Genius announced via blog post today that it’s firmly in the Apple Music camp. The new deal brings the service’s lyrics to “thousands of hit songs” via Apple’s desktop and iOS app. In addition to that deal, Genius will also be using Apple Music as its own preferred music player. That means when you visit […]
Apple has agreed to purchase assets, employees, and intellectual property from Germany-based Dialog Semiconductors. The two companies have worked together for years, and Dialog supplies Apple with power management technology for the iPhone. Apple will pay $300 million for about 300 engineers as well as Dialog facilities in Germany, Italy, and the U.K. Apple will give […]
Walmart has applied for a patent for a smart shopping cart that can track a shopper’s heart rate, temperature, grip and walking speed. Such a system would provide valuable information about how shoppers respond to different stores, it said. The patent shows shopping cart fitted with sensors that sends data over the internet to Walmart’s […]
Epic Games has purchased Kamu—a security firm based in Helsinki whose ‘Easy Anti-Cheat’ provides players with a “holistic anti–cheat service”. Per the company website, Kamu serves over 100 million PC players around the world and has worked with Epic on Fortnite for the past several months. According to gamesindustry.biz, Epic’s Tim Sweeney strives to make Fortnite: […]
Robert Bosch will launch an electric van-sharing service in Germany this year, expanding its reach in the field of pay-per-minute vehicle rental services and pitting it against some of its automaker clients. Bosch said it will team up with toom, a subsidiary of German retailer Rewe, to supply delivery vans at hardware stores, enabling clients […]
Sir Richard Branson has said that Virgin Galactic is “weeks” away from its first trip into space. “We should be in space within weeks, not months. And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years,” the firm’s founder and chief executive told CNBC. He said the firm would be taking people […]
After the backlash over its participation in projects like Project Maven and Dragonfly, Google will no longer pursue a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract. “While we are working to support the US government with our cloud in many areas, we are not bidding on the JEDI contract because first, we couldn’t be assured that it […]
Google today has began to fully disclose info on the security problem it first discovered in March. One of the APIs that helps people share their account profiles with others through Google+ was inadvertently left open for apps to access. Google says about 438 apps had the ability to access user data, including name, email […]
The State of California has passed new legislation that will require hardware makers to provide a unique password for each and every device made or sold in the state. The “Information Privacy: Connected Devices” bill was approved by the legislature and will become law on January 1, 2020. It prevents devices from shipping with default […]
Google announced today in a blog post that it is shutting down its social network Google+ for consumers. After The Wall Street Journal reported a massive data breach, the company finally admitted that Google+ never received the broad adoption or engagement with users that it had hoped for — according to a blog post, 90 […]
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