Huawei is in a tough position. The company is coming out of China with no strong presence in the U.S. market, and yet it prices its phones similarly to top competitors from Samsung and Apple. To beat the best, Huawei needs to be better than the best, and by a sizable margin. With each new phone,…

Apple is working on a wearable device similar to Google Glass that would blend an augmented reality display with a standard pair of glasses, according to a report from Bloomberg News . The company is still exploring the smart glasses market, the report states, so it’s unclear when a finished product…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google was pulled into the debate over fake news on the web when its search engine highlighted a little-known right-wing blog that erroneously claimed Donald Trump won the popular vote in last week’s presidential election. Searches for “final election results” and related queries…

Snapchat Spectacles -- you know, the sunglasses that have have built-in cameras that allow you to post directly to Snapchat -- are here . So far, the videos captured with them that have been shared online are pretty boring (they mostly revolve around people's first impressions of the Snap-branded…

Today’s post covering paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free comes a bit later than usual, but better late than never. We’ve got a great list for you to kick off the week — and since it’s the week before Black Friday, you’re definitely going to want to take advantage and save as much money as…

Credit: Apple ’Tis the giving season, and I’m not talking about Black Friday deals for family and friends. Apple is now making it possible for well-meaning folks to donate money to their favorite causes by taking all the work of entering payment details out of the equation. Apple Pay just rolled out…

Throughout the election, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief, has defended his company as a place where people can share all opinions. Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — Late on Tuesday night, as it became clear that Donald J. Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton to win the…

For the last time, "123456" is not an okay password, people. The sex and dating site AdultFriendFinder has been hacked for the second time (that we know of), according to the breach notification website LeakedSource, and the world's truly lousy password habits have again been exposed in the process.…

12 November 2016, 8:58 am EST By Ted Ranosa Tech Times Apple - Here's What You May Not Know Now Playing Android Marshmallow - Fascinating Facts Now Playing Tech analysts from Barclays Research report that the upcoming iPhone 8 handsets could ditch the traditional bezel design of earlier models in…

In case you missed it, last night Mark Zuckerberg published a response to accusations that “fake news” on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. election, and helped Donald Trump to win. The CEO claimed that at least 99% of news content on Facebook was “authentic.” Zuckerberg wrote: “Of all the…

Adult dating service company Friend Finder Network has reportedly been hacked, with over 412 million accounts, e-mail addresses and passwords from their websites made available on criminal marketplaces. Notably, the database does not include more detailed personal information, but could still be…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? If you're trying to buy Snapchat's new Spectacles glasses, you now have to trek to Northern California to do it. The company's new camera-equipped glasses are now for sale in pop-up vending machines that Snap Inc. — the new corporate name Snapchat recently adopted —…

And I honestly don’t think these things should be reviewed at all — especially as a gadget. More of a hybrid marketing/consumer research experiment than an actual product launch, Snap, née Snapchat, Spectacles are one of the coolest, most fun bits of hardware I’ve used lately and I just scored an…

Above: The Google Pixel XL. Image Credit: Jordan Novet/VentureBeat For the past month I have been using the Google Pixel as my main phone. And day after day, I continue to love it. It is a wonderful phone. The Pixel XL has a better display and longer battery life, but the smaller version feels more…

When you have a billion people using your service, you have an obligation to keep your users secure, even when they behave in unsafe ways. Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Facebook, speaking at Web Summit last week, told a quick story to show what his company was up against when it came…

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Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn't think fake news on Facebook had an effect on the election. Photo by Paul Sakuma for Techonomy After Donald Trump won the US presidential election on Tuesday, there were some commentators who argued fake news circulating on Facebook helped him win. There was, for…

Wanna get away? If you're looking for a ticket out of this universe, at least temporarily, VR can deliver that on your phone. Or, even give you ways to reach out and communicate with the world. Samsung (with Facebook) and Google offer you two options: the Samsung Gear VR , and the new Google…

Snap’s Spectacles are having a spectacular debut today, with (at least) hundreds of people lining up at their first Snapbot pop-up vending machine location in Venice Beach. We got the chance to speak to a few of those lucky enough to have grabbed some today, and they told us what it’s like to use…

Adam Bain, who is leaving Twitter, was well liked by Wall Street for building up and running the company’s advertising business. Bryan Thomas for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — For many months, Twitter has been trying to reshape itself as a growing social media service. That attempt now includes…

8 November 2016, 8:27 pm EST By Carl Velasco Tech Times Apple - Here's What You May Not Know Now Playing Remembering Apple iPhone 1 Now Playing For those who skipped Apple's iPhone 6s or 6s Plus back when they were first released, Apple is now offering refurbished units for a lower price. All the…

Email Super Mario Bros (1987) on the NES What better way to experience Nintendo’s iconic era of gaming than the series many consider pioneered the platforming genre? As the first Super Mario Bros game in the franchise, players control everyone’s favourite plumber as they run, jump and circumvent…

Vine may survive after all. Twitter is currently vetting multiple term sheets from companies offering to buy Vine, and hopes to make a deal soon, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. After announcing its plan to shut down Vine last month, Twitter received a large number of bids, including several from…

6 November 2016, 11:51 pm EST By Vincent Lanaria Tech Times Samsung - Fascinating Facts About The Korean Electronics Giant Now Playing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 - Top 5 Alternatives Now Playing Latest News And Scoops On Smartphone Now Playing As the Samsung Galaxy S8 nears launch, the question that's…

SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Sunday it would launch an artificial intelligence digital assistant service for its upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone, seeking to rebound from the Galaxy Note 7's collapse and differentiate its devices. The world's top smartphone maker in October announced the…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? AP Samsung is a company that hates to fail. That may seem obvious (who actually revels in failure?), but most companies don't react to setbacks the way Samsung does. The best example? That famous story from 1995 where the company’s chairman set 150,000 defective…

Apple Tech LG Alongside its 4K counterpart by Nick Statt @nickstatt Nov 4, 2016, 5:11pm EDT Apple Apple is reducing the price of its new 5K LG UltraFine Display by more than 25 percent as part of an effort to ease the transition to its new line of MacBook Pros . The special promotion, which amounts…

Expectations were incredibly low for GoPro this go around and yet somehow the company managed to out do even analyst’s worst fears. The company’s stock trading has been halted as it missed revenue expectations by 23 percent and nearly $75 million. Prior to the actual release of this quarter’s…

A woman hovers a mouse over the Google and European Union logos. Photo: Reuters Alphabet Inc. ’s Google on Thursday hit back at European Union accusations that it abuses its dominant position with its internet shopping and advertising services, ramping up its fight back against the bloc’s…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Facebook on Wednesday continued its trend of posting huge advertising revenue growth , powered by its mobile business, but the company’s outlook over its future “ad load” spooked investors. Revenue for the third quarter was $7.01…

Facebook had a wildly successful Q3 , earning $7.01 billion in revenue and $1.09 EPS from 1.79 billion monthly users, which grew 4.67% this quarter, speeding up from 3.63% last quarter. Daily active users rose to 1.18 from 1.13 billion last quarter, and up 17% year-over-year. Facebook now has 1.66…

Enlarge / That bear looks familiar. On Oct. 31, Google's Threat Analysis Group revealed a vulnerability in most versions of Windows that is actively being exploited by malware attacks. Today, Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Devices group, acknowledged the exploit…

Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That’s why today it will start showing shoppable tags on photos from 20 retail brands like Kate Spade and JackThreads to iOS users in the US. The retailers tag products in their photos, which are…

Apple’s brand new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have been on sale for about a month and a half now, and they got off to a much better start than one might have assumed in light of all the complaints we saw prior to their release. The new iPhone design leaked months ahead of the iPhone 7’s actual…

Peter Thiel at the National Press Club on Oct. 31, 2016. (Photo: SAUL LOEB, AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Tech billionaire Peter Thiel, facing intense criticism for his financial support of Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, struck back Monday against the Washington and Silicon Valley…

Google today announced it’s rolling out a new detection and filtering system on the Play Store to crack down on those developers who use illegitimate means to boost their apps’ rankings in the store’s top charts. This will affect apps that use methods like fraudulent installs, fake reviews, and…

WASHINGTON — What happens to President Barack Obama’s 11.1 million Twitter followers on Inauguration Day? The White House says Obama’s official @POTUS account will be taken over by the next president, who will start with a huge following but a clean slate of tweets. Obama’s tweets will move over to…

Today, Google’s Threat Analysis group disclosed a critical vulnerability in Windows in a public post on the company’s security blog. The bug itself is very specific — allowing attackers to escape from security sandboxes through a flaw in the win32k system — but it’s serious enough to be categorized…

CenturyLink Inc. said Monday that it reached a cash-and-stock deal to buy Level 3 Communications Inc. for roughly $25 billion, a marriage that would give the communications companies more heft to weather a competitive landscape. The deal, which values Level 3 at $69.92 a share as of Friday’s closing…