This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: John Kerry defends Obama's support for Israel , calls for resumption of Mideast talks The Times assesses Kerry's legacy Obama and Japan's Shinzo Abe tour memorial of Pearl Harbor attack Obama says he…

Amazon's Echo voice-activated speaker has more "skills" than you may be using. (Photo: Amazon) SAN FRANCISCO — In what may be a first, police in Arkansas asked Amazon for recordings potentially made by an Echo device in connection with a murder investigation. Amazon declined to provide the data.…

December 26, 2016 — Snapchat has bought an Israeli augmented reality startup, joining a number of big tech companies showing interest in technology that overlays the digital world onto the real one. The purchase of Cimagine cost Snaphat an estimated $30-40 million , the Israeli business publication…

Snapchat sewed up its first acquisition in Israel this week, according to the outlet Calcalist News . It acquired four-year-old Cimagine , whose augmented reality platform lets consumers instantly visualize products they want to buy in their intended location, paying what Calcalist says was between…

Well, this is it. On December 31, 2016, we will bid adieu to the ambitious but riddled with managerial missteps venture that was Cyanogen. In the ongoing saga of Cyanogen's "reorganization" efforts, we've seen Kirk McMaster being ousted as CEO and replaced by Lior Tal, followed by a modular OS…

On December 22nd, Consumer Reports said it could not recommend the MacBook Pro — a first for a Mac laptop. It caused a stir! Consumer Reports ’ reasoning was simple: it got wildly inconsistent battery test results every time it tried to test multiple versions of the laptop. Its test is one that’s…

In 2012, BMW overhauled its ultra-popular, entry level luxury 3 Series lineup. The new models—dubbed the F30 internally—were bigger, more comfortable, and way more tech-heavy than the prior generation. The new editions were still fun to drive and captured great early reviews. But as time passed, the…

From mid-2015 to 2016, Microsoft ran two simultaneous experiments. First, it made Windows 10 free and available to anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8. Second, it began an aggressive campaign to push people to upgrade. First Windows 10 became a “Recommended” download instead of an optional one. As…

Uber on Thursday announced plans to resume testing its self-driving cars in Arizona, one day after the California Department of Motor Vehicles forced the company to pull the cars from San Francisco streets. “Our cars departed for Arizona this morning by truck,” an Uber spokeswoman wrote in an…

Google will be launching two new flagship smartwatches in the first quarter of next year, according to Jeff Chang, product manager of Android Wear at Google. In an exclusive interview with The Verge , Chang said that the new watches will be the flagship Android Wear 2.0 devices and will be the first…

In the latest episode of Uber’s brush with the California DMV , the company announced that it is shipping the 16 self-driving cars it pulled off the streets of San Francisco to Arizona. That announcement came just hours after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey tweeted that the state welcomed autonomous…

Apple Consumer Reports, one of the most thorough publications to do testing on laptops, says Apple's new MacBook Pros have problems with consistent battery life. As a result, Apple's latest laptops are the first from the company not to receive a "recommended" rating, Consumer Reports shared in a…

News Nokia accuses Apple of infringing 40 patents in lawsuits filed in 11 countries | Follow Senior Editor, IDG News Service | The Nokia logo on a booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Feb. 25, 2016. Credit: Stephen Lawson Nokia has filed new patent infringement lawsuits against Apple on…

After years of teases, tantalizing promises, and Kickstarter campaigns, virtual reality finally became actual reality in 2016, with VR’s mere existence thrusting the entire PC industry into glorious, wonderful turmoil. Despite being around for just a handful of months, virtual reality has already…

Apple won’t be anything anytime soon, but there’s more and more indirect evidence suggesting that at least one iPhone model next year will sport a radical redesign. The iPhone 8, one of three rumored 2017 iPhones, is expected to have a curved OLED display, and it looks like certain Apple suppliers…

Verizon Tops Digital Ad Engagement With Pixel’s Help December 22, 2016 - Written By Verizon is currently the top wireless carrier in the United States, and for good reason. They’ve created a reputation for themselves as having the top network in the United States, and Verizon makes sure to tell the…

Following an erroneous report claiming that Niantic’s plans to bring Pokémon Go to the Apple Watch were canceled, the company today put those rumors to rest with more than a mere statement : it has now launched the Apple Watch version of its popular game. The new smartwatch app lets you more easily…

AirPods became available for purchase on Apple's website on December 13, and customers who ordered quickly began receiving their shipments as early as December 19 . Orders quickly became backlogged, however, and Apple's shipping estimate slipped to four weeks in less than two hours, and to six weeks…

The Raspberry Pi Foundation just revealed an early Christmas present for all the good little Linux lovers and Raspberry Pi fans in the world, as the organization announced they’ve ported an early prototype of the Raspberry Pi’s Pixel desktop experience to Mac and Windows PCs. That means you can now…

A self-driving Uber car enters a garage where the company houses its vehicles. Photo by James Martin/CNET Uber has pulled its self-driving cars from California roads. After a weeklong standoff, the ride-hailing company has given in to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles and Office of the…

Apple and Nokia settled a patent lawsuit back in 2011, but now, they’re back at it again. The two companies are suing each other once more, but this time Apple is filing an antitrust lawsuit, not against Nokia but instead against third-party companies known as patent assertion entities, or PAEs,…

Enlarge / Organizational changes within Apple could explain why we see new Macs like the Retina MacBook less frequently and regularly than we used to. Andrew Cunningham In an internal memo circulated yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook reaffirmed the company's commitment to the Mac in general and the Mac…

Twitter CTO Adam Messinger, who has been the company’s CTO for almost four years and with the company for five years, said he was leaving the company today. Twitter VP of product Josh McFarland is also leaving to join Greylock Partners . Messinger made the announcement in — no surprise — a tweet:…

One of the memes to come out of the somewhat contentious rollout of the MacBook Pro is that Apple has given up on the desktop Mac. Given the slower upgrade cycle of desktops and how well my Retina 5K iMac is holding up it took me a while to pay attention to what was going on there until it had…

Remember the Mac Pro from 2013? Some wonder if Apple does. Photo by CNET Tim Cook is apparently trying to dispel the feeling that Apple has abandoned the desktop. Though the company released an overhauled MacBook Pro laptop in October, it's been years since much of its Mac lineup of desktops has…

The finances of ride-hailing giant Uber improved after the sale of its China business to rival Didi Chuxing, but it still managed to lose a huge amount of money. Uber lost more than $800 million in the third quarter, according to a report from tech news site The Information , citing anonymous…

18 December 2016, 2:57 am EST By Alexandra Burlacu Tech Times Internet In A Minute Now Playing Twitter - What You Should Know Now Playing The Washington Post has released a Chrome extension specifically designed to fact-check posts from a single Twitter account: Donald Trump's. The plugin points out…

In an announcement Friday , Tesla said it will impose a fee of forty cents per minute on drivers who leave their cars in a Supercharger space for more than five minutes after they’ve finished charging. Since many Superchargers are located at what are essentially parking spaces, it’s not too…

A Volvo XC90 equipped with Uber's prototype self-driving system in San Francisco. (Photo: Uber Technologies) SAN FRANCISCO — Uber says it won't comply with a California Department of Motor Vehicles demand that it get a permit to test its self-driving cars in San Francisco. According to California…

Uber won’t stop operating self-driving vehicles in San Francisco, despite an order from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to do just that. The DMV says Uber needs a permit to test its autonomous vehicles, but Uber argues that its vehicles aren’t autonomous at all and therefore it doesn’t…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, an Uber driverless car is displayed in a garage in San Francisco. AP Photo/Eric Risberg California's top cop is threatening legal action against Uber over its self-driving vehicle program in San Francisco. The office of…

Super Mario Run is a fun Nintendo game buried under unnecessary layers of mobile game fluff. Super Mario Run is a great idea for a video game. The “runner” genre, in which your character moves automatically, has flourished on phones thanks to its simplicity. And although Nintendo has almost never…

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, already reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, reported Wednesday that a different attack compromised more than 1 billion accounts in 2013. The two attacks are the largest known security breaches of one company’s computer…

The technology industry always has its eyes on the future, but few foresaw the scene that played out on Wednesday afternoon in Trump Tower. One by one, the leaders of the world’s most elite and successful technology companies trooped up to the 25th floor to meet President-elect Donald J. Trump , who…

Lucid Motors revealed its first production car, the Lucid Air, which will be priced as high as $160,000. (Photo: Marco della Cava, USA TODAY) FREMONT, Calif. — Inside a nondescript warehouse, Lucid Motors pulled the wraps off what could either be a new force in luxury high-tech cars or another…

A jovial middle-aged man pokes the order button on a touchscreen from the comfort of his armchair. Minutes later he’s ambling through the bucolic Cambridgeshire countryside at the bottom of his garden to pluck a parcel from the ground. It’s his Amazon delivery materializing like manna from heaven —…

A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary now sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign, both now on display in the basement of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Justin T. Gellerson for…

Apple’s latest attempt to crack digital TV arrived yesterday in the form of a name change most consumers might not even notice. It’s simply called TV, and the new app replaced Apple’s Videos app with the release of iOS 10.2 . It’s a neat addition for the iPhone and iPad, but it’s designed to shine…

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced on Wednesday their replacement for the Home Affordable Refinance Program. The government sponsored enterprises revealed the Flex Modification foreclosure prevention program, which is designed to help America’s families by offering reductions to their monthly…

Donald Trump is meeting on Wednesday with top executives from Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla and other tech giants. What might both sides want? And what are their possible bargaining chips? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. Photos: AP About a dozen prominent tech executives will meet with…