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Brave Software, helmed by Brendan Eich, who cofounded Mozilla and created the JavaScript programming language, on Tuesday released the 0.7 developer version of its Brave browser. Brave is an open source project that promises to block Internet greed and ugliness, while improving speed and protecting privacy. Basically, it blocks ads containing pix...

Streaming media services, including Dish Network-owned Sling TV, could help make up for losses in traditional pay TV subscribers,ESPN President John Skipper said an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday However, he also expressed frustration with Apple's attempts to date in the streaming device market....

CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday took the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to announce that Microsoft plans to donate US$1 billion worth of cloud services to serve nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years. The company's recently formed Microsoft Philanthropies unit will manage the contribution as part ...

Google Chrome users soon will get faster Web access through theBrotli open source compression algorithm, Google Web Performance Engineer Ilya Grigorik said Tuesday It has been rolled out to the M49 release of Chrome in Canary, which is designed for devs. It's not clear when Brotli will surface for other users of the Chrome browser....

Connected cars and self-driving cars are two of the hottest and fastest-growing segments in the marketplace today. However, they are often confused. Connected cars are here today. Self-driving cars are not yet, but they are coming. They both mean advancements in automotive. They both use wireless networks, wireless technology, satellite technology, ground-based sensors and more. As workers, investors and customers, what can we expect in the next few years from connected and self-driving cars -- and what's coming next?...

Two white-hat hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, made headlines last year when they demonstrated how they couldhijack the control systems of a moving motor vehicle over the Internet. The move got the attention of the auto industry, and last weekGeneral Motors put in place a program to encourage more digital dabblers to alert the company when they find bugs in GM vehicles...

Tens of millions of Linux PCs and servers, as well as 66 percent of all Android mobile devices, are vulnerable to a zero-day flaw that could allow users with lower-level privileges to gain root access, according to Perception Point, which announced its discovery last week The local privilege escalation vulnerability, which affects Linux Kernel v3.8

Amnesty International and African Resources Watch (Afrewatch) on Tuesday issued a report alleging that the supply chains of major electronics companies -- including Apple, Sony and Samsung -- included cobalt mined by child laborers in Africa. The companies have failed to make basic checks to halt the practice, the report claims.

Bot fraud will cost digital advertisers US$7.2 billion worldwide this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association of National Advertisers For the "2015 Bot Baseline" report, 49 ANA members deployed detection tags from White Ops on their digital ads to measure bot fraud over 61 days, from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30....

SpaceX this week failed in its third attempt to land a rocket on an ocean platform The company has landed a reusable rocket successfully on land, but it has stepped up its efforts to land at sea....

Last year, uber-analystEsteban Kolsky and I did a research project to better understand cloud computing's uptake and related issues, and last week Financial Force, our sponsor,made the results public The findings are interesting to me because they reveal a more or less typical adoption cycle for cloud, by which I mean that some of the downstream ef...

Ukrainian officials earlier this week said they had launched a probe into the source of a cyberattack that targeted the Boryspil International Airport in Kiev. The attack may be related to the BlackEnergy malware attacks that recently targeted Ukrainian infrastructure facilities, apparently from a source inside Russia.

The U.S.Federal Trade Commission is extending its regulatory reach to the e-commerce impact of big data For years, the FTC has asserted vigorously its authority to apply existing consumer protection laws to emerging developments in the realm of information technology....

Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of MinecraftEDU, one of the building blocks for its upcoming Minecraft: Education Edition MinecraftEDU, developed by Teacher Gaming, launched in 2011 as a version of Minecraft enhanced for the classroom.

Demandware andeBay Enterprise on Monday announced an alliance to develop a fully enabled omnichannel commerce solution that will provide integrated access to Demandware's Commerce Cloud platform and eBay Enterprise's suite of back-end and fulfillment technologies and services The solution will let current and prospective clients significantly reduc...

Privacy advocates from around the globe have taken heart from reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook pushed hard against the Obama administration's efforts to reach a compromise on encryption during a recent meeting with several leading technology companies. Cook earlier this month joined a delegation of social media and technology leaders in a meeting w...

Netflix last week announced it will crack down on members using proxies or unblockers to access titles from overseas That follows the company's announcement at CES 2016 earlier this month of a global rollout that has it offering streaming content in 190 countries....

LastPass has boosted security for its users after a security researcher alerted the company of a phishing attack he devised to steal users' login and two-factor authentication credentials Sean Cassidy, CTO of Praesidio, demonstrated the phishing attack, which he calls "LostPass," last week at ShmooCon....

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that sips a warm cocoa while delving through the latest gadget announcements and recovering from the CES barrage It seems most manufacturers went back into hibernation after revealing myriad new gadgets at CES, so here's a look at some of the other gizmos that caught my eye from the event: a track...

When Amazon launched Prime Day six months ago, skeptics came out in force to criticize what they considered Jeff Bezos' desperate ploy to add members to a club that appeared to be peaking in a saturated domestic market Gimmick or not, Prime Day worked. Amazon sold more than 34.4 million items across eight countries where Prime was offered. The comp...