Google to Pay $5.5M to Settle Claims It Hacked Apple's Safari Browser

Google agreed to a settlement on Monday that could finally end the legal fall-out from a scheme by the search giant to circumvent privacy settings on Apple's ...

UK lawmakers say Facebook, Google, and Twitter are 'consciously failing' to fight ISIS online

A committee of UK lawmakers this week said that Facebook, Google, and Twitter are "consciously failing" to combat terrorist propaganda and recruitment on their platforms, escalating an ongoing debate over the role of social media companies in ...

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Immigration: Google Self-Driving Cars Face Competition in Concept The front page of Saturday's San Jose Mercury News had a headline: “For Google, race is on with self-driving cars.” The game has changed with so many players on the field, as various companies have made their intentions known to build a self-driving car.

How to use Google Analytics audience data to make media and marketing decisions

Both Adobe (Marketing Cloud) and Google (360 Analytics) have made big strides in improving their offerings to include tag management, measurement, attribution, optimization and more.

Here's why the EU's war against Google and Facebook could fail

Content exclusivity could enable publishers to charge licensing fees to Google and Facebook. Publishers want these copyrights to live for 50 years, but the EC is considering a window of one to five years due to the transience of news content.

Download Google Duo For Simple, Free Video Calling That Connects Everyone

Now Google is trying to change that with a simple, free app called Google Duo that lets you make video calls to both Android and iPhones.

Microsoft Pix review: iOS photography app uses artificial intelligence to rival Apple's Camera

After the shot, you have options for adjusting saturation, contrast, sharpness, and more. That's in addition to the optional HDR, or Live Picture settings and effects filters.

Microsoft teases what looks like a black Surface Book 2

Generally, you don't see the first spy shots of a new device coming from the company itself, but Microsoft isn't really following all that many of the rules with its Surface lineup of house-built Windows hardware.
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Microsoft Surface Phone 2016 Release Date, Specs, Price: New ...

Rumors about Microsoft's alleged Surface Phone 2016 release date, specs and pricing details are floating ablaze. If new reports are to be believed the highly ...

Apple takes on Snapchat and Spotify

SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON: Tech giant Apple is reportedly developing a video-sharing app that allows users to record video and apply filters or drawings to the content, in much the same way that Snapchat does.

How virtual and augmented reality could play a role in Apple's future

Apple CEO Tim Cook suggests that the company is investigating the possibilities of virtual reality and augmented reality. Here's an explanation of what the technology is, how Apple could adopt it, and how it could be practically implemented in a user's ...

Microsoft (MSFT) news recap: Bing Rewards leaves India, Lenovo pre-loads Microsoft apps, report hate speech and more

Microsoft (MSFT) news recap is a weekly feature highlighting the top Microsoft news stories of the past week. Sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the read!

Is YouTube Google's Answer to Facebook?

Alphabet's Google has a social thinking problem. It sees the world tweeting and making Facebook posts, and it wants in on the action.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Collects $36 Million in Stock Sale

Apple CEO Tim Cook sold $36 million worth of company stock this week, according to a securities filing on Friday. The sale came as Cook just passed his fifth anniversary running the company, lifting the restrictions on 1.26 million shares of stock he'd ...

Is Microsoft Corporation's "One Windows" Dream Dead?

Two years ago, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella presented his vision for a "One Windows" ecosystem, declaring that the Windows PC, Windows Phone, and Xbox platforms would be combined into a "single converged operating system for ...
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Apple Photos vs Google Photos, What's Better?

Nothing is more important to us than our precious digital photos, so keeping them stored safely in the cloud is crucial. The problem is, both Apple and Google have great photo-storage services, and it's hard to know which one is actually better. Here's ...

Primetime: Microsoft's Android Cross Patent Dealings

Lenovo and Microsoft recently announced a collaborative deal that sees Lenovo preinstalling a number of Microsoft's applications onto its Android-powered devices. In addition to installing a number of Microsoft's applications at the factory, which will ...

Microsoft reveals new features in C# 7.0 | InfoWorld

Microsoft is fleshing out details this week of C# 7.0, a planned upgrade to its object-oriented language for the .Net Framework, emphasizing performance and ...

Microsoft issues refunds for purchases tied to soon-to-be-defunct Xbox Fitness

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would be shuttering Xbox Fitness, making all previously purchased content unavailable, but it looks like the company is now trying to make right by users.

Inside Building 87, Microsoft's hidden mad science laboratory

Now, Microsoft has Building 87, a massive complex of laboratories, factory equipment, machine shops, and even the quietest room in the world.

Spotify Is Burying Musicians for Their Apple Deals

Apple's music service has emerged as the largest challenger to Spotify over the past year, signing up more than 15 million subscribers since its debut last June, the company said two months ago.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Will Take a Shot at All-Time Highs

Shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) have rallied about 5% so far in 2016. But in the bigger picture, shares continue to consolidate just below all-time highs from late 1999/early 2000, when Microsoft stock peaked during the so-called ...
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As Apple's 'death cross' turns 1, the stock heads toward a 'golden cross'

The only other time Apple's 50-day moving average stayed below its 200-day moving average for at least a year—from Oct. 9, 1995, to Nov. 21, 1996—the ensuing bullish “golden cross” lasted less than two months, and prices resumed their tumble almost ...
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Alphabet CEO ordered Google Fiber to downsize, report claims

Google Fiber has reportedly fallen "well short" of its goal of signing up 5 million subscribers and may be on the verge of making significant staff cuts.
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Apple's 2017 iPhone will reportedly get rid of iconic home button

According to Bloomberg, the 2017 iPhone will no longer contain the iconic home button Apple fans have grown accustomed to over the last decade.
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Apple's Patent Application Collects iPhone Thieves' Fingerprints and Selfies

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published a patent application filed by Apple describing a method for the company to capture both a thief's picture, video, and fingerprints from the Touch ID home button, among other identifying data.

You can now play 'Solitaire' and 'Tic-Tac-Toe' directly in Google

Google's take on Solitaire appears to be a pretty basic version of the classic, though it could prove to be a good source of easy entertainment for those looking to kill a little time.
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An ethical Google won't break the internet, leaked EU report finds

Obliging Google to conclude a negotiation wouldn't be so awful, the paper suggests. It might be “very likely to have a positive impact on content service providers which would not have to incur any additional costs and can only benefit from a market ...

Microsoft: No Single Organization Can Close Skills Gap

Microsoft MSFT +0.40% reported doing over $1 billion of corporate giving, mostly in-kind, for fiscal year 2015. The software giant is making giving a more integral part of its strategy, as I explored here.

Apple's stock has gotten a bad rap under Tim Cook

When Cook was anointed CEO on August 24, 2011, Apple's market cap was just under $350 billion, a close second to Exxon Mobil Corp.

Google's New Android Brings a Much Needed Change

Bloomberg /Getty Images An Android operating software icon sits on display with a Google Inc. logo at the Google booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Hosting Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton

Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will visit Northern California on Wednesday and hold a fundraiser hosted by Apple CEO Tim Cook. Apple doesn't have a corporate political action committee that gives to federal candidates, so Cook has ...

Apple's Deep Pockets Affecting Spotify Contract Renewals

Spotify-Apple-Music-logos Several of Spotify's contracts are up for renewal and the high rates Apple pays record labels are affecting Spotify's negotiations, reports MusicBusinessWorldwide.

Google is using artificial intelligence to compress images better than JPEG

Small is beautiful, as the old saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in media files. Compressed images are considerably easier to transmit and store than uncompressed ones are, and now Google is using neural networks to beat JPEG at the ...

According to this chart, Apple shares are approaching a critical breaking point

The story of the $90 level on Apple's chart starts in April 2012, when the stock topped out at $92 - which was then actually $644, as it was before Apple's 7-to-1 stock split. After reaching a bit higher a few months later, the tech giant remained ...

Apple bought a lot of startups that we don't even know about

Eddy Cue, Apple's head of internet services, told Backchannel how Apple buys smaller companies primarily for their talent - at a relatively prolific rate.

Google Hires YouTube Stars to Promote New 'Daydream' Virtual Reality Platform (GOOG)

Google (GOOG) continues its big leap into emerging virtual reality (VR) space, pouring money into VR movies and programs. Google's investments in these projects will help provide exclusive content for the launch of its new immersive-technology software ...

Google readies next-gen RPC protocol to replace JSON

Connections between servers with HTTP/2 are supposed to be faster and more efficient, and Google claims it's faster still to serialize and deserialize the data with protocol buffers than with JSON.

UK supermarket giant Asda tests support for Apple Pay - AppleInsider

Major U.K. supermarket chain Asda is currently in real-world testing of Apple Pay, despite its parent company, Walmart, not offering any compatibility whatsoever ...

Google's using neural networks to make image files smaller

Somewhere at Google, researchers are blurring the line between reality and fiction. Tell me if you've heard this one, Silicon Valley fans -- a small team builds a neural network for the sole purpose of making media files teeny-tiny.

Android Nougat: Google releases new mobile operating system, saying it is its 'sweetest yet'

It will initially arrive on Google's own Nexus devices first, and soon arrive on the upcoming LG V20. Other phones will have to wait until their carriers and manufacturers decide to make it available - potentially leaving them open to big security ...

According to this chart, Apple shares are approaching a critical breaking point

The story of the $90 level on Apple's chart starts in April 2012, when the stock topped out at $92 - which was then actually $644, as it was before Apple's 7-to-1 stock split. After reaching a bit higher a few months later, the tech giant remained ...
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Google is using AI to compress photos, just like on HBO's Silicon Valley

Researchers at Google are working on a way to use neural networks, the building blocks of modern artificial intelligence, to make our picture files smaller without sacrificing quality.

Russian court ruling could hit Google

Alexander Shulgin, Yandex's chief operating officer, said that Yandex expected to grow to “significantly higher than 50 per cent” of searches on Android phones, which account for 85 per cent of all mobile uses in Russia, after Google lost its second ...

Das ist empörend: Microsoft slams umlaut for email depth charge

A bug in Outlook 2016 is making it harder for German users to get their email. If users include the two-dot umlaut in their email password, the system won't authenticate them and their IMAP account will refuse access.

Barbra Streisand calls on Apple for a special change to Siri

Barbra Streisand is fed up with having Siri, Apple's built-in phone assistant, mispronounce her name - and with good reason.

Microsoft acquires A.I

scheduling service Genee, will shut it down on September 1 Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Genee, an artificial-intelligence-powered scheduling service. The company is planning to integrate the intelligence technology into Office 365 and shut down the Genee service on September 1, 2016.
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How Apple has changed since Tim Cook took over from Steve Jobs

Apple's stock is up 105 percent since Cook stepped into the CEO role, but has slid 3 percent over the past year. The S&P 500 is up 88 percent and 11 percent in those respective periods.
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Over 900 tips received in murder of Google employee

Investigators probing the murder of a woman slain while jogging near her mother's Massachusetts home have received over 900 tips, officials said.

Apple boosts health while Microsoft revs machine smarts

Apple confirmed press reports that it has bought startup Gliimpse, which uses machine learning as part of its formula for in letting people securing manage and share personal medical information.

Booktrack Classroom Partners with Microsoft

Booktrack, a platform that synchronizes ebooks and audiobooks with movie-style soundtracks, has partnered with Microsoft to bring its technology to millions of students.
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Watch the trailer for Apple Music's Cash Money documentary

Wondering what Apple's Cash Money documentary will look like? You can already get a peek today. Apple has posted a trailer for the feature, The Cash Money Story: Before Anythang, that gives you a sense of what to expect from the Apple Music exclusive.

Microsoft helps Mac users ditch Evernote for OneNote with new tool

Microsoft is making it easier for Mac users to ditch Evernote in favor of OneNote, its rival note-taking app, and a part of the Microsoft Office suite. The company has today released a new app called the OneNote Importer tool, which allows Mac users to ...

Microsoft open sources PowerShell, brings it to Linux and OS X

Microsoft today announced that it is open sourcing PowerShell and bringing it to Linux and OS X. PowerShell is Microsoft's command line shell for Windows power users, as well as an extensible scripting language for automating system tasks. It's not ...

Microsoft announces changes to Microsoft Famly in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, allows parents to block ...

Microsoft has also improved the notification times, allowing users to receive notification requests for - let's say - a time extension, or an approval as soon as they are sent for quick approval.
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Apple Leak Reveals Massive iPhone 7 Cancellation

We know a lot about the iPhone 7. But just weeks from its release date, it appears Apple AAPL +0.25% has decided to cancel the most powerful, potentially largest and (inevitably) most expensive iPhone the company has ever created… How so?

What If Apple's New iPhone 7 Is a Hit?

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is highly likely to introduce the iPhone 7 next month. Reports of a media event in early September, followed by actual retail availability on Sep. 23, have been circulating since the Apple-centric bloggers at 9to5Mac reported on a ...

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Microsoft vs

Intel and Teleportation This effort is in competition with Microsoft's Mixed Reality effort even though both companies are actually collaborating on what could be something far closer to teleportation than any video conferencing or telepresence effort currently in market ...
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Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source, Arrives On Linux, Mac

Microsoft announced Thursday it is open sourcing its PowerShell scripting language and command-line shell, making it available on Mac and Linux operating systems.

20 Apple TV tips and tricks - CNET

The Apple TV is a seriously easy device to use which adds tons of value to your entertainment system. Below are 20 tips and tricks which will make navigating ...