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The first wave of reviews touting Google's Home Mini smart speaker surfaced this week on the heels of reports that the company had to quash a top touch function to prevent the device from accidentally activating and recording conversations without users' knowledge Google has promised to roll out an update to the device by Oct. 15....

Amazon on Wednesday pulled the wraps off a new premium e-reader that's waterproof and has a sharp 300 pixels-per-inch display The Kindle Oasis has a 7-inch Paperwhite display and sports an aluminum back and ergonomic shape that makes it easier to read for prolonged periods. It has a battery life measured in weeks, and it can charge from zero to ful...

Social media influencer advertising has become a major factor in e-commerce. Marketers of both big and small brands long have committed large chunks of their advertising budgets to endorsements by well-known personalities, in an effort to influence consumers to purchase products and services.

Apple has made a retro version of iTunes available, 12.6.3, reviving features removed by the mammoth 12.7 overhaul it released last month. News of the release surfaced Monday in a post on Reddit by user vista980622 The company was low key about the release, saying in an online post dated Sept. 23 that the retro version was for business partners who...

The Cloud Foundry Foundation on Wednesday launched Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, or CFCR, as the default deployment and management platform for containers using Kubernetes and BOSH The foundation announced Container Runtime, a project supported by The Linux Foundation, at its annual European user conference....

If you need an example of digital disruption, you can't do better than the retail banking industry. A byzantine collection of rules and regulations, plus the overhang of many legacy systems, has conspired to prevent banks from becoming more involved with their customers Even innovations like the ATM, which entered the scene several decades ago, onl...

Walmart on Tuesday outlined plans to grow its critically important e-commerce business in the U.S. by 40 percent over the next fiscal year. The company intends to leverage a series of key acquisitions and its more than 4,600 brick-and-mortar locations to mount a direct challenge to Amazon for millennial customers. Walmart -- the largest retail ope...

Monica Jain is the chief product officer and cofounder of LogicHub In this exclusive interview, Jain shares her insights on how women in the cybersecurity field can get results and command respect....

I spent last week at Oracle's customer event, OpenWorld 2017, in San Francisco. When I wasn't drinking from an information fire hose, it was alternately fascinating and exhausting. There were major announcements in database, blockchain, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and other stuff I'm associated with only tangentially. For instance, my ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday used virtual reality tech to "teleport" to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico and soon was dubbed a "heartless billionaire" by critics who felt he had exploited the dire situation in the U.S. territory That likely isn't what Zuckerberg intended when he provided the Facebook Spaces video demonstration, showing how a...

Nearly 60 percent of small businesses have been the victims of a cyberattack over the past year, but the vast majority didn't realize that they had been attacked, according to Nationwide's third annual survey, released Monday The insurance company tapped 1,069 businesses with fewer than 299 employees for the study. Initially, only 13 percent of the...

Ubuntu 17.10, otherwise known as "Artful Aardvark," is a paradigm shift for Canonical. The company is set to release the official version of the much anticipated Ubuntu 17.10 desktop, server and cloud distro on Oct. 19 -- it released the final beta version late last month.

Apple's use of facial recognition to unlock its iPhone X may open the gates for developers champing at the bit to bring the technology to the Android world Face ID, which will replace fingerprint scanning in Apple's new US$1,000 iPhone X, uses Apple's TrueDepth 3D camera to verify the owner of a phone and unlock it....

Helpshift's new Web Chat application uses artificial intelligence to help companies release scalable chatbots that can automate customer service through real-time interactions The new AI-based tool, released last week, will boost Helpshift customers' ability to provide enterprise-grade support to their customers, according to Helpshift, which speci...

What would it take to cause Apple to fail? While Steve Jobs was alive, the prevalent belief was that it would take his removal from the company. That has happened, but Apple's valuation and reserves are higher. Although the foundational element was removed, no one really went after Apple hard until last week, when Google launched a comprehensive ...

Russian hackers exploited a vulnerability in Kaspersky Lab's software to steal sensitive cyberdefense data from a United States National Security Agency contractor, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday The incident, which occurred in 2015, involved a contractor who loaded classified information onto his personal computer in order to work at ho...

There is more to the shell, the terminal's interpreter software, than commands composed of alphanumeric characters. In addition to those familiar programs, there is a whole host of processing tools hiding behind the symbols of a standard keyboard To say nothing of their incredible potency in combination, each one is so powerful on its own that it h...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has allowed experts working with Russia to review the source code of cybersecurity software that is used by the U.S. Defense Department The Pentagon uses HPE's ArcSight software to protect sensitive computer networks. Hewlett-Packard acquired ArcSight in 2010 in a deal valued at US$1.5 billion....

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that prods and probes at the latest gadget announcements just in case there's literally anything worth writing home about In this glorious fall breeze of an edition, we take a look at the latest product suite to drift our way from the Apple hivemind, and one especially intriguing item from Google'...

Hologram on Thursday launched Nova, the first open source modem for cellular connectivity Nova is a USB cellular modem purpose-built for Internet of Things development. Its Hologram software tools are compatible with most single board computers, such as Raspberry Pi.