Microsoft today said it will revamp the notification of a pending Windows 10 upgrade so that clicking the red "X" -- an action that for decades has been used to dismiss or ignore a dialog box -- will no longer be interpreted as authorizing the process. With just a month to go before it stops…

Mr. Brown’s home in Canton, Ohio. Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times CANTON, Ohio — Joshua Brown loved his all-electric Tesla Model S so much he nicknamed it Tessy. And he celebrated the Autopilot feature that made it possible for him to cruise the highways, making YouTube videos of himself…

To celebrate Quake's 20th birthday , the developer behind Wolfenstein: The New Order decided to do something special. MachineGames honored the classic game's legacy with a new single-player add-on called, "Episode 5: Dimension of the Past," which delivers new Quake story levels along with a…

Would you ride in a self-driving car that has been programmed to sacrifice its passengers to save the lives of others, in the event of a serious accident? New research has found that people generally approve of autonomous vehicles (AV) governed by so-called utilitarian ethics, which would seek to…

Technology 9 to 5 Mac See realtime coverage iOS 10 warns you when iPhone 7's Home button fails, offers automatic software workaround 9 to 5 Mac - ‎22 hours ago‎ iPhone 7's new solid state Home button has been met with mixed reactions thus far. While the switch to a non-mechchancial implantation…

YouTube brings live streaming to its mobile apps The feature will be baked into the YouTube app, but it still faces stiff competition from Facebook which announced new live streaming features. by Iyaz Akhtar CNET Your video, "YouTube brings live streaming to its mobile apps" will start after this…

People can’t make up their moral minds about driverless cars. In a series of surveys published Thursday in the journal Science , researchers asked people what they believe a driverless car ought to do in the following scenario: A group of pedestrians are crossing the street, and the only way the car…

Image Credit: Screenshot YouTube announced that it is adding the capability to broadcast live video right from its mobile app. This capability is said to be rolling out to select creators first, but it is expected to become available to more people later on. On stage at VidCon, YouTube product lead…

A Palestinian hacker who said he had breached Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile showed the page in 2013. Hazem Bader/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most powerful men in the world because billions of people give Facebook, which he founded, free access to their…

Even without new hardware ( yet ), there are a lot of changes coming to Apple's Mac line of computers. The operating system that powers MacBooks and iMacs (as well as the Mac Mini and Mac Pro ) has gotten a big new refresh. So big, in fact, that it now has a whole new name. Out is OS X (pronounced…

Today, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are hosting its annual shareholder meeting. As Recode noted earlier , every one of Facebook’s board members will be up for re-election,too, including billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose director role has come under fire in the wake of revelations that he…

Gawker is filing for bankruptcy. Peter Thiel, who is a Facebook board member and Donald Trump delegate, secretly sued Gawker in a proxy lawsuit and was successful. And so much of the Silicon Valley establishment cheered Thiel on. @karaswisher @Recode click bait journalists need to be taught lessons.…

Probably the most stressful situations in driving are times when you arrive at an intersection with no traffic light, a constant flow of traffic, limited visibility, or some combination of all three. Turning left or going straight becomes a stressful scenario that requires crossing multiple lanes of…

The Mercedes Benz E-Class has always been fancy. Wood, leather and a sense that you've made some pretty solid life choices are all part of the package. But the automaker has also been on the cutting edge of tech . For example, it added radar-aided adaptive cruise control to its vehicles back in…

17 June 2016, 11:52 pm EDT By Anu Passary Tech Times A China-based company called Baili Marketing Service Inc. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The company claims that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus' designs are a copy of its 100C smartphone. ( Justin Sullivan | Getty Images )…

Apple is one of the biggest targets when it comes to Chinese smartphone knockoffs — it's not uncommon to hear about a device being sold overseas that looks strikingly similar to the iPhone. So it came as a surprise on Friday when a battle between Apple and China over an iPhone patent entered the…

Plume wall plug-in devices route a WiFi signal throughout the house based on information relayed by the company's cloud-based platform. (Photo: Plume) SAN FRANCISCO – If you’re still chasing a WiFi high, Plume is the latest start-up promising to turn your home into a networked paradise. But in…

Samsung stepped away from its usual strategy of building intellectual property (IP) in-house by announcing yesterday that it was buying cloud provider and container pioneer Joyent for an undisclosed sum, but one that should, by all accounts, be significantly less than the $26 billion that Satya…

15 June 2016, 10:04 pm EDT By Lauren Keating Tech Times Batman - The Greatest Superhero The World Has Ever Known Now Playing The Pokémon Go Plus wearable device was announced to have a target shipping date of 'end of July' and will retail for $35 during Nintendo’s live stream event on Wednesday. (…

Electronic Arts/Respawn EntertainmentI’m striding down a ruined city block in a house-sized mech, explosives firing out of one robotic arm, a plasma shield loaded in the other. There’s a thud. Warning klaxons start going off. Someone is, improbably, on top of my mech; they used a grappling hook to…

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court upheld government net-neutrality rules Tuesday, handing a defeat to cable and telephone companies trying to fend off tighter oversight of the consumer broadband business. The divided ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is a…

Love or hate the Federal Communications Commission's rules governing the open internet, people aren't keeping quiet about it. For more than a decade, the issue of net neutrality, or the principle that all traffic on the internet should be treated equally, has pitted the broadband and internet…

iOS 10, Apple Pay on the web, and macOS Apple’s WWDC this year was full of incremental updates to OS’s for the Mac, iPhone, Watch, and TV, as well as moves to open up services like Siri and iMessage to developers. A lot of the changes were geared toward moving between Apple devices easier — Siri is…

Bethesda has announced a reboot for its first-person shooter Prey. The new game is set to arrive on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC sometime in 2017. The announcement was accompanied by a teaser trailer that gives some insight on the game’s storyline. The teaser trailer for Prey can be seen below. The…

EA's E3 2016 press conference wrap up From Battlefield 1 to Star Wars to Mass Effect: Andromeda, here's everything you need to know about EA's E3 2016 press conference. by Jeff Bakalar Close Drag E3 2016 is the first year that gaming giant Electronic Arts will not have a booth at the show floor. In…

At WWDC on Monday, Apple will unveil the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 10. With the conference being light on hardware, expectations are high for Apple to announce some major new features for iOS 10 on iPhone and iPad. The rumor mill is quieter than usual, so there’s definitely…

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, June 13 with a keynote event at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, where Apple is expected to show off the latest versions of its iOS, OS X, tvOS, and watchOS operating systems and perhaps debut new features for services like Apple Pay and iCloud .…

I'm walking around the conference room, aiming my Tango phone at the space between two chairs where Lenovo executives are sitting. A third empty chair, a plush leather one, sits on the carpet. I'm walking around it, seeing how it looks. But it isn't real: it's augmented, generated by an app on my…

Apple’s WWDC event kicks off on Monday, but App Store head Phil Schiller is already sharing some major changes coming to the App Store that will impact developers. The news comes just six months after Schiller added additional App Store responsibilities to his role. The SVP of Worldwide Marketing…

Apple's Phil Schiller recently sat down with several publications including The Loop and The Verge to detail some of the changes that are going to be made to the App Store under his reign , including major improvements to search, subscription access for all developers, App Store ads when searching…

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Giana, on the right, is now fully recovered. Yahoo 7 News screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The baby monitor showed Stacey Gleeson that her 1-year-old daughter Giana had turned blue. She went to her and…

iPhone's Live Photos can be shared on social Well, just on Tumblr for now. Also, Google Photos gets a handy photo-sharing feature for holiday parties, and you can send money by text with Google Wallet. by Bridget Carey Close Drag If you have an iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus or iPhone SE and you enjoy…

The HTC Vive is now officially the first high-end virtual reality headset that you can buy like a normal tech product, instead of preordering and then waiting a month or two. HTC is promising that any new Vive order will ship within 72 hours, and it's also slightly expanding its offline retail…

Snapchat has a revamped homepage as of Tuesday. Photo Illustration: Yuliya Kim; Sources: Snapchat Snapchat's got a brand-new look today. The red-hot messaging app is revamping its feed with a new design that mashes up Discover with Live Stories—the strings of photos and videos that users collect at…

Crew shortages force Kenya Airways to cancel flights ahead of strike 2 Hours Ago NAIROBI, Oct 16- Loss-making national carrier Kenya Airways cancelled several flights on Sunday after some crew members did not report for work, the latest blow as the airline struggles to avert a strike called by its…

In the last week or so, several high-profile social networking accounts have been hijacked by hackers, including those belonging to Katy Perry , Mark Zuckerberg and Keith Richards. And even though control of all these accounts was quickly restored back to their owners, it was still a very…

Mark Zuckerberg, contrary to what you might think, is but a mere mortal. Yes, he runs Facebook and has a large amount of influence over your online life—if you really only use Facebook to see what your friends are up to. Yes, he's worth a squillion dollars. Yes, he still basically wears the same…

The Bose name has more or less been synonymous with the words “noise cancelling.” As for wireless? Not so much. The headphone maker has dragged its feet when it comes to cutting the cord, even as the competition has flooded the market with Bluetooth solutions. The company, thankfully, is finally…