Looking to elevate your Instagram game? DJI's new Spark is its smallest camera drone , weighing just 10.6 ounces, or less than a can of soda. Don't let its small size fool you: Spark is pretty special. It can lift off from the palm of your hand and be controlled via hand gestures alone. "Even if…

Home Apps Apps News 24 May 2017 Share on Facebook Email Reddit Highlights Uber admitted underpaying its drivers for two-and-a-half years in US Uber usually takes a 25 percent commission from US drivers It could pay drivers back at least $45 million, at about $900 per driver Uber Technologies Inc…

A leaked image of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, which shows iconic Nintendo characters such as Mario and Princess Peach using what appear to be laser guns while the Rabbids characters dress up like Luigi, Peach and Yoshi. Image via Comicbook.com . The gaming internet was agog today over what…

Enlarge Chaos Computer Club Hackers have broken the iris-based authentication in Samsung's Galaxy S8 smartphone in an easy-to-execute attack that's at odds with the manufacturer's claim that the mechanism is "one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked." The cost of the hack is less than the…

Analyst Steve Milunovich of UBS just put out a note in which he says that Apple 's upcoming iPhone 8 -- the premium model with an OLED display and other goodies not expected to be found on the standard models -- will begin at $870 for a variant with 64 gigabytes of storage capacity. An upgraded…

Image Credit: Rockstar Games Take-Two Interactive Software delayed Red Dead Redemption 2 this week until 2018. But that didn’t derail the company’s outlook for the current fiscal year. That’s because the video game publisher isn’t as dependent on its huge launches as it once was. Now it can count on…

HELSINKI Nokia ( NOKIA.HE ) has settled its patent dispute with Apple ( AAPL.O ) and signed a business collaboration deal with the U.S. giant, the Finnish firm said on Tuesday, sending its shares sharply higher. Nokia said on Tuesday it would receive an upfront cash payment and additional revenues…

(Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) Uber admitted Tuesday that it had collected tens of millions more from New York City drivers than it should have over a nearly three-year span dating back to November 2014, but pledged to reimburse “every penny,” in the latest setback for the Silicon Valley…

This morning in Shanghai, China, Microsoft announced the latest generation of their Surface Pro tablet. The numbering system is gone, and it’s back to just Surface Pro, but the latest generation is a long way from the original Surface Pro that came out in 2013, and it’s a design that they’ve now…

Earlier today, The Guardian published a series of reports about Facebook’s internal rules on moderating graphic content, providing new insight into how the company determines what its users can post. The series paints a picture of a social media network that is drowning in content, using rules that…

Some of the biggest news to come out of Google I/O this week was that Google Assistant is coming to iOS , looking to take a shot at Siri , Apple’s own entrenched AI assistant. While Assistant has been available on Android for a while now, how does the AI assistant stack up against Siri when its…

Google Ads New Categories In 2nd Annual Google Play Awards May 18, 2017 - Written By Google has held their second annual Google Play Awards on the second day of Google I/O 2017, building on the recognition that Google held last year for some of the most noteworthy developers of apps and games. Last…

AOL Google's Assistant is finally ready to take on Siri on Apple's own turf: the iPhone . Yes, you could already play around with the AI-powered chat bot if you downloaded Allo -- Google's mobile-only messenger app -- but its functionality was limited. Today, that changes thanks to a new standalone…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on stage at the 2017 I/O conference Google On Wednesday, Google kicked off it annual conference for developers. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and a succession of company execs took the stage to talk up the latest milestones and to unveil new and upcoming products. Among the new…

Apple is planning to announce refreshes for its notebook lineup at its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference set to take place in June, reports Bloomberg . New versions of the MacBook and MacBook Pro are expected to be announced, and Apple is also considering updating the MacBook Air , its most…

Last Friday’s massive WannaCry ransomware attack means victims around the world are facing a tough question: Should they pay the ransom? Those who do shouldn't expect a quick response -- or any response at all. Even after payment, the ransomware doesn’t automatically release your computer and…

A year ago, Google executives took the stage at the company's annual I/O developer conference and unleashed a torrent of products — an AI-powered assistant with an Echo-like speaker, a new virtual reality platform and a way to try out apps without downloading them first. With the 2017 edition of…

SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON Asian governments and businesses reported some disruptions from the WannaCry ransomware worm on Monday but cybersecurity experts warned of a wider impact as more employees turned on their computers and checked e-mails. The ransomware that has locked up more than 200,000…

Apple iPod Shuffles in March 2009. (Paul Sakuma/AP) Let us now praise old music file formats, and the music cultures that begat us. The Internet is currently spilling many pixels over the fact that the MP3, the music file used on the original iPod, has been abandoned by its inventors at the…

Later this month, Intel is expected to launch a new family of processors that leaked materials referred to as its Core X lineup. "Core X" is surely a reference to the code names of these chips, which are Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X, respectively. These chips will plug into motherboards implementing…

The Galaxy Note 7 is about to return to stores as the Galaxy Note 7R , multiple reports have claimed. The refurbished phablet might launch in the very near future, according to a recent story, for half its original price. The phone has just received Bluetooth certification, which seems to suggest a…

When ransomware strikes, you're locked out of your computer -- and you have to pay to get in. Schöning/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images Because we needed another reason to keep us up at night. WannaCry is no scary movie; but a nasty piece of ransomware that locks up your computer and holds it hostage…

Microsoft legal chief Brad Smith says governments should share software vulnerabilities with vendors instead of keeping them secret. Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images Microsoft is criticizing government agencies for hoarding software flaws and keeping them secret, calling this weekend's…

A crippling computer virus morphed into the biggest ransomware attack in history, triggering a wave of aftershocks being felt well beyond the victims who found their data held hostage. The so-called WannaCry virus once again placed the cyberactivities of the U.S. National Security Agency in a global…

The screen of a computer infected by ransomware in Rennes, France, in November. Damien Meyer/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers are discovering that it is far more profitable to hold your data hostage than it is to steal it. A decade-old internet scourge called ransomware…

Friday’s unprecedented ransomware attack may have stopped spreading to new machines -- at least briefly -- thanks to a "kill switch" that a security researcher has activated. The ransomware, called Wana Decryptor or WannaCry, has been found infecting machines across the globe . It works by…

CLOSE Skip in x Embed x Share The attack holds a user's files hostage using an exploit that might've come from a leak at the NSA. Luckily, Microsoft has already put out a patch.Video provided by Newsy Newslook A ransomware variant known as WannaCry relies on a hole in the Windows 10 code which…

Microsoft hasn’t had a great time with mobile. While we can debate whether or not Windows Phone is finally dead , Microsoft is certainly ready to move on. After missing the mobile boat, Microsoft is now trying to sneak onto iOS and Android devices like a stealthy submarine. We’ve seen the company…

Twitter fell apart in 2013 when its growth slowed significantly in the face of competition and copying from Facebook, and users found it too hard to find the best content due to its unsorted reverse chronological feed. Its share price fell 18 percent a quarter later as the growth troubles continued.…

Microsoft Microsoft has released a patch rapidly developed to combat a severe zero-day vulnerability discovered only days ago. Late Monday, the Redmond giant issued a security advisory for CVE-2017-0290 , a remote code execution flaw impacting the Windows operating system. The security vulnerability…

Take Eyes Wide Shut and transform it into a listing video — that’s the concept behind the marketing of Opus, a $100 million estate designed and built by developer Nile Miami and architect Paul McClean. The whopping 25,500-square-foot mansion boasts seven bathrooms, 11 bedrooms, two swimming pools,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's shadow continues to hang over Snapchat as its parent company reported disappointing numbers. Snap Inc., best known for disappearing messages even though it has evolved to become much more, had a massive loss and saw user growth continue to slow down in the first three…