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Oh noes: The Apple iPhone 6s will be bigger than today's iPhone. Confirming previous mutterings, photographs from China show an iPhablet that's taller, fatter and wider than before.

I’ve followed the autonomous car market for the past decade, and there’s one troubling problem. If you have ever driven in a car that drives itself, you know the car can be tentative -- and really slow. I remember how someone told me once that, when they went for a drive in a Toyota Prius as part of the Google autonomous car experiment, the car drove like his grandmother.

Voice-activated commands don’t always work. In fact, because of that simple fact, it’s not something that has entered the mainstream. I recently went to the grocery store and noticed multiple people tapping away on their iPhones, but none of them were dictating a text message or even asking Siri about movie showtimes, even though both of those activities work fine (for the most part). If you talk to your phone in public and it doesn’t work, you look stupid. It’s hard to pretend your phone understands you when it doesn’t. Читать дальше...

Uber has tweaked one of the features in its app after it was shown to let sensitive trip data become publicly accessible through Google.

If you wanted to make your dumb home smarter, buy a fancy TV or get on board with the smartwatch craze, the IFA trade show this week was the place to be.

Evolution of iOS

Just as a computer would be useless without an operating system, so would a phone. In 2007, Apple changed the game with the introduction of its smartphone and first-ever mobile operating system.

Auction house Bonhams will put a pristine Apple-1 personal computer on the block later this month, and has pegged the gavel price at between $300,000 and $500,000.

Supporters of a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill will push for the U.S. Senate to pass it this fall, even as some security experts question whether it would be effective.

For the past several weeks an intelligence-gathering campaign has been using fake LinkedIn recruiter profiles to map out the professional networks of IT security experts, researchers from F-Secure have discovered.

BlackBerry has moved further into the mobile device management space by purchasing Good Technology for $425 million.

Mac users of Office who have felt left out in the cold by Microsoft (because the last version, Office 2011 for Mac, was released in October 2010) now have reason to be pleased: The final version of Office 2016 for Mac brings the suite out of the dark ages and into the modern world.

My company’s CEO called me in a panic the other day.

“I think my iPhone may have been hacked,” he said, as I squinted myopically at the clock trying to see what time it was. 7:15 a.m. — time to get up anyway, I thought.

“What makes you think it’s been hacked?” I asked, trying to get my bearings. What day was today? I thought I had a meeting later that morning, but this was no time to get distracted, so I focused my attention on the CEO’s voice.

“It’s been getting really slow over the last week or two,” he said... Читать дальше...

Apple has no shortage of sales runway for its larger iPhones, an analyst argued Thursday, less than a week before the Cupertino, Calif. company will almost certainly unveil new models that look identical to last year's.

Microsoft is planning to bring its internal tool for running hackathons to the public next year, starting by allowing a few select colleges to test drive it at their own events.

In the course of every project, there comes at least one moment when we have to tell our business partners what we need from them to get the job done. More often than not, they bristle at being told what to do. They don’t like being on the receiving end of ultimatums. Who does?

Oh noes: The Apple iPhone 6s will be bigger than today's iPhone. Confirming previous mutterings, photographs from China show a device that's taller, fatter and wider than before.

A dispute between Microsoft and the U.S. government over turning over emails stored in a data center in Ireland comes up for oral arguments in an appeals court in New York on Wednesday.

The H-1B visa program sparks debate on many fronts, but age may be at the heart of the discord: The foreign workers who use the visa to come to the U.S. are overwhelmingly young.

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption.

Manhattan has approximately 47,000 buildings with around 10.7 million windows, according to a 2013 estimate from The New York Times.

This October, Michael Fassbender will join Ashton Kutcher among the actors to have played Steve Jobs. Aaron Sorkin's movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography is one of many dramatizations of the life of Apple's co-founder, who died in 2011.

It's 1996, and this IT manager pilot fish is in a weekly supervision session with his non-technical superior -- which consists of 45 minutes of fish doing his job and trying to ignore the boss.

Chinese time

Fresh data from China suggests Apple may have achieved higher-than-anticipated Apple Watch sales, with over a million in use in China alone.

Chinese app analytics company, TalkingData, claims much use of the Apple wearable in the populous country. The third biggest data platform in China TalkingData carries data regarding nearly 1.8 billion mobile devices, the company said. These figures follow IDC’s earlier estimate of 3.6 million units.

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Mozilla hopes to have its version of Firefox for iOS devices out by year's end as part of its push to grow its share of mobile traffic.

A former Tesla engineer could spend six years in prison for allegedly accessing his former boss's email account and pilfering employee evaluations, which he shared with other workers.