From CNET: Walmart hopes its acquisition of startup Jet.com takes its own online presence to new heights.
The retail giant said on Monday that it had acquired Jet.com for a stock and cash deal worth $3 billion.
The deal underscores the competitive nature of the online retail business, where Amazon...
From PC World: Microsoft has hidden a new downgrade policy within the Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Once you’ve installed it, you’ll only have 10 days to downgrade to an earlier version or build, rather than the 31 days provided before.
Historically, Microsoft had given users a full month to roll...
From CNET: There could be new Apple Watch hardware around the corner, if a well-connected industry analyst is proved correct.
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who last year correctly predicted Apple would launch the iPhone SE, says there are two new Apple Watches coming in the second half of...
From InfoWorld: After years of reluctance to pay researchers for exploits, Apple has given in and is ready to hand out up to $200,000 for critical vulnerabilities found in the latest version of iOS and the newest iPhones.
Apple announced the program Thursday at the Black Hat security conference in...
I have never been much of an outside person, and I have mostly preferred staying inside. I previously only went biking, and occasionally for a walk. So far this summer, much of that has changed. I have gone on a few hikes, although I received a really bad sunburn on the first one I did. That aside, it was still a really fun experience, and the views were absolutely excellent. The first one I did still had quite a lot of snow at the summit, and it...
From PC World: The strange saga of the FCC and open-source router firmware continues. After new FCC rules encouraged TP-Link and other router manufacturers to block open-source firmware, the FCC is now forcing TP-Link to do the opposite, and support open-source firmware.
As Ars Technica noticed, TP...
From CNET: Despite a big effort in the last year to gain more ground in India, new sales figures indicate Apple's strategy isn't working in the world's second most populous country.
The Cupertino, California-based giant sold around 35 percent fewer iPhones in India in the second quarter of 2016...
From InfoWorld: A fledgling open source project at Intel is wiping the slate clean in managing workloads in VMs, in containers, and on bare metal alike.
The CIAO Project -- "CIAO" is short for "Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator" -- has been described in a Register article as what might result...
From CNET: Over the last few years, hackers have stolen customer data from household names like Target, Home Depot and T-Mobile. A hacker reportedly has 200 million Yahoo credentials for sale. You can't be blamed for being a bit paranoid.
That goes double when it comes to your phone, which is...
From PC World: Ten months after Dropbox first unveiled Paper, the collaborative writing tool entered open beta on Wednesday and is getting mobile versions for iOS and Android.
Paper allows teams to work on documents together in the cloud. It makes it easy to add text, images, and embedded videos...
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