The comment period on a proposed set of software export restrictions ends next Monday, and the rules, as written, would severely restrict international sales, deployment, research and even discussion of cybersecurity tools and exploits, experts say. The Wassenaar Arrangement is an international agreement designed to curb the global arms trade. …
One of my favorite features in Google Chrome is the noisy tab indicator and the early trial feature that mutes noisy tabs with one click. Now, that same feature is coming to Mozilla Firefox—or at least, we hope it is. Mozilla developers are actively testing and designing a noise indicator …
Amid calls to accelerate the death of Adobe Flash Player, at least once PC vendor is taking matters into its own hands. System76, a Denver-based vendor of Ubuntu Linux laptops and desktops, has stopped pre-loading Flash on its machines. The company is also strongly recommending that current customers purge Flash …
Many Windows 8.1 users are getting their free upgrade to Windows 10 in the coming weeks, but Surface 2 tablets and other Windows RT slates won’t see an update until September, a Microsoft executive recently said. Even then, the ARM-based tablets won’t be receiving the full glory of Windows 10, but …
Misfit is pushing down the prices of its wearable fitness trackers without sacrificing any smarts. The Misfit Flash, a basic tracker with step counting and sleep tracking, now costs $30, down from $50 previously, while the aluminum-clad Misfit Shine now costs $70 instead of $100. The company also announced a …
We sure didn’t see this one coming! Marshall, known for guitar amps, headphones, and other professional music hardware, now sells its own Android phone. It’s called The London, and it looks to be an impressive piece of kit. The phone is all about music, with two audio jacks, two front-facing speakers, …
If it seems like every social network wants you to buy more stuff, well, you’re not completely off-base. Now those efforts are moving beyond ads into actual buy buttons, with Pinterest and Twitter piloting efforts to let you buy items straight from your main feed. Facebook is putting its own …
One of the largest shipbuilders, Hyundai, is designing a “smart connected ship” with a network of sensors and analytics software to improve port logistics, maintenance and reduce running costs. The sensors and analytics, provided by partner Accenture, will combine real-time location, weather and ocean data with historical fleet information. It …
Your superhero dreams will have to be put on hold just a bit longer. According to a leaked email obtained by Kotaku Australia, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight—you know, the one so bad it was pulled from Steam indefinitely—will not be fixed until at least September. Actually, the …
When a faux paper invite hits your email inbox that usually means one thing: time for another smartphone announcement. It’s Motorola’s turn on July 28 to finally show us…something. Probably the next Moto G, and maybe more. While the announcement about the announcement didn’t specifically name any devices, the fact …
Voicemail performance is still a fragmented mess on Android because each manufacturer designs their own dialer app, and each carrier builds its own visual voicemail app. But it looks like Google will try to fix this with Android M. A screenshot spotted by Android Police shows an elegant, Material Design-style …
Samsung has added a new model to its 2015 4K TV lineup, the bulk of which it began shipping in April. Based on the same Tizen smart-TV platform that powers the rest of the range, the new SUHD JS7000 is among the South Korean company’s more affordable ultra-HD offerings. The …
Even if you’ve never heard of or used Flipagram, you’ve seen products of the social app scattered around your social networks. That flipbook of vacation photos that your old high school best friend posted on Instagram? That’s Flipagram’s work. Stitched-together video clips from camp that your kid shared to Facebook? …
For years, Amazon.com has been the e-commerce God of Uptime Stability. Other e-tailers — including some much larger ones — have taken serious hits on Black Friday and Cyber Monday or have been taken offline by DDoS attacks, but Amazon has never suffered any meaningful outages. But did that impressive record …
Google’s stock jumped more than 7 percent in the after-market hours on Thursday, after the company reported strong earnings results for the second quarter. Total income for the period ended June 30 was $3.93 billion, up 17 percent from $3.35 billion in the second quarter of 2014, Google announced Thursday. …
Want to harness the power of business intelligence but don’t have a six-figure budget to build a data warehouse? Why not try a cloud service instead? Israel-based CoolaData is promising to ease the headaches, and start-up costs, of running a data warehouse with a cloud-based analysis service, one based on …
Facebook, owner of virtual reality gaming company Oculus, has inked a deal to buy gesture-control and computer-vision company Pebbles Interfaces. Facebook announced that it will add the Israel-based company, its technology and its team to its Oculus team. Pebbles, a five-year-old company, stated on its website that joining Oculus should …
In a revival tent-like speech Wednesday, Microsoft’s chief operations officer Kevin Turner urged the company’s partners to forget the past — an allusion to the failure of its smartphone business to gain meaningful share — but defended the decision to keep making handsets. “It feels so good, ladies and gentlemen, …
IBM has developed a computer system that can learn about weather from thousands of data points and predict days — even weeks — in advance how much power from solar and wind farms will be available for the U.S. power grid. The new system is as much as 30% more …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Pennsylvania attorney with insider trading in the stock of Harleysville Group, Inc. in advance of the 2011 announcement of a $760 million merger of Harleysville and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. According to the SEC’s complaint, Herbert K. Sudfeld illegally traded on the …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a purported investment adviser in San Diego with stealing money from clients for personal use and conducting a Ponzi scheme to pay customers making redemption requests. In a complaint filed in federal court in San Diego, the SEC alleges that Paul Lee Moore …
Technology only goes mainstream when the costs finally get low enough. You might think Apple rules in the smartphone and smartwatch space, but the truth is that there are way more Android devices sold all over the world because they are cheaper. Sometimes, they even work. (Many people tend to …
Online shoppers on Wednesday ordered more than 34 million items on Amazon Prime Day, making it a bigger sales day for the retailer than the biggest Black Friday in history. Prime customers ordered 398 items per second during Wednesday’s sale, which was held to mark the 20th birthday of Amazon.com. …
Cybercriminals are casting increasingly wider nets in their search for new point-of-sale systems to infect. This appears to be the case with a new memory scraping malware program called GamaPoS that’s distributed by a botnet known as Andromeda. GamaPoS was recently discovered by security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro, …
With every new type of technology, we wade through an awkward phase where everyone tries to figure out what types of usage actually make sense for the form. You know the drill: Usually around the second or third generation of something, we start to see all sorts of silly concepts …
If Microsoft follows through on its announced plans for updating and upgrading Windows 10 after the new OS launches in two weeks, it will issue the first update no later than the end of November or early December, then follow with three more in 2016, repeating with a trio each …