Enterprise barcode scanner startup Scandit raises a $30 million Series B
“Augmented reality for enterprise” is the sort of phrase that surely hits all of the right neurological pleasure centers for…
Google Glass Is Back–Now With Artificial Intelligence
Google Glass lives—and it’s getting smarter. On Tuesday, Israeli software company Plataine demonstrated a new app for the face-mounted gadget…
They want to rule the streets. We can’t let them.
AFTER HEATHER Heyer was murdered by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12 of last year, Donald Trump sneered…
Google to Offer Distributed Ledger Solutions in Cloud Platform Marketplace
Google is joining the list of tech giants to deploy blockchain technology to offer customers fintech and cloud service solutions,…
Alphabet’s capital expenditures almost double in second quarter as Google chases Amazon in cloud
Alphabet’s capital expenditures in the latest quarter almost doubled, as Google continues to build out data centers for products like…
How to Secure Your Accounts With Better Two-Factor Authentication
Hopefully by now you’ve heeded the repeated warnings from your friends and loved ones (and friendly, beloved internet writers) to…
Venmo Privacy, Ransomware Attacks, and More Security News This Week
This week started with a controversial, widely derided meeting between President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and ended with……
Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day
Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet, has driven 8 million miles…
The World Cup led to a record-breaking number of app downloads and consumer spend in Q2
The second quarter of 2018 was another record-breaker for mobile app downloads and revenue. According to a new report this…
Facebook, Google and more unite to let you transfer data between apps
The Data Transfer Project is a new team-up between tech giants to let you move your content, contacts, and more…
Google’s Loon to bring 4G to remote areas of Kenya – via balloon
Alphabet’s Loon is to bring 4G internet access to parts of Kenya using high-altitude balloons, it was announced Thursday. The…
Don’t Expect Big Changes from Europe’s Record Google Fine
European regulators took a big swing at Google Wednesday for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system, fining…
The Best Post-Prime Day Deals From Apple, Walmart, Fitbit, Dell
Other online retailers don’t like Amazon’s big Prime Day event very much. And so, each year, the competition tries to…
Reddit Reinvents the Chat Room With Subreddit Chat
A few months into Jason Lee’s new job at Reddit, the office was buzzing with excitement. It was April 2017…
The False Tale of Amazon’s Industry-Conquering Juggernaut
Amazon is one of the largest and most formidable companies in the world. It’s run with brutal efficiency, a keen…
Meet Jonathan Albright, The Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend. It was a few weeks…
Best Prime Day 2018 Deals: Echo, Kindle, Fire, Cloud Cam
Fire tablets and Kindle e-readers are rarely expensive (unless you opt for the premium Kindle Oasis). They’re built to be…
Lawmakers Don’t Grasp the Sacred Tech Law They Want to Gut
Toward the tail end of a sparsely attended hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, congressman John Rutherford (R-Florida)…