A group of self driving Uber vehicles position themselves to take journalists on rides during a media preview at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh Sept. 12, 2016. (Photo: Gene J. Puskar, AP) SAN FRANCISCO — Uber wants an explosive patent infringement lawsuit that could be worth…

Jeff Swensen / Getty Images Human drivers were forced to take control of Uber’s self driving cars about once per mile driven in early March during testing in Arizona, according to an internal performance report obtained by BuzzFeed News. The report reveals for the first time how Uber’s self-driving…

Russian hackers working with Russian spies didn't crack Yahoo security all at once. Instead, according to an account offered by U.S. officials, they methodically made their way deeper into Yahoo's network over the space of months — maybe years. That allowed them to forge technological skeleton keys…

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a damn good video game , but still. Here is a bad thing about it: I don’t like that for the first 10-20 hours of the game its weapons disintegrate just by looking at them. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild : The Kotaku Review The Legend of Zelda:…

Send us a Letter Have an opinion about this story? Click here to submit a Letter to the Editor , and we may publish it in print. UPDATED: 3/13/17 8:03 am ET -- adds details JERUSALEM -- U.S. chip giant Intel has agreed to buy Israeli autonomous-driving technology company Mobileye in a deal valued at…

Breath of the Wild is an amazing game, but I do have some gripes with it. My biggest annoyance has to be the rain, an entity that has caused me more pain and suffering than Ganon’s evil forces. Estimating conservatively from my ~60 hours of playtime, I’d say it pours more often in Hyrule than in…

Image: Vertu Vertu, a company best known for making $10,000 Android phones (running software from 2014) and $190 USB cables , is somehow still in business. And even more astoundingly, someone is still interested in what it has to offer. According to the Daily Telegraph , the company that makes…

Apple is expected to announce new products later this month, most likely between Monday, March 20 and Friday, March 24, according to reputable supply chain analysts we spoke to who wish to remain anonymous. The research firm did not disclose which products it expects Apple to announce, but rumors…

Gaming Tech Sony by Chaim Gartenberg @cgartenberg Mar 13, 2017, 3:29pm EDT Sony announced today that it’s expanding its PlayStation Now streaming service to include current-generation PS4 games . Currently the service lets players stream legacy PlayStation 3 games to PS4s and PCs for a $19.99…

JERUSALEM Chipmaker Intel ( INTC.O ) has agreed to buy Israeli technology firm Mobileye ( MBLY.N ) for $14-$15 billion dollars, according to TheMarker, one of Israel's leading financial newspapers. The companies will announce the deal later on Monday, TheMarker reported on its website. Mobileye is a…

The Galaxy S8 is supposed to be officially unveiled in just over two weeks, but we already know everything there is to know about it thanks to the plethora of leaks that hit the web recently. But a new report explains why the Galaxy S8 will not be able to match its biggest rival this year when it…

Samsung Samsung issued press invites to its Unpacked event, which will take place on March 29. Samsung's Unpacked events are when the company usually announces its new Galaxy smartphones. Last month, we had 17 rumors, and we've updated this month's list with two new rumors and a few new updates to…

Share this with Copy this link http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39246810 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has unveiled a plan to tackle data abuse and fake news. In an open letter to mark the…

Anthony Levandowski left Google in February 2016 to start his own self-driving truck company, Otto. He sold it to Uber for $680 million six months later. Ramin Rahimian for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Waymo, the self-driving car business spun out of Google’s parent company last year, asked a…

Home IT Strategy Collaboration News Google introduced a rebuilt Hangouts for the enterprise and added features to its G Suite productivity apps at Google Cloud Next. Thank you Your message has been sent. Sorry There was an error emailing this page. Senior Writer, CIO | Credit: Google SAN FRANCISCO…

Dozens of high-profile flagship smartphones will be released in 2017 but truth be told, there are really only a handful of upcoming new devices that consumers at large actually care about. Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 will be big towards the end of the year, and some people are anxiously awaiting…

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild manages to be both massive and unusually detailed. The sprawl of Hyrule will take weeks or even months for most of us to explore, not just because of its square mileage but because of how much there is to see and do in a given field or forest. I’ve played…

A little over a year ago, the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued draft regulations that would have put the kibosh on autonomous vehicles without a human driver , such as Google’s steering wheel-less prototype . Today, the agency reversed itself, putting out proposed rules that would not…

The downside of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe , a $60 kart-racer due out April 28 for the Nintendo Switch, is that it's mostly the game Wii U owners already played in 2014. But the upsides are noteworthy. It's still arguably the best Mario Kart Nintendo has yet made. And only 8 million people played it by way…

Welcome to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Silicon Valley and the CIA might need some more counseling sessions. The shaky relationship between the spy agency and the tech industry had been improving, at least until WikiLeaks jumped in, according to former CIA…

If you know anything about Google’s messaging strategy in the last few years, you know that it’s been a bit of a mess. Allo, the consumer app, launched without the cross-platform features users expect. Text messaging on mobile is mired in inter-carrier warfare. And Hangouts has become a punchline.…

How do WikiLeaks' CIA hacking claims differ from Snowden NSA? After the release of thousands of alleged CIA documents by WikiLeaks, tech companies like Apple and Samsung have responded. But how do the WikiLeaks claims differ from what Edward Snowden exposed about the NSA mass surveillance program?…

The publication by WikiLeaks of documents it says are from the CIA’s secret hacking program describe tools that can turn a world of increasingly networked, camera- and microphone-equipped devices into eavesdroppers. Smart televisions and automobiles now have on-board computers and microphones,…

WASHINGTON Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks on Tuesday published what it said were thousands of pages of internal CIA discussions about hacking techniques used over several years, renewing concerns about the security of consumer electronics and embarrassing yet another U.S. intelligence agency. The…

Snap Inc. Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan uses his mobile phone on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during his company's IPO, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in New York. (Photo: Richard Drew, AP) LOS ANGELES — Day 3 for Snap, Inc. on Wall Street wasn't as rosy as the first two. The newly issued…

"Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" is a rare treat that comes along every decade or so — a game that moves the entire medium forward. Nintendo It's receiving near-universal praise from critics — reviews aggregation site Metacritic lists the game with a 98/100 average score, based on 67 reviews.…

Summary Nintendo is Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Network Effects Favor Powerful Rival Consoles from Sony and Microsoft At Home While Nintendo's Traditional Stronghold in Mobile Hardware Erodes. Nintendo's Loyal Fan base Is Not Large Enough to Sustain Nintendo's Hardware and Valuation Alone, As…

Friday, 3 March 2017 | MYT 10:00 AM Can Snapchat visionary keep the app cool? Control freak or visionary?: The venture capitalists who have invested US$3bil (RM13.34bil) in Snapchat throughout the last five years view Spiegel as a sort of youth translator and millennial whisperer, but analysts…

Page 3 of 3 Gordon Mah Ung AMD's Ryzen 7 series features 8 cores and 16 threads of performance. Gaming performance Let’s move on to what may be the second most important category for the Ryzen: gaming. That’s pretty much where the Ryzen story goes from incredible performance per dollar to…

AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is the cloud computing wing of Amazon. (Photo: Amazon) SAN FRANCISCO — Portions of Amazon Web Services, the nation's largest cloud computing company, went offline Tuesday afternoon, affecting millions of companies across the United States . "This is a pretty big outage,"…

YouTube It's been rumored for a long time now , but YouTube has just officially announced its entry into streaming live TV. YouTube TV will let you access live and recorded content from major networks both broadcast and on cable. All of this will be coupled alongside YouTube's existing content, and…

By every account, the iPhone 8 is going to be a big deal. If the rumors are to be believed, it will be a bezel-less, button-free monster of a smartphone, coming to raid our bank accounts and our free time. That’s all well and good, but a new Wall Street Journal report has everyone freaked out over a…