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The Freeway speakerphone from Jabra is designed for the car, clipping neatly to your sun visor. It has 3 built-in speakers and virtual surround sound technology to deliver rich crisp sound while driving, and Blackout extreme noise reduction ensures your callers will hear clearly as well. You can use your voice to make and take calls, and the speaker can also be used to stream music or podcasts from your Bluetooth-enabled device. The Freeway even announces the name of the incoming caller. Battery... Читать дальше...

It's the issue that won't die: A Senate committee has voted to weaken the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

The FBI has fallen short on assessing the privacy risks and accuracy of a huge facial recognition database used by several law enforcement agencies, a government auditor has said.

After announcing last month it is building a 2,000 horsepower, hybrid semitrailer, the Nikola Motor Co. revealed this week it has more than 7,000 paid reservations that would translate into $2.3 billion in truck sales when it ships.

When you see a virtual reality game being advertised on a box of Froot Loops, you know the VR trend has hit the mainstream. 

Want access to a government server? An online black market is selling access to thousands of hacked servers for as little as $6.

Apple will further lock down what apps can be run on Macs when it releases macOS Sierra this fall, according to a Tuesday session at the company's developer conference.

Wi-Fi calling is becoming commonplace.

AT&T announced Wednesday it will support calling over a Wi-Fi network from the LG G4 phone, with other Android devices to follow.

Wi-Fi calls recently became available to customers using iPhones and other iOS 9.3 devices on all four major U.S. carriers, which includes AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. That iOS update first became available March 21.

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How hard up for cash would you need to be to give an online loan shark your nude picture as collateral? A borrower is required to hold up a valid ID in the naked selfie. If you don’t pay the loan with exorbitant interest back, then the selfie exposing your bare bits is sent to your family members and posted online. This is apparently a common practice in China, especially by students needing money for college.  

Sometimes, smaller is better, especially with robots.

That's what researchers developing mini-robots have in mind. Robots that cost $10 to $100 are cheaper to make and more useful to deploy in emergency situations than big robots with limited mobility.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are developing sophisticated robots that are up to 10 centimeters long, and can run, climb, fly, and communicate with emergency personnel.

Even better? Once the multi-leg robots serve their purpose... Читать дальше...

Android and Chrome OS are in the midst of coming together like never before. If you use both platforms and want to take the synergy up a notch, this creative Android home screen setup is just the thing for you.

The sudden death of the AMD Athlon 64 Ubuntu Mate tower left me somewhat disheveled. Check that, I was more properly forlorn.

It's a rare consumer today who doesn't use a mobile video and messaging app like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, or Vine, but such capabilities are still few and far between on the enterprise side.

SugarCRM has put A.I. at the core of its product plans and is working on a new intelligence service along with a Siri-like agent named Candace.

Self-styled spam king Sanford Wallace was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday for a phishing scam that resulted in the sending of over 27 million messages to Facebook users.

Microsoft fixed more than 40 vulnerabilities in its products Tuesday, including critical ones in Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge and Office.

Microsoft calls SQL Server 2016 the “biggest leap forward” in the 27-year evolution of the SQL Server database. As we’ll see, despite the excess of hype, the SQL Server 2016 database offers enterprises a number of attractive new capabilities, including built-in R analytics, querying of external Hadoop and Azure data stores, and neat management and data security features.

One billion. That’s how many new people are expected to start using the Internet in the course of 2016. With the vast majority of the residents of developed nations already online, the bulk of that huge growth (a 33% increase from the estimated 3 billion users currently on the Web worldwide) will be in developing nations. This will bring the need for consumer protections into sharper focus.

A few months ago, we saw the end of Oracle JAVA Plugin support, and now we see the end of QuickTime with the call to remove it from your systems. If only we could get rid of Adobe Flash.

The U.S. has charged a Chinese national with economic espionage and theft of the source code of a clustered file system belonging to his former U.S. employer, the Department of Justice said. Xu Jiaqiang is alleged to have committed the crimes for his own benefit and that of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in China.

You might not have heard about Kast before; I certainly hadn't before its email arrived in my inbox. Apparently, Kast is a competitor to white-hot messaging platform Slack. Given that pretty much everyone in the technology industry has heard of Slack, and almost no one has heard of Kast, I'd suggest that Slack isn't exactly panicking about this competitor. But I digress.

The Napster name, once synonymous with illegal music sharing, is now respectable enough to carry the flag for one of the oldest names in paid music streaming.

Apple's Safari browser is driving another nail in the coffin of Adobe Flash by no longer telling websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 that the plug-in is installed on users' Macs.

Radical new ideas are hitting network technology these days.

On Tuesday, one startup promised to make switches fully programmable. Another, routing software company 128 Technology, said it would fix the Internet.

What 128 is proposing is a fundamentally different approach to routing that the company says will make networking simpler and more secure.

The Internet was designed to send packets from a source to a destination, but it’s evolved into a platform for delivering content and services among large, private networks.

Microsoft wants you to spend less time thinking about Office and more time getting things done.