attention to how passengers are sometimes mistreated even when they've done nothing wrong. Delta Air Kicks Family Off Flight The latest airline

Microsoft has shown how Windows Defender ATP detected anomalous updater behavior.

Johnson & Johnson recently lost in a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims to have contracted ovarian cancer after using the company's Baby Powder and Shower To Shower powder for 40 years. The company seems to have been the target of similar lawsuits claiming is talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, especially after some studies showed that talcum powder can increase the risk of ovarian cancer when applied to the genital area. However, more studies seem to dispute this claim so one has to ask

Running out of space on your iPhone or iPad? There's a setting buried in iOS 10 that may put an end to this forever. And if it doesn't work, I'll show you something else you can

In a newly released image, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has displayed many distant galaxies that were previously unseen or faintly seen. One is the galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a huge assortment of galaxies in different shapes guarding it and bound by mutual gravity in the immense cluster. Located at 4 billion light-years away and belonging to Cetus constellation, Abell 370 is a huge galaxy cluster imaged in the Frontier Fields project. The image of Abell 370 was captured with visible and near-infrared light. It is densely

Not what you want to see at the start a long work day or business trip!Picture this: You're leaving your home or office in 20 minutes and your smartphone's battery is almost dead. How do you

NASA engineers have come up with a highly creative solution to improving the functionality and durability of materials used in space. It's called "space fabric," and it's not only fashionable but also extremely versatile — soon to be an interstellar must-have. Shielding spacecraft from the harshness of deep space and protecting astronauts in their exploratory missions on alien planets has just gotten a lot easier thanks to this flexible and ingenious fabric. The new material, essentially a woven metal fabric with an advanced

Many corporate leaders love BYOD, telling employees "Bring Your Own Device" to work, and with good reason. When employees use the device they're most comfortable with to get their work done, they get

Johnson & Johnson has again lost in one of its legal battles that raise questions over the safety of its talc-based products. J&J Ordered To Pay More Than $110 Million To Virginia Woman Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer On Thursday, May 4 a Missouri jury ordered the company to pay more than $110 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson talc-based products for feminine hygiene. The decision in the St. Louis state court is so far

Less than two days before the final round of France's presidential election, the political party of candidate Emmanuel Macron said its computer systems were hacked.The statement comes after thousands of alleged party-related documents -- including

Four of the six battery backups that sacrificed themselves to save our gear.Beep. "Honey." [Sixty seconds go by.] Beep. "Honey." [Another sixty seconds go by.] Beep. "Honey, something's beeping." And thus began what was supposed to

Taking the art of photography a notch higher, researchers at Sweden's Lund University developed a camera, which can capture five trillion images in a second or moments as short as 0.2 trillionths of a second. These extraordinary capabilities of the new camera dubbed FRAME or Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures, has earned it the title of the fastest camera in the world. However, the camera is not a DSLR or Digital Single Lens Reflex one, but a film camera. Nevertheless its super-fast capabilities

Trump may bring jobs back to the US, but robots will get them This could be an important victory for a new president, a major capitulation by an Indian IT company or the emergence

Families of three victims killed in the 2015 San Bernardino, California, shooting are suing Google, Facebook, and Twitter over claims that the tech companies knowingly allowed the Islamic State to share its propaganda on the respective social media and web platforms. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Wednesday, May 3. The 32-page complaint states that the three companies intentionally permitted the Islamic State to create a staggering online presence. The victims' families

It's been two years since rumors about an "Apple car" first emerged. Not surprisingly, the notoriously secretive company hasn't divulged any details about its plans. But if a car is on the horizon, Cupertino can't stay quiet for too long. You can hide a smartphone in a lab, but it's difficult to not have a public presence when developing a vehicle, which requires road testing, typically in plain sight. Even if testing occurs at a private facility, it's almost impossible to

Alex Kipman, main inventor of Microsoft's HoloLens headset, reckons the smartphone's time as the principal focus for innovation has passed.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario has ordered a nationwide product recall for Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin on May 3 after Bacardi triggered a recall for the product in Canada. The recall was issued after the company discovered that a batch of the alcoholic beverage made it out of the production line in its factory without being properly diluted. Bombay Sapphire Recall The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) issued a recall for Bombay Sapphire in Ontario on May 2, but has extended the recall nationwide after further

Google's autosuggest feature lets you know, sometimes with spooky accuracy, what other people are looking for when conducting queries similar to yours. So, with Google's help, we provide answers to a few of the most popular

Just a few days after OnePlus CEO Pete Lau posted the first teaser for the upcoming OnePlus 5, some of the most important specifications of the device have been allegedly leaked on Chinese social network Weibo. According to Lau, OnePlus fans should expect a "big surprise" soon from the company. From the leaked specifications, the OnePlus 5 will definitely be considered as a smartphone to look forward to as a challenger to flagship smartphones for various brands. OnePlus 5 Specs Leaked A Weibo

(Image: file photo)The UK government is planning to push greater surveillance powers that would force internet providers to monitor communications in near-realtime and install backdoor equipment to break encryption, according to a leaked document.A draft of

Facebook has revamped the way it handles comments on its site, adding reactions to spice things up and give users more ways to express themselves. The move comes just one month after Facebook rolled out reactions to Messenger, and more than a year since reactions became available on the main site. The same reactions that launched on the main site last year are now available for Facebook comments as well, as users can now react to a comment with "like," "love," "haha," "wow,"

Amaysim has said it is committed to introducing National Broadband Network (NBN) services with faster speeds than its current maximum 100/40Mbps tier once it is "economically viable"."We will definitely be coming out with higher-speed plans as

Google has agreed to pay €306 million in back taxes to Italy and Ireland to end a criminal investigation into whether the company avoided paying the full amount on its revenues for more than a decade,

We are currently in the thick of the iPhone rumor season, with various reports claiming different specifications for the premium iPhone 8. However, most reports agree that the iPhone 8 will be announced alongside the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus in September. An analyst seems to think otherwise, claiming that Apple will surprise us all by announcing the iPhone 8 a few months earlier than expected. Apple To Announce iPhone 8 At WWDC 2017? After Apple reported its earnings for the second

(Image: CNET/CBS Interactive)More than two-dozen popular apps for iPhones and iPads are still leaking sensitive information, such as login details for their services, despite having months to roll out a fix.Earlier this year, Will Strafach set

Uber's self-driving venture might not be doomed after all. Many have weighed in on Uber's alleged intellectual property theft case, predicting that the upshot of this legal turmoil might be Uber retracting its self-driving efforts altogether. For those who don't know, here's a brief backgrounder of the situation: Google's self-driving division, Waymo, accused Uber late February of stealing thousands of documents that it claims Uber used to build its self-driving technology with. It's a long, strained battle, but those are the basics. Self-driving

We've known for years that a key protocol that allows global cellular networks to communicate with each other had vulnerabilities -- and nobody really took it that seriously. Hackers and politicians alike have been warning for

(Image: file photo)Last month, several competing students from universities across the US descended upon San Antonio for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). CCDC, which originated in 2005, is a defensive security competition that puts

Fun times, tan lines, and the threat of tick-borne diseases. Apparently, this is what summer has got in store for us this year. As if blacklegged ticks in the country aren't already teeming with enough pathogens to make us go crazy, there's a new tick infection to add to the list — Powassan virus. Rumor has it, it's even worse than Lyme disease. What Is Powassan Virus? Powassan or POW virus is a type of RNA flavivirus. It was first identified in Powassan,

Microsoft looks ready to widen its Cortana Skills Kit availability as of next week, simultaneous with its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle.Microsoft has published its schedule and

About 1.2 million people is estimated to be infected with HIV in the United States. The infection is fatal for those who eventually develop AIDS. An existing medical technology though potentially offers a cure. In a new study published in the journal Molecular Therapy, researchers have made important strides towards finding a treatment for HIV, one that can eliminate and not just suppress the virus, using the controversial gene-editing technology CRISPR. CRISPR The gene-editing tool allows scientists to essentially cut out and insert portions

Google is trying to make email on Android safer with a new warning that doesn't prevent access to shady pages but cautions that you are proceeding at your own risk.