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The latest software update for iPhone 6 handsets is allegedly rendering the devices useless if it detects repairs not carried out by Apple. read more >>> Source : BBC

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dismal sales outlooks from LinkedIn Corp and Tableau Software sent their shares crashing hard on Friday, reverberating through the technology sector. read more >>> Source : Reuters

(Reuters) – Stumping for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tinder is getting some women banned from the online dating app after sending campaign messages to prospective matches. Two women – one from Iowa and the other from New Jersey – confirmed to Reuters on Friday that they received notices from Tinder in the previous […]

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LinkedIn said it expects first-quarter revenue around $820 million, but Wall Street had expected about $868.3 million. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

(Reuters) – LinkedIn Corp’s shares plunged about 35 percent on Friday, wiping out nearly $9 billion of market value, after the social network for professionals shocked Wall Street with a revenue forecast that fell far short of expectations. read more >>> Source : Reuters

You know those “M” ratings mean you need to be mature, right, Conan? In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl, Conan O’Brien brought in Von Miller from the Denver Broncos, Josh Norman from the Carolina Panthers and even Marshawn Lynch to play the new “Doom” game. And the talk show host just couldn’t handle it. […]

How important is the cloud, particularly the hybrid cloud, to your organization? Take Tech Pro Research’s survey and get a free copy of the research report on the topic. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

The government has hammered out a deal between Openreach and housing developers to ensure new homes have superfast broadband. read more >>> Source : BBC

A new Windows 10 feature allows business users to sync data and settings across devices using the cloud. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

Alibaba has denied that its security system was to blame for hackers attempting to access over 20 million accounts on Taobao. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The free flow of data across the Atlantic, the lifeblood of modern business dealings, faces an uncertain future, despite a belated, high-level deal between European and U.S. officials this week. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Got an iPhone with a broken screen? Good news: you can now trade it in at an Apple store for some credit towards another handset. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

Apple’s iPhone remains the mostly widely-used smartphone in the US, where mobile market penetration now nudges 80 percent. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

Google has announced the next challenge for its AI software – to play a live-streamed Go match against the world champion. read more >>> Source : BBC

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will demand that he be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London a free man, after a U.N. panel ruled on Friday he was detained arbitrarily there. Assange, who enraged the United States by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, has been holed up […]

BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the best of the week’s technology news read more >>> Source : BBC

For implementing a policy that is without a breach-notification scheme, or potentially a working implementation despite it being in force, the Attorney-General’s Department has awarded the team behind Australia’s data-retention scheme. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

U.S. giants such as Apple and Microsoft buying U.K. AI start-ups as Britain becomes the go-to place for the tech. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

Despite Samsung only launching the blocker on Sunday, it has been disabled ‘for violating the Developer Distribution Agreement’, according to Google. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has recently (October 2015) been implemented in the United States in its 10th revision (ICD-10) after a significant delay (> 25 years) [1] and with high anxiety [2] reminding us of the Y2K panic. The ICD, maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), was initially created to provide a […]

MYOB plans to bring its transaction processing, compliance, and advisory tools together onto a common platform in order to break down existing silos. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

Alec Ross served as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor for innovation. During that role, he earned unique insight into the changing nature of technology. In his new book, “The Industries of the Future,” Ross not only lays out the key industries that will shape the 21st century, but also provides the geopolitical, […]

Can technology help build a perfect country? read more >>> Source : BBC

How social media is transforming the fashion industry read more >>> Source : BBC

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Foxconn has offered to invest around 659 billion yen ($5.6 billion) in struggling Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. read more >>> Source : Reuters

The reuse of login details on Alibaba’s Taobao has allowed an attack on 5 percent of the accounts on Alibaba’s Chinese retail sites. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday it had resumed processing individual and business tax returns at about 5 p.m. EST on Thursday after a system outage. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Over the past week, the “Motherhood Challenge” has been sweeping Facebook. The challenge urges mothers to share photos that make them “proud to be a mom” and tag other women they believe to be great parents. It has received criticism for being “smug,” “insensitive” and diminishing of motherhood, and has prompted many response essays from […]

(Reuters) – Australian Atlassian Corp PLC reported a 44.7 percent increase in quarterly revenue as more customers purchased its software that help companies collaborate and manage their operations. read more >>> Source : Reuters

You may not know it, but your cell phone is basically an interfaith melting pot. If you look closely at the emojis on your emoji keyboard, you’ll find an amazing amount of religious diversity. Every major world religion, from Chinese philosophy (☯) to Atheism (⚛) to Judaism (✡) is represented in some way. According to […]

TechCrunch’s annual award show, the Crunchies, will reveal its winners Monday, February 8 in San Francisco. The award show highlights innovation in technology and the startup world with award categories like Best New Startup, Fastest Rising Startup, Best Founder and the inaugural Include Diversity Award. With only 12 categories, receiving a Crunchy is a honor […]

You’ve heard of six degrees of separation? It’s the theory that you and pretty much any random stranger can be linked through a chain of up to six social connections. Well, Facebook looked into this and claims that the number’s a bit lower. On average, people on Facebook are separated by 3.57 degrees, according to […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – GoPro’s fall from grace has created a rush by traders to short the camera maker’s stock, but they may soon face a squeeze as institutional shareholders sell their shares after six months of declines. read more >>> Source : Reuters

By Daniel Oldis via DreamsCloud While your dreams may not be coming soon to an IMAX theater near you, technology has already evolved to the point of being able to recording a very simple dream and projecting it on a computer screen, complete with your dream images, your dream conversations and your movements within the […]

A phone charging cable that backs up your data as you top up your battery is produced by a British firm. read more >>> Source : BBC

Hackers tried to access over 20 million active accounts on the Taobao shopping site, Chinese state media says. read more >>> Source : BBC

TOKYO (Reuters) – Sharp Corp has chosen Taiwan’s Foxconn as its preferred bidder in takeover talks, sources with knowledge of the decision said, paving the way for the biggest acquisition by a foreign company in Japan’s insulated technology sector. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Software bugs leave a jet fighter in development for 15 years unable “to provide accurate coordinates for precision attack” and with “limited ability to respond to threats”. read more >>> Source : BBC

I am a woman and I am on the Internet. It’s brave. It’s not “eat a burger in public” brave, but it’s still pretty admirable. It shouldn’t be. Last month I wrote a joke on Twitter. That’s not notable because I’ve done it literally fifteen thousand times. I spend all day every day writing jokes […]

EBay says it has partially fixed a vulnerability on its online auction site that could have allowed hackers to trick users into downloading malware. read more >>> Source : BBC

Company goes to Kirkland, Washington, to try out its experimental cars in a state where there is plenty of rain. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

The Internet streets are a modern-day wild west where there are more bad guys than peacekeepers. However, even the darkest corners of the interweb have some (formerly) unwritten rules that could be the difference between a relatively peaceful existence or a complete dragging through social media. Seriously, there is no reason for this. Whether you […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian IT services exports are likely to grow at a slower pace next fiscal year than in the recent past as global clients rein in technology spending, an industry lobby group said on Thursday. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Microsoft’s latest ‘Redstone’ Windows 10 test build for PCs, Build 14257, continues to lay the groundwork for coming new features. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com