From CNET: The wireless carrier's general counsel has told some reporters, including the Washington Post, that Verizon is leaning toward declaring Yahoo's huge data breach a "material event." That likely means Verizon wouldn't have offered as much money -- or made a bid for Yahoo at all -- had it...

From InfoWorld: Gitless, an experimental version control system built atop Git, could make life easier for developers who find Git difficult to use.

"Many people complain that Git is hard to use," the project's web page states. "We think the problem lies deeper than the user interface, in the...

From CNET: Amazon will be hiring more than 120,000 seasonal workers in the US this year, the company said Thursday. The jobs will span 27 states and cover customer service sites, sortation centers and fulfillment centers. That's about 20,000 more positions than last year.

The e-commerce giant kept...

From PC World: If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, wouldn’t spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so?

If so, IBM has the right idea with its Cloud Object Storage service, which uses SecureSlice object storage technology...

From CNET: If you're a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owner, you're feeling a little deja vu right now.

That's because Samsung and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission have once again issued a recall for your phone -- even though you may have already replaced it. The notice comes two days after Samsung...

From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics has cut its revenue and profit forecasts for the third quarter, after the disastrous launch of its flagship Galaxy Note 7, which eventually led to the company recalling the smartphones and stopping their production in the wake of reports of overheating batteries...

From CNET: Apple will set up a research and development center in Shenzhen, China, Chief Executive Tim Cook said Wednesday.

Cook made the announcement during a meeting with senior officials in the city, which is renowned as a major global hub for electronics manufacturing. The choice is strategic...

From PC World: HP's Spectre x360 steps out with a major upgrade in its third generation. The latest version of the company’s flagship convertible laptop gets thinner, lighter, and faster, and adds a wealth of check-off features. The new Spectre x360 is expected to go on sale October 12 starting at...

From CNET: The e-commerce giant on Wednesday launched a new subscription streaming music service, Amazon Music Unlimited, with three levels to pay.

Like Spotify, Apple Music and virtually every other option out there, Amazon Music Unlimited charges consumers $10 a month for an ad-free, on-demand...

From InfoWorld: The U.S. Supreme Court is to hear arguments Tuesday in a closely-watched dispute between Samsung Electronics and Apple on the procedure for calculation of damages for the infringement of design patents.

In general terms, a design patent protects the way an article looks, while...