From InfoWorld: Apple's tax benefits in Ireland are illegal, and the company will have to pay up to €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in back taxes, plus interest.
That's the verdict European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager delivered Tuesday, wrapping up a two-year investigation of the company's tax...
From CNET: Google has a formidable artificial intelligence team working on everything from photo recognition to email spam filtering. But for some tasks, it's looking for the human touch -- yours, specifically.
The online giant on Monday released a new Android app called Crowdsource that lets you...
From PC World: Intel’s Kaby Lake, the company's 7th-generation Core microprocessor, was never meant to be.
Broadwell, then Skylake: Intel’s tick-tock model was supposed to move on from there to the 10-nm Cannon Lake microprocessor next on Intel’s roadmap. Struggles with 10-nm development forced...
From CNET: In the last month, Pokemon Go developer Niantic has been stepping up its banning game, cutting off users who use third-party services to help them become Pokemasters.
Bans were given to players using add-on maps that show Pokemon locations, emulators that allow you to play the game on a...
From CNET: The next iPhone will probably be revealed to the world on September 7. And maybe a watch, too.
Apple made it official today, confirming the previously rumored date of the first Wednesday in September. The venue is once again at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, with the...
From PC World: Samsung's quantum dot technology is getting serious for PC fans.
The company recently announced it will roll out two new curved monitor models (in three display sizes) rocking quantum dot displays. These are the first quantum dot computer monitors from Samsung, which already produces...
From CNET: Attendees at next month's Google Play Indie Games Festival will have a chance to play more than two dozen new games, some of which are not yet widely available.
Google on Monday unveiled the 30 Android games selected from more than 200 submissions vying for a chance to be exhibited at...
From InfoWorld: A private equity firm has signed an agreement to buy major cloud player Rackspace for $4.3 billion.
Rackspace announced today that Apollo Global Management, a U.S.-based investment manager, will acquire the company in a deal that will give Rackspace shareholders $32 per share.
"Our...
A few weeks ago, I was hanging out with some of my friends, when suddenly someone I did not know jumped into a conversation with me. About ten minutes later, I realize the guy just would not stop talking, even though I was clearly not interested in carrying on the discussion. When he started to go on about how the FBI wanted him because he knows some secret the American government does not want out (Seems legit -- I mean, we are in Canada), there...
From InfoWorld: Intel is expanding its lineup of SSDs with its 3D NAND chips with more affordable consumer and enterprise drives.
The 3D NAND chips have a structure that makes SSDs durable and fast but was only available in a handful of drives. The new SSDs support the NVMe protocol, which offers...
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