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Windows users who also have an Android smartphone will soon be able to control their phone from the desktop. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

The AWS corporate email service is now generally available after a year-long preview, with 50GB of storage available for $4 per month. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

(Reuters) – International Business Machines Corp said on Monday Steven Mills, executive vice president, software and systems, decided to retire on Dec. 31, after a career spanning more than four decades. read more >>> Source : Reuters

LG Display gives a first look at its flexible display that can be rolled up and carried away – a potential breakthrough in TV tech. read more >>> Source : BBC

General Motors has invested $500 million into ridesharing service Lyft with the vision of establishing a fleet of driverless on-demand vehicles. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

From smart shoes to a pet bowl that prevents you stuffing your cat, a look at some of CES 2016’s first announcements. read more >>> Source : BBC

China Mobile has awarded a tender to ASX-listed telco infrastructure provider Enice to provide three million distributed antenna systems over the next two years. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

Artificial Intelligence is constantly pushing the boundaries of what machines are capable of. But could machines ever become better than us? The answer is of course ‘yes’, at least in many things where our intellect used to be the unchallenged champion of creativity and intelligence. Here are 5 tough intellectual areas where AI is already […]

Fridge, meet tablet. Samsung on Sunday unveiled via its Korean website a new refrigerator that will connect to the Internet. It looks like someone welded a gargantuan iPad onto the front door, and it reportedly will let people access a list of their food from any smartphone, get alerts when items are expiring, listen to […]

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Cooking with energy from the sun — a technique featured last month in an episode of “Top Chef” — could soon put a major dent in what some experts call the world’s greatest environmental health issue. Every day, nearly half the people in the world prepare their meals over burning wood, charcoal or animal dung. […]

The people at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London really want you to procrastinate — in the name of 18th-century fashion. Their new design-a-wig game lets you create ridiculous Marie Antoinette-esque sky-high hairstyles, complete with powder, gems and other absurd ornaments that are just begging to make a modern-day comeback. The game is as […]

(Reuters) – Microchip Technology Inc is planning to submit a binding offer for Atmel Corp by early next week, according to people familiar with the matter, challenging Atmel’s planned merger with Dialog Semiconductor Plc . read more >>> Source : Reuters

You may have your work routine down to a science, from where you prefer to grab some quiet space to the exact time you take a lunch break. But there’s one very important element you may be forgetting when it comes to success in the office: Your desk. How you use your workspace — from […]

Dropbox has been granted a patent on a new peer-to-peer file-sharing technology that suggests it may be planning an alternative to its existing cloud-based service. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk

The web is inundated with new content on an hourly basis. So much so that it can be hard for any content to stand out. Readers have an attention span shorter than a goldfish! With trending hashtags, sponsored posts and the brevity of posting with fewer than 140 characters, hot trending topics often play a […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Shares of Apple Inc fell to their lowest since August on Monday following recent worries about potentially soft iPhone sales but fared better than a 2 percent drop in major indexes. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Cyber-thieves have used the Javascript programming language to create ransomware that is cheap and easy to use. read more >>> Source : BBC

What’s worth an investment in 2016, Amazon or Apple? read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will be open from 8 January, says the Facebook-backed company. read more >>> Source : BBC

IoT is the hottest component of the BYOD trend at organizations worldwide. A new Tech Pro Research survey shows that 67 percent of companies are either already using IoT devices, or planning to use them in the next year. Many are incorporating them into their BYOD plans. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

Warning: Major spoilers ahead — but really the movie’s been out for more than 10 days. Why are you reading Star Wars analysis if you haven’t seen the movie yet? Who is Rey? Like much of the world last weekend, I had the sincere pleasure of seeing a brand new Star Wars movie. For an […]

(Reuters) – Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook Inc, said on Monday it would take pre-orders for Rift from Wednesday. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Microsoft Corp’s latest operating system, Windows 10, is running on 200 million devices in what the company said was the fastest adoption rate of any of its operating systems. Windows 10, which the company released as a free download in July, powers both personal computers and devices like phones. It replaced Windows 8, the heavily […]

A cyberespionage group focused on companies and organizations from the energy sector has recently updated its arsenal with a destructive data-wiping component and a backdoored SSH server. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk

US car giant General Motors is teaming up with car sharing service Lyft to develop a fleet of driverless vehicles. read more >>> Source : BBC

The Consumer Electronics Show has plenty of business angles and we’ll be connecting the dots on the biggest ones–both on the ground and from afar. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s latest operating system, Windows 10, is running on 200 million devices in what the company said was the fastest adoption rate of any of its operating systems. read more >>> Source : Reuters

General Motors just made a $500 million bet that people may someday stop buying or even driving their own cars. The auto giant on Monday announced a deal with Lyft — the chief U.S. rival to ride-hailing service Uber — to develop a network of self-driving cars that can be summoned via an app. “We […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Operator, won’t you help me replace this call? A 9-foot-tall, narrow structure installed this past week on a Manhattan sidewalk is signaling a plan to turn pay phones into what’s billed as the world’s biggest and fastest municipal Wi-Fi network. The first of at least 7,500 planned hot spots are due […]

Efforts to convert net users to a new addressing scheme hit a key milestone as 10% of users now connect with the technology, statistics suggest. read more >>> Source : BBC

HP will start integrating privacy filters in laptop and tablet screens this year. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk

Nuu Mobile is offering up two would-be contenders to the third-generation Moto G. But only one of them stands a chance. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – General Motors Inc and Lyft Inc Monday announced an alliance to develop an on-demand network of autonomous vehicles as well as a $500 million investment by the automaker as part of a $1 billion fund-raising round by the ride-sharing service. read more >>> Source : Reuters

A new low-power, long-range version of Wi-Fi that bolsters Internet of Things (IoT) connections will be dubbed Wi-Fi HaLow. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk

Smartwatches’ abilities to pay for our food and monitor our physical activities are only possible thanks to the myriad sensors packed into their tiny metal bodies. These sophisticated sensors are often trotted out as evidence that they’re the next big thing in mobile technology, but one unintended side effect of their sensitive internals could be […]

Alcatel One Touch has unveiled a new Windows 10 tablet and a kind of smartwatch for kids that can make calls and offers parents a GPS tracker. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

When Gene Roddenberry’s computer died, it took the only method of accessing some 200 floppy disks of his unpublished work. Here’s how this tech mystery was solved. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk

(Reuters) – Ant Financial Services Group, the finance arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said on Monday it is looking to raise funds from investors ahead of a planned initial public offering, the second time in less than six months the company taps investors to finance its growth. read more >>> Source […]

Samsung Electronics shares fell over 4 percent after it warned of a tough environment in 2016. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t do New Year’s resolutions like the rest of us. Instead of pledging to lose weight or give up alcohol, the Facebook founder plans in 2016 to build himself an artificially intelligent butler to help him around the home. Zuckerberg revealed his goal to create the assistant in a Facebook post on Sunday. […]

Ford will be giving Sync 3 vehicle owners an update that will expand their infotainment system to run Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com

As adults, it can be challenging to learn new hobbies. We’re usually all pretty set in our ways, but that doesn’t mean we should hold ourselves back from branching out every now and then. — This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It […]

Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, making science textbooks across the world out of date. The elements were verified and added by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) last week, making the scientific chart’s seventh row officially complete. The inclusion of the super-heavy man-made chemical elements temporarily named […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s Nokia said on Monday it has gained control of French rival Alcatel-Lucent following its 15.6-billion-euro ($17 billion) all-share offer and the two telecom equipment makers would combine on Jan. 14. read more >>> Source : Reuters