November 5, 2015 Six-pack of tablets and the iPad Pro: the tablet market is polarizing It’s no secret that tablets aren’t selling quite as well as they once did. Compared with last year, the worldwide tablet market declined 7% in the last quarter, and 3.9% the quarter before that, according to IDC. It looks as though tablets may have peeked around the end of 2013.
November 5, 2015 The FBI issues warnings about an email scam that's stolen more than $1.2 billion The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) put out a pair of warnings in recent weeks regarding a fraud scheme that involves email, wire transfers, checks, and international business.
November 5, 2015 Facebook intros 360-degree videos with Star Wars experience and more Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg talked enthusiastically over the summer about how he believes virtual reality content will play an increasingly important role on the social networking site, and this week the company has taken a notable step toward realizing his vision.
November 5, 2015 Robots: Technology even cats can love Dystopian visions of 400-pound titanium monsters guided by artificial intelligence (and ready to crush us if we humans get out of line) probably aren't on any mortal's time horizon. But there is plenty of automated technology that is infecting everything from household gadgets to instruments, making them smarter and, well, more life-like.
November 5, 2015 iOS users grow wary of updates, but more than 10 percent still got iOS 9 on day one Apple flaunts the high adoption rates for the latest version of its mobile operating system every year, but the truth is, year after year, iOS users grow more wary of software updates.
November 5, 2015 Forget museums, train services are now banning the selfie stick While temples and shrines are an obvious draw for tourists hitting Japan, the nation's iconic bullet train also gets its fair share of attention.
November 5, 2015 Man arrested for assaulting Pepper, the robot that can read your emotions When SoftBank introduced Pepper to the world last year, the company focused heavily on the robot's ability to read people's emotions.
November 5, 2015 Japan introduces Cat Street View because the world needs to know In a country as feline obsessed as Japan, it was only a matter of time before the people demanded to see the world from a cat's perspective.
November 5, 2015 Trouble for Uber after 'driver status' lawsuit gets class-action go-ahead A federal judge in California has granted class-action status to a lawsuit aimed at getting Uber to recognize its drivers as full-fledged employees and not simply as independent contractors, as the company currently sees them.
November 5, 2015 Robin smartphone promises to never run out of storage The market for sub-$400 Android phones has become quite saturated, but the team at Nextbit, which includes execs from Google and HTC, believes it has something that will set it apart from the pack.
