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Samsung to 5G: 5 things happening in tech this week

Mobile World Congress, Europe's biggest consumer electronics show with an expected 95,000 attendees, kicks off next week. It's a sh...

MasterCard Secures Patent for Dynamic Account Numbers

Say goodbye to the 16-digital credit card number. MasterCard today was awarded a patent for what it calls “variable length bank identificat...

Barclays and BlackBerry bringing BBM to Pingit mobile payments

Barclays and BlackBerry are bringing BBM, the mobile instant messaging service, to Pingit money transfers in the UK. BBM users can now make...

Brain Cell Mutations Make Us All Unique

It seems there are trees in the brain, and they help make each of us unique. In fact, we are all basically mutants, and according to a new s...

SpaceX’s Hyperloop test track will open a little later than expected

Construction delays have pushed the next phase of testing in SpaceX's Hyperloop competition from June to August — or perhaps later, acco...

Facebook Plans To Put Ads In Messenger

A leaked document Facebook sent to some of its biggest advertisers reveals that Facebook will launch ads within Messenger in Q2 2016. The d...

Google Gets a Patent for an Autonomous Delivery Truck

The 18 pages of Google’s recent US patent for an “autonomous delivery platform” aren’t as boring or as deeply technical as most patents—if ...

FBI want to use dead suspects' fingerprints to open iPhones

Having been denied by Apple, despite having a court order, the Federal Bureau of Investigations is quickly running out of options in its eff...

Hospital paid 17K ransom to hackers of its computer network

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chief executive of a Los Angeles hospital says it paid a ransom in bitcoins equivalent to about $17,000 to hackers wh...

A Smartphone That Costs $4 Is Set to Launch in India

An Indian company will launch the country's (and possibly the world's) cheapest smartphone this week, priced at the equivalent of le...

'Five-dimensional' glass discs can store data for up to 13.8 billion years

Photographs fade, books rot, and even hard drives eventually fester. When you take the long view, preserving humanity's collective cultu...

The US Military created the largest underwater drone ever and it looks awesome

Provided by Business Insider Inc darpa drone DARPA released its concept for an autonomous marine drone a year ago, and now it's a realit...

Amazon Drops Hints It Could Be Building a Global Shipping Business

mazon.com is aggressively expanding its logistics operations in China as part of a broader effort to control the rising cost of shipping bil...

Uber Agrees to Pay $28.5 Million to Settle Safety Lawsuits

Uber has agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle litigation brought by customers who alleged the ride-hailing service misrepresented the quali...

UK Teenager Accused Of Hacking CIA Chief

A British teenager arrested for cyber crimes is suspected of hacking into the head of the CIA's personal email account. The unnamed 16-y...

GameStop CEO Says Company Isn't Selling PlayStation VR Until This Fall, Contradicting Sony

Tuesday morning on Fox Business, GameStop CEO Paul Raines was on to talk about the industry, and was asked about the coming year of VR. He s...

Nutanix Gunning for VMware Customers With App Mobility Fabric

Hyperconverged startup Nutanix is clearly gunning for VMware’s customers with its newest software release: AOS 4.6. Now billing itself as an...

Bill Aims to Keep States From Banning Smartphone Encryption

United States Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, last week introduced legislation to prevent states from passing laws ...

Wal-Mart pulls Cyber Monday forward to Sunday

Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) has decided that Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, should not start on a Monday anymore...

How the Apollo Lunar Modules were Smashed for Science

Each lunar module cost about $149,000,000; adjusted for inflation that’s just under one billion dollars per spacecraft. For all that money, ...

App-only bank Mondo is valued at £30 million in an oversubscribed £6 million fundraise

Aspiring app-only bank Mondo has been valued at £30 million in a £6 million funding round, despite the fact that it has yet to fully launch ...

SAP Expands SuccessFactors Performance Management Platform

The new capabilities facilitate ongoing one-on-one check-ins between employees and managers to help goals stay on track throughout the year....

Softbank plans $4.4 billion share buyback

Japanese telecommunications giant Softbank has announced its largest ever stock buyback of about $4.4 billion. This repurchase of common sto...

Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs

Advances in artificial intelligence will soon lead to robots that are capable of nearly everything humans do, threatening tens of millions o...
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