Hackers didn’t use to bother with Apple. There were simply more users and vulnerabilities to exploit on Windows and Android. But that’s starting to change with the rising popularity of Apple products.
For most Apple Watch owners, hands-free control means calling on Siri to take care of simple tasks. But according to a new survey, close to half of them admit they’ve used their noses to interact with the smartwatch.
Given skyrocketing home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area, it shouldn’t be any surprise that software engineers here are offered higher salaries than anywhere else in the US.
Just a day after Yahoo said it was scrapping plans to spin off its stake in Alibaba and will now attempt a complicated ”reverse” spin of its core business, CEO Marissa Mayer announced in a tweet Thursday (Dec. 10) that she’s given birth to identical twin girls.
Apple is planning to take the wraps off the second-generation Apple Watch in March 2016, according to a new report from 9to5 Mac.
After that long and tumultuous journey, it appears that Yahoo has given up on its plans to spin off its stake in Alibaba, CNBC reports.
Here’s a chart showing the total number of downloads on iOS and Android for Slingshot, Facebook’s Snapchat copycat app:
The US Postal Service is testing a “notification” service that emails customers images of the envelopes of their letter-size mail.
Research firm IDC has unofficially crowned the Big Three in wearables: Fitbit, Apple, and Xiaomi.
This we know: The next billion people who are coming online will do so from cheap, mobile phones. While the cost of phone service is falling globally, fixed broadband—typically more reliable and faster than cellular connections—is actually becoming more expensive in the poorest countries.
Welcoming his new daughter to the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday (Dec. 1) that he and his wife Priscilla Chan plan to donate 99% of their shares in the social network to a new philanthropic foundation they created.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, welcomed their newborn daughter, Max, today with—what else—a Facebook post. More surprising was the news the post contained: The couple announced that they’ll donate 99% of their shares in Facebook, worth about $45 billion, to a new foundation they’ve created to “promote equality for all children in the next generation.”
Robotic cars are hitting the race track next year.
When you take a step back, it’s quite a feat that Marissa Mayer has stayed at Yahoo for so long. Before she took over as CEO in 2012, the beleaguered internet company had cycled through six CEOs in six years.
Nov. 25, 2am, ET: This article was updated with information about McDonald’s activities earlier that evening.
Christmas morning 2015 is going to be terrifying. Up to a million people—many of them children—are going to find drones under the tree, gifted to them by well-intentioned relatives who have no clue how dangerous these flying lawnmowers can be.
Amazon’s new tablet is so cheap that you can buy six of them for less than the price of one iPad mini.
Before fussing with your parents’ printer or router this Thanksgiving, there’s a much more important task that you—the family tech support by virtue of being a “computer person”—should help them take care of: enabling two-factor authentication.
The daily fantasy sports business is in trouble.
The next frontier of space travel is coming.
Way to set an example.
Much has been said about unicorns, the nickname given to startups that investors value at $1 billion or more. While these unicorns exist all over the world, the focus has disproportionately been on Silicon Valley: Uber ($50 billion), Airbnb ($25 billion), Pinterest ($11 billion), to name a few.
Thank goodness women have Apple Music to help them find songs online. It’s so easy to be overwhelmed by the millions of tracks available on streaming services, you know?
Kickstarter projects have gained a reputation for overpromising and underdelivering. But one high-profile campaign—considered Europe’s most successful in terms of dollars raised—isn’t delivering at all.
