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Microsoft, GM, Cruise Partner on Self-Driving Cars 2021-01-20 07:00:00A strategic partnership with Microsoft was announced Tuesday by General Motors and Cruise aimed at speeding up the commercialization of shared self-dr

Search Milestone Gives DuckDuckGo Something to Quack About 2021-01-19 07:00:00DuckDuckGo reached a significant milestone last week when it racked up more than 100 million searches in a single day. While still a paltry number com

CES 2021: What Worked, What Didn't 2021-01-18 07:00:00We still seem to do these remote activities as we did when we met in person. Streaming and video conferencing tools we are using still don't allow us

Young Entrepreneurs Bring High Tech to Quell Surgical 2021-01-14 10:00:00The last thing George Kramb expected from years of walking surgeons through actual operations using medical machinery was to step into a role that hel

Americans Balking at Buying Smart Home Devices 2021-01-13 08:23:00Smart devices, the cornerstone of the home of the future, can't seem to capture the imagination or open the wallets of a large number of Americans. S

The Critical Role of High-Tech R&D in the 2021-01-12 10:45:00Maintaining and increasing research and development spending in the COVID-19 era is critical for high technology vendors to deliver new solutions and

PC Market Upswing Accelerates in Q4 2020 2021-01-12 07:15:00The PC market ended 2020 with a big bang, as shipments during the final quarter rose 25 percent over the same period in 2019, according to a report by

Virtual CES 2021-01-11 07:00:00This year, due to COVID restrictions, CES is all digital. Let's talk about what you'll see at the show, and what might make an event like CES work b

Scientists Press AI Researchers for Transparency 2021-01-08 14:14:51An international group of scientists is demanding scientific journals demand more transparency from researchers in computer-related areas when accepti

Cloud Security Practices Playing Into Hands of Attackers 2021-01-07 09:00:00More than 80 percent of 650 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed by Check Point Software Technologies in July said their traditional security s

Cut the Cord to Trim Your TV Viewing 2021-01-05 11:00:00For the majority of consumers, cutting the cable TV cord is a mixed bag for a variety of reasons. The big misconception is that you will drastically l

New Qualcomm Chip Opens Door to $125 5G 2021-01-05 07:11:00A new mobile processor announced by Qualcomm Technologies is expected to spawn a wave of economically priced 5G smartphones. Kedar Kondap, vice presid

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Best gaming laptops: Know what to look for 2021-01-26 17:33:00There are great gaming laptops available now (even as pandemic-fueled sales remain strong), and you can see our tested favorites below. But if you yea

The best laptops: Premium laptops, budget laptops, 2-in-1s, 2021-01-26 17:31:00There are great laptops available now (as pandemic-fueled sales remain strong), and you can see our tested favorites below. But if you yearn for the l

Report: Surface Laptop 4's major change will just 2021-01-26 13:44:00Microsoft’s next-gen Surface Laptop 4 will follow Microsoft’s recent trend of upgrading internal components more often than external featu

Intel's debut Iris Xe graphics cards are headed 2021-01-26 12:50:00Either the GPU shortage really is that bad, or maybe Intel’s DG1 is really that good, because the company announced Tuesday morning that its fir

Ryzen 5000 mobile review: AMD wins big in 2021-01-26 09:00:00AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 mobile CPU has arrived with a bang. Its predecessor, Ryzen 4000, reset the bar for what to expect from laptop performance.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 mobile review: The fastest 2021-01-26 09:00:00The only real problem with Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30-series laptops is its stunning RTX 30-series desktop cousins.No matter how impressively f

Vacos Cam review: This promising security camera is 2021-01-26 06:00:00Slow load times, video playback problems, and cloud connectivity issues plague this battery-powered security camera.

Apple VP Dan Riccio to focus on ‘new 2021-01-25 18:48:00Apple announce that Dan Riccio, senior VP of hardware engineering, will be leaving his position to focus on a 'new project' and report directly to C

Apple launches ‘Time to Walk’ for Fitness+ with 2021-01-25 09:57:00Apple has launched a new component of its Fitness+ service designed to get people walking.

Why your browser's password manager isn't good enough 2021-01-25 06:30:00Back in the day, conventional wisdom said to never store your passwords in your browsers. That’s not true anymore. Modern browsers are much more

Corsair's new mid-tower cases make personalizing a PC 2021-01-25 06:00:00Back in September, Corsair launched its 4000 series—three new compact mid-tower cases that shared the same design and only varied in terms of fr

D-Link Outdoor Wi-Fi Smart Plug review: D-Link brings 2021-01-25 06:00:00The question is, is it worth paying a lot more to get an outdoor USB charging port?

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E-Bikes Are Taking Off—But We Need to Make 2021-01-22 17:04:51'If you want people to ride bikes, it can’t just be about safety'

We Need a Fundamental Reset.’ Shoshana Zuboff on 2021-01-22 15:10:37The author discusses how we can regulate the murky world of big tech platforms

Big Tech’s Business Model Is a Threat to 2021-01-22 15:09:48Under President Biden, tech reform will take on a new urgency

Google Threatens to Pull Out of Australia Over 2021-01-22 04:10:09The rules proposed by the government aims to make Google and Facebook pay Australian media companies fairly for using news content

Why Amazon’s Move to Drop Parler Is a 2021-01-21 15:06:09The episode reveals the immense power held by Amazon's AWS and rival cloud services

People Have Turned Bernie Sanders’ Inauguration Fashion Into 2021-01-21 14:20:19Creatives evolved "Bernie Sanders in a Chair" beyond the confines of a normal meme

Want to Stop the Next Crisis? Teaching Cyber 2021-01-21 12:47:29"We need a sustained national effort if we are to prepare our citizens, both young and otherwise, for ‘life on-line’ in today’s soc

Twitter Suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Election 2021-01-18 02:16:15Greene gained large followings on social media in part by posting incendiary videos and comments and has also embraced QAnon

What if the Web Looked More Like Wikipedia? 2021-01-15 10:10:03Wikipedia, which celebrates its 20th birthday on Jan. 15, lives on—and it's not just surviving, but thriving.

In These Tumultuous Times, Sea Shanty TikToks Have 2021-01-13 17:54:11In centuries past, these call-and-response work songs maintained a ship crew's focus on safely navigating often dangerous waters

Twitter Permanently Suspends President Donald Trump’s Account 2021-01-08 19:03:27The social media platform announced on Friday evening that it would be permanently suspending it "due to the risk of further incitement of violence"

Facebook and Twitter Finally Locked Donald Trump’s Accounts. 2021-01-07 07:34:16The events at the Capitol seemed a glaring sign that the risk to democracy was finally greater than the necessity of giving a sitting President a plat

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Apple just had its best quarter in India 2021-01-26 18:00:58When Apple reports its earnings on Wednesday, you can expect mentions of India on the call. Apple shipped more than 1.5 million iPhone units in India

ClassDojo’s second act comes with first profits 2021-01-26 17:27:52ClassDojo’s first eight years as an edtech consumer startup could look like failure: zero revenue; no paid users; and a team that hasn’t a

The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a 2021-01-26 16:33:17First-time entrepreneurs are bound to make some major mistakes. The true measure of a serial entrepreneur, I’d submit, is the ability to recogni

‘Anti-superficial’ dating app S’More raises $2.1M 2021-01-26 16:29:27S’More, a dating app that’s focused on helping users find more meaningful relationships, announced today that it has raised $2.1 million i

Apple says iOS 14.4 fixes three security bugs 2021-01-26 15:29:10Apple has released iOS 14.4 with security fixes for three vulnerabilities, said to be under active attack by hackers. The technology giant said in its

Tweetbot 6 released with new subscription pricing 2021-01-26 15:02:04Tapbots, the company behind Tweetbot, has released a major update for the iPhone and iPad. Tweetbot 6 is now available in the App store. While there a

Sony tempts professionals with the top-shelf, top-tier Alpha 2021-01-26 14:39:21Sony is making a play for the top end of the professional digital camera world, where videographers and sports photographers demand immaculate image q

Get feedback on your pitch deck from tech 2021-01-26 14:34:58Extra Crunch Live 2.0 launches next week! Among several improvements, we’re thrilled to ramp up the Pitch Deck Teardown. In short, folks can sub

Mealco raises $7M to launch new delivery-centric restaurants 2021-01-26 14:14:28Mealco, a startup promising to help chefs launch new restaurants designed around delivery, is announcing that it has raised $7 million in seed funding

Twitter’s new API platform now opened to academic 2021-01-26 14:00:58Twitter today is rolling out a new product track on its API platform, as part of its ongoing efforts to rebuild the Twitter API from the ground up. Th

These investors want to back ‘ridiculously early’ female-led 2021-01-26 13:59:58In 2019, female-led companies received less than 5 percent of the global venture capital. Bringing it to Africa, only 10 percent of the West African s

Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as 2021-01-26 13:33:53As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects

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Live Updates: Left-wing activist charged in Capitol riot 2021-01-18 00:07:15John Sullivan, 26, recorded an up-close video of a woman’s fatal shooting during the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

New Navy destroyer-fired laser will change maritime war 2021-01-17 15:03:50When the Navy is ready to deploy a new 60kw ship-fired laser weapon from a destroyer later this year, maritime attack strategy and tactics will enter

Navy to deploy destroyers with new laser attack 2021-01-17 14:02:10Navy destroyers will soon be armed with high-powered, precision 60kw laser weapons that can track and incinerate attacking drone targets at sea, bring

Signal messaging service back up after outage caused 2021-01-17 07:56:03Secure messaging service Signal is back up and running after suffering an outage caused by a surge in demand.

Parler CEO: 'No indication' Big Tech shutdown threats 2021-01-17 07:09:12Big Tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google gave no indication to upstart social media platform Parler until the very last moment that their threats to p

15 smart products to help you kick your 2021-01-17 06:00:16A new year always brings a fresh start, and we can all use that after 2020. The stressful year might have even left you with a few new not-so-great ha

LIVE UPDATES: North Dakota bill would allow lawsuits 2021-01-17 02:22:34Follow below for updates on Big Tech censorship.

LIVE UPDATES: Parler CEO forced into hiding, court 2021-01-16 01:03:58Follow for the latest updates on big tech censorship.

Ari Fleischer slams Twitter's Dorsey for continuing to 2021-01-15 15:14:51Fox News contributor and former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer did not hold back Friday in his criticism of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, w

Live Updates: Leaked recording of Dorsey suggests Twitter 2021-01-15 01:05:04Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently defended the platform's decision to permanently suspend President Trump's account.

Army says 'sky's the limit' with new armored 2021-01-14 18:01:10The sky may be the limit, regarding U.S. Army thinking about what its new armored infantry carrier might be in terms of shape, size, weapons, armor co

Big Tech giants need to ‘work together’ to 2021-01-14 17:00:02The former Google consultant made the comments after social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook banned President Trump’s account after the

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Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through 2021-01-25 21:06:48

Rejoice! Amazon’s new app icon isn’t just a 2021-01-25 20:39:14

Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are 2021-01-25 20:00:00

Grindr fined $11.7 million for illegally sharing private 2021-01-25 19:57:05

Amnesty International calls for a ban on facial 2021-01-25 19:01:00

Facebook’s News tab comes to UK in first 2021-01-25 19:01:00

Apple has a new head of hardware engineering 2021-01-25 17:32:00

Biden wants to replace government fleet with electric 2021-01-25 17:19:23

Amazon’s Alexa can now act on its own 2021-01-25 17:10:12

Nerf’s new blasters curve their shots a la 2021-01-25 17:01:25

8BitDo’s Arcade Stick is a sleek and stylish 2021-01-25 08:47:21

Microsoft mocks Apple’s doomed Touch Bar in new 2021-01-25 07:48:47

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Galaxy S21 Ultra packs Samsung’s new low-power OLED 2021-01-26 17:59:42Samsung has announced a low-power OLED display for smartphones, the same one found in the company’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra handset. The company sa

Plex’s new Arcade feature brings classic games to 2021-01-26 16:58:18Plex, the home media center software for users who prefer to avoid streaming services, has added a major new feature that it says it had been thinking

Chrome OS M88 update adds two features you’ll 2021-01-26 16:15:04Google is shipping out some new ease-of-use features to Chrome OS today, and they’re specifically targeted at making Chromebook usage as “

Polk Audio React soundbar with Alexa built-in is 2021-01-26 16:06:16Polk Audio has introduced React, a soundbar with Alexa made for home theaters. The model packs a bunch of high-end features, as well as support for &l

One by Wacom display-free tablet and stylus gets 2021-01-26 15:19:43Chromebook owners can now use the One by Wacom tablet and stylus with their Chrome OS device without first installing drivers, the company has announc

RTX 3070, 3090, Radeon GPUs restocked in latest 2021-01-26 14:50:52If you’re looking for some hard-to-find PC gaming hardware at the moment (as so many people seem to be), then you might want to have a look at N

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Festivale event update revealed 2021-01-26 14:06:10Nintendo announced today that a new update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is on the way. This one seems a bit smaller than some of the other update

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Amazon fight over internet 2021-01-26 13:58:01Amazon and SpaceX have found themselves in a space battle, with both companies accusing the other of trying to sabotage their satellite internet plans

iOS 14.4 and WatchOS 7.3 released to the 2021-01-26 13:53:51Today your iPhone may have access to the newest in iOS software, iOS 14.4. This new software upgrade for your device has access to a collection of new

Pepsi teams with Beyond Meat – here’s why 2021-01-26 13:26:57Today PepsiCo and Beyond Meat teamed up to announce a newly created entity “The PLANeT Partnership, LLC (TPP).” Financial terms of this pa

It’s a PS5 restock war and the scalpers 2021-01-26 12:56:50As the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X continue to sell out immediately – seemingly the moment new stock is listed – there’s a lot o

Huge internet outage affects Google, Verizon, Zoom and 2021-01-26 12:38:40A huge internet outage is wreaking havoc on US East Coast connectivity, with Google, Zoom, Verizon, and other services all seeing considerable issues

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Coal-dependent West Virginia gets a $200 million wind 2021-01-26 17:44:31 West Virginia is getting a 115 MW wind farm, which will increase the state’s wind power by 15%. Here’s why that’s a really big deal

Quick Charge Podcast: January 26, 2021 2021-01-26 17:01:17 Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn a

Tesla Roadsters are already starting to gain in 2021-01-26 15:13:48 Tesla Roadsters are already starting to gain in value, according to some recent auctions, and some owners are trying to push the price of the early e

How to test drive a Tesla during the 2021-01-26 15:02:00 Perhaps you’ve seen Tesla’s recent market cap soar over $850 billion. Maybe you’ve been reading about the long rumored refreshes co

Green Deals: RYOBI 18-inch 40V Electric Lawn Mower 2021-01-26 13:03:49 Home Depot offers the RYOBI 18-inch 40V Cordless Electric Walk Behind Lawn Mower for $199 shipped. As a comparison, it typically goes for $

Tesla, BMW, FCA amongst top beneficiaries of $3.5 2021-01-26 11:02:26 The European Union announced the beneficiaries of a new 2.9 billion euros ($3.5 billion) fund to support battery production projects for el

EGEB: First major US offshore wind farm asks 2021-01-26 10:43:15 The Trump administration canceled federal permits for Vineyard Wind 1, and its developers have asked the Biden administration for a reboot. Zinc-ion

Tesla integrated dashcam caught road-raging driver firing gun 2021-01-26 09:40:06 TeslaCam, Tesla’s integrated dashcam feature using Autopilot camera, caught a road-raging driver shoot live rounds at a Model 3 electric car on

FREY unveils new 1,800W electric mountain bike with 2021-01-26 09:32:23 Electric mountain bike maker FREY has long championed high-power and high-spec electric mountain bikes. But the company’s newest model, the FRE

Tesla (TSLA) Q4 2020 earnings preview: Brace yourself 2021-01-26 06:11:28 Tesla (TSLA) is set to announce its fourth-quarter 2020 and full-year financial results tomorrow, January 27, after the markets close. As usual, a co

NIU electric scooter hits 150 mph – vertically 2021-01-26 04:16:40 The fastest speed I’ve reached on my own NIU electric scooter is just shy of 50 mph (80 km/h). But JT Holmes has tripled my best effort –

Quick Charge Podcast: January 25, 2021 2021-01-25 18:38:14 Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn a