2017-04-24 19:41
ZTE's Quartz smartwatch: A good idea hindered by its OS
ZTE's Quartz smartwatch is the Chinese phone maker's first attempt at breaching what's quickly becoming a saturated U.S. smartwatch market. Two of the watch's most promising features are its ability to be used without a phone and its affordability. But
2017-04-24 19:15
Google highlights 60 app and game nominees for second annual Play Awards
Google I/O is just about three weeks away, and Google is already starting the festivities. Along with the developer’s preview of Android O, the company has now announced the finalists for its second annual Google Play Awards, and there are even more
2017-04-24 19:11
Read all about IT: CEOs see IT as more important than ever
As IT rises up the list of business priorities, CEOs are more likely to read about new technologies than they are to ask their CIOs for information.
2017-04-24 18:11
AMD's new Polaris-based Radeon Pro Duo is slower than its predecessor
AMD's new Radeon Pro Duo graphics packs two of the company's fastest GPUs, but surprisingly, is slower than its 2016 predecessor.
2017-04-24 16:04
Seeing red: Samsung to offer software fix for tinted Galaxy S8 displays
Millions of people around the world are enjoying their first days with the Galaxy S8, marveling over the screen and rocking out with the new AKG-tuned earbuds. But not everyone is singing a happy tune. For some users, the infinity display isn’t all i
2017-04-24 15:44
Russian man receives longest-ever prison sentence in the US for hacking
A 32-year-old Russian hacker was sentenced to 27 years in prison in the U.S. for stealing millions of payment card details from businesses by infecting their point-of-sale systems with malware.
2017-04-24 12:41
Healthcare records for sale on Dark Web
Last August a Baltimore substance abuse treatment facility had its database hacked. Patient records subsequently found their way onto the Dark Web, according to DataBreaches.net. The group noticed such things as dates of admission, whether the patients
2017-04-24 12:00
Oracle floats Java hardware acceleration proposal
A proposal currently floating in the Java community would use hardware acceleration to improve bulk calculations in the platform.
2017-04-22 02:47
There's now a tool to test for NSA spyware
Has your computer been infected with a suspected NSA spying implant? A security researcher has come up with a free tool that can tell.
2017-04-21 21:13
Microsoft fine-tunes WebAssembly for Edge browser
WebAssembly, the portable binary format for improving web application performance, is being tweaked by Microsoft for its Edge browser.