Qualcomm loses bid to squash FTC antitrust lawsuit

From CNET: Qualcomm's legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission will carry on.

A US federal judge ruled against Qualcomm's motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed by the FTC, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday. The suit alleges that Qualcomm used its power and position in the...

Pandora CEO Tim Westergren reportedly will step down

From CNET: Tim Westergren, who co-founded Pandora 17 years ago and who's been serving his second round as CEO for the past year, plans to step down, Recode reported Sunday.

Pandora started as a vanguard of music streaming with its digital version of radio, but it has lost steam over the last five...

Google open-sources TensorFlow training tools

From InfoWorld: Over the past year, Google’s TensorFlow has asserted itself as a popular open source toolkit for deep learning. But training a TensorFlow model can be cumbersome and slow—especially when the mission is to take a dataset used by someone else and try to refine the training process it...

Anthem agrees to pay record $115M to settle data breach suit

From CNET: Anthem, the largest health insurance company in the US, has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over a 2015 data breach for a record $115 million.

The settlement still has to be approved by US District Court Judge Lucy Koh, who is scheduled to hear the case on August 17 in San Jose...

Edifier S1000DB Review (Page 1 of 4)

Although I have been living in Canada for as long as I could remember, I could hardly understand -- let alone speak -- a lick of French. This nation's official bilingualism, to many people in the country, does not mean too much in daily life. The only thing I know is it is practically impossible to survive in Quebec by only knowing English; the same goes for living in the rest of the country being Francophone. That said, thanks to those bilingual...

SilverStone Primera PM01-RGB Review (Page 1 of 4)

When it comes to hobbies, you may already know I quite enjoy playing on my instruments, video gaming, and watching anime. However, one thing I recently started doing more of is photography. For the longest time, I have been shooting with a basic dSLR in the form of a Canon Rebel T3i, otherwise known as the EOS 600D outside of North America. While it has been a capable shooter, I noticed some things it was holding me back in. This was most...

People are now looking to WhatsApp for news, study says

From CNET: People are increasingly worried about fake news from Facebook, so they're looking to other places to stay informed -- like WhatsApp.

No, really. This trend has "jumped significantly" and is demonstrated in "a number of markets," according to the Digital News Report, a study from the...

Ruby’s decline in popularity may be permanent

From InfoWorld: Ruby has had a reputation as a user-friendly language for building web applications. But its slippage in this month’s RedMonk Programming Language Rankings has raised questions about where exactly the language stands among developers these days.

The twice-yearly RedMonk index ranked...

Lenovo's new workstation is indeed 'Tiny' but packs a punch

From PC World: Windows users who work in tight spaces and need a small form factor workstation with multiple display ports and solid processing power have a new contender to check out: the new ThinkStation P320 Tiny.

The workstation lives up to its name: At 1.4 x 7.1 by 7.2 inches, it's the...

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