From InfoWorld: Android N, the next version of Google's mobile OS, went to a beta release candidate stage today, with the general release expected this summer.

At its I/O conference in Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning, Google showcased Android N Developer Preview 3 capabilities like automatic...

From TechHive: Come June, Philips will release its BDP7501, a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player with HDR high dynamic range) support. This and similar players, such as Samsung’s UBD-K8500/ZA and Panasonic's DMR-UBZ1 should free high-resolution video from the problems associated with broadband streaming...

From CNET: With Apple CEO Tim Cook currently in India, the company is making news in the country left and right.

On Thursday, the iPhone maker announced it was opening a centre in Hyderabad that will focus on development of the Maps app for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Apple says the new...

From ComputerWorld: ARM has acquired Apical, a U.K. designer of embedded computer vision technology, and plans to incorporate that technology into future ARM microprocessor and system-on-chip designs, it said Wednesday.

The move will open up new opportunities for designers of autonomous vehicles...

From PC World: Nokia is back in the mobile phone business, after a fashion.

It has granted HMD Global an exclusive, 10-year license to the famous brand, allowing the Finnish startup to sell Nokia mobile phones and tablets.

Meanwhile Microsoft, which bought Nokia's mobile phone activities in 2013...

From CNET: Amazon's foray into brick-and-mortar outlets began last year in Seattle and continued this year with a package pick-up center at the University of Pennsylvania. That won't be the end of the effort, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said Tuesday.

"We're definitely going to open additional stores...

From PC World: SAP and Microsoft have expanded an existing partnership to offer new products to users of the Azure and Office 365 cloud services, focused on better integrating the two companies' offerings.

Azure customers will be able to use SAP HANA in Microsoft's public cloud, expanding the...

From CNET: On Monday, Apple rolled out version 9.3.2 of its mobile operating system to fix a small number of bugs. But the update itself has introduced a bug of its own -- one that affects the iPad Pro.

Users chiming in on MacRumors support forums, on Apple Support Communities and on Twitter say...

From PC World: Firefox now has more desktop users than both Microsoft's Web browsers combined -- but it's a rivalry that is increasingly irrelevant as Google Chrome has almost twice the share of Firefox and Microsoft together.

The latest figures from Statcounter show that Microsoft Edge and...

From InfoWorld: Google is promoting natural language understanding with the open-sourcing of SyntaxNet, a neural network framework, and Parsey McParseface, an advanced parser for English text.

Implemented in Google's open source TensorFlow machine intelligence library and released this month...