iOS 11 is the most ambitious software update from Apple in a very, very long time. It’s ambitious because it’s packed with so many new features and technologies that it will be impossible for me to cover them all here. It’s ambitious because those new features will be going out to over a billion…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium NEXT satellite telephone relay stations streaks toward space after launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles. The flight came just two days after SpaceX launched a Bulgarian satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX…

June 2017 Security Patch Hitting Galaxy Note 4 On AT&T June 25, 2017 - Written By AT&T started rolling out the June Android Security Update to all Samsung Galaxy Note 4 units on its network, as revealed by the wireless carrier’s official support pages for the device. The second largest mobile…

Google will stop its long-standing practice of scanning the contents of individual Gmail users for advertising purposes, according to a report from the Financial Times . The practice, something Google has done nearly since the launch of its email service, allows the company to digest the contents of…

Google is launching a new, more limited cinematic VR format that it hopes will be almost as accessible as regular YouTube videos. It’s called VR180 , a collaboration between YouTube and Google’s Daydream VR division. And it’ll be produced with a new line of cameras from Yi, Lenovo, and LG, as well…

“Making the world more open and connected” had one fundamental flaw: it didn’t push for any specific positive outcome from more connection. Technically, it could encompass digital voyeurism via the News Feed, trading in-person friendship for online acquaintanceship or the filter bubbles and…

Travis Kalanick in 2016. Wang K'aichicn/VCG, via Getty Images Many people in Silicon Valley believe that the way to be successful is to “move fast and break things.” Sometimes they end up breaking the very businesses they created, as anybody involved with Uber now knows. There’s a cautionary message…

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The Bixby button on the side of Samsung’s fantastic Galaxy S8 is finally getting its most important feature: voice support. The company has started rolling out an update to enable Bixby Voice for Galaxy S8 and S8+ owners in the United States who signed up to test Samsung’s rival to Google Assistant,…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Virgin is going all-in on the iPhone. Apple Just a week after it started giving away a year’s worth of “unlimited” data for next to nothing , Sprint has launched more hyper-aggressive moves — this time for its prepaid brand Virgin Mobile. Virgin Mobile on Wednesday…

Sega exited the video game console business nearly 20 years ago, but the company still retains some of the industry’s most iconic characters and beloved classic catalogs. That explains why Sega decided to put resources toward an all-new initiative it’s calling Sega Forever. Announced earlier this…

Steve Jobs showing off an iPad. Getty Images News MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — You might think a product as revolutionary as Apple's iPhone might have been born out of some unique insight or high-minded feeling. You would be wrong. According to Scott Forstall, the iPhone's co-inventor, the roots of…

Kia's new Niro crossover was top small SUV (Photo: Greg Jarem) For a second straight year, Kia has taken the top spot in one of the auto industry's most closely watched quality survey. The company is part of South Korean conglomerate Hyundai, and, as if to underscore its success, another Hyundai…

What happened Shares of Advanced Micro Devices surged on Wednesday following the company's Tuesday afternoon unveiling of its EPYC server processors. Some positive analyst commentary added fuel to the fire. AMD stock was up about 9.2% at 3 p.m. EDT. So what EPYC, formerly known under the code name…

Tim Cook at a December meeting with other tech execs and then President-Elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower. AP Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to push for strong encryption when he attends a meeting at the White House on Monday, Axios reports . Cook will join several other heavy hitters in the tech…

Amazon's newest gadget is a battery-powered, voice-enabled grocery scanner called the Dash Wand. Point it at a barcode and press the button to add that item to your Amazon shopping cart when you're running low, or press and hold to ask Alexa to add it. She'll even talk back to you through the…

Gatherers at a vigil for the victims of an attack on London Bridge this month. One of the attackers is said to have become radicalized by watching YouTube videos of an American Islamic preacher. Daniel Leal-Olivas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images OAKLAND, Calif. — YouTube has struggled for years…

NEW YORK (AP) - Can Amazon, the company that persuaded people to buy ever more items online, win enough of them over to having their fresh groceries arrive in an Amazon box? Going full throttle into groceries by announcing a $13.7 billion deal for Whole Foods on Friday, Amazon gets the advantage of…

Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods has some asking the question: Who will Amazon acquire next? "I wouldn't be surprised if we see big acquisitions in media from [Amazon]," said ex-Yahoo Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn told CNBC. "If you're Jeff Bezos and you just saw a $14 billion purchase just yield a…

Amazon, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant, is set to buy healthy supermarket chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, Amazon confirmed on Friday. The company will pay $42 per share for Whole Foods, representing a 27 percent premium on its current share price of $33. Shares of Whole Foods were halted…

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Jeff Bezos, shown here at the Satellite 2017 conference in March, is now buying ready-made goodwill. Mark Wilson / Getty Images Jeff Bezos likes to say he thinks long term. He sees a future world taken over…

Microsoft’s recent Surface launches have been well-regarded by reviewers. While some devices are more niche than others, both the Surface Studio and the Surface Laptop have won accolades for being well-built hardware with strong attention to detail and very solid features. It’s therefore surprising…

After unboxing the new Surface Pro , it's natural to wonder what changes, if any, Microsoft made to its Windows tablet-laptop hybrid. It looks and feels a lot like its predecessor, the Surface Pro 4, which has been on market since the fall of 2015, which is an eternity in this industry which is…

The cloud is a vast place, limited only by how much you're willing to pay to store your backups, photos, and other essential files. But once you find the perfect cloud storage solution , you still have to solve the problem of how to upload all your stuff. Google aims to make that process more…

It didn’t take long for Uber to jeopardize whatever goodwill the company had earned by announcing a series of new initiatives aimed at increasing the hiring and retention of women and minorities. On Tuesday afternoon, the company published a series of initiatives it would be implementing to make the…

The Uber board member who made a sexist remark during today’s meeting about the prevalence of sexism within the company has resigned from his position. David Bonderman’s resignation from Uber’s board was first announced by The New York Times , and confirmed in a statement by Bonderman himself, in…

Uber has a lot of rebuilding to do. On Tuesday, the embattled startup released the recommendations from a months-long investigation into its corporate culture. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hired to conduct the probe after a former engineer named Susan Fowler claimed the company…

Enlarge / Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a PlayStation can. Sony/Insomniac/Marvel Sony concluded one of the least surprising PlayStation E3 conferences in recent memory with a pretty clutch closer: Spiderman . The PlayStation-exclusive superhero game from Insomniac Games now has a launch window…

At E3 on Sunday, Microsoft finally pulled back the curtain on its secretive Project Scorpio hardware, which is now known as the Xbox One X. At $499, it will be the premium option in the Xbox lineup, delivering more power than any console before it when it launches on Nov. 7. That includes Sony's PS4…

Microsoft made good on its promise to reveal all the key details about Project Scorpio during its E3 press conference today. We got an official name, a price, and a release date: the Xbox One X , as it’s called, will start at $499 and will start shipping on November 7th. In a demo room following the…

Travis Kalanick is facing yet another moment of reckoning. Just three months after Uber’s CEO pledged to his employees that he would “grow up” and get the “leadership help” he needed, Kalanick may take a leave of absence from the embattled ridesharing company, according to multiple reports . The…

During the production of Mass Effect: Andromeda, BioWare was working on a semi-secret new game, which was finally revealed today at EA's 2017 E3 show . The teaser is brief (watch it above), and leaves us with lots of questions—many of which we hope will be answered during Microsoft's E3 show on…