Penske Media adds Robb Report to portfolio of category-leading media brands
NEW YORK, NY and DETROIT, MI – December 29, 2016 – Penske Media Corporation (PMC) and Rockbridge Growth Equity today announced the formation of a …
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Interview: Minority Report science advisor shares his vision for the future of computing
John Underkoffler is known for his imaginative vision for the future of computing, thanks in part to his work as a science advisor on the …
NPD: iPhone 7 was too boring to capitalize on Samsung’s Note 7 disaster
Most powerful mobile processor on the planet: check. Performance that outshines the best Android phones in the world: check. New displays that are “visually indistinguishable …
Amazon busts big holiday move, ships over one billion items
Alexa, how are we doing? We seem to be doing well. Amazon shipped more than one billion items worldwide with Prime and Fulfillment this holiday …
Rare video shows Steve Jobs warning Apple to focus less on profits and more on great products
One of more prevalent narratives currently surrounding Apple is that the company has lost its innovative edge. Indeed, many critics look at products like the …
Uber’s response to accusations that it tracks users for weeks doesn’t seem accurate at all
Reports recently began circulating from users who claimed that Uber may be abusing the background location tracking feature in Apple’s iOS platform. Uber recently made a …
Peter Thiel’s data-mining firm could help Trump vet and deport immigrants
While policy wasn’t exactly the primary focus of Trump’s campaign, he did make several direct promises to the American people while he was running for president. …
Uber launches electric fleet of Teslas as self-driving California cars are cancelled
Uber executives will undoubtedly have mixed emotions as they arrive to work at the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Thursday morning. On one hand, the …
Apple’s appealing against its EU tax bill, but thanks to President Trump, it might not need to
Apple has launched a formal appeal against a $14 billion tax ruling handed down earlier this year by the European Union. Apple has fought the …
Shots fired: T-Mobile will give switchers a year of AT&T’s DirecTV Now service for free
T-Mobile sure does have a great sense of humor, but we doubt AT&T is laughing very much following the Un-carrier’s latest announcement. On Thursday morning, …
Tech workers publicly pledge not to help make a Muslim registry
Invoking the legacy of the Holocaust, hundreds of people from the technology industry have published a statement saying that they would not cooperate in creating …
Interview: Can VR help us understand what it means to be human?
Dan Cook, the founder of EyeMynd BrainwaveVR, is the kind of person you have a conversation with that meanders beyond technology and eventually encompasses… the meaning …
Google cancels plans to build a self-driving car
Today, Google announced that it’s killing plans to build its own self-driving car. Instead, the car project is being spun out of Google into its …
Comcast is hiking fees that shouldn’t exist in the first place
Death, taxes, and cable internet fees going up: the modern-day things that you can guarantee will always happen. As DSLReports has noted, Comcast will be increasing its …
Carriers announce the exact dates they plan to kill your Galaxy Note 7
The Galaxy Note 7 has burned people. It has burned cars. It has even burned down a man’s house. And of course, it has burned …
AT&T customers will get an unexpected refund on their next bill
Hell doesn’t appear to be freezing over and it’s definitely not April 1st, so I guess this story is actually true. More than 2.7 million …
Pebble is Kickstarter’s worst failure
The biggest problem with crowdfunding websites is trust. It’s a tricky proposition for companies to begin with: we have an idea; give us a bunch …
Get ready to hate Zynga all over again
Zynga — the once king of mobile gaming that nobody talks about anymore but which still makes hundreds of millions of dollars every year — …
App Store developers say app refunds are being abused, and Apple isn’t helping
As part of its App Store policy, Apple can choose to give refunds to customers who are unsatisfied with an app they download. It’s a …
‘Buckyballs’ magnets now available after ban is overturned
If you need a gift idea for the holiday season, you can now buy small, powerful, rare earth magnets known generally as Buckyballs. Once regulated …
The FCC thinks the best feature of AT&T’s new streaming TV plan is illegal
Ever since AT&T announced that it was launching a $35 TV plan with unlimited mobile streaming for AT&T customers, the FCC has been all over …
New AI-based digital assistant comes to… gas pumps
Cortana, Siri, Alexa, meet… Miles. Through February, the oil and gas giant BP is testing a new kind of pump technology at several gas stations …
Shopping on Amazon is about to get a lot more reliable
As America’s largest peddler of things online, Amazon is no stranger to controversy. It has had to deal with incentivized reviews, fake reviews, paid five-star …
Amazon deletes over 500,000 sketchy reviews in massive cleanup effort
Amazon has long had a problem with fake reviews, but an even bigger problem might be reviews of products that were received either for free …
Interview: CBS Digital gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how TV shows are made
If 2016 has provided a bumper crop of compelling TV content — in the form of everything from Westworld to all those Amazon and Netflix …
Get ready for your internet to get a whole lot worse
Earlier today, President-elect Donald Trump appointed two advisers to his transition team to oversee telecommunications policy. You could be forgiven for missing the news in …
Amazon is actually going to sell cars online
Amazon is the US’s largest online retailer, and there aren’t many things on this big blue sphere that you can’t buy through an Amazon checkout. Automobiles, …
Trump claims credit for saving Ford jobs that were never going to leave
Donald Trump loves Ford — or at least he loves to use Ford as a tool to make his point. Having already erroneously claimed that …
Apple might make the iPhone American again
Since inception, Apple’s products have born the phrase “Designed by Apple in Cupertino.” But the products themselves are generally assembled in China to Apple’s specs. …
Russia has now officially blocked LinkedIn
As Microsoft works toward completing its $26 billion acquisition of popular business networking site LinkedIn, it looks like the company will inherit something of a problem …
