Drivers need to pay attention while driving, even as technology gradually takes over the task. That’s the message U.S. safety regulators delivered Thursday after closing an investigation into a fatal Tesla crash in Florida last year involving the vehicle’s Autopilot system. The National Highway…

by Staff Writer Get Inman via Facebook Messenger Our top headlines delivered once a day. by CareyBot Close to one million real estate professionals across the country will soon have easy access to showing-scheduling tools from a single company: ShowingTime. That’s because ShowingTime, also a…

Chris Heller Keller Williams CEO Chris Heller says there are two things that the company stays laser-focused on every day: its innovative technology efforts, and its bottom line. And he’s pleased with the latest year-end financial results, which indicate success on both fronts. Agents closed 238,056…

A scene from "3%," a Brazilian sci-fi series from Netflix that's gained a US audience. Photo by Netflix Are US customers interested in watching a post-apocalyptic thriller in Portuguese? Apparently, yes. Netflix said its series " 3% ," which was made for Brazil, unexpectedly had legs outside that…

The Google Pixel and Pixel XL launched three months ago in October to a very enthusiastic response. They’re terrific smartphones. Our review headline called them a home run . But in the weeks since, it has become incredibly difficult for consumers to actually acquire either of them in a reasonable…

The iPhone 8 and Galaxy S8 will be two of the most exciting phones of the year. Even if not, they’re already the most talked-about devices, as rumors and leaks continue to pour in. These two smartphones will be more alike than any of their processors, but even so, if this report is accurate, the…

Xposed—the king of Android customization If you really want to customize your Android phone, you want to use "Xposed." Xposed is basically the "Game Genie" of the Android world—rather than directly changing the app code that is stored on your device, Xposed modifies code as it is loaded into memory.…

Apple has just updated its consumer-friendly and pro-level music editing software to include more advanced file-sharing capabilities between the two apps, as well as support for the touch-sensitive Touch Bar on new MacBook Pros. GarageBand 2.2. on iOS has a redesigned sound browser, includes…

This giant drone could be the backbone of battlefield resupply for the US military. It’s called the Joint Tactical Aerial Resupply Vehicle, or JTARV, and researchers at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) compare it to “Amazon on the battlefield,” according to an ARL press release . With a single…

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Netflix added 7.05 million new subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2016, handily beating expectations for the period and setting a quarterly record, driving shares to new all-time highs in after-hours trading Wednesday. For the last three months of 2016, historically a strong quarter for Netflix,…

In a unanimous opinion handed down Wednesday, the Supreme Court limited Fannie Mae ’s ability to transfer cases to federal court, ruling that the government-sponsored enterprise’s charter does not grant it the right to move all state cases to the federal level. The decision, written by Justice Sonia…

Nintendo has provided some new details on its next mobile game, a smartphone take on the long-running strategy series Fire Emblem . The game — dubbed Fire Emblem: Heroes — is described as a tactical role playing game. According to Nintendo, the game will feature a brand new story about two warring…

Google is taking over Twitter’s mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics, Digits SMS login system, and FastLane development automation system. Twitter launched Fabric as a modular SDK in 2014 to allow developers to pick and…

Tuesday was a serious day in the life of Mark Zuckerberg. So serious, he wore a suit. The CEO of Facebook ditched his usual ensemble of a gray t-shirt and jeans for a suit jacket and tie Tuesday to testify in court that his virtual reality company, Oculus, wasn't stolen technology. The trial, which…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY) SAN FRANCISCO — When Palmer Luckey sold his two-year-old virtual reality headset company Oculus Rift to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion, the tech world gasped. Gasp again: The price was actually $3 billion. Facebook CEO Mark…

Late last year, Deutsche Bank announced that it reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the Department of Justice in connection with the bank’s issuance and underwriting of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2007. Although the bank made the announcement in late December, the…

16 January 2017, 10:24 pm EST By Carl Velasco Tech Times Samsung Galaxy Note 7 - Top 5 Alternatives Now Playing Samsung - Fascinating Facts About The Korean Electronics Giant Now Playing The Galaxy S8 will come out April 15, a new report suggests. The handset itself has enjoyed a slew of rumors,…

Moody’s Corp. agreed to pay nearly $864 million to settle claims in its role providing credit ratings for Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligations that contributed to the financial crisis. On Friday , the Department of Justice , 21 states, and the District of…

Enlarge / Ars' Kyle Orland tries out the Nintendo Switch in its portable mode. Jennifer Hahn After multiple hands-on events around the world on Friday, press and fans alike now have an idea of how the Nintendo Switch plays and feels. It has games (though not many new ones ). It has a nice screen and…

Samsung Electronics' (ssnlf) investigation into what caused some Galaxy Note 7s to catch fire has concluded that the battery was the main reason, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. The world's biggest smartphone maker will likely announce the results of the investigation on…

What is it about space that intrigues the corporate moguls of the day? Richard Branson has his Virgin Galactic , while Amazon’s Jeff Bezos counts Blue Origin as part of his portfolio. Perhaps they all grew up on Star Trek — it’s that final frontier thing. And here we have Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the…

I spent about 10 minutes strolling through the lush green fields of Hyrule before I decided to change things up. I was playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild through a Nintendo Switch docked with a nice big television, which created an impressive sense of scale, showcasing just how huge of…

After revealing the Nintendo Switch will launch March 3 for $299 , Nintendo held a press-only event Friday for the first hands-on experience of the console and portable hybrid. We were on the scene to play the system and about a dozen forthcoming games and try out its many different control schemes.…

Nintendo has finally shown off the Switch, its first hybrid video game system. You can play it as a console at home, paired with a television, or as a portable system similar to Nintendo’s 3DS. And those two modes are just the first in a bag of tricks Nintendo packed into this system. There are more…

Last night, Nintendo revealed more details about the Switch, including price, release date, upcoming games (including two launch titles), and how exactly the controllers work. They also announced that "in general," the games would be region-free , and that they would be launching a paid online game…

Art by Sam Woolley Nintendo’s new video game console, the Nintendo Switch, will be out on March 3, 2017 across all territories. It’ll cost $299.99 in the US. I’ll be updating this post throughout the night with news we learn it, so you can refresh this page to find the latest info. You can also…

Amazon will add 100,000 full-time jobs in the U.S., with many of them at already announced warehouses under construction in Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey and elsewhere. Photo: Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday said the online retail giant plans to create more…

Back in 2015, The J.G. Wentworth Company , the purchaser of structured settlement payments, annuity payments, lottery payments and other receivables that rose to fame with the “ It’s my money and I want it now ” advertising campaign, surprised many in the mortgage business by becoming a mortgage…

Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch gaming console begin Friday at 9 a.m. at Nintendo's store in New York City, according to a Wednesday tweet from the company. A limited quantity of pre-orders for the #NintendoSwitch will begin on 1/13 at 9AM while supplies last at #NintendoNYC . — Nintendo NY…

Credit: Martyn Williams In recent months, Facebook has been criticized for its role in the dissemination of news, especially related to the U.S. presidential election. On Wednesday, the company announced a new suite of initiatives aimed at improving its collaboration with journalists and media…

Chris Lattner. LinkedIn/Chris Lattner Chris Lattner, the inventor of Apple's relatively new programming language called Swift, is leaving Apple, he announced on the Swift mailing list on Tuesday as spotted by MacStories' John Voorhees . Lattner didn't at first give a reason for his exit, simply…

Yahoo will be renamed “Altaba” and company CEO Marissa Mayer will step down from its board of directors once its major sale to Verizon closes , according to an 8-K filing released by Yahoo earlier today. It’s a crazy string of events that sounds like the end of one of the web’s most iconic…

President-elect Donald Trump met with Alibaba founder Jack Ma on Monday and promised that the two would do “some great things.” "We had a great meeting,” Trump told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, according to pool reports. “And a great, great entrepreneur, one of the best in the world. And…

Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year, will be deploying its fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans onto public roads for the first time later this month, the company announced at the North American International Auto Show today. The minivans will be…

As a result of Apple’s performance based executive compensation packages, CEO Tim Cook and other leaders within the company will be taking pay cuts. Apple missed internal revenue and operating income targets for 2016 by 3.7 and 0.5 percent respectively, resulting in a 15 percent cut for the CEO.…

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Xiaomi 's first ever press conference at the annual Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas could have been the company's entrance into the huge US market. Instead, many were left disappointed as the Chinese tech company chose to debut two new exciting products exclusive to its home market of China.…

The fact that Apple’s App Store did record-breaking business over the holidays is hardly a shocker. Lots of people get new phones and tablets for Christmas, so it stands to reason they’d load them up right away. But analysts say that even with that expectation, Apple’s record $240 million in App…